gingersnap words of wisdom

This month Gingersnap Creations is Sponsored by Rogue Redhead Designs. I am fortunate to be on the Design Team of both of these.

This first card was made for the Words of wsidom Challenge at Gingersnap Creations. I didn't use any rogue redhead stamps for this,

but I also made a bookmark using the relish reading plate from Rogue redhead.

I covered the bookmark with laminating film, but realised too late that I had cut it a little short!!

to make a feature of this I roughed up the edge with a blade and inked it... a happy accident??

Rogue Redhead/technique Junkies blog hop

Welcome to Stop #9 on the joint Rogue Redhead and Technique Junkies Blog Hop! We are all having loads of fun with the new Technique Junkies' 3D and Fun Folds CD!

The Technique Junkies team has joined us to showcase the numerous great techniques on this new CD. As you may know, the Technique Junkies Newsletter has been publishing rubber stamping technique tutorials since 2002. The 3D and Fun Folds CD contains 70 step-by-step technique tutorials in PDF format – perfect dimensions, perfect directions and great pictures for every step. Visit www.techniquejunkies.com for more details about the CD and the Technique Junkie Newsletter.

A fantastic group of design team members from both Rogue Redhead Designs and the Technique Junkie Newsletter, have helped put together this fabulous Blog Hop to kick off the 3D and Fun Folds CD. Not only will the talented Technique Junkies team be hopping with the Rogue Crew today, they started hopping yesterday with Classy Cards N' Such and will be hopping again all the way through Friday one day each with PaperTemptress, Mark's Finest Papers, and Sweet n' Sassy Stamps. Check the The Technique Junkie Newsletter Blog for more details.

After visiting me, you can head off to see Chris Dickinson at Creating with Chrissy for your next stop.

I made a little gift bag using one of the fabulous techniques from TJ. I used a "love your style" quote stamp from Rogue Redhead Designs.


If you get lost along the way, here's the whole list of hop stops for your convenience.

1. The Technique Junkie Newsletter Blog

2. Rogue Redhead Designs Blog

3. Jackie Kalchert

4. Beverly G., Rogue Crew

5. Jean Franks Beck, Rogue Crew

6. Holly Brown

7. Jane Bosi

8. Laura Liddell, Rogue Crew

9. Joanne Wardle, Rogue Crew

10. Chris Dickinson

11. Stephanie Severin, Rogue Crew

12. Sharon Briss, Chief Rogue

13. Pat Huntoon

Have fun along the way!

On Saturday, December 3, Pat from the Technique Junkie Newsletter will announce the winners from each company. Be sure to hop along on each day! There will be FIVE WINNERS! On Monday, December 5th, Pat will announce ONE LUCKY WINNER with a GRAND PRIZE with a bundle of prizes from all of the participating businesses.

If you have been following along already you should have come from Laura Liddell.

If you are only starting here, please head back to the Technique Junkie Newsletter Blog and go from there otherwise head on to the next stop.. Chris Dickinson
You won't want to miss any stops along the way – in order to win you will need to comment on everyone’s blog AND Pat Huntoon's blog. There will be an additional chance to win by playing along in her Blog Hop!

more kraft with Rogue redhead

I just don't seem to be able to stop using these new Candy Kisses stamps on kraft card, they just seem to work so easily on it.

These are just stamped in brown and coloured with pencils, with a touch of glossy accents and stickles glitter glue to finish

Kraft tags with Rogue redhead

I decided to make three quick and easy tags with the quirky new Candy Kisses plate from Rogue Redhead (they have a new website, check it out) The bold simple designs are prefect for simple colouring styles, such as colouring with pencils on kraft card.


I also used the background from the relish reading plate with tea dye ink to produce a soft background image. I did this by covering the image with a torn scrap of post-it note, inking up the stamp and gently pressing the card onto the stamp, to get a faint uneven background. I love this effect as it takes away the starkness of a plain background, yet does not detract from the main image.

Rogue Redhead new release

Another Preview of the new stamps from Rogue Redhead, This is from the Candy Kisses Plate. A super simple card coloured with one colour of marker and a blender pen. I've also added some white flower soft for a snowy effect.

This colouring method is the same method as I used in the new Craft Stamper magazine, due out next friday.

love your style

This card is made with an image and words from the new soon to be released Rogue Redhead plate "milliner misses" This is an easy peasy quick collage card. The main image is coloured with pencils, the edges distressed and inked with tea dye distress ink. and that's about as complicated as it gets.

Instant Distress - Rogue Redhead

I just love the large background stamp on the new beach babe plate from Rogue Redhead Designs. It's like instant distress. I stamped the whole thing in one colour and then turned it through 180 degrees and stamped it again in a different colour. Finally I inked it up with brown and dabbed my card randomly onto the stamp, the result.... instant distress background.

I simply finished by stamping words from bits and pieces and the fern from floriculture. I distressed the edges of the panel, mounted onto kraft card and added a ribbon.

A very quick and easy card, with a background which looks like it took time, but actually took seconds.

Sail Away with Rogue Redhead

A simple card made with the new Beach Babes plate from Rogue Redhead Designs.


Stamped in blue onto a pale blue-grey base and then coloured with pencils, a couple of scraps of patterned paper, and that's it!!

a rogue in my garden!

On the rogue redhead blog, Shar has challenged us to use pencils on kraft. ahem, hello!! how am I supposed to resist that one?


So I have made my card using Shar's stamps from Rogue redhead designs (relish reading plate) to make this card, which is also for The Kraft Jounal's "a walk in my garden theme"

The trick I use to achieve a sepia effect on kraft card, is to stamp the image in brown (versafine vintage sepia) and to make the images stand out, I always make sure I include white somewhere in the colouring.

To enhance this card I've added some touches of summer flower soft, it goes so well with this technique

Remember Rogue redhead stamps are now also available from StampDiva

floriculture scrapling

I had a little bit of Kraft card left over, from trimming down a card to a square, so I made this Scrapling from stamps on the floriculture plate from rogue redhead designs. I stamped the sentiment,masked it with torn post-it note, stamped the flower, coloured with colour soft pencils.

Finally, I added a few dots of sepia accents.

LIM sketch and wednesday stampers circles

Sometimes two challenges just fall together pefectly and that's what has happened withe the current Less is More Challenge and the wednesday stamper challenge.... and to top it off I had the perfect stamps!!

The circle stamp in the Rogue Redhead Designs bits and pieces plate were the perfect stamp for both of these challenge and all used the flower from the floriculture plate, and the word again from the bits and pieces.

The coloured inks are Jenny Bowlin inks (available from Happy Daze). I have gone over the flower with a white pen (it's like cheating masking!!)

getting edgy...

The challenge at CAS-ual fridays is "getting edgy" i.e add an interesting edge to you Clean and Simple projects.

I was making this tag for the rogue redhead blog for next week, and I was sat there thinking, hmmmm it needs something at the edge. I had just been contemplating adding some sepia accents to the flowers, so it was there to hand, and I wondered, "what would it look like as an edging" so I ran a thin line around the edge and then smudged it with my finger (on purpose, lol).

so that's my interesting edge. The stamps are Rogue Redhead floriculture plate, and I have used pencils and kraft card (as usual)

I guess this is another one for the kraft jounal's summer theme too.

One post or three?????

I've been a little absent from my craft room over the last couple of days, but I ventured in there today and came up with a few simple cards.
First of all is this card for the one layer wednesday theme (orange, yellow and aqua) and the created by hand theme (circles and dots) made using stamps from Stampotique, (this would also fit the current stampotique challenge of Clean and simple, but obviously, I'm not eligible to enter that)

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This next one is also using Stampotique but is not coloured by me, this was actually coloured by my 8 year old son , using cheapo supermarket pencils (I'm way to protective of my coloursoft pencils)
I think he did a marvellous job for a fathers day card, and I'm entering it on his behalf for the Papertake weekly challenge (dads and lads)

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finally, my eldest son is way too lazy to make his own card, so he "commissions" me to make them for him. I made this really simple card using stamps from Rogue Redhead Designs (bits and pieces plate). which I'm hoping is suitable for the CAS-ual fridays Colour Blocking theme

LIM Monochrome

I felt that the monochrome theme at Less is More, was the perfect opportunity to pull out lots of things of the same colour and throw them at a card, I've never felt that I've been much good at the layering of techniques pulled of so well by the likes of Jo Capper-Sandon, Paula Whittaker, Kate Crane, to name but a few of many......
but watching Jo at Happy Stampers made me realise I was making it much harder than need be. Jo taught me the key wasn't to think, just do, no plan, just see what happens.

so that's what I had a go at in this card, a swipe, a spray, a bit of (tiny) sequin waste sponging, then see what stamps are to hand. I'm actually more pleased with it than I thought I would be.

The Stamps are from Rogue Redheads new releases, floriculture and bits and pieces

it's just about the words.

This is the simplest card made for a neighbour that just had a baby boy. I was going for simple, cute and commercial. The words from the bits and pieces set from Rogue redhead designs were the perfect finishing touch. It's so useful to have such a complete set of coordinating greetings to hand. The font and size of the baby word are perfect for nestling up against the handcut paper heart. And then the Congratulations word inside ties in the front with the inside.


don't forget to visit the rogue redhead blog for lots more inspiration on how to use these stamps

rogue redhead- new releases

Rogue Redhead had two new releases out this - a beautiful botanical plate called Floriculture and a sentiment plate called Bits & Pieces.

Seriously, could these stamps be any more my style?

I decided to get stamping as soon as they arrived and made a batch of quick notecards


They have some special pricing available. Here's the scoop:

We are offering these great half-size plates for the introductory price of $12.00 each, 20% off their regular retail price of $15.00 each, until June 10, 2011. Buy Floriculture and Bits and Pieces as a bundle and save even more! Get both these new releases together for the bundle price of $22.50 until June 10, 2011. That's 25% off their regular retail price!

We are also offering a Spring Sale Big Vintage Bundle - Relish Reading, Floriculture and Bits and Pieces - all for the low price of $42.00 plus shipping and handling. Get yours now! The sale only lasts until June 10, 2011.

GC90 Charms : a book charm

The theme at gingersnap this week is charms. I decided I wanted to make a charm rather than use a charm. at first I was going to make a mobile phone charm, but then I decided to make a book charm. After all I always have a book with me, so why shouldn't that get a charm. of course it's just a book mark really, but a fancy one!

I used shrink plastic cut with a spellbinder die, stamped a rogue redhead stamp, and coloured with colour soft pencils before shrinking. The beads were from an old necklace and the embroidery threads were from when I used to do cross stitch. They were just plaited. really easy!

a little tag for rogue redheads

Here's just a little tag I made using stamps from the relish reading plate from Rogue Redhead Designs which is featured on the blog today.
These reading themed stamps work beautifully with old book pages.

I will also make this another entry for Theme Thursday.

rogue redhead now shipping to the UK and Canada... and a matchbook notebook

Rogue Redhead Designs is happy to announce that they are now shipping to Canada and the United Kingdom!

Visit the Etsy store to get your Relish Reading plate! The sale is still on and until December 15, 2010, you can still get this plate for 20% off the regular price of $22.00 U.S.





I decided that The book theme of the relish reading plate, was just perfect for a little handmade notebook.
I love making the matchbook notebooks, they are just so easy. There is a tutorial on my blog here for making them.

I have used five stamps from the plate, the image is coloured with pencils.

box for a scroll or rolled voucher, tutorial including custom made scoring board.

Today on the Rogue Redhead blog, I have this tutorial




One of my favourite presents to give at the moment is Amazon vouchers. I love that you can print them straight off, and let's face it, you can buy pretty much anything from Amazon.
But they are not very exciting to give, so that's why I came up with the idea of making a box to put a scroll in, so you can roll the printed voucher up and give as a proper gift.

I have made mine from a sheet of A4 card, it would be easy to adapt this to a similar sized card. I decided that I needed all my scores to be a width of 4cm, however my scoring board doesn't do this width, so I decided I needed to custom make my own scoring board. This was really easy to do, fold a card as shown, so that the channel is just the right width for your embossing tool. mark the width on that you want. As I wanted to be able to score lengthways A4 card, and repeat the scoring, I added little extension pieces to the measurement.



you can see the board in use here. it really does work.



score 4 lines at 4cm intervals lengthways down your card, and 4cm in from each edge.
trim the last flap down to 3cm and shape as shown. cutting away all the shaded areas, and between the side flaps.

fold up and glue side flaps together and place your rolled paper/voucher/certificate/invitation etc, inside.

decorate however you like. I have used a quote and the background from the Relish Reading plate from Rogue Redhead Designs.