Better Together Blog Hop

Hi friends!  Today Verve is releasing a brand new set called Better Together, filled with bold and graphic sentiments and some distressed washi inspired elements and backgrounds.  Hop around to the blogs on the list at the bottom of this post and leave a little comment love for a chance to win a $40 gift voucher to Verve's online store!  Ready? Set.  Hop!

I needed a masculine birthday card for my brother, so that's the direction I went with my card.  I started by embossing the big distressed polka dot background in white on kraft going lengthwise and then horizontally across my panel.  Next I offset just a bit and stamped in crumb cake both directions and then embossed that with clear embossing powder to really make the offset stand out. The sentiment from Better Together is stamped in early espresso and then embossed in clear, then I added the chevron washi type stamp to the top and bottom edges in old olive.  For embellishment I wrapped some hemp twine around the panel, tied in a bow and then added some darling small and large sequin stars from Pretty Pink Posh.  I finished off with a bunch of distressing, dry embossing the old olive panel with the dot matrix folder and then stamping the distressed background from Better Together around the edges of my card base and sponging early espresso on every layer.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Next up on the hop is Amber.

	Hop List: 1. Julee (ME) 2. Amber 3. Andrea 4. Charmaine 5. Christyne 6. Janelle 7. Jen 8. Laurie 9. Marisa 10. Maureen 11. Stacey 12. Teresa

Enabler's List
Stamps: Better Together (Verve)
Paper: crumb cake, old olive (SU!)
Ink: crumb cake, old olive, early espresso (SU!)
Accessories:  hemp twine (Hemptique), star sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), dot matrix texture fades (Sizzix), paper distresser (Tonic), clear and white embossing powder (JudiKins)