Verve Get Your Diva On: Monochromatic

It's time again for another Verve Get Your Diva On Challenge and this month Sankari has challenged us to using a monochromatic color scheme. I actually enjoy working with monochromatic schemes and my favorite one to use is pink.

Here is what I came up with for Sankari's challenge:

I used Blushing Bride and Regal Rose from Stampin' Up!® to create my monochromatic color scheme.

The challenge this week at Stamp R Us is friendship. I made this card with my long-time friend, Joanne in mind. We met each other at work several years ago, instantly hit it off as friends, and worked together for 16 years until I had to leave retail due to Fibromyalgia. Of course we promised to stay in touch and get together as often as possible but life does get in the way and it's been awhile since I've seen her. She's really been on my mind a lot this week so I used the "I've been thinking about you" sentiment from Verve Stamps.

A nice lady whose name is Heather from SCS left a comment on my card in the gallery and said it fit perfectly for a new challenge that started this week at Dolce Stamps and Cards to create a distressed card. I rarely make a card without distressing the edges of at least one piece of paper or using inks to distress the edges so this was right up my alley. Thanks Heather for that tip!

One final look and supply details:

Supplies:

• Stamps: Verve Wildflower Plain Jane, Verve Small Phrases
• Cardstock: Stampin' Up!® Blushing Bride, Regal Rose
• Designer Paper: Stampin' Up!® Patterns DSP Stack Blushing Bride, Regal Rose
• Ink: Stampin' Up!® Blushing Bride, Regal Rose
• Tools: Spellbinders Lacy Circles, Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Cuttlebug
• Accessories: Ribbon, Buttons, Brads- from stash

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you all are having a blessed weekend. 

Verve Get Your Diva On: Tag Your It!

The Verve "Get Your Diva On" challenge this month was "Tag Your It!": create a tag or something with a tag.
Now, I wanted to play in this challenge but, boy oh boy, tags are not one of my go-to items to design with other than the little tiny ones I stamp a sentiment on. I really wanted to do something cool using 3 tags on my card but, this is one of those occasions where you see it in your head but, it looks completely different on paper.
My first thought was to "not blog" this card but, since this blog is all about my paper-crafting journey, good or bad, I decided to go ahead and share it.

My card base is Basic Black cardstock from Stampin' Up!®. To that I added a distressed and inked layer of First Edition Specialty Paper also from Stampin' Up!. For the back two tags I crumpled them up and then used a direct-to-paper inking technique with Antique Linen distress ink to give them an aged look. Then I stamped them with images from the "New Mercies" set from Verve. I added some black pearls to the center of the flowers and the bottom of the focal point tag with the scripture on it which is also from the "New Mercies" set.
I'd love some feedback on how I could have made this card better.
Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you all have a great week!

April 2011 Verve "Get Your Diva On"

On the 2nd Monday of every month, Verve Stamps offers a "Get Your Diva On" challenge. The challenge itself is totally up to the Verve Diva that is hostessing the challenge. This month our hostess is Amber. She challenged us to a recipe challenge:

 

The winner of the challenge will get to be a Guest Diva in an upcoming release and they will receive all the stamps/dies for that release for free! They will also get to play along in the pre-release spotlight blog hops as well as the release party. You can beat that for a prize, now can you?

Since my name starts with a "J" my recipe was to use twine, buttons, and brads; the colors pink, turquoise and brown; 4 layer card or a circle card. 

I do not own any twine so I exchanged that category out for the embellishments from the A-F category: flowers, ribbon, and eyelets.

Here is what I ended up with...

 

I started out by making a 6x6 Chocolate Chip CS card base. To that I added the Whisper White polka dot DSP from "Loves Me" by SU, with the edges distressed. The first layer I added to the base is a cut from my Cricut Elegant Edges cartridge using the striped DSP from "Loves Me". I mounted that on a Tempting Turquoise CS base using the same cut on the Cricut and the shadow feature. I punched holes in both sides of this layer and attached white eyelets. The second layer was made using the pink polka dot paper from "Loves Me" and the same cut on the Cricut using the border feature. I mounted that on to Pixie Pink CS. On top of that layer I attached the Chocolate Chip ruched ribbon. The third layer was cut using the oblong feature and the frame feature on the Cricut using the Tempting Turquoise Dot DSP and Whisper White CS. Onto the Whisper White I stamped the floral image from the Everlasting Life stamp set from Verve and colored it in with Copics. I then framed that layer with the frame cut I had made on the Cricut. My fourth and final layer was made using the oblong feature along with the Whisper White polka dot DSP and Whisper White CS. Onto the Whisper White CS I stamped the scripture Psalm 97:1 which is also from Everlasting Life. To finish off the card I added a Turquoise petal from imaginisce®. All the edges of the papers were inked using either Spun Sugar or Broken China Distress Inks. 

This card also was inspired by our Bible Verse Thursday Challenge @ Christian Paper Crafts. Our word this week was "Treasure". The fact that the Lord reigns is a treasure to me so, I felt this scripture was only fitting for the challenge and it allowed me to use these stamps from Verve that I haven't gotten around to using yet.

Thanks to Verve Diva Amber for the fun challenge!

Thanks for dropping by my blog today! I hope you like today's card. Blessings...