Verve Project Parade and a CPS sketch with some sunshine

Hi everyone! It's my day to post my project on the Verve Blog. In case you haven't hopped on over there, the theme this month is "It's a Girl Thing: Celebrating the Women in our Lives". Here is a tiny peek at my project. You will have to go on over to see the whole thing!! If you play along, there are 2 chances to win some Verve bucks!!

Next up, I have a card for this week's CPS114 challenge sponsored this week by Sweet and Sassy Stamps. I also played along with Sharon's SSnotime85 challenge -to use yellow and let the sun shine in!! We have been having NON-stop rain over here in Oregon for days and I guess I needed a bit of bright colors!

This card uses pp from DCWV the Citrus pack. Man, I love all the colors and patterns in this pack. Actually, now that I am posting this, I see that it kinda coordinates with the bright colors with my Verve Project Parade... humm, I guess I really was needing some BRIGHT fun around me!!

The image and sentiment used on this card are from Repeat Impressions, the image is called Sunflower. I just love this delicate image -it made me smile the entire time I was making this. The sentiment tag was made using the double ended tag nestie, I just "skootched" the paper before the second hole, so the die only cut one end. I took my SU turquoise marker to the "stitching" on the Top Note piece. Some little primas and blue bling finish off the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Sunflower, Thank you (Repeat Impressions)
Paper - white, tempting turquoise, Citrus matstack (DCWV)
Accessories - circle nesties, Top note die, turquoise marker, double ended tag nestie), Got flowers deux primas, turquoise bling, copic markers and stickles

A set inspired by a card!

Hi everyone! Remember this card from last week's Sketch challenge? I liked it so much that I made a coordinating set of cards using it as my inspiration! I used some of the weekly blog sketches for the layouts, but BAD ME didn't write any of them down, so I can't identify them for you. Sorry!

All the cards use Basic Grey Porcelain DP and either the Peaches image or Verve. The framing cardstock is from Prism Papers. I just love this cardstock because they have a touch of texture and come with 3 coordinating shades in each color!!




This one uses Verve's Floral Whimsy set. I pieced the vase and there are small pearls on the large blooms.















This card uses Verve's Miracles Blossom. It's colored with Copics and have brads in the centers of the blooms.













This is that gorgeous Peaches image paired with the great gold edged ribbon! It's hard to see, but the accents on the bottom right are gold pearls from Michael's.



Some fun stuff to mention:
The Verve Project Parade is going on right now! This month's theme is Celebrating Women! Be sure to check it out on the Verve Stamps blog, there are some really amazing project the Divas have made for you. As usual, there are lots of prizes!!

Stay tuned cause tomorrow I will be announcing a great presale going on at Jacksonbelle Embellishments -Lindsey will be doing a presale for a great product handmade by a fellow stamper!! Come back tomorrow for all the details!!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge

Hi everyone, today's Tuesday and that means it's time for another Jacksonbelle challenge! This week is a fun one!

We were challenged to a 1,2,3 recipe:
1 stamp
2 embellishments
3 layers.

Like always, you don't need to have JBelle supplies to play, but if you don't have any, you can check out the store and see if anything strikes your fancy.

Since I could only have 1 stamp, I decided to make the focal image an embellishment and use the stamp for a sentiment. I had so much fun with this recipe I made TWO! This first one uses Wild Wasabi card base (that's 1), a layer of white which I ran the top thru the CB with Swiss Dots (that's 2), and the lower portion is a piece of Imaginisce DP from the Fairest of Them All line (that makes 3!!). The Prima flower portion is 1 and the ribbon makes 2 embellishments (OK, on this one I stretched it, cause the brad is technically separate from the flower!) and the 1 stamp is the HB sentiment from Repeat Impressions.

The second card uses a fancy schmancy flower from Prima from their Hybrid floral embellishments, Lindsey is currently out of stock of these, but if you are interested send her an email and she can order them for you!! I used the same layout as the first card. The DP is from Memory Box, Sprout line. The ribbons are 1 and the flower is 2 embellishments, and 1 stamp is the TY sentiment from Repeat Impressions.

We'd love to have you play along and if you do, be sure to use keyword JBE050 when you upload your card so we can find all the sketch cards in one place. Don't forget to check out the other DT blogs for their cards!

AJ Otto--The Willow Garden
Beth Thomas--A Stampin' Good Time
Heather Lee-Reppen--Ink on my Ear
Jill Dunn--InkGenious
Jennifer Buck--The Buck Stamps Here
Kimberly O'Rosky--Sunshiny Days
Kisa Peters--Kisa's Paper Cuts
Lindsey Botkin--Embellished
Lynda Benden--Stamp Act
Maren Benedict--Zany not Crazy
Melissa Bove--Creating From the Heart
Shannan Teubner--Pink Tulle with Feathers & Sequins
Taylor Usry--Musings of an Addict

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day.

Card Deets (card 1):
Stamps - Happy Birthday sentiment from Repeat Impressions
Paper - wasabi, white, Imaginisce DP
Accessories - Prima flowers, Painted fastener (Daisy Ds), grossgrain ribbon, swiss dots EF

Card Deets (card 2):
Stamps - Thank You sentiment from Repeat Impressions
Paper - Papaya Puree Dark Prism paper, white, Memory Box DP
Accessories - Prima hybrid floral embellie, Organdy and satin ribbon, swiss dots EF