December Diva Dare - Day 6

Hi there! Amber here today to share a quick card for this month's Diva Dare!!

 Favorite Things - December Diva Dare

This month we are daring you to share your favorite Verve creations for this year OR create a new one with one of your FAVORITE Verve products!

My favorite stamp set of the year is Happy Place and a couple of my favorite cards have come from using this stamp set!

Here's one I created for the release, I love the bright colors and fun artsy look I got from my Dylusions inks!

The sentiment is from 2 Corinthians 12:9 PJ!

Here's another fun one with a clear card base and Happy Place! I also used another favorite, from the same release, Peaceful Medallions!

This one uses Happy Place and Moments Remembered...

And this one I made just for today! 

I watercolored the background with my Peerless Watercolors and then just stamped the images and sentiments from Happy Place! Such a simple, fun card!

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Favorite Things dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must include your favorite Verve creation(s) of 2014 (maximum of 3 entries) OR be an entry using your favorite stamp set, be posted 12/8 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 12/21/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like for a new creation (each card needs to be a separate post), and a maximum of 3 times for previously created cards.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Favorite Things Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is December 21, 2014.

  

Winners will be announced on December 22, 2014.

July 2014 Diva Dare - Day 10

Hi there Verve fans!  Laurie here, bringing you day 10 of the July Diva Dare!

Inside Out - July Diva Dare

This month we're daring you to create a stamped card and continue the design on the inside for a special surprise for the recipient.  Simply carry over some portion of the card front design on to the inside of your card.   

Here's what I came up with...

 

For the front, I stamped several of the medallion images from the Peaceful Medallions set, and then used my circle punches to punch them out.  It's hard to see in this photo, but I stamped the leafy image from the  Happy Place set all over the dark gray background paper.  For embellishment, I added some seam binding (from the Signature Ribbon Collection) and a couple of wooden hearts.

For the inside, I added a strip of coordinating patterned paper (from the same patterned paper pad), and couple more punched out medallions.  For the sentiment, I stamped the 2 Corinthians 12:9 Plain Jane using dark gray ink.

Now it's YOUR turn!

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Inside Out dare and link up your card to be eligible to win.  Entries must have an element from the front of your card carried over to the inside, be posted 7/14 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 7/31/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Inside Out Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is July 31, 2014.

Winners will be announced on August 1, 2014.

July Spotlights Day 3 Blog Hop

Hi there Verve fans!  We're back with Day 3 of our July Release Spotlight Hops!  That means tomorrow is release day for the sets we've been previewing this week.  Today's our third and final reveal day, then we'll be back for a Diva's Choice blog hop tomorrow.  Today's hop starts over on my blog, Poetic Artistry, but be sure to read on for the full product reveals!

Since we LOVE to share our Verve, we've got a giveaway every day this week!  Just hop around to the blogs on today's hop and tell us what you think in the comments at each stop and you'll be entered in a drawing to win today's featured stamps!  Woohoo!

Day 3 PRIZE: Happy Place, 2 Corinthians 12:9 (illustrated by Julee Tilman)
and Happy Doodles Die Set
Comment Deadline:  Sunday,  July 13 @ 5PM Mountain

1. Julee 9. Charmaine 2. Stacey 10. Jen 3. Maureen 11. Sheri {Guest} 4. Chaitali 12. Laurie 5. Marisa 13. Andrea 6. Teresa 14. Amber 7. Kay {Guest} 15. Christyne 8. Janelle

Our spotlighted set today is Happy Place, illustrated by me.  Inspired by Chaitali's illustrations for this release, I set out to create a coordinating set with my own whimsical take on some of the Indian inspired designs I had just been introduced to.  The peacock wings from her set whispered to me that they wanted to be a butterfly, and who was I to tell them they couldn't? After all, everyone deserves a chance to fly.  So wings became butterflies and feathers became leaves and doodled flowers laughed and smiled and nestled into their Happy Place.

Happy Place is a whimsical little set of flowers, butterflies and happiness.  The stemmed flower images and the butterfly each have a coordinating die in the Happy Doodles Die Set (available separately). The sweet sentiments and whimsical images in this set make for easy encouraging cards. Happy Place will retail for $18 and includes 9 clear photopolymer stamps on a 4" x 8" acetate sheet.

The Happy Doodles Die Set is a set of 3 dies that coordinate with images in the Happy Place stamp set.  Each die leaves about a 1/16" border around it's coordinating stamped image and have alignment holes for easy stamp alighnment.  This die set will retail for $21.

And last, but not least, our plain jane for this release is 2 Corinthians 12:9.  Stamped image measures approximately 1-7/8" wide by 1.5" tall and will retail for $3.

I sneaked a little peek of this plain jane earlier this week on this card sample (see below) for the Mojo 353 sketch.  This week is contest week and Verve is sponsoring prizes, so be sure to play along for a chance to win!

All of the stamps and dies featured this week will be available for purchase in the Verve Store tomorrow (7/11/14)!

Thanks so much for hopping with us today!  Have a great day and we'll see you back here tomorrow for one last stroll through this new VERVE release!