Rain Puddles Design

I was hoping to get this post out earlier today and time has just gotten the best of me. So sorry to these fine ladies for not getting this welcome out on my blog sooner. They deserve to be announced! Without further ado, You are going to love the designs that are coming from these ladies! Some of these names you may recognize - a few new designers have actually come to this team from our Promotional Team and they are ready to wow you with creations using the fabulous InStyle Stamps images. Please welcome and go send them some Comment love; Kimme Leach, from The Life of a Princess Dawn Knight, from Dawn's Rubber Room Patti Stigsell, from Design U Simome Pursiful, from Fashionable Cards REMEMBER, the Design Team Call is still open. If you're interested, or just curious about design team work be sure to check out the details on the InStyle Stamps blog " Design Team Call ".

Hello fellow bloggers, Today is the completion of all the events of June for my family. It's a hyped up month full of birthday's, vacation, Father's Day and the beginning of our summer tradition to attend Shakespeare Festival plays. I big *sigh*. My fellow Design Team members, Robin and Angela, commented about the month of June just being crazy and how fast it's gone by, I do agree with them. It's amazing that I was able to accomplish my To-Do list. Enough about how the time fly's by and more about the adorable Nicole from InStyle Stamps! I need to admit that blog hops always stress me out, so when they are over I have a surge of free creativity and whether it's noticeable to you, I do tend to give my self some freedom in the next project. Nicole is kickin' it up for the team and getting them all jazzed for the season ahead. She's colored with Prismacolor markers and to give her a base I just drew a curved line for a horizon with my PITT I...

We are going on a fabulous blog hop today with the InStyle Stamps Design Team. The theme is going to be a bit outdoors and patriotic. Doesn't that sound fun? If you haven't started the hop from the beginning just go back TWO hops to the InStyle Stamps blog and then to Robin's awesome creation (after that you'll be right back here to hop on to the next stop at Cyndi's ). I've used an awesome image called Flag on a Stair Step card. I used the image twice omitting the flag on one of them. (If you are wondering how I got the flag to disappear on the back step of the card go to this Digital Masking tutorial ). I colored with Prismacolor markers and stamped Hero Arts Friend Definition background to the bottom left of the back image for a collage effect, then added some matching Stickles to each fireworks. The star firework was asking for some standout attention so I used the leftover star from the flag printout and adhered it with a pop dot adhesi...

Happy Monday everyone! I'm posting this card a day late and yet it doesn't even really seem like a Father's Day card, but I gave it to my sweet hubby for it anyway! LOL I used an image from DigiStamp Boutique called Snoozing Chap. The neatest thing about this image is you can get him just snoozing or snoozing with a cold frothy mug next to him. It's perfect! I could even see using both of these images on one card, side by side, the last one being without the mug and the caption saying, "Something's missing from this picture...", for a birthday card maybe. Hmmmmm.... Okay on to my card for today! I wrapped the sentiment on the top and bottom of the image before I printed it out, but didn't think about framing it. So I got out my circle template (it's an old, old one that might still be used for engineer drawings) and penciled around the edges then went back over it with my PITT India Ink pen. My sentiment is geared toward my hubby...

Are you interested in being in a design team environment? InStyle Stamps is having a DT Call. This call will be open until July 16, 2010 at 11:59 PM PST. InStyle Stamps owner, Virginia, is a wonderful person to work with and InStyle Stamps DT Coordinator, Taylor, is just super to work with on projects. If that is not enough there are SO many wonderful images from this company to use, it's just a win/win opportunity. Take this --> link <-- and find out all the details.

If I wasn't such a messy I'd have more dinner parties. I think I have a super home for it, but I tend to have what FlyLady calls HOTSPOTS...and lots of them. So I plan very carefully when I do parties and clean like the cartoon Taz, the Tasmanian Devil. Who knows where I'll find anything, but at least it's not laying around for all to see. Oh dear was that too much detail???? LOL I'm going to have one family over for a dinner party sometime in the near future and here's an invitation card to send out. I'm pretty sure they won't see this post...gulp. I entered this card in the Stamp Something " Summer " Challenge. Details: Card Size: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches Stamps: InStyle Stamps Grill Paper: Astrobright Blue CS, red and black CS from scraps, Neenah Smooth White Ink: LaserJet, Prismacolor Markers Accessories: Stampin' Up Spiral punch, EK Success Dots edge punch

DigiStamp Boutique has all football (soccer) images at a discount for the World Cup occassion. I think I'll snag up Football Josh for a fun coloring, but Maxwell on top of a football is fantastic too! It's hard to choose. PLUS there are three new sets of images out since the Offer of the Month. Ocean Pals (3 images), Lilly Summer Fun (3 images) and  Alfie Summer Fun (3 images). You can buy the images separately too.