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A Beautiful Floral Slimline Thank You Card!

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Today our designer Annie has a gorgeous floral slimline thank you card to help us kick off our month of thankfulness. All November, we will be featuring cards that express OUR gratitude for you and to help you be inspired to share thankfulness with those you love. And don’t forget the giveaway!! We are just loooooving this beautiful card! It’s got a little antique-y style bling in the form of the gold embossing on the background, luscious color from those […]

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Super Cute DIY Slimline Baby Boy Card!

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Today we have a fun twist on all the amazing slimline cards we’ve been showing off – we’ve got an off-the-charts cute and oh-so-simple to make slimline baby boy card for you to try! Our designer Jamie created this for us and we think it’s just adorable! Of course, you could adapt this for a baby girl, too by maybe spelling out “joy”? Either way, this is a really sweet project and it’s relatively simple to put together. Let’s get […]

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A Month of Thankfulness: Gratitude GIVEAWAY!

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Rubbernecker is doing a month of Thankfulness for November, and all of our featured cards will be “Thank You” cards! As a way to say “THANK YOU” to all of our amazing and crafty customers, we are doing a Gratitude Giveaway, which consists of ten (10) $25 gift cards! Say What?! That’s right, we will pick 10 winners on Saturday the 7th, so you can shop our amazing sales! See below for how to enter: 1. Sign up on our […]

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Slimline Background Stamps for Christmas!

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Lately we’ve been seeing LOTS of questions out there about where to get slimline background stamps for Christmas. Well, at Rubbernecker, of course! We currently have one in the store and it is selling like gangbusters. Today, we are going to show you an example of WHY – this project by our design team member Lisa is a KNOCKOUT! Lisa says, “They are cool whether you color the whole image using markers, pencils, or watercolor or even if you leave […]

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A Cute Halloween Slimline Card With Owls!

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We thought we would bring October to a close with one more adorable Halloween slimline card – with owls! Owls are a permanent theme in the stamping world and we love that we can bring you even more fun things to do with your owls from Rubbernecker with the Halloween and Christmas Add-Ons. When Lisa made this card she talked about cutting out a whole slew of little owls and their cute little Halloween costumes. She says she had fun […]

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Color Burst Sale and a Video Tutorial!

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Right now we have a great Color Burst sale going on and what better way to take advantage of savings than to get some glorious fall project inspiration? Our very own Dave Miller is sharing some of his fabulous techniques and turning out truly dazzling results in today’s video tutorial. Dave makes everyone feel like an expert and his many fans say that his videos are total game changers for them. Check out this video LOADED with PRO TIPS, go […]

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Showing Off A New Slimline Die Set!

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Wowzers – isn’t this card made with the new Nested Scallop slimline die set gorgeous? When we started designing and bringing you slimline die sets, we made sure to keep some of the more popular motifs from our standard dies and scallops are ALWAYS a hit. This card takes full advantage of how fantastic layers look on a slimline card and Allie used one of our super cool slimline insert dies, too, for a look that is so rich and […]

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New Ink Shading Techniques To Try!

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There are plenty of new ink shading techniques being shared all the time and our designer, Annie, tried one of them out for us today using one of our new silhouette stamps to give you some instant technique gratification! Silhouette stamps are great because they tend to be larger and bold and make excellent statements when stamped in a solid color over an ink-blended or patterned background. But Annie wondered what would happen if she applied some of those ink […]

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A Shadow Box Shaker Card Video Tutorial!

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In today’s installment of Stamp Along With Rubbernecker, Preeti is sharing a shadow box shaker card video tutorial LOADED with tips and tricks to make this STUNNING project.This is a total show stopper and yet somehow Preeti makes it all so DOABLE! For easy future reference, here are the measurements of the three panels you will use in every version of this amazing “How’d she DO that?!?” project: Shadow Box Measurements:   6 ¼ x 5 ½ Front panel Score […]

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A Coffee Slimline Card With a Chuckle!

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Some of us love coffee, some of us love slimline cards and that means, for sure, that some of us will LOVE a coffee slimline card, especially when it makes you laugh! Let’s dive into today’s project by the talented Jamie! First, she die cut a piece of white card stock using the Slimline Insert Geometric X Die and trimmed it closely to the “lattice” created by this popular die. She used four shades of Color Fuse ink – Caramel, […]

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A SUPER Cute Gnome Card!

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Today we are serving up a super cute gnome card using one of the adorable greetings from a different gnome set. Can you EVER have too many gnomes? And Jamie used the sweetest color combination of rose and gold putting a fresh twist on a traditional layout. We LOVE it! First, she stamped our William Winter Gnome on white with black VersaFine and colored him in with pink, brown and a touch of green Prisma Color Pencils. She then cut […]

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Handmade Thank You Card Ideas

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We don’t know about you, but we love having handmade thank you card ideas handy because there are so many reasons to say “thank you”! Today, Allison is showing us one of these great DIY card ideas using one of our recently released background stamps and a fun coloring technique as the focal point. We love how she created sort of an ombre look from the outside edges of the card to the center! She did this by stamping the […]

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Thanksgiving Invitation and DIY Place Cards – VIDEO!

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Today on Stamp Along With Rubbernecker, we are sharing a fantastic video from Preeti on how to make a beautiful Thanksgiving invitation and coordinating DIY Thanksgiving place cards. They are truly stunning and her video is LOADED with PRO TIPS. Our PRO TIP? Listen to Preeti share her family’s deeply heartwarming Thanksgiving tradition! Just when you think you can’t love someone any more!!! We know 2020 has been one heckuvayear but even with all the issues we faced and are […]

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Color Burst Background How-Tos!

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Today Michelle is showing us how to create a color burst background – two actually! – to add some serious visual interest to our card making projects with not a whole lot of work! We LOVE short cuts to fabulousness and when there is a product that can make that happen, we are even happier! Her first card is a fun, dreamy landscape scene for which her color burst background is mainly blues with just a touch of yellow. PRO […]

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A Peek-Through Slimline Halloween Die Cut Card!

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Today, as part of our 13 Days of Halloween, we have a gorgeous peek-through Halloween die cut card made as a slimline using one of our new slimline dies. As STUNNING as this card is, it’s easier than it looks thanks to some clever details. First, our uber talented designer Julie, used the Slimline OPC (One Piece Cut) Circle Dash die and placed it over the stamped Slimline Halloween background. She marked where the greeting “Happy” and then “Halloween” would […]

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Make A Cute Halloween Gnome Card!

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Today we’ve got a cute Halloween gnome card that truly shows the versatility of these funny little fellows! And our designer today has shown how using a unified color scheme can really make a handmade card pop! Here, Carol stuck to the same basic colors of Color Fuse ink and coordinating shades of Copic markers and you can really see how there’s a mood for this card but each element stands out in such an artistic way. First, Carol used […]

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Halloween Crafts To Make Today!

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Looking for some ways to use your existing stamps and dies to make some fun Halloween crafts? We got you covered. Follow along for some Tricks and Treats and some frightful inspiration from our Designers and we make non-card items that are sure to WOW!  Candy Bar Wrappers Supplies: 5335-01D Build an Owl Die 5335-02D Owl Halloween add ons Die 5176D Nested Deckle Rectangle Dies 1349 field of stars background 1343 Snakeskin background 1356 wavy line background Steps: 1. Cut […]

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Halloween Gift Card Holders that are a TREAT!

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Did you know Trick or Treating doesn’t have to be just for kids? Grown ups deserve treats too, am I right!!! We definitely have a treat for you today, as our designer, Preeti, walks you through how to make these adorable Gift Card Holders using slimline die cuts and stamps, that are sure to be a hit among your friends. Just make them and slip in a Starbucks, Dairy Queen or Sees Candy gift card into them and send them […]

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Coffee Hop Prize Winner!

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Thank you all for participating in the National Coffee Day blog Hop last week, it was seriously SO. MUCH. FUN.  We loved all the projects we saw from our design team and you guys really stocked up on tons of Coffee products that left us on a caffeine high as we filled orders haha.  We wanted to announce the one lucky winner, drawn randomly from the 80+ comments left on the Coffee Hop Blog Post. This winner will win this […]

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Halloween Die Cuts – Costumes for OWLS!

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We have lots of fun tools to make Halloween die cuts like this and this and even more here but one of our all time FAVORITE sets of Halloween die cuts are our brand new OWL COSTUMES!  Is there ANYTHING cuter than a little owl all dressed up for trick or hooting, we mean treating? We intentionally designed these dies to cut all the pieces at once to help make your die cutting faster AND to help you NOT lose […]

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Ombre Happy Halloween Cards – Slimline Style!

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Happy Halloween cards range from spooky to cute and everything in between. This awesome ombre background Halloween card with a cute scarecrow sits right in the middle, don’t you think? That ombre background sure sets the tone and the addition of all those adorable die cut details give you plenty to look at. AND, this card could EASILY be converted into an A2 card – just trim the background slimline insert die cut and place the greeting over the cut […]

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