Rain Puddles Design

Today I'm sharing my take on this month's Diva Dare, Inside Outside!  Here on my blog you can see the outside of the card and enabler's supply list. To see the rest of the dare, the inside of the card, you will need to take a look over on the  Verve Stamps Blog . I'm still recovering from back issues so I apologize for not giving you all the details to how I made the card. If you have any questions, just drop them in a comment and I will get back to you. :) Details: Stamps:   Happy Place , Button Best (Verve Stamps) Paper:  Yours Truly (Pebbles), Kraft (Wausau), watercolor paper, white (Neenah) Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento, Tsukineko), Rose Red (Stampin' Up), black permanent pen (Sharpie) Accessories:   Sky Blue (Summer Sailing Ribbon Collection, Verve Stamps), Onyx Pearl (Liquid Pearls), vintage lace edging, pinking shears scissors (Fiskars), honeycomb stencil, warm gray acrylic paint, Dimensional Effects (DecoArt), washi tape, pink p...

It's a Verve  July Release Retrospective Blog Hop  today! The Verve Divas and guests are serving up some more inspiration using the July release stamps and dies! Besides a peek at some really cool cards, there are also a couple of prizes up for grabs! Let's have some fun on a Saturday. Special Guest Diva Kay was your last stop on the hop and when you are done here you'll head on over to Charmaine's blog for more Verve inspiration. I'm so excited to show you this card on my blog today. Since the release earlier this month it's been tucked away in the gallery so if it looks familiar to you then I've just connected the dots, but I've kept it for the hop today because it was a fun creative process for me. The feather stamp really needed to have a serendipitous feel to go with it for my card so I randomly brought out a few mixed media tools. It's quite a free flowing card. I added some water to acrylics and create the washed background pap...

This week the Stampendous team is sharing Christmas theme from the new July 2014 Catalog release. I'm sharing my Bundled Kitty with some fun Copic Marker color. You can find out how I made this card by going to my Bundled Kitty Project Sheet on Stampendous website. Copic colors are available there. Go ahead and take a look around at the other July release products. ALSO, also... Stampendous just might be in your area at a show! Yea! Check out where they are in this blog post .

Hi blog friends, Summer always has expectations of fun and travel even when it's just down the hill from home. I'm usually ready to get going on projects in all my unfinished puddles as well. The problem is I end up mixing them all up together and getting injured. Go figure, right. I'm doing all the activities I want to do and it gives me grief in return. Ha. So while my sewing, knitting, papercrafting, bicycle and swimming suit have all sat idle, I've been laying in a recliner or flat on my back recovering from strained and scarred back muscles. Yes, you can giggle at me or with me if you've been there too. Anyway, I'm able do short spurts of typing and one-button photo editing on existing projects to share with you until I'm able to flex my neck and work with my hands at the same time on projects. Maybe I should try and work as Michaelangelo did on the Sistine Chapel, flat on my back. Hmmmm, I' would probably end up with more glue on my face th...

Welcome to the final day of the July Verve Spotlight Week! Release day is finally here! I hope you've enjoyed our sneak peeks and given you some fresh inspiration to crafty by. Everything you have seen this week is available for purchase in the Verve shop ! Kay was before me today if you have been jumping along in the hop. If you just found out about it then you can start at the beginning of the list (below) for the full inspiration line-up. My card today is using the new Plain Jane, 2 Corinthians 12:9  stamped over a splash of mixed acrylic paints that made a blue-gray. The butterfly from Happy Place is stamped on white cardstock and colored with Copic markers and then for some pop of color I smeared water-soluble oil pastels over the wings ( MIX76: Finger Painting ). The border is from the Scalloped Trim Trio Die Set and I used two color cardstock and popped out the yellow border from the die and place the teal one inside with the yellow dots still in the die. to get t...

Welcome back to Day 3 of the July 2014 Spotlight Hop! We have had a lot of fun sharing our sneak peeks with you this week and today there is even more complete yummness! Earlier in the week we had our spotlight on Moments Remembered (Day 1) and Peaceful Medallions (Day 2) by illustrator/designer Chaitali Narla and now we are spotlighting stamps and dies from Verve owner, Julee Tilman. Hold on because it's fantastic imagery! Today and all this week I've followed our talented Guest Diva Kay , in the hop list so if you just came from her blog then you are in the right spot. She's done an incredible job with this release, don't you think? It's almost time to ready the pocketbook. Everything in the spotlight hops this week will be available in the  Verve  online store on Friday, 7/11. Are your fingers getting itchy? Julee's doodling style stamps are among the top favorites of mine. I cannot make them muted and dull because they just are not meant...

Welcome to our July 2014 Spotlight Hop for Day 2!   We have four days of new Verve to Spotlight and everything that you see this week will be available in the Verve online store on Friday, 7/11. If you missed Tuesday's hop you can go to  Julee's Tuesday post  to view Moments Remembered Set. You have come from Guest Diva Kay's blog if you are swimming through Day 2 spotlights and you are right where you need to be at the right moment. The Peaceful Medallions Stamp Set has fabulous flowing designs which put me in the mood to create my own background paper. Now that is a great stamp set in my book! I used water diluted acrylic paints to get the color down and then stamped various medallions from the set to create interest. I duplicated this technique for the sentiment panel and just needed a few feathers from Moments Remembered Stamp Set  because their so cool. Once dry, frame lines were made with a pen and ruler. Here are a few closeup's of these f...

Welcome to our July 2014 Spotlight Hops!   We're so excited to share some new Verve with you! The Divas will be spotlighting 3 new sets, a plain jane and a coordinating die set over the next few days, so keep your eyes peeled for some fresh Verve inspiration! Everything previewed this week will be available in the  Verve  online store on Friday, 7/11. If you have been hopping with us so far today you just came from the fabulous Guest Diva Kay  to my crafty puddle today. There are TWO fabulous guest designers joining us in this release and I am sure that you are going to love the designs they come up with this week. Our spotlight is on a new set illustrated by Chaitali Narla. You are going to love this set! We are celebrating NEW VERVE, right?! I love the sentiments in the set, but that bold "celebrate" makes my heart sing. I'm using the Sweet Sunday Sketch 202 for the card sketch as it was perfect for this sentiment. That's it for me today and if you ...

This week the design team at Stampendous is posting sneak peeks for the NEW July 2014 Catalog! Keep checking on the Stampendous blog daily for a hop list of designers. Details: Stamps: Scraggly Cat , Tricky Words  and Damask Bats Background  (Stampendous) Paper:  White cardstock (Neenah), colored cardstock (Bazzill Basics®) Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black , Versamark Watermark (Tsukineko), colored pencils (Prismacolor) Accessories: Spoonful of Midnight Kit (Stampendous), Aged Wine Embossing Enamel (Stampendous),   Color Fragments  in Ochre, Caramel and Purple (Stampendous), ribbon (MayArts), 3-in-1 Glue (Beacon Adhesives)