Rain Puddles Design

Late Monday night I got a wild idea in my head to make some ruffles and use them in a card for the Moxie Fab World Challenge: Not Your Regular Ruffles . I wanted to do something different with ruffles so here they are in layers! Card Details: Stamps: CTMH Be Yourself, MyDigis Ruffles, Stampin' Up Canvas Paper: AC Pattern Paper A La Carte, Mohawk Smooth White CS Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Stampin' Up Baroque Burgundy and More Mustard Ink, Baroque Burgundy Writer Marker, PITT SuperFine India Ink Pen, Prismacolor Markers (Henna, Flagstone Red, Deco Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Goldenrod) Accessories: Kaisercrafts Black Rhinestones And here is the digital stamp: If you decide to use it please give me, © Janelle of Rain Puddles Design blog 2009, credit. While the digi-stamp is very simple art it is still my art form and time, I would appreciate that you not redistribute it on your blog or through any other form. You may share a link to my blog if you want others to know about it....

Has anyone else been crazy busy with their fall schedule? I don't see it on the calendar, but somehow when the cool brisk air comes along the schedule seems to get busy. All that to say I've had less time to be in the craft studio. The shabby chic card is for October's Viva La Verve Week 1. I had a tough time making my elements work on this card, but I like the end result. The added blue top note layer to the challenges sketch help anchor this card together. I had a spool card of twill tape from Stampin' Up that has been collecting dust and it was just crying for some attention. The inspiration I had was to assemble an embroidered element onto the card. I designed a flower filigree digi stamp to fit exactly the width of the card and printed it out to use as a paper foundation for the hand embroidery. I like how it looks VERY homemade with the irregular stitch lengths and spaces. I enjoyed it so much that I put the same flowers, sans filigree, on the sentiment layer. I f...

font used from kevinandamanda.com free scrapbook font Every once in a while, I pause. I wonder why I'm writing a blog and making cards and if it's fulfilling anything other than time spent. Today I glanced at the Followers list on my blog. WOW! I am filled with so much gratitude. Whether you are intrigued, inspired, or amused, I deeply appreciate your networking with me on our interests. Whether we are all doing similar or different interests on our blog we are sharing ourselves in a community. Thank you. So I began to ponder if I could find a way to show you I appreciate you! Here's my idea. I would like to have a blog hop in your honor. Nothing extra to make or create, just plan on signing up for a blog hop post so we can all "see" each other by blog hopping. It's a busy time of year for many so it really needs to be simple, right? I hope you'll allow me the opportunity to host you on this Gratitude Blog Hop. Gratitude Hop September 30, 2009 Sim...