Harvest Blessings and more Verve Projects :)

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Hope your week has been going awesome! Our week has been so busy - it seems like every night I come home exhausted and my mojo is gone - and last night, I was in bed super early, but couldn't sleep (so I decided to come and play :) I just got this new yummy BG (Indian Summer) and couldn't wait to play :) There is just something about these colors that makes me want to crunch some leaves, wear a scarf and go for a walk in the woods, and have a cup of tea after coming home. I absolutely love love love fall - and these papers and this stamp that I used just make my heart so happy :) I used Julee's seriously mojo-licious sketch from this week (those scallops had me swooning I tell ya'!) and used one of my favorite sentiments from the new Verve release Harvest Blessings.

Card Details:

Paper: Basic Grey Indian Summer, cardstock from Bazzil basics

Stamps: Verve - Harvest Blessings

Ink: Memento Ink: Potter's clay and then over it with some Sakura gel pens

Accessories: Circle punch and archival pen from Creative Memories, bling from Martha and buttons from stash, corner rounder, leaf is from BG, dimensionals,

I love and can't get enough of these yummy verve-licious sets. Here are some creations that I posted at the Verve release party that I haven't had a chance to post here yet:

This is from the set: Star Struck. This could be one of my most fave sets - I just couldn't stop using it :) Here is one project - called: Star that's what you are:

Paper: Bo Bunny, carstock from stash run through the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug

Stamps: Star Struck from Verve

Ink: Memento Ink: Potter's clay and then over it with some Sakura pink glaze pen

Accessories: Wave cutter and circle cutter from Creative Memories, liquid pearls, accordian ribbon from Taylored Expressions, dimensionals,

Here is another project from the same stamp set called: Be the Star, You Know You are:

Paper: BG Ambrosia set (I {heart} these papers!!)

Stamps: Star Struck from Verve

Ink: Memento Ink: Potter's clay and then over it with some Sakura gel pens

Accessories: Spellbinders, circle cutter from Creative Memories, black glaze pen from Sakura, Big eyelet and cropadile to set, ribbon from stash, bling from Martha corner rounder and dimensionals

Sketch: Last week's sketch from Mojo #104

This one is from the Stamp Set: Swan Song - this is such an amazing set - so versatile and such beautiful sentiments. This card is called: You Put a Song in my Heart:

Card Details:

Paper: Bazzil Basics pink from K&Company

Ink: Taken with Teal from SU! and copics and prismas to color in

Stamps: Swan Song from Verve

Accessories: Spellbinders, ribbon from stash, gel pen from Rangers, dimensionals, pocket punch from Fiskars and heart punch from Martha Stewart. corner rounder

Here is another card make with the same Swan song set -but as you can see it has a total different feeling - these are some of my new FAVE papers - seriously YUMMY!!!!

Card Details:

Paper: Kaiser Kraft Off shore Collection ( i totally {heart} these papers!!!)

Ink: Taken with Teal from SU! mixed with Stazon Black

Stamps: Swan Song from Verve

Accessories: corner rounder, bling from K& Company, dimensionals

I love those colors in the papers above and so much fun with the Kaiser rub ons! LOVE it!!! Another thing that I have really been enjoying doing is to create a little notecard set that you can give as a gift - here is a 3 card noteset that I made using the Wishing You Well Stamp set - it is seriously one of my other fave sentiments sets from Verve - I LOVE Julee's fonts and the way that you can just add another sentiment and you get a whole other card makes it so easy to create a versatile gift set:

Card Details:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket Early Bird

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa and Potter's Clay

Stamps: Wishing You from Verve

Accessories: Spellbinders, ribbon from Taylored Expressions, corner rounder, bling from Kaiser Craft, liquid pearls, Threading Punch from Fiskars.

Here is a picture of each card in the set individually:

Wishing You the Happiest of Days (isn't that just an awesome sentiment!?!)

Wishing You a Very Happy Birthday

Wishing You a Very Speedy Recovery

There are so many more wonderful sentiments in this awesome set: Wishing You! It covers every kind of card that you would want to make. All of these stamp sets are in the September Bundle that is on Sale!! from now till Weds. or as supplies last - so make sure to go check it out HERE!!!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!

I hope that you are all having a fantabulous week so far and are getting excited for the upcoming weekend!!! WOOT!!!

And if you need some mojo - head on over to the Mojo Monday Blog - for it is sure to get your creative juices flowing!!!!

Big Hugs!!!

Sankari :)

Verve sneak Peeks: Harvest Blessings

Good Morning Everyone,

Can I tell you HOW excited I am today to show you SNEAK PEEKS from this month's Verve release!!?!!!!! Seriously SOOOO excited!!! Check out the Verve Stamps blogpost to check out the awesome samples from the Verve Divas :) And don't forget that the Verve Release Party is TONIGHT - you can check out this thread for more information!!!

Today, myself, Laurie Schmidlin, Teresa Kline and Susan Liles are previewing the sets: Harvest Blessings and Happiness Found over at the Verve Stamps blog! For my project today I used the Harvest Blessings stamp set to create a wreath from the beautiful leaves that Julee has designed - I LOVE the different patterns that are within these leaves and the sentiment is just beautiful! I had so much fun making this wreath and have a mini tutorial with step by step instructions for making one of these for your home :) Here is a picture of the wreath:

Here is a closer peek at the lovely leaves that Julee has designed for this awesome fall set. I LOVE how easy it is to create these beautiful leaves - all you need are different color inks!

Here is a mini step by step instruction with pictures on how to make one of these wreaths. All you really need are: a paper plate (heavy Chinnet plates are the best), ribbon, adhesive glue, leaves and a hot glue gun!

1. select your paper plate (one that is thicker is much easier to work with than a thinner plate) - trim around the rim (wait - that rhymes!!!) so that the center is cut out.
2. cover your plate rim with ribbon - this is so that if there is any part of the plate that is exposed - you won't see the white part of the plate and also the back of the plate will look nice too so that if you have a glass door - the back of the plate will be covered as well. I used some mono adhesive glue for my ribbon just a little dot here and there to keep it in place.
3. get your pieces ready for adhering! for this project, I stamped over 70 leaves from the Harvest Blessings stamp set from Verve. I LOVE that Julee has designed these leaves to have polka dots, swirls and argyle patterns. SO awesome!!! All you have to do is stamp them with different inks and you have an array of patterns and colors for your leaves. I spread them out on my work space to try to figure out how I wanted to arrange them by groupings of colors, etc.
4. this picture shows you what the BACK of the plate looks like after you adhere the leaves. I like that the back of the plate has a pretty pattern from the ribbon because we have a glass door and its nice not to see the white plate's backside :)
5. This is a close up shot of the different patterns of leaves in this awesome set that Julee has designed. Its so super easy to create different leaf patters by just stamping them on different ink pads. I also sponged some brown on the edges of some of the leaves for a more 3D effect. I wanted to keep it simple - but you could also add some glitter mist or some stickles here or there for more sparkle-age :)
6. Here is the finished product of adhering all the leaves to the plate (a hot glue gun does the trick very well!) I tried to arrange them in two lines going in one direction with some leaves here and there in the middle. Have fun experimenting as to what works best for your project!
7. To show you what this wreath looks like from the back here is a picture of the wreath from behind the glass door. Its nice to have the ribbon cover the plate so you can't see the regular plate backside:

And here is the finished product hanging from the door. I have a little over the door hook that I tied my ribbon onto (because our front door is already inside the main building, this plate wreath doesn't shake in the wind. For more outdoor front doors, you could use more of a foam board and then cover with a clear lacquer to protect from the elements).

and here is a closer look at those leaves!!! and isn't this sentiment simply awesome!!!?!!! I love being welcomed into our house with this Vervalicous wreath on the front door :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and visiting my blog!!! Make sure to jump over to the Verve blog to see all the samples from this week's sneak peek and stop by the Release Party tonight! It is going to be a rockin' one!!!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)