Red Rubber Designs Konnichiwa

 

I love this Konnichiwa stamp set by Red Rubber Designs.  The set has three sweet images of girls, some extra assessories (umbrella, fan, flowers) and several sayings in both Japanese and English.  For my card, I used the flower image to make my background paper.  I colored the background and the girl image with Copic markers, added a bow and some glitter glue.  

Here's a close-up view of the girl,

Supplies:
Konnichiwa stamp set
White and purple cardstock
Copics (E00, E01, E11, BV11, V01, V04, V06, V09, V12, V15, YG93, YG95, YG91, C1, C2, C3, C5, C7, 100)
Crystal Stickles Glitter glue
Palette ink - Lavender Sachet and sponge
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Nestabilities Big Scalloped Ovals Lg.

Challenges:
Lady Anne Challenges - Anything Goes
Crafting for all Seasons - Spring
Crafting Creations - Singing in the Rain
Creative Moments - Sentiment
Inklings and Yarns - Always Anything Goes

Easter Chicks candle and waterfall card

Easter Chicks from Red Rubber Designs is the Spotlight Stamp this month.  Each of the Design Team members is using this stamp set for the March blog hop today.  I've made a candle and waterfall card for my project.  

On the candle I put all the five images of the little chicken, beginning with the egg, then the cracked egg, the chicken coming out of the egg, and two images of the hatched chick and the saying, "Happy Easter".  A strip of More Mimi Patterned cardstock borders the bottom of the candle.

The waterfall card has each phase of the hatching chicken as the card flips from one scene to the next.

 The last scene with the hatched chick has the Happy Easter greeting.

Supplies for candle:
Easter Chicks stamp set
candle (from Dollar Tree)
tissue paper
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Prismacolor Pencils
Heat tool
wax paper
More Mimi Patterned cardstock collection

Supplies for card:
Easter Chicks stamp set
Tutti Frutti Patterned cardstock collection
Yellow cardstock
white cardstock
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Copic markers 
Lilly Anna hardware (eyelets)
ribbon
Stardust Glitter glue 

Contest

Here is a contest for you, and you might win the Spotlight Stamp, Easter Chicks. Guess how many candies are in the candy dish.  There are Cadbury Mini Eggs, Starburst Jellybeans, and Whoppers Robin Eggs.

Send your guess to contest@RedRubberDesigns.com. If you have a blog, please include a link to it in your email.  Contest ends Sunday, March 10 at midnight CST.

Check out the fabulous creations of each of the Design Team Members.  Here is the Blog Hop order:
Red Rubber Designs
Louise
Kate
Paula-Kay (you are here)
Diana 
Sarah 

Challenges:
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Easter sentiment
Trimmies Craft challenge - Easter
Cute Card Thursday - Spring card
DL. Art - Birds, anything to do with birds
Papercrafting Journey - Anything but a card

St. Patrick's Day Fat Page Challenge

This card was made for a St. Patrick's Day Fat Page Challenge on
ROBYN’S FETISH DIGITALSTAMPS AND MORE on Facebook.
. The Lucky Leprechaun digi stamp is from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More.  I had never done a fat page before.  It is a 4x4 inch card front with lots of embellishments.  The requirements of this challenge were to include the digi image, lots of green, shamrocks, and any other embellishments. 

Supplies used:
Lucky Leprechaun by Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More
Copic markers for rainbow and the image
Green satin shamrocks snipped from a garland of shamrocks
Saying from Trendy Greetings by Red Rubber Designs
Metallic gold cardstock circle-punched coins
Clear Star Gelly Roll Pen
Foam mounting tape
Memento Tuxedo Black ink for saying
Green cardstock
White cardstock

Challenges:
Always Something Creative - Spring, Using Green

Digi Haven - Green
One Crazy Stamper - March Anything Goes
Oozak - Anything Goes with Spring
Sandy's Crafty Creations - Shades of Green
Lady Anne's Challenge - Anything Goes
Visible Image - Spring Challenge
Cards by Lady Anne - Anything Goes Friday Sentiment

Wonder and Joy card

 

I have another card with the Red Rubber Designs Spotlight Stamp set for February, Wonder and Joy.  This sweet stamp set is one of my favorites, especially for children's cards.

Here's a close-up of the image.

 

Supplies:

Wonder and Joy stamp set

Maggie Patterned Cardstock collection

white cardstock

pink cardstock

Spellbinders Nestabilities Floral Ovals

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Pink heart pearl

pink ribbon

doilie

Copic markers (E00, E01, E11, BV11, R81, R83, R85, R20, BG72, BG93, BG96, BG75, BG70, YR23, YR24, YR27)

Tombow 723 Pink marker 

Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More - Must Use Physical Stamp

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Celebrate the Occasion - Girls Birthday - Must Use Pink

Creative Card Crew - Birthday

Happiness Is - Flip card

Another card for kids during February with the Once Upon a Child theme.  This is a flip card using the Happiness Is stamp set from Red Rubber Designs.  

 Here are some views showing the open flip part of the card.

Supplies:

Happiness Is stamp set

Tutti Frutti Patterned Cardstock collection

white cardstock

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Copic Markers (E00, E01, E11, Y11, Y13, Y17, YR12, YR14, YR16, 

YR24, YR27, YR23, YG93, YG95, C2)

pink jewels

Crystal Glitter Glue

Challenges:
All That Scrap Wednesday - Anything Goes
Cards by Lady Anne - Anything Goes
Crafting by Design - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper Craftinig - Anythiing Goes
Ruby's Rainbow - In the Garden
Stamp n Doodle - Anything Goes

Girlz & Boyz Paperweight Block for Grandpa

 Continuing the Red Rubber Designs theme of Once Upon a Child for February, I've made a paperweight block for Grandpa with computer-generated names of the grandchildren on each side.  The stamped images are the featured stamp set Girlz & Boyz.  After completion of the block, I decoupaged the block with matte finish Mod Podge.

Here are pictures of each side of the block.

 

Supplies:

Wooden block

Girlz & Boyz stamp set

Copic markers

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 11

Pop Rockz Patterned Cardstock Collection

white cardstock

Mod Podge 

sponge paint brush 

Challenges:

Lady Anne challenges - Anythiing Goes

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Vicki's Challenges - Anything Goes

Red Rubbber Designs "Once Upon a Child" Blog Hop

"Once Upon a Child" is the Red Rubber Designs Theme this month.  For the blog hop the Design Team members are all using the stamp set Wonder and Joy.  This is the cutest set of child images and sayings.  I've made two cards.  Here is the first one:

For the little fisherman stamp I used Amberley Grace Patterned cardstock and Amberley Grace gray ribbon, gray and also while cardstock.  I put a fish brad on the end of his pole, and then used Crystal Effects on the bucket and reel to make them shiny.  The image is stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and colored with Copics (W0, W3, W5, W7, C2, C5, BG11, BG13, BG15, BG18, YR21, YR23, YR24, B00, B01, B13, BV11)

 Here is my second card.

 

 This sweet little girl is lifted in the air by her balloon, perhaps for a celebration, like a birthday.

The background patterned cardstock is Tutti Frutti Patterned Cardstock.  Also I used pink cardstock and white cardstock.  The image is stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and cut out with a Spellbinders Mega Classic Scalloped Ovals Large Nestabilities. I used Copic markers for coloring (E57, E59, E55, RV52, RV55, YG23, YG25, Y35, Y38, E00, E01, E13, B11). I used a cloud template and sponged on Starry Night Pallette Ink behind the image to give the illusion of clouds. The baloon has Crystal Effects on it, and I added three large white brads from Lilly Anna hardward. 

 Contest - This month Red Rubber Designs is playing Hopscotch! Hop to each blog and leave your footprint (a comment). One blog has the "stone" (but we're not telling you which one!) and we'll randomly draw a winner from everyone who commented on that blog. The winner will receive the February Spotlight Stamp FREE!

Extra this month - Red Rubber Designs is sponsoring the Sunshine Mail Foundation  - formerly "Card Cupids" - for the entire month of February. To help with their cause of providing support and comfort to children in need, they hold card challenges on the 1st and 15th of each month.


** Three of the Sunshine Mail Foundation's Design Team will be joining us for the hop. You'll note they are included in our blog hop list.

 Blog Hop Order 
Red Rubber Designs
Louise
Kate
Michele (Sunshine Mail DT)
Paula-Kay (you are here)
Kim (Sunshine Mail DT)
Diana
Karen (Sunshine Mail DT)
Sarah

 
      Info on Sunshine Mail Foundation (formerly called Card Cupids):

Sunshine Mail Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit, provides children in need comfort, support and joy through free Sunshine Mail Care Packages.  Sunshine Mail is filled with handmade cards, care essentials and other age appropriate items and delivered to children in hospitals, homeless shelters and in foster care.

Card donation guidelines can be found here.

They hold challenges twice a month (1st and 15th). There challenge blog is here. 

Red Rubber Designs is sponsoring both February challenges (1st & 15th) for Sunshine Mail Foundation.

Challenges:

Delightful Challenges - Think Spring
Cards by Lady Ann - Stamp Challenge
Midwek Throwdown - Cards for Kids