Mother’s Day Magnets

   Every year I try to send the Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers a magnet for their refrigerator with a picture of the boys. This year I decided to skip printing the magnets and decided to make tags with magnets on the backside.
    I used paper from Calico Studios. The background stamp, bee and sentiment are by Red Rubber Designs. I used Spellbinders Fancy Tags 2 for the decorative tag. I finished it off by adding a note and strip of magnet on the back. It is pretty simple so that I could ship it easily.
    Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a fabulous evening. I am looking forward to birthday celebrations with family this evening.
Kate

“America, I Love” Door Hanger

   I have been busy altering a few things from the dollar store. This star was a chipboard decoration with a patriotic theme and some red glittered words. I modge podged on some papers into the background and painted with gesso and various acrylic paints. I stamped the background and heat embossed a few patriotic phrases.

    My focal stamp has been watercolored. Various vintage laces have been sprayed and layered. I also added some paper roses. All of these products can be found at the Red Rubber Designs Store.

Products used:
America I Love Stamp
United We Stand Stamp Set
Well-Defined Background Stamps
Just Like Dad Paper Stack
Mulberry Meadow Hardware
Reece and Woodrowe Ribbon

Thank you for visiting today!
Kate

Challenges entered:
Frilly & Funky- Alter it
Sunday Stamper-Blue and Brown

Steampunk Altered Book

    I finally finished the last pages of my AB. I made the background of this book along time ago but I couldn’t find the right images until recently. I used two Altered Artifacts steampunk kids. Aren’t they darling? I gave this one some acetate wings.

   And I loaded up the pages with a lot of leftovers and such.

   Now all I have to do is complete the covers and I will have finished my first altered book. I learned a lot by trial and error. I made a lot of boo boos that I am hoping not to repeat in my next book. Well, have a crafty weekend.
Kate

Red Rubber Designs May Release and Blog Hop

   Welcome! I hope you are all enjoying your week. For the month of May the design team is featuring the ‘Bicycle Lady’ from the newly released Hey Life stamp set. Hop along to each blog to see the different uses of this stamp.
    The Bicycle Lady needs a name and we need your help to find it! Each blog on the hop (except the Red Rubber Designs Blog) has one of the letters of the Bicycle Lady’s name somewhere in their blog hop post. Once you find all seven letters (that’s a hint!) put them together to form her name. You may have to rearrange them a little bit!

Note: The letter you need from each blog will be obvious if you read carefully…. it looks just a little different from the rest of the letters!

Once you figure it out, email the name to contest@RedRubberDesigns.com and be sure to put your name and email address in the email with the Bicycle Lady’s name. Every correct answer will be entered into a drawing for the featured stamp set – “Hey Life” -and one winner will be chosen at random. Good luck! Contest ends Sunday, May 6th at Midnight (US-CT).
    For my card, I started out with a Olive cardstock base and I ran it through a die. I then cut a smaller square of grape cardstock. I used a punchinella stencil with white and green acrylic paint in the background. I used a Well-Defined Background stamp over top the paint. I then cut a piece of acrylic to the same size as the grape cardstock so it could overlap. I used several shades of alcohol ink on the acrylic sheet and then stamped the Bicycle Lady with Black Stazon. I added a piece of burlap to the back of my Sentiment. I sprayed three flowers to border the sentiment. And thats it!
    Red Rubber Designs is releasing eight new stamp sets with this May blog hop. Here is ‘Laugh Lines.’

  
    To see the rest of the releases visit each Design Team Members blog.
  
Hop along in this order:

Red Rubber Designs

Sarah

Paula-Kay

Louise

KC

Kate- you are here

Diana

Debra

Thank you for visiting!
Kate
  

Wedding Card

    Here is an easel fold card with a wedding theme featuring the new release Love & Friendship by Red Rubber Designs. I started out with some grape cardstock. My patterned paper is from the Tuscany Spice stack. I watercolored the image and added a purple bow. I accented with a gold pen. A Spellbinders die was used in the background and a Sizzix die for the roses. Vintage lace has been sprayed in yellow. The sentiment at the bottom is from the Fanciful Vintage stamp set and bordered with a border punch.
   I am off to put my little monkeys down for a nap so I can go play some in my craft room. Thanks for stopping.
Kate

Challenges entered:
Crafty Friends-use two dies
Crafting for All Seasons- Handmade Flowers
Truly Scrumpcious-Distressing and Shopping Our Stash-Anything girly
Crafty Boots-yellow
Unruly Paper Arts-use lace

Wedding Gift Tag

    Already this summer I have received several invitations to bridal showers. My theme for this weeks Red Rubber Designs post is  ‘Good Luck,’ perfect for the wedding season ahead.
    Today, I am sharing a gift tag that can be attached to any gift and be used in place of a card or to accompany a card. I started off with plain white cardstock. I inked the stamped background using Cognac ink. I used several stamps from the Background Soup stamp set. I have layered two nesting dies.The gorgeous wedding cake and little candy is from the Sugar Coated Sweetness stamp set. I added glitter to make them sparkle. At the bottom I have added some vintage lace and german scrap. My sentiment is from the Contemporary Greetings stamp set. I topped it off with some cream tulle to add another wedding touch.
       This tag is quite simple but also very elegant using this gorgeous Stamp set. I LOVE it!! Stop by the Red Rubber Designs Store to get this newly released stamp set.
    Thank you for looking.
Kate
Challenges entered:
Unruly Paper Arts-anything but a card

You’re The Best Tag

      I have another tag made from left overs. This beautiful little girl is from Land of Nod Studios. I used some of my new roses from I Am Roses that I won in a prize pack. Aren’t they gorgeous?! I love how I can spray them any color to match my project. My background has been layered with gesso, pattern paper and then stenciled and stamped. The other tid bits were just lying around on my desk. The stack is quite large.
     Hope you enjoy looking and thank you for taking the time to visit today. As always, I really appreciate your comments. Happy Weekend!!!
Kate
Challenges entered:
Ooh la la Creations-bold and bright
Rogue Redhead- Spring Fashion colors
Aud Sentiments-anything goes
Simon says Stamp-anything goes