Rain Puddles Design

Welcome to our February Diva Inspirations Hop!    Today the Divas are dusting off some Verve favorites and putting on our monthly hop to inspire you with a fresh new spin on the stamps in our stash! So grab a drink and hop along as we share a little Verve with you! There's a great little prize involved, too!  A random commenter on one of the hops will win a $30 gift certificate to VERVE, so be sure to leave a little love in the comment section as you hop about!  You can find out all the prize details over on the  Verve Blog  today. Your next hop is Laurie !  In case you are just getting started in the hop here is the full list to get you going. 1.  Julee 8.  Andrea 2.  Betty 9.  Charmaine 3.  Jen 10.  Janelle 4.  Sankari 11.  Laurie 5.  Sony 12.  Maureen 6.  Susan 13.  Teresa 7.  Amber Details: If you want to know more: I started with a wood grain embossing f...

Oh yes. I'm SO VERY EXCITED. Today is the day for the new Mixed Media challenge on Splitcoast Stampers!  Lydia is hostess today and she's asking us for some Yin Yang creations. To create with a shiny finish and a matte finish! Now I was all about CAS for this first challenge. I wanted my Yin Yang to be prominant. I picked out some brown acrylic paint and my new bottle of Goosebumps. However, the creative juices were just hard to contain and I let them take this on to a distressed free-flowing mixed media card. LOL So now, the acrylic paint shows up in the bottom right corner of the photo where I backed my shot with a new sheet of pattern paper. I watered-down just a little bit of paint and brushed it around the corners (but not all the way to the distressed edges) and then smeared it with my finger. I also used it to splatter dots on the main image and over the pattern paper. My shiny element is a spray of Goosebumps on the Pear Blossom panel. That piece ...

Here's another sweet card that's part of the Valentine's class I'll be teaching next week at Inspiration-Boutique.  It's the best of Verve's coordinating Plain Jane stamps and A Cut Above dies. I think I really like this one. Julee always has a sweet special at the store. It's time to go check the discounts and find something to give yourself for Valentine's Day, right?!?!?!?! Shop Verve! Details: Stamps: No Matter What (Verve Stamps), Scroll Plain Jane (Verve Stamps), Notebook Plain Jane (Verve Stamps) Paper: Kraft (Wausau), Cherry (WorldWin Treasures), Med. Icy Indigo (WorldWin Colormates), white (Wausau), white tissue paper Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento, Tsukineko), Versamark Watermark Pad (Tsukineko) Accessories: Scroll Die (A Cut Above, Verve),  Rounded Rectangle Die  (A Cut Above, Verve), Pink Sorbet Twine (The Twinery), Resin Rhinestone stickers (Buckle Boutique), 1/16 round hole punch

I've got another sneak peek from Stampendous. Squeeee! This little bird is gliding on notes today for my sneak peek. Minuet Bird is a elegant collage of images and it's so easy to pull a card together using it. This bird isn't sneakin' all by itself. There is the delicate scroll stamp called Scrolled Blossoms peeking out from behind the skewed layer who wants to be seen. And there are even new products traipsing across the card, so fun for texture. Sunflower Micro Glitter (MG07) and Yellow Mica (FRM08) were mixed and sprinkled over some Beacon ZipDry glue. Remember, these products are just arriving to your local stores . If you don't see them there you might find them online , too! Details: Stamps:   Minuet Bird (Stampendous), Scrolled Blossoms (Stampendous) Paper:  Bazzill Paper Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento, Tsukineko), Prismacolor colored pencils, coffee spray Accessories:   Sunflower Micro Glitter (Stampendous), Yellow Mica (Stampendous), ...

I'm in love with my news! Starting this Friday there will be a new challenge to experience on Splitcoast Stampers! It's a rising trend to mix up your media while papercrafting and now you can ease into it with simple challenges and supplies that you probably already have in your stash. But who doesn't like a quick trip to the craft store. Each week you will be giving a shopping list to go hunt for your supplies and get ready for the challenge reveal every Friday! Here are the details of the new Mixability Challenge Oh yeah, I'm so excited about the challenge I forgot to mention that I will be part of a talented and inspiring team hosting this every week! I can't wait until Friday!!!!!!

It's here! A Stampendous sneak peek. If you ever had a desire for steampunk Dorothy, you can get it NOW (or as soon as a store in your area stocks this stamp)! This is the stamp for you dear friends. Here are some other sneak peeks from the Design Team: Kristine Reynolds Jennifer Dove (she has a few more here and here ) Wendy Price  and here Suzanne Czosek  and here Melinda Gleissner  and here , here Details: Stamps: Ruby Slippers (Stampendous), Steampunk Gears (Stampendous) Paper: Canvas Corp, Wausau White, Coredinations Textured Tan, cork paper Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers, Coffee spray Accessories: Beacon's Fast Finish , Stampendous Cherry Pearl Glitter , homemade washi tape,  Haberdash Buttons, vintage lace, instant coffee

It's time for a fun and notable Valentine for Share today. This card is a sweet and quick card with Verve's No Matter What set and it also has a fun cut file using my Pazzles Inspiration Creative Cutter . Those spiral note paper layers were the result of enlarging and chopping a few cut lines from the original file and then I hand-scored with my Martha Stewart Score Board (which if I had the embossing tool for the Creative Cutter it would have all been done from my machine!) If you're in the Treasure Valley and want a card like this you are in luck! Sign up for the Valentine Card Class at Inspiration Boutique  in February! If you want to know more about Copic Markers, there's a class for that, too! I'll be back tomorrow with Stampendous and some of their NEW stamps and Essentials! Can't wait to show you! Details: Stamps:   No Matter What (Verve Stamps) Paper:  Heart Foil Paper, Kraft (Wausau), Luscious Lime and Cherry Cream (WorldWin Treasures),...