CategoryColor Fuse

Lunar Paste and Stencils From Rubbernecker Are A Love Match!

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See how using Lunar Paste and stencils from our collection can add the most delightful details with very little effort! Have you used Lunar Paste? Lunar Paste is a colored, creamy paste with a metallic sheen that adds beautiful texture and a subtle sparkle to your projects. Today Ricky is sharing how using Lunar Paste and stencils together creates a detail that is so gorgeous that you will want to try it out with ALL our stencils in our collection. […]

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See a Handmade Snow Themed Birthday Card

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Wow someone on their special day with this gorgeous handmade snow themed birthday card! Snowflakes and birthdays merge perfectly on today’s handmade snow themed birthday card! Some people with winter birthdays that are close to the holidays don’t always get the recognition they deserve but today’s card will certainly make them feel special! Melinda created this beauty for us and she says “For this card I wanted to create something wintry for those winter birthdays. I love the size of […]

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Rubbernecker Color Fuse Christmas Card Idea

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If you love our inks as much as we do, then this Rubbernecker Color Fuse Christmas card design is going to make you SO happy! Our Color Fuse Ink has gained a well deserved reputation for being some of the very best ink for stamping out there. People tell us all the time that they love the color families, the fact that the shades and the formula of the ink blend so beautifully and that their impressions last so long. […]

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A CAS Stencil Christmas Card That Will WOW!

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Come see how our designer created a CAS stencil Christmas card that has so much detail no one will believe it wasn’t hand painted! We all love to have a few clean and simple cards tucked away, right? And sometimes, as lovely as the cards may be, a CAS card can sometimes be a little…….well, TOO simple. If you are looking for a project that is very simple to put together and has a beautiful clean style for that fresh […]

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A Christmas Card Made With Non Holiday Stamp Items

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Come see how you can make a delightful Christmas card made with non holiday stamp goodies from the Rubbernecker store! Today’s pretty card is from Sammi who said her inspiration was to create a Christmas card made with non holiday stamp designs. Can you spot the year-round motif she used? It’s our Floral Wreath set of stamps, stencils, and a die cut! This versatile set can be used so many ways because it’s the coloring of the details that set […]

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A Beautiful Purple Fall Card With Pumpkins

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Today’s stunning purple fall card with pumpkins – also purple! – is so glorious and is a fun twist on a traditional pumpkin greeting card! Today Sammi is paying homage to her favorite color – purple. Her purple fall card with pumpkins also done in glorious shades of purple is such a beautiful twist on your standard fall pumpkin card and we love it! Let’s let Sammi share how she made it and we will pop back in at the […]

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How to Ink Card Backgrounds For a Night Sky

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Get some great PRO TIPS on how to ink card backgrounds to create a delicious moody night sky! Today Ricky is sharing his great tips for how to ink card backgrounds to create this beautiful dark, delicious night sky on his take on a spooky Halloween card. He’s sharing lots of great pics so we can see exactly how easy it is to create this look with our Color Fuse Inks. Let’s dive right in and get to the fun […]

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Make a Beautiful Fall Leaf Collage Card!

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Today’s fall leaf collage card uses easy ink blending and pretty leaf dies for a fast and fabulous project! One thing we absolutely ADORE about this fall leaf collage card is that no matter how you make it – whatever colors you use, whatever background paper you choose, whatever leaf shapes you love – this card will look spectacular! Carol, as always, is sharing all her delicious details so we can follow along with her as she shows us how […]

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See Easy Ink Blending With Masks

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Get some great tip on easy ink blending with masks to create this double layered look! We’ve share a bunch of very cute and sweet Halloween cards – like this one and this one and this one. Today we’ve got a card that just tips into spooky with an effect that was created by easy ink blending with masks to create a double layered look. Sammi says “When I saw the Witches dies, I immediately thought of a night sky […]

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Try The Ink and Spritz Technique!

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Come learn how easy it is to use the ink and spritz technique for the most beautiful watercolor looks! You’ve likely seen beautiful cards that look like they were hand water color painted. And while lots of them probably were, we can promise that many of them were made using the very easy ink and spritz technique. Today our resident watercolor guru, Melinda – check out her watercolor themed Paper Pads in our store! – is sharing her version of […]

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Sweet AND Spooky Handmade Halloween Cards!

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Come see a great way to make sweet and spooky handmade Halloween cards that will delight everyone who is lucky enough to receive one! While we love the occasional scary card, we mostly like Halloween cards that are cute and not too creepy. Today Carol is sharing her fabulous design for sweet and spooky handmade Halloween cards that are just adorable but have that little hint of haunt in the background. Let’s hear right from Carol how she created this […]

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Is Color Fuse The Best Ink for Blending on Cards?

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Come see why we truly think our Color Fuse ink IS the best ink for blending on cards! All you have to do is look at this glorious card from Sammi to know why we believe our Color Fuse ink is the best ink for blending on cards and other paper crafting projects. We’ve mentioned before that we drove our formulators crazy with testing and tweaking to make sure that our ink would blend easily adn with excellent results every […]

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Color Fuse Halloween Color Combinations

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Check out some fun Color Fuse Halloween color combinations you can use to make your cards. We thought it would be fun to introduce a new feature – if you like it, we will keep offering it so be sure to let us know what you think. Today we are sharing some fun Color Fuse Halloween color combinations that you can use to inspire your sweet and tricky card making for the coming holiday. Of course we love our inks […]

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Simple Gorgeous Handmade Fall Cards!

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Come on over and get all the steps to making these simple gorgeous handmade fall cards! Today Melinda is sharing this idea for the most simple, gorgeous handmade fall cards and we LOVE how much these leaves look like the real thing, all just with some of our Color Fuse Ink! Melinda says “I am so excited for fall!! Its my favorite season and I look forward to it every year. Unfortunately we don’t get a lot of fall color […]

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Rainbow Ink Blending Die Cut Flowers

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See how rainbow ink blending die cut flowers can add so much beautiful color to a card with so little effort! In a previous post, Sammi shared her vision for creating some beautiful butterflies using this same technique. Today she is back with another stunner, showing how rainbow ink blending die cut flowers can add that same beautiful colorful look with very little time and effort. Sammi is really showing off how our Color Fuse Ink is so perfectly suited […]

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Change Spring Cards to Fall Cards!

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Come see how easy it can be to change spring cards to fall cards with some simple color swaps and a different sentiment! Carol, today’s designer, says “Just because a product packaging has springtime colors doesn’t mean it is strictly for spring!” Today she is applying her design magic and showing us how we can change spring cards to fall cards with just a few small touches. Carol goes on to say “When I made my card back in the […]

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A Fun Halloween Card!

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Check out all the fun little details that went into this fun Halloween card – the perfect mix of trick and treat! Today Ricky is sharing his fun Halloween card that he created by imitating the colored background on the packaging of our Framed Crows in Trees stamp and then adding the adorable little characters to really cute it up. AND he’s sharing a really great video where he walks us through his whole process. Thank you, Ricky, for your […]

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Ink Blending With Color Fuse – Halloween Style!

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Come see the gorgeous ways you can use ink blending with Color Fuse on today’s fun Halloween card! In today’s spooky yet adorable Halloween card, Sammi is showing how she used lots of different color combinations of ink blending with Color Fuse to create all her fun elements. Sammi says “I just love this grave scene – I knew that I wanted to make a spooky card with the Spooky Hand die in haunted forest and the Birch Forest die […]

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Now Make an Adorable Die Cut Snowman Card!

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Come see how to make this adorable die cut snowman card AND how easy it is! Yesterday we learned how to make a cute die cut reindeer card and, keeping with the theme, today we have this adorable die cut snowman card for you to try. There’s something so delightful about cards that are sweet and charming and we sure do have the goods for you to make these in so many different themes. Today Allison is using an unexpected […]

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Make a Layered Dimensional Paper Poinsettia

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Learn how to make a layered dimensional paper poinsettia that will rival the real ones! Creating a beautiful layered dimensional paper poinsettia may look impossible and difficult, and today Carol is sharing with us her tips for making it totally doable. Carol says “For me, creating Christmas cards gives me total permission to go all out with the bling and glam as I have done here! Using previously released, but still loved, products can always be made in a new […]

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Layered Die Cut Poinsettia Cards – GORGEOUS!

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See how you can make layered die cut poinsettia cards that will knock their fuzzy socks off – easier than you might think! There are lots of ideas out there for layered die cut poinsettia cards but we are venturing a huge bet that there aren’t many as spectacular as this one from Melinda! Melinda says “For today’s card I wanted to use some scraps from a large mixed media panel I created recently. I also had a few green […]

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