Summer Loving Happiness

Hi friends! Welcome to another week. I'm sharing a new card for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop today.  This one combines a sentiment from the Coffee Helps set with a sneak peek of stamps from the Happiness Is stamp set that releases on July 10.

I started with the coffee cup from Happiness Is stamped on watercolor paper.  I had just seen a glimpse of the keyword challenge at The Challenge and thought it would be fun to watercolor the cup.  I also chose the background paper to fit the square keyword.  I used Daniel Smith watercolors for the cup, adding in some splatters with some brown watercolor ink.

I then masked off part of the you by my side sentiment to stamp just the you and then added the -and- sentiment to build my pictogram sentiment.  I did also sneak in the steam stamp from the new Always Time set for the coffee steam.  The Summer Loving sentiment is from Coffee Helps and I stamped it on a stitched circle and added to a sun die cut from the Partly Cloudy Die Set.

I masked off the Happiness Is sentiment to stamp just the happiness word in the corner of the designer paper to complete my summer loving happiness sentiment.  I added my pictogram to a 7 gypsies tag with some staples and then added a bit of sponging, splatters and distressed edges all around.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. If you haven't had a chance to link up some cards to the Coffee Lovers hop, there's still plenty of time.  There are bunches of prizes from 77 sponsors, including a chance to win Verve's July release! Link up over at the official hop post.

Enabler's List
Stamps: Coffee Helps (Verve), Happiness Is, Always Time (releasing 7/10/17 from Verve)
Paper: dp scraps, 7 gypsies tag, watercolor paper
Ink: early espresso (SU!), ground espresso (Ranger Distress)
Accessories: Springtime Stitches Die Set, Partly Cloudy Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE)

Golden Spring

Hi friends!  It's the first Monday of a new month and that means there are Verve prizes up for grabs for participating in the Mojo Monday challenge this week. The more entries we have, the more prizes we give away, so play along as often as you like.

Verve is also one of the sponsors for the current challenge over at The Card Concept. So, I combined the sketch and inspiration from the two challenges for my card today! All that black and white and text lettering had me pulling out the Enchanted BoBunny pad.


My stamping started with the flower and leafy stem from New Beginnings on a stitched circle die cut. I colored with Copics, then stamped the smaller flower on a scrap of cardstock and cut out with the coordinating Springtime Stitches Die Set. I tucked a couple of the leaf die cuts behind the flower, then accented the centers with a teeny yellow rhinestone. The sentiment is stamped on another stitched circle and then I layered it all together.

The papers are just black and white, so I added a few coloring details with some Copics to pull in the colors from my stamped images. Super quick and fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to check out what the other Mojo team members (linked below) did with the sketch, then play along for a chance to win.

Mojo Team:
Justin

Lori

Marisa

Mary

Sarah

Teresa

Wanda

Mojo Monday 442 Sketch

Enabler's List
Stamps: New Beginnings (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Enchanted (BoBunny), basic black (SU!), white (Neenah)
Ink: onyx black (versafine), Copic markers
Accessories: Springtime Stitches Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), stitched circles stax (MFT), chevron ribbon (SU!), rhinestones

Shiny Spring Day

Hi friends!  It's the first day of April and time for a brand new sketch over at Viva la Verve!  This week, I'm the hostess and the sketch is a super fun one (if I do say so myself), with clean lines you can dress up or down to suit your fancy.

I snuck up to my stamp studio yesterday afternoon (my favorite time to stamp) and made this little number. Blinded by all that gold?  LOL  Had a tough time capturing this one on camera, but it's super pretty in real life.

I started with some color splash paper I recently bought, embossing the sentiment in gold, then cutting a mat from the Mercury Glass paper pad.  Next I embossed the flowers from New Beginnings on different sections of the patterned paper then cut with the coordinating Springtime Stitches Die Set.  The Sprightly Sprigs Die Set just arrived back in stock this week and was on my mind, so I decided to cut some from the gold paper and tuck underneath my flowers.

For accent, I added a bit of gold thread wrapped around the embossed card base, then finished each flower off with a pink flatback pearl.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful start to your April!

Enabler's List

Viva la Verve April Sketch 1

Stamps: New Beginnings (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Mercury Glass, Color Splash (Recollections), white (Neenah)
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: Springtime Stitches Die Set, Sprightly Sprigs Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), gold detail embossing powder (JudiKins), scroll background embossing folder (Darice, pink flatback pearls

Watercolor Field Day 5 New Release Spotlight Hop

Hi friends!  Welcome to the final day of Verve's March Spotlight Hops!  I've had so much fun seeing all the amazing inspirations from the Divas and guests this past week.  All the stamps and dies we've been spotlighting this week are available in the Verve Store right now and on sale 20% off!

Once again, I'm the first stop on the hop, so settle in and hop along with us as we take a closer look at at Rise Above, New Beginnings and the Partly Cloudy and Springtime Stitches die sets.

I had my Gansai Tambi watercolors still on my desk from yesterday's card, so decided to use them again to create a sweet little field of flowers scene.  I did a wash of yellow and green, then stamped the stems from New Beginnings and highlighted and watercolored the leaves with a Zig clean color marker.  The flowers are stamped in black on plaid lawn fawn paper and then cut with the coordinating Springtime Stitches set.  I love how easy it is to pop up that inner layer since the dies are exact cuts.

For the sun, I embossed the distressed sun from Rise Above in white onto vellum, then cut with the coordinating Partly Cloudy Die Set.  I embossed the thinking of you sentiment (also from Rise Above) in the center, then cut the stitched circle from the Springtime Stitches Die Set from the same plaid dp paper and layered it behind the sun.  Finished off with some distressed edges on a soft sky card base.  Easy breezy beautiful.  {grin}

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 below to increase your chances! Check out the Verve Blog today for the full hop list, a little more about our new products and all the prize info and deadlines!  I've extended the comment deadlines for all of our March Spotlight Hops to Sunday and will announce the winners on Monday, 3/14.

Thanks so much for hopping by today!  Next stop on the hop is the lovely Betty.  

1. Julee 6. Mackie 2. Betty 7. Marisa 3. Charmaine 8. Maureen 4. Christyne 9. Stacey 5. Lee-Anne 10. Vicki

Enabler's List
Stamps: Rise Above, New Beginnings (Verve Stamps)
Paper: plaid dp (Lawn Fawn), soft sky, vellum (SU!), fabriano watercolor paper
Ink: wild wasabi (SU!), versamark, Gansai Tambi watercolors, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
Accessories: Springtime Stitches Die Set, Partly Cloudy Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), paper distresser