August Diva Inspirations Blog Hop!!

Hi there! I'm back today with more lovely VERVE inspiration! The Inspiration Diva's have a monthly hop, on the 5th of every month and extend the invitation to the rest of us Divas so I jumped on this one! I love pulling out older, unloved sets and putting a new spin on them. 

Today, I have a card to share using this past week's Mojo Monday sketch and the Joyful Blooms stamp set.

I've really been loving this Teresa Collins paper pad lately and don't plan on putting this paper away anytime soon, haha! I thought the flowers on the floral piece looked really close to our Joyful Blooms set, so that's why I went with that stamp set. 

I cut out three blooms with the Joyful Blooms die set and then stamped coordinating flowers from the Joyful Blooms stamp set. On the big pink one, I cut around the small flower a bit and popped those petals out. You gotta be careful doing this because it almost cut that middle flower out all the way, when I only meant to pop some of the petals out, haha. I added some buttons to the centers and then popped them up on dimensionals. I used a couple other Verve dies, you can see the Ribbon Banner die in the back (I actually cut two, so I could elongate the banner) and the Classy Label die behind the circular sentiment piece. 

Well, that's it from me! I hope you enjoyed my card using an oldie but a goodie:) Hopefully you're inspired to pull out some older sets that haven't see the daylight for awhile and give 'em a workout:) 

Thanks for stopping by today! Now hop on to ANDREA'S beautiful blog!

Here's the hop list in case you get bounced around a bit:)

	1. Betty	9. Andrea
	2. Jen d.	10. Janelle
	3. Jen T.	11. Laurie
	4. Julee	12. Maureen
	5. Sankari	13. Teresa
	6. Sony	14. Charmaine
	7. Susan	15. Christyne
	8. Amber *<---you are here*	16. Laurie

With a new month comes a new sale, and this month we're celebrating FIVE wonderful years of Verve! So in proper celebratory style, we've made some fantastic discounts on some wonderful product! Through August 31, save 10 - 50% off select stamps and dies. Everything is on sale while supplies last, so go ahead and treat yourself to one or two, or even FIVE stampy pleasures! {grin}