Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Digi-ATC


As much as I LOVE my PC/software & working with images, I just don't make many DIGI-ATC's. This is one I whipped together using the new DIGI-kits from Lisa's Altered Art. As always, her images are fabulous, and the individual elements are well put together and SO easy to use! LOVE THEM! Especially because I haven't gotten the hang of really clipping images so nicely! That will be my 2010 resolution!
So enjoy! And go visit http://lisasalteredart.com/ for some amazing images!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Red Rubber Open House

Join me Satuday November 14th 12:30-5:30 and Sunday November 15th 12:30-4 for my annual Red Rubber Open House! I have lots of new products in, a free Make & Take, some great ideas for the Holidays and a manicurist who will make your hands look fab! All instock products are 20% off. That would be the NEW items, just in, and I've got some AWESOME products to show you. So please, take the time to check out what's in store!

Visit my website at http://www.redrubberpaperandink.com/


Email me at Jan@redrubberpaperandink.com for more information.
Red Rubber Paper and Ink is located in beautiful Hubertus, Wisconsin. Minutes from Menomonee Falls, Germantown & West Bend.

Give Thanks Banner - a gift for you!




It's getting to that time of year when everything is going to get rushed. At least for me I know this to be true. SO, to help you out, I'm offering up this SUPER EASY banner! I designed the collage sheets today.


There are 2 sheets for you to download and print. I used heavyweight cardstock (110# 8.5x11"). The only other supplies you need are one 12x12 piece of scrapbook paper (to coordinate to the back of the banner), 5' of ribbon and 20 eyelets (optional). IF you want to add a little sparkle to your banner I suggest coating the piece in before you cut it out with Gel Medium to seal it and sprinkle a little glitter around where you like. You could also use Stickles or even better GLASS GLITTER! Tie extra ribbons between the pennants to add interest, and you can have a lovely gift or decorations in less than a 1/2 hour! I swear!



The banner ends up being about 5' long by 5" high. You could put it together as 2 layers as I did, with GIVE on the top, THANKS on the bottom. Adjust the ribbon length accordingly.

Double click on the 2 images above, right click and choose SAVE AS to save it to your PC. It's a JPG, so pull it into software you normaly use to work with. You can even Insert it into WORD or Publisher to print.

Whether you keep it for your own celebration, or give it as a gift, just enjoy it! Compliments of Red Rubber Paper and Ink!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Faux Chihuly with a Twist....

















I'm demoing a product called Dura-lar by Grafix next weekend at Artist & Display. It's thick, not 100% transparent, but can be shaped (carefully) in warm water. The plan was to use glass paints, which I have none of, and since I love alcohol inks, thought this would be a great substitute.
I've had this great song by Kirstin Andreassen going through my head ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EELEjeYzfjM ) it's SO FUN! "Crayola dosn't make the color for your eyes". Great inspiration for color!

The 'look' we're going for is that of Dale Chihuly ( http://www.chihuly.com/ ) an amazing glass artist. His colors are fabulous and his pieces undescribable! Tough to replicate with alcohol inks because of the way they react.

I'm going to play around some more & see what I can work out. Not sure Mr. Chihuly would appreciate me calling this a Drunken Chihuly Technique (due to the ALCOHOL inks) but it makes me laugh. So for now, it's Faux-Chihuly with a Twist!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Trick or treat!

Poking around, doing something other than I should (as usual) I came acrosss Lisa Vollraths Ten Two Studios site. She had used Marie Anntoinette images to make fab Ribbon Fairy's. I needed to make something special for a friend for her Halloween Birthday, so I new this would be a fun idea to use.



Saturday, October 24, 2009

Halloween Cards





These images are all from Altered Pages and were used for a card kit I designed, using windows and tranparency sheets.

Happy Halloween!!!!


These are some Halloweenie ATC's I did recently. Images are from Phenomenon & Lisa's Altered Art

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Which Red Lead Image are you???


I am the birthday girl!!!! here's my ATC for the swap. My head got a little big (wink, wink)!