Verve Guest Diva and a Giveaway!!!!

Hey friends!!  I am so super excited today!!  I'm a guest diva for Verve Stamps!!  Verve is one of my favorite stamp companies and so when I saw the email from Julee asking me to be a guest diva for the new release I almost fell out of my chair and then I immediately responded with a yes!!!   Today I'm sharing two cards that I made using the newly released sets Just Breathe and Good Works. Both sets are just beautiful.  Just Breathe was created by Julee in honor of breast cancer awareness and is full of words of encouragement and hope.  When I saw those fun little boxing gloves in the Just Breathe set I just had to do some paper piecing with them.  I stamped them on some My Mind's Eye On Trend patterned paper with Vintage Sepia ink and then trimmed them out.  A bit of thin hemp twine was added so I could hang them from my white cardstock panel.  I positioned the gloves where I wanted them, stamped the word 'fighter' in black ink and then partially embossed the top portion of the panel with a star embossing folder.  The gloves were then attached to the panel at the top of the loop using a bit of glue so they swing freely on the card front.  The panel was mounted on a second panel that was die cut from another sheet of On Trend paper.  Both panels were adhered to a white cardstock base.

The second card uses the Good Work stamp set.  No one does scripture sets better than Julee does and Good Work is no exception.  The verses and and images in this set are just beautiful and it has a coordinating die set that can be used to create beautiful flowers and tags!!  I didn't use any of the dies on my card today, but stay tuned for later in the week as I will be sharing more projects including one that will use some of the dies.   For this card I did some simple collage stamping using the colors from the current Card Concept challenge so I will be posting my card to that gallery in the clean and simple category.   In addition to the Good Work stamp set I used an image from the Better Together stamp set.  That image was stamped in pink on cream cardstock and then I added the images and sentiment from Good Work in the burgundy and espresso colors.   A few sequins from the Verve Signature sequin mix were added to finish off the card.  

 



 

Thanks for sticking with me because now I have the information about the giveaway!  Leave a comment on this post by Sunday, November 1st for a chance to win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve store!!!  YAY!  And you can head over to the Verve blog for a little virtual interview with me! 

 

 

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI cream, Recollections white; Simon Says Stamp fog; Stamps: Verve; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Embossing Folder:  Stampin Up!; Twine:  Hemptique white; Sequins:  Verve; Patterned paper:  My Mind's Eye