Verve Sneak Peeks, Day 1 ~ Sweet Treats and NEW DIES!

Hey guys and dolls! I'm so happy you've come to visit me:) Did you come from Debbie's blog? If not, and if you don't want to miss out on anything FABULOUS, start at the Verve blog for the hop order! 

I have a couple projects to share with you today featuring NEW Verve! 

The details:

This Friday, January 7, Verve is releasing some fabulous new sets and dies! To countdown to the release, we’re putting on a series of mini blog hops Tuesday through Thursday of this week to preview the new sets! *And because a new release is something to celebrate, we’ve hidden a prize on one of the participating blogs each day! Just leave a little comment love as you hop around to be entered into a drawing to win that day’s featured stamps!* Deadline for comment entries is 6PM Mountain Friday, January 7. Winners will be announced at our release party on Friday night!

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Okay, the first set we're previewing is called Sweet Treats and is a SERIOUS treat! You'll find a couple stamps that coordinate with PREVIOUS dies and some seriously lovely sentiments as well!

For my first project, I wanted to do some kind of treat holder and card set. Now, I think it's obvious (since you don't see many gift packaging projects from me!) that I'm not 100% comfortable with altering things or making gifty things. Mostly cause I'm horrible at giving them away, lol! I'm really going to try to give this one away though because I love how it turned out!

How about those yummy stamps?? 

Here, I stamped the swirly heart oval stamp in Espresso ink on the card base and then stamped the sentiment on a piece of vanilla carstock and cut it out with the NEW Embossed Oval die! This die is really fun because the there is a line that's embossed all the way around the edge. It looks really cool up close! Love this die!

I added some buttons, ribbon (accordion folded and then sewn down), and some silver cord!

I have a bunch of these small kraft bags so I decided I needed to start using them, lol! Great time to break them out;) I stamped the same swirly oval stamp from the card on to the bag using Espresso ink. Here you'll also see I used one of the new stamps that coordinate with the previously released Sweet Scallop tag die! How fun is that pattern? I stamped "Sweet Treats" onto the tag and then cut it out with my die! The bag is tied closed with the same ribbon (SU!) and cord from the card, I like my continuity;)

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Okay, one more card using the NEW Sweet Treats set!

I obviously have a thing for this swirly oval stamp;) I stamped it onto the card base (paper from The Girls' Paperie) and then again onto a heart (cut out with the NEW Jotted Heart die!!!) I stamped the sentiment (from a set we haven't peeked yet! Don't tell Julee;) onto the heart and then made sure to line up the oval on the base and the oval on the heart and then clued it down with a dimensional! That white label die is from Cuttlebug, and I embossed it with a swirly flourish folder. I finished this card off with three rhinestones, a bow and a button! Super fun little card:)

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Okay, we'll that's it from me today! I'll be back tomorrow with more!!

Your next stop on the hop is Charmaine!!!

If there is a break somewhere along the way, you can find the entire list on the Verve blog!

Thanks for stopping by today, see ya tomorrow!