It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

Well the chill is in the air, the tree is up, the outside lights hanging, and I’m listening to Christmas music! What better way to cap off a week of decorating by making a cute little stocking ornament for your tree?

The design team has been hard at work making stockings all this week to help get you in the spirit. I hope you’ve had some time to get in your craft room and play along with us as well.

I wanted this stocking to have a vintage shabby chic feel and I challenged myself to use Melissa’s AMAZING background stamps! These are definitely my go-to stamps to give life to all kinds of projects.

For my project, I used the H978 Background Basics 2 Polka Dot stamp and the EP200 Stampendous Adhesive Powder to adhere the gorgeous G108 Your So Fine Diamond Clear Cool Highlight glitter.

I heart this glitter. It is so baby powdering fine and it sticks so well to the adhesive powder. I was even able to outline the edges of the patterned paper.

Just in case that isn’t enough sparkle for you, I also used the 121007 Crystal Clear Jellie Dots along the edge of the dainty little pom-pom ribbon I had in my stash. Isn’t that just beautiful! It looks so sparkly on my tree.

So there’s my little stocking sitting perfectly in the tree. You could also make these to use in a garland as decoration too. The possibilities are endless.

I hope I’ve inspired you to use your products in new and different ways or to simply try a new technique using the fabulous products in The Rubber Café store.

Supplies Used:

Background Basics 2	Stamp n Bond	Your So Fine Glitter Diamond
Jellie Dots - Crystal	Stick em Up	Scrap Happy Glue
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Stamps: Background Basics 2 Polka Dot stamp
Paper: Pink Paisley Butterfly Garden, Bazzill Cardstock
Ink: Ranger Old Paper Distress Ink
Bling: 121007 Crystal Clear Jellie Dots 
Accessories: Scrap Happy Glue, EP200 Stampendous Adhesive Powder, G108 Your So Fine Diamond Clear Cool Highlight glitter
Misc: Stick pin, glass beads, floral ribbon, mini pom pom ribbon

Happy Crafting!

Organization, Cut files, and play time!

So I was surfing around the internet and checking emails a few weeks ago and I happened to see someone on one of my yahoo groups was looking for project samples for their online store. Since it was a cutting file group and I have a dusty old Cricket machine sitting in a corner of the my scraproom, I thought it was high time I broke that puppy out.

I won’t bore you with the details but I was sent a wonderful magazine file to try my hand out with. Here’s what I came up with:

Just to let you know I sized this way down so that I could have a cute little container sitting on my desk to hold my ever elusive dimensional adhesive! I can never remember where I put them so this was a perfect solution.

A few weeks ago I got a great deal on the flower trim above. I know they have been out for a while but I finally got my hands on them AND they were incredibly inexpensive at that!!

I roughed up the edges of some old SISTV paper that I had in my scrap pile and adhered it to the magazine file base. I used a Spellbinders die adorned with mini pearls on the edge.

On the front I used a Rubber Café dress form stamp and gave her a blinged-out waistline with their jellies too.

I hope this inspired you to get organized and use your scraps!

Supplies used:

Stamps:
Steampunk Charity Wings by The Rubber Café  
Paper:
Bazzil Green, SisTV scraps  
Ink:
Distress Ink, Old Paper
Other:
Cut File – Visual Designs by Chris – a Christy Cleary design
Label Four Small #1 by Spellbinders
Crystal Jellie Dots
Scrap Happy Glue
Misc Beads
Stick Pin
Glue Gun

Happy Crafting ladies!

Michele

Show us Your Halloween Décor!

This week The Rubber Café design team is showing off their mad home décor skills! Hopefully you’ll be inspired to make your own decorations too.

I’ve been wanting to make a wreath for a long time so I decided our front entry needed a little bit more pizzazz so here is what I came up with. 

A little Trick-or-Treat fun to get us in the mood to hand out some candy!

Here’s how I made this tissue paper wreath.

1. Stamp the I-986 Roaring 20’s Placard with Distress Ink Old Paper on to two sheets of white tissue paper. Then over-stamp using the small bat from the CL-002 Pumpkin Face Mix-n-Match set using Memento Tuxedo Black and cut into 3 x 3 inch squares.

2. Cut two concentric circles from your chipboard. The largest circle should be approximately 10 inches in diameter.

3. Crumple the tissue paper before pushing the center in to form a pocket. Place some hot glue on the bottom and adhere to the wreath form.

4. Next curl some black wire, thread some beautiful beads onto it and adhere to wreath. Don’t the little bats look adorable peaking out of the paper?

5. Finally stamp the Trick or Treat from the CL-002 Trick or Treat set using Memento Tuxedo Black and back with black cardstock. Embellish with 121007 Crystal Jellie Dots and adhere to project using TRC0010 Scrap Happy Glue.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my tutorial today. I really enjoyed making this wreath and it didn’t take me long at all to create it.

Supplies:

Stamps:
CL-002 Trick or Treat set by The Rubber Cafe
CL-002 Pumpkin Face Mix-n-Match by The Rubber Cafe
I-986 Roaring 20’s Placard by The Rubber Cafe
Paper:
Cardboard from back of paper pack
Bazzil Black
Ink:
Memento Tuxedo Black ink by Tsukineko
Distress Ink Old Paper
Other:
121007 Crystal Jellie Dots
TRC0010 Scrap Happy Glue
Beads
Black Wire
Glue Gun

Spooky Halloween: Altered Frame Tutorial!

It’s that time of year again! Have you started decorating yet for those little goblins and ghouls?  I have and I am having a blast repurposing those old frames I purchased at the garage sales this summer.

I love to turn trash into treasure so today I’m going to show you how easy it is to put some new life into an old object to make a beautiful Spooky Halloween Frame.



So let’s get started:

1. First you will need an old frame, some paint, and a paintbrush. Disassemble the frame and paint it.



2. Then remove the photo mat and paint it.



3. Cut your Kraft cardstock to the photo mat measurements.



4. Stamp your sentiment (Happy Halloween from the CL-002 Pumpkin Faces Mix n Match) consecutively until it fills in the photo opening completely.

5. Finally reassemble the frame and decorate the front as you wish.



The ribbon rose I made using using the Scrap Happy Glue glots as a base.  They are so easy to make. 



I used the CN-0076 Candis Trick or Treat and my bling on the outside of the frame to give the frame some depth.



I also used the spooky faces from the CL-002 Pumpkin Faces Mix n Match stamp set to create the spooky faces in the corner of the frame. They are stickled and adhered to the glass front.



I hope I’ve inspired you to find those hidden treasures around your home. Why not breathe some new life into an old piece? You might be surprised what you come up with!

Don’t forget it’s World Card Making today and we are celebrating with a chance to win 6 sets of the Tim Holtz Limited Edition Distress Inks!



Click HERE for all the details on how you can win. For extra entries, don’t forget to LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! 

Products Used:

Scrap Happy Glue

Pumpkin Face Mix-N-Match

Candi - Trick or Treat

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Happy Crafting!

Michele

Paris ATC

I have another little project to show for you today. This is an ATC that I did a while back for a swap I was in. I have to be honest, I almost didn’t send it.  I really like how it turned out! 

I used the packaging from one of my die purchases as well as some distress inks to give it that aged look.  The image I printed from online.  I think I’m going to have to redo this one so I have one for my house. It would be nice to do a series of these framed for my bathroom.  Hmmmm . . I may just do that!

Thanks for looking!

Michele

Stamp Storage Idea

So you all know I'm doing the crop at Chatty Scrappers right? Well I was working on one challenge, made a mistake and decided to use it for another challenge. The mistake actually turned out quite well for a storage container and I just might make a few more!

I used the Mini Magazine Tutorial from the Inking Idaho blog . . thanks Becky Roberts! However, somehow I messed up the dimensions and mine turned out taller and smaller in depth. BUT the great thing is, the size fits the Studio G stamps perfectly!!



So head on over to the Inking Idaho blog to make your own little mini versions of the magazine holders. They are fun. Here are my new stamp holders so you can see those too.




Thanks for looking! Don't forget to come to the New Year Crop. We are having lots of fun!!