You're an Angel!

Hello Friends and Happy Saturday!!!  It's  Marcy here and I'm so happy to be back posting on the Loves Rubberstamps blog today!  With the reopening of the store, there are so many new stamps and crafting items that I can't wait to get my hands on!  I'm looking forward to lots of new creations and of course sharing them all with you! :)

Here is the card I made for today...

  So  I had originally thought to make a Christmas card with this adorable Gorjuss Girl image called The Black Star.  However, I ended up deciding to give her wings by using my Wings stamp set by Prima Marketing and voila, she became a cute angel! :)  I had so much fun coloring her up with my copics and couldn't resist adding lots of my Wink of Stella to give her lots of shimmer.  I also added some stickles to her wings for even more added sparkle!   For the soft background,  I did some masking and used some of my Tim Holtz distress inks.  I just love how the inks blend together so perfect every time!

Here are the Supplies Used:

The Black Star - Gorjuss Girls Stamps

Wings - Prima Marketing

Copic Markers

Seedless Preserves - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Faded Jeans -Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Weathered Wood - TIm Holtz Distress Ink

Spun Sugar - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Ink Blending Tool - Ranger

Black Tuxedo - Memento

Mono Multi Liquid Glue - Tombow

Make sure to stop by the Loves Rubberstamps store to see all of the new Gorjuss Girl Stamp sets as well as so much more!  We also have a blog hop starting tomorrow where you can win some fun prizes so hope you will all join in!

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by! 

Hugs,

Marcy

Giggles

Hi Stampers!

Happy Friday! Do you have any big plans this weekend? I am working all weekend so no big plans here. Today I thought I would keep working on some Christmas cards and try and actually have some done by the time I need to mail them - LOL! I am horrible at getting cards done in time for mailing :)

Here is my card:

I used the super cute stamp from A Random Fan called Seasons of Love. I colored the image with copics. I also added Liquid Applique and Stardust Stickles for texture and dimension. I created the frame using the MFT Square Stax sets 1 and 2. The papers I used are from the Authentique Festive. I added a metal sentiment that I have had forever, Tim Holtz tag and some ribbon to finish the card off.

Here is a close up of the image:

Thanks for stopping by today! Don't forget we are having GELATOS PRIZE GIVEAWAY on our Facebook page, all you have to do is like our page and leave a comment on the post. We are drawing the winner on Sunday.

We are also having a Design Team Call so check out the details for that as well!

Have a wonderful day!
Laura

I will be entering this in the following challenges:

A Random Fan - Red, White & Green
Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Christmas Creation With Ribbon
Delightful Challenge - Patterned Papers
MilkCoffee Challenges - Hand Colored Image
Moving Along With The Times - Sparkle & Shine
Fab 'N" Funky Challenges - 3 Embellishments - Ticket, Ribbon, & Metal Sentiment
Clear It Out Challenge - Winter & Stash Item of Metal
Holly Jolly Christmas - BINGO - Line Made Ribbon, Texture, Glitter
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes With Twist of Glitter
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes

I used the following products on my card:

Liquid Applique - White
Stickles - Stardust
My Favorite Things Die-Namics Square STAX 1
My Favorite Things Die-Namics Square STAX 2

A Random Fan Seasons of Love	Authentique 6x6 Festive	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad	Copic Markers
Copic X-Press It Blending Card	Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Walnut Stain	Ink Blending Tool

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Be Happy

Hey everyone. Shanna here. With the crazy holidays coming I wanted to share this quick and simple card you could make to share with anyone. 

So I used the Big Striped Background stamp on the base of the card. Then I cut out a white panel and stamped the sentiments on there. I also finished the card off with twine, jute, and a button. 

I am telling you I wanted super easy and so this was easy. 

Items Used:

MFT - Big Striped Background

MFT - Happy Everything 

Design Team Call & Prize Giveaway

Hi Stampers!

First off we are having a GELATOS PRIZE GIVEAWAY on our Facebook page! Please visit our Facebook Page for the details! 

Loves Rubberstamps is accepting applications to be a member of our Design Team for the term of January 1st - April 30th, with the possibility of longer term positions for those that show an enthusiasm for our store, products and whose work is always their best.

Requirement would be one or two projects per week along with a corresponding blog post featuring your projects. 

One of these projects will be for our weekly challenge blog which has a new challenge every Tuesday. You will need to have this project completed by Sunday for that week's challenge. You will need to showcase this project on your blog on Tuesday and provide links to our challenge blog. You do get a list of the challenges in advance if you like to work ahead. You will be assigned to TEAM A or TEAM B and the teams alternate weeks for the challenge blog. 

Your weekly project can be anything you wish to make and is for an inspirational post. This will be for our "Sunday Spectacular Blog Hop. You will be given the blog hop order and details to place on your post along with your project.

Our only requirement for projects is that you MUST use stamps from companies that we carry that are in their CURRENT line - no retired images. We are still growing our inventory so even if the particular stamp is not in our product line up yet... as long as it is one we can order - you can use it. We are always adding new companies and products as quickly as we can. 

You must also display our store badge with a link to our store, design team badge and links to the team members websites on your blog, and our blog badge for the challenge blog with a link to that site while being a member

We do have a couple of challenge sponsors who require us to use their stamps the week that they are the sponsor on our challenge site. If you do not have a rubber stamp in their line to use, you will be provided a digi stamp from them to use so you will need to be able to use a digi stamp if necessary. 

Our last requirement is to HAVE FUN!

Design Team Members will receive the following:

A 20% Discount off all items we carry in our store (there are a couple of exceptions) during your term 

Your projects being featured on the Company Blog, Challenge Blog, Company Facebook Page and in the store as well as links provided to your blog.

Links to your blog from the company blog page, challenge blog site as well as from each design team member's websites

We do allow our Design Team Members to serve on other Design Teams as long as it does not interfere with your commitment to our team. We also allow a design team member to do multiple posts in a day if needed. For example - you serve on 2 teams, each requires a Tuesday Post, you would do one blog post for our company, then a separate one for your other team. 

If you are interested in applying and are able to make this commitment you can enter by placing - DT behind your challenge entry on our Anything Goes Challenge. Or you can send an email to lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com, put Design Team in the Subject line and tell us a little about yourself and what your blog address is so we can visit you :)

Deadline for applying will be November 18th - with selections being made by the 25th.  We will be filling at least 3 positions. 

Thank you so much for your time and consideration! Don't hesitate to contact us with questions also!

Keep Calm and Stay....FOXY!

Hi Stampers!

Today we have our favorite Loves Rubberstamps Challenge starting... ANYTHING GOES! This is always so fun since we get to see a wide variety of amazing creations! This week we have THREE PRIZES up for grabs too so it will be a great week to play along with us!

Here is my project...

One of our Prize Sponsors this week is The Cutting Cafe and I adore Regina's files they are so fun and easy to use, even for people like me who do not have a cutting machine. I had been looking through her new release sets and found this super cute FOXY WORD card that comes in a big set called Hey Foxy.  It also comes with sentiments and an actual Fox Shaped card too! The sentiment I used is from Regina's set too :)

I decided to use the cute little Fox from Lawn Fawn's Into The Woods stamp set because I thought his little tail matched the tail in the sentiment really well. AND to be honest after cutting the letters and the front of the card I didn't want to fussy cut an animal too and since I have the matching Lawn Fawn Into the Woods die set that matches all the little critters in the stamp set...I used the die to cut the fox out :) I stamped the fox in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and then colored the fox using Copics - E15, E18 & YR27 and R20 for the ear. I then used a blender to go over the face and fur to give it more texture. I added some Pebbles Shimmer Chalks for the little cheeks.

Here is a look at the card open so you can see what the front looks like better...

The papers are from one of my new favorite Paper Packs from Doodlebug called Friendly Forest. I will be working on getting this line in the store this week. I used two of the Fall Assortment Sprinkles on the sentiment. For the little fox...I didn't want any copic marks showing on the back so I cut another fox using the die and glued them together. For the back of the fox I used this paper that comes in the paper pack too....

I used the little fox pattern which is so SUPER CUTE!! I love it! Reminds me of the song - WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY....which I sang over and over as I made my card - LOL! :)

Here is a close up of the little Lawn Fawn Fox:

We hope you get to play along with us this week! Thanks for stopping by!

Laura

I will be entering this into the Following Challenges:

Lawn Fawn Landscaping Challenge - Fall or Pumpkins
Bunny Zoe's - Animals
Craftin Desert Divas - Brown and Orange
Incy Wincy Designs - Inspired by a Song, Book, or Movie - What Does The Foxy Say?
Through The Purple Haze - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Fashionable Stamping Challenges - #85 Animals

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge - #285

I used the following supplies on my card:

Doodlebug - Forest Friends Paper Pack
Doodlebug - Fall Assortment Sprinkles
The Twinery - Lilac Twine

Lawn Fawn Into The Woods Stamp Set	Lawn Fawn Into The Woods Die Set	Memento Ink Pad Rich Cocoa	Copic X-Press It Blending Card	Copic Markers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Walnut Stain	Ink Blending Tool

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Thank You Teacher

Good Morning Friends and Stampers,

It's my day to show you some inspiration, so Happy Holly-Day.  I am happy too, for a couple months I have lost my mojo and lacked motivation to even get near my stampy stuff and now I have all kinds of ideas and things I want to make.  I went to the Scrap Expo in Sacramento recently and took four classes while I was there.  It's kinda like submerging yourself into scrapping again, lol.   But it worked!

This past week, we had parent-teacher conferences and my son's 6th grade teacher is really showing an interest in how our son can reflect what he knows on paper.   My son is in such a hurry to get his test and work done so he can read, that he is not going back and looking or even really reading the answers.   So it's amazing, but we will have to take the books away at school, lol.  He loves to read and is reading at nearly an 8th grade level, so now we need to make him concentrate on other things. Anyway, he does have a really good teacher and we appreciate the time and effort that he has taken to help our son out.  So I made him a card.

MFT Die-namics Blueprints 13

MFT Die-Namics Red Delicious

MFT LJD - Grand Greetings

Tim Holtz - Bundled Sage

Tim Holtz - Tea Die

Tim Holtz - Fire Brick Red

Tim Holtz ink Blending Tool

Memento Back

That's all for now, If you want to see what I made at the Expo, head on over to my blog. 

Don't forget about the Sunday Blog hop, you have all the way to Saturday to hop.  Oh and you want to check out our Challenge Blog and the New Items that Laura has placed in the store too! .... and I need to mention the GIVE-AWAY on the Loves Rubberstamps Face-Book Page!  Go like that page and check it out.  

Holly

Sensational Sunday Inspirations Blog Hop

Hi Stampers!

We are excited to be back with our Inspiration Blog this week starting with our Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team ladies have created some stunning inspiration for you this week and we will be back to posting regularly on this blog :) YAY!

Here is my project for you today...

I used the super adorable Polar Bear image from the Some Odd Girl stamp set Winter Friends and it is definitely one of my favorites! I first stamped him using Memento London Fog ink and then colored him using copics in the warm gray colors - W0, W1, W3. My designer paper is also new and from the Doodlebug Frosty Friends collection. My sentiment is stamped in the London Fog as well on shimmer white cardstock and is from the My Favorite Things stamp set Stitched Stockings.

Here is a look at the inside which I decorated as well. I have found that if I don't do the inside at the same time....I never get the inside done - LOL!

I used the same layout as the outside of my card and added just a pop of color with the my Spellbinders Snowflakes cut from glitter paper. If you look at the bottom of the Bazzil Bling Gray paper you will see some sparkly icicles! I cut these using my C.C. Designs Icicle Border die in vellum and then I went over the vellum with Stardust Stickles.  Which will all be in the store soon :)

Here is a closer look at the icicles - If you look on the front of the card I added them there too. 

Here is a closer look at my Arctic Night Sky. I sponged this using Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Evergreen Bough, Iced Spruce, Shaded Lilac and Broken China. To make my stars I used some of my Shimmer Pebbles chalk and scraped some of the white and placed it on my craft mat. I added a little water using a paint brush and then flicked it onto my paper. It gets more intense as it dries and the shimmer chalk gives it some sparkly bling :) The little faint snowflakes I stamped in the Broken China ink using the two smaller sized ones from the Lawn Fawn set Critters in The Snow. The trees are cut using the My Favorite Things Campy Tree Line Dienamics and shimmer white paper. 

Here is a closer look at that sweet little polar bear image....don't you love him ?!?!

For my layout I used the Papertake Weekly Sketch #74.

Before you hop along with the rest of the Design Team Ladies I wanted to let you know that we are doing our FIRST FACEBOOK PRIZE GIVEAWAY  this week! We are giving away a set of the Tropical Gelatos Color Kit:

Check out our FACEBOOK PAGE for details on the drawing :) We will be drawing our winner on November 9th!

We will also be posting a DT call for our January through April Session later this week for be sure and watch for that :)

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Now let's hop along and see what the Design Team ladies have in store for you...

Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Blog - You are here...

Dangina
Joni

Nina

Nikki

Lydia

Blankina

Thanks for stopping by!

Laura and the Loves Rubberstamps Design Team

I will be entering this into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Sketchie Free For All - Used Sketch #74
Bearly Mine - Christmas Cards
ABC Christmas Challenges - V - Very Merry
Cardandscrap - Layering

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes
Emerald Fairies Challenge - Non-Traditional Christmas Colors
Live and Love Crafts - Favorite Christmas Colors (Gray, White & Teal)
Kit and Clowder - November Challenge - Christmas
Delicious Doodles - Baby, It's Cold Outside

I used the following products on my card:

Spellbinders Snowflakes Dies
Spellbinders - Large Scallop Ovals
C.C. Designs Icicle Border Cutters Die
Stardust Stickles
Vellum

Some Odd Girl Winter Friends	Lawn Fawn Critters In The Snow	Doodlebug Frosty Friends 6x6 Paper Pack	MFT Die-Namics Campy Tree Lines	MFT Die-Namics Oval STAX Set 1
MFT Die-Namics Oval STAX Set 2	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Evergreen Bough	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Iced Spruce	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Shaded Lilac	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Broken China
Ink Blending Tool	Memento Ink London Fog	Copic Markers	Copic X-Press It Blending Card

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