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Tropical Beach Card with Color Fuse Inks

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I had so much fun making this colorful tropical beach card.  I created the beach scene background and colored all the tropical foliage and flowers using Color Fuse Inks by Rubbernecker.  The inks are so easy to work with and blend beautifully using blender brushes and applicators.  I love the large exaggerated foliage and flowers in the foreground with the ocean in the background.   For this card I used the Rubbernecker Leaf Set, Sea Grass, Mixed Flower Stack, Birds, […]

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A Fun and Festive Fourth of July Card

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Who is ready to celebrate the Red, White and Blue next week? We were very excited to release our *NEW* Fourth of July die-cuts a few weeks ago as part of our big summer release. The fireworks are so fun for any type of celebration card, and add a fun embellishment to your projects. And the new Margarita/Daiquiri die cuts just scream summer and make us wish we were laying by the pool.  Today we have a summer treat for […]

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Copic Skin Colors Video Tutorial!

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Yay – today we are sharing that promised Copic skin colors video tutorial! If you didn’t check out last weeks post, do so now so you can get excited for the incredible lessons shared today that demonstrate a wonderful technique for coloring dark skin tones with Copic markers. Here’s a peek at that beautiful project: Our designer has done a great job walking us through the steps to achieve a smooth and beautifully realistic image. This technique can work with […]

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African American Greeting Cards for Juneteenth!

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Many years ago, we noticed that there were not many African American greetings cards on the market and even LESS stamps that allowed crafters to create their own. We are proud that we were one of the first rubber stamp companies to make multicultural images and greetings because we truly do believe in not just equality for everyone, but equality in crafting as well! In observance of the Juneteenth holiday, Rubbernecker Stamps wants to take this opportunity to celebrate Black […]

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A Stunning Card Using Die Cuts

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Today we are so lucky to have this gorgeous card using die cuts layered with a frame to create a stunning silhouette! Let’s take a peek! Using die cuts to build out a scene like this is actually easy and when you use them in all one color, you can create that beautiful silhouette that allows your colors to really POP! Our designer used three of the new Color Fuse inks blended as the background. She also cut a circle […]

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Copic Skin Tones that Look Real

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Copic Markers are such a versatile tool in the hands of an artist. We love seeing how each of our stamps can look totally different depending on the creativity and techniques of each person. Today we are going to follow along with Michelle, as she shows us how to achieve realistic copic skin tones. She did a series on darker skin tones earlier in the year, you can find links to those posts at the bottom. We hope she inspires […]

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Creating Scenes with Fun Inking Techniques

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Just WOW! Have you had the chance to play with our amazing Color Fuse Inks yet? Today Annie has a great tutorial for you on blending, and the result is just stunning! If you are ready for some fun summer inspiration, take a look at today’s post and get prepared to feel the warms of the sun on your face, your toes in the water and butt on the sand!  Hi there! Annie here today with a pretty summer card […]

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DIY Birthday Card for Beginners

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Happy First Day of June fellow crafters. We are looking forward to school being out, summer adventures, and lots of extra crafting time. We love how Jamie used our Party Balloons stamp for this fun birthday card. We don’t know about you, but we are ALWAYS in need of a good birthday card. Is your stash running low? Follow along with Jamie below and make a few of these fun DIY cards to keep in inventory!  Rubbernecker Stamps has this […]

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Watercoloring Die Cuts with Color Fuse Inks

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Watercoloring die cuts like the flowers and foliage on this project is a fun technique for coloring images.  I used hot press watercolor to cut the flowers and foliage and used Color Fuse inks to color them.  Hot press watercolor paper is very smooth and is the perfect base for creating gorgeous color and shading.  For this project I used the Organic Shapable Daisy, Flower #5 (large leaves), Wreath Set and Tiny Flower Buds. I used Color Fuse Set #5 […]

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With Love Card

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I wanted to make a feminine with love card so I paired the Nested Circle Scallop w/ Holes and the 2 Part Butterfly #3 along with the Large Ivy, Small Flowers #3 and Kittie Says Phrases #1..  The bright pink and green color combination is so striking against the white background. The hearts on the designer paper adds another element of love on this card. The Card Base and Sentiment Cut an A2 sized card base,  the eyelet circle and […]

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CAS Guys Card that Wows!

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Hello my fellow crafty friends, Preeti here today on the Rubbernecker blog with two CAS (Clean and Simple) guy cards. It feels only like yesterday that we were celebrating New Years so how are we are through mid year already?? Where did the time go?? Well I am glad that even with all the chaos around us we have reasons to celebrate and it is time to celebrate all the Fathers out there. Today I am using the Diamonds Die […]

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Caffeinated Goodness- DIY Coffee Card

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Hello all! We are just loving this awesome creation by Lisa Bzibziak today! Such a bright card to help us keep this week moving right along! As you know, there is alot of caffeinated goodness in the Rubbernecker shop and we love seeing how Lisa chose to use a few of our faves today!  Scroll through this post to see Lisa’s take on this card.  I just love the owls available over in the shop!  And Campbell here is having his […]

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A Living Wall made of Paper!

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Good Morning to you all! Allison here and I have a lot of small die cut flowers in bright summer colours to make up today’s card. We just added a living wall to our yard which was the inspiration for my card today. I don’t know about you, but paper flowers are much easier to keep alive haha.  If you have noticed, I have been using a lot of these tiny flowers in my handmade card project recently, and the […]

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How to Stamp Summer Blooms for Handmade Card

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Hello Rubbernecker friends!  Today I’m sharing this pretty floral card using the Summer Bloom stamp layering set.  I did lots of easy masking to make this beautiful card to send hugs to that special person!  This card is also a good example that when things don’t turn out exactly as you had hoped, just roll with it, and all turns out fine in the end!  Read on to see what I mean. Here are the steps for my card: Create […]

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Using Shaped Dies to Create Gift Tags

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Hello Friends, Preeti here on the Rubbernecker blog today showcasing shaped gift tags using stamps and die cuts. Threre are so many different shapes of nesting dies and stand alone dies avaibale at Rubbernecker and they will all work beautifully for this project. I have made wine and coffee tags for my project today, but you can make a flower tag, a circle tag and many more endless possibilities. One question I get asked very often is what do you […]

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Using Primary Colors to Say Happy Birthday

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Hey there!  Lisa here again and today I’m back with some more stripey goodness!  This time I used it for this birthday card using the Dog With Big Eyes stamp along with Birthday Balloons! I created the background just like my last, but this time using the Color Fuse #8 blues… I love using a frame to highlight the main card images!  But I also love letting the images push the limits of the frame… I mean all of this […]

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Country Sunset Scene Card-WOW!

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Hi there! Annie here today with a fun and pretty way to send a country hello. As the days get longer this time of the year, one of my family’s favorite things to do is take a ride in the country after dinner. There’s one particular route we enjoy that travels past tons of open farmland, and on that route is a one-lane bridge that doglegs over a tiny brook surrounded by blue wildflowers. For the longest time, there were […]

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A Birthday Card with the Cutest Birds!

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Hi there, Jamie here with you today with a card that uses some of my favorite Rubbernecker Stamps products!  I just think that these birds are the cutest, they make me laugh every time I look at them, I think I’m that little bird hanging upside down hahah. Here’s how my card was made- Stamp Be Yourself on white cardstock with Onyx Black VersaMark Ink and color with Prisma Colored Pencils.   Cut out the birds using the Be Yourself Die […]

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Fun Technique to make a Floral See-Through Card

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Hello friends!  Carol here today, and I have a cool technique that I tried for my floral card today!  I’ve used the beautiful Fragrant Blooms stamps and coordinating dies to create a floral see-through card.  This was so fun and not at all hard to create!   In full disclosure, the technique for this design totally comes from the awesome Jennifer McGuire.  She has some good tips that make this easy to create (see her YouTube here.) Here are the […]

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Make Funny Cards for Friends Who Craft!

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Allison with you today to inspire you to make some funny cards for friends who craft. I must say, I absolutely love this sentiment!  I’m sure we all have that one friend that this sentiment and sassy girl is perfect for. This card was easy to make thanks to the flower die cutting 36 flowers at a time.  For the Card I started with stamping the “wrapped string background stamp” with Versamark Ink and embossed with gold embossing powder on […]

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Cards with Pickup Trucks for Father’s Day

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Father’s Day is the perfect occasion to make cards with pickup trucks.  I think we all struggle to come up with ideas for masculine cards.  I like to turn to my old faithful pick up truck die, whether in a snowy winter scene for Christmas, a summer beach scene or even a sunny country scene with a tree and a few flowers and birds.  For my project today I used the Rubbernecker Truck, Inside Scallop Nested Die, Grass, Winter Tree, […]

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