This is my take on Tuesday's Verve sketch challenge. Verve is celebrating their two year ANNI-VERVE-SARY. This week in the Verve forum at Splitcoaststampers you can join in the celebration with lots of giveaways, challenges, and a release party on Friday night!

The beautiful air balloons are from one of my favorite Verve set's Up, Up and Away. I paired the set with this beautiful paper from Cosmo Crickett. The air balloons are paper pieced and cut out with my nestibilities. I sponged the edges of the paper and then ran it though my sewing machine for extra detail. The I punched a hole and put my ribbon through it and added a metal flower from Maya Road, and a rhinestone brad.

Hope you have a great day,
Melody

Ingredients:
Stamps - Verve Up, Up and Away
Ink - Memento Black, Tim Holtz distressing ink in Tea Dye
Paper - DP Cosmo Crickett, SU Barely Banana, Very Vanilla, Grey is Bazzill
Other - Nestibilities, copics, lace, Maya Road flowers, sewing machine

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Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop

Welcome to the first ever official Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop. Verve turns two today and we’re celebrating with a hop, hop, hop! The party kicked off over on the Verve blog, so if you’ve just happened along, be sure to hop on over there to start from the beginning! And to make this party a real shindig, there’s a mystery jackpot hidden at one of the stops along the hop. One lucky commenter on that blog will win Verve’s entire August release! But of course, it wouldn’t be a mystery if you knew which blog, would it? So if you’re feeling the love, give a little shout out to the bloggers in the hop and you just might have a reason to jump for joy! 

One of my very favorite Verve Stamps is Up, Up, and Away. The air balloon is pieced. The clouds are cut out and popped up and I added a little glitter. I made some hills, distressed the edges with ink, and add a zip zag stitch on my sewing machine. The I added the trees. the larger tree is cut out and popped up, and I added a few rhinestone. Then I added some lace, ribbon, and a butterfly charm. The edge punch is Martha Stewart. All the edges are sponged with Tim Holtz distressing ink in Tea Dye.

Thanks for stopping by! Now it’s time to hop on over to Carolina's  for a little more Verve-y goodness.

Melody

Ingredients:

Stamps - Verve Up, Up, and Away, Whimsey Tree

Ink: Memento Black, Tim Holtz Distressing ink in Tea Dye

Paper: DP Graphics 45, SU black, very vanilla

Other: Copics, sewing machinge, rhinestones, glitter, lace, ribbon, charm

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Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop

Beautiful Kindness

Hope everyone has had a nice weekend. I got a little stamping done, but spent most of the weekend with my family. My college age girls are getting ready to head back to their prospective schools so we are trying to spend as much time together as we can.

This my card the Verve week 3 sketch challenge with a twist. The twist this week is to use scored lines on your card.

On my pink background I scored lines using my score-pal in a diamond shape. I highlighted a lines a little with a copic marker and then I add Liquid Pearls in pink. I stayed with the vintage look of the paper and added lace, ribbon, and vintage looking brads. The butterfly is a charm I colored with a brown copic maker. I add some sewing and distressing ink to finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by,

Melody

Ingredients,

Stamps - Beautiful Kindness

Ink - Memento Coffee Bean, Tim Holtz Tea Dye

Paper - DP Basic Grey, SU Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla, PTI Brown

Other - Ribbon, Brads, lace, charm, nestibilities, Pearl Stickles

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Beautiful Kindness

Birthday Cupcake

This is the second of my new Verve stamps. The layout is this weeks sketch challenge in the Verve Forum at Splitcoaststampers. The twist this week is a Technique twist! You could chose one of two techniques , Poppin' Pastels or Burnt Batik. I chose the Poppin' Pastels to work with. There are step by step instructions in the forum. I used the Poppin Pastels technique to make my background paper behind the cupcake.

The stamp is "A Cupcake Affair". I cut it out and placed on the background paper. I added stickles to the frosting and rhinestones to the flowers. I used my sew machine to zig zag the edges and straight stitch around the middle panel. The edges are sponged with distress ink. The I added some lace and ribbon.

Have a great Wednesday!

Melody

Ingredients:
Stamps - Verve Cupcake Affair
Ink - Memento Black, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in Tea Dye
Paper - DP Cosmo Crickett, PTI Olive, SU Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla
Other - Stickles, ribbon, lace, rhinestones, copics, nestibilities, sewing machine

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Birthday Cupcake

Happy Graduation

Last month I purchased my first Verve stamps. I have admired the stamps and the beautiful work the design teams does for a while and finally decided to buy a couple of my favorites. I needed one more graduation card so I pulled out one of my new sets, Up, Up, and Away. I like how my card turned out. If I had to describe my favorite style of stamping, this card would be my example. I really like mixing a vintage papers, distressing, lace, vintage embellishment with different types of images.

The card layout is the Verve challenge in the Verve Forum at Splitcoast. The sketch challenge includes a twist each week. This week the twist is distressing. With that in mind, all my edges are distressed with Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in Tea Dye. To make my scene, I stamped the trees, clouds, and air balloon. Then and cut out hills from my DP. The paper on this card is Graphic Design. I just love their papers!

After coloring with Copics, I added some stitching to my hills. The larger tree and clouds are popped up. The air balloon is paper pieced. I did some more stitching around the edges of the papers. I added black lace and a metal flower from Maya Road and a few rhinestones.

Thanks for stopping by! To all my friends here in the states, have a fun Fourth of July!

Melody

Ingredients:

Stamps - Verve Up, Up and Away, Whimsical Tree

Papers - DP Graphic 45, SU Black, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla

Ink - Memento Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Other - Sewing Machine, lace, rhinestones, glitter, copics, flower Maya Road

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Happy Graduation