Greetings Verve fans! Maureen here with you this morning for Day 5 of this month's Diva Dare! This month we are challenging you to "Bright Blooms and Butterflies", a combination of Diva Charmaine's (Oodabug Alley) and Marisa's (Rosemary Reflections)
signature styles. Charmaine often uses wonderful, bright colours on her
cards and Marisa uses lots of flowers and butterflies. So this month, we
dare you to create a colourful card using either a flower or butterfly
image, (or if you'd prefer... a fun die shape) as the focal element.
When I visit Charmaine's blog, her colour and paper choices always make me smile :) I noticed she used this particular patterned paper on her sweet creation HERE. So that was my starting point. I also wanted to put one of the sentiments from Remember This onto gray cardstock with white embossing powder for a chalkboard-ish look like Charmaine has done a few times. The other sentiment was stamped onto the small banner image which fits perfectly onto one of the banners in the Banner Bundle Die set. I also tucked two Flag It banners onto the side of the note page panel. Marisa loves butterflies so it was easy to reach for the Flutterby die again using balsa wood. AND to make things a little more sparkly, I stamped the coordinating image from So Fluttery with Stampin' Up's heat and stick. Then I sprinkled on some pink glitter and heat set it. Some sparkly stars from the Starry die and some more of that delicious, buttery Spring Fling seam binding were fun additions to these 2 Divas' styles. This is how I answered the Dare, how will YOU?
Finally, noted below are two ways you can win some shiny new Verve!
- Win a $40 Verve gift certificate! Play along with our March Diva Dare and link up your creation to the linky widget entry form. A winner will be chosen by random draw. To be eligible, your entry must:
- Be a new creation - posted April 12th or later.
- Be a card or project using bright colours and having a flower and/or butterfly (or other die shape) as your focal point.
- Use at least one Verve product.
- Be added to the linky widget before 5pm Mountain on Wednesday, May 1.
- Win a Verve set of your choosing! Leave a little shout-out for the Divas in the comments section as we post our answers to this month's dare weekdays through April 29th. A random comment winner will be chosen from all the comments over the course of the Dare.
- Winners will be announced on Friday, May 3rd.
- Go forth and get inky! We DARE you! -
