Inventory Inspiration

Hi Verve friends! Thank you SOOOOOO much for all your fabulous well wishes, emails, comments and orders. My office is down to just one 2'x6' cabinet of product (about 50 different skus). I'm blown away! My voice echoes in my office now... it startles me every time I speak! I've already moved a fourth empty unit like these out and there's another empty bookshelf on the other wall.  It's definitely getting real, folks!

Today I thought I'd hop on and share a little inspiration with a few spotlights on some of our remaining stamp sets. All of today's spotlights also have a coordinating die still available. Please consider giving them a home so they don't end up sad and forgotten in a box in my garage! :)

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Everything Nice is a favorite set of mine. I love a good Cinderella story, and add in some coffee and what's not to love.  It coordinates with the Pumpkin Spice Die Set (also still available), but is so much more than just an autumn set.  The wishes come true sentiment is my absolute favorite for birthday cards. Here's a card I made with it and the free printable that comes with the Blooming Die Set.

You can view additional inspiration with this set in our Everything Nice gallery or on our Everything Nice Pinterest Board.

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Pink Power is a beautiful breast cancer awareness set designed by the lovely Chaitali Narla in honor of her mother who was battling breast cancer at the time. She sadly lost her fight. The bald silhouette is one of the loveliest images I've ever seen and I so treasure this beautiful set. It also coordinates with our Ribbon Die. Jennifer McGuire used the Pink Power set in this video tutorial. The timeless beauty of a card below is by Teresa Kline.

You can view additional inspiration with this set in our Pink Power gallery or on our Pink Power Pinterest Board.

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Pinecone Christmas is another set designed by Chaitali. This one features beautiful pinecone, branches and poinsettia images. It's a lovely set and coordinates with the Poinsettia Pinecones Die Set. The final copies of this stamp set are sold AS-IS at a 75% discount. They are missing the solid flame, solid candle and the bottom corner two step stamping solid leaf image (I've highlighted the missing images in the photo above). This time period in my life when the boys were tiny is kind of a blur, so I'm not sure why they're missing. Probably because they didn't line up for two step stamping correctly and we had to run a reprint. I've loved stamping with this set, especially those fun branches, and I created one of the very few stamping videos I've done using this stamp set. I love the glittery way Christyne Kane used this set in the card below.

You can view additional inspiration with this set in our Pinecone Christmas Gallery or on our Pinecone Christmas Pinterest Board.

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Our final set in the spotlight today is the Hip Hop Bunnies set. I love these adorable little bunnies and the fun coordinating Bunny Hop Die Set.  I've had so much fun making little treats and cards for my boys with them.

You can view additional inspiration with this set in our Hip Hop Bunnies Gallery or on our Hip Hop Bunnies Pinterest Board.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you're inspired! Would love to see any of your Verve creations! Just link me up.  :)

December Diva Dare - Day 8

Hi there! Chaitali here today as your Diva Dare hostess!

 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!

I am so happy Julee gave me the opportunity to join Verve as an illustrator this year. I've loved the chance to make my designs into stamps and even more, I loved all the wonderful creations everyone shared with the stamps!

So for my episode of this month's Diva Dare I decided to showcase some cards that were created with my sets because they really are my favorite Verve creations! None of these are made by me but I found them when lurking on the Verve Pinterest boards and I was so impressed by them! Also honored that they used my sets!!

Lets start the mini-parade, shall we? :)

Card 1 is Laurie Schmidlin's card using the Cupcakes set. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to copy her effortless layered style in secret! This one is a stunner!

Card 2 is Stacey Schafer's card using the Moments Remembered set. Love how she uses ribbons so beautifully on her cards. And the peacock feathers are so beautifully fussy cut!

Card 3 is Julee Tilman's card using the Pink Power set. Julee has a beautiful style that I liked to think of as layered CAS. Love this card that shows strength and softness so well!

So there you have it with my favorite Verve creations! Those sets are also my favorite sets :) Now on to some details for the Diva Dare!

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.

  

Thanks for stopping by! Wish you all Happy Holidays!

Winners will be announced on December 22, 2014.

December Diva Dare-Day 2

 Favorite Things - December Diva Dare

Welcome to November's Diva Dare, it is Teresa and have a couple of cards to share. This month's dare is entitled Favorite Things.  

So this month, we are daring you to share your favorite Verve creation(s) for this year OR create a new one with one of your favorite Verve products.

I narrowed it to two cards, I have lots of favorites though, what's not to like about Verve Stamps?

Stamps: Cupcakes(Verve Stamps)

Paper: White Card Stock(Bazzil) and Celebrations Designer Paper(Spellbinders)

Ink: Archival Jet Black(Ranger) and Strawberry Slush(SU)

Accessories: Spellbinders Rectangle Nesties, Black Hemp Twine, May Arts Silver Twine, Teresa Collins Enamel Dots, My Mind's Eye Enamel Dots, Glitz Jumbo Gem, Stickles, Carnival Tickets, 3D Foam Dots, and Glue Dots 

Stamps: Pink Power(Verve Stamps)
Paper: White Card Stock and Misc. Designer Paper
Ink: Archival Jet Black(Ranger) and Blushing Bride(SU)
Accessories: Signature Sequin Mix by Verve Stamps, Hemp Twine, Gemstones, Spellbinders Mists, Washi Tape, 3D Foam Dots, and Glue Dots 

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.

October 2014 Diva Dare - Day 10

  Pink Power- October Diva Dare

Welcome to October's Diva Dare!  It's Charmaine with my take on this month's dare, entitled Pink Power, in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month. 

I used the new Pink Power set from Verve for my card.   The papers are from the Yours Truly Collection from Pebbles.  I stamped the ribbon from the set multiple times on white cardstock and then covered the cardstock with glitter to give it some sparkle.  I kept the card pink for the most post. . .and decided to add some dark grey for the sentiment circle.  :)  The sentiment was stamped and embossed in white.  I also used this week's Mojo Monday sketch for my card.

 

 

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Pink Power dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have pink on your card or project, be posted 10/10 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/26/14.  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 Pink Power 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 26, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 27, 2014.

October 2014 Diva Dare - Day 9

  Pink Power- October Diva Dare

Welcome to October's Diva Dare!  Jen here with my take on this month's Diva Dare, entitled Pink Power, in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month. 

For my card I started with a dark gray cardbase and layered it with pink polka dot paper from Doodlebugs Kraft In Color paper pad. Over that I layered a bit of dark gray houndstooth paper from the same paper pad. I then stamped the sentiment on a banner cut using the Banner Bundle Die Set and matted it with a larger die from the same set. Behind that I cut two small flags and put one on either side using the Flag It Die Set. I used the Pink Power stamp set to stamp the sentiment and the butterfly. To finish everything off I added a few rhinestones to the butterfly and a bit of stitching over the gray patterned paper. 

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Pink Power dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have pink on your card or project, be posted 10/10 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/26/14.  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 Pink Power 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 26, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 27, 2014.

October 2014 Diva Dare - Day 8

  Pink Power- October Diva Dare

Welcome to October's Diva Dare!  Christyne here with my take on this month's dare, entitled Pink Power, in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month. 

 

For my card, I inked up the beautiful new butterfly from the new Pink Power stamp set.  This along with plenty of pink, ribbon from the Truly Madly Deeply ribbon collection, bling from the Shine Bright sequin mix and some antiquing and I arrived at this.  And for anyone looking for some sketch inspiration for their card, I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch.

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Pink Power dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have pink on your card or project, be posted 10/10 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/26/14.  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 Pink Power 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 26, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 27, 2014.

October 2014 Diva Dare ~ Day 4

  Pink Power- October Diva Dare

Hi Verve fans and welcome to October's Diva Dare!  It's Andrea here with you today and this month's dare is entitled Pink Power in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month.  Many of us have had friends and family who have waged a battle against this disease. I was just informed recently that a wonderfully sweet neighbor of mine was just diagnosed with breast cancer. I am hoping that she wins her fight against this terrible disease. Here's a card that I made for her in her honor:  

I wanted the pinks to really stand out, so I based them on a very muted background, with just hints of pink in it. I used Verve's Pink Power stamp set, stamped on a cut out tag from Prima's Romance Novel papers. I mounted that on a Spellbinders die and added my array of vibrantly pink flowers, with a silver charm and some black/pearl stamens thrown in for a little interest. The edges are all distressed with a paper distresser and Walnut Stain distress ink. I decided to make the card base smaller than the card front...just cos you don't see that very often. :)

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Pink Power dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have pink on your card or project, be posted 10/10 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/26/14.  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 Pink Power 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 26, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 27, 2014.

October 2014 Diva Dare - Pink Power

  Pink Power- October Diva Dare

Welcome to October's Diva Dare!  Stacey here with my take on this month's dare, entitled Pink Power, in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month.  

I kept this card simple to make a clear statement of hope, strength and most of all LOVE!  I used the wonderful new stamp set, Pink Power, and the new coordinating Ribbon Die with a few Signature Sequin Mix sprinkles here and there.

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Pink Power dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have pink on your card or project, be posted 10/10 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/26/14.  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 Pink Power 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 26, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 27, 2014.

October Diva Dare - Day 2

  Pink Power- October Diva Dare

Welcome to Day 2 of this month's Diva Dare!  This month's dare is entitled Pink Power in honour of October being breast cancer awareness month. 

On my pinkalicious card, I’ve use the brand new Inspire Hope and Pink Power sets from Verve.  I’m mixing and matching the powerful words from both sets to create a chalkboard-ish panel wrapped in my own “pink ribbon” and finished off with some Shine Bright Sequin Mix.  
 

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Pink Power dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have pink on your card or project, be posted 10/10 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/26/14.  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 Pink Power 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 26, 2014.
 

Winners will be announced on October 27, 2014.

October 2014 Diva Dare

  Pink Power- October Diva Dare

Welcome to October's Diva Dare!  This month's dare is entitled Pink Power in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month.  Many of us have had friends and family who have waged a battle against this disease, and over the past five years, I have had two very dear friends who have both battled and won their fight against breast cancer.     

So needless to say, I simply adore this new Pink Power set, and am totally smitten with this gorgeous silhouette!  One of the friends I mentioned above decided to go bald and beautiful during her chemo treatments, and I made this card with her in mind as she carried herself so proudly at a time when one does not exactly feel beautiful.   

For my card, I pulled out two pink papers and accented them with silver, some bling, scallops and a heart.  I couldn't resist using the Ribbon Die again as it is such a wonderful symbol.  The butterfly is a symbol of metamorphosis from dealing with being bald from chemo to new hair growth and a new lease on life after treatment.  

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Pink Power dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have pink on your card or project, be posted 10/10 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/26/14.  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 Pink Power 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 26, 2014.
 

Winners will be announced on October 27, 2014.