Welcome to a new challenge at As You See It!  We have a love theme for this go around so I went pretty clean and simple (naturally!).

I started with a die cut heart out of white paper before adding an ombre of sweet sugarplum ink to it. 

I added the sentiment and then popped it up on a base of sweet sugarplum with a bit of white twine tied around it.

Finally, a sweet little heart and rhinestones finished off the card.

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! white and sweet sugarplum.  Inks:  SU! sweet sugarplum.  Dies:  PTI linen impression plate.  MFT stitched heart stax.  Stamps:  PTI grand ampersand.  Other:  Rhinestones and dots.

It’s a new challenge for a new year at Retro Rubber!  The challenge is to make a winter themed card.  I thought this would be easy until I couldn’t come up with anything!  Luckily, I had a meeting this past weekend where a friend showed off her collection of wreaths.  One of them was a snowflake wreath so I used that for my inspiration.

I started by drawing a circle and then stamping a variety of snowflake stamps around it.  I used colors that I used on this card that I made a few weeks ago.  These stamps were from my Simon Says Stamp Lots of Snowflakes stamps from 2014.

I added the sentiment from my Penny Black Yuletide Wishes stamp set from 2016 and decided to put the stamp a bit to the right.  I moved it around the circle, in and out of the circle and ultimately liked it where it ended up.

I added a few rhinestones and some twine before adhering to a card base of soft sky.

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! white and soft sky.  Stamps:  SSS lots of snowflakes (2014).  Penny Black yuletide wishes (2016).  Inks:  SU! baja breeze, pool party and soft sky.  Other:  Rhinestones.  SU! pool party twine.  PTI linen impression plate.

It’s a new challenge at Retro Rubber.  A fun tic tac toe challenge and I chose the third row of pattern paper, butterflies and twine.

I started with a die cut of pattern paper that I wrapped twine around. 

I adhered to the card base, stamped the sentiment and added the sweet punched butterfly.  The stamp is from the PTI keep it simple thanksgiving from 2014.

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Supplies:  CS:  PTI fresh snow linen paper.  Lawn Fawn fall plaid.  Stamps:  PTI KIS thanksgiving (2014).  Dies:  MFT double stitched squares.  SU! butterfly punch.  Other:  twine and pearls.

It’s a new challenge at Retro Rubber!  It’s anything goes!

I started by adding some pattern paper to my card base and then a bit of twine.

I stamped the sentiment and gourd/leaf images before die cutting the scalloped square.  The gourd and leaf are from Stampin’ Up!’s Gourd Goodness from 2017 while the sentiment is from the 2013 PaperTrey Ink Mum’s the Word stamp set.

I layered the square above the twine and added some bling.

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! early espresso, white and cupcakes and carousel dsp.  Inks:  SU! certainly celery, old olive and so saffron.  Dies:  MFT mini scallop stitched squares.  PTI linen plate.  Stamps:  SU! gourd goodness (2017).  PTI mum’s the word (2013).  Other:  bling. 

A fun new challenge starts at As You See It.  It is theme week and we must showcase trees!

I started with a pear pizzazz brushstroke before adding a couple of scrub brush trees.

The trees were stamped in sweet sugarplum and pink pirouette.  I love using pinks and greens for my holiday cards.  I popped up the trees and added the sentiment.

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Supplies:  CS:  PTI white.  Stamps:  PTI joyful Christmas and brushstrokes.  Dies:  PTI linen plate and joyful Christmas.  Inks:  SU! pear pizzazz, pink pirouette and sweet sugarplum. 

Welcome to a new Retro Rubber Challenge!  It is tic tac toe time!  I choose the pastel colors/embossing folder/birthday.

I started by embossing a piece of grapefruit grove with my on point embossing folder.  Then I die cut a wine bottle from so saffron.

I layered these on a crumbcake base and added the sentiment and some twine.  The sentiment is from my 2017 Papertrey Ink infinity frames sentiments.

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! crumbcake, grapefruit grove, so saffron and white.  Stamps:  PTI infinity frames sentiments (2017).  Dies:  PTI linen and uncorked.  SU! on point embossing folder.  MFT pierced rectangles.  Other:  linen thread.

It’s time for a new Retro Rubber Challenge and it’s anything goes!  Yay!

I was in a bit of a holiday mood so I went clean and simple.  I die cut a couple of pine boughs and arranged them on the card with an enamel dot for a berry.

I stamped the sentiment from my PTI Christmas critters sentiments from 2016 and added some texture with my linen plate.

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! old olive and white.  Dies:  PTI linen impression plate.  Poppy Stamps pine sprigs.  Stamps:  PTI Christmas critters sentiments (2016).

It’s a new challenge at As You See It and it is a fill in the blank.  (that I got to create!)  My go to die or punch that I use most often is the linen impression plate.  But I think you all could have guessed that!  I love it because it adds a smidge of texture and makes the card feel a little more upscale.

I did a one layer card so I could show off the linen plate.  I added snowflakes and circles in soft colors and then ran the card thru the linen plate.  Even though it is hard to see!

I stamped the sentiment, die cut it, and popped it up on the card.

It's always a bit difficult to see the texture from the linen plate so here is a picture of what it looks like.

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Supplies:  CS:  PTI white.  Inks:  SU! pink pirouette, pool party, sweet sugarplum, wisteria wonder, pear pizzazz and so saffron.  Dies:  PTI linen impression plate.  MFT washi tape.  Stamps:  CB sunburst.  SSS lots of snowflakes and inside holiday greetings.

Welcome to a new challenge at Retro Rubber!  It’s anything goes!!

I started by stamping random images on my card front in different greens, brown and yellow.  I used my PTI Tropics stamp set from 2016.

Then I added a layer of crushed curry before adhering to the soft suede base.

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! white, crushed curry and soft suede.  Stamps:  PTI tropics (2016).  Inks:  SU! always artichoke, old olive, pear pizzazz, crushed curry and soft suede.  Dies:  PTI linen impression plate.

It’s a new challenge at Retro Rubber and it is a delightful tic tac toe.

I bounced around for a while before finally deciding which row I was going to tackle.  I ended up with the pattern paper/romance/enamel dots or gems.  I started with a card base of balmy blue and added this sweet piece of butterfly pattern paper.

Then I die cut and embossed the arch using my inspiration impression plate right after I added the sentiment.  My apologies if the impression plate is hard to see – it is various inspirational words.  It did not photo well at all!  My sentiment comes from my PTI ways to say I love you from 2017.

I popped up the arch and then added my rhinestones and dots.

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! balmy blue, white, and botanical butterfly dsp.  Dies:  SSS stitched rectangles.  MFT stitched arches.  PTI linen and inspiration impression plates.  Stamps:  PTI ways to say I love you (2017).  Other:  SU! dots and rhinestones.