A Retrospect of Verve's July Release Sets and Dies

It's a Verve July Release Retrospective Blog Hop today! The Verve Divas and guests are serving up some more inspiration using the July release stamps and dies! Besides a peek at some really cool cards, there are also a couple of prizes up for grabs! Let's have some fun on a Saturday.

Special Guest Diva Kay was your last stop on the hop and when you are done here you'll head on over to Charmaine's blog for more Verve inspiration.

I'm so excited to show you this card on my blog today. Since the release earlier this month it's been tucked away in the gallery so if it looks familiar to you then I've just connected the dots, but I've kept it for the hop today because it was a fun creative process for me.

The feather stamp really needed to have a serendipitous feel to go with it for my card so I randomly brought out a few mixed media tools. It's quite a free flowing card.

I added some water to acrylics and create the washed background paper on watercolor paper, then went back over it with some whitewashed spritzed around with an old toothbrush. Next I grabbed a stencil and added some white acrylic paint with a palette knife. Then splattered with a paintbrush and a few different colors. The border was made by evenly taping around the watercolor paper at the very beginning.

The sentiment and feather are on monoprinted paper to match the hand painted background.

That's it! I hope you are having a great Saturday! Now let's see what Charmaine has for us!

1. Julee	10. Jen
2. Stacey	11. Sheri {Guest}
3. Maureen	12. Laurie
4. Chaitali	13. Andrea
5. Marisa	14. Amber
6. Teresa	15. Christyne
7. Kay {Guest}	16. Sarah
8. Janelle	17. Anya
9. Charmaine	18. Betty

Want to win some shiny new Verve? We're giving away a $40 gift voucher to one lucky commenter along the hop, so be sure to leave a shout out in the comments as you hop about.

Want another chance to win? Now it's your turn! We'd LOVE to see what you've done with the July release. Link up your cards using at least one product from our July release and you'll be entered in a drawing to win our entire next release! All the details and the linkup widget are on the Verve Blog today. The deadline is August 23, so there's still plenty of time to get the July release if you haven't already. 

Don't miss this weekend only discount offer in honor of Julee's birthday:

Details:
Stamps: Moments Remembered (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Watercolor Paper (Fluid), white cardstock (Neenah)
Ink: Jet Black (Archival, Ranger), acrylic paint
Accessories: Stencils, paper towel, toothbrush, masking tape