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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Practically Perfect Verve Blog Hop


Welcome to the Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop! Yup, I get to pretend for a smidge of a moment (along with like 70 others...but whose counting?!) that I am part of the Verve Design Team (a dream spot if you ask me!)...Julee if you are happening to read this, it really is a dream of mine, hint, hint! Verve turns three today and we’re celebrating with a hop, hop, hop! If you've already been hopping along, you arrived here from Lynn's blog. If not, head on over to Julee's Blog (owner of Verve), for all the info on how to win prizes (after all, what's a party without presents?), and to start hopping from the beginning. If there's a hiccup along the hop, you can always head to the Master Hop List to get the full list of links.

I decided to go for the simple route this time. I haven't done a Featured Stamper Challenge yet and thought I would check it out. I was completely inspired by Toni's (known as Ravengirl on SCS) gallery (she is the Featured Stamper this week)...she is like the queen of wonderful clean and simple cards! So I found one in particular, shown HERE, that I decided to CASE. So I kept the layout of the card, but I changed the color scheme and went down the baby route with the adorable bunny from the Verve set, Practically Perfect. The bunny was stamped and embossed with white embossing powder on two different pattern papers and once on Crushed Curry cardstock. Then I paper pieced him together. The white cardstock was embossed with the Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder. and I added a little white gel pen to be stitching on my strip under the bunny. This is about as clean and simple as I get!

Thanks for checking out my kind of engineering and hopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Maureen’s blog, for a little more Verve-y goodness.

The Engineering Details
Stamps - Practically Perfect (Verve Stamps); Paper - Basic White (PTI), Crushed Curry, Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy Pattern, Bashful Blue Pattern (SU!); Ink - Whisper White Craft (SU!); Accessories - Cuttlebug Argyle Embossing Folder (Provo), white gel pen (Signo), white embossing powder (SU!), heat gun, scissors, dimensionals

130 comments:

  1. Pretty colours and love the texture!

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  2. The texture is amazing.
    Best wishes.
    Chanticlear1@gmail.com

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  3. So cute! Love the quilted background!

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  4. Love this baby card!! The embossing on the white space is perfect!!

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  5. Oh this is fabulous!!! I love, love, love it!!

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  6. Sometimes the simplest card are simply the best! Love the argyle background the the little cute bunny! :)

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  7. Great minds think alike - I used a Verve bunny on my hop card too!

    Great job! :-)

    Ramona
    http://create-with-joy.blogspot.com

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  8. I love that background! Such a cute card

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  9. This is adorable - love the texture!

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  10. This is a non-conventional color combo... and I love it! Gotta try it :D

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  11. This is adorable! Great colors and design! Adorable card!

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  12. Beautiful card! Love the punch that the texture adds!

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  13. Terrific card! It is wonderful! :)

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  14. Great embossing and cute colors.

    It's a good life!
    Terri E.

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  15. great card - love the colors! TFS!

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  16. This is a gorgeous card! Loved it from the very first time I saw it on SCS! Thank you for the link in your post! I have to say that I really think your color choices for this card are brilliant!

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  17. Adorable card... love the bunny! Great texturing too.

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  18. Adorable card... love the bunny! Great texturing too.

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  19. OOh wow. That is super creative. I love how you did the bunny. I would've never thought of that. Hehe...thanks so much for the idea (as I conveniently own that set too). You're totally brilliant!

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  20. love the colors and that sweet bunny!

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  21. Super cute card!! LOVE the bunny!!

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  22. Too cute. Love the little bunny. TFS.

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  23. Precious...great paper piecing!!

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  24. Oh - how very sweet! Love the textured background, too!

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  25. OMG! This is so adorable! I have been trying to find a reason to buy that embossing folder and I think I just found it! Thanks so much for your inspiration!

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  26. Beautiful! Love your pieced bunny and fabulous texture. :)

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  27. THis is so beautiful! I love the bunny and sentiment! all that texture is great too!

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  28. Cute! Love the paper piecing on the bunny :D

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  29. So very cute with the argyle texturing and paper piecing!!

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  30. What an adorable card, Andrea! I love the paper piecing & texture!

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  31. Oh how cute! Love the clean graphic look with such a cute cuddly bunny :)

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  32. So pretty and sweet all wrapped up in one!

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  33. Love your paper piecing and the textured BG...very sweet card!

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  34. What a cute card! Love the embossed paper, cute rabbit!

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  35. Cute card!!! Good use of texture/papers.
    Happy Anniversary VERVE!

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  36. That Cuttlebug folder is SO perfect on a little boy card! The Bunny is the perfect complement. TFS!

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  37. fun card and great pairing with the embossed background

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  38. aaawwww this card is fa-bunny-licious!!! lol love all those fabulous textures!! SO cute!!

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  39. super sweet card, I luv the details...have a wonderful week!

    enjoy *~*

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  40. Awwwww...so sweet!! I LOVE the texture the embossing folder gives to this card!!

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  41. This is super cute, loving that little bunny!

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  42. Love the paper pieced bunny! Too cute!

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  43. The texture really makes the card along with the Verve stamps of course!

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  44. Super cute! Lovin' the embossing and of course the image :>)

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  45. I think this card is terrific and has given me some inspiration!

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  46. I don't think this could be any cuter and I'm convinced now that I need that embossing folder!! :)

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  47. Love the background and the patterned papers on the bunny.

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  48. Just adorable, love the colors.

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  49. Love the combo of the Bunny and Texture. Sari Olsen

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  50. Cute...love the color and the texture!!

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  51. Oh, this is just darling, Andrea. Love the perfect gel pen stitching. Thanks so much for celebrating with us today!

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  52. I love your paper pieced bunny! Super sweet card:)

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  53. Super cute! I like how the argyle background matches the pattern in the bunny's belly!

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  54. very sweet and simple card for a baby.love the embossing it makes this card.

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  55. Very cute card. I just love the embossing folder used.

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  56. Totally adorable card; love the sweet bunny!

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  57. very cute card..i love the textured background, it goes perfect!

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  58. Your card is simply elegant. I love the embossed background.

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  59. Love your card...TFS!
    Hugs
    Nikki
    Simple.scrappin@yahoo.com

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  60. Great card! Love the embossing with this design.

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  61. That bunny is so cute! Your card is perfect for any occassion.

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  62. Very cute, love that bunny and the sentiment

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  63. Cute card and the embossed background it the prefect baby blanket texture!

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  64. Being on the Verve DT is one of my dreams as well. Your card is too cute!! Love it!

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  65. cute and love the texture folder used.

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  66. Oh how adorable! I just LOVE that bunny!

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  67. this is beautiful, love the colors and the textured background! :-)

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  68. love your embossed panel and pop of yellow :) Adorable!!

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  69. Oh, I LOVE this set! Fun!

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  70. LOVE all that texture!! That is one of my favorite stamps!

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  71. super cute.I love how you paper pieced the bunny to match the background. Very cute.

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  72. This is an amazing card! I think of you often and little Francesca?? Hope she is well....

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  73. Fun, clean, simple, easy :) My kind of card!

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  74. Cute! I love how the faux stitching mimics the stitching in the argyle!

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  75. Cute! I love how the faux stitching mimics the stitching in the argyle!

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  76. I love this Bunny!! And I actually have that background embossing plate - fabulous little card!

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  77. I love that embossed background and paper pieced bunny! Such a great job with this challenge and the blog hop!

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  78. TOO CUTE!! Looks just like a quilt

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  79. Fabulous CAS card - love the embossing!

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  80. This card is perfect! Love the bunny, love the embossing!

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  81. Great card, I love the embossing x

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  82. Sweet card. Love the theme of your blog.

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  83. That texture is terrific! And I love the colors you paired together!

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  84. I love the quilted background!

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  85. Gorgeous card... love the embossed argyle background!

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  86. Such a cute little bunny, and I love that argyle embossing!

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  87. Very nice. Love the embossed background and the sentiment.

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  88. This is amazing... I love the CAS look!

    Thank you so much for sharing!!!

    ~Ola
    okj83 at live dot com

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  89. Love the embossed background. Adorable!

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  90. Great so see another fellow crafty engineer. Love t he card.

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  91. Very nice. I like clean and simple. Iris

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  92. So cute! Thank you for sharing.

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  93. I think I am too late to comment because almost all good words that I can say in that card are already said. There are too many that comments. I think I just need to agree to them.

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  94. I love this card! And the bunny is so cute - I'd really like to win this set!

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  95. I love this card! The bunny is so cute!

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  96. Love all that (dry-embossed) white space! Great card!

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  97. Cute AND classy - I never would have thought to combine that bunny with argyle and you made it look GOOD! Snaps for using yellow, which I don't think gets appreciated enough these days.

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  98. I totally {heart} how that white embossing stands on on the bunny. :)

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  99. so cute! love the embossing =)
    hugs
    juli

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  100. Enjoying your blog while I do Verve Anniversary blog hop! Great job.

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