Rain Puddles Design

Updated Monday 12/5/2011: I forgot to mention that I'm playing along in the December   Verve   Diva Dare:   A Handmade   Christmas !  You can play along, too! Go to  Day 1  on the Verve Stamps Blog and link up your handmade holiday goodness! I'm only two days away from my booth day! I've had my nose stuck to, adhered on, and impressed by almost everything in my craft room this week. It has been the most fun week in that way. Other more realistic ways are that I'm not getting as many sweet family moments in than I might have normally. I have had some though. The day after Thanksgiving we pulled out the artificial trees and decorated them, put up the stockings and opened up the pine smell candle. Of course, I still want it to smell like a real pine tree in our family room! Hee-hee. I'm living in a dream world friends. So getting back to this week. I spent one-on-one time with each of my children to create an ornament with them. It was full of tacky...

Happy (first) Birthday Claire and Waltzingmouse Stamps! Here's my hop in the Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz with a Birthday theme. I can't wait to see what other people have come up with for their Birthday cards. Go to the WMS blog to get the details for the blog waltz. I really am in love with this set called Asian Gardens by Waltzingmouse Stamps. It's my first set of it's kind with an asian theme (other than my Kanji set from Stampin Up) and it makes me smile. and the flip side of the card: It's subtle, but the birthday wish is in the images. The bird is inside the cage and the flip side image is the bird outside of the cage. A wish for breaking free and enjoying the moments that come. This card is also for these other fine challenges:  TLC272 , TLC273 , Stamp Something Challenge Blog Details: Card Size: (folded) 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, (open) 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches Stamps: WMS Very Vintage Labels No 1 , WMS Asian Gardens , SU! Linograph...

I added this card to my SCS gallery a while ago and thought I'd fill a gap in my posting since I'm working on some projects for the end of the month. My Viva La Verve inspiration was for week 2 came from room 1. I focused on the satiny silver fabric in the chairs, the cream and mustard/sand color in the decor and wall, and the glass lampstands. The stamps I used are from Waltzingmouse Stamps' Nestie Friendly Very Vintage Labels 3 set and Blessed by You. I used a Verve complimentary stamp for the sentiment. I made the Nestabilities Label 3 mat look like it was a metal piece by using some Zing Silver embossing powder on the stamps and silver metallic acrylic paint dry brushed over the whole thing. I confess, I first did the Labels 3 stamp and then brushed acrylic over it, which dulled the finished of the embossing. The apple looks much more metallic because I embossed after the acrylic paint had dried. I started to make a deep orange flower to match a stripe in one o...

Hi everyone! It has already been a week since my last post and I can't believe it's been that long. I gave myself some time to be with my children and hubby. The weather has been nice and we just needed to be out in it. I've also been playing with a lot of new things these days and you'll see a few of them in my project today (they'll be starred in the end of the post under Details). I used this fabulous digital stamp from InStyle Stamps called Label 1 to enclose a sentiment from the Waltzingmouse Stamps called Blessed By You . I colored the label with markers and then sponged around the oval for an aged look, it wasn't enough so I used some Ranger Crackle Paint over the oval section and some Glossy Accents for the flowers and leaves. This forced me to walk away and play with my family...just so my label would get all cracked up. The card is a sketch challenge from The Shabby Tea Room. I rotated it to fit the label and the card base though. ...