Rain Puddles Design

It's the first day of school for my little girl and I'm hoping that she will Enjoy the day! I made this card with some new Verve from the Anni-Verve-sary release that hit the stores over the weekend. It only took two Verve products for this CAS card that I made to play along with the Splitcoaststampers 2012 Fall CAS DT Search  on the first challenge to Get Your Game On. The waves are a bit methodical, but I cut a 2-inch square of light blue cardstock and then made several passes of mono adhesive tape across the bottom half of the square. I chose four different blue (one teal) cardstock and cut out 2 pieces of the Flourished Trim die. I started from the middle of the cardstock and kept rotating and skewing each color until I made something like a surf worthy ocean. I stamped the smaller sun in Learning to Sail and colored with copic markers. The black frame is created by running adhesive across the back of the four pieces and overlapping them over the top of the bl...

  It's the last Saturday for the Stampendous August Challenge Gallery FOCUS ON SENTIMENTS Here are some of this months Design Team creations for inspiration. Just click on the thumbnail photo for a full version. Asia King Kristine Reynolds Taylor Usry Kristine Reynolds Stephanie Lee Janelle Stollfus Jan Garber Wendy Jordan Wendy Price Stephanie Lee Pam Hornschu Pam Hornschu Melinda Gleissner Kristine Reynolds Janelle Stollfus InLinkz.com I decided to play along one more time before we head on into the September Challenge. My card today is a CAS with WOW using three go-to items when I want to change a clean and simple to a simple and woo.  1. Embossing Powder 2. Focal Stamp 3. background stamp With the right combination you can create an amazing little card. You can still create your own Focus on Sentiments project to link up with us. Use the link tool below. Can...

PARTY DANCE! I hope you'll join us at our  Release Party  in our SCS forum.  We'll be chatting the night away, revealing the new sets in their entirety, sharing some samples, announcing WINNERS from all our festivities and just having a ball counting down to the time the release goes live on our website!  Oh, and there just might be a few random drawings from comments in our our  Release Party  thread so be sure to chat it up! I'm having the "ALL IN" style these days. I just love how all the new stamps and dies all go together so well! Check out the Flourished Trim Die on the top of the Banner Trim Die in the top right. All I had to do was bend the banner just a tad and it lined up nice. Or how about the arrow from Stronger Love using it's coordinating Arrow Die . It's on POINT to the sweet party hat in today's Featured Spotlight set, Treasured Words . You KNOW when the name of the set has the word .... Words it's going ...

It's a NEW type of post not seen here before! I'm so excited to have my first Guest Puddle Jumper. A little something that I've been working up in my spare time. I decided once a month I would post about someone else and their fabulous style of crafting. So I managed over the summer to be on the look out for someone who to be the first guest. I'm so excited to introduce you to Debbie Owen's of Indy's Design Indy came to my blog during the Stampendous Release Week Blog Hop and was the lucky winner of my blog giveaway. I was thrilled when she said she would love to share something over here in my crafting puddles! Now RPD - So, your blogging name is Indy. Are you into car racing? Indy - No, I never liked car racing, and I never went to an Indy 500 race.  My hubby gave me this nickname 20 years ago.  I was the first Hoosier he had ever met, so he started calling me Indy.   RPD - What part of your crafting do you enjoy the most? Indy - I love being ...

Are you counting down in hours, yet? Hee-hee, we have one more day of spotlights! Woo-hoo! The party is just around the corner! Let's get on with the sneaky peeks... Today card is a sweet collage of all that this release has to offer! Fantastic sentiments with Julee's fonts which is sweetness all by itself, but then there's some coordinating with new release dies and old stamps, not to mention we all love new trendy stamps! (You can find all the Verve goodies in this card listed below in my Details section if you want to add anything to your WANTlist.) It's a release that all of the Diva's cannot wait for you to see, so we want you all to join us Friday in the ParTay zone ! 1.  Julee 9.  Charmaine 2.  Laurie S. 10.  Janelle 3.  Maureen 11.  Betty 4.  Teresa 12.  Christyne {Guest} 5.  Tosh 13.  Laurie W. {Guest} 6.  Amber 14.  Jen S. {Guest} 7.  Amy 15.  Susan 8.  Andrea P...

We are getting so close to the release, I can tell you all are wanting to get to the shopping cart by now. Hang on we have so many more sneak peeks and only a few more days left! Hasn't Julee just about amazed you with all these wonderful stamps and dies?!?!?!? Woo-hoo, let's get to the rest of the hop today! I'm using the featured Learning to Sail stamp set and the Flourished Trim die on my card. I made the sentiment frame with the new Flourish die by cutting out two full length Flourishes and then two shorter ones for the tops. Once they were glued onto the sentiment paper, I cut the overlaps in each corner with utility knife from the inside to outside. The handmade flower and silk ribbon are hand colored to match some of the colors in the pattern paper. That flower is made from the Pointed Flowers and Scalloped Flowers die from this release as well. It's a bit of fussy coloring for a whole lot of satisfaction (if you ask this crafter anyway.) The card i...

  If you love Julee's awesome sentiments from the previous five days of Spotlights, you are going to have an even stronger LOVE after today's Spotlight! My card today uses a few single image stamps from the Featured set,  Stronger Love,  and I pulled back out the  With Love  set from our first day of Spotlights to add that tasty cupcake. The note paper is from Making A Statement set released last year in August. 1.  Julee 8.  Andrea 2.  Laurie S. 9.  Charmaine 3.  Maureen 10.  Janelle 4.  Teresa 11.  Betty 5.  Tosh 12.  Christyne {Guest} 6.  Amber 13.  Laurie W. {Guest} 7.  Amy Challenge: SCS CAS184 "School" Details: Stamps: Stronger Love (Verve Stamps), With Love (Verve Stamps), Making a Statement (Verve Stamps) Paper: Color Basics (K and Co.), Poppy Parade, Lucky Limeade (Stampin' Up), Pewter (Neutech CCC ~ Fox River Paper), White Smooth (Neen...