Watercolour Birthday Card

Hello friends! I've made a card for CAS-ual Friday over at the Rubber Dance blog.

This gorgeous hydrangea stamp with birthday sentiment (and more) will be released at Rubber Dance on the 2nd of June, so here's just a little nibble ...

I coloured the stamp with watercolour markers, gave it a light mist of water and stamped it on watercolour paper. I filled in just a few petals and both leaves, using markers and a paint brush. For the sentiment, I also used markers on the stamp - but no water for a crisp impression.

This stamp set will be available in the Rubber Dance web shop on the 2nd of June.

Thanks for looking!

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CAS card - a little birdie ....

Hi everyone!

My stamp company is sponsoring the CASology challenge blog this week as well! It was such fun seeing the entries last week, when the cue word was 'house'. Have a looksie here if you missed it.

The CASology cue word this week is FLY, and here is the card I made with stamps from Rubber Dance:

My card is featuring stamps from the new set called Whimsical Summer, designed for Rubber Dance by Donna Gray ♥
I have also used the twig from Mama Owl, designed by Melina Dahl ♥, and the sentiment from the set called A little birdie ... You can see all the new stamps here if you like.

To join the CASology challenge,

jump over to their blog.

You have until Monday 3rd of July to enter.

The winner will get a whole sheet of stamps from Rubber Dance!

♥ Have fun and good luck! ♥

I'm entering my card to this challenge as well:
That's Crafty! Keep it Simple
This one runs till Friday 7th of July.

Clean House - CAS cards

Hi everyone!

Just a quick post today to let you know that my stamp company is sponsoring the CASology challenge blog this week!

Their cue word this time is HOUSE, and here are two cards I made with stamps from Rubber Dance:

 

This house and the hill stamp, and many more, are on sale this week.

To join the CASology challenge,

jump over to their blog.

The winner will get a whole sheet of stamps from Rubber Dance! 

♥ Have fun and good luck! ♥

Quick & Easy Dinosaur Card

Hello everyone! Our youngest grandson turns 1 year today so I made this card for him:

 

This is not my idea. I found it on Pinterest here and she got the idea from someone else, so I don't know who first came up with it. No matter - I thought it was super cute! I made my own version of the card, tweaked it a little bit here and there.

I used an embossing folder that I thought might resemble the skin of a dinosaur. I never saw one (I'm not THAT old), so who knows ... The nostrils are made of white buttons that I dyed with red alcohol ink, adhered to circles of black cardstock. The original card had black nostrils, but I wanted something red to suggest that flames might come out...

This is what happens when you open the card (which was totally my idea):

I aligned the teeth circles on the inside of the card with those of the outside flap.

There's room to write a greeting below the tongue.

To make the tongue pop up like that, I scored the edge 

and adhered it to the front flap with strong red tape :

The eyes were made with circle punches and goggle eyes.

I lifted the eyebrows up with foam dots:

This card is very appropriate, considering the gift we are giving our grandson ... Grampa Tom made it! The rocking dino has goggly eyes, too, like my card :-)

We debated back and forth whether the dino should be painted, 

but the wood is so pretty with furniture oil only, isn't it? 

The dino was made of ash tree, the rest from pine.

Under construction in Tom's woodshop. 

See how much lighter the wood is without oil.

 

 I know this rocking dinosaur will be a big success  - not just for the little toddler, 

but I bet his parents will love it, too!

So now you see why I had to make this card:

 

I'm entering my dino card to this challenge:

That's Crafty!, Round and Round challenge (use circles)

Deadline: Friday February 10th.

I have another idea for this challenge, so stay tuned ....  

Thanks for looking!

CAS Birthday Card in Gold and Silver

Hello, everyone! I made this card with three challenges in mind; the cue word 'cut' from CASology; the colours gold and silver from That's Crafty's challenge; Darnell's NBUS #8 challenge (NBUS = Never-Before-Used Schtuff). What I had never used before are both the large circle and birthday die cuts:

I cut the big circle only partially and tucked a pair of charm scissors underneath, to illustrate the CASology challenge's cue word, cut, in addition to using two die cuts.

The circle flap is lifted up by some foam dots, revealing the gold cardstock underneath. Attached to the silver scissors are metal threads in silver and gold -  the colours for That's Crafty's challenge:
 

Darnell from the NBUS challenge invites us to use a technique we haven't tried before, and cutting a die cut only partially is new to me ... and it took me three attempts to get it right ... I'm no rocket scientist, apparently!!

But wait a minute. Hadn't I forgotten something vital on this card? - No stamping??? Good grief! And I call myself a stamper? Heck, the very name of my blog is Stamped by Bibi! Oy, vey.

After realising what I had done (or not done), it slowly dawned on my thick head (after a minor panic attack) that there was room for more schtuff inside the card! (Ha! Turns out I'm super smart after all! *phew*)

On the left hand side I have used stamps from the set Happy Birthday from Rubber Dance. On the right hand side I have used one of my favourite stamps from That's Crafty!, namely this adorable cat named Bentley (a Donna Gray design). I gold embossed the greeting from African Animals (also Rubber Dance). I coloured Bentley in using Distress inks and a waterbrush. I repeated the same colours on the left hand side (rusty hinge, mustard seed, picked raspberry), leaving some white space in the middle to write a personal message.

The die cut square frame is gold cardstock. I added some silver embossing around the edge of the sentiment's circle, which is also a NBUS die cut (the set has 8 circles, I had only used a slightly bigger one before). I cut the large circle out of Strathmore Mixed Media paper, which has a smooth surface that I love using for stamped images I want to watercolour such as this:

 

So there you have it, a CAS card on the outside ...

- with a not-so-very CAS inside ....

.... where I've used four different STAMPS,

which means I won't have to change the name of my blog any time soon.

I'm entering my card to these three challenges:

CASology, Week # 232: Cut (due date Jan. 23.)

That's Crafty! : Silver and Gold (due date Jan 27.)

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #8 (due date Jan 22.)

Thanks for looking!

CASology Challenge, Week #230: COLD

Hello, everyone!

My stamp company, Rubber Dance, is proud to sponsor the CASology challenge this week! The winner gets a whole sheet of stamps from Rubber Dance!

If you visit the CASology challenge, you will see that many from their Design Team have made cards with stamps from Rubber Dance. Such fun!!

Since my company is the sponsor this week, I cannot enter to win anything, but I have made a card with this week's cue word, 'cold':

I let a sentiment from Rubber Dance take center stage, with a big snowflake cut out of silver cardstock

 

Come join the challenge here:

http://casology.blogspot.no/2017/01/week-230-cold.html

You have until noon CST on Monday, January 9.

 

 

Thanks for looking!

Soft Ball - Birthday Card for a Boy

Many things are soft so I have a few ideas for this week's challenge at CASology. I hope I have time to make more than this one, but I'm going away this weekend and have a few things to do before leaving. Anyway - here's my first of hopefully more entries:

This funny fella is a stamp from Stamp-It (Australia). The stamp comes with that sentiment, but I didn't like the font they had used so I cut it off and stamped the same text with a tiny alphabet stamp (unknown).   Image and text stamped on Strathmore mixed media paper with 2nd impression of black Archival Ink, as I do not have any water resistant grey and I wanted it to be soft. Coloured in with ZIG clean colour markers and a waterbrush. 

I added the yarn before mounting on a grey panel, then added the scissor charm from the Norwegian company Korthobby. I think those scissors were fun to add to a sheep card :-)

The Korthobby challenge right now is 'Masculine & Metall from Korthobby.no' and I hope they think my ram is manly enough to pass! I used grey and blue to make my card suitable for a boy's birthday. (For any Norwegian who might not know: 'Have a ball' basically means 'Ha det kjempegøy', and it's also a play with words since the ram is a ball of yarn).

I'm entering my card to these two challenges:

Korthobby: Maskulint & Metall
CASology: Soft

Thanks for looking! 

Need a Hug? (CASology #224: Embrace)

Here's a hug for you: ♥ 

I made this card for the CASology challenge, cue word 'embrace'.  I stamped #hug using the open letters from Alphabet Uno (Rubber Dance) with black archival ink on watercolour paper. Letters coloured in with Zig clean colour markers, then given a light mist of water. This is my 3rd attempt - too much water on my first two made it look muddy instead of CAS.

 

 

I coloured a heart of wood with a pink Zig marker and gave it a coat of varnish just to make sure the colour wouldn't rub off on the white background. These heart have tiny hearts for holes. How cute is that?

 I'm entering my card to just this one challenge:

 
Here, grab another hug before you leave:

One of my attempts, this time with clear beads trapped in Dimensional Magic. Meh...

But the hug is heartfelt nevertheless! ♥

Thanks for looking!

CAS Stars Card

I love these star stamps from Rubber Dance and I know will be using them quite often on my Christmas cards this year. They are from the set called Watercolour Xmas and they're such fun to use:

I stamped the stars with Zig clean colour markers on watercolour paper and coloured them in by pulling the ink around with a waterbrush. I masked the stars before stamping the stars and dots inside them and doodled a black frame around the stars to make them pop. Mounted on apple green cardstock with blue glittery stars.

 

I made the card with these two challenges in mind:

Alphabet Challenge Blog: S is for Stars

Delicious Doodles Challenge: NON Traditionional Christmas

I'm so glad I found these two challenges, 

because I love stars and non-trad Xmas colours!

Thanks for looking!

Edited Nov 28th: This card got me an honourable Top 3 at the Alphabet Challenge Blog! Yoohoo! :-)

Cat CAS Card

Hello, everyone! Here's a stamp that I've used a couple of times recently - Bentley the cat from That's Crafty, designed by the talented Donna Gray in the UK. The thinking bubble is from the same set as Bentley, while the sentiments are from Rubber Dance (Norway), the Beautiful Words stamp set.

I stamped the images with Archival Black ink on watercolour paper that already was torn on one side.

Coloured them in with a waterbrush and ZIG clean colour markers. Love them! I painted a shadow on one side of the cat to make him pop from the background, giving the image more interest on a CAS card. It was still missing something, so I added the turquoise frame on two sides of the card. Ta-da! Made all the difference.

I'm entering my card to these two challenges:

Scrappelyst: Clean and Simple

Craft Stamper: Anything goes (just remember to stamp somewhere!)

Thanks for looking!

CASology Challenge, Week #223: TEAM

When I saw this week's cue word at CASology, the first kind of TEAM I thought of was a Design Team ... but how could I stamp that?  I wanted people on my card.... , and after some thinking back and forth I got an idea: Since my own team works for the Rubber Dance stamp company, how about a team of dancers?

I know, these three dancers might not look much of a Design Team to you, but humour me; the stamp is made of Rubber and they Dance, plus they're fun and colourful, so let me introduce to you:

The Rubber Dance Design Team!

 

This is a stamp from Rubber Dance, stamped on Strathmore Mixed Media paper and coloured in with ZIG clean colour markers and a waterbrush. For the colourful "floor" I first scribbled the three colours on an acrylic block, wet the paper where I wanted the colours to be, and used my waterbrush to pick up one colour at a time and let them flow around the wet stripe. I hope that made sense ...

I'm entering my card to this CASology challenge

If you like the colours I have used on my card, perhaps you want to join this challenge:

Rubber Dance: November Challenge

(I have used the colours, but not the optional theme) 

Thanks for looking!

Added 15th of November: 

I got an Honorable Mention for this card. Hurrah!