Anni-VERVE-sary Spotlight - Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of our Anni-VERVE-sary spotlight hops!

Heya, Verve fans, what did you think of yesterday's first Anni-VERVE-sary spotlight? I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am about the peeks we have in store for you over the next week!

In addition to being another new release spotlight, today's project is also my sample for Verve's final Anni-VERVE-sary challenge, hosted by Janelle and by me. The task: an ABC project (Anything But a Card).

My project also handily fits Charmaine and Tosh's CAS challenge from yesterday. For all five Anni-VERVE-sary challenges, as well as prize details, visit the Verve Forum on SCS.

I have served on the Teacher Appreciation Committee at my kids' elementary school for many years, so I'm always looking for and thinking up ideas for little gifties to give the teachers throughout the year. The gifts have to be budget-friendly and reasonably duplicatable (we usually have 62-64 staff in total). These little notebook and graph mini bags are just the sweetest. They're sized perfectly for a gift card or a small treat. Think Ghirardelli chocolate squares, for example, or maybe a couple of Hershey Nuggets. (I got my mini bags from i{heart}papers.) I did some clean-and-simple embellishing on these ... a stacked flower done with a flower image from the new Lean on Me set, some leaves that I stamped with images from Dream Big and die-cut with one of the new Dreamy Leaves dies, and a snippet of the Pennant Trim die that we spotlighted yesterday (which I am in LOVE with!)

For lots more peeks, check out today's master hop list -- enjoy!

1. Julee 8. Charmaine 2. Laurie S. 9. Janelle 3. Maureen 10. Betty 4. Teresa 11. Christyne {Guest} 5. Tosh 12. Laurie W. {Guest} 6. Amy 13. Jen S. {Guest} 7. Andrea

Don't forget to leave comments along the way for a chance to win today's featured sets and dies: Lean on Me, Thatched Banner Plain Jane, Pointed Flowers Die Set, Dreamy Leaves Die Set.

We have SO much going on at Verve with this release! Don't want you to miss this one either:

1. Create a new card using Verve Stamps
2. Post your card to your blog or gallery
3. Include a link to the Verve store in your write up
4. Link your card using the entry form HERE

One lucky participant from all the entries will win our ENTIRE new release of products! That's over $300 worth of stamps and dies! You may enter as many times as you like, but each entry must be a different card, in a separate post, and include a link to Verve. Only new cards posted August 16 through August 24, 2012 will be eligible.

Deadline to link your cards is 5PM Eastern on Friday, August 24. The winner will be announced at our release party that night (you don't need to be present to win)!

Thanks for visiting!