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Meet the members of the Rubbernecker Design Team 2023! Joining us as a brand new designer is Dawn Gavlinksi! Dawn has been crafting since 2009. She started with scrapbooking and made her way to card making; working with paper and dies is her current love language.  Dawn has always been crafty, and prior to her card making adventures, she owned a business where she sold mixed media canvases that she made. We love that! Dawn makes her home in Maryland […]

Check out these two stamp masking technique videos for some simple and fun ideas! Last April we featured some excellent stamp masking technique videos in a two part post series and by the “clicks of it”, you loved them. So much so that we thought it would be a good idea to share them again so anyone who missed them could catch them or to inspire you again to play around with this simple but effective way to add so […]

Meet the members of the Rubbernecker Design Team 2023! Meet Melinda Stearns, our watercolor wonder woman! Melinda and her husband make their home in a small Northern California town with their dog Darby. Gee – we wonder if it’s a rule you have to have a furry friend to qualify as a card maker! LOL! Melinda started making cards in 2015 and has been completely obsessed ever since! She doesn’t have a card making style per se – she just […]

See the first five of our top ten pro card making tools you can add to your collection! There’s a joke that being a crafter actually encompasses TWO hobbies – collecting crafting supplies and actually crafting! We though we would share our top ten pro card making tools that solve challenges we all have, making the “collecting” part more valuable. In no particular order, here are our first five suggestions: Pro Card Making Tool One – Something sticky to pick […]

Meet the members of the Rubbernecker Design Team 2023! Taking her place in today’s spotlight is our gifted designer, Carol Hintermeier! Carol is sort of our secret weapon designer in that she also shares tips, tricks and innovative designs in her projects that are total game changers. Whether she is sharing a fun, fresh card layout, a new way to use a classic element or making multi-media feel so less scary, Carol seems to an endless spring of ideas in […]

Learn a little about why we celebrate Martin Luther King Day here in the US. Here in the US, today is designated Martin Luther King Day. Dr. King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism during the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. With his birthday being January 15th, his work and legacy is recognized on the third Monday in January and is considered a day of service and and celebration of his life’s […]

Meet the members of the Rubbernecker Design Team 2023! Meet our fun-loving Designer, Jamie Martin! Jamie started stamping when her kids were tiny and she was a stay-at-home mom. Stamping was her way of relaxing after a fun-filled day with the little ones, now they’re grown-ups and she’s still stamping. (Thank GOODNESS for us!) Her stamping experience has included teaching classes, starting a stamp club in Oklahoma that meets at her house twice a month, and being on several design […]

See why the Rubbernecker Someone Like You set is so popular! When we are shows, we often have people come up and ask for something they’ve seen here or on Pinterest or everywhere else you all share our products. One thing we hear a lot is “can you show me the Rubbernecker Someone Like You set?”. With a coordinating die AND a coordinating stencil set, our Someone Like You stamp set is a huge fan favorite and we couldn’t be […]

Meet the members of the Rubbernecker Design Team 2023! We are so happy to introduce you to Lisa Bzibziak, an all-round creative goddess! We can always count on Lisa to share a fabulous new way to add details, dimension and delight to our cards. In the last few years, Lisa has added lots of new media to her arsenal of creative materials so you will find lots of interesting and captivating looks on her projects including colorful Copics, tantalizing textures […]

Meet the members of the Rubbernecker Design Team 2023! Joining us now is the incredibly talented Julie Warner who always has a surprise up her (inky) sleeve! Julie Warner is our Associate Designer who is actually the artist behind the coloring of our product artwork for packaging. The next time you pick up one of our goodies and marvel at how FUN they look you can thank Julie for her fabulous eye! Julie is a Texan now living in northern […]

Meet the members of the Rubbernecker Design Team 2023! First up, you know her, you love her, you fall off your chairs at her die cut creations – we welcome Kittie Caracciolo to the stage! Kittie is our Rubbernecker Exclusive Associate Designer. This means that not only does Kittie use exclusively our stamps and dies, but she also helps design some of our products. She even has her own line of dies and stamps in our Rubbernecker store! After a […]

See why the Rubbernecker Wavy Stencil has been a fan favorite since the day it launched! As you know, this month we are sharing favorite projects from the past year (and beyond!) chosen by our panel of experts – all of YOU and all of US! Today we are featuring a card that blew you all away using the almost-famous Rubbernecker Wavy Stencil. You might have seen it recently in our post showing off cards that sparkle. Let’s take a […]