Wacky Wednesday Challenge and The Creative Belli Challenge #57

Good morning everyone!!! I have a wonderful announcement to make!!! The Rubbernecker Design Team will be having a weekly challenge on the Rubbernecker Blog called Wacky Wednesday !! Each Wednesday a different Design Team Member will post a weekly challenge. Now here's the fun part for you! We will be giving away 3 certificates each week to 3 different participants who play along. The certificates will be good for 25% off your entire order at Rubbernecker Stamps.
All you need to do to participate, is upload your card (preferably using Rubbernecker images) to any online gallery and/or blog, and post a link to the challenge blog post. In order to win, you must post a link back by Monday of the following week. Winners will be announced on Tuesdays.
You might be asking why Wacky Wednesday. Well, for no other reason than the challenges will not be the same and are the choice of the Design Team member posting. BTW, feel free to add the Wacky Wednesday blinky to you blog!!!



Sherry is the hostess for the first challenge to make an ATC. This is a first for me....I have not made an ATC before....I don't know why because they are too much fun to make!!! The little birds, sentiment, and bird house images from Rubbernecker were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with copics. Since I didn't have the right type of branch stamp, I drew on the branch and leaves using Chocolate Chip and Certainly Celery markers. The background layers are Chocolate Chip and Kiwi Kiss, the clouds were sponged on with Cool Caribbean using my handy dandy Mothermark cloud template, and the little bee was added to finish it off.



I had so much fun with my first ATC that I had to make another one!!! This one features the beautiful Stamp Oasis butterfly and Rubbernecker Easter sentiment. The butterflies were stamped on the blue bugged background and again on white cardstock. The images were colored with copics, cutout and attached with glue dots. The corner butterflies were trimmed, brads, ribbon, and the sentiment were added to finish the design. The background layers are Certainly Celery and So Saffron.
I can't wait to see the little ATC cards you make!!! Remember to leave a link to your creations on the Rubbernecker blog so you have a chance to win!!

The Rubbernecker Design Team, as always, will delight you with their creations. Be sure to visit their blogs for lots of inspiration!!!
Bev Gerard (Tex)
Candy Williams
Juliana Swanson
Kittie Caracciolo
Linda Duke
Shelly Kuck
Sherry Cheever
Tami Mayberry
Broni Holcombe





Creative Belli Challenge #57

Today is the debut of the Creative Belli Challenge Blog!!! For a little over a year now, we have been doing a challenge called Chrissy's Belli Challenge. It was started by Chris (chrissyd723) Dickinson to inspire us to use the *stuff* lying around our stamping spaces...those long forgotten goodies that we once had to have!! Chris, along with Holly Brown and Danita Hollander decided to create a blog AND change the name to Creative Belli Challenge.
This is the first week to host the challenge on the blog. You can also visit all the Design Team's Blogs which are located on the sidebar... We will also be featuring Mr Linky, so you can participate with that as well.

The Creative Belli challenge this week is to create a card using images from Chris and Courtney's new stamps that were released last Friday for Sweet n Sassy Stamps. The beautiful bird image designed by Chris was colores with copics and layered on Prism papers. Sewing was done around the edges of the designer paper by My Minds Eye. The leaf stickers from the same My Minds Eye paper collection, ribbons, clip, buttons, and the scalloped punched border finish it off.




Two of the beautiful lily images designed by Courtney Fowler were colored with copics. Petals from one of the colored images were cut out and attached to the under image for a layered effect.



I used paper from My Minds Eye and the round and oval layers were cut out with Nestabilities. Ribbon and a gold metal butterfly finish it off.











I hope you can see the layering in the close up along with my thumb...yikes, I just noticed that!!!



Be sure to visit the Creative Belli Design Team Member's blogs to read more details about their designs. You will find lots of awesome ideas!!! If you upload a card to Splitcoast or PCP, be sure to add CBC57 in the keywords section.
Anne Harada
Joanne Travis
Holly Brown
Chris Dickinson
Courtney Fowler
Ceal Pritchett
Christi Thorsen
Danita Hollander
Shelly Koskinen
Karen Gibson
Lee Murphy
Jennifer Greco
Debby McGivillary