Oh Happy Day Verve Release Hop

Hi friends!  It's Release Day at Verve and time for our final May Spotlight Hop!  It's Diva's choice today, which means the Divas will be showing you whatever their little hearts wanted to stamp with from this release.  And we've got a big prize for today's comment winner... the ENTIRE May 2014 Release Collection!  Hop along and leave a little shout out to be in the drawing!

All of the stamps we've been previewing this week are available
in the Verve online store today!  

I made a bunch of cards with this release, and well, even as I'm starting to type this post, I'm not sure what I'm going to show you!  {grin}  Maybe I'll share a few??

I'll start with this little {almost} one layer card using Be Blessed.  I thought these flowers were just begging for a big tropical adventure, so I pulled out coastal cabana and stamped the big flower, then masked it off and stamped the smaller flowers in crisp cantaloupe and peach parfait and then one big flower in the corner with barely banana.  I made one mask for the smaller flowers and moved it around to stamp the greenery in with pear pizzazz.  The sentiment is stamped in black and I added a teeny strip of coastal cabana to give the edge some flair, then accented with liquid pearls and some dew drops on the flower centers.

The next card is the one I gave my mom for Mother's Day this year.  It uses Button Best on the outside and a sentiment from Be Blessed on the inside.

I embossed the flowers from Button Best in white, then cut with the coordinating Petal Points Die Set. Next, I watercolored the flowers with distress markers, taking the color all the way to the edge of the die cut to extend the flowers.  Next I glued a few Sprightly Sprigs that I highlighted a bit with watercolors to a cream panel and ran through the machine with the Chicken Wire embossing folder.  The sentiment is also from Button Best, and I hand cut and sketched a little banner around the sentiment.  a black mat, some linen thread and a vintage button finish the outside off.

For the inside of the card, I kept it simple and added this sentiment from Be Blessed, then stamped one of the flowers from Button Best in soft sky a couple times.

This last card also uses Button Best.  I again embossed the flowers in white on a piece of watercolor paper. I then watercolored the flowers with distress markers and shimmer spray.  I also used the markers and waterbrush for the color wash around the flowers, then embossed the sentiment in black.  I wanted those pearly watercolored flowers to take center stage, so I just decided to leave it at that and made a circle card with a crisp cantaloupe mat and crumb cake scalloped circle base.  A bit of liquid pearls accenting the scallops finished things off.  

Alrighty... time to move along to the next stop on the hop:  Charmaine

Want to win some shiny new Verve? We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the hop spots below to win our ENTIRE May Release Collection.  Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

1. Julee 8. Amber 2. Charmaine 9. Maureen 3. Marisa 10. Jen 4. Janelle 11. Laurie S. 5. Teresa 12. Andrea 6. Chaitali 13. Christyne 7. Stacey 14. Sarah

Enabler's Lists
Card 1
Stamps: Be Blessed (Verve Stamps)
Paper: white, coastal cabanan 
Ink: coastal cabana, crisp cantaloupe, peach parfait, barely banana, pear pizazz (SU!), black 
Accessories: dew drops, liquid pearls 

Card 2
Stamps: Button Best, Be Blessed (for inside of card) (Verve Stamps)
Paper: cream, basic black, soft sky (SU!), watercolor paper
Ink: Versamark (Tsuikineko), Black, distress markers (Ranger)
Accessories: Petal Points Die Set, Sprightly Sprigs Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), twine, chicken wire embossing folder (Cuttlebug), vintage brad (SU!), bling 

Card 3 
Stamps: Button Best (Verve Stamps) 
Paper: crumb cake, crisp cantaloupe (SU!), watercolor paper 
Ink: Versamark (Tsuikineko), Black, distress markers (Ranger) 
Accessories: Classic & Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), white embossing powder, waterbrush, liquid pearls, shimmer spray