Monday, December 29, 2014

Inspirational Projects from Inspirational #151: Christmas Cheer



Thank you to everyone who participated in our Inspirational #151!
Such beautiful and festive projects from everyone!!

Each week the Inspiration Team choose three projects from all of the just-closed Inspirational participants. These projects are chosen because they truly capture the essence of the Inspirational.

Congratulations to the creators of our three Inspiration Projects from Inspirational #151!



Fabulous color choices with the muted tones in the background, making the bright red in the stamping really pop out, and draw your eye in! The distressing and stitching add great vintage charm to this gorgeous card!

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Fantastic coloring and stamping on this beautiful and festive card! We thought the white lace square makes her look like she's in a garden somewhere, maybe thinking of her true love.

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We loved the modern take of this striking and elegant Christmas card! The tree really is the star here with the black embossing  and sparkly touches of red! 

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Lovely work ladies!

All of our Inspiration Project creators are entitled to an Inspirational Badge for their blog! If your project is chosen as one of the Inspiration Projects, please send an email to - challenge AT redrubberdesigns DOT com - to collect your badge. Please include your name and the Inspirational number your project was created for. 

Be sure to come back on Thursday, January 1st to ring in the New Year with our next Inspirational, hosted by Kendra. 

Have a lovely day! 


Thursday, December 25, 2014

Christmas Sale

Merry Christmas!

On behalf of me and my Inspirational Design Team, I want to wish you all a very Happy Holiday! We aren't having a stamping challenge this week - instead we want to spread some Christmas cheer!

Here's a little something for your stocking:

Christmas Sale at Red Rubber Designs!

Use coupon code Merry2014 in your shopping cart to get 25% OFF all Cling Mounted Rubber Stamps, good through Dec 29th. While supplies last, discounts are calculated in your cart.

Now for some Christmas stamping inspiration!

Kendra used Vintage Santa and Vintage Christmas Cling Mount Stamp Sets for this lovely vintage-style card:


Paula-Kay's beautiful card features Blessed Christmas Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set:


And I chose to highlight Ginger Joy, one of my favorite stamps:


Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas!

Monday, December 22, 2014

Inspirational projects from Inspirational #150 - Stamping Sparkly Holiday Greetings


Thank you to everyone who participated in our Inspirational #150!
Such beautiful projects from everyone!!

Each week the Inspiration Team choose three projects from all of the just-closed Inspirational participants.  These projects are chosen because they truly capture the essence of the Inspirational. 

Congratulations to the creators of our three Inspiration Projects from Inspirational #150!

#6 KT Fit Kitty



Wonderful sparkly scene you created on this wonderful card that we all thought was fantastic.

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And next we have Hazel who submitted two projects that were both chosen this week.

Entry #9 this wonderful birdie card that we thought was so cute and loved the sparkly snow


and this wonderful golden Santa card entry #10


Lovely work ladies!

All of our Inspiration Project creators are entitled to an Inspirational Badge for their blog! If your project is chosen as one of the Inspiration Projects, please send an email to - challenge AT redrubberdesigns DOT com - to collect your badge. Please include your name and the Inspirational number your project was created for.

There is still time to join in our current Inspirational #151 Christmas Cheer hosted by Drea.  Please link up your project by 11:59 PM (U.S. Central time zone) on Wednesday, December 24.

Be sure to check our blog on Christmas day for a special post; we're taking the holiday off from our normal inspirational post to allow our fabulous designers to enjoy the holiday with their families.


Have a lovely day!




Thursday, December 18, 2014

Inspirational #151: Christmas Cheer


Welcome to Red Rubber Inspirationals!
We are excited to bring you a weekly challenge that will focus on stamping and related techniques to inspire and enable you to create art!

Inspirational #151 - Christmas Cheer

Deadline for submitting your projects is Wednesday, December 24th at 11:59 PM US Central time. 

This is Drea hosting this week's Inspirational! Our theme this week is all about Christmas Cheer! We want to see any kind of stamped Christmas greeting or image (tree, wreath, Santa, stockings, candy cane, nutcracker, reindeer, presents, snowman, snowflakes, sleigh, lights, etc.).

For complete Inspirational Rules, please read them here

Here is my project based on the theme this week:



I started by blending some Distress Inks onto some white cardstock, and flicked some water over it using an old toothbrush.  Then I used white embossing powder to create snow using the Speckle Background stamp. The trees were stamped in green and brown ink, and then embossed in white, using Oh Christmas Tree. I used Vintage Christmas for the sentiment and snowflakes. 

Kendra created this fabulous card for our inspiration:


Kendra also used images from Vintage Christmas, along with  Snowflake Blocks.

I hope you are inspired by my Inspirational today and link up a newly created project to this post by the deadline! We look forward to seeing what you create!!

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Are you an inspiration? 

Inspiration Projects - After each Inspirational, the Inspiration Team will choose three projects from those submitted via the link-up tool below which we think best reflect the theme of the Inspirational.

Each artist whose project is chosen receives a special Inspiration Badge they can display on their blog - and we'll showcase these projects each Monday following the end of the Inspirational!




Monday, December 15, 2014

Inspiration Projects from Inspirational #149: 3D Gifts


Thank you to everyone who participated in our Inspirational #149: 3D Gifts!!

Such awesome projects from everyone!!

Each week the Inspiration Team choose three projects from all of the just-closed Inspirational participants.  These projects are chosen because they truly capture the essence of the Inspirational. 

Congratulations to the creators of our three Inspiration Projects from Inspirational #149!

#1 Elly
What a beautiful gift package!  We love the image and sentiment together!


#3 Julie
What a beautiful gift bottle!!  Such a lovely design!  And such a sweet image!
bottle closeup 2a

#4 Meigan
Love the wine bottle cover you created!  Fun idea!


Lovely work ladies!

All of our Inspiration Project creators are entitled to an Inspirational Badge for their blog! If your project is chosen as one of the Inspiration Projects, please send an email to - challenge AT redrubberdesigns DOT com - to collect your badge. Please include your name and the Inspirational number your project was created for.

There is still time to join in our current Inspirational #150: Stamping Sparkly Holiday Greetings hosted by Lynda.  Please link up your project by 11:59 PM (U.S. Central time zone) on Wednesday, December 17th.

And don't forget our next Inspirational starts on Thursday, December 18th!!


Have a lovely day!


Thursday, December 11, 2014

Inspirational #150: Stamping Sparkly Holiday Greetings


Welcome to Red Rubber Inspirationals!
We are excited to bring you a weekly challenge that will focus on stamping and related techniques to inspire and enable you to create art!

Inspirational #150 - Stamping Sparkly Holiday Greetings

Deadline for submitting your projects is Wednesday, December 17 at 11:59 PM US Central time. 

This is Lynda hosting this week's Inspirational!  Our theme this week is all about Stamping a Sparkly Holiday Greeting!  We want to see your stamped holiday image pumped up with something sparkly!!!  Please remember that you must used a stamped item on your project.

For complete Inspirational Rules, please read them here.

Here are my projects based on our theme this week:

I made two cards featuring the wonderful poinsettia image from the Holly Season set and sentiments from the Vintage Christmas set.  The first card I stamped the image and embossed the flower using a black glitter embossing powder.  I colored the image using Copic markers.  The main image was then backed with black glitter cardstock and than added onto the card base.  I then stamped the sentiment in black ink.  I then added white dots to the flower using an acrylic art pen and some Wink of Stella glitter marker to the center of the flower.


here is the black glitter embossing on the flower:


For this next card I used flat black embossing powder and also colored the image using my Copic markers.  This image was then backed onto red glitter cardstock.  I then added it to the black card base.  I then stamped the sentiment in versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.  I then added the same white dots and Wink of Stella glitter marker to the center of this flower.


Drea created this wonderful project for our inspiration:



Drea used images from Merry ChristmasRunning StitchesVintage Script, and Holly Swirls.

I hope you are inspired by my Inspirational this week and link up a newly created project to this post by the deadline!  We look forward to seeing what you create!!

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Are you an inspiration?

Inspiration Projects - After each Inspirational, the Inspiration Team will choose three projects from those submitted via the link-up tool below which we think best reflect the theme of the Inspirational.

Each artist whose project is chosen receives a special Inspiration Badge they can display on their blog - and we'll showcase these projects each Monday following the end of the Inspirational!






Monday, December 8, 2014

Inspiration Project for Inspirational #148: Frame It!



Thank you to everyone who participated in our Inspirational #148: Frame It!

Each week the Inspiration Team chooses three projects from all of the just-closed Inspirational participants. These projects are chosen because they truly capture the essence of the Inspirational. This time, we're only choosing one Inspiration Project. While everyone did a great job on their projects, only one person submitted a project that followed the challenge rules (frame your stamped image by stamping a frame).

Congratulations to our Inspiration Project for Inspirational #148!



All of our Inspiration Project creators are entitled to an Inspirational Badge for their blog! If your project is chosen as one of the Inspiration Projects, please send an email to - challenge AT redrubberdesigns DOT com - to collect your badge. Please include your name and the Inspirational number your project was created for.

There is still time to get in on our current Inspirational #149: 3-D Gifts hosted by Kendra.  Please link up your project by 11:59 PM (U.S. Central time zone) on Wednesday, December 10th.

And don't forget our next Inspirational starts on Thursday, December 11th!

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Inspirational #149: 3D Gifts


Welcome to Red Rubber Inspirationals!
We are excited to bring you a weekly challenge that will focus on stamping and related techniques to inspire and enable you to create art!

Inspirational #149 - 3D Gifts

Deadline for submitting your projects is Wednesday, December 10 at 11:59 PM US Central time. 

This is Kendra hosting this week's Inspirational!
Our theme this week is 3D Gifts!

For complete Inspirational Rules, please read them here.

A stamped image must be the focus of your project!

For my project, I used some stamped tags to add to these test tubes for gifts for the kids teachers and bus driver:
The Gift Tags Rubber Stamp is a perfect set for these tags for gifts from the kids!
I just love the images!!  I used three of the four tags from the set!

Now lets see your 3D Gifts!

Happy Stamping!

I hope you are inspired by my Inspirational this week and link up a newly created project to this post by the deadline!  We look forward to seeing what you create!!

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Are you an inspiration?

Inspiration Projects - After each Inspirational, the Inspiration Team will choose three projects from those submitted via the link-up tool below which we think best reflect the theme of the Inspirational.

Each artist whose project is chosen receives a special Inspiration Badge they can display on their blog - and we'll showcase these projects each Monday following the end of the Inspirational! 

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Monday, December 1, 2014

Inspiration Projects from Inspirational #147: Repeat Yourself


Thank you to everyone who participated in our Inspirational #147: Repeat Yourself!!

Such fantastic projects from everyone!!

Each week the Inspiration Team choose three projects from all of the just-closed Inspirational participants. These projects are chosen because they truly capture the essence of the Inspirational. 

Congratulations to the creators of our three Inspiration Projects from Inspirational #147!

#2 Nancy in Iowa


The way this card is framed with those fabulous flowers is very striking! Using different colors with the same stamp is a great way to create interest. 


#9 Snippets Crafter, Neva Cole


This awesome card is a wonderful example of using different techniques with your stamping! Great job!


#8 Pamellia


There is so many beautiful layers of stamping on this card! The repeat stamping isn't as obvious as the other two, but it gives you the opportunity to search through all the detailed stamping that she did.


Lovely work ladies!

All of our Inspiration Project creators are entitled to an Inspirational Badge for their blog! If your project is chosen as one of the Inspiration Projects, please send an email to - challenge AT redrubberdesigns DOT com - to collect your badge. Please include your name and the Inspirational number your project was created for. 

There is still time to join in our current Inspirational #148: Frame It hosted by Pam. Please link up your project by 11:59 PM (US Central time zone) on Wednesday, December 3rd. 

And don't forget our next Inspirational starts Thursday, December 4th!!

Have a lovely day!