Rain Puddles Design

Hey wonderful Verve fans! You've almost made it through our Spotlight Hop today. You will have come from Laurie S. ~ Just Give Me Stamps and here for just a minute then on to Miss Sweet Diva Maureen ~ Buttons and Bling . Our spotlights are on new stamps with Take Note and Happy Graduation Plain Jane .   The Divas and Guest Divas are giving you our first looks of these wonderful stamps. Just to keep you on your toes there just might be a little extra peeks with coordinating dies and ribbons along the Spotlight days, so be on the look out for some sweet Verve goodies. Everything you see previewed along today's hop will be available in  Verve's  online store on Friday, May 10. Want to win some shiny new Verve?  We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the hop spots below to win today's featured products! So be sure to leave a little comment on all the blogs below to increase your chances! Check out the  Verve Blog  for all the prize details a...

Stampendous Challenge in May is underway and I'm sharing a project I made last fall used for prayer requests with our women's group at church. This is a monthly challenge with prize winner at the end! We challenge you to use those Fabulous Florals. Use Stampendous flowers and be counted twice! If your entry is randomly picked you win a Stampendous PRIZE!  Click on Stampendous May Challenge for more details OR use the linky tool with your JUST CREATED  floral fantastical project! Now for my box of fabulous florals. All the flowers were stamped on white tissue paper with Memento Tuxedo Black and glued on with Mod Podge. The scriptures were made in a word program and then printed out onto tissue paper that was taped around a piece of copy paper. The box was found in my garage and I created the lid with my own ingenuity... twice because the first one had less ingenuity put into it. All side were gesso'd and then layers of acrylic paints were painted and rubbed and...

I'm so thrilled and honored today to be a guest challenge host with Pazzles! My life as an art mom has totally changed after owning an Inspiration Creative Cutter. I've cut 102 love bug legs, 20 Arlo reading glasses, pattern paper for Yoplait yogurt covers and now a scrapbook paper card sketch!  You can join in on the party! Just head on over to this  Pazzles blog post  for the full details of the day, take on the CHALLENGE #2  I'm hosting and check back every hour for more party fun! You know you want to go check out this fabulous party! Get going?  CHALLENGE #2 Details: Cut File: S ketch cut file, Spring Break Glasses Title (Pazzles, The Craftroom) Stamps:  Remember This  and Smile Plain Jane (Verve Stamps) Paper: Watercolor Bouquet 12 x 12 Paper Pad (K & Company), Cream cardstock (Wausau), Yellow (Craft Warehouse) Ink: Jet Black Versafine (Tsukineko), Black felt pen Accessories:   Banner Bundle Die Set  (A Cu...

Catch the new sketch on Paper Craft Planet by this week's hostess, me! It might have something to do with wrapping something up on your card. Details: Stamps:  Twitterpated (Verve Stamps) Paper:  All Ocassion (DCWV), Kraft (Wausau) Ink:  Brown Bag (CTMH) Accessories:  washi Tape (Glitz ), mini stapler (Ranger), open envelope with slip (Paper Studio)

Hands down, Stampendous has the most spectacular flowers and this week they are the Design Team's blog post showcases for the catalog release. A catalog release simply means we get to go to our favorite local craft store and purchase new STAMPENDOUS! All this week Stampendous and the design team have been posting their projects with new Florals from the catalog. Here are a couple of photos on how I did the can. The newest Cling Jumbo Stamps include a free template to mask areas from a layer of color. The template is  bendable to conform to the any surface like my paint can. Now you can mask without wasting sticky notes or the time it takes to fussy cut them all out! I sponged white gesso over the printed tissue paper using the template so I would have an opaque surface to stamp the Calla Lilys. The photo below shows the stamped image nicely on top of the gesso mask. Go to the  Stampendous blog for their posts with links to more Design Team inspirations! Wa...

It's time to start sending out those beloved cards for Mother's Day. I'm actually created a few extras this year for a donation at my church. Every year I wonder if it would be a good idea to have a few dozen made up and sitting at the greeter's desk on Mother's Day morning. You know, just for those sons and daughters that might have forgotten? :) Each card is using Verve sentiments from Joyful Blooms , and  Love Deepens . This little lovely uses the frame from Verve Stamps, Love Story  back dropped by die-cut and embossed vellum. I used the flowers from Joyful Blooms and embossed them with Stampendous Detail White embossing powder (boy that stuff is shiny!) I added some adhesive backed pearls and some of Verve's luscious Seam Binding ribbon from Spring Fling Collection  and added some stitches. Oh, see I even added an embossed doily in the background (see the next card for details).  I added some lace doily stamps from My Mind's ...

Miss Lydia on Splitcoast Stampers has a challenge for us in mixed media today. Use your doodling skills and two or more media on your creation. It's easy-peasy this week. Mix-Ability Challenge: MIX13 Here's my check off list Media 1 - ink from a stamp pad Media 2 - water soluble oil pastels (yes there really us such a thing) Doodling + Media 3 - BONUS, right? Black India brush pen I stamped flowers on white cardstock that was die cut with a Spellbinders Label die. Coloring them up with some water soluble oil pastels. Now it's time to water down the color with an aqua pen, but first I sketched in some two-tone green leaves (I forgot to snap a shot until I had already done the waterbrushing so the only leaves still sketched are to the left of the sentiment. It's a lot of fun coloring with these pastels) Now it's time to doodle! Since the pen is a brush I was able to pressure adjust the doodling and got some crazy squiggles. Here is the f...