Rain Puddles Design

It's been a theme this month and I'm squeaking in with a few CAS cards to show off these cute new fluffy characters available at your favorite stamp and scrapbook supply store (I know I have a favorite brick and mortar ones , but there are online favs too!) If you want to see the whole lot of mice available you can click here to see them at the Stampendous website. There are a few mice celebrating or sliding into fall on my post today. Enjoy and remember to grab your House-Mouse Designs ®  to make a quick project and join in on this months  House-Mouse Designs® Challenge with Stampendous ! Next is a sweet little talent of a Maxwell mouse  Juggling Dice  for a birthday party and wishing you a  Dice Birthday . Here's a card with Monica in  Cupcake Jump  and  Joy Birthday  colored with Copic markers and set center stage on the card. Like all cupcakes should be, right? One more fun card for today with Monica Mo...

Happy Friday! I'm popping in with a quick card that I made this week.  School in session and I'm coming along with therapy after surgery so I grabbed the Mojo Sketch from this week and waited for sometime to stamp and stack a card. I needed a wedding card which this one didn't turn out to be, but it is a great bright and fun card. Okay, so my card isn't a square and somehow I rotated just the strip (ribbon), but the card really did start with this week's Mojo sketch (click it to get to the colorful gallery and link up your take on the sketch)! There is only a little bit of time left before the enormous sale at Verve will be over. You can shop over Labor Day weekend and be ready to stamp when school is back in session! And you'll be seeing another post soon with the wedding card, but I need to keep it off the blog until it gets delivered. :) So maybe some cards with mice will do? See you soon! Details: Stamps:   Surely Goodness (Verve St...

OOPS! I created this post last week, but it never went live and I somehow didn't notice that it's missing from my blog. There is still time to join the Diva Dare this month so take a look at my post intended for last week and then head on over to find out the details of the Dare! Hey, hey blogging friends! It's been hot and smoky around our area lately which isn't all that fun, but I'm making do with lots of rest and creativity dreaming. What, dreaming? I've been a bit shy to mention my August activities because it's been a drawn out saga for me, but I'll let you in on the news. For a year I've been fighting some hip pain, the kind that is deep down and twiney with feelings of giving way to falling. I've worked through my chiropractor, orthopedic doctor, physical therapist to see if I can live with the condition and then finding a surgeon that best fits my Labral tear. With a lot of hesitation from myself and a whole lot of encouragement...

Hi everyone! It's time for another Viva La Verve sketch with Maureen Plut as our hostess! Head on over to the Viva La Verve forum to get the details and the sketch! Handwritten quote "Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson This is also a sample for last weeks Mix-Ability Challenge to use pencil. Details: Stamps:   Great Friend (Verve Stamps) Paper:  Kraft and White (Wausau), Black (Hobby Lobby), K and Company pattern paper pack Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento, Tskukineko), Pumice Stone (Ranger) Accessories:  Seam Binding (Black Beauty Ribbon Collection), circle dies (Spellbinders), watercolors, aqua pen, edge distress tool (WRMK), 2B graphite pencil, bubble wrap and black gesso

It's the grand hop day for our week long collaboration with Dreamweaver's and I'm sure there are quite a few wishlists scribbled out there in craft spaces worldwide. I definitely hope so! If you've been hopping with us already then you have just come from Jamie Martin's blog . Of course if you are just stepping in on the hop you can get all the fun and prize worthy details on the company sponsor pages. They will also have the full link lists to get you started.  Dream It Up! Stampendous Yes I did say prize and in fact, it is prizeS! Two prize packages will be given away for the comments left on posts Monday-Thursday, July 29th - August 1st, and one prize will be given away for comments left on the hop day, Friday, August 2nd. Winners will be selected randomly and announced Thursday, August 8th. (Note: USA addresses only, please, due to shipping costs.) Just take the company links above to be sure and get all the details and links. Here's my c...

Today I'm the hostess for SCS's Mix-Ability Challenge. You'll be sure to come see it now, right? We are getting A Little Sketchy   with MIX27. I've entered this card into the SCS Dare to Get Dirty Challenge by hostess Beate. It was a fun one for sure! If you haven't heard of this yearly challenge just take this link and learn more! For the Mix-Ability challenge, here are some ideas to get sketchy. Add journaling, even on your cards! Add shading, sketchy lines or doodling. Add shapes like circles, squares or hashtags! Create whatever style you want and if it doesn't look good erase it and try something else.  It's Verve Stamps and Julee Tilman's SIXth Anniversary! It's a huge celebration this month at the shop. Go pick out your favorites while they are in stock! Details: Stamps: Great Friend (Verve Stamps) Paper:  Cameo Coral and  Going Gray (Stampin' Up), white (Wausau) Ink: Cameo Coral and Goi...