Bountiful Pumpkins

Happy Friday!  I'm back with another card from my stash since I still haven't braved my stamp room.  Before I got sick, I started a bit of reorganization to get all my holiday papers and embellishments moved into one area.  (Yay!)  However, I didn't finish and the room is in total chaos making me want to just keep on walking when I pass by!  LOL  I peeked in this morning, shuddered, and then in the corner of my eye saw this card that I made when I was at Laurie's that I haven't shown here yet.  So it was off to photograph, leaving the mess for another day.

This card uses a clean and simple layout that I really love, but my card has a bit more flair than a typical CAS card.  I stamped two of the pumpkins from Bountiful Harvest overlapping on Ivory cardstock, then stamped them again on some rusty patterned paper, then cut out and paper pieced over the original stamped image.  I wanted a bit of glow, so I sponged Scattered Straw all around, then lightly inked the corners with Cajun Craze.  The smaller pumpkin is added on a dimensional, to give a bit of depth and I hand trimmed a little ground for them from Espresso cardstock.  The old olive layer is punched with an EK Success border and I used a couple of the leftover punches to add some vines coming out from my mini pumpkin patch.  A little twine wrapped around the panel adds a little country charm.  Next I stamped the Happy Harvest sentiment from Bountiful Harvest and scored a couple lines up top and bottom on my Naturals card base, adding some sponged edges. Finally, I stamped and cut out two Old Olive pumpkin leaves, highlighted with Diamond Stickles and added two little orange rhinestones up in the corner.

Well, that made me totally homesick for Laurie's always organized and cheery stamp room!  Hopefully I'll get mine whipped back into shape this weekend and be back stamping next week.  Thanks for stopping by and all your well wishes.  I'm still not 100%, but definitely feeling better.  Have yourself a FABULOUS weekend!

So Grateful

Happy Tuesday!  I've been busy packaging stamps and shipping orders, so there hasn't been any stamping time for me in the past several days.  Luckily, I still have a few projects I made when I was hanging out at Laurie's to show you.  As you might be able to tell from the dreamy photo and doily, Laurie took this photo for me.  Wouldn't it be nice to have a personal photographer around to take pictures for you?  I'd love that!!! 

This card uses one of my favorite sentiments from the Bountiful Harvest set.  I stamped it on a Labels 14 die cut, then added some sponging and a thin mat.  The paper is some Fancy Pants Christmas paper I found on our trip to Missoula and the Old Olive is embossed with a QuicKutz embossing folder and distressed with a paper distresser.  The flower is from an SU! die I discovered in Laurie's stash and the leaves are a punch bunch punch.  I finished off with some fancy black ribbon, a button in the center of the flower and three little black rhinestones on the sentiment.

That's all for today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you find a little time for creativity today!

Abundant Blessings Treat Pail

Happy Saturday!  Last night we had a fabulous release party and I'm completely exhausted after an entire day of madly trying to pull the website together!  But it all worked out in the end and our 12 new sets/stamps and TWO new dies are available at the Verve store!

Today, I'm going to share a fun little autumn tag I made to package a little bucket of Hershey kisses.  The metal bucket was a find at Michael's a while back - I think it was 49 cents, and I just had to have one or two.... or 5!  LOL  To start, I used the Sweet Scallop Die to cut a white tag, then flipped the die over to it's back side and traced around it in pencil on some Early Espresso, for a guide to quickly cut a little mat for it.  Next up I stamped the tall pumpkin from Bountiful Harvest directly on the tag and added a few curly cue stamps at the bottom.  I stamped the pumpkin again on some orange plaid from the Matilda Cosmo Cricket line and the leaves  and Abundant Blessings sentiment on the green plaid.  Next up, I simply added a sponged edge, then tied on with some thin early espresso taffeta and added a Maya Road trinket pin.  Easy peasy!

Okay, I better get back to work.  Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a fantastic weekend!

Turkey Thanks

Happy Thursday!  This morning I'm flying out to meet up with Tosh and Laurie for a fun-filled weekend, then stowing away to Laurie's place for a week of vacation, Montana-style.  I wasn't able to get as much stamping done in advance as I thought I would, so things might be quiet here over the next week or so.  I have a few things to share, but haven't typed up any posts, so we'll so how it goes!  :)  And for the first time ever, Mr. Verve is holding down the fort and trying his hand at shipping orders while I'm away so that I can take some much needed time off before our next release.  Isn't he such a sweetheart?

My card for today was a quick one I threw together last night while waiting for the umpteenth load of laundry to finish drying.  I stamped the turkey from Bountiful Harvest in Early Espresso, colored with Copics and added a bit of pearlized Smooch for a pearly luster.  The panel is sponged with a little Antique Linen and Vintage Photo, then I did the same thing to the Fancy Tag and added the sentiment from Happy Fall in Cajun Craze.  The background paper is from the beautiful Autumn Splendor collection from DCWV, and I scored all the plain lines on the paper with my Scor-pal for a subtle texture.  The edges are distressed with my Distrezz-it-all tool and I added some Vintage Photo ink directly to the edges.  For embellishment, I added some wide striped ribbon behind my image and accented with some super sparkly Smoked Topaz Czech Rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a fabulous rest of the week - I know I will!  :)


What's in it?
Stamps: Bountiful Harvest, Happy Fall (Verve)
Paper: Autumn Splendor dp (DCWV), Ivory, Early Espresso
Ink: Early Espresso, Copic Markers, Vintage Photo, Antique Linen (Ranger Distress Ink)
Accessories: striped ribbon (SU!), scor-pal, Distrezz-it-all (Zutter), Pearlized Smooch, Fancy Tags (Spellbinders), Smoked Topaz Czech flatback Rhinestones (Pizzazz Aplenty)

Many Blessings

Happy Monday!  Man, the weekend just flew by!  I can't believe it's Monday again already!  And a new Monday brings another Mojo Monday sketch!  For my card, I decided to pull out one of my favorite sets from the new release, Many Blessings.

The flowers are stamped in Early Espresso and colored with Copics and I stamped a couple extra flowers to color and layer. Then I added a little diamond glaze to the centers for a glossy look. My side bracket is a Labels 14 die cut trimmed to the size of my panel and then stitched on.  The dotty paper is from the Pixielicious paper pad by Cosmo Cricket and I used the inside pinking border die from The Cat's Pajamas for my bottom border.

And those super shiny accents on the border are some 5mm rainbow bubble pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty.  They are so shiny and colorful in real life!  I finished off the card with a little espresso taffeta bow and the sentiment from the Many Blessings set stamped on a modern label punch and tied on like a tag.

I hope you have a fabulous start to your week!  Thanks for stopping by!

Wandering through Autumn Leaves

Happy Saturday!  I've had such a fun-filled week leading up to yesterday's release and this weekend is scheduled with packing orders, packing orders and packing orders!  :)  If you haven't heard, all the new sets are available now in the Verve store.  Head on over to check them out.  Plus, I've posted the winners from our release week challenges and spotlights HERE.

My card for today features the new Autumn Splendor set.  for the focal piece I stamped the circle frame from Happy Hello on ivory card stock (this will be covered up, so it doesn't matter what color you stamp it), then I stamped the larger leafy sprig at 12, 3, 6 and 9, then came in and stamped the smaller leaf sprig in between each of those.  To color them, I simply stamped the solid leaf sprigs over my stamped images in pear pizazz.  I quickly trimmed a little border around the leafy cluster, then added the Autumn Splendor sentiment popped up on some circle die cuts.  The side borders are the negatives from two Tim Holtz bracket die cuts that I trimmed to fit my card, then stamped one of the wheat images from Autumn Splendor in Antique linen on the border and added some dotted accents with an Early Espresso marker.

To embellish, I added some shabby wrinkled ribbon, a Maya Road leaf trinket pin and then tied a little Tim Holtz Philosophy metal tag around the bow with some linen thread.  Oh, and the background paper is from the Restoration line by Crate Paper.

Okay, back to the shipping desk.  I hope you have a fantastic weekend!  Thanks for stopping by!

Everything Beautiful

Welcome to Tuesday!  I had planned to have this ready to post earlier, but my epic clutziness struck again. Last night I decided to do a bit of tidying up and in the process of moving a bottle of red wine to a "safer" location, I dropped it.  So strategically in fact that it oozed under the refrigerator AND the stove, ruined an area rug and we spent the next 1.5 hours moving said appliances and scrubbing the tile!  Not exactly the way I wanted to go about getting a new area rug for the kitchen, but I did want a new one!  (there's always a silver lining!  teehee)   Anyhow, the moral of this story is don't have red wine in your home!  LOL   ;-)  I'm not a fan anyway, it's Mark's thing.  :)

Okay, so you're probably here to see a card.  You've been duly warned that you'd be seeing this color combo again, so here it is.  I seem to be in an "embrace the white space" phase, which is pretty atypical for me, but I'm really loving it!  For this card I paired the smallest solid flower in Great Friend with a sneaky peeky of one of the new plain janes releasing Friday.  This one is Ecclesiastes 3:11 Plain Jane and I just love this verse.

I did a little rock-n-roll technique on the flowers, first in Peach Parfait, then around the edges in Cajun Craze and stamped on opposite corners of my sentiment square.  The centers are given a little glitz with some Stardust Stickles.  The vertical panels are just coordinating cardstock stamped with the same flower, then I layered everything over an ivory piece of cardstock, embossed with the Swirls #2 folder by Sizzix.  My finishing touch was a little stitched poly peach parfait ribbon.

I used the VSWCMD1 sketch from Verve's World Card Making Day - Release Week Challenges for this one.  Head on over to the Verve Blog to check out all 5 sketches and read about how to win some prizes!  And be sure to check back tomorrow for the first of the official New Release Spotlights!  Thanks for stopping by!