Vera Stamps

My brother-in-law Roel is a teacher and I thought this notebook image from Blue Skies would make a nice background for the birthday message I’m sending him. I chose lined patterned papers from the Basics Kraft paper pad to add to this monochromatic brown card. The layout is this month’s Sketch For You To Try […]

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I’m joining in the Valentines/Love-themed blog waltz today, even though I had to look hard for Valentine-related stamps in my WMS collection. Thanks to the little heart image from Nutcracker Sweet and the ‘with love’ stamp from Afternoon Tea Sentiments I managed to put this simple card together. The sketch I used is Fall-to Layout […]

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Most of the time, I make A2 size cards (5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″), but this time the card is only 3-1/4″ high. It’s because I tried to follow the sketch from Fall-to Layout 122 on the clean & simple stamping blog quite closely. I actually made two of these cards; the other one carried a Dutch […]

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“Looks like leather,” is what my husband said when he saw the card I made for the Gina K. January Release color challenge last weekend (Kraft, Chocolate Brown, and Turquoise Sea). For the background, I adhered kraft card stock to a larger piece of brown card stock and ran this through my Big Shot with […]

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One of my New Year’s resolutions is to devote more time to making cards (and posting them here, of course). I started the year off well, with this New Year’s card to all of you. Hope 2011 will be a great one for you! The layout I used is Mojo Monday sketch 171. I created […]

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