The Stamping Scrapbooker: 2016

Friday, March 11, 2016

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

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

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? :)

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

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

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.

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

Monday, March 7, 2016

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* :)

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

Friday, March 4, 2016

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

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Verve Stamps February 2016 Diva Inspirations Challenge and Blog Hop!

It's time for the Verve Divas to bring you our monthly Diva Inspirations Challenge and Blog Hop! There are two ways to win Verve prizes: comment on the design team's blog hop posts (linked below) to see their take on the inspiration, then go get inky and link up your take on the challenge to be eligible in our prize drawings! You have until March 5 to link up, so feel free to play as often as you like.

The pop of color in this industrial style loft speaks of the hope of spring in the midst of winter. Kind of like February... it's still cold and wintry, but new life is on the horizon. Feel free to take your inspiration from the photo or the color combo, whatever suits your fancy! We can't wait to see what you create.

Click here to link up your challenge entries
Challenge deadline: Saturday, March 5.
Prize: $30 gift voucher to the Verve online store!

Oh boy, I know it's been like a million years since I've posted! I'm slowly working my way back into my craft room, I sure have missed all my stamps and ink and paper and glitter and markers and dies, oy! This inspiration challenge this month was just the ticket to get me out of my funk! I just love this color combo!

I started by laying a stencil on the card base and rubbing some green Distress Ink over the stencil. I cut out three flowers using the Pointed Flowers Die Set and then embossed the matching stamps from Lean on Me in white embossing powder. I colored them in with my Tombow markers and then blended with a water brush. I stamped and embossed the sentiment from Floral Notes in white on soft gray cardstock. I rounded one of the corners on the sentiment to add a little interest, and rounded that same corner on the card base. Last detail was to add some Shine Bright sequins and some twine.

Here on this photo, you can see the sparkly background. I ran my glitter pen over the green parts of the stenciled leaves, I also added the shimmer to the water-colored flowers, it's so sparkly IRL!!

Amy's blog is up next, don't miss it!!

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we're giving away a $30 gift voucher to Verve to one random commenter along the hop!


	1. Julee	8. Marisa
	2. Amber	9. Maureen
	3. Amy	10. Sankari
	4. Betty	11. Stacey
	5. Charmaine	12. Susan
	6. Christyne	13. Teresa
	7. Laurie