Verve-alicious Tea Tray Project Set

Good Morning Everyone!!! Happy 9-9-09!

Today I am so excited to be part of the Verve Project Parade where the theme is Hostess Gifts!  A HUGE thank you to Shannan Tuebner for all her help this morning with getting pictures up  (you are a life saver and you totally ROCK chica!) For my project today, I decided to use one of my fave sets -  I love the Cup of Life Verve stamp set and so created a little Tea Tray full little Tea Goodies. This tray has Tea Leaves in a little tin can ( I love tin cans!), tea cup with strainer for drinking tea at home, a travel mug French press for drinking tea on the go and a set of notecards (I was going to include some cookies - but I ate all of those! lol!) . Here is a picture of the Tea Tray Gift Set:

Here is a picture of the notecard set - it comes with 5 cards that say "Just for You" with a matching envelopes. I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch #103 for the card: 

I also used a tag punch to create little tags for the French Press, cup and tea tin: It was so fun and easy and most of all made something very simple feel yummy :) Here are some pictures of the tags that I created:

The same tag goes for the cup. And lastly - one of my fave things to do is to take some unfinished wood and paint and stamp on it. After finishing - you just add a clear lacquer (I chose a gloss finish) and it protects the wood. Here is a picture of the tea tray - I painted it goosefeather, burnt umber and azul blue and then used the Bountiful backgounds polkadots, the sentiment from Delightful and Delicious and the teacups from a Cup of Life to create this little tray: 

Project Details:

Sketch: Mojo Monday sketch #103

Ink: Adirondack Expresso, Versa Mark, Clear EP, Memento brilliance copper ink

Paper: Prisma cardstock, brown paper from stash

Stamps: Bountiful backgounds polkadots, the sentiment from Delightful and Delicious and the teacups from a Cup of Life

Accessories: unfinished wood tray and clear gloss lacquer, spellbinders, corner rounder, ribbon (offray), button from stash, Kaiser Blue rhinestones, EK success punch, liquid pearls

I hope you have been enjoying all the lovely projects!!! And not to worry, there are more projects coming in the next days!!! A huge thank you to Julee for this amazing honor to be part of Verve! I am still pinching myself!!! Have a wonderful, delightful and delicious day!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #48 - School of Rock

Good Morning Everyone!! Today brings on the 48th Challenge over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, where every Saturday we pick a movie from which we draw inspiration from to create a card, layout, or altered project. This can be from taking inspiration from the themes of the movie, the costumes, the music, the characters, famous lines, time period of the movie - really anything! Today we are excited to feature the 2003 movie: School of Rock! In this movie, Jack Black pretends to be a substitute teacher and discovers muscial talents in his class = to whom he teaches the classics of rock. We thought that this would be a fun movie to do as we all transition into going to school, teaching at school or sending our loved ones off to school! The challenge requirement this week was to use some cork in our creation! 

I love that Jack Black teaches the kids to think outside the box and the Verve sentiment from Bountiful Backgrounds really stood out to me: Dare to be Different" - because he was taking prep school kids who were straight and proper and giving them a chance to let their inner rock star shine. I remember watching this movie when it came out - and thought how cute the kids were - adorable! I love that he inspired them taught them to find their own voice,style, calling  -  And that even though the kids might be learning how to play the classics perfectly - they still had to make it their own - their own interpretation - their own way to rock it out! Based on that I created this card: I had so much fun making it - and was totally excited to try some cork!!!

I used Mercy Kerin's sketch from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch for this week's Cinema card - (hi Mercy!!! :) I have been wanting to play along with her fun sketch challenge - and am so glad that I could play along this week :) 

Card Details:

Paper: Teresa Collins

Ink: Grey ink

Stamps: Bountiful Backgrounds from Verve

Accessories: cork, ribbon from stash, corner rounder, sponger, K&co bling, I forgot where that flower brad is from (it was fun putting it through the cork! :), circle punch from CM, red adhesive tacky tape.

I had so much fun using cork! Who knew cork could be fun on a card!? And it was fun to watch this movie as I made the card :) 

Hope you have a chance to play along with Mercy's sketches and also play along with the Cinema Challenge this week! Please check out the details and lovely creations at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog!

Thanks so much for visiting! 

See you at the movies!

Hugs :)

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #46 - Field of Dreams

Good Morning Everyone - its time for another Cinema Saturday challenge - where every saturday we pick a new movie from which to draw our inspiration from in creating a card, layout, altered item etc. Today's movie pick is the 1989 Academy Award nominated movie: Field of Dreams!  Among other categories - this movie was nominated for Best Picture and is a movie that inspires the audience to reach for your dreams and enlivens the value of hope, faith and listening to the inner guiding voice. It is truly beyond a sports genre film - and rather, as one movie review wrote: ".... it is a testament to the timeless nature of its story and the universal reach of its theme of family, faith and redemption."

To be honest - I hadn't really wanted to see this movie since it came out because I thought it was a baseball movie - but watching the movie as I made the card for today's challenge - totally moved me - its really so much beyond a story about baseball. I was inspired by the journey that Kevin Costner's character took in listening to "the voice" and the ending of the movie is just so touching. So I made my card as a tribute to enjoying the journey that we are all on and used the baseball as a motif from the movie - I wanted to make a rugged, manly boy card - and you have no idea how much pain it caused to sponge the baseball in way that wasn't pretty (lol :) I wanted it to look a little rugged - as life's journey sometimes is:

Card Details:

Paper: from stash 

Stamps: Verve Bountiful Backgrounds set

Accessories: embroidery thread, liquid pearls (it is slightly hilarious to me that I used liquid pearls on a manly card! ha! I am so addicted to those things!) making memories brads.

Technique: cut out a circle on a half folded up cardstock so that part of the circle is not cut so that it can stand up as a circle card, cut out the same size circle on a different cardstock, pierce holes going in half circles around the large circle and thread in a v-shape to create a baseball stitch, add "not pretty" sponging and a sentiment.

And after making such a card with "not pretty" sponging - I wanted to make a more "pretty" card so I made this one because I was totally inspired by the quote: "Those who hear not the music, think the dancer mad"  -  This quote totally makes me think of the movie and Costner's character's journey as he listen's to the voice. 

Card Details:

Paper: DCVW Taj papers

Stamps: Verve Beautiful You stamp

Accessories: ribbon from stash, circle cutters from CM, spellbinders, sakura gel glaze pen, pearls from Kaiser, red bling from Martha, corner rounder

Sketch used - Mojo Monday Day 5

I had so much fun making these cards for the challenge and hope that you play along with us too! You can check out more details on the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog!

Thanks so much for visiting my little blog corner!!!

Hope all of your field of dreams comes true!!!

hugs!

Sankari :)