Rain Puddles Design

Just a quick post with a Verve-y card today. I liked the sketch Maureen challenged us all with for the third week of October's Viva La Verve on Splitcoast Stampers. I stretched the sketch taller into a A7 size card and what a difference that made in the balance of my card! I missed a layer in there somewhere too. I used two different sets from Verve. I love that flower out of Great Friend . I think it's the easiest fussy-cut flower of all! I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Hope Blooms set and highlighted one stamp with Muted Turquoise  Prismacolor marker. After cutting out the sentiment circle it looked a bit bland so I found a scrap of black paper that I previously cut out a nesties bloom for this project . I cut out the trim with the same size circle and glued it in place. A bit of bling, sponge distressing and satin ribbon bow... I think that's it! As always, I'm so glad you stopped by to see a bit of my creations. Details: Stamps: Gr...

I've been enjoying the little bits of time I've had this month to get in to my craft room. I thought I'd be able to handle all my obligations and still get a post or two in a week. It hasn't turned out to be that way at all, but I had to create when I returned home this weekend. My card today is another Viva La Verve sketch Week 2 designed by Teresa Kline. She has a way with circle layouts, doesn't she you know. The theme of the card is for the SCS Hope You Can Cling To Challenge, Thank a Caregiver card with an attempt at the Try a New Technique challenge to stamp a border . My father had many care-giver's in the last few years of his life. Life Care, Sterling House staff and most importantly my older brother and sister who took care of all the emergencies and "small" stuff that made a big difference in my dad's life. I mentioned in my previous post that he passed away this month from an injury resulting from his battle with Parkinson...

I'm playing along with Amber's  week 1 sketch  for Viva La Verve Challenge this month.  I thought I was following the sketch fairly close, but now that I've finished I see it's got a few proportions askew. This card is also for the Splitcoast Stampers Hope you can Cling to campaign of Challenges to Bling the Cling!  Check out the badge in my sidebar and take the link to get really inspired with challenges and support a good cause. The pattern paper is from a Colorbok pad I spotted at discount store and I cut out the flower from one of the pages as an accent. I dusted off my embossing folder collection and brought out some Red Rust paper in my stash for the left panel and then again with a Martha Stewart loop edge punch. It's always hard to photograph glittery accents so I'll mention that the tip of each petal has a bit of glitter from a clear Spica glitter pen. It looks pretty neat in real life. The sentiment is from Verve's Believe set. I stampe...

Whoa! It's amazing how busy I've been since school has started up in my family. I noticed last week that I haven't come by with a project for over two weeks and I do miss having something to share. Yesterday I etched out some time to put an image from DigiStamp Boutique that I had colored so long ago into a card. Now I have something to share with you all. This is Rex and Roxy with their new little family member are "Out of this World" cute. I used my copic markers and practiced some texture techniques on the belly of the baby and also the underside of the dad. One item to note is that I made a deliberate attempt in leaving white cardstock on some of the colored areas for a shine and light  effect. I have some ways to go before I come close to doing what I'm thinking, but just seeing these dino's colored makes me smile. Since the card front is CAS I decided to use some color and layers inside the card. Here's a peek at that. I know I mi...

I was asking my daughter what she wanted in her backpack for lunch one morning and she happily said, "the usual." Her body stood still and you could tell she was thinking on something then she said, "And I'd like a note in it too." I was reusing the tags I made because I just couldn't stop putting something in her lunch box so she knew I was thinking about her during the day. But one day, I was in a hurry. She hadn't been saying one way or another about them reappearing in her lunch box so I left it out. It's amazing how our little gestures, even gone seemingly unnoticed, are important. I'm glad that my daughter likes the little extras in her lunchbox and I hope I can keep them up without fail. I pulled together a new one for her Monday lunch this week and here it is. A digital image from DigiStamp Boutique called  Birthday Beau . It was already printed out so I just needed to color it and find a good sentiment to add with it. And now...

Hello and happy Tuesday! I was out of blogland this weekend, my computer lost it's video card to my hubby's computer and then we both ended up having to get new cards. I quick ship from Amazon and we are hopefully both back on the happy cyber trail again. Last week I delivered three homemade baskets for each of my children's homeroom teachers. I made up tags to go on them and then started to think creatively with a brown paper bag. For the tag I went with the apple from Paper Smooches, Falling for You , and paper pieced it together with DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack and some tan and cream cardstock. I wanted a unique sentiment to go with my apple assortment in the basket and looked on the web for something. I googled teacher appreciation and apples to see what I could find and came across "wishing you sweetness throughout the year" and changed it to include the tart moments because I had a couple of granny smith apples in the bag. Once approved from my...

I managed to leave out a tag for my lunchbox tags series last week. Like you haven't gotten enough tags, LOL. This tag has my most favorite of all my teddy bear stamps, I think ever! I've got a few of them. It's Coco from DigiStamp Boutique . He just melts my heart every time I see him and I love how he came to life with the coloring I chose to use. Last week I mentioned that DigiStamp was coming out with new September specials , there was a snafu but they are now available. If you like cute nativity scene's you'll want to go check them out. Can I say "Adorable angel!" Back to Coco... awwwwwww.... I hope you are all having a fantastic Wednesday, uh, Thursday! Thanks for stopping by today! Details: Stamps: DigiStamp Boutique   Coco with little hearts , Verve Happy Phrases Paper: scraps from the green and pink bin (Hobby Lobby and SU!), white cardstock (Neenah) Ink: laserjet printer, Multiliner 0.05 black pen, copic markers Accessories: ...