Outlines Challenge 2 - Black and White

Our Outlines Rubber Stamp challenge theme this week is to use.....

Black and White
You can use one other color

We would like you to join this challenge for a chance to win a $25 Shopping Spree at Outlines Rubber Stamp Co.  To enter the challenge you must use only stamps from Outlines; only one entry allowed  Please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz you will find at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog.  Also, please link back to our challenge in your blog post or gallery..

So let's see what our design team has created for you this week.

Bev Gerard
Stamps used: Oval Posy Lg, Med, Small, Posy Greetings Centers

Jeanne Streiff
Stamps used:  F-1049 Posy Greeting Center,
 Striped Posy X-Lg, Lg, Med, Small,

Jenny Gropp
Stamps used: G-1034 Square Posy Large,
F-1049 Posy Greeting Center, D-888 Flora Jewel

Lisa Silver
Stamp used:  H-1013 Sketchy Graduation

Robin Kirkpatrick
Stamp used:  K-233 Inspiration Background, F-58 Heart Butterfly,
C-1050 Script Happy Birthday  

Sandy Hulsart
Stamp used:  I-127 Flower Collage

Vicki Garrett
  Stamp used: Baby Baby Unmounted set

Make It Manly challenge winner

Using Random.org a winner was chosen from last week's Make It Manly challenge

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

3 

Timestamp: 2011-05-30 02:13:35 UTC

Congratulations, #3 Deb F

Images used: I-1063 Split Layering Collage-Dog,

H-1064 Split Layering Collage-Woof

 

Please contact us for your winning prize of a $25 shopping spree at Outlines Rubber Stamp.  And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge. We hope to see you again this week.

Outlines Challenge 1 - Make it Manly

Here at Outlines Rubber Stamp we are starting a weekly challenge and our theme this week is to.....

Make It Manly

We would like you to join this challenge for a chance to win a $25 Shopping Spree at Outlines Rubber Stamp Co.  To enter the challenge you must use only stamps from Outlines; only one entry allowed  Please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz you will find at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog.  Also, please link back to our challenge in your blog post or gallery..

So let's see what our design team has created for you this week.

Bev Gerard
Image Used: F-1949 Posy Greeting Centers

Jeanne Streiff
Image used: H-1013 Sketchy Graduation

Jenny Gropp
Images used: H-1061 Split Layering Collage-Howdy, AA-839 Tiny Happy Birthday

Lisa Silver
Images used: I-924 Gift Card Holder-Guy

Robin Kirkpatrick
Images used: I-924 Gift Card Holder-Guy, AA-869 Tiny Happy Dad's Day

Sandy Hulsart
Images used: I-924 Gift Card Holder-Guy, AA-832 Tiny Celebrate Your Day

Vicki Garrett
Images used: I-924 Gift Card Holder-Guy, AA-832 Tiny Celebrate Your Day 

Our NEW Posy Collage

Happy Spring!

I think spring has finally sprung and it feels really great after the winter we had! If only the lawn wouldn't need cutting so soon..... I love planting flowers and taking care of them even though it takes a lot of time, but cutting the grass is just not my thing! Probably the reason I worked on posies all winter was because I love flowers so much!

You may not have noticed the addition of the Posy Collage to our Posy series. It was inspired by our friend Michael Trent who did some beautiful projects with them. Michael used individual posies and masked them creating some beautiful projects. We took some of the work out of it for you and created a stamp with the posies already masked. Inspired by Michael Trent!

I used our Shimmer paper for this card, it's the one that allows you to pull colors when you use water soluble markers. For the large orange posy, use your best red, orange and yellow markers. Apply them as shown in the photo. Pull the middle section with your water barrel brush that has been filled with water. Then pull the red from the top into it. Try this with other colors, it's a great blending technique.





I choose to color in the background flowers with Copic markers because they color in the large open area so well. I didn't do any shading which kept the project simple.

Cut the petals out using an x-acto knife. Try not to cut all the way down between each petal, this will keep the lifted petal attached to the card.

Curl the petals up and attach to layered coordinating card stock. Add a bow.

Finally, use Viva's Glass Effect Gel on the center. This produces a glass like effect on the petal center.