Verve Triple Play

Good morning friends!! Thanks so much for all your sweet comments about my December Curtain Call Guest Designer news yesterday :)  It is quite an honour!!  It was a very productive weekend in the studio…Santa pencils made for my class, birthday card made for a friend (see tomorrow’s post for that!), started my Christmas cards (10 made!) and finished this fun project for Verve’s Triple Play contest.  Now, the lucky winner gets to be Guest Diva in January!!! What a great prize!!! But guess what?  I can’t win :(  I was already blessed with being the 3rd Anniversary Guest Diva in August.  But I am not a fair weather Verve fan…I really do love Julee’s stamps, so I am playing to join in the fun AND get a start on a few little gifts as well – bonus!  So here’s a break down of the ensemble..

I wanted to use nontraditional colours for my project, so I picked the colours that make me smile {insert smile here!}.  Funny enough, they happen to be the colours of many of the ornaments at Michaels this year…maybe the “too many trips there” inspired this!!  I had coffee and reading on my mind for this gift…they go so well together AND we have a Starbucks at our Chapters Bookstore (where the DH and I met!)…so that was my springboard for the next two items…

How adorable is this little gift card holder(tutorial here)?  I used my new PTI coffee cup die with raspberry fizz felt and this GIGANTIC heart gemstone….I would never use this big of one on a card, but it seems made for this little felt cup on the belly band :)  A sentiment from Verve’s Delightful and Delicious was the perfect touch :)  Up next is a bookmark x3!!! Hola!!! One of my triple plays became it’s own triple play!! LOL…

My blog buddy, Janelle, made some inspirational cards with several Verve sentiments, so I was inspired to do the same on these bookmarks.  I don’t know about you, but I often have several books on the go, especially at work, so a set of bookmarks would be really be helpful.  Okay, now here is everything in a glassine bag :)  I will eventually punch 2 little holes at the top and add some bakers twine, but I haven’t filled in the card yet ;)  Thanks so much for dropping by and spending some time with me…hugs and happy Monday!!!

what’s in them?

{Christmas Wishes card}

stamps: verve glad tidings, merry wishes, vintage tag stamp

ink: versafine onyx, pti raspberry fizz

paper: pti white, raspberry fizz, hawaiian shores, ki memories dp

accessories: ek success jumbo scallop punch; papercrafts snowflake punch; verve vintage oval die, corner chomper, pti ribbon, gemstones

{Delightful and Delicious gift card holder}

stamps: verve delightful and delicious

ink: versafine onyx

paper: hot pink (paper supply), pti hawaiian shores, white, bitty dots dp, ki memories dp, october afternoon dp

accessories: pti limitless layers and cup dies, circle punch, cuttlebug ef, pti felt, heart rhinestone ($ store), gemstones, Starbucks gift card!

{Scripture bookmarks}

stamps: verve plain janes

ink: versafine onyx

paper: pti hawaiian shores, raspberry fizz, kraft, white, bitty dots dp; october afternoon, ki memories dps

accessories: pti tag die, stitching, pti ribbon, gemstones

{tag on gift bag}

stamps: verve glad tidings

ink: versamark, versafine onyx

paper: pti raspberry fizz, glitter cardstock

accessories: white ep, pti button, ms snowflake punch, thread, bakers twine

{other…}

pti glassine bag

maya arts aqua ribbon

green sparkle sprig - Michaels