Viva Diva Dare...

Hello!

Long time not see again... sorry about that! This past few months have been crazy busy with lecturing, working, running classes etc - I haven't had much of a chance to play. But this past week has been quiet so I dug out my Verve stamps and Kaisercraft papers and had some fun! I wanted to play along with the Diva Dare this month over at the Verve blog, which is a great combination of Divas Laurie and Maureen's styles (both utterly fab!). After drooling looking through their blogs I decided to use some of the features they both use quite a lot: a mix of pattened papers, lots of layers, ribbon, buttons and a bit of a shabby edge. I used one of the Viva la Verve sketches for my layout and decided to make a little decorated notebook...

I used Kaisercraft's Utopia collection along with Verve's Making a Statement set (for the flowers) and Words of Wisdom for the sentiment. I added some purple ribbon and buttons to embellish.

While I'm here I thought I'd share my other Viva la Verve creations for this month...

 

I think the last one is my favourite - love the pink and black combo and the foiled paper really makes it look special! Can't go wrong with butterflies either... {grin!}

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x

Some cards to share...

Hello!

Remember me..?? lol! I was reminded the other day by my friend Evi that I last posted here in September... eek! Sorry for my absence (did you miss me?!) - I've been so busy with work as well as my other blog that this one kinda got neglected. Anyways, I'm popping in to share a few cards that I made with some recent Kaisercraft purchases. I've just come back from Australia and was able to visit the Kaisercraft outlet in Geelong... all I can say was that I was in 7th heaven lol! I could have spent all day there but only got a couple of hours (still managed to buy a lot of goodies though!!). One of the collections I got was called Magnolia, and it was the first one I played with when I got back. I used this week's Seize the Birthday sketch to help me make this one...

I also made a couple of cards using the same collection of papers with a couple of the Viva la Verve sketches this month...

and...

I used Early Espresso card for my layers and added Magnolia stickers and coordinating embellishments (mostly from Kaisercraft). Stamps are from Verve (as well as a butterfly stamp from SU).

Thanks for stopping by!

x Amy x