Pickled Paper Designs: Verve

Monday, August 28, 2017

Anni-VERVE-sary Spotlight Hop - Day 5

Welcome back to Day 5 of our Anni-VERVE-sary Spotlight Hops! It's an exciting day as there's new Verve in the store this morning! 4 beautiful new sets and 2 coordinating die sets just released and they're all available to order right now. To celebrate this special 10th Anni-VERVE-sary release, we're putting on another blog hop, with a pretty cool prize! (Full hop list at the end.)

Today's featured focus is designer's choice, so you might just sneak a peek at a whole bunch of must-haves, especially since we've got a full line-up of Divas, guests and Alumni today!

I chose to give those beautiful flowers from Bloom Brighter another go. Instead of traditional flower colors, this time I went with a combination of teal, aqua, and navy for the flower petals.

After coloring with Copics, I went back in and added white gel pen accents to the petals.

I arranged a few different flowers around the sentiment, and layered the whole cluster over a bright green strip of card stock and a black-splattered white card base.

Want to win some shiny new Verve? Today's prize is a BIG one. We'll be picking a random commenter on one of the hop spots below to win our ENTIRE new release! So be sure to leave a little comment on all the blogs below to increase your chances! Check out the Verve Blog today for the full hop list and all the prize info and deadlines!


1. Julee	9. Lesley
2. Maureen	10. Christyne
3. Betty	11. Laurie
4. Charmaine	12. Kelly (Guest)
5. Marisa	13. Laurie W. (Alumni)
6. Amy S.(Alumni)	14. Tosha L. (Alumni)
7. Amy K.(Alumni)	15. Tiffany S.(Alumni)
8. Michelle W. (Alumni)

Thanks so much for stopping by. And a big thanks to Julee for inviting me back to help celebrate Verve's 10th anniversary.

Have a great week!

Friday, August 25, 2017

Anni-VERVE-sary Spotlight Hop - Day 2

Verve Stamps is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, and I am beyond excited to return as a guest for this special milestone and release. Verve was my very first design team and a team I was proud to be part of from 2008 until 2012. And Julee is an absolute dear, one of the most caring and gracious people in the stamping community. Congrats, Julee, on your success with Verve!

Today is Day 2 of the Anni-VERVE-sary Spotlight Hops - Welcome! You can catch up on Day 1 HERE. Everything previewed this week will be available to order in the Verve online store on Monday, August 28. If you just can't wait, you can pre-order the entire release now as the August 2017 Buy it All Bundle at a 30% discount through August 27.

Today we're sharing our first projects featuring the Bloom Brighter stamp set and coordinating, Blooming Die Set. A fresh take on the flower from the retired commemorative set Beautiful You, this beautiful encouragement set is perfect for a variety of cardmaking occasions.

Oh, how I have missed Julee's florals! Always elegant and timeless, Verve florals are the best! I especially love the sentiments in this Bloom Brighter, both for what they say and for the brush-lettered font.

For the background panel, I stamped the large flower repeatedly on watercolor paper, heat embossed in white, and watercolored with Zig markers.

I stamped one of the sentiments onto a white banner and popped it up onto the watercolored panel.

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 today for the full hop list, a little more about our new products and all the prize info and deadlines!


1. Julee	7. Amy K. (Alumni)
2. Maureen	8. Lesley
3. Betty	9. Christyne
4. Charmaine	10. Laurie
5. Marisa	11. Kelly (Guest)
6. Amy S. (Alumni)	12. Laurie W. (Alumni)

Thanks so much for stopping by. It's been such a treat for me to ink up some Verve again. I'll be back Tuesday with more!

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Irish Blessing

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There is still time to join us for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Lucky!

You have until March 10th at 8:00 AM CST to be inspired and share your project.

Current Challenge details and link-up are HERE.

The LEAD of this challenge will be invited to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

For my card, I combined a bunch of old and new products, as well as lots of different manufacturers. I started with some embossing paste and a Penny Black chevron stencil to make the background. I then create a shaker window panel using some Simon Says Stamp rectangle and circle stitched dies. The Irish blessing sentiment is from a retired Verve Stamps set called Blessings. It is stamped on acetate in Versafine Onyx Black ink, then clear embossed. Between the stamping on acetate and the clear embossing, the black ink took on a more muted, gray tone, which I ended up loving!

I filled the shaker with green, white, and gold sequins from Pretty Pink Posh, then embellished with some floral stems from my stash tied off with black and white baker's twine.

A few of the Curtain Call Crew gals have posted more inspiration for you! You can see all the new projects on the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge blog.

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Lucky

It's time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

photo source: meandmydiy.com

The LEAD of Lucky will be invited as a Guest Designer in our next challenge!

For today's card, I went rummaging around in my green embellishment drawer and found three heart-shaped clips that I tied together to make a shamrock. I added a stem using baker's twine, and created a scene with some felt grass, a sponged background, and die-cut clouds. The sentiment is from Verve's Lucky You stamp set.

Make sure you visit each of the designers' blogs for more inspiration!

Lucky Designers

Amy Kolling
Amy Sheffer
Amy Tsuruta

Kim Singdahlsen

Laurie Willison
Lisa Henke
Marisa Ritzen
Maureen Plut
Monika Davis
Sarah Gough
Sheri Gilson
Stacey Schafer
Tenia Nelson
Tracey McNeely

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Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Lucky for the challenge details

and to play along with us!

Thanks for visiting!

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Boho Bright

It's time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

photo credit: chezboheme.com

We have a new sponsor, Verve Stamps, for the Curtain Call Inspiration: Boho Bright! A randomly selected participant in the Boho Bright challenge will receive a $30 gift certificate to use at Verve Stamps, while the LEAD will be invited as a Guest Designer in a future challenge!

Oh boy, check out this inspiration photo! I can't wait to see the COLORFUL link list these next two weeks! I'll confess, I was a little anxious about that neon shade of purple (orchid? magenta?), but as is almost always the case, once I actually started playing, I had a blast!

As you can see, I played up the whitewash woodgrain from the wall and then added just small pops of the bright yellow, purple and blue.

I was so glad to see Verve as our sponsor for this challenge! I was on the Verve DT for a long time, so digging through my Verve stash felt like a long overdue, warm, fuzzy homecoming! The vertical arrow strips and sentiment were done with BORDERLINE, the foliage is stamped with SUNNY DAYS and die-cut with the LEAFY SPRIGS die set, the cork tag was done with the SWEET SCALLOP die, the heart accents were die-cut with FROM THE HEART dies, and last, the yellow border was die-cut with one of the SCALLOPED TRIM TRIO dies.