Rain Puddles Design

There are two packages that I am so excited to see on my front door. I don't care much the size or color of the packaging, but I sure will jump for joy when I open them up. I have a mass order of mono refills coming with a looming "In Transit" on it's tracker page. It's not good to be without tape for a crafter... not good at all. The other is starting to show up in my dreams....! I'll be starting real soon on creations for the Stampendous BlogStar team and it is going to be FUN. I even went out and bought a sweet little set, just because I couldn't wait! Well, now my other crafts have gotten in the way of inking it up so I'll show you two other Stampendous cards that I made a couple weeks back. I've got some sweet ideas for my new set! Stampendous!  Petals Nouveau and Scrolled Seasons  stamps and Teddy Bear Tan Fun Flock  (color discontinued...I think) This holiday card was a fun technique to try out. Use a glue pad on the stamp and spri...

Updated Monday 12/5/2011: I forgot to mention that I'm playing along in the December Verve Diva Dare:   A Handmade   Christmas !  You can play along, too! Go to Day 1 on the Verve Stamps Blog and link up your handmade holiday goodness! It has been a good week! It's now the weekend and I'm about to show you some of the projects I've been up to this past week. BEWARE... it's a long post with lots of pictures!!!! In one week I'll be sitting at a booth selling some of my papercrafting and artsy projects to men! Well, only for one hour and then it's open game to all the women. I think I mentioned before that my church is getting all the ladies who own businesses or run them out of their homes, to set up shop for one morning. It happens to be right after the Men's Christmas breakfast. I think they have been encouraged to bring their wallets~ lol. So here are a few different items I've been working on to sell. All handmade items and all paper crafte...

It's Thanksgiving week for our family and we are all home just hanging out. If our paths don't cross on my blog this week have a wonderful week and I for those of you cooking up a fantastic dinner on Thursday, Happy Thanksgiving!. Today's card is a CAS card challenge from Splitcoast Stampers. I saw Lisa Lara's card about chocolate and that was the end of it. I had to go find my ONE stamp about chocolate and use it on this challenge. I guess I CASE'd Lisa's CAS! Challenge 142: Ivory, Brown and Red I've got some more creating to do for the Christmas Bazaar booth I've sign up to do. I hope I can moving quicker than a snail on some of these because I've got great ideas, but my time is going very slow Details: Stamps:   HA designer woodgrain, Verve Love Flower Paper:    Close to Cocoa, Ivory, Chocolate Ink:    Chocolate Chip, Real Red Accessories:  Offray red ribbon, Labels 14 Nestabilities, Tween Lattice texture plate

Good morning! Well it was mid-morning when I started this post, but I'm still here to give you all sorts of news today. I've been working on some cards and tree ornaments this week to sell at an upcoming holiday shopping day. It's geared towards my church's men's ministry. They meet for breakfast once a month and so we are setting up shop next to their meeting room. After the breakfast is over they really just need to just shop as they walk out to their cars! LOL This is the first time I've had a booth all to myself and seriously it will be sparse since I signed up only two weeks ago. I'll let you know how it went and show some sneak peeks as they get done in bulk! Jen instructing me and my friend, Jill McDonald owner of Urban Paper, on the feathering technique... I think. You know my October was turned upside down as my father passed away, but my first business-like adventure happened as well. I went to Portland, OR for a friday class to better u...

 This card was something I did back in October for the Viva La Verve sketch challenge week 5 from Diva Andrea, but didn't have time to post about them all. A nice simple card with only one thing stamped! The paper is from the Double Deck set by Cosmo Cricket using the Material Girl set. I hand cut the rulers off one page and just "wrapped" them around the middle of the card. I used the red ruler as a two tail banner from the sketch layout. The sentiment is stamped in Brown Bag ink onto about 7 layers of old sketch paper that was die cut with a nestabilities scallop circle die.  Then I pulled out my plastic canvas circle and pierced around the edges for my stitched DMC embroidered border. I sponge distressed around the scallops to make it pop off the background a bit, but also added three-dimensional tape to finish it off. The button is a DIY chipboard made with three thin chipboard circles glued together after the button holes were punched with a Crop-a-di...

We are celebrating Veteran's Day in the US today. Thanks to all who have served and are serving our country. Our family is grateful for your service! I've been on hold with a lot of projects this whole week. I woke up Monday morning with a stiff neck and upper back. It's usual for me to have these episodes, but I can usually tag it on to some outrageous feat I've accomplished. This time it just happened. I must be getting old. Oh-hum. Well anyway, last week I managed to create three cards in one night and then I had no time or strength to blog about them. Here's one of the cards made for the October Viva La Verve Challenges on Splitcoast Stampers forum. It's the week 4 sketch by Charmaine Ikach. There are already two sketches for November . I'd better get crackin'! I had fun tearing these pattern papers from My Mind's Eye Bohemia pack. I glued them to a precut sheet of copy paper sized 4 x 5 1/4 inches. When I was done, I tore away the co...