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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Verve Spotlight Hop Day 2 ~ Words Cannot Express

TODAY'S Featured Set:

It's day two of Verve's Spotlight Hop, and we're featuring the set Words Cannot Express. This set is full of wonderful sentiments of gratitude in a beautiful font.

I was inspired the other day by a photo of summer beach and poolside umbrellas, and thought I would use my Octagon die (Spellbinders), to recreate the look and make a thank you card.

If you click on the photos, you can see more of the detail on the umbrellas.



Here's a close-up of one of the sentiments included in this set.


I also added a continuation of the sentiment on the inside with a single umbrella topper.



Here's a close up of this beautiful sentiment.



Don't forget, Verve's release party is this Friday night, July 8, and there's a big PRIZE hidden on one of today's hop spots! Just leave a little shout-out in the comments as you hop about for a chance to win the entire July release! You can check out the Verve Blog for all the prize details and deadlines.


1. Julee 7. Amy
2. Robin {Guest} 8. Teresa
3. Sankari 9. Laurie
4. Amber 10. Jackie
5. Tosh 11. Andrea
6. Charmaine


Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you've been enjoying the hop. Be sure to stop by again tomorrow for some more Verve goodness!!

Happy Stamping!
Tosh

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Card Supplies:
Stamps: Words Cannot Express (Verve)
Paper: White (PTI), Bazzill
Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine)
Accessories: Octagon and Wizard Tag Trio die (Spellbinders), Border Punches (EK Success and MFT), Rhinestones (Kaisercraft), Baker's Twine (The Twinery)

89 comments:

  1. How cute and clever! I especially love the white space on the second one and those rhinestone centers!

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  2. What a totally fun card!! Those umbrellas are the cutest!

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  3. Super cute idea! I wonder if we saw the same photo of beach umbrellas...LOL. Great card. It would be perfect for a hostess thank you for a summer vacation.

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  4. Very unique card. Love the scoring in the white background.

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  5. What a great and funky card! The colors are perfect and yeah, they do look like beach umbrellas!

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  6. How fun! Love the umbrella tops!! Love the stamp set. A very fresh take on things!

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  7. What a fun concept for a card, Tosh! Love it!!

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  8. This is a totally fun fun fun card!! Adorable.

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  9. Goodness! What a smart idea! very creative! Perfect summer card!

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  10. Love the idea you came up with!!

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  11. What a fabulous idea with those umbrellas - love it! I love this beautiful font on the sentiment. Can't wait to see the entire stamp set. ;-)

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  12. sweet card, and I just love all the color in it!
    great inside also!
    Carol N<><

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  13. oooo! These look like Carribean Beach umbrellas! Love it Tosh!! Loving these sentiments too!

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  14. So cute and creative. Love the bright colors. The sentiments in this set are perfect.

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  15. WOW Tosh! Such a beautiful fun card! I love it!

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  16. You are so clever! This is a striking card!!

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  17. What a fabulously cute and clever idea! Too cute!

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  18. Brilliant idea! Love your card and adore the new stamps I'm seeing! Thanks so much for sharing!

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  19. Really beautiful! And how have I lived without the octagon spellbinders? A very happy thank you!

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  20. GENIUS!!! That's what you are, missy - UMBRELLAS out of octagons? BRILLIANT! This card is super-cute and so striking with all the white. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!! :)

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  21. Cute card!! Love the umbrellas!!

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  22. So cute! I love all those little umbrellas!

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  23. Those umbrellas are TOO CUTE for words! You are so creative! I love the CAS cards - amazing job!

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  24. So vey creative Tosh!....those umbrellas are too cute. Great summer colors. Fabulous card!

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  25. Beautiful! I love the soft kinda sherbet-y colors. And what a beautiful sentiment.

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  26. Very cute! Love the sentiment!

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  27. What a cute card! Love how you did the inside as well.

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  28. Very cool design! Like the way the sentiment has been placed on the inside of the card.

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  29. How clever! I love it!
    Rachelle

    joyfulhrt@gmail.com

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  30. Lovely parasols! Shame I need it here in England for the rain today - meh! You gotta love the English summer! :) Thank you for the summery card :)

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  31. Brilliant umbrellas, Tosh!! I love this card!!

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  32. this card is so cool! I love how it looks like a group of umbrellas! So fun!

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  33. HOW fun is that!!! Love the colors and umbrella's! Def. will need to CASE this one day!

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  34. Great cards! LOVE all those colorful umbrellas! :)

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  35. How adorable! And such fun colors, too! =)

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  36. What a pretty card! Clean and crisp and the colors are pretty!

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  37. This is so incredibly creative and cute!

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  38. I am loving the creativity behind this card! Perfectly done!

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  39. very creative ... love the umbrellas.

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  40. I love the umbrella toppers! i need to learn how you did that. Very creative.

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  41. How fun!! I love this card - so creative!

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  42. Love your simplicity yet elegance of your card. Really like how you did the inside as well.

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  43. Brilliant use of those octagon dies! ;)

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  44. Wow! These umbrellas are SO fun. Great card, and I'm loving this stamp set, too!

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  45. I love the design of your card. Very, very clever!

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  46. Very unusual and effective, beautiful colour combination too.

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  47. Your card is so cute. Loving the umbrellas. Thanks for sharing.

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  48. I LOVE the umbrella's!! So cool! I love both cards, very creative and a wonderful use of the coolest sentiment. Congrats!

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  49. Cute card. Love the umbrellas.

    craftymom205 at yahoo dot com

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  50. How creative!! Love your color choices also.

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  51. Cute card. Like the way you carried the theme to the inside.
    Jan gavin

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  52. what a great idea! your umbrellas are too cute :)

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  53. What a clever idea! Those umbrellas are brilliant, love it! I love this beautiful font on the sentiment.
    Blessings Bernie

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  54. Wow! Love it! You're SO creative! :)

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  55. I love these new sentiments! Great colorful card.

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  56. How super creative, Tosh! Those umbrellas are so sweet and so colorful! Your card is just amazing!

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  57. That is so, so, so freakin' cute! What a great use for a kind-of-wonky die!Amazing!

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  58. How totally cute those umbrellas are and I love the sentiment! Great job!

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  59. This is such a happy and fun thankyou card! Love all the colors against the white cardstock. Just beautiful!

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  60. Such a colorful card today - very nice!

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  61. Love the sentiment "hidden" inside of the card.

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  62. oh my goodness, those umbrellas are SO cute! love it!

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  63. What a great card, your umbrellas are so cute and in such happy colors. The sentiment is wonderful too... I always love the fonts Verve has! Thanks for showing us the inside as well, so pretty!

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  64. Wow!!! What a clever use of that die...great cards!

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  65. This is so cute, such fun colors! I love the little tag with the sentiment, and the little lacey border on the inside message!

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  66. What an adorable card. I love the umbrellas - how creative! This inside is so pretty too. This set is going to be another must have.

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  67. So cute makes me think if little umbrellas....very bright and fun!

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  68. Oh my goodness......Look at all those cute, cute, cute umbrellas so ready for the summer sun! Love this!

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  69. What a cute idea, Tosh! I love the colors and all the little umbrellas!

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  70. Oh these little beach umbrellas are just too creative great job!

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  71. Umbrellas??!! Oh my gosh, you are just amazing, you know that?? Super, super creative!

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  72. Very creative card! Those umbrellas are so cute and with those colors and your layout, it is just stunning!

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  73. what a great idea with the umbrellas! love it!

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  74. how fun and cheerful are those umbrellas!

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  75. Those umbrellas and the color scheme are just fantastic!

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  76. So clever! I just love those cute little umbrellas in all their pretty colours. Love that sentiment too!

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  77. WOW! Your thinking outside the box made some of the most adorable umbrellas I've ever seen. Really love how you did the inside, too.
    Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

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  78. So clever - just brilliant!!

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  79. totally unique and fabulous...so bright and happy

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