CCNS & The Verve Diva Dare

Happy Wednesday everyone. Are you enjoying the Daylight Savings Time? I know that my family is.

Today's card was inspired by the March Verve Diva Dare and many of the products I used today are from the Classy Cards N Such Online Store.

The Diva Dare was to combine the styles of Diva Laurie and Diva Maureen into your creation. I love both of their styles and have several of their cards pinned on my Verve Inspiration Board on Pinterest. When I think of Laurie I think of several layers, soft colors, bling and distressed edges as in this card. When I think of Maureen, I see bright colors, big fluffy bows, buttons and bling, and a focus on the sentiment as in this card.

So I set off to creating my card. I started with the first Viva la Verve Sketch for March and rotated it 90 degrees to the right.

Here is what I ended up with...

It was no issue at all for me to distress, layer it up, or add bling. The real dare for me was to include a bow. Seriously I cannot make a bow if my life depended on it. I even have that tool, I think it's called Bow Easy. Bow Easy for who? Certainly not me. But, in honor of Maureen I pulled out the seam binding and set about making my poor excuse for a bow. Other than that I am thrilled with the way the card came out.

The inspiration to use this particular sentiment from the Wonderfully Made Verve Stamp Set came from some struggles I've been facing with my health lately. It's encouraging and it speaks volumes about what God has brought me through.

Supplies available at Classy Cards N Such:
Graphic 45 Secret Garden Paper Collection
Spellbinders Lovely Lattice M-Bossabilities
Spellbinders Decorative Labels Eight
Finesse Swirl in leCreme
Cheery Lynn Designs Exotic Butterfly Collection (small #2)

Thanks for dropping by. Have a blessed day.

Perfect Sentiments Challenge 09: Anything Goes with CASE'ing

Hello everyone! I have been a very bad blogger. Please forgive me. I hope that you all had a very blessed Thanksgiving and were able to enjoy some quality time with you family.


Today, I'm combining two posts in one. I'm going to share my latest creation for Classy Cards N Such which is also my sample for this week's challenge at The Perfect Sentiment.

The Challenge: anything goes for the sentiment and occasion

The Twist: you must CASE one of our designs and you must state in your blog post whose card you cased and what you took from it.


Our sponsor for this week is ME! I signed a contract with Tracey Malnofski from The Stamping Boutique to sell some of her digital images. I've started out small with a selection of Christmas/Winter images. You will find them under the tab above labeled "Digital Emporium". One lucky random winner will receive three images of their choice.


Since our challenge this week was "anything goes" and I'm in desperate need of getting holiday cards done I decided to make a Christmas card with some of the fabulous products from Classy Cards N Such.

I love the Waiting for Santa Collection from Webster's Pages. I don't think I could ever get tired of using it. The text patterned paper with the red background matches perfectly with SU's Cherry Cobbler cardstock. The opposite side of the paper has some vintage holiday images which you can see on my two rectangle layers. I used the Lacey Ovals from Spellbinders to cut out a larger and small oval. I stamped the Curvy Cross from Verve in Cherry Cobbler ink and then stamped "Jesus" over it with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. Off to the right side I stamped "the true gift of Christmas" on top of the patterned paper where there was a bit of white space. These stamps are from a Verve set called Richly Blessed. My favorite part of the card is the Candy Cane Silhouette from Webster's Pages. I added a bit of red baby bling from Want 2 Scrap as the finishing touch. You can find the Webster's Pages paper and silhouettes, along with the Spellbinders and Want 2 Scrap bling at Classy Cards N Such. 

Go check out the great selection of products that Beverly has in store and take 10% off on me using my discount code: JENNIPHER-10. 

After your shopping spree, go visit my Design Team and check out their incredible creations...

Sami 

Sarah 

Jan

Abby

Kimberly

Rochelle

Shaunna

Stacey

Tere

Theresa

Jessica-Guest Designer

Rita-Guest Designer

Once you're inspired come play along at the Perfect Sentiment!

September Verve Diva Dare

Hello everyone. Hope you have had a blessed Sunday. It seems lately that my card mojo hits on Sunday evenings. But, like everything else in life, I have to take it as it comes.


Today's card is for the Verve September Diva Dare. If you've never played along with the Diva Dare you really should. It's always fun and you could win some Verve Stamps!


The challenge for September was to CASE a Diva. Now, that's a challenge and there are so many Diva's to choose from. Well, I just couldn't decide so, I did the mature, adult thing to do and had someone else pick the card I was going to CASE. That's right, I let Mike pick the card for me to CASE! I did steer him in the direction of the "New Mercies" stamp set gallery and said pick any card from here cause I have this stamp set. But, other than that I let him pick the card. 


He chose this card by Laurie Schmidlin:

Here is what I ended up with...

And from a different angle...

Thanks for the inspiring card Laurie!
Hope you all have a great week!

March 2011 Diva Dare: Color Me Spring

The card I am sharing with you today is inspired by the Verve March Diva Dare: Color Me Spring...

This month we dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Color Me Spring! 

You can read more about the Diva Dare here and play along as well to win yourself A $30 Verve gift Certificate to buy even more of the Verve goodness!  

As for my interpretation of the challenge, when I think of spring, Easter always comes to my mind. I think of the beautiful flowers beginning to bloom, my niece in her gorgeous Easter dress on Sunday morning, usually in some shade of pink, pastel green, or white with little embroidered flowers. Therefore it is only fitting that I make an Easter card for this challenge.

 

For this card I used a Verve Plain Jane stamp called "Happy Easter". Did you know that the Plain Jane Scripture stamps is what got me hooked on Verve? Well, it is. I love Scripture stamps but could not afford to spend a lot of money on them and I took a peak at the Verve site one day and discovered these great scriptures and other Plain Janes for only $3 and sometimes they are on sale for $2.40. I tell you, it can't be beat. Okay, I'm rambling...

My Tulip is a digi-stamp from Sweet n Sassy Stamps that has been colored with my tiny but growing collection of Copic markers, cut out from the cardstock and adhered with pop-dots so that it would stand out. 

Well, I hope you like my version of Color Me Spring!

Supplies:

• patterned paper and cardstock - SU
• Happy Easter - Verve Plain Jane
• Tulip - Sweet n Sassy digi stamp
• Copic markers
• Martha Stewart Crafts border punch