National Coffee Day Terrific Trios Wrap Up

Hi Verve fans!  It's Julee here, wrapping up our Terrific Trios Diva Dare.  Today is also National Coffee Day, so I've got a coffee themed card and a little gift code to the Verve Store to share with you.  First the gift code...

We're celebrating National Coffee Day with a 10% off gift code!

Just enter COFFEE in the gift code box at the bottom of our shopping cart and click apply to save 10% off your Verve Stamps order.   Offer valid on in-stock merchandise, September 29, 2014 only.  No backorders accepted. Code cannot be applied to previous purchases.

Okay, now on with the Diva Dare.  This month is all about threes, so the dare is to add three of something to your card or project.  My card has a lot of trios on it, so let's get started.  

Trios of coffee cups (from the One Cup set) stacked three high, three banners each stamped with the word coffee (from the Coffee set), a three lined sentiment (coffee... is always... a good idea).  Three strands of linen thread tied around the card in a bow.  I also stamped the word coffee on this card a total of 12 times for four more trios!

I started by stamping the trio of cups from One Cup three times (masking off the top cup to stamp each successive trio) on crumb cake, then coloring with prismacolor pencils.  Next I stamped the hand-lettered coffee stamp and the always a good idea stamp from the Coffee set to the left of my stamped cups.  I used the other coffee sentiments in the Coffee set to stamp on the three banners, then added some coloring to the hand-lettered coffees and some sponging all around.  I finished with a bit of mossy meadow cardstock up top and some white linen thread tied in a bow.  My layout is this week's tall & skinny Mojo 365 sketch.

Enabler's List

Stamps: One Cup, Coffee (Verve Stamps)
Paper: crumb cake, mossy meadow, pool party, riding hood red (SU!), white (Neenah)
Ink: Early Espresso (SU!), Walnut Stain distress ink (Rnager), Prismacolor pencils
Accessories:  white linen thread, border punch, wood veneer heart

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Terrific Trios dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have 3 of something on your card or project, be posted 9/12 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/01/14.  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 Terrific Trios 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 October 1, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 2, 2014.

September 2014 Diva Dare

Terrific Trios - September Diva Dare

Welcome to September's Diva Dare!  This month's dare is entitled Terrific Trios.  Back to school time usually means life is a 3 ring circus, so this month we're daring you to add 3 of something to your card or project. 

I used this week's Viva La Verve sketch by Diva Charmaine, and immediately thought of using this wonderful image from the newly released One Cup.  Needless to say, the trio aspect of the dare was all taken care of wink, wink.  The matching Cuppa Tea Die Set was great for cutting out the cup image and then I paper pieced them with MME's Stella and Rose papers (still love these papers!).  Opted for a natural pallet so the cups would pop, and added the crimped panel and some raffia for a bit of texture.

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Terrific Trios dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have 3 of something on your card or project, be posted 9/12 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/01/14.  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 October 1, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 2, 2014.

Day 5 AnniVERVEsary Spotlight Hop

Welcome to our Anni-VERVE-sary 2014 Spotlight Hops!

This month Verve is celebrating 7 wonderful years and our release is filled with all sorts of treats! All week long the Divas will be spotlighting new stamps and dies and each day there's a chance to win a $50 gift code to Verve just for commenting on our posts! So tune in each day for a new spotlight and a fresh chance to win. Everything previewed this week will be available for purchase in the Verve online store on Saturday 8/30.

We're back with Day 5 of our spotlight hops!  Are you loving what you've seen so far?  

Well, let's get hopping again!

Day 3 PRIZE: $50 Gift Code to the Verve Store
Comment Deadline:  Saturday, August 30 @ 5PM Mountain

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

Today's set reveal is a set illustrated by Julee Tilman.  

When I saw the concept for Chaitali's Coffee set, I knew that I wanted to release a tea set at the same time. I've been collecting tea related sentiments, so started out illustrating a few whimsical cups and designing some of those sentiments.  Once I finished I liked the font treatment so much that we decided to use it for Chaitali's One Word series as well.  Such a fun whimsical, yet classy look.

One Cup is a fun tea themed set illustrated by Julee Tilman.  It contains some completed tea phrases as well as some that can be combined with the word tea (or coffee if you want to mix it with the new Coffee set or word die). We've got single cups with separate tea bags and stacking cups as well.  One Cup will retail for $18 and includes 15 clear photopolymer stamps on a 4" x 8" acetate sheet.

There's also a coordinating die set available!

The Cuppa Tea Die Set coordinates with the cup images in One Cup.
It is sold separately and retails for $13.

Also in the spotlight is a scripture plain jane that's perfect for our treat themed release.. Psalm 34:8

Psalm 34:8 is a single stamp in our Plain Jane line and will retail for $3.

All of the products featured this week will be available for purchase in the Verve Store on Saturday, August 30.

Thanks so much for hopping with us today!  Have a great day and we'll see you back here tomorrow for some more fresh new looks at VERVE!