Sneaky Joy and a Blog Hop

Hi friends!  I'm back today with the start of Verve's Day 2 Spotlight Hops!  Leave a little comment love as you're checking out the Diva's first looks of the new Peaceful Medallions set and you'll be entered into our blog hop prize drawing!

Today's featured set is an elegant Indian inspired medallions set illustrated by Chaitali Narla. We worked together to make sure the set had lots of layering capabilities with common sizes of circle punches and dies and the possibilities with this set are endless.

For my card, I pulled out more crumb cake.  I've totally been on a little crumb cake streak lately, haven't I? I cut two circles with classic circles Nestabilities and then stamped the large medallion on one in island indigo.  On the other, I built the sentiment, then stamped the small circle medallion twice and then a smaller star image in Versamark.  I then used the same small circle medallion punched out and matted on a 1.25" punch of island indigo to pop up in the center of my large medallion.  These two pieces were then sponged with walnut ink distress stain and then matted on pinking circles Nestabilities.

For the background of the card, I stamped in VersaMark ink the other large medallion image randomly over the entire piece of crumbcake, then went back and stamped the smaller loopy medallion in the center of each medallion and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I sponged the edges, added some island indigo ribbon, layered my two medallions and then accented with a beautiful butterfly from my stash.

Want to win some shiny new Verve? We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the hop spots below to win today's featured products! So be sure to leave a little comment on all the blogs along the way to increase your chances! Check out the Verve Blog today for a full set reveal and all the prize info and deadlines!

Okay, next up on the hop is the talented Stacey!

Today's Prize: Peaceful Medallions (illustrated by Chaitali Narla)

1. Julee 9. Charmaine 2. Stacey 10. Jen 3. Maureen 11. Sheri {Guest} 4. Chaitali 12. Laurie 5. Marisa 13. Andrea 6. Teresa 14. Amber 7. Kay {Guest} 15. Christyne 8. Janelle

Enabler's List
Stamps: Peaceful Medallions (releasing 7/11/14 from Verve Stamps)
Paper: crumb cake, island indigo (SU!)
Ink: island indigo (SU!), VersaMark (Tsukineko), walnut stain (Ranger Distress)
Accessories: Classic & Pinking Circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders), circle punches (EK Success), butterfly (Prima), island indigo ribbon (SU!), clear embossing powder (JudiKins)