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.

August 2014 Diva Dare - Day 8

Celebrate Good Times - August Diva Dare

Welcome to August's Diva Dare! Chaitali here with my take on this month's dare entitled Celebrate Good Times.     

Verve is turning 7 this month and we’d love to see your celebration cards.  Think wedding, birthday, anniversary… anything that brings the confetti out!

This is the first of many days (yup there is more coming this month!) of celebrating Anni-Verve-sary for me! I felt it was appropriate that I use a bunch of stamps to create a collage of happy sentiments. Each of the sentiments here comes from a different Verve set. Lets start counting shall we?

"Have a happy day" from Be Blessed; "Celebrate" from Moments Remembered; "Love" from Text Objects; "Enjoy" from Learning to Sail; "Smile" from Happy Place and "Celebrate Today" from one mystery unreleased set ;)

I kept the background simple with some patterned paper from my stash and let the sentiments collage be the focal point of the card. I couldn't resist adding some white embossed flowers colored in distress inks. I followed Jennifer McGuire's tutorial to color the flowers quickly and fussy cut them to get a crisp white outline. The flower stamps are from Be Blessed and Happy Place sets.

Hope you enjoyed my take on the Diva Dare this month! Now you are invited to play along with us and get inky!

 

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Celebrate Good Times dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have a celebration theme:  birthday, wedding, anniversary, confirmation, new job, retirement, new baby, new home - anything you can celebrate, be posted 8/8 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 8/23/14.  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 Celebrate Good Times 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 August 23, 2014.

Winners will be announced on August 24, 2014.

Go forth and get inky...we dare you!

August 2014 Diva Dare - Day 7

Celebrate Good Times - August Diva Dare

Welcome to August's Diva Dare!  Maureen here with my take on this month's dare entitled Celebrate Good Times.     

Verve is turning 7 this month and we’d love to see your celebration cards.  Think wedding, birthday, anniversary… anything that brings the confetti out!

 

 I can always remember Verve's Anniversary year as I got married in the same year!  Lucky 7 this year!  I chose some soft pretty papers from Teresa Collins' Summer Stories pad for the base of my card.  Then I embossed the Happy Place flowers with some old rose gold embossing powder I had in my stash and stamped this beautiful sentiment from Moments Remembered onto a vellum tag.
 

 I looked through some older Verve sets to find the perfect little sentiment to go with the main quote.  This one came from Remember This.  I wanted to somehow acknowledge "7" years on my card so I made this sweet little tag with the "7" from Calendar Countdown.  Of course you can't have an anniversary without some bling so I made sure to use a smattering of the Shine Bright Sequin Mix for a celebratory look!

 

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Celebrate Good Times dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have a celebration theme:  birthday, wedding, anniversary, confirmation, new job, retirement, new baby, new home - anything you can celebrate, be posted 8/8 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 8/23/14.  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 Celebrate Good Times 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 August 23, 2014.

Winners will be announced on August 24, 2014.

Go forth and get inky...we dare you!

August 2014 Diva Dare ~ Day 6

Celebrate Good Times - August Diva Dare

Welcome to August's Diva Dare!  Laurie here with my take on this month's dare entitled Celebrate Good Times.     

Verve is turning 7 this month and we’d love to see your celebration cards.  Think wedding, birthday, anniversary… anything that brings the confetti out!

 

 

I have been wanting to watercolor this flower image (from the new Happy Place stamp set) for a while now, so that is how I started this card!  For the sentiment, I chose the large celebrate sentiment from the Moments Remembered set, and added it as a banner across the card.  For embellishment I adhered some wee little wooden hearts (that I dyed to match the flowers), rhinestones in the center of the flowers, as well as a library clip and twine.

 

 

 

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Celebrate Good Times dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have a celebration theme:  birthday, wedding, anniversary, confirmation, new job, retirement, new baby, new home - anything you can celebrate, be posted 8/8 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 8/23/14.  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 Celebrate Good Times 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 August 23, 2014.

Winners will be announced on August 24, 2014.

Go forth and get inky...we dare you!

 

 

July 2014 Diva Dare - Day 11

Hi there Verve fans!  It's Charmaine bringing you day 11 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. 

I used the Happy Place set for my card along with papers from the Lost & Found Record It Collection from My Mind's Eye.  The ribbon is from the Signature Ribbon Collection.

I die cut the flowers using the coordinating Happy Doodles Die Set.  I colored the flowers and added some bling to the centers.  

I carried the design into the inside of the card by stamping a single flower and the word "smile" next to it, leaving lots of space at the top to write inside the card.  

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 Release Retrospective Hop

Hi Verve fans!  Welcome to our July Release Retrospective Hop!  The Divas and guests have planned a great little hop for you today featuring our recently released stamps and dies.  By now you should have had a chance to receive your new stamps and we thought it would be fun to put on a hop to give you even more ideas with them!  Sound like fun? Just hop around to the blogs on the link list below and leave a little comment love as you hop about for a chance to win a $40 gift voucher to Verve!  Want another chance to win? Link up your creations using at least one of our July release products to the linkup widget at the bottom of this post and you'll be entered in a drawing to win our entire August release!

I'm the first stop on the hop over on my blog, Poetic Artistry, but first I wanted to share this {sort of CAS} card I made with the Peaceful Medallions set and the large flower from Happy Place.  I started by stamping medallions on a piece of white cardstock in perfect plum and wisteria wonder.  Next I stamped the big medallion on another piece of white, cut with a circle die and matted with a scallop circle die cut in perfect plum.  Next I flipped the flower stamp from Happy Place over so I was stamping on the solid side and stamped it pale plum.  I then stamped over that with the right side of the stamp in Wisteria Wonder and hand cut to pop up over my medallion piece.  I stamped two of the smaller medallions in pale plum, then cut with a 1" circle punch and popped up on my card.  I finished with a sentiment from Be Blessed and then added some liquid pearls and amethyst rhinestone accents.  Simple, yet elegant.

Okay, let's move along to the hop list....

	1. Julee	10. Jen
	2. Stacey	11. Sheri {Guest}
	3. Maureen	12. Andrea
	4. Chaitali	13. Amber
	5. Marisa	14. Christyne
	6. Teresa	15. Sarah
	7. Kay {Guest}	16. Anya
	8. Janelle	17. Betty
	9. Charmaine

ETA:  Laurie wasn't able to post today due to an injury.

Hop Prize: $40 Gift Voucher to Verve 

Comment Deadline:  8pm Mountain, Thursday, July 31

Show us your VERVE Challenge!
Now it's YOUR turn! We'd LOVE to see what you've done with the July release! Link up your creations using at least one product from our July release to the widget below and you'll be entered in a drawing to win our ENTIRE next release!

How to enter:
1.  Make a card or project using at least one product from our new release.
2. Post it to your blog or online gallery, mentioning Verve in the write-up.
3.  Come back here and link your creation to the linky list below.

You can enter as many creations as you like, so have fun inking up your Verve!  We can't wait to see what you create.

Show Us Your Verve Link-Up Prize:  Verve's entire August release

Deadline for Prize Drawing:  8pm Mountain on August 23.

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 2014 Diva Dare - Day 9

Inside Out - July Diva Dare

Welcome to July's Diva Dare!  It's Andrea with you today on this 9th day of fabulous inspiration from the Divas! This month's dare is entitled Inside Out.    

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.   I'm ashamed to say that I very rarely decorate the inside of my card (though I do stamp the envelope!) so this challenge was a good excuse for me to practice! Here's my attempt at coordinating the inside (P.S. Don't close the card until your liquid pearls are dry...don't ask me how I know :)

I'm loving these new Verve floral stamps, designed by Julee. I stamped the flowers from Verve's Happy Place set onto a piece of Natural White cardstock and cut out the shape with the coordinating Happy Doodles die set. I colored in the image using Copics. I added some Raspberry Liquid Pearls to the tops of the flowers and also to the butterfly stamped on the inside of the card. I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch for my design. All edges are distressed and I added a variety of lace, Organdy and daisy chain ribbon as well as twine to the top. The banners are cut out with Verve's Banner Bundle set.

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.

- Go forth and get inky! We DARE you! -

You only need to link 1 image if your post contains pictures of both the front and inside of the card.  If you are linking to a gallery, then include a link to where we can see both the inside and outside of your card.

July 2014 Diva Dare ~ Day 8

Hello there, lovelies! Amber here with Day 8 of the Diva Dare challenge...hope your week is going well so far, half way to the weekend, WOOP WOOP!

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. **

I wanted to do something a little different with my card, and let you SEE the inside FROM the outside! 

I got a piece of clear cardstock and created the card base, and then found the patterned paper that I wanted to put on the inside. The papers are from BG's Grand Bazaar (I love this paper!). Next, I cut the turquouise frame and glued it on to the card front, and sewed the corner. I pulled out my beloved Peaceful Medallions stamp set. I cut several of a few different sized circles and then stamped some fun medallions. The big one in the back is embossed in gold, super shiny IRL! The flower is from Happy Place and cut out with one of the dies from Happy Doodles. The sentiment is from Happy Place, and was stamped on a banner cut out with the Scroll die. I used the coordinating scroll stamp from Die Sidekicks for that banner. Here are a couple detail shots...

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