Rain Puddles Design

Here's another sweet card that's part of the Valentine's class I'll be teaching next week at Inspiration-Boutique.  It's the best of Verve's coordinating Plain Jane stamps and A Cut Above dies. I think I really like this one. Julee always has a sweet special at the store. It's time to go check the discounts and find something to give yourself for Valentine's Day, right?!?!?!?! Shop Verve! Details: Stamps: No Matter What (Verve Stamps), Scroll Plain Jane (Verve Stamps), Notebook Plain Jane (Verve Stamps) Paper: Kraft (Wausau), Cherry (WorldWin Treasures), Med. Icy Indigo (WorldWin Colormates), white (Wausau), white tissue paper Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento, Tsukineko), Versamark Watermark Pad (Tsukineko) Accessories: Scroll Die (A Cut Above, Verve),  Rounded Rectangle Die  (A Cut Above, Verve), Pink Sorbet Twine (The Twinery), Resin Rhinestone stickers (Buckle Boutique), 1/16 round hole punch

I've got another sneak peek from Stampendous. Squeeee! This little bird is gliding on notes today for my sneak peek. Minuet Bird is a elegant collage of images and it's so easy to pull a card together using it. This bird isn't sneakin' all by itself. There is the delicate scroll stamp called Scrolled Blossoms peeking out from behind the skewed layer who wants to be seen. And there are even new products traipsing across the card, so fun for texture. Sunflower Micro Glitter (MG07) and Yellow Mica (FRM08) were mixed and sprinkled over some Beacon ZipDry glue. Remember, these products are just arriving to your local stores . If you don't see them there you might find them online , too! Details: Stamps:   Minuet Bird (Stampendous), Scrolled Blossoms (Stampendous) Paper:  Bazzill Paper Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento, Tsukineko), Prismacolor colored pencils, coffee spray Accessories:   Sunflower Micro Glitter (Stampendous), Yellow Mica (Stampendous), ...

I'm in love with my news! Starting this Friday there will be a new challenge to experience on Splitcoast Stampers! It's a rising trend to mix up your media while papercrafting and now you can ease into it with simple challenges and supplies that you probably already have in your stash. But who doesn't like a quick trip to the craft store. Each week you will be giving a shopping list to go hunt for your supplies and get ready for the challenge reveal every Friday! Here are the details of the new Mixability Challenge Oh yeah, I'm so excited about the challenge I forgot to mention that I will be part of a talented and inspiring team hosting this every week! I can't wait until Friday!!!!!!

It's here! A Stampendous sneak peek. If you ever had a desire for steampunk Dorothy, you can get it NOW (or as soon as a store in your area stocks this stamp)! This is the stamp for you dear friends. Here are some other sneak peeks from the Design Team: Kristine Reynolds Jennifer Dove (she has a few more here and here ) Wendy Price  and here Suzanne Czosek  and here Melinda Gleissner  and here , here Details: Stamps: Ruby Slippers (Stampendous), Steampunk Gears (Stampendous) Paper: Canvas Corp, Wausau White, Coredinations Textured Tan, cork paper Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers, Coffee spray Accessories: Beacon's Fast Finish , Stampendous Cherry Pearl Glitter , homemade washi tape,  Haberdash Buttons, vintage lace, instant coffee

It's time for a fun and notable Valentine for Share today. This card is a sweet and quick card with Verve's No Matter What set and it also has a fun cut file using my Pazzles Inspiration Creative Cutter . Those spiral note paper layers were the result of enlarging and chopping a few cut lines from the original file and then I hand-scored with my Martha Stewart Score Board (which if I had the embossing tool for the Creative Cutter it would have all been done from my machine!) If you're in the Treasure Valley and want a card like this you are in luck! Sign up for the Valentine Card Class at Inspiration Boutique  in February! If you want to know more about Copic Markers, there's a class for that, too! I'll be back tomorrow with Stampendous and some of their NEW stamps and Essentials! Can't wait to show you! Details: Stamps:   No Matter What (Verve Stamps) Paper:  Heart Foil Paper, Kraft (Wausau), Luscious Lime and Cherry Cream (WorldWin Treasures),...

See wonderful sneak peeks of the new catalog products by clicking   this LINK for those amazing design team peeks! Remember to join in the January Challenge  with us. Use those markers with any  Stampendous Kiddo  (click the link to see all the released kiddo stamps) ! July 2012 Catalog ~ Stampendous  Skateboard Kiddo  and Essentials  Color Fragments ,  Glitter  and  Embossing Enamels And I'll be back on Saturday with a sneak peek or two of my own.

Happy Friday folks! We're moving right along into 2013 and I might be alone, but isn't it going by just as fast as last year? Well anyway, I'm hosting this week in the Viva La Verve forum . Come play along with us while there's lots of time to run for the Champions thread and win! I'm SO excited about my scallop frame mat using the   NEW Inspiration Creative Cutter from Pazzles   sitting next to my computer . Wow, I'm using it almost every day and I can't stop coming up with new cutting files to use. Be on the lookout for designs and tips as I get savvy with this new tool! Details: Stamps:   No Matter What (Verve Stamps) Paper:  Secret Crush (Pink Paislee), Kraft (Wausau), Rose Red (Stampin' Up), white (Mohawk), Pewter (Wausau) Ink:  Black Soot (Ranger Ink), Going Gray (Stampin' Up), Rose Red (Stampin' Up) Accessories:   Pennant Trim Die (A Cut Above, Verve), Scallop frame mat (using Pazzles Inspiration), pewter pearls (want2...

I know you all love Verve releases and today is one of them. Yea! You've seen this set back in November during a special Thanksgiving sale, but now anyone can hop on over to the Verve shop and purchase it. There is just to many sweet sentiments in this set that it was hard to pick one for my first card. So you'll be seeing a few of them from me today. A little bedazzle-y and zentangle-y on my first card. I love the little hearts on this set. The embossing powder covers the fun patterns Julee designed in them, but I bet you've seen them somewhere on the hop today! It's {heart} flowers! Woo-hoo! This set is so much fun! Okay, here's the flowers tucked into a ticket and oh-oh-oh! Seam binding that is available from Verve! No Matter What and the  Truly Madly Deeply ,  Stormy Skies  and  Signature  Ribbon Collections 1.  Julee 7.  Amy 2.  Laurie 8.  Andrea 3.  Maureen 9.  Betty 4.  Teresa 10.  Charmain...

Today was a special day for me! I can't believe it still but I was surprised with a slew of emails from Splitcoast Stampers gallery today! I went over there to discover I was today's Featured Stamper! Everyone has blessed my day with congratulations and CASE's (Copy and Share Everything) from my gallery.

I'm teaching classes. Yep, it's an exciting new adventure for me. I couldn't be more happy in a setting with other crafty people. I'm getting to teach my first love [coloring] and how it flourishes [stamping] in my free time. You'll find me at Inspiration Boutique in Kuna, Idaho, coloring and stamping two times a month. Today it's a Copic Marker class and I can't wait for it to start. Signing up is real easy through the stores calendar program .  My next class helps out those spur moments when you need a card and even getting to the store to buy one take time. Here's one of the cards for our All Ocassion Cards class. I admit that I'm trying to make sure the cards are metered mail safe. I usually hand deliver my more elaborate cards and those happen to be the ones I show through my blog. It's difficult to hold back. LOL I'm using a Verve Stamps Plain Jane for this card, which reminds me, today is also the 5th of the month and th...

Happy New Year everyone! It's time to return to this routine of posting some of my favorite things to do. I'm getting a bit of fun in with coloring these days. I've started teaching some basic classes in the Valley and well, I need to brush the dust off my markers and get back into the swing of things. I made this card and decided to use it for the Paper Craft Planet Sketch challenge today , so I hope you'll pop on over there, say hi and grab the sketch. It's a sweet little sketch if I do say so myself. Tee-hee. I'm posting for Stampendous today with a Kiddo Hop card. I really enjoyed getting back into the skin tones and I realized I haven't tested out those other fabulous combinations in a while, so that's where I'll be headed dusting off my markers. The Kiddos is the new challenge for January . Please join us every month and play along as much as you want using Stampendous products (bonus points for using them) and link up to join in the ga...