I Love Challenges!!! How About You?

Each week Jeanne S will be posting a new Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Please link your card or project back to that particular challenge post using at least one Rubbernecker (or Stamp Oasis or KK Originals image) to be entered in a monthly prize drawing.

***Don’t have a blog? That’s OK. Just link your card from any online gallery!!!

***Feel free to participate in the challenge with other images, but they won’t be entered into the monthly drawing.

Jeanne and Sherry are always looking for future Rubbernecker Guest Designers, so show off your stuff!!!

Each month Jeanne will do a drawing of all qualifying entries and someone will get to go stamp shopping courtesy of Dave at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

How fun is that? Jeanne will do the drawing on the last Wednesday of each month and the winner will be posted on the Rubbernecker Homepage and on the Rubbernecker Challenge Blogger page at the top of my blog.

The prize:

A $25.00 Rubbernecker Bucks gift certificate!!!

We also have these nifty Rubbernecker Challenge Blogger buttons

available for your blogs (thanks to Miss Sherry!).

Just right click, save, and add it to your sidebar!!!

Hope you can come and play with us!!!

Florida Garden Gate and Under the Grand Cyprus

I did two projects for our first Rubbernecker Challenge.  The challenge is to use turquoise, brown and green in a project and any other neutral colors. I decided to try my hand at a Florida scenes using Rubbernecker -Gone Fishin cattails and do one with Copic markers and one with watercolors.

My first card is a scene looking out a garden gate to a grouping of cattails growing in a body of water and trees on the hill in the background.  I stamped my images with brown Stazon and watercolored with reinkers.  I added depth of color by using Faber-Castell artist pens and Copic markers. I sponged the water and grassy areas with daubers, sketched out the trees, painted and then filled in the ground and leaf texture with a fern stamp.  I used a stardust Gelly Roll pen to add sparkle to the water but it doesn’t really show in the photo.  I used small amounts of Liquid Applique, tapped it with my fingers and heated to add texture to the cattails and to the ground area around the cattails.  I colored the Liquid Applique with Copic markers after I heated it.  I sponged in the sky area with turquoise.  I used a corner punch with the guide removed to create the gate to embellish the scene.  I used a baggy full of dried rice to create a non descript background on both the brown and turquoise layers. I wanted the garden gate open a little and accomplished that by balling up glue dots to hold it up just a little from the scene.

Stamps:  Rubbernecker-Gone Fishing Cattails

Paper:  Turquiose, Brown, Watercolor

Ink: Brown Stazon, Ranger Distress Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters, Vintage Photo Reinkers, SU Turquoise

Accessories:  Paper Punch, Watercolor Brushes, Faber-Castell Markers, Copic Markers, Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll Pen, Sponge Daubers, Liquid Applique

My second card is a scene overlooking a Florida lake and the cattails are growing under the shade of a Grand Cyprus tree.  I stamped the images with brown Stazon and sketched out the tree limbs with a brown artist pen.  I colored all the images with Copic Markers and helped fill in some deeper color with a dark olive artist pen. I used a sponge dauber to apply Distress ink for the ground area, masked off the water line with Post-It! notes and sponged with turquoise.  I sponged in the sky area with the same turquoise.

Stamps:  Rubbernecker Gone Fishin Cattails

Paper:  Brown Turquoise, White

Ink:  Brown Stazon, Ranger Distress Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, SU Tempting Turquoise

Accessories:  Copic Markers, Faber-Castell Artist Pens, Sponge daubers, Twill

Rubbernecker Design Team players.

Jeanne

Sherry

Broni

Candy

Shelly