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! :)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.  :)

November Diva Dare ~ Day 10

 Vellum Visions - November Diva Dare

Welcome to November's Diva Dare!  It's Andrea checking in with you today with my take on this month's dare, which is entitled Vellum Visions.  Soft and classy, vellum always makes a big impression.  So, this month, we are daring you to add some vellum to your card or project. 

I started with this week's Mojo Monday sketch (always an inspiration in and of itself!) and added some non-traditional Christmas colors, to go along with Verve's latest stamp release. This set is called Pinecone Christmas. The papers are from Crate Paper's Portrait collection. I added the big poinsettia to tie in the Christmas theme. All edges are sponged with Walnut Stain distress ink and I also added a sweet little twine bow.

Here's the sketch I used: 

  

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Vellum Visions dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must include some vellum, be posted 11/7 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 11/29/14.  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 Vellum Visions 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 November 29, 2014.

Winners will be announced on November 30, 2014. 

November Diva Dare - Day 9

Hey everyone!

Welcome to Day 9 of the November Diva Dare! Chaitali here today for the Diva Dare.

This month's dare is entitled Vellum Visions.  Soft and classy, vellum always makes a big impression.  So, this month, we are daring you to add some vellum to your card or project. 

Here is my card with a vellum panel and an embossed gold sentiment!

I still had all the sets from the recent release on my craft table and ofcourse I'm on a Christmas cardmaking spree. So I used a stamp from each of the 3 new November sets. The sentiment is from Weary World, the poinsettia from Pinecone Christmas and the candles image from Light My World. I colored the poinsettia and candles with Copics then fussy cut them out. Fussy cutting is so relaxing! I missed it for the longest time! So glad I got to try it out on this card :) The sequins are from the recently released holiday sequin mix.

Oh and if you are curious about the photo, you should drop by my blog tomorrow! I will be showing off my new photography setup then!

Now on to the details of the Diva Dare...

 

Two ways to win prizes for double the fun!

Win a $40 gift voucher to Verve! Take our Vellum Visions dare and link your card up to be eligible to win.  Entries must include some vellum, be posted 11/7 or later, include at least one Verve product and be linked up to the linky widget by 8pm Mountain on 11/29/14.  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 Vellum Visions 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 November 29, 2014.

Thanks for joining in today! Hope you will join us for the dare!

November Release Spotlight Hops Day 2

Welcome back to Day 2 of Verve's November 2014 Spotlight Hops!  The Verve Divas and special guests are back for another day of spotlighting the new holiday release! Everything previewed this week will be available in the Verve online store on Thursday, 11/20. So come hop along with us and see what's new at Verve!

Want to win some shiny new Verve? We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the Day 1 Hop spots to win today's featured products!   Our prize drawing will be open until 10pm Mountain on Friday, November 21.  Just leave a comment on the blogs linked below and you'll be entered to win!

Today's spotlight is shining on the Pinecone Christmas set illustrated by Chaitali Narla and the coordinating Poinsettia Pinecones Die Set.

The hop starts over on my blog, Poetic Artistry.
Here's a little peek and the full hop list...

1. Julee 7. Charmaine 2. Laurie 8. Stacey 3. Chaitali 9. Teresa 4. Marisa 10. Andrea 5. Amber 11. Nancy 6. Diana

Today's set reveal is the Pinecone Christmas set illustrated by Chaitali Narla.

Pinecone Christmas is a 4" x 8" set of  13 clear stamps and will retail for $18.

With traditional Christmas imagery and some fun and unique chalkboard style holiday sentiments, Pinecone Christmas is a beautiful and timeless holiday set.  Images include a pine branch, a beautiful poinsettia and a Christmas candle.  Multi-step stamping ensure that your coloring goes quickly as time is precious during the holiday season.  

The Poinsettia Pinecones Die Set coordinates with the pine cones and poinsettia images in Pinecone Christmas, with an approximate 1/16" border all around the stamped image.
This die set will retail for $12.

That's all for today!  We'll see you back here tomorrow for another day of hopping!