Verve May Spotlight Hop ~ Release Day!!

Good morning and welcome to Release Day!!  All the new stamps and dies are ready to purchase in the Verve Store today!  Woohoo!  I’ve been anxiously waiting for today’s stamps and dies for almost 2 months when Julee let us preview the new stamp sets.  Way back when I sent Julee an idea for a Verve style Teacher Set.  I searched for some sweet sentiments that I hadn’t seen in other teacher sets and sent her the idea along with a request for apples that you could stamp in different colours (‘cause this Diva doesn’t colour! {wink!}).  So you can understand my excitement (and tears) when I saw the Teachers Count set for the first time.  I’m one of those people who wanted to be a teacher since she was a little girl playing “school.”  Truth be told, I was a little intimidated when I came to make my cards for today’s post.  I wanted so much to do this set justice.  The first idea came to me as I thought about the tilted trend.  Wouldn’t it be fun to have a repeated apple pattern?  So I drew a pencil line on my paper (black in the photo below so you can see it). Then stamped the large apple all the way across with the line as a guide.  Then I repeated each tilted line until the whole panel was full.  Here’s what a ended up with.

Then I just stamped the apples (Red Delicious, Ambrosia and Granny Smith!) and leaves.  This teacher eats an apple a day for an after school snack :)  With a CAS design done, I went for a more frilly vintage style look on the next one.  This quote gives me goose bumps :)  We have a teacher retiring this year and she’ll be finding it on her desk very soon ;)

Are you still with me?  Sorry…but I just couldn’t leave this set alone!  One more stop on Jen S.’s blog…and then you can do some shopping! Woohoo!

But wait! Want to win some shiny new Verve? We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the hop spots below to win today's featured products! So be sure to leave a little comment on all the blogs below to increase your chances! Check out the Verve Blog for all the prize details and deadlines.

Today's Prize: Teachers Count, Apple Die Set, All Occasion, Occasion Frame Die, Promoted Plain Jane

1. Julee            8. Andrea

2. Charmaine    9. Jen M.

3. Teresa        10. Laurie W.

4. Stacey         11. Laurie S.

5. Amber         12. Janelle

6. Christyne     13. Maureen

7. Marisa         14. Jen S.

 

what’s in them?

{teachers live forever}

stamps: Teachers Count (Verve)

paper: kraft, white (PTI), red glitter cardstock (craft supply)

ink: onyx (Versafine), summer sun, real red, gumball green (SU), lime (SEI)

accessories: rounded rectangle and From the Heart dies (A Cut Above by Verve), library clip (SU)

 

{The Way You Made them Feel}

stamps: Teachers Count (Verve)

Paper: rustic white, sweet blush (PTI), Kneehighs (Basicgrey)

ink: onyx (Versafine), going gray, mellow moss, barely banana (SU)

accessories: Flag It Die Set (A Cut Above by Verve), Signature Ribbon Collection(Verve), string of hearts die (Simon Says Stamps), circle dies (Spellbinders), doily (Etsy Shop), buttons (PTI), mini paper clip (Tim Holtz), bakers twine (Doodlebug), stitching, staple