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It’s TREASURE HUNT TUESDAY @ RUBBERNECKER. The Treasure if you find it, will be a free image. However, to receive the Treasure a purchase of any size is required, and your treasure must be claimed between 4:00 am PST until 9:00 pm PST today (7:00 am EST - 12:00 am EST). Not only is today Treasure Hunt Day, but for every $50 in stamps purchased, you will receive one FREE stamp. You can check out more information on the Rubbernecker Home Page.

While you are on the Rubbernecker Homepage make sure and read about the Rubber Bucks Monthly Drawing AND the FREE stamp offer:

*** Each month you can qualify to win $100 coupon good for Rubbernecker or Stamp Oasis stamps! For every $20 you spend, your name is entered once into a drawing.

*** For every $50 you spend on Rubbernecker, Stamp Oasis or KK Originals stamps, you get to choose a FREE stamp!

We also have some Rubbernecker Bucks Gift Certificates to give away as Blog Candy!!! These are redeemable for any stamps in the Rubbernecker or Stamp Oasis sections!

This week’s Blog Candy links:

ME!!! - See below!

Sherry Cheever

Shelly Kuck

The first Treasure Hunt clue will be on Shelly’s blog.

How about some Blog Candy?

To enter my blog candy drawing for a Rubbernecker Gift Certificate, please leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite color is!

I will choose a random winner on Wednesday, Jan. 30th at noon CT.

Good luck!

Here’s a card that I did for today’s Color Challenge.

The flowers were colored with Copic markers. The border was cut out and sponged lightly with Ranger Distress Black Soot ink.

Products and images used to make this card can be found at

Rubbernecker Stamp Co. 

Stamps: 169-01 Poppies - Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Paper: Georgia Pacific White, Going Grey, Basic Gray

Ink: Ranger Distress Black Soot

Accessories: Copic Markers, Sponge, White GG Ribbon

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I was playing around with Adirondack Alcohol inks and came up you this yummy background. It was done with Mushroom, Terra Cotta and Copper inks.

I added a few drops of all three inks and a few drops of Alcohol Blending solution to an Ink Blending Tool with a removable felt pad. I pounced the Ink Blending Tool on Glossy White CS until I covered the CS. When I got the ink the way I wanted it I tipped the bottle of Ink Blending Solution and splashed a few drips onto my background. This causes the inks to spread in a circle pattern. I then dried the ink with a heat tool.

The fairy image was stamped in Ranger Distress Black Soot and then dried with the heat tool just to make sure the ink was set (not sure if I needed to do this, but I didn’t want anything to smudge). I then colored some areas in with Copic markers. I was going for a kinda arty look so I roughly put a little color in with the markers. I then heat set again, just to make certain everything was set.

Here are the products I used to make this card. Images and products

can be found at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Stamps: 1250 SO Fairy with Lilies (Stamp Oasis) - Rubbernecker Stamp Co.
Paper: Glossy White, Rust, Cocoa

Ink: Adirondack Alcohol inks - Mushroom, Terra Cotta, Copper, Ranger Distress Soot Black

Accessories: Ink Blending Tool, Ink Blending Solution, Heat Tool, Ranger Piercing Tool, Brads, Prima flowers, Trim from Walmart

Jen’s Ways to Use it Challenge this week is to use scraps. I hear scraps and I think Paper Piecing.

I used Anna Wight’s new set from Whipper Snapper Designs called Posies for You.

I stamped the flower on White, Olive, Banana CS and Soft Sky DP in Ranger Distress Black Soot. I added some shading to everything with Copic markers and then cut out all the pieces and assembled. I stamped the bucket on Guava CS and cut out.

I assembled all the pieces onto the punched rectangle. The flower and bucket are popped up on foam tape.

Here are the products I used.

Stamps: Posies for You - Whipper Snapper Designs

Paper: Georgia Pacific White, Blue Bayou, Barely Banana, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky DP

Inks: Ranger Distress Black Soot, Faded Jeans

Accessories: Sponge, Copic markers, Bayou Stitched Ribbon, Small oval and Giga Scallop Rectangle punches.