Viva la Verve November Week 4

Hello Blogging Friends! It's been quite awhile. I've missed you all so much and I've really missed creating, sharing with you, and hopping around to see what you have been up to. So much has been going on in my life; it's just been over the top crazy. So much so, that I ended up spending my Thanksgiving in the hospital. Praise the Lord, I am home now! Let me tell you, being hospitalized can really put things into perspective for you.

Anyways, I'm so grateful to be back home among my family, friends, and loved ones that I have vowed to start making time for things that I really treasure and enjoy and one of those things is creating cards. But, not just creating them...sending them out to people who need encouragement and "Letting my light so shine" for Christ.

So tonight, I'm getting it in just under the wire, but I really wanted to create something with one of the Viva la Verve sketches for November. I chose to go with this one...

I broke out one of my un-opened Verve Stamp Sets and finally inked it up. The set is called Let it Be and it is one of my favorites.

I hope you like my take on the sketch! Thanks for stopping by...

Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge 161: Love, Wedding, or Anniversary

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs and I am super-honored to be Guest Designing with these incredible ladies for the next couple of months!

ODBDSLC161 Love, Wedding or Anniversary: Use a prayer, blessing, or Scripture on your card. 

Here is what I came up with...

I was so excited to use one of the new releases from July for this challenge: Anniversary Blessings. 

I used designer paper from My Minds Eye that I had been hoarding for awhile. Using VersaMark and white embossing powder I heat embossed the cake. I just love how crisp the images and sentiments from ODBD come out. I also love working with coral tones and you might recognize that lacy circle as Groovy Guava from SU. The lace was in my stash and it just happened to pull it all together perfectly. 

I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

PSC53D: Birds & Blooms

Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth and final day of our one year birthday/anniversary challenge celebration at The Perfect Sentiment! We have sponsors who have donated generous prizes for each challenge and since we are doing this blog hop style, there are hidden prizes along the way. The good news is you will have 3 full weeks to complete all the challenges and blog hops. There will also be a grand prize that you will be eligible for if you complete all the challenges! You can see the Grand Prize and add you name to the inlinkz here once your complete all four of the challenges.

PSC53D: The Challenge/Twist: create a card with a sentiment for the occasion of your choice. Include your sentiment on the front of your card. / Incorporate a bird or a bloom, or the combination of both somewhere in the design of your card. 

I have to admit that when I planned this challenge I had an unfair advantage over my Design Team. I knew I had the perfect image to use and it was still in it's original package, unused. The image comes from a stamp set called "Praise The Lord" by Sweet N Sassy Stamps. 

 

Like I said, perfect, right? My card design was inspired by this week's Mojo Monday Sketch. 

Supplies: Praise the Lord stamp set by Sweet N Sassy Stamps; Lacy Squares Spellbinders Dies, Cricut & Phrases cartridge (used to cut out little banners); Weathered Wood Distress Ink; Basic Gray CS from SU; Gina K Pure Luxury CS; My Minds Eye Dolled Up Designer Paper Pad; Copic Markers; Prima flower and Pink brad from my stash.

Hop along to the following blogs to see what our Perfect Sentiments Team has created to inspire you!

Cheryl

Jan

Jenn

Karen

Maggie

Nana Connie

Vickie

Be sure to leave a comment at each blog as there are hidden prizes along the way. 

Be sure to leave a comment at each blog as there are hidden prizes along the way. 

Once you are inspired to create, come back and link up your creation using the inlinkz tool below to have a chance at today's prize:

 Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps will donate a $15 Gift Voucher to their store to one lucky random winner from today's challenge. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope to see you over at The Perfect Sentiment. 

I would like to enter this into the FOSTV Challenge to use distressing

PSC53A: Happy Birthday/Happy Anniversary

Happy Wednesday. Oh my goodness; I can't believe it! A whole year has passed since we launched The Perfect Sentiment Challenge Blog! We have four fun challenges planned for you that we will spread out over the next four days. We have sponsors who have donated generous prizes for each challenge and since we are doing this blog hop style, there are hidden prizes along the way. The good news is you will have 3 full weeks to complete all the challenges and blog hops. There will also be a grand prize that you will be eligible for if you complete all the challenges!

PSC53A:The Challenge/Twist: create a card with sentiment for either "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Anniversary" in honor of our one year birthday/anniversary.

Here is my sample:

Supplies: Basic Black CS from SU; Gina K Designs Pure Luxury CS; October Marigold Stamp Set from Sweet N Sassy Stamps; My Minds Eye "Howdy Doody" Designer CS Collection; My Minds Eye "Fiddlesticks-Lucky" Baker's Twine; Spellbinders Oval Circle Die; SU tag punch; Copic Markers; Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink; Black Soot Distress Ink.  

Hop along to the following blogs to see what our Perfect Sentiments Team has created to inspire you.

Jan

Jennipher (you are here)

Karen

Maggie

Molly

Nana Connie

Paula

Vickie

Be sure to leave a comment at each blog as there are hidden prizes along the way. 

Once you are inspired to create, go back to The Perfect Sentiment and link up your creation using the inlinkz tool at the end of the to have a chance at today's prize.

Today's random winner will receive a $9 Gift Voucher from:

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.