Harvest Birds

Hi everyone!  Happy Wednesday!  Today is the first day of the New Release Spotlight Hops for Verve.  Today, tomorrow and Friday, you're invited to hop around the Diva-sphere (teehee) for previews of our soon-to-be-released stamps.  While you're at it, be sure to leave a few comments along the way for a chance to win the stamps we're previewing!  Check out the official list of today's hops at the bottom of this post.


Today, the Verve spotlight is shining on two new mini sets and four new plain janes.  I didn't get the stamping time I had hoped for this week, so my card for the hop only features the new Harvest Birds Plain Jane.  This whimsical little image is a single stamp (the birds and the sentiment are all one stamp).

For my card layout, I used the VSWCMD4 sketch from Verve's World Card Making Day Release Week Challenges.  I stamped the Harvest Birds Plain Jane onto a Labels 14 die cut, then paper pieced the smaller bird and its wing with some paper from the Matilda Cosmo Cricket pad.  The purple plaid paper is also from the same pad and I stitched it onto some black cardstock punched with an EK Success border.  A little circle frame (to make one of these just stack two circle nestabilities together and run through your die cut machine.  You'll end up with an inner circle and a thin outer circle frame.) sets things off and the background is embossed with the Cracked Tim Holtz Texture Fades.  Once again, I'm embracing the white space!  :)  I finished off with some polka dot ribbon and black pearls (for the bird tail feathers) and lavender rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty for a bit of bling.

Thanks for stopping by!  Here's the list of diva-licious hops for today.  Happy hopping!

1. Mercy	8. Laurie
2. Jen T.	9. Jackie
3. Tosh	10. Sankari
4. Teresa	11. Shannan
5. Andrea	12. Amber
6. Lynda	13. Julee {that's me!}
7. Amy