Light of the World Release Retrospective Blog Hop

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Happy Saturday and welcome to Verve's Holiday Release Retrospective Blog Hop!  It's one more chance for the Divas and our special guests to share a little inspiration with the our Holiday Release stamps & dies now that you've hopefully had a chance to get them in your hands.  As usual, there's a prize up for grabs for a lucky commenter along the hop, so be sure to give a little shout out as you hop about.

I'm the first stop on the hop, so let's get this party started!  I pulled out the Weary World set and coordinating Starry Stable Die Set to make another Christ-centered Christmas card.  I just love this Christ the Savior is born sentiment.  It really is the heart of everything, so that's what I stamped first.  Next I stamped the manger scene, coloring with a colorless blender and a few copic markers, adding some little snowflakes with a white chalk paint pen, then cut the image out with the Starry Stable Die Set.

For the background, I used a flower stencil that I thought would look like rays of light and stenciled it onto the cardstock with pan pastels and sprayed with workable fixative to set the pastels.  Next I used a burlap stencil to randomly apply light molding paste around the sentiment and stenciled rays.  I layered the die cut manger scene on dimensionals, also adding another layer to the star on top with the coordinating die.  Then I added a strip of cardstock down the side, added a thin layer of redline tape to adhere the lace trim, then pressed some champagne glass glitter into the exposed pieces of adhesive for a fun gilded look.  Everything is sponged lightly with walnut stain distress ink to finish things off.

Well that's it for me.  If you haven't had a chance to order our holiday release yet, all of our Christmas themed stamps and dies (including the newest release) are on sale for 20% off, or you can buy the Holiday Release Collection at a 25% discount!

Next up on the hop is Marisa!

Want to win some shiny new Verve? We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the hop spots below to win a $50 gift voucher to the Verve online store! So be sure to leave a little comment on all the blogs below to increase your chances! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the details!

1. Julee	6. Teresa
2. Marisa	7. Andrea
3. Amber	8. Christyne
4. Diana	9. Maureen
5. Charmaine	10. Nancy

Enabler's List
Stamps: Weary World (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Saint Nick (Fancy Pants), cream (Neenah)
Ink: Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso (SU!), Walnut Stain (Ranger Distress), Pan Pastels, white chalk pen
Accessories: Starry Stable Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), lace trim, light molding paste, glass glitter, Daisies stencil (Delta), burlap stencil (Tim Holtz)