My Christmas card today is inspired by a sketch at Sunday Stamps All Lined Up.
As I've used all old stamps on my card I'm also adding it to Retro Rubber whose challenge is Anything Goes.
I've used some old Stampin Up stamps on here - the snoman on the right and the snow flake. The other snowman is an old Rubber Stampede stamp called Merry Snowman. I've layered them with SU stitched framelits and coloured them in with retired SU marker pens in Real Rust and Night of Navy.
The background has been embossed with an SU Embossing folder, I've torn the edges and inked it with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Weathered Wood and added Dazzling Diamonds all over the top to make it sparkle. The Warm Wishes sentiment is also an old SU stamp. Some Glitter Enamel dots finish off the card.
It's nice to be able to get to use these small stamps - so often they get left uninked in favour of their larger cousins don't you think?
Well I've gone from Winter and snow to back to Autumn again - two seasons in one day lol!
This time I'm joining in with Retro Rubber challenge again and they had a picture for us to take our inspiration from with the colours of Fall or Autumn as we say over here in the UK. I'm also including this in Inkspirational Challenge this week whose theme is Trend. Well I'm right on trend here with Autumn and I'm thinking retro stamps are trendy right now too!
I turned to my trusty Cherry Pie Art stamps again and some old rubber stamps I've had for over 10 years but they are still going strong. I think the main image of the girl is called Flora - I've also used an old Hero Arts collage stamp called Love, Life, Beauty and a Cherry Pie stamp with the butterfly on it comes from a set called Art and Butterflies.
I used some SU Island Indigo as the cardstock and embossed the sentiment from Beautiful You in Copper embossing powder. Some copper thread wound round the cardimage also adds a bit of detail. The stamping of the girl was done with an old SU spectrum Stampin Pad - its a shame you can't get these any more - its a great way of getting different colours on one stamp.
I was so excited to see I had been chosen as one of the top three from Retro Rubber challenge last week - it was my first time entering and my first real foray into live outside of SU - it couldn't have started any better.
My card today is to be entered into the Sunday Stamps challenge SSC165 - they have given us a colour challenge and this gorgeous image to work with - such gorgeous rich colours.
I've used a very old but favourite stamp here called Santa Collage by Rubber Stampede - I think it is quite a famous stamp in cardland as you see it often and I've had it years. I love adding it with a Believe stamp and that word always reminds me of Polar Express - one of my favourite films at Christmas time.
I was so pleased to find this Challenge Blog - Retro Rubber - especially as I am returning to some of my old beloved stamps that I haven't used in quite a long while.
Their Challenge this week is a sketch challenge - I found this quite daunting at first until I saw the inspiration from their Design Team and decided to think a little outside the box.
I have gone to my Cherry Pie Art Stamps here for this card. These stamps have to be from about 2004/5 and could be even older. The name of this set is Mix Collage #3 and I have also used the music stamp from a set called Renaissance.
I've used three Tim Holtz Distress Inks on the Very Vanilla paper - Antique Linen, Spiced Marmalade and Aged Mahogany. It is layered on to Early Espresso Cardstock from SU and some jewels added onto the stars.
