The Rubbernecker design team is very excited to announce the addition of some very talented ladies joining us. I believe you will recognize them from their wonderful galleries on Splitcoaststampers. It is a thrill for me to welcome each one of them as I have admired their gorgeous work and have known many of them for several years.
Cathy Bomgardner -Mutnik Gallery
Frances Gumprecht- Francie G Blog Francie's Fancy
Charlene Merrick -LilLuvsStampin Blog Where m&ms Gather
Karen Hunsaker – Imastampin Blog Karen's Kreations
Cathleen Torina -ctorina Blog Crooked Card Creations
Julia Aston – artystamper Blog Create With Me
Anny Ryan Gallery
Warm Thought for a Cold Day
Baby it’s cold outside. That song keeps ringing in my ears. I know most of you who live in snow country will not have much sympathy for a Floridian complaining about temperatures in the low 30’s. But with that said 30 degrees is as big a shock to us as your much lower temps. Especially since we were running our air conditioning just a few days ago with temps in the 80’s. Change is tough…especially for an old broad like me.
I decided to warm up my thoughts last night as I played in the SCS Color Challenge. We were to use Taken with Teal, Certainly Celery, Hunter Green and any neutral. I pulled out the palm trees in my Kittie Kits Fun in the Sun set and created a place that I would certainly love to be. Nothing represents warmth to me more than a lovely beach with the sun, sand and ocean waves rolling.
I stamped the image on watercolor paper using the lightest green color. I wanted to avoid black ink and to create the appearance of a real watercolor. To apply color I used dry brushes that I stroked directly on the ink pads to lightly stipple on the ocean, sky and the sand. This technique allows control while working on images that are stamped with a classic ink. If you use water on your brush you will make that ink run and ruin your image. I hope that makes sense. I then used the dry brush, no water, dipped delicately in the reinker to fill in the tree trunks and tops. This gave me more depth of color and still maintained the integrity of the image. I love the results. I got the chance to drift away to the beach for a little bit while I created this scene. Brrrrr!!!! Now back to reality.
I hope each of you are having a great first week of the New Year!
Stamps: Rubbernecker Kittie Kits Fun in the Sun Paper: Taken with Teal, Certainly Celery, Watercolor Ink: Bottle, Stream, Lemonade, Shabby Shutters, Vintage Photo (all Adirondack and Distress Inks by Ranger) Accessories: Grosgrain, Brushes
Absolutely stunning in it’s beauty Kittie! I love the colors you selected. Congrats on the new design team!!!
This is so peaceful and beautiful, Kittie! Thanks for sharing your wonderful tech. Keep warm!
Thanks for the shout out Kittie! I am just SO THRILLED to be joining this wonderful DT and working with all these talented ladies!! Love your serene card! a nice image on a cold winter’s day!!
Oh, I NEED to be plopped down right in the middle of that beautiful scene!!! Can you add me in there, please? Preferably with a 120 lb. figure and wearing a bikini, please?
Great card, I would so love to crawl into that scene, these temps are terrible!!
Wow, what a great list of new Rubbernecker DT members! Congratulations to all of those ladies!! Whoo hoo!
Kittie – love your palm tree scene. I need those warm thoughts as we are soon to be in a 72 hour freeze here in Texas. Brrrrrrrr!
As a long-time admirer of your work, I appreciate your explaining in detail how you work with your watercolor brushes and reinkers. A beautiful scene and card.
Hubby and I are very thankful that we are not in Florida this week (this is when we usually are in Florida to escape our cold). I hope things warm up for you soon and stay warm for our arrival in February!
Thanks for the great shout out on your blog about the new DT, too! You and Dave picked a magnificent group of talented stampers, and I’m looking forward to working with them!
You have created such a wonderful summery scene for us to drool over, Kittie….wish we could all go sit under those beautiful plams and sip on something cool with a kick!!!! I’ll give a shout out to the new DT members, too!!!!!
This is so beautiful Kittie. Ahhhh, it looks so inviting.
Hugs,
Karen
Design teams i just visited that links it would be a great team, and i like that card, it is nice.