Inventory Inspiration

Hi Verve friends! Thank you SOOOOOO much for all your fabulous well wishes, emails, comments and orders. My office is down to just one 2'x6' cabinet of product (about 50 different skus). I'm blown away! My voice echoes in my office now... it startles me every time I speak! I've already moved a fourth empty unit like these out and there's another empty bookshelf on the other wall.  It's definitely getting real, folks!

Today I thought I'd hop on and share a little inspiration with a few spotlights on some of our remaining stamp sets. All of today's spotlights also have a coordinating die still available. Please consider giving them a home so they don't end up sad and forgotten in a box in my garage! :)

---

Everything Nice is a favorite set of mine. I love a good Cinderella story, and add in some coffee and what's not to love.  It coordinates with the Pumpkin Spice Die Set (also still available), but is so much more than just an autumn set.  The wishes come true sentiment is my absolute favorite for birthday cards. Here's a card I made with it and the free printable that comes with the Blooming Die Set.

You can view additional inspiration with this set in our Everything Nice gallery or on our Everything Nice Pinterest Board.

---

Pink Power is a beautiful breast cancer awareness set designed by the lovely Chaitali Narla in honor of her mother who was battling breast cancer at the time. She sadly lost her fight. The bald silhouette is one of the loveliest images I've ever seen and I so treasure this beautiful set. It also coordinates with our Ribbon Die. Jennifer McGuire used the Pink Power set in this video tutorial. The timeless beauty of a card below is by Teresa Kline.

You can view additional inspiration with this set in our Pink Power gallery or on our Pink Power Pinterest Board.

---

Pinecone Christmas is another set designed by Chaitali. This one features beautiful pinecone, branches and poinsettia images. It's a lovely set and coordinates with the Poinsettia Pinecones Die Set. The final copies of this stamp set are sold AS-IS at a 75% discount. They are missing the solid flame, solid candle and the bottom corner two step stamping solid leaf image (I've highlighted the missing images in the photo above). This time period in my life when the boys were tiny is kind of a blur, so I'm not sure why they're missing. Probably because they didn't line up for two step stamping correctly and we had to run a reprint. I've loved stamping with this set, especially those fun branches, and I created one of the very few stamping videos I've done using this stamp set. I love the glittery way Christyne Kane used this set in the card below.

You can view additional inspiration with this set in our Pinecone Christmas Gallery or on our Pinecone Christmas Pinterest Board.

---

Our final set in the spotlight today is the Hip Hop Bunnies set. I love these adorable little bunnies and the fun coordinating Bunny Hop Die Set.  I've had so much fun making little treats and cards for my boys with them.

You can view additional inspiration with this set in our Hip Hop Bunnies Gallery or on our Hip Hop Bunnies Pinterest Board.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you're inspired! Would love to see any of your Verve creations! Just link me up.  :)

Hip Hop Bunnies Day 3 March Spotlight Hop

Welcome to Day 3 of our March Spotlight Hops!  On Friday we released 12 brand new Verve products, and this week the Divas and special guests are spotlighting our newest release with a series of hops! Today's spotlight is shining on the Hip Hop Bunnies, the Bunny Hop Die Set and the Welcome plain jane.

Want to win some shiny new Verve? We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the hop spots below to win today's featured products! So be sure to leave a little comment on all the blogs linked below to increase your chances!

1. Julee 7. Mackie 2. Amber 8. Marisa 3. Betty 9. Maureen 4. Charmaine 10. Stacey 5. Christyne 11. Teresa 6. Lee-Anne 12. Vicki

Comment deadline for prize drawing is Friday, March 11.

First up in the spotlight today is a brand new set called Hip Hop Bunnies.

I love bunnies and Verve used to have quite a few sets featuring bunnies.  Sadly, over the years, they've all retired to make room for new goodies.  I was missing my bunny fix, so I had to remedy that! One bunny is an update of the bunny images formerly in Practically Perfect.  I cleaned up the lines a little to make it easier to paper piece, gave him/her some arms and made the bows separate stamps so one stamp could work for either girl or boy cards. The bunny with the big feet is another rendition of the bunny from the former Hoppy Easter set.  I felt he needed some arms to hide something behind his back and definitely some whiskers. Whiskers are pretty cute, don't ya think? The third bunny is a new little guy.  He reminds me of a stuffed bunny I had as a kid  And I'm pretty sure he loves carrots, because I had to design a carrot just for him. {grin}

The Bunny Hop Die Set is the coordinating die set for Hip Hop Bunnies.  The bows are exact cuts (with no border around the stamped image) so you can easily add them to the bunnies without it looking funny.  The bunny and carrots have a traditional white border around the stamped image when cut.  Since they're open dies, this makes it super easy to align with your stamped images.

I found myself always writing the phrase, welcome to the world little one inside of baby cards, so last year when my nephew was born, I designed this little sentiment for his card. I loved it so much I started just printing it to use in cards, then realize, hey, I totally need that as a stamp!  So here it the Welcome Plain Jane, a perfect little pairing with the bunnies in today's featured set.

Okay, if you're still with me, the hop starts over on my blog, Poetic Artistry! Come say hello!