Sites of the week

Happy Spring Everyone! Saturday officially marked the first day of spring {it snowed here!} and all of the Verve Divas are preparing some great spring-y {sure, it’s a word!} projects for this month’s PROJECT PARADE for you to see. This month’s theme is FUN WITH FLOWERS! Such a fun and easy theme that everyone can play along!!

I decided to create a project using die cut flowers {from my Slice Wedding Design Card} stamped with Polka Dots from the Verve Bountiful Backgrounds as the main part of my project.

The sentiment is from the new Verve set, Let It Shine, and is framed with a scalloped circle covered in glazed glitter. The flower panel could have easily been mounted on a card or even added to a scrapbook page, but I thought that it would be fun to create a gift-able project with it. I tried out both real and paper flower pots before I just stuck it in a bad of candy. I think this particular one looks best this way, but it would certainly be fun to create bouquets.

Some more detail shots…

It would be a lot of fun to make this for a gift or other special occasions, too. Just a few ideas that come to mind…
* Teacher Appreciation {it just came to mind that you could use an apple instead of a flower!}
* Wedding Favors
* Table Numbers at Receptions
* Baby Shower Favors {think pink or blue flowers!}
* Congratulations or…
…Just Because for friends, family or neighbors

Be sure to check out the Verve blog and each day of the Parade for chances to win.

Happy 1st day of spring! Yesterday was 70, today it may snow. Yes, seriously! No, I am not amused! We have enjoyed the last few days outdoors and with the windows open. Oh well, it’s typical North Texas…if you don’t like the weather, just wait 10 minutes is how the saying goes.

I’ve been busy with baby, working on projects for publication and creating for upcoming classes at Scrapper’s Boutique. I’ve hardly had time to play with all the happy mail that has hit my doorstep…upcoming TCP releases, Pure Innocence stamps from MFT {thank you USPS for taking 2 weeks to get that envelope across 3 states…ugh!}, Gorjuss Girls from Sugar Nellie {doing a class with one as part of the project}, new Nestabilities and some new PTI. I am hoping for just a **little** time to play with all that crafty goodness…and SOON! Am I babbling yet? One more thing…

Did you see my last post asking to comment on my card in the Impress Rubber Stamps album on Facebook? Well, I am attempting to win a serious amount of ink. She with the most comments wins, so if you can and want to comment on my card, please help me out You can become a fan of Impress Rubber Stamps {a way cool stamp co. from Washington} HERE and HERE is my Going Green card that uses what was my Starbucks trash in an interesting way.

Ok, ok, enough of the “this has nothing to do with the sketch” stuff. Here is the sketch for this week…

***Mine is coming. I have it done, but not photo’d yet. I MUST have natural light and that’s not happening as I type this at 10:40pm***

Ok, here’s mine using my new PTI dies and a Verve sentiment…

Detail of the embellishment panel…

Designer of the Month, Angie Tieman, knocked my socks off with this awesome card…

As the title of this post suggest, this post and sketch is dedicated to my dear friend and SFYTT sister, Susan Liles {and her hubby, Eric}. Eric has been diagnosed with lymphoma and started his chemo treatments this past week. Needless to say, the road ahead is rough. As encouragement for both Susan and Eric I am asking that you send them a card using this sketch {or any card for that matter!}. You can send them to:

Eric and Susan Liles
7920 Sunrise Dr.
Watauga, Tx 76148

Be sure to check out more inspiring samples from the rest of the SFYTT gang…
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Kelly Lunceford
Megan Lock
Jenn Diercks
Amber Hight

Wanna play along with us and want to be considered to be a future Designer of the Month? I’d love to see what you come up with! Be sure to upload your picture to the Slide Guestbook below. You can type in your blog address in the comments section of the upload. When uploading to other online galleries, please use the keyword SFYTT. Thanks and have a great weekend!

Spring has sprung…finally! We have a zoo trip planned this weekend. Ellie can’t wait to show “little brudda” all the animals. I’m sure I will take a couple hundred pics LOL! What did we do before digital? When I first started uploading to SCS, I hated the way that the scans looked so I would take a picture, develop it, scan it and then upload it. WOW…and that was just a few years ago. Glad I got with the program and went digital…digital SLR, to be exact…love it!!

Well, I’m sure you didn’t come here to read how I am a little late in the whole world of technology, so let’s get to the point and see what this week’s sketch is all about…

Kinda cool. Kinda crazy! Have fun with this one!

Here’s my sample using Verve’s Practically Perfect set…

Detail shot…

Here’s a fabby card from this month’s DESIGNER OF THE MONTH, Angie Tieman…

You can check out more fabby creations from my SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY sisters…
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Kelly Lunceford
Megan Lock
Jenn Diercks
Amber Hight
Susan Liles’ husband was diagnosed with lymphoma this week. Please visit her blog and give her a virtual hug and some support!

Wanna play along and be considered for a future Designer of the Month spot? I hope you do, as I can’t wait to see what you all will come up with. Just upload your card to this Slide guestbook below. You can put your blog addy in comments section of the Slide upload.

Welcome to your next stop on the Verve Stamps SPRING FLING Blog Hop. I hope you are having fun hopping along and that you have enjoyed each of the sneak peeks and challenge samples that have been posted on the Verve blog throughout the day today.

Since this is a hop, I should let you know that you should have…

Started over at Julee’s blog
Come from here from Susan’s blog

…and when you leave here, you will hop on over to my pal, Jen Tapler’s, blog {I’ll link her at the end of the post, too}.

Today, Susan issued a Tag Challenge over on the Verve blog. I love making tags, so I thought that I would play along and came up with this one using the new Let It Shine set…

Here’s a card using the new release, Big Wish…

Detail shot…

Ok, hop on over to Jen’s blog for some more Verve-y goodness

I am very fortunate to have received all these goodies as part of the GIGANTIC prize package that is up for grabs, and you read correctly…that isn’t even all of it! A few of the companies are giving gift certificates and some are sending their goodies directly to the winner. Gotta say that one of the SFYTT participants is gonna be supah dupah LUCK-Y! Are you just hearing about this? You can also enter for a chance to be next month’s Designer of the Month. Well, how about some details…

1. A new sketch will be posted here each Saturday in February
2. There will be a Slide Guest Book that you can post your creation(s) at the end of each of those posts.
3. You will have until March 2nd to post your creations to the corresponding sketch. Be sure that each of your creations is posted to the correct Slide Guest Book.
4. You can enter as many times as you like, but must upload each creation separately. All entries should be posted to your blog or online gallery, as well. Please use the keyword “SFYTT” for all online galleries.
5. All participants will also be considered for next month’s Designer of the Month, as well.
6. A RANDOM participant will win the prize package and will be announced on March 3rd. Winner will have five days to contact me via email to claim prize.
7. The March Designer of the Month will be chosen and contacted March 3rd, but will not be announced until the first Saturday of March here.

So, here’s the SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY this week…

Here’s my card using a Verve Stamps sentiment with October Afternoon and Papertrey polka dot papers…

The color combo and polka dots are totally inspired by a skirt that I saw at Kohl’s a couple weeks back. I thought that yellow and gray was on it’s way out, but I love how throwing a little black in the mix is keeping the combo fresh.

Designer of the Month, Mona Pendleton, came up with this beauty…

You can check out more fabby creations from my SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY sisters…
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Susan Liles
and Kelly Lunceford

Upload your creations to the Slide Guestbook below. Please do not leave comments on the Slide, but rather in the comments section below ***THANK YOU***