Rain Puddles Design

It's the wrap up to a week of Stampendous Owls and also the last day of Hope You Can Cling To 2014 on Splitcoaststampers. I've combined these two together with the Mix-Ability Challenge that is being hosted by Dina this week. Check out the amazing gallery for Hope You Can Cling To, the Owl gallery from a full week of posts on Stampendous and lastly the growing gallery for the MIX91: Put Some Pink On It challenge . We'd love to see you join us for this challenge! I created the pattern paper with Stampendous Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate, DecoArt Acrylic Paints (Dragon Fruit, Toffee, Snow White, Sapphire, Dark Chocolate and Red Alert), and paint tools (brayer, stencil brush, paper towel for texture). Once it was dry I trimmed it down and added the stamped images from Cling Filigree and Medallion Circle using paint on a sponge. Once dry I added it to an A2 card base (a 4 1/4 by 11 inch piece of cardstock folded in half to make a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch card b...

Stampendous is wrapping up the Halloween season with a theme on WHOOOOOOO's ready for Halloween. Yes, we've got the OWL about are blogs. This card today is one I made up just this month. It showcases Tombstone Owl from last seasons study of owls, but it also has THIS SEASON's Tangled Border stamp. I'm really loving the way it works at creating pattern paper. Love it! Supplies: From Stampendous: Y029 Tangled Border P241 Tombstone Owl CP811 Creative Palette EKM04 Fusion Stack Art Kit Versafine Onyx Black Ink by Tsukineko Plus: Dark Cashmere Ink by Colorbox® (for Graphics 45®) White cardstock by Bazzill Basics® Brown Cardstock by Bazzill Basics® Blue Cardstock by Graphics 45® Square envelope (5 1/2 inches) Copy Paper or notebook paper Metallic Silver Cardstock by Wausau Paper® Acrylic Paint by DecoArt® White Big Brush Pen by Faber-Castell® 3-in-1™ Glue by Beacon Adhesives® Thin 3D Foam Adhesives by Scrapbook Adhes...

Today I'm hosting the Mix-Ability Challenge on Splitcoaststampers and it's going to be ghostly. Check out challenge in the forum and then we'd love to have you join us. We, in the forum, want you to feel like mixed media is fun, easy and approachable so our challenges are made to combine the papercrafting supplies you already have and maybe some basic art supplies you can find in most craft stores, to start a you on the road to mixed media. So today's card is a simple step into mixed media with just one element on the card that works for the challenge today. MIX91: Ghostly Outlines . For my card, I used the Reverse Masking  challenge to create my ghostly outline on the PenPattern Leaves stamp. This stamp set has a free template included in the set, so I grabbed the template (the reverse) and sponged white acrylic paint on the pattern paper. I tilted the template slightly and sponged again so the edge would be slightly blurred.  The PenPat...

The Stampendous design team gets to parade our pumpkin projects this week. I'm so excited to share my project. It's rare I have the time to create a 3-D project and so without further lingering here's my spooky house!  You can see the instructions  (including Copic marker colors) over on the Stampendous website as well as other Halloween projects . Details: Stamps: Punkin Ghouls and Tricky Words (Stampendous) Paper:  White cardstock Ink:   Tuxedo Black Memento, VersaMark Watermark Ink (Tsukineko), Electric Purple,  Electric Orange (Tsukineko),  Black Gesso (DecoArt),  Alcohol Markers (Copic) Accessories:  Spoonful of Midnight Kit , (Stampendous),  Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle  (Stampendous), ribbon (May Arts), Paper Mache house (Paper Studio), Zip-Dry glue (Beacon Adhesives)

I am so excited to join this group of designers from Dreamweaver Stencils and Core'dinations as well as the fabulous designers on the Stampendous team for our    SANDY Claus is Coming to Town! BLOG HOP Of course, there will be prizes, and we give away the best…this time with a mix of fun Core’dinations  products as well. To be one of three prize package winners, follow the posted link lists each day, leave a comment, and winners will be selected from these comments at the beginning of next week. This is what you might win:   I saw the Dreamweaver Stencils I received it was going to be a traditional color Christmas card all the way. Tear and adhere Vintage Green cardstock onto bottom of A7 Kraft card. Dry emboss the Xmas Tree stencil with a burnisher/stylus onto Chalk Core cardstock and then sand with the Sand-It Set. Add contrast by replacing the stencil over the sanded image and using white paint and a stencil brush to highlight...

It's a haunting Friday in the Mix-Ability forum! Jeanne is hosting the challenge this week and she's asked us to create using a Halloween theme or Halloweenish colors. And here is how I took the challenge: My favorite mixed medium is paint and for backgrounds, so I used some halloweenish colors and my Creative Palette to create the monoprint background. I stamped Tangled Border around the edges with acrylic paint that was pounced onto the stamp with a damp sponge. I stamped Punkin Pals and colored with Copic Markers. Here are the colors if you're interested. G82, G94, YG05, YR23, YR24, YR27, E08, Y17, V15, V17, V20, RV63, T4, T6, T8, W9 (with Copic Airbrush Adapter Set 3) I created a sticky note mask by stamping off the image on a sticky note and then cutting it out and placing it over the colored Punkin Pals. Then I used my Copic airbrush tool with a copic marker to darken the paper around the image before trimming around the image. I used a piece of denim...

I was able to join the Splitcoaststampers Product Focus team again this month for a review of the Spellbinders Holiday Collection . The die set I used on this card had an inlaid die that I ran through for embossing and then distressed to bring out the detail. Really loved being creative with dies as a focus. Please check out the other reviews and the product gallery linked in the review. Lots of fun ideas. Spellbinders Holiday Collection Product Focus You can find this card along with other projects in the Product Focus Gallery . Enabler's list can be found on individual cards.

SANDY Claus is Coming to Town! Yes...SANDY Claus! All of this week, the  Stampendous  and  Dreamweaver  teams are playing with a mix of their products, along with some wonderful, SAND-ABLE papers from  Core'dinations . Join us as we sand our way to the "core" of all things Christmas and the Holiday season. Of course, there will be prizes, and we give away the best...this time with a mix of fun  Core'dinations  products as well. To be one of three prize package winners, follow the posted link lists each day, leave a comment, and winners will be selected from these comments at the beginning of next week. This is what you might win: It's a natural selection for things to happen in groupings of three and I'm happy to say that this week it is all about GREAT groups of three! The great group of threes! From Stampendous: R213 Santa Collage FRL02 Gold Lux Mix FRGK01 Frantage Treasures Glitter Kit From Dreamweavers: Christ...

Hey there crafty friends, it's all hallow's month and Stampendous has been showcasing the Halloween Collection from the July 2014 Catalog. This week as you have gathered from the title post is Witchy Wonders. My card today is with an image that reminds me a lot like June Cleaver admiring her jack-o-latern mastery. She even has the pearl necklace and web net apron to work in fashion with the jack-0-lantern. So here it is! The design team at Stampendous has been sharing their Witchy Wonders from the July 2014 Catalog and you can see more by going to the Stampendous blog for a link list. You can see the instructions on how I made this card over on the Stampendous Website. Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Lady and Jack card today. Details: Stamps:   Lady and Jack (Stampendous) Paper: Cardstock by Bazzill Basicx® Ink:  Memento™ Tuxedo Black ink by Tsukineko Accessories:   Spoonful of Midnight Kit (Stampendous), ribbon by May Arts Ribbon® ...

Hello crafters and passersby! It's time I finally get a post up on my blog, right? {insert smiley face}. There have been loads of things going on in my house and I'm not talking about my laundry. So many wonderful and fun things, but they have kept me from my creative time nonetheless. Anyway, I'm glad to be here today sharing a card for the Stampendous " Gone Batty! " Theme Week. Stampendous has a few bat stamps in the July Catalog and they are coming out of the cave for a fly by on a few designers blogs this week. Two of those nocturnal mammals have stopped here. To see more Gone Batty! projects from the design team head on over to the Stampendous Blog today. Supplies: from Stampendous: N259 PenPattern Bat Cling Stamp SCC1207 Halloween Diamonds Perfectly Clear Stamps H309 Halloween Wish CP811 Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate Onyx Black Versafine Ink Pad by Tsukineko® Versamark Watermark Ink Pad by Tsukineko® Plus: White Sulphite Pa...