Rain Puddles Design

Welcome to my blog today with a project for this Christmas Eve Day. The designers at Stampendous are sharing some Inspirational projects this week.  My card today uses the Ribbon Bird and Unto Us stamps as the main focus, but there is so much more on this card that I'll list below. Last week I shared a card that used "Believe" on it and was meant to share the irony we sometimes fall into in preparing for this holiday. We can get ourselves caught in the worldly use of presents, parties and forget the humble offering that changed the world. Today's card is my comfort for the true meaning of why my family celebrates Christmas. I hope you enjoy the art of this card. Supplies: From Stampendous: P237 Ribbon Bird CRV288 Unto Us NKSCRS01 Mish Mesh FRG10C Shaved Ice FRM10 Blue Mica Fragments MG14 Ice Blue Micro Glitter STF082 Versafine Onyx Black Ink by Tsukineko® CP811 Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate Plus: Balsa and White cardstock by...

There are very few times I have created an art journal page. I think it's just my perception of the old secret diary remaining a secret that keeps me from exploring the rather cool world of art journals. Someday I'll overcome it and you will be getting plenty of your share of my "secrets" in journaling with paint and whatever else I can find to use. Even so, I'm here with a journal layout. I say layout because it's just a sheet of paper that I, if successful, will glue into a journal and a date added to it. The layout is for the current Mix-Ability challenge on Splitcoaststampers. It just seems appropriate that their be a journal page for the MIX99: Holiday Selfie theme . I didn't think to photograph my steps to create this, but I'll try and guide you through as best as I can. Supplies: From Stampendous: Blossom Beauty Stamp Set Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate Jumbo Snowflake Trio (Retired), alternate set: Delicate Snow ) ...

Today, I'm taking a selfie! I'm not one to really take many photo's of myself, but today it's for a cause! I've taken on self-photography for the new Mix-Ability Challenge that I'm hosting for the next week. If you have some time to take on the challenge. MIX99: Holiday Selfie? There are too many things that get in my way of just sitting back and absorbing the wonder and the excitement of the season. Personally, I long for it, so when I finally sit down with my family on Christmas Day, I think back to the programs, parties, services, appointments and assignments where I do find the meaning of it all. It was there after all. This mixed media card is representing the moments that I really do need to believe that the message of the season is here and being seen and heard, even if I'm not paying attention. I created a few monoprints with two colors of green on my Creative Palette.Monoprinting Plate . While those were drying I cut down a pict...

Here's a fun card for this weeks Stampendous theme, PenPattern Seasons. Over on their blog they'll be sharing these adorable designs by Fran Seiford. Check back on there every day for new inspiration from the design team. It's moose time! LOL Love this guy trying to balance all those gifts! It certainly looks like how I feel about the last few items on my shopping list. I was just informed I had more days until Christmas than I thought. Whew! It helps when you flip over the calendar to December. So here's this quick card for today. Supplies: From Stampendous: PenPattern Moose Holiday Words Perfectly Clear Stamps Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko® Plus: Santa Express Paper Pad by Doodlebug Designs® White Cardstock by Neenah® Green and Kraft Paper Studio® Alcohol Markers by Copic® (E15, E37, E44, E47, R20, R24, R29, B21, BV01, G14, YG23, YG25, Y11, Y18, V93) Zip-Dry Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives® Instructions: Stamp PenPattern Moose ont...

It's a crafty coffee lover's dream to blog about for the holidays, and I'm coming back for a second day and the rest of my card set for the Viva La Verve - One-Sheet-Wonder Challenge this month. I've made some extensions to the challenge rules and popped up a panel that I've cut through so it would have a bit more dimension on the red "COFFEE" card. The yellow card, I creased the left side panels into loops. Details about supplies are at the bottom of my blog post if you're interested and to see the challenge go to Viva La Verve Sketch Challenge blog . There are 27 sponsors for the hop and they have some amazing prizes! There's still time to enter for a chance to win from them. Thank you sponsors and Amy Tsuruta for putting together such a fabulous hop. Check out the list of sponsors, the list of prizes AND all the wonderful projects that are in the InLinkz gallery. Walk through these wonderful projects and you might find...

Welcome to the big HOP DAY with Stampendous and Art Anthology! We are so very excited to have you with us today and share some of our fun projects with you! Thank you all for coming along the hop every day this week and leaving such nice and thoughtful comments. It's so fun to read them. :) You have just come from Asia's blog, but if you are just getting started on my blog today scroll down to the bottom of the post and start from the beginning of the complete hop list. There are prizes for this hop, oh yeah Stampendous treats us all so well and now we get to have some amazing Art Anthology products, too! Here are the details about those prizes... Three prize packages,  Each package includes: Stampendous Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate $20 Stampendous Reward Card to spend on the website Art Anthology Stencil 1 - Art Anthology Dimensional Crystal Colorations Spray 1 - Art Anthology Dimensional Paint (colors are random) Wow!! Now...

Welcome to the Holiday Coffee Lover's Blog Hop! The hop has 27 sponsoring companies! Enter a post in the InLinkz List found on Amy Tsuruta's blog post  and have a chance to win from one of these great companies. Hop through the InLinkz List and you'll quickly find blog candy, free recipes and more! Comment on individual blogs for a chance to win the blog candy for that blogger. If you have a no-reply account, please leave some way to contact you in case you win the giveaway. Look for details on Amy's blog and the amazing sponsors for this hop! Here's my little coffee theme for the hop. I've been wanting to get this Verve Stamp Set inked up again and decided to play along with the latest Viva La Verve Sketch Challenge ! This time around Julee has created a One-Sheet Wonder Challenge that will get us all through the month! It's a first since I've played with this challenge that all my cards were done before the deadline, but for tod...

This week the Stampendous team is hopping with Art Anthology and we are so very excited to mix our goodies together on a few projects and share the results! Check back on the Stampendous blog for new blog links to follow. Today's hop, you would have just come from Asia's blog to mine and then you'll jump on over to Amy's blog . We’ll be giving away three terrific prize packages this week consisting of a Stampendous Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate , a $20 Stampendous Reward Card to spend on our website, an Art Anthology Stencil, and one each  Dimensional Crystal , Colorations Spray , and  Dimensional Paint  from Art Anthology (colors are random). Wow!! Now that’s something to slip under the tree for yourself! (PLUS – a little reindeer told us that Art Anthology will be giving away EVEN MORE paints and goodies over on their blog!!) To be eligible to win, just comment on each blog post and each day of the collaboration with Art Anthology. Just so you are n...

Happy Monday friends, and welcome to a Christmas Mini Hop with Stampendous and Core'dinations.  We have a great little three day hop collaborating with some of the best products from these two companies and we hope you'll enjoy your time walking through our creations.  Comment to win! Each day comment on all the blogs in the link list and you'll have more chances to win this set of goodies. Stampendous Rules are HERE . Our dogs are getting older and many times I just love to stare at the gorgeous coloring of their fur! LOL It's true and I'm one crazy gal, but I just LOVE gray hair, so now that they are accumulating these gorgeous strands I'm staring at them even more!  Well, that said, I ended up coloring this Santa Dog NOT the color of either of my red dapple Dachshunds.Creative license doesn't have to make sense! This simple card came together quick. Here's what I used and how I did it. From Stampendous: Santa Do...

I'm finally able to post here on my blog. I've been crazy busy with work and the holidays and my other projects that time has just passed me by. Oh and I do believe there was a holiday in there too. Lydia is hostessing this week's Mix-Ability Challenge over on Splitcoaststampers. And her challenge? It's Hip to Be Square (MIX97) I started out with a few twinchies and well, I messed them up and ran out of time to re-do, so I used my leftover monoprint paper and completed this CAS card. I photographed it at night and had horrible problems with directional lighting changing the teal color to green (the close up at the top is more like the real card.) Here's what I did with this card. Make monoprint with acrylic paint. (light color first, then while it's wet crumple it up and straighten it out, then use a second print with darker watery color without pressing the paper completely down) Stamp Holly Diamond onto sqaure.  Color with pencils. Dot O...