Verve Stamps: New Release Spotlights Day 1

Hi Everyone, 

Today kicks off the Verve July Release sneak peeks of some amazingly lovely and absolutely gorgeous stamps designed by the lovely Julee Tillman! The New Release Spotlight kicks off today with the truly beautiful stamp set: New Mercies - which features such sweet sentiments for helping a friend through a difficult time (whether for sympathy or to care for a friend in need) and perfect silhouette images that make it very easy to create a card. 

The day I got these beautiful stamps - was the day that we received news that a very close family friend had lost his mother - he is very close to his mother and this came as a shock - and has been a difficult time for him and his family. I immediately wanted to create a card for him - and wanted to keep it simple and CAS. The background was created by scoring and I stamped a single flower from the stamp set and popped it up with dimensionals. Creating sympathy cards is never an easy one - but it was made much easier with this beautiful stamp set - the hardest part is always writing inside... I added just a wee bit of diamond stickles around the edges and some pearl embellies on the edges:

Card Ingredients:    

Stamps:  New Mercies from Verve Stamps

Paper:  PTI cardstock, Teal from Bazzil cardstock

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa 

Accessories:  Pearls from Kaiser, Diamond stickles, ScorePal, copics Spellbinders, sponger and dimensionals

I hope that his family finds comfort during this difficult time - and so I made some cards to send to some of his family members. This is a set of cards created using the New Mercies stamp set - I tried to keep the palette very monochromatic brown except for a pop of color here and there:

Here is a closer peek at one of the cards (all the buttons are from BG and have a bit of twine tied to the center). I cut the bottom of the scallop card a little bit so that it was easy to stand up the card (and not have it roll around):

And here is another angle of the card set:

Card Ingredients:    

Stamps:  New Mercies from Verve Stamps

Paper:  Kraft paper, Bazzil cardstock, MME

Inks:   Memento Rich Cocoa

Accessories:  button from BG, twine, Spellbinders (scallops, circles, leaves and pennants), sponger, butterfly punch from MS, bling from Want2Scrap, dimensionals and glue dots.

I know that the Verve Divas will have created so much beauty using this beautiful stamp set! Please hop on over with me and check out their beautiful creations:

	1. Andrea 7. Tosh 2. Jackie 8. Amber 3. Laurie 9. Sankari 4. Teresa 10. Robin {Guest} 5. Amy 11. Julee 6. Charmaine

And please stop by tomorrow for more Verve-licious sneak peeks!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

big Hugs,

Sankari :)