Hollywood Glam....

Yikes... Websters Pages delivered to my door... and I played a little, this was last week of course!! Moving my older daughter since last Thursday sooo... it's chore, what can I say!!! Used my new nesties labels 14, vanilla with Plain Jane Psalm 3:3 from Verve {taking you to the whole shebang!!}and cut two more in different colors from the same size nestie and layered. Added the silver trim from Websters Pages {a little glam} on top of MFT's ribbon, some sponging on the smallest nestie... not great at this but, working on it slowly!! LOL!!

Close up of the ribbon... and, yes that's netting from Websters Pages also.

Not sure the netting shows up like it should but, definitely fun stuff to play witth!!
TFL!! 

We have the CANDY ready for the trick-or treaters {my DH thought I forgot for a minute there!!}

Ingredients
Stamps: Verve Psalm 3:3
Paper:  Webster's Pages Hollywood, vanilla, black
Ink: memento tuxedo black, TH vintage
Accessories: Webster's Pages trim and netting, silver pearls, labels 14 nesties, foam dots and red stickie dots from Jody {love this stuff}

A Little Halloween.... and A Little Flowers

Stacey's Colors and Jen's sketch... X 2!! When I first looked at the colors, I thought flowers and I thought Halloween. So, I made two cards with the colors and Jen's sketch...you guessed it... one HALLOWEEN and one with FLOWERS!!

We've been busy at my house, helping my older daughter get ready to move... and it's moving dayssss!! Haven't even carved pumpkins yet, but... Halloween isn't until Sunday and the pumpkins will be carved tomorrow night {cause I said!!}- ever pulled that trump card?? {being the mom, you know!! LOL}

The colors {daffodil delight, basic gray, black, white, pumpkin pie} and sketch....



HALLOWEEN...


The first card uses the MFT tree die-namics with a little daffodil delight moon embossed with swiss dots, large scallop square  and circle nesties, Verve pumpkins glossed with crystal effects and Verve sentiment. Added buttons tied with divine twine, some ribbon, and embossed the background panel with a Sizzix folder.

FLOWERS....


Some of my fav flowers -- image from Verve's Great Friends. Used Basic Gray Basics White dp for the background, cut two white nesties in the same shape, stamped the flower 3 times on watercolor paper and watercolored with basic gray, pumpkin pie, and daffodil delight-- popped them all on top of each other. Used MFT's open scallop border die-namic on top of a strip of black, added gray ribbon {Becca Feeken's tutorial-I need to adapt to a leftie!!}, clear shimmer mist all over the flowers, silver pearls, and a little tag from SU's tiny tags!!

Tomorrow... 8 am sharp back to moving--- along the way I think we will "find" some pumpkins!!

TFL!! Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend!!

Casing a "Dirty" Verve Diva!!

Week 3 of the Verve weekly challenges was to case Jackie Pedro who was inducted into the Dirty Dozen this month!! A year ago when I started participating in the Verve challenges, for one of the release week challenges, we had to case a Diva.... made me nervous!! When this came up, I thought, okay.... as long as you don't deviate toooo much~~ you have it made KWIM???

Changed the sentiment and paper. Kept to the same layout. Xmas is coming so... Xmas card it was!! NO stitching {still coming to terms with the sewing issues}.  Isn't Jackie's layout adorable!!!

Here's my card--

Notice the different fonts on the sentiment.... one of Julee's trademarks--LOVE IT!!

Thanks for looking!! Love when you stop by and comment.



Ingredients
Stamps: Verve Snowflake Splendor and Fabulous You
Paper: Tinsel & Twig, black, vanilla, red
Ink: black, red, white craft
Accessories: SU buttons, divine twine, MFT large scallop die-namic, scor-buddy, SU ribbon, MFT lace

Merry!!

Off on a Monday...unusual for me but, Saturday was a seminar!! Actually, had to present. I know lots of you are okay with that but, it is not something I normally do and the last time was several years ago-- had a "minor" panic attack!! It's one thing to sit around a table and talk and quite another to stand up behind a podium!! I survived with no anxiety so, maybe I'm a grown up now LOL!!

Today I have a gift bag. MFT's weekly stamp club challenge this week was to make a gift bag. Christmas is coming and I usually make a few of these. Used one of the adorable PI's "Merry Kissmas". Stamped with memento tuxedo black, paper pieced the scarfs, colored with copics, and glittered the snowman or is that snowgirl?? Layered on  a large scallop nestie. The background paper is Tinsel & Twig {love this stuff}, added a lower border with the open scallop die-namic and some black pearls. Finally used my banner die-namic {tease Jody aka texasjodylynn on SCS} about suggesting that having several of these is great!! I gotta admit it would have been wonderful to have more than one. Added divine twine along the top and some ribbon on the handle. Here's the bag....

A couple of close ups of the image and banner...

Thanks for looking!! Love when you stop by and leave comments!!

Ingredients
Stamps: my favorite things PI Merry Kissmas, alphabet stamp set
Paper: Tinsel and Twig, vanilla, black
Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics
Accessories: die-namics Banner and Open scallop, divine twine, assorted ribbon, black pearls, glitter

PS Yikes, that poor little girl doesn't have "cute" pom poms" on her hat!! WUWT?? Family bugging me while I was trying to finish up~~ she's fixed now!!

Winter is an Etching....

Won the last release of Verve stamps... the fall release and still playing!! The leaves are from Autumn Splendor and MOJO Monday 161 is the layout. You may notice the upper right corner isn't "exactly" true to the sketch but, generally followed the layout!! Leaves stamped in old olive, early espresso, and dusty durango~~ cut out and layered on top of each other. Border at the top is an EK success border punch. Added some ric rac dotted ribbon from We R Memory Keepers with vanilla on top, lace bow, and pearls. A little scoring on the kraft and durango. The tag is from SU~~ my sis gave me these and I hadn't even used them yet!! {shame on me}!!

Thanks for looking!!

Stamps: Autumn Splendor~ Verve

Paper: dusty durango, kraft, vanilla, old olive

Ink: early espresso, old olive, dusty durango

Accessories: ribbon, lace, tag, pearls, EK success border punch, scor-buddy