Father's Day Cards

Hi friends! Today the EZ Wonder Die #3 collection is available for PRE-ORDER over at Not 2 Shabby! I've been having so much fun with these dies, and I hope you do, too! I just love choosing the little vignettes in each space on the postal grid. Then the options with add on dies to layer or take things “off-grid” are so fun. There’s also a super cool stencil if you like to ink blend for unlimited possibilities!

Since today is Father's Day, I thought I'd share this year's card designs I made using the new dies. I chose the lighthouse print from the Tranquil Sea cardstock as my backdrop, using the add on dies to individually cut the pieces I wanted from the card front to make it fit the landscape grid the way I wanted.  I added a bit of color with a Copic marker to the bird ephemera piece, then got to work on the sentiment.

The Happy die cut is from the happy mail die in the Add Ons #3 set. i cut it from kraft cardstock, then added to a vellum piece of the shadow die.  I trimmed the bottom of the vellum, then layered a die cut with Father's Day stamped onto it. The stamp is from an old Verve set, Wonderful Marvelous.

I took a similar treatment to the sentiment on my second card, this time taking the die cut elements "off-grid". I used another of the same card print for two of the panels, adding lots of stamped elements with the new EZ Postage stamp set Jamie designed to coordinate with the EZ Wonder Die #3. The other panels are cut from papers in the Down the Shore pad.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous Sunday!

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So Very Happy

Hi friends! I found a little time to create this weekend and it was so much fun.  I printed out some of the downloads I added to the Verve shop to go along with some of the dies that we still have in stock with no matching stamps.

My colored images here use the Beautiful Flowers Printable, available with purchase of the Beautiful Flowers Die Set, as well as the free Flutterby Printable available on the Flutterby die product page. I printed them both on Canson smooth bristol paper.  I colored them with Zig clean color real brush markers and a wink of stella glitter pen over the course of a few days for #thedailymarker30day challenge.

I wanted a splashy background, so pulled out some new Shimmerz colors I hadn't played with yet... Anchors Away and It's Mint to Be.  I plopped a bit of the Anchors Away on some cellophane packaging and then smooshed onto canson smooth bristol paper. I repeated with the Mint to Be color and then did some spritzing and smooshing with water and flicking with a paintbrush until I got everything how I wanted it.

I then stamped the sentiment from Wonderful Marvelous directly onto the background, but because of the thickness of the paint in the background, it didn't look as crisp as I like, so I stamped it again on vellum and embossed in black.  I cut this with a circle die and lined up directly over my less stamping and then layered the flowers and butterfly, cut with the Beautiful Flowers Die Set and the Flutterby die.  I tucked in some leaf die cuts (also from Beautiful Flowers die set), colored them with zig markers and then added some rhinestone and dew drop accents. A bit of distressing and a thin pacific point mat finishes it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope you have a fantastic start to your week.

Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps), Beautiful Flowers - now Forever Loved (SNSS), Flutterby Printable (Verve)
Paper: smooth bristol (Canson), pacific point, vellum (SU!)
Ink: Kuretake clean color real brush markers, clear wink of stella pen (Zig), It's Mint to Be and Anchors Away Shimmerz (Shimmerz Paints), Intense black (Hero Arts)
Accessories: Flutterby die, Beautiful Flowers Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), black embossing powder (Judikins), stitched circles stax (MFT), rhinestones and dew drops, paper distresser

How Wonderful Life Is

Hi friends! It's a very special Monday today... it marks the 500th Mojo Monday sketch! Wow! I've been working toward this goal for quite some time - just a few months shy of 10 years.  I've had so much fun sharing my sketches with you over the last decade. But as the seasons in my life have changed, I've realized that even good things must eventually come to an end.  So this will be our final Mojo Monday challenge. I am so grateful to all of you who have participated over the years. I have loved peeking in at your cards each week and watching you grow as artists.  Thanks so much for sharing and thanks for letting me be a part of your crafting for so long!

The words are hard to come by and even harder to type, so I'll send you on over to the Mojo Monday blog post today if you want to read a little bit more.

Now I'll move on to the easier stuff... my card for the challenge.  It's a contest week and we've extended the challenge deadline to 2 weeks to give y'all a chance to participate. Play along for your chance to win a Verve stamp set.

I was feeling overwhelmed sitting down to make this final Mojo Monday card. Mark jokingly said, "No pressure. You just need to make the best card you've ever made." LOL Well, I'm not sure I achieved that lofty goal, but I do like the end result! Choosing a stamp set to start was the hardest part. This sentiment from Wonderful Marvelous kind of summed up how I was feeling about everyone who has played along in this challenge over the past almost 10 years.

I've been wanting to play in the TCP Tuesday #336 Sand, Sea and Sky challenge, so started with that as my inspiration. I had to flip the sketch horizontally to fit my sentiment. The sentiment background and horizontal strip is done with distress oxide inks in broken china and faded jeans and I stamped the sentiment in archival ink. I added some white paint splatters to the tip top strip, then distressed the edges and rolled the ends as if they were maps or scrolls. I'm pretty sure this was one of my very first Cuttlebug folders.  Love the wavy feel to it, and I tied some hemp twine around to add to the beachy theme.  It has a really beachy masculine feel, which I think will be perfect for my Dad for Father's Day.

Be sure to head on over to the Mojo Monday blog and give a shout out to the amazing design team who has tirelessly brought inspiration week after week! They have truly been a dream team. :)

Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: tiptop taupe  (SU!), watercolor paper (Creatology)
Ink: faded jeans, broken china (Distress Oxides by Ranger)
Accessories: stitched rectangles (Cottage Cuts), d'vine swirls embossing folder (Cuttlebug), MISTI, paper distresser, hemp twine (Hemptique)

Wonderful Marvelous Mixed Media

Hi friends!  It's Monday again and time for another of my card sketches over at Mojo Monday!  I soaked up the sun this weekend and ran out of time to finish my card for this morning.  Then got up early this morning to do it, and in a pre-coffee haze decided to add texture paste which takes FOREVER to dry!  So I'm a bit late in posting due to dry time wait, but had a lot of fun with this card.

 My background was created with a couple of stencils, some Color Burst powders and a few distress inks.  I added the mini chevron pattern in textured paste and then realized I hadn't sealed my inks, so went over it again with a coat of white paint to make it stand out a bit more.  The inner rectangle is done with distress inks, texture paint and a stencil.  I added the sentiment from Wonderful Marvelous (on sale for 30% off right now) to the center, with a wash of distress inks behind.  I found this tropical flower in my stash when I was working on my Diva Inspirations Hop card and just had to use it.  A sprinkling of Shine Bright sequins finished things off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fantastic start to your week.  Hope you can find a little time to join the Mojo Monday challenge and our Diva Inspirations Sunny Tropics challenge!

Enabler's List

Mojo Monday 443 Sketch

Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: distress watercolor paper (Ranger)
Ink: Color Burst (Ken Oliver), squeezed lemonade, scattered straw, mustard seed, worn lipstick, picked raspberry (Ranger Distress), white heavy body acrylic (Liquitex)
Accessories: Shine Bright Sequin Mix (Verve), mini chevron Balzer Designs stencil (The Crafter's Workshop), poppy collage stencil (Donna Downey), whipped spackle (Faber Castell), tropical flower (Prima), ribbon (SU!), classic squares and rectangles nestabilities (Spellbinders), diamond stickles (Ranger)

Simple Birthday

Hi friends!  It's Monday again and time for a brand new Mojo Monday sketch.  This week I went with a simple masculine card, making the papers do most of the work.

Each layer is distressed with antique linen and vintage photo and I stamped the banners and the {happy} and birthday sentiments from Wonderful Marvelous in coffee archival ink, then colored the banners with Copic markers.  My star accent is a star cut with the Starry Die, then matted on a large star SU! punch.  I covered a wood veneer pennant with some coordinating paper and layered it underneath as weel, then accented the star with the happy metal embellishment.  Super simple, but perfect for it's intended recipient.  :)  And with the stripes on the paper and banners, I'm adding this to the Sensational Stripes Diva Inspirations challenge.

Head on over to the Mojo Monday blog today to see the rest of the team's take on the sketch, then grab some stamps and play along with us.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you have a wonderful start to your week!

Mojo Monday 406 Sketch

Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous
Paper: On the Sunny Side (MME), crumb cake (SU!), cream (Neenah)
Ink: coffee archival, antique linen and vintage photo distress (Ranger), copic markers
Accessories: Starry Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), metal embellishment (Making Memories), large star punch (SU!), wood veneer banner

So Very Happy

Hi friends!  Happy Friday!  It's time for a brand new Viva la Verve sketch and this one comes from the lovely Stacey. I'm triple dipping this one again with my final entry in the Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop and inspiration from the Butterfly Effect Card Concept challenge.

I love a skewed panel or two and a half circle is always the perfect place for a doily, so that's where I started.  I had a piece of card stock, I had already mixed-media-ified with tissue paper, distress inks, translucent embossing paste, stencils and the To Go embossing folder, so I decided to use it here and add a section of a pale yellow doily over the side.  I glued it down with matte medium, then shaded with some Pitt big brush pens to make it stand out a bit better.  I matted with basic grey and roughed up the edges.

The butterfly paper is from the Black & White Timeless collection by KaiserCraft.  Don't you think that inspiration photo is gorgeous?  I just had to watercolor the butterflies with mustard seed and mermaid lagoon inks and a water brush!  I cut out a few of the extra butterflies from the paper and used them to pop up on my sentiment panel. They're water colored as well, then I used some microglaze to set the colors and covered with glossy accents and a thin sprinkling of glitter. The sentiment is from the Wonderful Marvelous set, and I thought it was so perfect for a coffee theme, because it is SO true!  LOL  The sentiment is stamped on a die cut from the Cupcake Frame Die Set.

In the bottom corner I added a couple of to go cups using the releasing next week Get Together set (one of our prizes up for grabs for those linking up to the Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop) and the coordinating Cup of Cheer Die Set.  I stamped them in lost lagoon and daffodil delight, then water colored with water pencils.  My final touch was to add some seam binding ribbon up top.  I couldn't decide on a color, so decided to dye my own to match the card.  I used the white ribbon from our Signature Ribbon Collection and dipped it in some mermaid lagoon and mustard seed distress ink I had rubbed on a craft sheet and then spritzed with water.  I got it good and inked up, crumpling it in a ball for some crinkles, then dried it with a heat gun and sponged a bit more of the mustard seed ink on it in places to bring out a bit more of the yellow.  All in all, a super fun project start to finish.

I hope you have a fabulous weekend!  Our New Release Spotlight Hops start next week with blog hops each day Monday through Saturday.  There will be lots of eye candy and a bit of blog candy too, so be sure to come check it out!

Viva la Verve June Week 2 Sketch

Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous, sneak peek of Get Together (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Black & White Timeless (Kaisercraft), basic gray (SU!), white, yellow doily
Ink: mermaid lagoon, mustard seed, black soot distress ink, black archival ink (Ranger), translucent embossing paste (Studio 490), lost lagoon, daffodil delight (SU!)
Accessories:  Cupcake Frame Die Set, Cup of Cheer Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), Signature Ribbon Collection (Verve), glossy accents, glitter, microglaze (Judikins), paper distresser, To Go texture fades embossing folder, and Melange tissue paper (Tim Holtz)

Buttercup Birthday

Hi friends!  Welcome to another Mojo Monday!  For my sketch sample this week, I needed to switch gears to a birthday card, since my MIL is a Christmas baby.  I try to steer as far away from Christmas as I can for her card, so chose a sweet buttercup yellow and grey color combo.

The stamps are from two of my favorite sets that I designed this year... Happy Place and Wonderful Marvelous.  I colored the flowers with Copic markers, adding a little shadowing around the images to make them pop.  Did the same thing with the happy and birthday sentiments, then matted with basic gray cardstock.  The papers are from a big 12 x 12 paper pad I got for under $4 the last time I went to Michael's.  I don't typically buy 12 x 12 paper any more, but the patterns were so soft and gorgeous I thought they would be great for doing some mixed-media canvases.  Can't wait to try that out.

The butterflies are an old Martha Stewat punch that I punched from cream cardstock colored with Copics, then sponged around the edges and added some rhinestones and some shimmer with a Wink of Stella pen.  A bit of lace trim finishes things off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have a wonderful start to the Christmas week.

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Enabler's List
Stamps: Happy Place, Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper:  In Bloom (My Mind's Eye), basic gray (SU!), cream (Neenah)
Ink: Black, antique linen, pumice stone (Ranger Distress), Copic markers, Wink of Stella clear glitter brush pen
Accessories:  Classic Circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders), butterfly punch (Martha Stewart), rhinestones, lace trim

Feathery Birthday

Hi friends!  It's Friday again and time for a new Viva la Verve sketch.  This week's hostess is Maureen and she has a super fun sketch that's easy to dress up or down for any occasion.

I needed a masculine birthday card, so I pulled out some earthy colors... old olive, island indigo and kraft.  I started by stamping the large feather from Moments Remembered on white cardstock a few times and then coloring with copic markers and sponging with walnut stain distress ink.  Added some rounded corners to this panel, its mat and the kraft resist paper below it.  The sentiment stamps are from Wonderful Marvelous and I stamped them on the same stamped paper that the feather panel had been cut from, then hand trimmed the pennant and sponged with distress ink.  The old olive layer is also stamped randomly with the feather stamp in early espresso and then sponged with walnut stain.  I finished off with a base from the kraft resist paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

And before I go, just a little reminder that everything is on sale at Verve!  20% off stamps, dies, ribbon and sequins released prior to July.  And 10% off our July release!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Moments Remembered, Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: kraft resist (Tim Holtz), old olive, early espresso (SU!), white
Ink: early espresso, island indigo (SU!), walnut stain (Ranger), Copic markers
Accessories:  corner rounder

Marvelous Dad

Hi friends!  I know I said I was taking a bit of a break, but the boys actually napped long enough for me to make a card on Friday so I decided to pop in and share it, since it's a Father's Day card for hubby.  This card was inspired by a few different things I've seen around blogland recently.  First off was Amber's mixed media tutorial. Earlier this week, I got the itch to play in the new Mixed Media Mojo challenge, so after reading Amber's tutorial, I pulled out some gesso, stencils and sprays (which for some reason I never use) and made a few different backgrounds with scrap pieces of white cardstock.

Then, the next day some Pentel oil pastels I had seen on sale arrived.  My sister had a box of these when I was growing up and I was never allowed to play with them.  My mom had told me they were for real artists, so I mentally filed them as something I would never have.  When I saw them on sale, I had that same little girl wish to play with them, so I just had to get some.  And it was so fun filling in some of the backgrounds with these pastels, blending with my fingers and then doing a little wash with some water and a brush.  So soft and beautiful!  So the lighter yellows and greens you see are done with oil pastels.

And when I finally sat down to make a card, Stacey's Viva la Verve June Week 2 sketch was the perfect way to use some of these mixed media backgrounds.  I originally tried sewing a vellum square to my top panel, but unfortunately there was no thread on the bobbin and that bobbin winding enigma is definitely for another day. So I scrapped the square (except for the pierce marks the sewing machine made) and decided to go with a primitive star die cut instead, embossed with distressed polka dots for some fun texture.  I added just a hint of gesso around the edges to make it pop and layered it on 2 layers of dimensionals for extra pop.

The sentiment is from the new Wonderful Marvelous set and I masked off the you on the wonderful marvelous you sentiment before inking, then added the Dad sentiment to the right in Archival ink, then embossed in clear so I wouldn't have to worry about smudging while I was layering everything together. Lots of distressed edges finish things off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: white, vellum
Ink: mint julep, honor society, water cooler Mister Huey's Color Mists (Studio Calico), jet black Archival ink (Ranger), gesso
Accessories:  Primitive Stars Die (Sizzix), distressed dots texture fades (Tim Holtz), layering stencils (Tim Holtz), clear embossing powder, sewing machine, paper distresser

Wonderful World

Hi friends!  I'm popping in to change up the scenery with a one layer card I made while playing around with the latest Verve release. It's been a while since I made the card, so hopefully I remember as I go what I did! 

I just love this sentiment and have had the song running through my head for several days now.  This card totally makes me think of a circus (maybe because that's what life at my house is like these days).  I've been burning all of the candles at all the ends and am completely worn out being ringmaster.  So I'm taking a few days off  from Verve and blogging and basically everything but being a mama to my (STILL) teething twins. I'll catch up with y'all next week sometime!

Okay, on with the card... I started by masking off the edges of my card base with some painter's tape from the $1 store. (NOT recommended, as the watercolor seeped a bit under the tape.  I've since purchased the good ole 3M kind and had much better results!)  to do the color wash  I added Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw and Spiced Marmalade to an acrylic block, then spritzed with water and pressed onto my paper.  Next I laid down a hexagon stencil into the still wet color washed area and added a bit more color with a waterbrush and the distress inks.  The banners were stamped onto the card base, then I paper pieced each of the flags with peach parfait cardstock.  The sentiment from Wonderful Marvelous is stamped in the bottom corner, then I hand drew a ltitle frame and splashed on some watered down black ink with a paint brush.

Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: White, peach parfait (SU!)
Ink: Spiced Marmalade, Scattered Straw, Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks, Pumice Stone (Ranger), black
Accessories: hexagon layering stencil (Tim Holtz

Postale Favorite

Hi friends!  Welcome to another week!  Time seems to be flying by lately and I'm trying to get ready for the big father's day - mom's birthday - father-in-law's birthday card making extravaganza, since all of those things fall within a few days of each other.  Knowing that was coming, this week's Mojo Monday sketch was designed with clean lines for a little jump start on masculine cards.

I pulled out the new Wonderful Marvelous and an old favorite paper pack from 7 Gypsies to start in on this masculine birthday card.  I basically let the papers do most of the work, adding some sponging with antique linen and vintage photo distress ink, then a few piercings around a couple of the elements.  I built the sentiment Happy Birthday to my favorite Dad using four stamps from the set in Night of Navy and Cherry Cobbler inks.  The Dad is stamped on the largest cut out from the Starry Die.  I finished off with a few wooden stars that I sponged with vintage photo ink and a sahara sand card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  If you're making Father's Day cards with a little Verve this week, be sure to link them up to our A Man's World Diva Dare for a chance to win a Verve gift voucher!

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Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Postale (7 Gypsies), sahara sand (SU!)
Ink: night of navy, cherry cobbler (SU!), vintage photo, antique linen (Ranger Distres)
Accessories:  Starry Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), mat pack and piercer (SU!), Classic Circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders), wood veneer stars (Studio Calico)

Mellow Yellow

Hi friends!  I'm back again today to share a card I made with Sarah's May Week 4 Viva la Verve sketch. This sketch hit on release day and I've had it sitting on my desk waiting for a spare minute since then.  So glad I finally got the chance to play along, because I love how it turned out.

I started by cutting the oval with Nestabilities and then using the die as a stencil to sponge on some tumbled glass distress ink.  Next I stamped the title sentiment from Wonderful Marvelous to the side of the oval, then pulled out Be Blessed and stamped the flower twice in so saffron.  I cut one out with the coordinating Petal Points Die Set and cut the inner portion of the other stamped flower out by hand to pop up for some dimension.  While I had the flowers out, I also randomly stamped them tone on tone on the so saffron panel. Next I added some black sprigs cut with the Sprightly Sprigs Die Set all around, substituting for the little banner coming off the side of the sketch.  The card base is embossed with a polka dot folder and I added a rounded corner to the top of each rectangle panel, then finished off with a sparkly gem center for the flower.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Be sure to come on back tomorrow for our monthly Diva Inspirations Hop and challenge!

May Week 4 VLV Sketch

Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous, Be Blessed (Verve Stamps)
Paper: so saffron, basic black (SU!), white
Ink: so saffron (SU!), tumbled glass (Ranger Distress), black
Accessories:  Petal Points Die Set, Sprightly Sprigs Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), Classic Ovals Nestabilities (Spellbinders), dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug), sparkly gem, corner rounder.

My Favorite Dad

Hi Friends!  It's the first Monday of a new month and that means it's CONTEST time over at Mojo Monday!   Come play along with this week's sketch for a chance to win a free set from Verve!  You can enter as many times as you like, so just let the mojo flow!

For my card I adjusted the sketch to a horizontal layout to accommodate the stamps I wanted to use.  I thought the trio of flags from Wonderful Marvelous would look great as little trees on a lake, so flipped it on it's side and colored with Copic markers.  Next time, I'll probably add some brown around the outer part for sand/ground, but for today we have floating pines!  {grin}  Then I built my sentiment on the circle and banner panels, added some black mats and a baja breeze background and finished off with some black dots.  Easy peasy and one more Father's Day card done!  Hooray!

I hope you get a chance to play this week... can't wait to see what everyone does with the sketch!  I'll be back tomorrow with a more feminine approach to the layout!

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Enabler's List
Stamps: Wonderful Marvelous (Verve)
Paper: basic black, baja breeze (SU!), white
Ink: black, old olive (SU!), Copic markers
Accessories:  chevron dots embossing folder, Classic Circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders), black candy dots

Banner Birthday

Hi friends!  It's Friday again and time for another Viva la Verve sketch.  It's the final sketch in our May VLV series, so if you haven't already, you have until next Thursday (6/5) to play along for your chance to be entered in our $100 gift voucher prize drawing.

When I looked at the sketch I totally thought of the new banner stamp in Wonderful Marvelous.  I originally was just going to stamp them on rectangles, but once I got them stamped it covered up too much of the fabby polka dot paper, so I decided to do a little fussy cutting.  The paper is a new-to-me pad from Crate Paper that I picked up for $2.99 at Tuesday Morning earlier this week.  I replaced the circles in the sketch with hearts cut with the Heart Quartet Die, then added a little sentiment flag stamped with the happy and birthday sentiments from  Wonderful Marvelous.  I finished off with some shiny silver pearls and a seam binding bow using ribbon from the Truly Madly Deeply Collection.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have a fabulous weekend ahead of you!  Oh, and if you missed Verve's Memorial Day weekend shipping promotion, we're doing it again this weekend!  Now through Sunday, June 1 get FREE US shipping on orders over $30.  No code needed.  Just add at least $30 of product to your cart and choose the default "US Shipping" option for your shipping method. Discount will be automatically applied to your cart. Offer not valid on Priority or International shipping options.

VLV May Week 5 Sketch

Enabler's List
Stamps:  Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Flea Market (Crate Paper), midnight muse (SU!), cream
Ink: midnight muse (SU!), antique linen (Ranger)
Accessories:  Heart Quartet Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), Truly Madly Deeply Ribbon Collection (Verve), shiny silver pearls (Pizzazz Aplenty)

Without Fear

Looking for my Verve Spotlight Hop posts? Click the links for Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4.

Hi friends!  Happy Saturday!  I thought I'd pop in with another project I made using the new Verve release. This one combines Wonderful Marvelous, Proverbs 31:25 and the previously released Better Together set.

My inspiration was the Viva la Verve May Week 3 Sketch + Inspiration.  I loved the touches of gold in the graphic.  And since it's a color I rarely reach for, I challenged myself to incorporate it into my card.  I started by painting a little watercolor background.  Next I took a piece of vellum and embossed the banners from Wonderful Marvelous down it.  I also cut a few stars from vellum using the Starry Die and a large star punch, then used the background strip from Better Together to emboss them in gold.  I embossed the same background across the layers of my card, then stamped the  Proverbs 31:25 verse on white cardstock and hand trimmed the pennant ends.  I finished off with a piece of seam binding from the Spring Fling Ribbon Collection.

Well, that's the skinny on the card.  Before I go, just wanted to let you know that  along with the new release, Verve has a FREE SHIPPING promotion on US orders over $30 now through Monday, May 26. No code required. Just add at least $30 of product to your cart and choose the default "US Shipping" option for your shipping method. Discount will be automatically applied to your cart.  Offer is not valid on Priority or International shipping options.

Hope you're enjoying the long weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Proverbs 31:25, Better Together, Wonderful Marvelous
Paper: watercolor paper, vellum, white
Ink: Versamark, watercolors

Accessories: Starry Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), Spring Fling Ribbon Collection (VERVE), gold detail embossing powder (Judikins), polka dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug), large star punch (SU!)

Wonderful Marvelous Day Two Blog Hop

Hi friends!  I'm back with Day 2 of Verve's New Release Spotlight Hops.  Today the Divas are shining their sneaky little spotlights on a set called Wonderful Marvelous and the Jeremiah 17:7 plain jane.  I'm the first stop on the hop, so I hope you'll settle in for a little inspiration.  {Oh, and don't forget to leave a little comment love as you hop about for a chance to win some Verve!}

For my card, I combined the Wonderful Marvelous set with the Jeremiah 17:7 Plain Jane to make a special card for my nephew's 19th birthday.  He's such a great kid and just returned home from his first year of college.  This verse really makes me think of him, so I thought it was the perfect fit.  I embossed the verse in black on designer paper first.  Next I embossed the flag trios in white three times on black paper and punched out with a circle punch.  Then I stamped the trios a couple more times on two coordinating papers, hand trimmed and paper pieced over the flag images.  The Happy Birthday flag is built with two sentiments from this set and I hand trimmed the ends and added a bit of detail with a black pen to make it pop.  It's attached to the card with a Tim Holtz memo pin, turned upside down. and I added a bit of black twine for interest.  The card was inspired by Janelle's Week 2 Viva la Verve sketch, but I adjusted it a bit to fit the card and to change it to a 3.5 x 5.5" card base.  The card was a big hit, both with the women in the family and my nephew.

Alrighty... time to hop on over to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Charmaine.

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 full set reveals and all the prize info and deadlines!  All of the stamps and dies you see previewed this week will be available in the Verve online store on Friday, May 23.

Today's Prize: Wonderful Marvelous, Jeremiah 17:7 Plain Jane

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

VLV May Week 2

Enabler's List
Stamps: Jeremiah 17:7, Wonderful Marvelous (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Memorabilia (Teresa Collins), white
Ink: black, versamark
Accessories: circle punch (EK success), memo pin (Tim Holtz), white embossing powder, clear embossing powder (JudiKins), twine