Hello Pumpkin~

Hey there. I have a small stack of card to share that I have yet to blog. Life somehow gets the better of me. Alas, tonight I have the October Verve Get Your Diva on challenge.

 

 The challenge was to create a handmade embellishment for your card. I have a ton of fun Halloween fabric hanging around so I cut some strips and started playing around. I settled on a pleated bloom. I also rolled a seam binding rose. I used my new (to me) Verve Bountiful Harvest stamp set. I colored the adorable pumpkins in with my Copic markers. I gotta tell ya, I just adore pumpkins! Real ones, stamped ones, fake ones, pies. LOL!

 I finished off the inside to match the front. I mostly used scraps and repeated the same elements. The card front is inspired by the Viva La Verve October week 3 sketch.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies~ Cardstock, Ink, Ribbon. Stampin' Up!- Stamps, Curvy Book Plate Cut Above Die. Verve- Fancy Flourish Die-namic, Decorative Duo Die-namic, Crochet Border Die-namic. My Favorite Things. Designer Paper. Doodlebug Designs.- Copic Markers- Fabric & Seam Binding. Joann Fabric-

Perk Up Diva~

Sunday at last! I just want this lazy day to last F O R E V E R... Since I know that it won't. I have a leisurely card to share with you instead. 

Created for the Verve September Get Your Diva On challenge. The theme was to create a monochromatic card. As you can see I went with shades of brown. I used MME Lost and Found DP and my new Verve stamps (Better With You). There is a lot of inking, sponging, and distressing going on. I cut a small MFT Open Scallop Doily Duo from Very Vanilla Cardstock and layered a MFT Fancy Flourish in Chocolate chip over it. Then I tea stained the SU! Pretties Bloom to give it a more aged look and mounted it behind my layered Verve Loopy Blooms Cut Above Dies. The tag is punched from SU! Large and Small Tag Punches and layered on the inside of a coffee sleeve that I trimmed to look like a tag. I finished my tag off with a snippet of lace from my local fabric store. The large striped ribbon is retired from SU! and it's layered with Divine Twine. I love all of the texture that is going on here! This little lovely is also based on the September Verve Week 2 Viva La Verve Sketch.

 That about does it for me. It's a rainy grey day here. Totally nap weather. Let's see if the kids agree. ;) Thanks for stopping by!

I Played Here~

Paper Play Challenges- Punches and Dies

Wags 'n Whiskers~ Lace