Verve Divas Inspiration Hop - February 2013

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to our FebruaryDiva Inspirations Hop!  Today the Divas are dusting off some Verve favorites and putting on our monthly hop to inspire you with a fresh new spin on the stamps in our stash! So grab a drink and hop along as we share a little Verve with you! There's a great little prize involved, too! A random commenter on one of the hops will win a $30 gift certificate to VERVE, so be sure to leave a little love in the comment section as you hop about! You can find out all the prize details over on the Verve Blog today. 

 For my project today I used the darling stamp set: Beautiful You from Verve stamps to create a little scrapbook page. The sister of my dear dear friend is celebrating her 25th Wedding Anniversary and so we wanted to create a page with pictures of her sister on her wedding day as well as a pic of them now - as a couple and as a family. What an inspiration it is to be be married for so long and with so much love for each other! I created a layout that was mostly grays and creams and had a little pop of blue.  This stamp set has so many absolutely lovely verses - so inspiring and beautiful - and I especially loved the one: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our create away." Here is a picture of the whole page - I later framed it into a large white Shadowbox (it was a hard to take a picture of the framed layout because of the reflection of the glass - but here is the whole layout unframed: 

I used some silver trims and some silver bling brads which coordinated perfectly with the beautiful flower stamp that this stamp set has - such a gorgeous flower  - I stamped the flower twice - once in cream and then once in gray and then popped the smaller flower onto the larger flower. The smaller one's petals are colored with copics and then I added a little stickle to them for an etra level of sparkle - here is a closer look at the sentiment and the flower stamp:

And here is the picture of them when they were first married - I added a little metallic brad to the corner:\

And a picture of them now - after 25 years:

I love their expressions in this picture - so sweet!

Scrapbook Page Ingredients:
Paper: cream and gray card stock from Bazzill
Stamps; Beautiful You stamp set by Verve Stamps
Inks: Teal Zeal from Memento
Accessories: Stickles, dimensionals, copics, Spellbindes (pennants and phoot border), Siver flower brads from Spare Parts, blingy glitter drops, heart punch (mini), Washi tape and sponger

I was so happy to create this page for my dear friend's sister and hope that they like it as they celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary! I can't wait to see all the projects that the wonderful ladies have created - please hop with me and check them out:

	1. Julee	8. Andrea
	2. Betty	9. Charmaine
	3. Jen	10. Janelle
	4. Sankari	11. Laurie
	5. Sony	12. Maureen
	6. Susan	13. Teresa
	7. Amber

Thank you so much for stopping by today!
Ciao for now,
Sankari :)

Joyeux Anniversaire - Happy Anniversary!!!

Good Morning Everyone!

This is the second week of being a Guest Designer for FireCracker Designs - where this month I am loving playing with the beautiful stamp set: Parisian Romance! I love all the sweet images in this set and all of the fonts and sentiments too. This card is one that I made for my DH :) Our 11th year anniversary of our "first date" is coming up next week - and I wanted to make him a special little card. I tried to create a little "cafe" look for the card with the awning going up in a side angle - how I wish we could be at a cafe drinking cappuccino's.... but for right now being in the freezing cold in the cornfields with some hot cocoa will have to do :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket (boyfriend collection)

Stamps: Parisian Romance by Firecracker Designs

Ink: Potter's Clay from Memento

Accessories: corner rounder, sakura glaze pen, liquid lacquer, ribbon from stash, spellbinders, martha stewart punches and dimensionals.

I can't believe how quickly the time has passed by - I am so very grateful for each day - what a special gift we get to open every morning when we wake up - just the gift to be alive! You can check out more of these wonderful stamps here and also check out Pamela's blog (the owner of Firecracker Designs). This month, Pamela is offering $2 off the purchase of this stamp set: A Parisian Romance with the coupon code "sankari " :) - Thank you so much Pamela!!!

Hope you are having a beautiful start to your Monday!!!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)