Viva La Sketch - Great Friend & Bloom & Grow

Love this sketch and I've been wanting to play along with the Viva La Sketch challenge for a while now, so figured to give it a try this month and hope to finish the other sketches by June 27th deadline. 

Here is the challenge:

Check out the Viva la Verve Master Challenge Thread for all the details on how to be entered to win a $100 Verve gift certificate by playing along with all of the sketches for June! All four cards must be uploaded to the VLVJun2013 gallery by midnight, CST on Thursday, June 27th.

Here is my card below:

 

Finally got a chance to play with this wonderful Verve stamp set: Great Friend. It has wonderful flowers and sentiments which I love. Also got to play with more papers by SU and will update this post with the names later today. The background paper already comes with the beautiful embossing images and it looks wonderful in person.

Here is a close up of the flower. I used foam mount in between the flowers to make it pop out more and added glitter details to add something extra with a little basic rhinestone in the middle.

Here I used Verve's A Cut Above Dies starting with the Charming Oval Die set (Summer Starfruit & Early Expresso cardstock - SU) & matching Charming Banner Die set.  The sentiment comes from the set: Great Friend and ink used was Real Red (SU).

The beautiful leaves came from the Verve stamp set: Bloom & Grow and cut out using the Elegant Leaves Die set.

Click here to go directly to the challenge of week one over at Splitcoaststampers and have some fun creating. It's very therapeutic and I'm sure you will enjoy!!