I Hope your Season Sparkles!

Hello! Long time, huh? My mojo took a little vacation and is not playing nice lately! 

I had some time this morning to get into my stamp room and used Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch for my inspiration, as well as my new MFT goodies!!

The sentiment is from the Ala Modes Sparkling Seasons set and then we have the awesome HUGE snowflake die! I added  lots of Crystal Ice Stickles to the snowflake to make it sparkle, because we can't use this sentiment and not have some SPARKLE!;)

The card base is Wild Cherry from MFT and I even used some new pp I got, Sleigh Ride by Crate Paper!

I hope you had a fantastic weekend are looking forward to a short work week and lots of family fun:) 

November Sketch for You to Try

It's the 1st Saturday of the month and that means we have a new Sketch for you to Try {SFYTT}! 

Here's our sketch for the month!

Fun, right? And speaking of  fun, we're being sponsored this month by a fun stamp company! It's new to me, but I'm loving what they have!

The Sweet Stamp Shop!

I used It's Raining for my card, love this set!

I'm still rocking the iPhone camera pics, haha! They turn out a bit better when it's light out:)

My card base is Melon Berry and I ran the front through my big shot with a cuttlebug folder. The chevron paper is by Teresa Collins! I sewed that piece down at an angle. 

I cut a Curvy Bookplate Label out in Kraft, and then stamped the coordinating border stamp and then cut the label in half. I layered it behind the sentiment piece and then sewed it down. I hand cut the umbrella, added some stickles and a button and then adhered it with a dimensional glue dot.

I added a couple ribbon tabs and some silver pearls to finish this card off.

Well that's all I have to share today! Hop on over to the rest of the girls blogs and see what Sweet Stamps they're using!

Amber Hight
Amy Sheffer
Becky Carafa
Jen Tapler
Jodi Collins 
Kerry Johnson
Megan Lock
Susan Liles
Tracy Schultz

Verve Spotlight Hops Day 3 - Holiday Greetings

Welcome to our Holiday 2012 Spotlight Hops!  We're releasing four new sets and a plain jane this Friday, November 2! Please join us each day this week as we showcase the new sets and count down to our release! All of the stamps you see featured will be available in the Verve store following our release party from 9-11pm Eastern on Friday, November 2!

In the meantime, we've got a fun filled hop for you today! So let your fingers do the clicking and peek into the creative minds of Verve's talented Divas as they give you a little tour of what's to come! Inspiration abounds, and so do the PRIZES! 

That's right! We've picked a mystery blog from today's hop and hidden a prize! So be sure to give a little shout out in the comment section as you hop around to each blog on the list. We'll draw a random winner from all of the comments on the mystery blog to win today's featured stamps. Check out the Verve Blog for all the prize details and deadlines.

Welcome back to the last day of our sneak peeks! I bet you're SOOO excited to get your hands on these sets aren't you? I can't wait for you to get them either and FLOOD the interwebs with your gorgeous creations:)

So today we're peeking a fabulous new set called Holiday Greetings.

I stamped and embossed the large snowflakes in clear and white EP and then ran it through my big shot with a woodgrain embossing folder. The wreath and sentiment are also from this amazing set! I cut a large circle and then stamped the wreath on the circle, added another circle with the sentiment, and then added stickles to the berries, some buttons, and some fab gingham ribbon! I think this one is my favorite card of the release, the white, kraft, and red combo is so fun!

Amongst the excitement of the release, I almost forgot that today is a new Viva la Verve sketch! A new month and a new sketch:) This week is my week and here's our sketch!

And my card using more images from Holiday Greetings!

Again, the lighting sucks because this is taken with my phone and no amount of photo-shopping was going to help, ha!

I love this tree! There are a couple other trees in the set too, which you've probably seen while bouncing around the other blogs! The papers are from Basic Grey's Aspen Frost collection and the ribbon is from SU!

Come play along with us HERE IN THE FORUM!!

Okay, so now it's time to hop on to the next Diva and spread some more love:) Thanks so much for stopping by today! See you at the party tonite!!

1. Julee 6. Amber 2. Laurie 7. Amy 3. Maureen 8. Andrea 4. Teresa 9. Charmaine 5. Tosh 10. Janelle

Verve Spotlight Hops Day 3 - Joy to the World and Joyous Noel

Welcome to our Holiday 2012 Spotlight Hops!  We're releasing four new sets and a plain jane this Friday, November 2! Please join us each day this week as we showcase the new sets and count down to our release! All of the stamps you see featured will be available in the Verve store following our release party from 9-11pm Eastern on Friday, November 2!

In the meantime, we've got a fun filled hop for you today! So let your fingers do the clicking and peek into the creative minds of Verve's talented Divas as they give you a little tour of what's to come! Inspiration abounds, and so do the PRIZES! 

That's right! We've picked a mystery blog from today's hop and hidden a prize! So be sure to give a little shout out in the comment section as you hop around to each blog on the list. We'll draw a random winner from all of the comments on the mystery blog to win today's featured stamps. Check out the Verve Blog for all the prize details and deadlines.

It's already day 3 of our sneak peeks! This week is flying by!

Thanks for all the sweet comments so far, I love to read them:) As for the comments on my pictures from my phone, it's an iPhone 4S which I'm pretty sure has the most fabulous camera ever, ha! Well maybe the 5 is better, but I've not had my hands on that one yet! I still prefer the lighting on my real camera, so I'm gonna keep on looking, lol:)

Today we're sharing peaks of TWO new stamps, one is a a new Plain Jane, and the other is Joyous Noel!

The sentiment is the new Joy to the World Plain Jane, isn't it awesome? I love the font! The flowers are from Joyous Noel, I just stamped a couple, cut them out, and layered them:)

It's trick or treat night, so I gotta keep this short as the munchkins are ringing the bell as I type! Now hop on over to the next Diva in the lineup! Thanks so much for stopping by:)

1. Julee 6. Amber 2. Laurie. 7. Amy 3. Maureen 8. Andrea 4. Teresa 9. Charmaine 5. Tosh 10. Janelle