Verve Stamps March Spotlight Hop - Day 5

Hello there and thanks for coming back to visit me today! If you came earlier looking for a card from me, I owe you a huge apology! The past two days got away from me with some house repairs being done, and I just plain dropped the ball like a hot potato. I am so very sorry! Without further ado..I give you Day 5 :)

It's the final day of our March Spotlight Hops!  Have you enjoyed the spotlights we've been sharing this week? Thanks so much for hopping along with us and celebrating the new release this week! Everything previewed this week is available to order in the Verve online store. So come let's hop along one more time for a closer look at Rise Above, New Beginnings and the Partly Cloudy and Springtime Stitches die sets.

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!

Your next stop on the hop is Betty!!

1. Julee 7. Mackie 2. Amber 8. Marisa 3. Betty 9. Maureen 4. Charmaine 10. Stacey 5. Christyne 11. Vicki 6. Lee-Anne

Verve Stamps March Spotlight Hop - Day 4

Welcome back to Day 4 of Verve's March Spotlight Hops!  The Verve Divas and special guests are back for another day of spotlighting our new release! Everything previewed this week is available to order in the Verve online store. So come hop along and take a closer look at Simply Amazing, and the Simply Daisies and Amazing Adjectives die sets.

My card today is pretty clean and simple, I was just in one of those moods where I didn't need too much :)

I cut a piece of cardstock to 4 x 5.25 and stamped the top half of the cardstock with floral images from Simply Daisies in different colors. Next, I cut another piece of white cardstock and adhered it to the stamped piece. I cut out the 'amazing' from the *amazing* new "amazing adjectives" die set! That's a whole lot of amazing, yeah? :)

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!

Your next stop today is Betty's Beautiful Blog!

1. Julee 8. Mackie 2. Amber 9. Marisa 3. Betty 10. Maureen 4. Charmaine 11. Stacey 5. Christyne 12. Teresa 6. Laurie 13. Vicki 7. Lee-Anne

Verve Stamps March Spotlight Hop - Day 3

Welcome back to Day 3 of Verve's March Spotlight Hops!  The Verve Divas and special guests are back for another day of spotlighting our new release! Everything previewed this week is available to order in the Verve online store. So come hop along and take a closer look at Hip Hop Bunnies, the Bunny Hop die set and the Welcome plain jane.

This was such a fun stamp set to play with, I just adore these bunnies!!

I cut the bunnies out with the matching dies (this is so slick, I just love matching dies!!!) and then colored them with my Tombow watercolor markers. You may be looking at my bunnies thinking "gosh, I can see the crispy watercolor lines and blowouts all over the place, goll!" and you know what? I love that :) I love crispy watercolor edges, they're so artsy to me! I don't necessarily always want my image to look realistic, I love the watercolor look! The papers I used are from Fancy Pants. For the layout, I just took papers and started layering them. The scalloped edge die is not Verve, I can't remember who it's from, maybe PPP?  I embossed the sentiment in white on black cardstock and added that on dimensionals. I also added some twine and a button and some faux stitching.

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!

Your next stop on the hop is the lovely Betty!!

1. Julee 7. Mackie 2. Amber 8. Marisa 3. Betty 9. Maureen 4. Charmaine 10. Stacey 5. Christyne 11. Teresa 6. Lee-Anne 12. Vicki

Verve Stamps March Spotlight Hop - Day 2

Welcome back to Day 2 of Verve's March Spotlight Hops!  The Verve Divas and special guests are back for another day of spotlighting our new release! Everything previewed this week is available to order in theVerve online store. So come hop along and take a closer look at the Coffee Helps and Cup for All Seasons die set.

I don't know about you, but I don't think you can ever have enough coffee sets! Kinda like flowers, right? This is a big stamp set, full of wonderful sentiments and cute little coffee cup designs and some fun little filler stamps, you'll have fun with this one for hours, and with a matching die set? Match made in heaven :)

I started with a white card base and layered some white, chocolate, mint, and kraft chevron papers. I thought it needed a little extra depth so I found a scrap piece of text paper and added that also. For the sentiment panel, I cut a piece of watercolor paper with the circle nestabilities and then layed down a light layer of Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink and moved it around with a bunch of water. I hit that with my heat gun (because I'm impatient, I can't wait for nature to dry things) and then stamped the sentiment in Versafine black ink. I cut the coffee cup out with the die and then stamped the matching coffee cup and colored the cup with Tombow watercolor markers. To finish the card up, I tied a twine bow and added some tan sequins. I also spritzed a little bit of Espresso Distress Ink on the sentiment piece to grunge it up *just a little* :)

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!

Now you're on your way to Betty's beautiful blog! Thanks so much for stopping by today, see you back here same time tomorrow ;)

1. Julee 8. Mackie 2. Amber 9. Marisa 3. Betty 10. Maureen 4. Charmaine 11. Stacey 5. Christyne 12. Teresa 6. Laurie 13. Vicki 7. Lee-Anne

Verve March Spotlight Hops - Day 1

Welcome to Verve's March Spotlight Hops!  It's an exciting day as there's a whole bunch of new Verve in the store this morning! 5 beautiful new sets, 6 die sets and a plain jane just released and they're all available to order right now. Throughout the next week we'll be spotlighting each of the new sets with a hop to show you just how versatile these sets are.

Today the Divas and special guests are showing you their first projects with the new release. And it's designer's choice, so you might just sneak a peek at a whole bunch of must-haves!

I have one card to share today using the new stamp set "Rise Above" and matching "Partly Cloudy" dies!

I'm so sorry for the terrible quality, I recently got a new laptop and need to figure out all my settings, lol! 

I used this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch for the layout

Want to win some shiny new Verve? Today's prize is a BIG one. We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the hop spots below to win our ENTIRE new release! 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 and all the prize info and deadlines!

Your next stop on the hop is Betty!

1. Julee 8. Mackie 2. Amber 9. Marisa 3. Betty 10. Maureen 4. Charmaine 11. Stacey 5. Christyne 12. Teresa 6. Laurie 13. Vicki 7. Lee-Anne