Rain Puddles Design

There are very few people, I think, in this world that we can truly say that they are a perfect example of what you want to be. My dear sweet mother is one of them. She's actually riding out to see me tomorrow! I'm so excited that I just can't wait to squeeze her sweet little neck. I must have been thinking a lot about her while I tried to whip out another Viva La Verve sketch challenge today, because I grabbed the Verve Just For You stamp set with this sentiment. The sketch's twist was to use edge punches and my mind immediately thought of ruffles on a girls dress. When I grabbed the first ink color I wanted to go with I new it wasn't going to be ruffles. I picked Stampin' Up Forest Foliage and brayed it down on white cardstock then stamped the foliage from Verve's Forever in Our Hearts with Versamark (forgetting to use my embossing buddy which ended up being a nice texture around the leaves) and then clear embossed. I started in with my edge punches and d...

I've got a very cool card I'd like to share. As some of my previous posts have mentioned that I'm just insanely tickled when I use my Prismacolor markers and this card showcases that precisely. How tickled I am not insane I might appear to be. Actually my neighbor mentioned that it might be the fumes from the marker, but that's a given, right? I was looking for more free digital stamps to practice some more marker work when I came across this image (scroll down just a bit to see the black and white illustration) from a post on inky impressions challenge blog. How cute is this illustration! I had a hard time starting to color this cute faerie, so I consulted my dear husband who is a Sci-fi slash fantasy fan and we have a small library of books to show for it. I originally started to color with a day scene in mind and then he threw me for a loop and said that fairies typically (in his books) come out at night. So I started in with darker colors and then he mentioned ...

I've been on the downside of my craftiness lately and a bit gloomy about it. I'm chalking it up to being sick a couple of weekends ago and its taken me a while to get back to a routine. So to jump back into it I've done the Midnight Madness sketch challenge over at Priscilla's Style blog. I went simple and as usual looked at my tray of paper scraps. My inspiration was the polka dot paper for the color scheme. It's funny that's the only place it shows up. I realized that and added the flower centers to repeat it. Card Details: Stamps: CTMH Spring set Paper: LSS cream MM Neutrals paper pack (burgundy pattern paper), textured brown paper Ink: SU! Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Bravo Burgundy, Mauve Mist or Rose Red, Ranger Walnut Stain Ink Accessories: More Mustard grosgrain ribbon (retired), AC Elements Medium Brown Eyelets, Gold Stickles, Little Leaves Die

Do you know any of the flowers in this picture? I'm trying to find photos or clipart for them. (Right-click on the image to open up in a new window a larger image.) I think A and C are the same delphiniums, but if anyone knows what they are please let me know. Thanks for your help.

So after I posted and then Updated the post about my Kreativ Blogger Award, I had to look around for some origins. Here is a link that sounded good. http://simonfoodfavourites.blogspot.com/2009/08/original-designer-of-kreativ-blogger.html Janelle

Hello everyone! I need to make a quick post about a very sweet Jen who nominated me for a Kreativ Blogger Award a week ago! I'm so sorry it's taken me this long to post about it. I thought if I ever got one of these award nominations I would post about it as fast as my fingers could type! I never figured I'd be in the midst of children's Bible school and then sick children on top of that. Thank you Jen of I Create blog for nominating me for this award! To accept the award I have to do a few things. 1. Thank the person who nominated me for this award. 2. Copy the logo and place it on my blog. 3. Link the person who nominated me for this award. 4. Name seven things about me that people might find interesting. 5. Nominate seven Kreativ Bloggers. 6. Post links to the seven blogs I nominate. 7. Leave comments on all seven blogs letting them know I nominated them. Seven things you {might} find interesting about me: I am the youngest of four children that ...

Being sick over the weekend I didn't have time to create anything for this week's Midnight Madness sketch (MMSC14) , but I still wanted to play along. Instead I whipped up a scrapbook page that will hopefully get me started on my mom's scrapbook for her birthday. All embellishments are from Nicole Seitler of www.SugarplumPaperie.com and the kit is from www.thedigichick.com called China Blue by Sugarplum Paperie. I used Paint Shop Pro 8 (old version, but one I know). Congratulations to Dani who won the awesome Big Shot Blog Candy. It's going to be amazing to use! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your week!

I can't believe all the busyness that has been going on this week. Our church had Summer Tsunami (old schoolers call it VBS) and I volunteered to be a Tour Guide for 16 4-year-olds. Whew! I am ill equiped to handle that many children. In the midst of my mornings being filled up, I attempted to complete Release Week Challenge Sketches for Verve's 2nd anniversary, then my children started getting sick (you'll see how my cards go from intricate to simple and that's where I started running out of time to complete them for the prize deadline). My son woke up on Friday morning with a very splattered bed from losing what was still in his stomach from the night before, yet he was chipper and with a healthy appetite. My daughter was doing well and ready to show off her newly painted fingers and toes to her best friends at Summer Tsunami. I ended up with two children hanging on me the whole time, neither feeling all that well. Felt like a monkey mom. LOL (Why didn't I take th...

is in full swing. Here is my second week card for Amber's Viva La Verve challenge with a {twist} of CASE a Verve Diva. I searched the Verve Diva gallery and found lots of cards I wanted to CASE. Some of them for color, some for sketch, but I decided to do this card by diva Susan Liles. I meant to just use the sketch and as I got into the designing I found myself copying the details rather than the sketch. As weird as it may seem to some of you, I love to piece something together one small space at a time. This card took me a few days to get done because I knew I wanted to do the tri-flower background images and I had to get them stamped and colored THEN cut out. I really love how they came out. Card Details: Stamps: Beautiful Kindness, Wishful Elegance, Floral Symphony, SU Rough Edge Alphas, Background Sampler, HA Brushstrokes Paper: LSS Haute Red, SU Chocolate Chip and Basic Black Ink: StazOn Timber Brown, Ranger Walnut Stain Ink, Ruby Red, Creamy Caramel, Summer Sun, Prismaco...

Good Monday Morning! I needed to make a card for my dad so I could get it out in the mail in time for his birthday this week and I finally got to inking up paper by Sunday night past my bedtime. Eeeks! Why so late getting started? I've been busy sewing up blankets for my church's baby dedication program. I've volunteered my time to make up a stash of blankets and it's turned out to be more than I can handle alone. So a few months ago I was offered some help and now I have some wonderful ladies helping me with them. I needed to get a few to a point where they could take off with the crochet trim and that kept me out of the craft room. {Thanks CJS and LS!} I'll post a picture when we are done. I can't wait to show you! Okay, back to the card! This card is a stretch in my artistic talents. I've gone away from staying in the sketch lines and consider it an official Janelle collage. For some reason I wanted the card to look aged and that got me thinking that I mi...

Hello all! I am here again with a card for Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. It's the beginning of the month and that means Contest week. Go on over to the MojoMonday blog and join in on the fun. After this weekend's blog hop with Verve Diva's and fans show extreme vervelicious cards and projects, I felt like I needed a crafting break. Don't misinterpret that to mean I'd had enough of the Verve-y goodness, it was just a case of carpal tunnel from all the mouse clicking and typing in comments. LOL. The crafting break lasted a whole 24 hours. LOL. I saw this week's sketch for MojoMonday and my finger's started fidgeting for ink and stamps. I refrained from starting anything for one more day until I talked to my mom Tuesday afternoon. She was discouraged about not finding a good greeting card for welcoming new clergy to the church (We need some Verve style Welcome stamps for any occasion.). She hinted that she wished she had some homemade cards from he...

**(If you're looking for the Verve Blog Hop go here .)** I've decided to try out a new challenge. I was attracted to the Midnight Madness challenge because it seemed to fit me and when I do most of my stamping. Funny thing is, I stamped this entry during the day. HA! I've been wanting to go bright lately. I think it's to just get the last days of summer feel out of my system before we quickly head into fall with school starting at the end of the month. Time flies by in the summer. I digress. The blog that you can view the challenge, you have until the midnight ET to enter, is here . Card Details: Stamps: SU Love Ya Bunches, Verve Fluttering By Ink: Basic Black, Brilliant Blue, Brilliance Tuxedo Black, Prismacolor Avocado and Lt Olive Green Paper: LSS White, Astrobright Blue Copy Paper, Making Memories B/W Designer Paper Pack Accesories: SU Mellow Moss Grosgrain ribbon, Offray Island Blue Grosgrain, Sissix Tween Daisies Emboss Plate, Sissix Flowers Layers #3 die, Ticket ...

There is an Anni-Verve-Sary party going on today! Verve Stamp Company is 2 years old! The hop started at Verve's blog , so come hop on board and see over 5 dozen projects that are sure to get your Verve on! I've been waiting for the right time to blog about this project and when the opportunity came to join in the anniversary blog hop for Verve I knew it was time. My blog hop project today uses all Plain Jane Bible verses from Verve. I saw this project at Susan Roberts gallery on Splitcoaststampers and went to her blog to get the details . I decided to make one for my mother as a Christmas present...in 2008. Yep, I just now finished it and I have the blog hop to thank. Using sketches would have made this a whole lot faster. LOL The two cards shown in the picture above use the latest Plain Jane release for Psalm 121:1-2 (hanging on box) and Hebrews 11:1 (in front of box). And I'll give the details below, but first here's a slide show of the whole year. Hebr...