Rain Puddles Design

Hello coffee and challenge lovers! Today is the start of the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I'm so excited to be able to hop this time around! This is a growing group of bloggers who love to sip coffee and tea while making up some crafty goodness, so why not combine them into a hop that includes both! Don't mess with our mugs or messes! LOL Get all the details and hop list on the official hop site —  Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog With 42 super sponsors and more Flash Sponsors on National Coffee Day (9/29) it's going to be a SUPER FUN hop! Here's my Fall coffee card. I started out with my favorite brown and red fall colors and then I ended up with a few splashes of blue, green and yellow! My card is coupled with the new Mix-Ability Challenge on Splitcoaststampers that I'm hosting this week. If your interested in mixed media and nervous to get started this challenge is the place for you. Bookmark the challenge link and when you are done hoppin...

There are more prizes to be had this week while we are distressing projects. Details for this fabulous prize package for TWO winners can be found on the Stampendous blog today. The team is being joined by two fabulous industry artists this week, Tracy Weinzapfel and Terry Sproul, who have rusted out some projects and you will want to make sure you stop by their blogs to say hi and see what amazing projects they have done. Find a link to their project on the Stampendous blog this week. Now it's my turn to show off some distressing magic. I apologize right this minute for not have step by step photos. I had my camera all set up to take snaps along the way, but this rust technique by Andy Skinner is the BOMB! For those that want to see a work in progress... After this step I just went to town and had a blast following all the stamping and painting steps in the rusty technique video . Here is the finished stack of Artist Trading blocks, which are the fun c...

Hi and happy hopping on this fine Saturday! This weekend my Stampendous teammates are hopping with some fabulous designers from Tombow. Each team is trying out something new and we are excited to share what we made with them, for the Stampendous team we are trying out the new Tombow Recycled Pencils in a beautiful set of 24! There are prizes for our friends who hop along this weekend and enjoy seeing some of the Tombow creations from earlier this week, too. For details on the prize packages to two lucky commenters, go to the Stampendous blog post today . My project today is using Cling Pop Up Forest Stamps Set and matching dies along with Forest Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamp Set . For all my color on the tree, I used Tombow Recycled Colored Pencils and Dual Brush Pens . Here is a photo journal of how I made my card. Stamped and colored leaf branches in Purple Ash fall colors. Stamped and colored the tree trunk (did more coloring after photo was taken to get rid ...

Happy Monday everyone! This coming weekend there will be a color splash weekend as my Stampendous teamies and I hop along with TombowUSA's design team. We can't wait to play along so we are having a little fun until it arrives! Today my card is super quick. I've wanting to watercolor this  Snowflake Sky Rubber Stamp  and  Christmastide Rubber Stamp  stamp together because they are just meant to go together in my book. There are some other fantastic sentiment that would do just as nicely though. Check them out here on the Stampendous website. I said this was going to easy and it is, let's see just how I made it. After that you can hop on over to the Stampendous blog to get started from the beginning (if you are just now joining us) or hop on to teammie  Alison Heikkila  for some inspiration. Supplies: Stampendous: R234 Snowflake Sky Rubber Stamp M327 Christmastide Rubber Stamp EP525 Sparkle Puff Embossing Powder VP001 VersaMarker Waterma...

Hello there, holiday stampers! Oh yes, it's time to switch gears and prepare for some of those fun and precious holidays were we like to stamp our little fingers to the bone. The good news is Fran Seiford at Stampendous thought of our tired little fingers and designed some super stamps called All in Ones. There are 10 stamps the cover Fall and Winter holidays and just as they are will take an easy one-stamping to get your card mailing list out faster.  Fran created these stamps to include the image, sentiment, backgrounds and frame so all we have to do is just stamp it, sign it, and mail it. The simplest way to go is stamping on colored or monoprint paper, and adhere it on to a card base. Even more simple would be to stamp right on the card base adding a few color spots and move on to the next card. All that said you still can't help, okay I couldn't help myself, to add some other fun elements to my samples today.  Eek A Boo Stamp by Stampendous with Tric...

I've had just the most fabulous time creating with a chalkboard themed snowman card. This week is back to school and what is driving the Splitcoaststampers Mix-Ability Challenge! That's part of my card style today and you really must go and check it out with hostess Tiffany Johnson, for MIX135: Back to School ! I am also playing along, really late in the game because I had to almost unearth a stamp set to make this card today. I was set on creating this card, so I'm glad I finally look behind the chair, on the floor by the kids craft table. Whew! So here is my card... I created this card for the Stampendous weekly theme, hmmm-mee-me-me-me-me, do you wanna build a snowman? Oh yes, this sweet little snowman was built specifically because of the stamp sets name, Build A Snowman Perfectly Clear Stamp Set. To get the no-line effect, I stamped the image pieces with watermark ink and gently rubbed white chalk stick over the lines to get them to show up on the...

Happy Monday Morning! It's a new week and the Stampendous design crew have been up to double task. It's all about using a stencils and how to get the most out of them. Today I'm sharing something that I was so excited to finish, because it came together so quickly and it has all the design elements I was hoping to get in for the finished card. My Dreamweaver Double is using the same stencil with two different techniques. The first is stenciling with ink and the second is adding a "clear coat" of embossing paste. My supplies for this project: Available through Stampendous: Family Home Perfectly Clear Stamps Set Pop Rectangles Stencil Dreamweaver Translucent Embossing Paste Natural Handle Stencil Brush Set Palette Knife and Paste Spreader Create Fall Die Cut Set (grass die) Mixed Media White Paper Medium Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle Plus: Gray color Cardstock Colorbox® Pigment Ink Pads by Clearsnap®  (Razzberry, Moss Green, Royal Blu...