PURPLE!!...CASology: Week 80, Viva La Verve January 2014: Sketch 1

I am SO stoked!  When CAS-olgy's Week 80 invitation to create a card using purple came about,

I immediately dismissed any hope of participating. No purple in my house...until a couple of sparks lit. First step: a bit more rummaging-around effort in my woefully disorganized cardstock collection (small, but a disaster...given my puny crafting space you'd think tidiness would be a given, but nope...) revealed a 1/2 sheet of lilac-ish paper.  Score #1!

With that little snippet to play with, I decided on a tall and skinny card - 'just in case' I messed up with my little treasure.  Earlier on, I'd also decided that playing more often with the Viva La Verve sketches 'has' to happen, for any multitude of reasons, but especially to try to learn and replicate the dazzling cards the DT does so remarkably well. Gorgeous layers, pretty patterns, combined with amazing images - those are the hallmarks of the ladies of Verve. I want to figure out some of that magic. Even though I'm light years away from accomplishing this, I decided to give their Sketch #1

for January a try (an abbreviated version, actually, as I totally missed the band/tag part), using purple as the background and keeping things relatively simple.  I took out my Poppy Birthday set, and went to work...

Here's card #1: not 'fantastic' by any stretch (my poppies are cute, but I didn't 'align' the blue ones quite right before gluing them down. See: good thing I preserved some paper, because a boo boo was bound to happen), but I did create my own background with a poppy stamp and versamark...

Just after finishing that card, I dropped my little basket of inks on the floor, and guess what rolled under the table...the purple coloured ink that I'd 'given' to my niece to play with.  The ones I thought I "didn't" quite like, but do now (we'll figure out how to share these..I think "someone" who's almost 4 will be getting new inks in the near future), and in picking it up, I realized it's a Versamark ink. Embossing ping...

In all my excitement, I trimmed my last snippet of purple down a smidge too much, so I have this wonky-sized birthday card; it's more like a large tag, I reckon.  Same sketch, even more simple, and a pretty butterfly from the Each Day set...

I wish I could capture the butterflies' sheen better...in real life they're pretty. Basic card/tag...I rather like it.

Heading up to the Nordic Centre in a few minutes, after I put on my 16 layers of clothes, then we're back to watch Superbowl.  Well, technically, my husband will, as I have Valentines calling my name.

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