Rain Puddles Design

We have a brand new challenge with the Stampendous team this month!  Each Saturday this month, we'll be challenging ourselves (and you!) to make a shaped card or project - something other than the traditional square or rectangular card. Doesn't that sound like fun? Here is a list of the Stampendous team members playing along today: Stampendous Impressions Pam Hornschu Cyndi Bundy Lynn Mercurio Janelle Stollfus   - you're here! Kristine Reynolds Jennifer Ingle We want YOU to play along with us!  Just add your direct link to your shaped card or project to the linky tool below my signature (or on the Stampendous blog) no later than April 5, 2012 at 11:00 PM EST.   You do not have to use Stampendous products to play along, but we sure love it when you do !  And as an extra incentive for playing, one lucky person (drawn at random from all the entries) will receive this gorgeous Cling Jumbo Hollyhock Stamp Set : Due to shipping restricti...

Are you excited for the new month of Viva La Verve sketches!!!!!! Amber has a sweet sketch this week and it has SOOOO much going for it that my card came together in a cinch. Here's Amber's details for the new month sketches. Every Friday, a Diva will post a sketch for your enjoyment. Your cards, using the sketches, must be uploaded by the last Thursday of the month (check for the due date below!) The winner will be announced on the next day and will win a $100 gift certificate to VERVE! How awesome is that?! Just a reminder, Verve stamps are NOT required but we love to see you use them. Feel free to flip, rotate, resize, or otherwise alter the sketch as long as we can tell you USED the sketch!  For March, we'll have FOUR sketches! All FOUR cards must be uploaded to the VLVMar2012 gallery by midnight, CST on Thursday, March 29th to be eligible to win this month's prize! Winner will be announced on March 30th! GOOD LUCK! Keywords for the entire month will ...

I'm really, really still alive! I've been deep in the trenches of designs lately and I cannot wait to show you what I've been up to for, oh let's say, about a month now. It's all about some promotional material and I'll be giving some time to it later on in March and April. So excited! Whoa, did your February just zip right past you? It was unbelievable. I did this card on Leap Year day, but wasn't able to get it up on my blog in time. It's using this weeks optional round Mojo Monday sketch by Julee Tilman . Go on and check it out, create with it or not, stop by and leave Julee some more encouragement as she's now in the last few weeks before she has her twins! I eyed these beautiful papers in the local Craft Warehouse store and I've been saving it for my next Verve card. It's a new to me line called Simple Stories. Have you heard of it? There were a few 6 x 6 pads that were just as gorgeous, but this Generations set was the on...

The designers have one last Saturday hop for the February Stampendous Challenge, which by the way is to ADD TEXTURE, before we move to a new challenge month (current challenge details are at the end of my post today). We sure have enjoyed seeing all your project posts so far this month on the inlinkz Tool. We’d love for you to share it with us on  Stampendous Facebook page . Or however you share your Stampendous projects, let us know on Facebook! For my texture today, I pulled out dimension and fragments from my bag of tricks. Dimension is showing up in a sketchy style scoring around the edges of the card base and the other is the layering on the stamped image. Scoring the base was done with a scoring board and I eye-balled 1/2-inch away from the corners. It wasn't exact because I wanted the corners to overlap and I even went over them a few times to exaggerate the sketch style. The DaVinci Horse Cling Stamp from the January Stampendous catalog is stamped twic...

It's the last Friday of the month and Viva La Verve Challenge has gone CAS! Today's splashing sketch is from super diva Tosh . The last sketch of the month means there's only a few days left to play along for this months prize. You can play along anytime but to be eligible for the prize, all four (4) February Viva La Verve Challenge's sketches need to be uploaded to your SCS gallery with a VLVFeb2012 tag. This month the deadline is March 1, 11:59pm CT. Have all four (4)  of your cards in gallery in time and you will be eligible to win a $100 gift certificate to the Verve Shop. How cool is that!!!! Now, here's how I took this weeks challenge... About this time last year I was introduced to a few feathered friends when I guest designed with Verve. Now that spring is approaching, at least in my wishful mind it is, I figured it's time to get out Lucky Duck and ink him up.  He was perfect with this sketch and because last years card with him was so much fun,...

Late post today folks. I've been working hard on some projects and it's keeping me away from my crafty projects. When it's all done I'll share a bit about it. Today I've got a card that has some REALLY cool ribbon... or is it braided twine...????? Well, its best-selling  Woven Burlap from May Arts! Stampendous and May Arts are partnering this week to bring you lots of fun and yes.... giveaways! Keep informed of all the fun {and giveaways} by heading over to Stampendous' blog  and May Arts blog . My square card has two different Stampendous images. All three ribbon wrapped layers were stamped with the new Garden Background stamp  in brown and embossed with Detail Clear Embossing Enamel , then one was colored with paper chalks. It looked too new so I spritzed it with some coffee spray (Fran style - water and instant coffee mixture) and quick dry with a heat gun. The other side is stamped with the Carte Postale  cling stamp. Everything, really, ...

Yesterday was such a great day. I don't know if you were able to go with me on the surprise blog hop for Julee and Mark, but I thoroughly enjoyed all the hops with advice on being a parent. It brought up so many good memories of when my little ones were born. So I feel like Life is good! It really is even though we have the pains of life with them. My card is using the Splitcoast Stampers sketch 372 for this past week. My sweet friend, Taylor Usry , surprised me with featuring this card as the inspiration for it. I just wanted to say thank you, it was a thrill to be a part of the SCS sketch week. It's taken me a whole week to get a card ready. It's not that the card was hard to put together, but the time I needed to get it together was sparse. I think I finally got a card done in time for a challenge at By Lori Designs , too! #BLD24 So here's my card for these challenges... This little cutie was already colored up and all I needed to do was get ...