December Diva Dare - Day 6

Hi there! Amber here today to share a quick card for this month's Diva Dare!!

 Favorite Things - December Diva Dare

This month we are daring you to share your favorite Verve creations for this year OR create a new one with one of your FAVORITE Verve products!

My favorite stamp set of the year is Happy Place and a couple of my favorite cards have come from using this stamp set!

Here's one I created for the release, I love the bright colors and fun artsy look I got from my Dylusions inks!

The sentiment is from 2 Corinthians 12:9 PJ!

Here's another fun one with a clear card base and Happy Place! I also used another favorite, from the same release, Peaceful Medallions!

This one uses Happy Place and Moments Remembered...

And this one I made just for today! 

I watercolored the background with my Peerless Watercolors and then just stamped the images and sentiments from Happy Place! Such a simple, fun card!

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Favorite Things dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must include your favorite Verve creation(s) of 2014 (maximum of 3 entries) OR be an entry using your favorite stamp set, be posted 12/8 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 12/21/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like for a new creation (each card needs to be a separate post), and a maximum of 3 times for previously created cards.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Favorite Things Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is December 21, 2014.

  

Winners will be announced on December 22, 2014.

October 2014 Diva Dare - Day 6

Hey everyone!

Chaitali here for today's Diva Dare post! This month's dare is entitled Pink Power in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month.

This is a cause very dear to me ofcourse since my mom was diagnosed with it earlier this year. (I hope you checked out the stamp set I illustrated for her!)

However, today I wanted to celebrate the power of pink in another way. My mom recently had her surgery and is recovering well from it! So I have a Congrats card for her!! Here is my card...

This is based on the recent VLV sketch and inspiration pic. I used Peaceful Medallions and Die Sidekicks sets on this one. The enamel dots are home-made (learn more about that here!) :)

And now for the Diva Dare deets...

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Pink Power dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have pink on your card or project, be posted 10/10 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/26/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Pink Power Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is October 26, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 27, 2014.

September 2014 Diva Dare Day 9

Terrific Trios - September Diva Dare

Welcome to September's Diva Dare!  

Stacey here with today's take on Terrific Trios.  Back to school time usually means life is a 3 ring circus, so this month we're daring you to add 3 of something to your card or project. 

Okay, that blurry photograph has been fixed!  I whipped this card up over a crafty weekend with friends and even borrowed Peaceful Medallions and Better Together stamp sets from my my Verve-loving friend, Lynn Mangan that brought some of her Verve stash along!  Oh, and just wait until you see her shoebox swap card that we made with LOTS of VERVE-goodness!  BEAUTIFUL!

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Terrific Trios dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have 3 of something on your card or project, be posted 9/12 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 10/01/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Celebrate Good Times Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is October 1, 2014.

Winners will be announced on October 2, 2014.

August 2014 Diva Dare - Day 10

Hello, Friends! Amber here! Long time no blog:) Just getting settled in to my new home here in Washington and have had a little trouble tracking down my mojo. Have you seen it? It's still missing so if you see it, please send it back home, ha!

So this month, our Diva Dare is to Celebrate Good Times! 

Verve is turning 7 this month and we’d love to see your celebration cards.  Think wedding, birthday, anniversary… anything that brings the confetti out!

For my card, I pulled out my Peaceful Medallions and Poppy Birthday sets. I got some new Impress Fresh Inks this week in coral and mint, so I knew that's what color combo I wanted to go with. I stamped the largest medallion in coral ink and then a smaller medallion in mint. The three gold medallions are gold embossed, and then the smallest medallions are again stamped in coral Fresh Ink. I scattered some sequins randomly. The orange sequins are from a multi pack I got at Michaels, and the gorgeous shiny sequins are from the Shine Bright collection from Verve. The scalloped frame is the Rounded Scallop Frame. 

My card is loosely based on this week's new Viva la Verve sketch! Pop on over to the VLV Sketch Blog to play along with the sketch.

The sentiment is from Poppy Birthday. Well that's all I have to share today, hope you can get inky today and play along! 

 

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Celebrate Good Times dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have a celebration theme:  birthday, wedding, anniversary, confirmation, new job, retirement, new baby, new home - anything you can celebrate, be posted 8/8 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 8/23/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Celebrate Good Times Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is August 23, 2014.

Winners will be announced on August 24, 2014.

Go forth and get inky...we dare you!

August 2014 Diva Dare - Day 4

Celebrate Good Times - August Diva Dare

Welcome to August's Diva Dare!  Stacey here with another take on this month's dare entitled Celebrate Good Times.     

Verve is turning 7 this month and we’d love to see your celebration cards.  Think wedding, birthday, anniversary… anything that brings the confetti out!

 I've been waiting for the perfect time to create a card using these new stamp sets, Peaceful Medallions and Moments Remembered!  I adore the elegance of these two stamp sets that were illustrated by the amazing Chaitali Narla!  There are a couple of Flag It Die Set flags for an added touch and pop of pink, too!

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Celebrate Good Times dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have a celebration theme:  birthday, wedding, anniversary, confirmation, new job, retirement, new baby, new home - anything you can celebrate, be posted 8/8 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 8/23/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Celebrate Good Times Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is August 23, 2014.

I also put Maureen's Viva la Verve sketch from last week to good use!

I hope you'll grab your celebratory Verve stamps and join us for this fun challenge!

Thanks for stopping by the Verve blog today!

Winners will be announced on August 24, 2014.

August 2014 Diva Dare - Day 3

Good morning Verve fans, Christyne here welcoming you to Day 3 of this month's Verve Diva Dare entitled: 

Celebrate Good Times - August Diva Dare

This month's dare is entitled Celebrate Good Times.     
Verve is turning 7 this month and we’d love to see your celebration cards.  Think wedding, birthday, anniversary… anything that brings the confetti out!

For my celebration card, I decided to go with a versatile, classic theme: black and white!  I used the Moments Remembered and Peaceful Medallions stamps sets from the recent July release. Since this was a celebration card, I pulled out all the bling: rhinestones, Shine Bright sequins, and glitter!!  Combined with some rich ribbon and this week's Mojo Monday sketch (MOJO358), I arrived at this elegant, yet shabby, card.

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Celebrate Good Times dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must have a celebration theme:  birthday, wedding, anniversary, confirmation, new job, retirement, new baby, new home - anything you can celebrate, be posted 8/8 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 8/23/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Celebrate Good Times Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is August 23, 2014.

Winners will be announced on August 24, 2014.

July Release Retrospective Hop

Hi Verve fans!  Welcome to our July Release Retrospective Hop!  The Divas and guests have planned a great little hop for you today featuring our recently released stamps and dies.  By now you should have had a chance to receive your new stamps and we thought it would be fun to put on a hop to give you even more ideas with them!  Sound like fun? Just hop around to the blogs on the link list below and leave a little comment love as you hop about for a chance to win a $40 gift voucher to Verve!  Want another chance to win? Link up your creations using at least one of our July release products to the linkup widget at the bottom of this post and you'll be entered in a drawing to win our entire August release!

I'm the first stop on the hop over on my blog, Poetic Artistry, but first I wanted to share this {sort of CAS} card I made with the Peaceful Medallions set and the large flower from Happy Place.  I started by stamping medallions on a piece of white cardstock in perfect plum and wisteria wonder.  Next I stamped the big medallion on another piece of white, cut with a circle die and matted with a scallop circle die cut in perfect plum.  Next I flipped the flower stamp from Happy Place over so I was stamping on the solid side and stamped it pale plum.  I then stamped over that with the right side of the stamp in Wisteria Wonder and hand cut to pop up over my medallion piece.  I stamped two of the smaller medallions in pale plum, then cut with a 1" circle punch and popped up on my card.  I finished with a sentiment from Be Blessed and then added some liquid pearls and amethyst rhinestone accents.  Simple, yet elegant.

Okay, let's move along to the hop list....

	1. Julee	10. Jen
	2. Stacey	11. Sheri {Guest}
	3. Maureen	12. Andrea
	4. Chaitali	13. Amber
	5. Marisa	14. Christyne
	6. Teresa	15. Sarah
	7. Kay {Guest}	16. Anya
	8. Janelle	17. Betty
	9. Charmaine

ETA:  Laurie wasn't able to post today due to an injury.

Hop Prize: $40 Gift Voucher to Verve 

Comment Deadline:  8pm Mountain, Thursday, July 31

Show us your VERVE Challenge!
Now it's YOUR turn! We'd LOVE to see what you've done with the July release! Link up your creations using at least one product from our July release to the widget below and you'll be entered in a drawing to win our ENTIRE next release!

How to enter:
1.  Make a card or project using at least one product from our new release.
2. Post it to your blog or online gallery, mentioning Verve in the write-up.
3.  Come back here and link your creation to the linky list below.

You can enter as many creations as you like, so have fun inking up your Verve!  We can't wait to see what you create.

Show Us Your Verve Link-Up Prize:  Verve's entire August release

Deadline for Prize Drawing:  8pm Mountain on August 23.

July 2014 Diva Dare - Day 10

Hi there Verve fans!  Laurie here, bringing you day 10 of the July Diva Dare!

Inside Out - July Diva Dare

This month we're daring you to create a stamped card and continue the design on the inside for a special surprise for the recipient.  Simply carry over some portion of the card front design on to the inside of your card.   

Here's what I came up with...

 

For the front, I stamped several of the medallion images from the Peaceful Medallions set, and then used my circle punches to punch them out.  It's hard to see in this photo, but I stamped the leafy image from the  Happy Place set all over the dark gray background paper.  For embellishment, I added some seam binding (from the Signature Ribbon Collection) and a couple of wooden hearts.

For the inside, I added a strip of coordinating patterned paper (from the same patterned paper pad), and couple more punched out medallions.  For the sentiment, I stamped the 2 Corinthians 12:9 Plain Jane using dark gray ink.

Now it's YOUR turn!

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Inside Out dare and link up your card to be eligible to win.  Entries must have an element from the front of your card carried over to the inside, be posted 7/14 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 7/31/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Inside Out Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is July 31, 2014.

Winners will be announced on August 1, 2014.

July 2014 Diva Dare ~ Day 8

Hello there, lovelies! Amber here with Day 8 of the Diva Dare challenge...hope your week is going well so far, half way to the weekend, WOOP WOOP!

Inside Out - July Diva Dare

This month we're daring you to create a stamped card and continue the design on the inside for a special surprise for the recipient.  

**Simply carry over some portion of the card front design on to the inside of your card. **

I wanted to do something a little different with my card, and let you SEE the inside FROM the outside! 

I got a piece of clear cardstock and created the card base, and then found the patterned paper that I wanted to put on the inside. The papers are from BG's Grand Bazaar (I love this paper!). Next, I cut the turquouise frame and glued it on to the card front, and sewed the corner. I pulled out my beloved Peaceful Medallions stamp set. I cut several of a few different sized circles and then stamped some fun medallions. The big one in the back is embossed in gold, super shiny IRL! The flower is from Happy Place and cut out with one of the dies from Happy Doodles. The sentiment is from Happy Place, and was stamped on a banner cut out with the Scroll die. I used the coordinating scroll stamp from Die Sidekicks for that banner. Here are a couple detail shots...

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Inside Out dare and link up your card to be eligible to win.  Entries must have an element from the front of your card carried over to the inside, be posted 7/14 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 7/31/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Inside Out Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is July 31, 2014.

                        Winners will be announced on August 1, 2014

July 2014 Diva Dare - Day 7

Good morning Verve fans, it is Maureen bringing you Day 7 of the July 2014 Diva Dare!

Inside Out - July Diva Dare

This month we're daring you to create a stamped card and continue the design on the inside for a special surprise for the recipient.  Simply carry over some portion of the card front design on to the inside of your card. 

 

 I need some sympathy cards in my stash so I thought I'd make one with some new and old sentiments.  I created a medallion from Peaceful Medallions to act as a frame for the sentiment from  Moments Remembered.  Then I stamped and fussy cut the feather images from this same set and tucked them behind the sentiment that I punched out with a 1 3/8" circle punch. I used some ivory ribbon from the Signature Ribbon Collection to add some softness and some black and  Shine Bright Sequin Mix to finish off the front of the card.  Now, I don't usually stamp or decorate the insides of my cards because I like to use all that space to write! LOL  So this was a good challenge for me.  I decided to use two sentiments from Forever in our Hearts because I liked the way "Forever in our Hearts" went with the "Forever in my Thoughts" on the front.  The same pattern paper and some black stitching help tie the front to the inside.

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Inside Out dare and link up your card to be eligible to win.  Entries must have an element from the front of your card carried over to the inside, be posted 7/14 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 7/31/14.  One participant will be randomly selected to win the gift voucher.  You can enter as many times as you like, but each card needs to be in a separate post.

Win a Verve set of your choice! For another chance to win some new Verve, leave a little comment love on our design team's Inside Out Diva Dare posts!  One lucky commenter will win a Verve stamp set of his or her choice, so be sure to tune in each day!  Comment deadline to be entered in our prize drawing is July 31, 2014.

                        Winners will be announced on August 1, 2014