Rain Puddles Design

Happy Thanksgiving week friends! A big shout out to all of you in the US who are having a holiday this week, for the gratitude to the community of my crafty friends and most of all my family, thank you for making my life her on Rain Puddles and out there in life so much richer for being in it. Have a wonderful week and I hope a safe and encouraging one. Now on to more inspiring crafty matters. Stampendous has an appropriate theme this focusing on our time with family and friends. Enjoying the times we have during the holidays and the season are always fun so of course there are some sweet stamps that will help us share our appreciation and memories with those we love. Today's card is a mix of catalog and non catalog supplies. I started this image for the catalog and wasn't able to put it together for the catty so over the weekend I added the sprayed background and embossed snowflakes. Here's just how I made this sweet friends card. Supplies: Stampendous: P2...

Today's post is loaded with a match up of a mixed media challenge, special tools and a holiday theme. It's a new challenge over on Splitcoaststampers Mix-Ability forum and I'm hosting! I would love for you to join us, it's any easy-peasy challenge! MIX147: In Abundance My teamies and I at Stampendous have played all week with these fun Action Wobble springs that were generous sent to us by Action Wobble, Inc. and even though the theme week is at it's end we are hooked on springing our projects in the future. For my card today I have a little squeaky, but steady helper for Santa that is balancing a load of presents that are sure to have a fun twist with a spring attached. Of course I've added one! Supplies: Stampendous: HM235 Gifts Galore SSC1231 Holiday Expressions Perfectly Clear Stamps Set VM01 Versamark Watermark Ink by Tsukineko® Plus: Cardstock by Bazzill Basics® Watercolor paper by Strathmore® Watercolor markers by Winsor a...

Hello crafty friends and fans! I have a sweet little action card to share today and NOPE it ended up not being a pumpkin card after all as my post title suggests, but it will wobble! I think I'm going to make them later this week and if I do I'll be sure to post them. I'm getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday this week and just might not have time until next week... so come back later to find out. Which reminds me I need to share an update on our Thankful Tree next week too, so you can see how the tree has grown! So today and the rest of the week the Stampendous designers are busy sharing some fun projects using various products. We are wobbling with Action Wobble springs on cards and they may also have a few jolly old man appearing on them as well. Here's my card today that has the spring made by Action Wobble and while it doesn't look related to the man in red, the stamp set I used DOES! Here's a little blurry video I made with my camera durin...

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! I've got a fun project to share today and it was so easy to make because I didn't have to pull out my sewing machine! I'm joined by my team mates at Stampendous this week to share a project using the Canvas Corp Canvas Shoulder Bag and I'm pretty sure you'll want to find out all the different ways the team members decided to create with them. We have prizes! Comment throughout the week on the designer blogs and over on the Stampendous blog for a chance to win one of THREE prize packages. See the Stampendous Official Rules page for details and the deadline to comment is Sunday November 15th.  All my Australian fans out there have a chance to win a prize, too! Be sure to tell us where you live when commenting to be eligible to win a prize from The Stencil Specialist. Here's what I did with my canvas bag! I was stumped on what to do with a canvas bag. Really all I ever do is paper crafting these...

It's November. The bags are lining up along our garage as we start to rake up leaves and thinking of all those wonderful colors dropping to the ground. Yeah, I'm partial to trees. I love the green or purple Ash in our yard, the red maple or the pin oak. All the leaves are just amazing when it's time for fall. So I'm getting my full enjoyment of fall by creating the Thankful Tree for our home this season. I started out with a walk around the yard for some branches and then I sprayed them with gold paint and let them dry while I headed back to the studio to create some leaf notes. This is where it got entirely too fun! I pulled out my Creative Palette. CP811 Creative Palette And a few or more DecoArt acrylic paints and my well loved brayer. DecoArt Apple Green, Mistletoe, Red Violet, True Red, Cocoa Bean, Deep Burgundy, Spicy Mustard, Splendid Gold. I have a dozen or more individual fall color monoprints now that I stamp the leave...