Another 2 house cards and Verve Spotlights begin

Hi everyone!  Well, here are another 2 housewarming cards for my real estate agent.  These both follow this week's Fall To Layout sketch #103.  Quick and easy!  I am gonna need to pick out a few more favorite FTL sketches and make more cards!  17 to go!

Again, I used Ippity's House a Home set.  These are pretty simple, just a bit of coloring and ribbon.  This card uses the PTI Simply Chartreuse saddle stitched ribbon and Pacific Point cardstock.

This card uses October Afternoon's Fly a Kite paper and the amazing SU! 1/4" Taffeta ribbon in Daffodil.

AND, it's that time again...

The VERVE stamps release is this Thursday and all this week the Divas are Spotlighting the new sets.  The New Release Spotlight will be a bit different this time, each day the Verve Stamps blog will have a master list of all the Divas showing cards that day.  

As usual, with Verve releases there are challenges -this time Julee has created 5 amazing sketches!  Check them out here there are a couple ways to win.  The Release Party will be this Thursday, 5pm Pacific over on the Verve Forum on SCS.

Today we are Spotlighting the fabulous set, Love Story.  This is an amazing wedding set that features 6 images and 14 sentiments!  You will love this set!  Be sure to check out the Verve blog to see what Divas have samples to share!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Verve Stamps release week

Hi everyone!  Welcome to Verve Release week!  Today starts the first day of Spotlighting over on the Verve Blog, and we are starting with the amazing set, Blue Skies.  This set is comprised of 16 images - an amazing notebook page, some flourishes, butterflies and great sentiment quotes!!  It's my favorite set of the release and I know you will love it too! 

I have 2 quick cards to share using this set.  This first card uses both of the butterflies and a GREAT universal sentiment.  I love that this sentiment can be used for many different occasions.  The pattern paper piece is from Lullaby Lane by Webster's Pages and I ruffled my favorite wrinkled ribbon.  

This next card uses one of my favorite quotes in the set.  Again, this one is pretty simple, just let the quote shine!  The pattern paper is Jubilee from Memory Box and the ribbon is white Faux ruffled suede.

As with every release, there are lots of fun stuff happening at Verve this week!!  The Release Week Challenges are going on now until Friday -if you play along you will be entered to win the entire release!!!  New Set Spotlights each day over at the Verve Blog and all of this leads up to the Release Party this Friday night (June 25th) at 9 pm Eastern Time over at the SCS Verve Forum!  Lots of prizes to be won, inspiring projects to be seen, and NEW STAMPS to be revealed!!

Kitchen remodel update:

I also wanted to mention that in a few days I will be leaving for a week for Bill's family reunion.  Then immediately upon return we will continue with our KITCHEN DEMO!  Yep, I said continue... cause over the weekend we began the demo by packing up and removing all the upper cabinets.  It all went without incident, if you don't count the SMALL KITCHEN FIRE!  Yeah, one of the upper cabinet pieces fell off and hit my stove.  Unbeknownst to us, it turned the back burner on to HIGH.  Well, we had the stovetop covered with cardboard and then with a thick blanket for protection.  About 45 minutes later, I see flames and a WHOLE LOTTA smoke billowing up from the stove.  It all ended well with minor damage to the floor -which will be replaced, so WHEW!  I won't forget to post pictures!!

Long story short, I will be absent from my blog with the exception of some pre-scheduled posts until the end of July.  Until then, thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Blue Skies
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - Kraft, Cream, light peach cardstock, Lullaby Lane PP (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - copic markers, Mango pearls (Kaisercraft), corner rounder (SU!), wrinkled cream ribbon (Stamply Ribbon Store)  

Card Deets:

Stamps - Blue Skies
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - White cardstock, Jubilee PP (Memory Box)
Accessories - Lippy Red Rhinestones (Kaisercraft), corner rounder (SU!), White ruffled suede ribbon (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store)

Verve Release Day and the last set Spotlight -One Person

Hi everyone!  Today is Verve's RELEASE DAY!  I hope you'll come by our Release Party tonight for a little chatting, set reveals, winner announcements and some more sneak peek eye candy from the Divas!  The party starts at 6PM Pacific, and at 8PM Pacific the sets will go live in the Verve store!

AND over on the Verve blog I have spotlighted the final set of the release, One Person.  Hop on over there to see what the Divas have created!  Plus, there is a chance to win one of these awesome new releases just for commenting on our spotlight posts.  The deadline for comments is 3PM Pacific tonight!

My sneak peek card uses one of the amazing quotes in this set.  I used a piece of Webster's Pages, Postcards from Paris papers.  (Note, Stamp Simply Ribbon Store is out of this paper now, but has plenty of Graphic 45 papers that have the same vintage feel to them!).  I used a layout from Sherry's Zva Creative sketch challenge.  Like I often do, I got 1/2 the challenge right -it was also supposed to be a COLOR challenge, using light blue, yellow and light gray.  Seriously, I have to read thru these challenges better and WRITE them down!   Sigh... at least I got the sketch right!!  LOL!

The felt flowers are from Zva's Cool and Cozy mix and the flower is a Baby Blue Sweet Blossom. I used a piece of SU! felt ribbon tied with some silver cord. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you tonight at Verve's Release Party!!

Card Deets:

Stamps - One Person (Verve)
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Paper - White, Chocolate Chip and Webster's Pages Postcards from Paris
Accessories - Zva Creative felt flowers and sweet blossom, silver cord, swiss dots ef, sponge, silver pearls (Michael's Inc), felt ribbon

 

2 challenge cards using Verve sneak peeks

Hi everyone!  I have a couple challenge cards to share and both are sneak peeks of Verve's new stamps!!  Have you checked out the Verve Blog for all the spotlights and chances to win some Verve stamps?

My first card is for the SCS sketch challenge, SC277.  I love this layout!  My card is a sneak peek for two Verve sets being released tomorrow (4/23), Relax and Dude. 

The pattern paper is My Mind's Eye, Breaking Free -I still have 2 Accessory Kits with this paper available.  And the striped grosgrain ribbon and burlap string are from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store! 

My next card is for this week's The Shabby Tea Room challenge.  It is a sketch challenge based on this inspiration photo.  My card gives you another peek at the new set, Blessings.  I used pattern paper from Pink Paislee 365 Degrees, and the amazing May Arts crocheted ribbon is from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.  I am kinda new to this challenge blog, does anyone know if you have to make a "shabby chic" card to play along?  I wasn't sure, so I made mine a bit "shabby" just in case.

And, BONUS!  I remembered to bust out my new Beautiful Bloom dies from PTI!!  Do you ever buy something you HAD to have, use them once and promptly put them away never to be used again?  Yeah, guilty as charged!  So, I am making an effort to USE my new stuff.  Sigh... anyway, the flower blossom is topped of by an amazing Zva Creative Sweet Blossom. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to check back tomorrow as it's the last day of Verve's sneak peeks and the RELEASE PARTY!!  It's tomorrow night at 6pm PST.  Hope to see you there!!

Card Deets (SC277):

Stamps - Relax and Dude
Ink - Black
Paper - Vintage Cream, MME Breaking Free
Accessories - 1.5" grosgrain ribbon, button and orange rhinestones (Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts), Upper Crest border punch (EK Success) 

Card Deets (Shabby):

Stamps - Blessings
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Paper - Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream (PTI), 365 Degrees 6x6 pad (Pink Paislee)
Accessories - Crocheted lace (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), Silver cord and Denim rhinestones (Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts), scalloped border punch (SU!), Beautiful Blossom Dies #1 (PTI)

Spotlighting Relax

Hi everyone!  Welcome to Day 1 of the Verve New Release Spotlights!  Today we are spotlighting the new set called Relax.  This set is SUPER fun and has lots of fun beach images, and was the inspiration for this release theme of a BEACH PARTY!!  All the stamps will be available for purchase after the Release Party on Friday night!! 

My card is also for one of the five release party challenges - a color challenge to use Aqua, Green and Orange.  For details on all the challenges, click here for the Beach Party Master Challenge thread.

My card uses one of my favorite "go-to" layouts that you have seen before.  Kinda like a favorite "little black dress" -well, if I had one I mean!  LOL!  I used the new PTI color, Hawaiian Shores (how could I not, I mean, come on?), my orange is from a scrap of Pumpkin Pie DSP and the green is in the palm tree top.  Isn't the ocean waves stamp the cutest?  Can I just say, I LOVE this set!

Be sure to visit the Verve Blog for more examples of how the Divas used this set.  AND, we have 2 wonderful Guest Divas this month, my former HSE sweetie- the lovely Carolina and the very talented Christi. 

Well, thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Relax (Verve Stamps)
Ink - Wild Wasabi, Cool Caribbean, Chocolate chip and black (SU!)
Paper - Hawaiian Shores, black and white (PTI), Pumpkin Pie DSP (SU)
Accessories - Zva Creative felt flower, Hawaiian Shores satin ribbon (PTI), aquamarine and orange rhinestones and Copic marker (Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts), Large oval and Top Note Die (SU!)

Verve release day!!

Hi everyone! I am sooo excited for today. IT'S VERVE RELEASE DAY! Today Julee is releasing 4 new sets and 5 Plain Janes. Sigh, I just KNOW you will love them all as much as I do!

Check out all the festivities!

Spring Fling Blog Party

We've got 4 new sets and 5 plain janes releasing tonight, and they're sure to put a spring in your step. To celebrate, we're having an all-day blog partyon the Verve Blog. There will be posting hourly starting at 1 PM Eastern, so be sure to stop by all day for challenges, sneak peeks and prizes.

Spring Fling Set Reveals & Chat

It's been a while since the last release, so we couldn't go without a bit of a chat to catch up with all our friends! Join us on the SCS Spring Fling Chat thread this tonight at 9PM Eastern for an hour of speed-chatting, set reveals and sample cards from the Divas while we countdown to the release.

Spring Fling Blog Hop

We'll be finishing off the night with a grand finale design team blog hop showcasing the new sets! The hop begins when the new sets release at 10PM Eastern, tonight. There'll be a chance to win our entire release, so be sure to stop by!

I do have a card to share with you. This card uses the new set Let it Shine. You are sooo gonna love this set. It peeks over on the Verve blog at 6pm Eastern, so be sure to stop by to see what the other Divas have done with it.

This card uses Karen's Sweet Sunday sketch 58 and some MUCH NEGLECTED Nook and Pantry Basic Grey paper. I just HAD to use as much yellow on this card as I possibly could, so I used some yellow twill ribbon (from Stamp Simply Ribbon store). See the border punch? Sigh, yes, I got another one -these little buggars are becoming an addiction -LOL! This one is called Dotted Scallop and I love it cause it is soooo tiny and pretty!! The suns are colored with my copics and I added Gold Shimmerz on the darker "rays" and ring. Very sparkly IFL.

I think you can see the sparkle in this close up picture.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you back here for the Blog Hop at 10pm Eastern!!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Let it Shine, Big Wish (Verve)
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper - Lemon Tart and White (PTI), Nook and Pantry (Basic Grey)
Accessories - Copic markers, Shimmerz, Rhinestones, Dotted Scallop border punch (EK Success), Yellow Twill (May Arts)

It's Verve's RELEASE day!

Oh, I love this time each month! It's Verve's release day and you WON'T be disappointed in the stamps Julee designed for you! If you have been following the Sneak Peek posts the Divas have been showing you on the Verve Blog this week -you will know what I mean. There is still time to check them out and leave some love for a chance to win some VERVE sets!!

Today I will share with you a card from each of the sets being released and SEE YOU TONIGHT AT THE RELEASE PARTY at 6pm (Pacific)!!!!

From Love's Flower (pattern paper MME, Be Loved):
From Heart's Desire (pattern paper MME, Be Loved):

From Accent Notes:

From Love Monkey (pattern paper Little Yellow Bicycle):

From Celebrating You (pattern paper MME, Loves Me Do):

Thanks for stopping by!!

A Verve Sneak Peek -Accent Notes

Hi everyone! It's released week at Verve!! Release challenges and sneak peeks all week leading up to the Release Party on Friday. Yesterday was Day 1 of the Verve January releases, sneak peeks. We peeked the sets Celebrate You and Love Monkey. Here is a link to the Day 1 blog post where you can see what the Divas showcased.

Today is Day 2 of the sneak peeks and we are showing the set called Accent Notes! This fabulous set of 12 features 5 amazing "pattern building" stamps, 3 any occasion sentiments with the awesome new font, some accents and a perfect flourishy circle (ok, please excuse my non-technical terms!!)!!

Here is my first peek card:

And because today is Wacky Wednesday here in the Woerner house (my son has school at different times on Wednesday and we dubbed it "Wacky Wednesday") here is a card that is the OPPOSITE in colors and reversed design:

Be sure to check out the Day 2 Verve Blog post and see what Diva Sankari, Shannan and Tosh made with this amazing set!

OH and did you all know that Julee has another AMAZING and GORGEOUS free Digi set?? Yep, it's called Regal Heart Digi Stamp Set! It's super cute, if I was a bit more Digi savvy, I would be all over it! LOL! Be sure to check it, it's available until Friday, January 15th.

Thanks for stopping by.

Card Deets:

Stamps - Accent Notes

Ink - Versamark, Cameo Coral

Paper - White, Kraft

Accessories - White and pink heart brads, white and coral 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, pink rhinestone (Kaiser)

A Verve chipboard challenge

Note: This is my second post today, please scroll down, or click here for my H{ippity} Hop card!

Hi everyone! This is Verve's JANUARY RELEASE WEEK!! AND I am super excited to be hosting a "supply" challenge for you all!! My challenge is to use CHIPBOARD on your card or project! What? That's it? Chipboard? LOL! Easy peasy, huh?!?

My card which gives you all super sneak peek of one of the new stamp sets!! **sigh** Seriously, this release is AMAZING!! My chipboard piece is a glittered heart piece from Melissa Frances and the pattern paper is Fancy Pants from the Vintage Valentine line. The trim is from a fabric store and the Kaiser pearls are in Rose.

To play along, just make something using chipboard and upload to your SCS gallery with the challenge keyword VSJAN10A before 6 PM Eastern on Friday, January 15th. Everyone playing along will be entered into a drawing for a $25 Verve Stamps Gift Certificate! If your feeling up to it you can participate in all 5 challenges for a chance to win the entire January release!

Check out the Verve Jan `10 Master Challenge Thread for all the rules and deets. Like always, you don't have to use Verve Stamps to play along, but if you gottem', why not use 'em?!

Verve sneak peeks and Raspberry Suite challenge

Hi everyone, I'm here with a Verve sneak peek today! This month's release has several Christmas sets and one very special set designed in honor of breast cancer awareness. $10 from the sale of every Believe set will be donated to the Susan G Komen for the Cure fund!

Today we are peeking Christmas in the Air and Holly Jolly Christmas. I am sharing 2 cards using Christmas in the Air and I have to say, it's my FAV set of the release! Take a look.

OMG, how cute is that tree? I colored it with Copic markers, but it would look super cute pieced and it really easy to cut out (thanks Julee, you are always thinking ahead). Both cards use Basic Grey's new Christmas paper, Eskimo Kisses and lots of Kaiser rhinestones!

Be sure to check out the Verve Blog to see more samples from the amazing Divas and leave comments for a chance to win Verve goodies! AND for even more chances to win, be sure to check out the Release Week challenges going on in the Verve Forum for your chance to win the entire release!


This next card is for Dawn's Raspberry Suite color challenge. This time Dawn challenged us to use Chocolate Chip, Vintage Cream, New Leaf, Raspberry Fizz and Kraft! I love those colors, but this ended up being a challenge to use all 5 colors.

I REALLY wanted to use this vintage button from my granny's tin, so I designed the entire card around it! I have been saving this button for a long time. I am not too sure about the Chocolate card base, may change that later. The sentiment is from Verve's Just For You set. I punched a circle around it and then trimmed off the top and bottom. Then I tucked under some spare leaves I die cut.

Here is a little close up of my favorite button in the world!!

Card Deets (Christmas):
Stamps - Christmas in the Air
Paper - White, Aqua mist, Ripe Avocado, Eskimo Kisses
Accessories - PTI sweet blush twill, aqua satin, rhinestones, sewing machine

Card Deets (Raspberry):
Stamps - Bountiful Backgrounds and Just for You
Ink - VersaMark, black
Paper - Chocolate chip, kraft, Raspberry fizz, green leaf, vintage cream
Accessories - burlap string, Sizzlets leaves die, scallop border punch, Swiss dots EF, Granny's button

New PaperTrey goodies and a Verve sneaky

Hi everyone! I have a quick card to share. I just got some new PaperTrey goodies and HAD to bust them out!! I have been lovin' this In Bloom set for months and finally told myself to just BUY IT ALREADY! LOL!

My card uses the sketch from the new challenge blog, Crazy 4 Challenges. So, I get 1/2 way throught the card and seriously ran out of time. My days have been getting away from me, and I just had to stop. That ever happen to you? I was hoping to add some leaves and maybe do more with the image panel, but here it is!!

The delicious pattern paper is from KaiserScrapbook -Australia. Over there they can get paper and all sorts of goodies from Kaiser. Here we get the pearls and rhinestones, but thanks to my GF Kathy, I see there is a whole other world of Kaiser! LOL! The sentiment is from Verve's Enjoy set.

Wednesday starts the official sneak peeks of the Verve September release, but you can see a super duper sneaky now with my Color Challenge sample card. My colors are Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, with Mellow Moss as optional. I would love to have you all play along!

My card uses the new set called Harvest Blessings (which will be peeked on Friday). I hope you all have a chance to play. If you do, be sure to upload to SCS with the keyword SEP09C!

Thanks for stopping by!

Final day of Verve peeks and RELEASE DAY!

Hi everyone! I am so excited! Today is the final peeks for Verve's anniversary release. AND I'm REALLY excited about the 2 sets peeked today, Delightful and Delicious and A Cup of Life. They are COFFEE AND TEA sets! Done with the Verve style that only Julee can create. I have to say, MY FAVORITES of the month! There are some amazing projects posted on the Verve blog using these sets, be sure to check them out.

Here is a peek of my card posted there.




I have a couple other cards to share using these sets. This first one uses the A Cup of Life and Bountiful Backgrounds. I colored of the teapot and cup with copic markers and popped up the cup. The bottom portion is made by embossing the polka dotted bg stamp (from bountiful backgrounds) with clear EP on kraft.

Some silver pearls (from Michael's) help show off the images. I used a combination of bashful blue and PTIs dark brown DSP -I just love blue and brown, so rich!

This next card uses the Delightful and Delicious set AND some of my new K&Co DP, Que Sera Sera (which I won from a contest over at the Spotted Canary). The butterfly is part of the paper, so I carefully trimmed the piece to place it at the top corner and added the Zva rhinestone flourish for the tail. I continued the rhinestone swirls for the coffee steam. The flowers were colored with copic markers to match.

AND, YES! That's stitching you see around the card. I finally busted out my clunker machine and jumped on the sewing bandwagon. I AM NOT a sewer, so you will probably only see white thread and crooked stitches -LOL!!

Don't forget about all the Diva Giveaways going on in the Verve Forums on SCS there's lots of chances to win Verve prizes! My game is a word game of sorts and is sooooo fun!! There is STILL time!!

The Release party is tonight at 5pm Pacific over in the SCS Verve Forum! See you there!

AND I also wanted to mention that there is NEW 6x6 COSMO CRICKET paper in stock now over at Hope Stamps Eternal. Oh, be still my little heart. Rach has all 4 lines and even some coordinating chipboard!

Verve Sneak Peeks -Day 3!

Hi everyone! As you may know, it's release week for Verve and boy oh boy the Verve Sneak Peeks are if full effect and STUNNING! Check out all the Sneak Peek Verve-y goodness over at the Verve Stamps blog.

AND I have my very own Giveaway thread over in the SCS Verve Forum! It's a fun game that is wildly popular (18 pages at post time). Up for grabs for one lucky winner is $25 credit at the Verve Store!

I have a couple cards to share with you today. This first card used the set Budding blossoms and one of Julee's release party sketches, AVS204. I just got some new papers by Marks Paper Co, English Garden and loved the soft green and blue colors and had to use them with this card.

I stamped the flower blooms in Bashful Blue and the stems in Certainly Celery. Instead of coloring in the blooms, I filled them with Stardust Stickles. For the side panel, I carefully lined up my Upper Crest border punch and punched it with the 2 pointy things centered (is "pointy things" a proper term? LOL!) and added green pearls to each. I then did some light sponging and added Denim pearls to the blooms and bow.

Next up I have a bright bold fun birthday card using the Party Time set. Again, I used one of Julee's release sketches, this time I chose AVS202.

I wanted to make something colorful, so I pulled out the retired SU Jersey Shore DP and went with the colors of Brilliant and Bashful blue and pumpkin pie. The balloons are colored with Copic markers and popped up. The bow at the bottom is a ribbon scrap that I pinched into a brad. The two side panels each have a tiny silver pearl (from Michael's) as well as each corner.

Well that's it for today. Stay tuned, tomorrow is the last day of peeks and the RELEASE PARTY!! Everyone is invited to join for fun, chatting, more peeks and prizes! Thanks for stopping by!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Budding Blossoms, Enjoy
Ink - Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, black
Paper - white, Bashful Blue DSP (SU!), English Garden (Marks Paper Co)
Accessories - Blue and Green pearls (Kaiser), Circle nestabilities (Spellbinders), White satin ribbon (May Arts), Stardust Stickles (Ranger), Upper Crest border punch (EK Success)

Stamps - Party Time
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - White, Bashful blue, pumpkin pie, Brilliant Blue and Jersey Shore DSP (SU!)
Accessories - silver pearls (Michael's, score-pal, ribbon scrap, sponge, oval nestabilities, silver brad