Make some cute Easter Tags for baskets, treats or to put on cards! We are in LOVE with these adorable Easter tags and Jamie has made them in the perfect size for tying onto baskets, attaching to little treat bags or even adding to a card base for quick and cute Easter cards. Let’s check out how she added all the cute little details! First, she cut three different patterns of decorative paper using the largest of our Nested Tag […]
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Make a Handmade Card With Peonies in No Time! Spring is coming – we promise! – and this handmade card with peonies that are lush and gorgeous is easier to make than you think thanks to our new Poetic Peonies and die set. We put a lot of additional details into this set and its three other new ones you can see here so all YOU have to do is add color. And just look at them! You cannot go […]
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Creating gorgeous Copic marker flowers is a huge passion of many of our lovely customers and fans and we’ve created LOADS of flower items including tons of stamp sets, many with coordinating dies, to help you be in coloring heaven. Today, Preeti is showing us how she takes inspiration from images she finds on the web to create her Copic marker flowers to look as realistic as possible and, well, we are BLOWN away! Is this card not STUNNING? In […]
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One of our original die designs were frame dies made up of several layering pieces all together in one plate. There are TONS of ways to use these incredibly useful dies and today Lisa is showing us a super fun way to use all the different frames you can get when you cut with multiple colors of card stock. Let’s jump in and get the whole how-to, shall we? First, stamp the candles on your favorite card stock for Copic […]
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We love seeing and saving flower birthday card ideas and this beauty with its white on white background in combination with those bright, cheery, almost tropical flowers takes our breath away! Melinda has created a keeper for us and we hope you pin this for future reference because we can see this card design idea being used over and over in all kinds of color combinations. Shall we make one? On white card stock, start stamping your layered flowers from […]
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Today we have a card from Renee showing an idea for some cute handmade birthday cards for kids. When she saw this set, she immediately thought of her young nephew who loves boats and came up with this fun project. Let’s make one, too! First color a card front sized panel using your favorite blending too with some sand and sky – here Color Fuse Caramel Brown and Sierra Blue – to create the background. Cut that panel and another […]
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You are going to love today’s simple card design so much because not only does it offer a STUNNING birthday card like the one made today, you can use this design over and over, with any motif in any color story for any occasion. You are going to want to bookmark this post because this design is a total keeper! The basic design is some layered circles and rings in the center of a tone on tone card panel with […]
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We are celebrating a BRAND NEW release of goodies and you know that means it’s time for another New From Rubbernecker Project Roundup! Our designers have been busy making some fun cards to inspire your creativity using our fun new spring items and this roundup of inspiration is a knockout. Take a look! First up we have this sweet lambie card with one of our more faith oriented greetings. People love our approach to addressing holidays that have religious meaning […]
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These birthday cards – cute animals included from one stamp – are just perfect for “kids” of any age! The adorable critters set in a pretty, dreamy frame add a magical touch to a birthday wish and we can’t wait to show you how Annie did it. Annie says “Sometimes an image is so perfect, you can’t wait to color it and don’t need to add too much to embellish it” and we SO agree! Let’s get started! Begin by […]
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We just love the look of emboss resist and specifically designed our Color Fuse inks to be super blendable so crafters could get excellent results every time. Not all inks blend equally and that look can make or break a design. In today’s gorgeous card from Jamie, she really showed that off with her cheerful, springy birthday card. She’s given us all the steps so let’s get set up to make a few of these ourselves! First, stamp our Daisies […]
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We are so happy to share Carol’s super pretty quick and easy floral cards today. Here’s what Carol said about her project – “I’m out of birthday cards in my stash and Rubbernecker’s floral layering stamps are perfect to replenish my stash quickly!” We LOVE making batches of cards – maybe changing up the colors a little or leaving off the greetings for last minute additions – and these really are perfect. They are cheery and sweet and great for […]
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Raise your hand if you’ve tried no line stamping. Ok, now raise your hand if you haven’t. Either way you are going to be blown away by today’s project using no line stamping. This card is so beautiful, it could be framed and kept as an always-on-display gift, which was what Melinda says she was shooting for when she created it. We think the totally hit the bullseye! And what’s more, it’s not hard at all to get this look! […]
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When we first saw this butterfly birthday card we had to take a moment and just appreciate how beautiful it is! The soothing background pattern of the watercolor style flowers, the highlighted oval that is the perch for a striking 3D die cut butterfly and that bold black sentiment…….it all just comes together in such perfect balance. And Renee, today’s designer, is sharing her whole how-to here so YOU can make it too! Renee used our Spring Blossom Watercolor stamp […]
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We love sharing creative ways to use dies and today we have another fun twist on die cutting using one of our cool slimline dies. Allison is going to take us through how she made the beautiful, fun cloud layers on this adorable card. We love how she reversed the die on her layers to make a width-wise cloud – it just adds to that whole pretty floaty look. Let’s check out her how-tos! First Allison cut a whole stack […]
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Colored pencils do amazing things on white cardstock and did you know that using white colored pencils on colored cardstock can be just as magical? In today’s installment of Stamp Along With Rubbernecker, Preeti is sharing her easy to follow and SO fun to do tips for coloring beautiful, vibrant white flowers on colored cardstock along with all her fabulous shading techniques. You can feel you skills expand as you watch and then trying this out…..well, be prepared to impress […]
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Slimline cards are still hot, hot, hot and we are just loving this super cute slimline peekaboo birthday card made by our Associated Designer, Julie. We just love how she put all her colorful detail into the peekaboo part and created that gorgeous crisp blue and white for the front. Want to see how she did it? She created the peekaboo background by stamping our super popular Slimline Birthday background stamp in black ink on white card stock. She used […]
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Today’s beautiful birthday card is all about ink blending. This way of adding beautiful, dreamy color to a project is super easy and as today’s designer, Annie, says “whenever I’m not in the mood to color with markers or paint, ink blending is a fast way to color images and gives beautiful results.” It certainly does – just LOOK at that card! Want to learn how to make it? Here we go! First trim your background panel to 4″ x […]
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Today Jamie is sharing a fun way to use a Stick It Adhesive die cutting technique to make fabulous elements for your cards. We don’t know about you but we often forget we have something in our stash – especially if we don’t use it often – and seeing projects like these always get us excited about revisiting these items and ideas. Before we dive into today’s project, remember, we have a fun Birthday Sale going on! Be sure to […]
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We hope you are buckled in because today’s Stamp Along With Rubbernecker from Preeti is all about creating a Copic marker sky colored to look like breathtaking Northern Lights. We don’t know how she does it, but Preeti is once again giving us amazing tips and tricks to follow along as she creates pure magic. There are plenty of crafters who show off what THEY can do and we feel so lucky to have Preeti to show us what WE […]
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Can you imagine someone opening this handmade card with blue roses, here in the dead of winter, where fresh flowers are few and far between? Picture their eyes lighting up when they see these beautiful blue blooms against that sparkly snowy background. Well you CAN make this card and today Renee is going to walk us through how. Renee used our Fragrant Blooms stamp and coordinating die set with our Color Fuse ink to create these stunning, dimensional flowers. Our […]
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Today we have a super fun way to use small stamps to make a background for your cards with a VERY cool technique for making the images pop! This method of creating fun, custom backgrounds for your cards is easy to do and you will use this idea over and over for sure. Let’s let Carol show us how she did this so we can try it, too! First, stamp the coffee cups and brewer from our Coffee Set in […]
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