Thursday, August 11, 2011

Anni-VERVE-sary Spotlight: Day Five


 Welcome to Day Five of Verve's Anni-Verve-sary Spotlight hops. Remember, one lucky commenter from each day's hop will win the sets and dies featured that day, so be sure and leave a little love in the Divasphere! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize details and deadlines.

Today, we're featuring a wonderful workhorse of a set, Tag Time, along with three more dies. Actually, four dies, because Tiny Sweet Scallop, is a set of two. If you love making tags, you're going to love this set and all of it's shapely tag components!

For my spotlight, I went with a delightfully out-of-character, clean-and-simple (CAS) design. I stamped the large rounded rectangle tag from Tag Time in light blue onto white, die cut it using the Tagged Rectangle die and stamped "xoxo" in black. The stitched grouping of colorful hearts was die-cut with the new From the Heart die set (featured yesterday) using paper from Jillibean Soup's Blossom soup collection. I added two rhinestone gems to the heart grouping and some random, messy, horizontal stitching to the card base for a little extra pizzazz. I deliberately left the stitched ends untidy, which helped give this exactly the homespun, yet graphic, feel I was hoping for!



For a look at even more Tag Time possibilities and all the coordinating dies, here's the list of Divas posting spotlights today:


1. Julee9. Marisa {Guest}
2. Charmaine10. Laurie
3. Tosha11. Amber
4. Andrea12. Amy
5. Sankari13. Lynda
6. Teresa14. Susan
7. Jackie15. Maureen
8. Sarah {Guest}

Hope you're enjoying all of this week's eye candy! I've been blown away by the creativity from the Divas this week. It all starts with great stamps, and Julee has really outdone herself with this release! Join the Divas tomorrow night at 9 pm for our Release Party over in the Verve Forum on SCS. It's always a fun time chatting with each other and showing off even more projects. Julee posts the full set reveals throughout the party, and then the store is open for business at 11 pm Eastern. Hope to see you there!





Stamps: Tag Time (Verve Stamps) 
Paper: Papertrey Kraft and Stamper's Select White, Jillibean Soup Blossom Soup dp 
Ink: Stampin' Up Soft Sky, Versafine Onyx Black 
Accessories: Verve Tagged Rectangle and From the Heart dies, Heidi Swapp bling, Papertrey button and twine, sewing machine, foam adhesive
Size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

75 comments:

  1. Oh wow! This is a departure from your normal style, but I love it! I love the stitching and the tag is fantastic. Simple but so lovely, Amy.

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  2. I just love the clean look of your card! Such a pretty card!

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  3. Love the tag and hearts!! You are awesome!!!

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  4. So beautiful in it's simplicity, yet so much detail and so many little components - I don't quite know how you managed that but it looks really great :)

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  5. This is so adorable, I love the tag and the hearts in a row

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  6. Oh Amy, I "XOXO" your CAS design! THis would be great way to use some little scraps of your favorite papers (especially when it's ones you love and they're almost gone!) :-)

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  7. This is sooo sweet. Simple yet stunning. I love your work.

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  8. Wonderful CAS card!!! All the little details give this card
    Piazzaz!!

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  9. your card is so heart-warming with the sewed hearts in line!

    very charming idea!

    hugs and kisses from germany,
    silvi xoxo

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  10. Oh I love your CAS look! I always adore kraft and I love the polka dots. This is too sweet!

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  11. Love the simplicity of this card! Well done! :)

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  12. Such a sweet card! I like the stitching over the hearts! Great idea!

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  13. Какая красотища!!!

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  14. Very simple, very sweet. I like it! Especially, of all things, the sort of free-form stitching!

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  15. oh oh OH! I love this! I love that extra random stitching too! Those hearts are darling!

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  16. Great card!! Love the stitching and the tag and the hearts!! What not to love!!

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  17. Simply beautiful! I love all of the stitching and all those sweet hearts.

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  18. way cool! love all the different dp you used for the hearts!

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  19. LOVe that you kept this card CAS!! This is so pretty!

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  20. Oh my, I just love the simplicity of your card! Fabulous :>)

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  21. Amy, this is a fantastic CAS card!!!! Love it, especially the row of hearts and stitching - just perfect!!

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  22. Sahweeeet!! Love this CAS card. Love all the hearts and stitching.

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  23. Give me a tag, throw in a couple of hearts, a button or two - I'm sooooo loving this card! So sweet and a beautiful color combo on all the different papers.

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  24. Oh Amy - so, so cute; love those little hearts and that 3D one is delightful. LOVE me some polka dots!!

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  25. Cute way you sewed across the hearts!

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  26. This is totally fun! I do love me some CAS too!

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  27. Way fun, and just too, too cute Amy!! LOVE this homespun, graphic beauty!

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  28. This is a very simple card which is very cute with all the little hearts on ir. Nice job.

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  29. Amy love the CAS card....those little hearts are so adorrable.

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  30. Oh my goodness! What a yummy card! Those little hearts just make the card. Thanks for sharing it with us today. :D

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  31. Great card today, Amy. Love the twine in the button.

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  32. The polka dots look amazing on this card!

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  33. super cute!!! love all the little hearts.

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  34. Fantastic and wonderful simple creation. Love the little hearts!

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  35. So cute! Love the tag! Can't wait to see all the new Verve stamps!

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  36. I really like this. Those sweet little hearts, the tag, and stitching all go together so well! Do I really have to pick a favorite - this one is it !

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  37. Very pretty. Love your stitching on the card. TFS

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  38. Oooh - a graph paper stamp! I am all about graph paper, as a math teacher and all. I love the rainbow of hearts that you used in your pretty CAS card Amy, they really steal the show!

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  39. Oh so wonderful and CAS! Love what you have done--as always!

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  40. Lovely card! The design papers for the hearts are great, and I love the card design.

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  41. Amy, this is such a neat card! I love all those little hearts!

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  42. Totally adorable card, Amy!! Love your take on CAS. The stitching is perfect and loving all those hearts :) You iz a Diva :)

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  43. I like the CAS design and the stitching.

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  44. oh my - this is just lovely! The hearts, the stitching, the kraft paper....

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  45. Oh.my. Amy...this is my favorite card of today's sneaks...I love the CAS design and the fabulous stitching.

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  46. Oh dear. This card scares me. I just can't leave space for the sake of it being beautiful just on it's own. Today I make a resolution to give it a go coz it looks fantastic! Thanks!

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  47. Love all those adorable little hearts in a row. they are so bright and cheerful.

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  48. Love the stitching, it does give it just that little extra pizzaz. Great Job!

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  49. totally in love with this CAS beauty!

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  50. What an adorable row of hearts, stitched with love! (Awww...how sweet is that!)

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  51. So cute. Love the hearts and stitiching.

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  52. What a CUTE card!!! I love the stitching and how you popped the smaller pink/white polka dot heart!! Great job!

    TFS,
    Victoria Merrick
    angelicmsn1@aol.com

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  53. As always, loving the simplicity of this card and yet so many fun elements Amy- thanks!

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  54. Love the card. The stitching, hearts and tag.
    God bless,
    Peggy Allen

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  55. Interesting card.

    craftymom205 at yahoo dot com

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  56. What a sweet, fun, fabulous card Amy!! Thanks for the fabulous inspiration all week!!

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  57. Fabulous CAS creation! Adore those overlapping hearts with the stitching detail!

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  58. This is STUNNING! Simple and lovely! You are amazing, Amy! So inspiring!

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  59. This is super adorable and amazing layering CAS design! Too sweet!

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  60. Your card is simple yet so elegant! Love the hearts. Thanks for sharing.

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  61. Love the hearts and the stitching! Great card!

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  62. Amy, this is such a SWEET CAS card! Love the pretty colours!

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  63. This is so darling, love that touch with stitching.

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  64. This card is so pretty! Thanks for sharing this card and all the others this week. So looking forward to the release tonight!

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  65. Very cute card. Love the stitching through the hearts. TFS

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  66. This is so cute! I love the kraft with the pops of pastel!

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  67. How fun! love the stitched heart row!

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  68. Lookit you going all CAS on us! But you know I love it!

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  69. I've always been scared to try sewing on my cards but the way you did it here seems simple and adds so much to the card - love it!

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  70. CAS perfection, I love the stitched hearts!

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