Rain Puddles Design

Happy Thursday everyone!  April will be over in just three days and then we can practically blink to get through the month of May. This month has just gone by so fast that I can't believe it. I wanted to write up a little post, which you know me and my short posts, so it really will be as little as possible on words but big on projects. I had two other cards created for the Verve release this month, but didn't get them done in time for the Spotlight Hop week. A third card to play more those awesome Verve flowers from Love Deepens set. This is my Shabby Bloom and Grow card that hidden somewhere is the Mojo 185 sketch. Look real close...it's really there. A Handmade (as in name of the designer paper) Called Blessed card that I used the Mojo 186 sketch. I've got a theme going here! My Hello Friend card is hiding Mojo 187 sketch in it somewhere. Yep, it's another squinter. Hey, I just realized I've done almost all of the Mojo sketches for the month ...

It's been a bit busy around here in the craft room, but I've been tagged to my computer instead of my crafting table with all my new Verve. You'll be seeing a repeat today if you were at the release party last Friday night. It's a bright and cheery card, that was pretty easy to put together. I love those floral circle dies because they aren't just scallop or plain circles, they have a whimsy to them that make it easy to use for flowers are a layered mat. That's it for now... thanks for stopping in today! Details: Stamps: Bloom and Grow (Verve), Hope Blooms (Verve),   Chicks Rule (Verve), Woodgrain (Hero Arts) Ink: VersaMark, Colonial White (CTMH), Cocoa Bean (CTMH) Paper: Early Espresso and Chocolate Chip (Stampin’ Up), Kraft text paper (Wausau), scraps of colorful paper Accessories: Floral Circles Die (Verve), Elegant Leaves die (Verve), Flutterby die ( Verve ), Ancient Enchanted Gold Embossing Powder (Ranger), Forest Branches Embossing Folde...

It's been 4 fabulous days of sneak peeks and it's all wrapping up today! I'll get through the deets super fast , as my 3 year old son would say, so that you can get on a hopping through mine.  Let's see. Hop Comment (each day has a hidden prize for the Spotlights featured that day... "FREE VERVE" ladies and gents) PARTY 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain, 6pm Pacific and 3pm Hawaii. (I personally think it's the best part of release week once the Spotlight Hops are over. *wink*) Two cards to show for the spotlight stamps and die set today. The first has Proverbs 16:9 Plain Jane verse. Such an amazing verse. The second card uses the flowers and one of the fantastic sentiments from today's Spotlight set Hope Blooms (another favorite from this release), but I couldn't leave it alone without adding a few leaf branches from the Bloom and Grow set. Have a grand time on the rest of the hop! (If you've just found this...

Today's stamp set sneaky peek is the black dress, IMHO, of this release. You'll know what I mean when you come to the release party on Friday night ( April 15th, 9PM Eastern, 8PM Central, 7PM Mountain, 6PM Pacific, 3PM Hawaii ) and see it for yourself. {wink} I used two stamps out of the Love Deepens set for my split sentiment and that muslin fabric flower is made with the Floral Circles dies (about 3 of each size in the set), the leaves are from the Bloom and Grow set that was on spotlight yesterday. 1. Tosh 8. Janelle 2. Teresa 9. Jackie 3. Maureen 10. Charmaine 4. Laurie 11. Andrea 5. Julee 12. Amber ...

It's time to spotlight another stamp set AND more dies! Yay!!!!!!!!! First, lets talk about some deets for this week Spotlights and Release Party... Four days of hops and we are on No. 2, and that means half-way to... Release Party , Friday night, April 15!!! 9PM Eastern, 8PM Central, 7PM Mountain, 6PM Pacific, 3PM Hawaii See the reveal of 3 new sets, 4 micro sets, 2 plain janes and 2 new dies. The prize winner's will be announced too! (Just for those dropping in today, there's a prize hidden along the hop today. Just comment as you go and you just might be the next owner of some new Verve!) Today's sneak peek is an amazing flower set called Bloom and Grow . I so love this set. It has some amazing flower silhouettes and in perfect Verve style they layer, and they coordinate with the Floral Circles Die set. So my affection for leaves has tripled with the stamps AND coordinating Elegant Leaves die from today's sneak peek. Oh my stars! Just a fabulous and excitin...

Verve Release Week starts today! I'm ecstatic to be hanging out again and in great company with Melissa Hubert and Cresta Woodruf as April Guest Diva's.   There are four Spotlights sets on the hop and my CAS card and envelope set is using the fabulous Birthday Phrases stamps. Possibly the easiest set of cards I've evah made! Here's some single shots to show off each sentiment... because they are awesome! We're going to be hopping today through Friday and because Verve likes to share, there is a prize hidden on one of the hops today and each hop day this week! Leave a shout-out in each Diva's comments box and you could have some free Verve all your own! It's all going to be revealed, the sets and dies too, on Friday night at the release party . Hope you'll join us! Are you ready? 1. Andrea 8. Julee 2. Jackie ...

Happy Friday everyone!  I have been super busy with so many projects this week that I haven't finished a single card to show you all week. I apologize and I feel like I've neglected all my recent crafting purchases, so they are sad too. LOL Not to worry though because I'll be showing you all that I've been working on  because next week I'll be hanging out with the Verve Divas, again. Julee sent me a "Wanna Play" email and I was so excited I yelled for anyone in the house to hear, "oh YEAH! I'm gonna play! WHHHHEEEEEEEE!". Can I just say it is such a pleasure to be a guest with Verve and the Divas, a fantastic memory to cherish FOR SURE. So this morning I realized my son was rather quietly playing and then the front door would open and close... and again... and again... so I mentioned to him that he needed to let me know when and where he was going to play outside to be safe. He had a surprise to show me. He stepped away from the table to...

SURPRISE! (Click to enlarge photo) While looking for the temperature option on my glue gun this past weekend I noticed a spelling error. I wonder if you would get a better deal if you do exactly what they say? Still, I'm not sure it's worth the pain. OUCH! Have a pain free day, please.. 8~)

How's your day going? I hope you have had a bit of  YOU time this morning even if it meant a couple of minutes awake in bed before your household started to wake up and ask for your attention. I know I'm always trying to find some time to reflect and register in to what my day should be. So anywho... I made a simple card to show you today that uses a new to me stamp line and also a stamp set that I bought completely for the images in it, but when I was searching for a sentiment this set came with it's game face on. The oval frame is from the Jubilee set from The Girls' Paperie. It's a cute set that has a few items I've been searching for in a stamp set, but the frame was callin' my name. The sentiment is from the February featured set at Close to My Heart. It has the object collage stamps of a butterfly, bird, dress form, etc. Very cool and I'll be pulling that set out again very soon. Details: Stamps: Jubilee clear stamp set by The Girls...