Vera Stamps

Inspired by the layout of MaryLou Cacciatore’s Merry Christmas card in the Spring 2009 Take Ten magazine, I created this quick Easter card. I stamped the image with black StazOn ink on a tag made out of Stampin’ Up! watercolor paper. The edge of the tag was sponged with Lovely Lilac ink and the image […]

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My dear friend Gill, whom I have known since she was four years old, is graduating from college next month. I made this card for her with her school colors: black, red, and white. The layout is (almost) that of today’s sketch challenge on SCS (SC223). Hopefully I didn’t break too many rules by using […]

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Stampin’ Up! is not the only one celebrating their 20th anniversary this year; my sister and her husband tied the knot 20 years ago this month. I discovered that emerald green and white are the colors traditionally associated with a 20th wedding anniversary. The closest I could come to emerald green was Wild Wasabi, a […]

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Silvia posted a great Easy as 1-2-3 Limited Supplies challenge on SCS today: Use… 1 color card stock (Baja Breeze) 2 patterned papers (both Parisian Breeze Specialty DSP) 3 embellishments (ribbon, grommet, and corduroy button) I put it all together using Fall-To Layout #34 from the clean & simple stamping blog. Love Natasha’s sketches! Thanks […]

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Today I needed to make a sympathy card for a friend who lost her father. I used the sketch from today’s challenge on SCS (SC222) to get me started. Using two patterns from the Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper in the background, I repeatedly stamped the Flowers in Silhouette image with the same […]

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