Sunday, February 13, 2011

Gratitude! Viva La Verve, SSC, Color Throwdown, and MORE!




Happy Sunday!  I have two items today!  I am still making some Valentine/Love cards!  I also have a sweet treat to show you, too.  This card is more of a love with a thank you theme.  I guess one can never have too much love of any kind, huh?  Speaking of love!  I am just lovin' some pom pom fringe right now.  I actually love the mini pom poms, but this size made me ga ga too!  I could not waste my two p-poms I had to cut off the ends to wrap around panel and adhere to back,  so I used one to top my pink bow and the other in the center of my heart!  Too cute!



For today's card I am using week 3 of the Viva la Verve February Challenges(VLVFeb2011)!  Teresa Kline designed this week's sketch.  I combined several Verve stamp sets to create the different elements.  I am using Verve's Because of You, Grateful Elegance, Celebration of Thanks, and Beautiful You stamp sets.  I stamped the floral image and stamped one of the flowers from Grateful Elegance.  I colored and added some glitter, cut out the flower and used a dimensional to pop it up a bit.  I then stamped the quote from Beautiful You.  I die cut the Jotted Heart Die  three times.  Once with the coordinating designer paper then with a piece of scrap cardstock to adhere to the back of the desiger paper to make it more sturdier.  Then, I die cut the heart out in vellum. I used my pinking shears to cut across the heart and my glue pen to adhere the vellum to the heart to create a heart pocket.  I used my glue pen to add a few touches of glitter around the edge of the heart and along the pinking edge of the pocket.   I then stamped some of the "thank yous" from the Celebration of Thanks set.  I punched these out with the word window punch and tucked them into my pocket.   I love the way my heart pocket turned out!



 The slice of cake to the left is for this weeks Stamptacular Sunday Challenge!  The  theme this week is“LOVIN’ FROM THE OVEN!”  For this weeks challenge you will create a card or project that has something to do with food! You are free to achieve this any way you see fit as long as it has something to do with FOOD someway, somehow! 


Check out the link to find out how to play along with us!  There is also a design team call going on now, too!  I must say this was the fastest and easiest projects I think I have ever put together.  For my cake slice, I used one of the Martha Stewart cake box party favors.  Instead of folding with the brown color on the outside, I folded with the white showing.  I glued on some red seam binding around the container to make it look like a layered cake.  I added a bow to the back.   Next, I stamped the Sweet Scallops die image from the Sweet Treats set.  I die cut this out with the Sweet Scallops die.  I then stamped the sweet treats in the center.  I added silver wire to the tag hole and tied it onto my cake container and made curly ques.  I added a few roses in different colors to work with the Color Throwdown #128 colors and my treat was done!  Just a fun easy way to get a quick treat complete!  Well, several Hershey Kisses actually completes this treat.




I am also playing in a few other blog challenges.City Crafters:  All That Glitters Crazy 4 Challenges:  Hearts Fairy Fun Fridays:  Fine Print (heart background dp) Simon Says Stamps: Anything but a card  Try it on Tuesday:  Hearts and Flowers  Let's Ink it Up: Romance/Valentine's Paper Sundaes Choose Your Toppings(flowers, distressing(black swiss dots folder panel was sanded to show white dots), and pink) The Shabby Tea Room Inspiration PIcture (for top card....hearts and flowers....pink bow...and for the lace fringe I chose ivory pom pom fringe...and distressed/sanded polka dot panel), Creative Belli Challenge:  Jewelry (bling and glitz) OSCC:  Love is in the Air!  SSDSC:  Love is in the air, Totally Gorjuss:  Love, Just Add Ink:  Just Add Love, Crafty Cardmakers: HeartS  Crafty Catz:  Valentine/Love,  My Time to Craft Challenge:  hearts and flowers, Delightful Challenges:  Use punches/die cuts, Crafty Purple Frog:  Love/Valentines, Crafty Sentiments: Valentine/ Love, C.R.A.F.T:  Valentine, Stamp Something:  Valentine




Paper: Ivory, My Minds Eye(for a girl) dp, AMuse Onyx, basic black, vellum
Ink: Memento tuxedo, rose bud, PTI camomile, rhubarb stalk
Accessories: pink dyed seam binding, CB EF swiss dots, seam binding(red), heart button, simplicity pom pom fringe, Prima flowers sponges, silver cording, glue pen, foam circles,glitter dimensionals, MS cake slice party favor, and Verve jotted heart die

A BIG SHOUT OUT to Glenda at Rock Paper Scissors!  I am using some of my goodies from the blog candy I won! WooHoo!  Thanks so much!





53 comments

  1. Stunning work Betty, I love your pink heart with the thankyou notes in it, so pretty and clever. I have been looking at Verve stamps but haven't got any yet, they are fabulous.
    Have a good day. Hope you have better weather than our wet and soggy Sunday.
    luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

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  2. Piękne /something beautiful!!!/
    pozdrowienia Maria

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  3. Oh my, this is sensational, Betty! Love the pink and black with the pompoms and your design with the pull out sentiments is totally fabulous! I'm definitely drooling over this one!

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  4. Gorgeous work, love the colour combo and the ribbon is devine. Thanks for sharing with us at LIIU, good luck, Suzanne x

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  5. Gorgeous creations Betty,thankyou for joining us at CraftyCatz this week,
    hugs Dianne xx

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  6. Oh Betty, the card for the Tea Room's Sweet Hearts challenge is SO PRETTY in {pink}! Just love your amazing design style, girlie :) Thanks for sharing your talents with us all this week :)

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  7. Really lovely. I love your layers and all the pretties

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  8. Wow Betty, what a beautiful creation! Love it! Thanks for joining us at LIIU and good luck
    Claire xx

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  9. Betty this is adorable and I love your sentiment. Thanks for sharing your creation with us at Let's Ink It Up.
    Hugs Shirley x x

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  10. really beautiful - like the clean colours and the layers x

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  11. Beautiful creations and so creative! Love the way you did the little pocket heart with the sentiments inside!

    Thanks for joining this week at FFF and goodluck! :D

    xx Tracey xx
    FFF/DT for PFD

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  12. OMG, this is ADORABLE! Love how you tucked the sentiments inside your heart ♥ So clever :] Your treat box is fantastic also!! Thanks for playing along with us at the Color Throwdown!!

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  13. Stunning projects, you can definately never have too much love. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Sentiments this week

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  14. Betty, these colors are so pretty! Thanks for playing the Belli Challenge!

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  15. Wonderful card Betty, those pom poms are so cute. Also love your treat box.
    BTW the blog candy that I won from you has not arrived as yet - I hope it has not gone astray

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  16. Both are so pretty! Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR! :)

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  17. Wow - tons of challenges!! Fun card with the pom poms and your ABC project is too cute! Trying to catch up on the Paper Dolling -- so far behind - so sorry!

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  18. Jaw-dropping gorgeous, Betty! Way to go with all those challenges!

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  19. Fabulous, Betty! Love all the elements of the bright and cheerful card. So many wonderful details! Great projects!

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  20. Hi there

    Stunning card love the distressing. Thanks for playing at LIIU.

    Hugs Ali x

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  21. So very pretty and such fabulous detail ... thanks ever so much for playing along at CCCB

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  22. There is just something about pink, black and white that is so classy! Your card is fabulous! The cake slice is adorable!

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  23. I love pink and black together, it is so feminine and beautiful. Love all of the pretty details on your card, Betty.
    Happy Valentine's Day!

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  24. OMG Betty, wonderful projects, love your work muchly!

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  25. Love your work. Beautiful colours and I love all the little details. Thanks for joining us at TG this week.

    Kat x

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  26. Betty, your card and cake slice are gorgeous. I love the little vellum heart shaped pocket. You always come up with the most amazing cards.
    Hugs and smiles

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  27. This is so pretty and full of delicious details, Betty! Thanks for playing along with us at CTD!!

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  28. Wow! Gorgeous creations Betty - I love the cake slice! Your card is exquisite!
    Hugs,
    Pattie

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  29. Great job on your card, I love all the details but especially the thank you's in the heart pocket. Thanks for joining us at FFF, we look forward to seeing your future creations.

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  30. What a beautiful creation, thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  31. Your card is just gorgeous.. So many wonderful detail including those cute pom poms.. Thanks so much for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  32. GORGEOUS! Thank you so much for joining us at CCCB!

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  33. Beautiful card, the embellishments are just gorgeous! Thanks so much for joining in with our challenge this week at Crafty Cardmakers.
    Jenni x

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  34. So adorable and gorgeous too.
    Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Stamps Challenge.
    luv
    Debby

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  35. Gorgeous Betty, I love the sparkle on the flowers! Thanks for playing along with Creative Belli, great card!

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  36. Gorgeous card! Thanks for taking part in the MTTC challenge xx

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  37. Beautiful card and love the pompoms too! Great to have you joining us at CRAFT this week for our Valentines challenge! Good Luck, love Jacky x

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  38. Adorable card. Love the papers and the pompoms. Thanks for joining us at Delightful Challenges.
    Hugs!
    Cec

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  39. Ooooo this is rather nice liking this image it's so lovely & the card is so pretty too, thanks for joining in at OSCC, Janet

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  40. Wonderful creations. I love the card. Thanks for joining us at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday.
    Linda
    http://cardsbylinda.blogspot.com

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  41. Wonderful creations. I love the card! Thanks for joining us at SSDS this week.
    Linda
    http://cardsbylinda.blogspot.com

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  42. Gorgeous creations ,,, stunning !! :-)

    thanks for joining us on the Stamp Something Challenge :-)
    luv
    Lols x x x

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  43. Fabulous card! Love the colors and the floral detail! Thanks for playing at Fairy Fun Fridays! xox Trisha:)

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  44. Wonderful! Love the color combo, trim and big bow too!
    Thanks for joining us at Paper Sundaes this week!

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  45. Love it!! So cute and love all the details. Thanks for playing along with us at Paper Sundaes. Join us this week for Masculine Colors!
    Tracy V

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  46. Wow, love your interpretation of the envelope in the Verve sketch! Really cool!!

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  47. Beautiful as always! I love your card, just beautiful and the treat box is so sweet, I want to try one.

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  48. Great colour combo Betty. I like how the flowers curl and frame the sentiment

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  49. wow, wow, wow! Love the heart pocket and seam binding bow on your first card. Gorgeous!

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