Rogue Redhead Victorian Valentine

Hello!  I'm trying desperately to get back to the land of art and papercrafting.  Our family have been on the go nonstop with sports.  I did, however, get a quiet moment today to create a flowery little number in the style of a Victorian scrap Valentine.  All of the floral images are from Rogue Redhead Designs' Floriculture plate, and the sentiment is from the Snow Hugs plate.  The floral images are stamped and colored with Copics (with the exception of the ferns, which are simply stamped in green ink).  The flowers and sentiment are layered over the top of a red paper doily and some patterned paper that I ran through a Tim Holtz Postmark embossing folder.  Of course, everything is shabby chic-ed up with some Distress Ink, in antique linen vintage photo, and tattered rose.

I hope everyone's staying safe and warm!

Visions of Sugarplums with Rogue Redhead Designs

A "sweet" little card I made for the Rogue Redhead Designs blog today.  You can check it out *here* and get all the deets.

Happy Veteran's Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day to all - thank you to the service men and women who have risked or given their lives so that we may be free.  My dad was a teenager in the US Navy during WWII.  Now my cousin's son serves in Afghanistan.  We all know someone.... take a moment to give thanks. :)

Rogue Redhead Peek: Scrappy Christmas Tags

Another peek for you today, of Rogue Redhead Designs' Candy Kisses plate, coming out November 1st.  For these tags, I used some of the fun winter icons in the set, colored with Copic markers.  I cut out each of the designs and glued them to some white corrugated cardboard that I had covered in clear glitter.  I put that on top of a torn piece of cardstock scrap.  The bases of the tags are stamped with the snowflake motif from the companion plate, Snow Hugs.  I added some scraps of trim and some fuzzy sparkly ribbon.  I wanted to make a set of pastel tags for the girlie girls in the family - they could just as easily be done in deep vintage colors, with a background of vintage sheet music or text.  Hmmmm... maybe I'll do that next. ;)

Okay, I'm back.... Yep, I was gone for sumthin' like 14 hours so that I could do another set of tags, LOL!!!  But due to the magic of blogland.... in an instant, here ya go:

My vintage heart prefers these, I think.  But the young ones in the family prefer the top set.  Regardless... these stamps are quite versatile, no?  And I'm happy to have 8 tags done, tee hee.  These are also colored with Copics, then layered on top of vintage hymnal music sheets, then on top of felt, then patterned paper.  I used the same trim for all of these, since it reminded me of snowflakes.  (For some reason, the red felt I used on these looks black in the picture.  A photographer, I am not!)  I hope you'll have a chance to check out Rogue Redhead over the coming weeks... lots of fun designs are coming your way.  Happy Monday. :)

Christmas in July - Snow Hugs

It's Christmas in July for me today, trying to think cool thoughts!  I've been inspired by this week's Card Patterns Sketch 123, and the various Christmas in July postings around blogland.  I'm also entering this in the Scrap Our Stash July challenge, which is Red, White, and Blue (just ignore that teensy bit of green, pretty please?).

My card uses Rogue Redhead Designs' Snow Hugs plate, along with the front cover of Basic Grey's Blitzen collection.  Yep, I seriously dug into some old stash for this one!  Here's a little pic of what I'm talking about:

I used the tiny product pictures for my paper piecing.  For all of the details, please have a hop on over to the Rogue Redhead Designs blog.  And don't forget about the very first ever Rogue Redhead Designs Rebel Challenge, too.... there's a prize to be had, my friends!!

AND.... don't forget to enter for a chance to win my Bluebird Blog Candy!  Click on the picture in my sidebar to take you to the prize post. :)

A few more pics:

A Rogue at Play

I had some fun playing with a backgrounder stamp from the Snow Hugs plate by Rogue Redhead Designs.  You can get the deets over on the Rogue Redhead Designs blog.  Happy Weekend everyone!

Rogue Redhead Trio

I've been playing with my Rogue Redhead Designs Snow Hugs plate.  You can get the details over at the Rogue Redhead blog.  We're sliding into the weekend... hope you have a happy one!

Snow Hugs!

I am so excited to be working with a brand new, hot-off-the-rubber-presses stamp plate from Rogue Redhead Designs called Snow Hugs!  As soon as I saw these images, I started thinking about using them in a pink/cream/kraft color scheme, and wouldn't you know, that's the color challenge this week over at The Play Date Cafe!  Sometimes the stars align, and I seriously needed this little twist of fortune to jump start my mojo, LOL!

The inspiration photo for PDCC68 makes my fingers itch to craft.  Have a look at this yummy image to the right:

So here are the how-to's for this card:  I first stamped the snuggling couple from Snow Hugs in gray ink on white cardstock.  I only wanted a hint of color, so I outlined only parts of the image with Copics in R81 (Rose Pink), YG91 (Putty), and E31 (Brick Beige).  I thought the background looked a bit too white, so it was E50 (Egg Shell) to the rescue.  A little tip I picked up over at Ellen Hutson's The CLASSroom.  I love that color - so warm and yummy.  I added a little dimension to the whole thing with Warm Grays W0 and W1.  (I also gave the guy's sweater a little pattern by masking and stamping the snowflake background motif just on his sweater.)

I cut the image out using Nestabilities' Curved Rectangles, and distressed the edges with Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, and Victorian Velvet.  It's layered on some vintage sheet music, and a coffee filter panel that I misted with Pink Bubblegum and Creme de Rouge from Tattered Angels.  The next background panel is made by stamping two of the background images from the set onto linen textured cardstock.  

The tag is stamped with more distress inks, then run through my Xyron sticker maker and glittered with Stampin' Ups' Diamond Dust - like icy, frosty new snow.  A little crinkled seam binding snuggles everything together.

Sharon has lots of gorgeous examples using this new plate over at Rogue Redhead Designs blog, and there's tons of inspiration to be had using this color scheme over at The Play Date Cafe.  I'm feelin' it.... comin' back.... gonna go play some more in my little crafty space.  Have a great weekend! :)