Baby Love Diva Dare Re-cap

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Hi all! We hope you've enjoyed our Baby Love Diva Dare! The Divas have shared some spectacularly inspiring creations over the past 2 weeks and we're tickled to see so many of you taking us up on the dare! Just a reminder that you have until tomorrow night (Saturday 1/29) at 11:59pm Mountain to get your comments and entries in. There are two ways to win...

1. We've hidden a little prize on one of the Diva Dare Blog Posts.  Leave a little shout-out in the comments of the Diva Dare posts (to make it easy, I've added thumbnails and links to each post below), and if you're the lucky commenter on the mystery post you'll win the Verve stamp set of your choosing!

Day 1 - Laurie	Day 2 - Jackie	Day 3 - Sankari	Day 4 - Tosh
Day 5 - Teresa	Day 6 - Charmaine	Day 7 - Amy	Day 8 - Andrea
Day 9 - Amber	Day 10 - Maureen

2. Play along with our dare for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate to the Verve Store!  Just make a  a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love!  The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone!  Then link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget.  I've re-posted the linky widget below, so you don't have to go a'hunting once you're ready to link!  Verve Stamps are NOT required, but if you've got 'em we would LOVE to see ‘em!  

Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31, here on the Verve blog.  Good luck!

January Diva Dare – Day 10

Greetings Verve Fans!!!  It’s Maureen and I have the honour of wrapping up our fabulous new Diva Dare Challenge this month.  I don’t know about you, but the Divas have been melting my heart for the last 9 days with the sweetest Baby Love creations.  Before I get onto my take for the challenge here are a few details…

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love!  The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone!  Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!

My ideas for this one kept changing over the week…UNTIL I noticed one of my 7 year old female students wear the sweetest little zippered flower party shoes to school.  I then thought of my sweet little niece, Ava, who is around the same age.  She is the last girl grandchild in our family so her (and her twin brother!) are the “babies,” no matter what age they are! LOL  So with “zippers,” my sweet and patient-with-the-boys-in-our-class girl students and my sweet “baby girl” niece in mind, I created this card…

I used a stamp from Text Objects to make a black border, then stamped “Baby Girl” from To the Moon in different colours to match the zipper.  I love this “You Go Girl” sentiment from the same To the Moon set.  With zipper flowers on my brain, I wanted to make (YES “make with my own hands!” lol ) a fun zipper flower hair band to wrap up as a little gift.  I have only one son so I’m always fascinated by how my girl students and niece are wearing their hair on any given day.

Of course, the hair band needs to be wrapped in some fun packaging with a fabulous matching tag…

Oh, I just love using this Sweet Treat stamp with the Sweet Scallop die :)  Here’s a closeup…

So......will you answer the dare? If so, here are the rest of the details:

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing! Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st right here on the Verve blog.

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you! 

I hope you’ve been inspired by my Baby “Girl” Love gift…I can’t wait to see what YOU dare to make ;)  Have a wonderful day!! 

January Diva Dare - Day 9

Hello! It's Amber here with another day of Diva Dare! Aren't you loving the new format? 

Some details:

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love!  The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone!  Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!

Well, it's no DOUBLE DOG DARE or anything, so don't be afraid to jump in and play with us! 

I answered the challenge with a baby card! I have a few friends and cousins who are due with their own bundles of joy soon so I've been in baby card makin' mode!

I wanted to do something a *little* different, so I cut about 1.25" off the card front for some visual interest and then hung the sentiment panel off the side!

I colored the animals from To the Moon and stuck 'em behind the Smallest Things PJ panel, I think they're so cute!

It's mostly covered up by the animals, but the sentiment panel is built on top of the Classy Label die. The sentiment was cut out with a label punch by EK Success.

Here's how YOU can win some shiny new Verve!

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would  LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing!  Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st on the Verve blog.

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you!

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Smallest Things Plain Jane, To the Moon (Verve)

Paper: White, Chocolate (PTI), Dreamy cardstock (MME)

Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento), Copics

Accessories: Classy Label die (Verve), circle Nesties (Spellbinders), Label punch, small scallop edge (EK Success), Baker's Twine/button (PTI), Gold Ice Stickles (Ranger)

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January Diva Dare - Day 8

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Hello Verve lovelies! Welcome to Day 8 of Verve's fabulous Diva Dare celebration. It's Andrea here and I have to tell you that I've been marvelling over the last 7 days of Diva goodness! Now it's time for me to show you some of mine. First things first, here are the details:

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love!  The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone!  Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!

I answered the challenge by making this adorable Valentine slipper to which I've added some truffles. Check it out:

Here's a view of the top:

And here's a close up of the sentiment panel:

I was inspired by this photo here from Bayberry Cove. To make this treat filled slipper I took a piece of 12" X 12" card stock and folded it in half. I then drew a fairly large half of a heart on one side and cut it out. When I opened it, I had a symmetrical design. I then rolled the side edges and the bottom back and glued them down. I cut a half oval with some scalloped scissors (remember those at the bottom of one of your craft drawers?) and attached that to the inside top part of the heart so that it was extending out. I adhered some pearls & lace to the top part and upper edge, then glued lace around the felt heart bearing the sentiment. I added some red paper-fetti and some truffles inside and it's ready to roll! I'm going to give this to my daughter as she absolutely adores shoes and I know that she'll pull the candy out and keep the slipper.  I can then re-gift the candy to my husband who never passes up an opportunity for chocolate! (In fact, he actually tried to steal the chocolate out of my project before I photographed it!)

Here's how YOU can win some shiny new Verve!

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would  LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing!  Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st on the Verve blog.

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you!

January Diva Dare - Day 7

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Hi Verve fans, are you ready for another week of Diva Dare projects? It's Amy here today, and we're already on Day 7! Here's the challenge:

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love!The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone! Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!





I answered the dare with this shabby little number (inspired by Cher!):

Way back when my husband and I were dating, I made him a Valentine's Day mix that included, among other things, Cher's 1990 remake of Baby, I'm Yours. That may have been the first and only time I {indirectly} called my DH "baby" (we have terms of endearment, "baby" is just not one of them). Nonetheless, the "Baby, I'm Yours" lyrics have been running through my head ever since this month's Diva Dare theme, "Baby Love," was announced. So, with lyrics in mind, I've answered the dare with a "baby" {giggle} card for my husband. I'm hoping to find the original cassette and give him a CD remake, or put together an iTunes playlist, for Valentine's Day this year -- our little portkey back to the early days of our relationship. A good 19-20 years have passed since I gave him the original!

Anyhoo, my card is one of those that took on a life of its own. I just kept adding and adding and adding! But keep reading ... most of it has a purpose.  I began with Tosh's awesome Viva La Verve January Week 3 sketch (shown left) and Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC#64 (from a couple of weeks ago), which was a light blue, kraft/beige/tan, and gray/silver combo. 

The patterned papers are from Basic Grey's Capella collection. On the tilted panel, I included two hearts that I die-cut with Verve's Jotted Heart Die. The light blue one is dry-embossed and spritzed with shimmer spray. The cardboard one is lightly painted around the edges with acrylic paint and topped with some bling. Tying the two together is a banner with the "Together Forever" sentiment from Love Notes (totally goes with the song lyrics!), and a rolled flower. Thinking the flower resembled a nest, I added three little pearls, one for each of our kiddoes. Along the bottom, for the two horizontal strips in the sketch, I placed a variety of layered ribbons and trims in a sort of "his" and "hers" arrangement, a rustic, simple "his" above (the woven burlap trim), and a more complicated, fussy "hers" below (looped trim, crochet trim, and satin ribbon). In a nod to the well-loved, worn, broken-in nature of our 17-year marriage, I gave the card a shabby look with some dry-brushed acrylic paint around the edges and heavily distressed edges.

Sorry for all the heady symbolism -- what can I say, I was an English major! 

So......will you answer the dare? If so, here are some details:

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing! Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st right here on the Verve blog.

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you!

January Diva Dare-Day 6

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Good morning everyone!  It's Charmaine.  I hope you've been inspired by the beautiful creations thus far for the Diva Dare!  I know I have!  :)  Today it's my turn to share what I've created.  This month's theme was Baby Love! 

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love! The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone! Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!

I created something for my "babies" for Valentine's Day.  It's funny because I always call my kids "my babies" (when I'm not calling them "my little bugs", of course) and my girls will say "we're not babies, Mom" and I'll say "you'll ALWAYS be MY baby!" and they just smile and shrug their shoulders.  It's true, though.  No matter how old they are, they'll always be my babies!  So, in keeping with this month's theme, I created little Valentine treats for them.

I started off with the Baskets and Blooms die from Stampin' Up to create the little basket.  I filled it with matching filler and some candy and then decorated the outside.  The heart was die cut using the Jotted Heart Die from Verve along with the Love Notes set. 

The butterfly was also created using the Jotted Heart Die!  I cut two hearts out of pink felt and sewed them together.  Then, I added pearls for the body of the butterfly and some wire for the antennae.  The girls haven't seen these yet because I want them to be a little surprise on Valentine morning!  :) 

So......will you answer the dare? If so, here are some details:

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing! Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st right here on the Verve blog.

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you!

Hope you enjoyed my project!  I can't wait to see your creations!

January Diva Dare-Day 5

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Good morning, it is Teresa and it is my turn to share with you my interpretation of this months theme "Baby Love".  The theme explanation is as follows.

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love! The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone! Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!



I have been wanting to make one of these journal/mini photo album ever since I seen this one that Alex made.  You use Starbucks coffee cup sleeves, so cool don't ya think?  I luv the idea, well because I am a huge fan of Starbucks.  

I have used four sleeves, painted them a cream color and sewed the bottoms shut so that I can use it for a journal card or to add photos.  I have used designer papers from Making Memories, it is the Je t'adore collection.  I used the heart and classy label from the Love Notes set and the Vintage Oval Stamp and die.

I used glass glitter again...sigh.....I adore the look it gives to anything, you can add it to an edge or like I did here the entire heart shape.

I punched holes in the side and used an circle ring to bind them together.  I also made journaling cards using the ticket die from Lifestyles to go into the sleeves.  I used the set Text Objects to stamp across the bottoms.

 Another page of the mini album, a button and bakers twine accent this page.

This is the completed mini album, I hope you like it and I dare you to create your very own Baby Love creation!

So......will you answer the dare? If so, here are some details:

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing! Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st right here on the Verve blog.

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you!

January Diva Dare ~ Day 4

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Hello everyone, Tosh here, and it's my turn to share with you my interpretation of this months Diva Dare Theme, Baby Love, which is as follows:

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love! The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone! Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!

Well, I have two children. One is a college Junior out of state, and my baby girl is going out of state to college also: twice as far I might add. *sniff* Anyway, she has informed me that she would like a lot of cards sent her way while she's there, and that got me to thinking. Why not make her an encouragement box filled with 6 magnets that she can alternately display on her refrigerator depending on her mood. This is what I came up with:

First of all, here's what the box looks like. It's just a paper mache box painted with white acrylic paint. The dp is all from Twinkle, Twinkle Little Boy (MME) shhhhh...don't tell her I used boy paper. She likes blues/greens, and this paper fit perfectly. *grin*

The sides each have a panel using the Classy Label and Embossed Oval Verve Cut Above Dies. I won't inundate you with photos of each side because they all look the same with a different sentiment in the center: "Look out World" and "You Go Girl" - To the Moon, "Hugs" - Love Notes, "You Rock" - Sweet Treats


I added some glitter around the frame and to the swirls, along with the hearts for a bit of sparkle.

Here's a look at the top.
The flower was made with the Tattered Florals Tim Holtz die and some core'dinations paper. Some Frosted Lace Stickles and a pearl brad were added to bling it up a bit too.

The little pick was made with a Tim Holtz idea-ology Memo pin, Labels 5 and Classic Oval Nestabilities, and the Butterfly is from the Verve set Blue Skies. The "XOXO" is from the Love Notes set.

Here's a look at all the magnets I included inside the box. The Verve stamp sets used were:
Blue Skies, Feel the Sun, To Risk, Psalm 121:1-2, Hebrews 11:1, 1 Peter 5:7, I also used Tim Holtz's Styled Labels Dies for the shapes, Sizzix Scribbles Swirls, and chipboard to make the magnets sturdier.

Stamps: Sweet Treats, To the Moon, Love Notes, Blue Skies, Feel the Sun, To Risk, Psalm 121:1-2, Hebrews 11:1, 1 Peter 5:7
Paper: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Boy (My Mind's Eye), Brown and White (PTI), core'dinations
Ink: Onyx Black and Vintage Sepia (Versafine), Red Brick (Versamagic)
Accessories: Dies: Classy Label and Embossed Oval (Verve), Labels 5 Classic Oval and Rectangle (Spellbinders), Styled Labels and Tattered Florals (Tim Holtz Alterations - Sizzix), Scribbles Swirls (Sizzix), Copics, Star Dust and Frosted Lace Stickles, Quickie Glue Pen, Glitter, Rhinestones (Kaisercraft), Memo Pins (Tim Holtz Idea-ology), Pearl Brad, Chipboard, Buttons (PTI), Dimensional Tape, Paper Doilies, Organza Ribbon, Lace

That's it for my project. I can't wait to give it too my daughter. A lot of love went into it, and hopefully she'll think of that every time she looks at it while away.

So......will you answer the dare? If so, here are some details:

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing! Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st right here on the Verve blog.

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you!

January Diva Dare ~ Day 3

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Hi Everyone! It's Sankari here with Day 3 of the Diva Dare, where this month its all about Baby Love, baby! Here are the deets:

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love!  The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone!  Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!

Can I tell you how much I have been loving the sweet little animals that Julee has created with the To The Moon stamp set? Each of the little baby animals are soooo adorable and I couldn't wait to give them some more love for my project today. One of our sweet friends is having a baby in a couple of months (a wee baby girl!) and so I couldn't wait to create a little somethin' somethin' for her and her little bundle of preciousness :) I used this little onesie template (created by stampercolleen on SCS) and decided to create a little onesie card and matching giftbag:

For the onesie, used yummo Pixilicious papers and cut out the onesie pattern and outlined it with a bit of liquid pearls and used the little teddy bear with the window frame technique (Jackie and Amy - I totally love how you did the little guy in the window and I couldn't wait to "window" him too :D I punched out a little heart for him to hold and popped up the sentiment "welcome" on the side.

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: To the Moon stamp set from Verve Stamps:

Papers: Pixilicious from CC and cardstock from PTI

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tuxedo Black and Grape from Memento

Accessories: MS heart punch, bling, eyelets, EK sucess punch, dimensionals and button from stash.

For the giftbag, used one of the 6x6 pages from the DP set and had that as the background with another paper pieced onesie on the front. I decorated this onesie with the Classy Oval frame from the Love Notes stamp set. I stamped the sentiment: "Sugar and Spice and everything nice" onto the frame and then attached a little bear with a heart on it and popped it up onto the gift bag. I finished the bag off with a bit of ribbon:

Gift Bag Ingredients:

Stamps: To the Moon and Love Notes stamp sets from Verve Stamps

Papers: Pixilicious by CC

Inks: Grape and Rich Cocoa (Memento)

Accessories: Giftbag, liquid pearls, MS heart punch, ribbon from stash, buttons and dimensionals

It was so much fun to create this for my friend and love this month's Baby Love theme!!! I can't wait to see what you will create with the Baby Love theme:

So......will you answer the dare?  If so, here are some details:

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would  LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing!  Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st right here on the Verve blog.  

  

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you!

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January Diva Dare ~ Day 2

Hi there!!  It's Jackie here and I'm excited to be here for day 2 of the Diva Dare!  I'll give you the details of the dare and I'll show you how I answered the dare!

We dare you to make a card, project, layout, or whatever fits your stamping style using this month's theme - Baby Love!  The baby part could be for a new little someone...or a special someone!  Be sure to look for the details on how you can win some new Verve goodies at the end of this post!

I have to say that this last release was probably my FAVORITE Verve release to date!  I am a SUCKER for a great baby set, even though my babies are not babies anymore, so I couldn't wait to get To the Moon a little more inky!  I can't get enough of these darling images that Julee designed!

But first, I couldn't get two things out of my head: 

1)  The first Viva la Verve sketch of the year designed by Amber (LOVE this sketch) 

and 2)  THIS adorable card made my our own Amy Sheffer.  I just love the frame and had to do the same technique (Thanks, Amy!)

I made a baby card using the Viva la Verve sketch and tried Amy's "window" technique on the frame.  So fun and so easy!!  I love inspiration from other stampers, especially when I'm in desperate need for it!  LOL

I used some new Making Memories Je t'adore patterned papers that I picked up at my LSS.  Some twill ribbon, a gem flourish some sewing and embellishments finish off the card.  I LOVE how it turned out!

So......will you answer the dare?  If so, here are some details:

1. Play along with us and link up your new Baby Love creation (posted January 14th or later) to the linky widget on the DAY ONE Diva Dare post before midnight MST on January 29th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but if you've got 'em we would  LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we share our Baby Love creations. One lucky commenter will win the Verve stamp set of his or her choosing!  Winners will be announced on Monday, January 31st right here on the Verve blog.

So go ahead and show us your Baby Love creations...we DARE you!

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