Happy Birthday, Red Rubber Designs

Today is the one-year birthday for Red Rubber Designs, and we are having a celebration.  Each of the Design Team Members is featuring their "favorites" from this past year.  We'll show you our personal favorite Red Rubber Designs creation, and also our favorites from the other DT members.

 I have two favorites that I posted during the past year.  The first one is keychains made with my grandchildren's pictures.  On the reverse of each picture is a quote from the Red Rubber Designs stamp set, Be Happiness.  You can read more about the project here.

Another favorite of mine is the September 2012 Spotlight stamp set, Sew Thankful.  I made a tri-fold slant card with this set.  Check out the details here.

Now let me show you some of my favorite creations from the Design Team.

Sarah

Sarah is the tag queen.  She makes the loveliest vintage tags.  I like this Gerbera Daisy tag she created.   Check out Sarah's blog post.

 

Louise

Louise had the prettiest card and matching envelope using Red Rubber Designs' Lovely Peony stamp set.  This was in the October 2012 Blog Hop.  Look here to see the details.

Diana

Diana's Furry Friends card is one of the cutiest she had all year, although I liked many others of hers also.  Here it is, and you can find her blog post here. 

 

Kate

Kate does the most unique collages and vintage work.  Here is her Sunflowers creation. I really like this one.  Here's the link to her blog.

I hope you enjoyed this short memory trip from this first year of Red Rubber Designs.

Be sure to check out each of the Design Team blogs so see what their favorites were and enjoy more special Red Rubber Design creations.

Design Team blogs:
Sarah
Louise
Diana
Kate
Paula-Kay (you are here)

Red Rubber Designs - Sunflowers

The Red Rubber Designs "Just Because" Challenge

Here is how the challenge will work:

Every 3rd Thursday of the month, Red Rubber Designs offers its 

"Just Because" Challenge, open to everyone.

The mission: To create a card, tag, scrapbook layout or any project using any stamp in the Red Rubber Designs store following the specific rules of each challenge.  Participants will upload their project to the Red Rubber Designs Flickr Group.  They will include a challenge specific tag (to be posted with each challenge) so that we can easily find their entry.  

Each challenge will end Sunday night.
Only those stamps currently in the Red Rubber Designs store can be used for the challenge project.  Entries not using current stamps cannot be accepted.

A $10 Gift Certificate to the Red Rubber Designs store will be awarded to TWO randomly chosen participants!

 JB0612 is the tag for Flickr this month.  Upload your entry here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/redrubberdesigns.

My sketch card is actually a re-make of a shadowbox card I had already done and posted for this week when I learned we would be using the sketch.  You'll see the shadowbox card below.  I cut it apart and re-made it into this sketch card.

I've used this month's featured stamp set, Sunflowers for my main image with a saying from Contemporary Greetings.  The images are colored with Copic markers and placed on Hemingway patterned cardstock.  I sponged Cognac Palette ink to the white cardstock on which the image is stamped.  The tags are from the Hemingway cardstock collection also.  I added copper Stickles to the background paper and a jewel to the tag with the saying.  A bow tops the side tag, and I've added 5 snaps down the right side of the card. 

Here is my original shadowbox card using the same images as above.  I also used 

 

I used an oval Coluzzle cutter for the oval opening.  The patterned cardstock is Hemingway.

Copic markers used to color the images are:

YR16, YR23, Y32, Y35, Y38, E13, E17, E19, E25, E27, E29, YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97, N0, N1, N4, N7, C2, C5, 100 

Now it is your turn.  We would love to see your RRD creation in our Flickr gallery.  Please join the fun and show us what you have stamped. 

Challenges:


Crafts and Me - Ribbon and Bow
Crafty Creations - Tag
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
Elphine House - Things with Wings
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
7 Kids College Fund - Wings Things
Stampin' Royalty - Anything Goes
The Perfect Sentiment - Anything Goes