Vera Stamps

This idea popped into my head when I saw Emily’s Color Combination challenge (CC194) on SCS this morning. The plaid background was created by inking up just the edge of my brayer (first with Really Rust ink, next with Going Gray ink), and drawing stripes onto the Very Vanilla card stock in two directions — […]

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I am happy I got to make a card for today’s Featured Stamper challenge on SCS, as I have missed a few Sundays. We’re CASEing cards made by ebethneu, and I was inspired by her Inspired Anniversary card. It felt a little bit like cheating to use three different patterns of Parisian Summer Designer Series […]

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Stampin’ Up! used to offer spectrum (aka Kaleidacolor) ink pads, like the Late November one with its fall colors that I used on this card. I brayered the ink(s) onto Glossy White card stock and stamped the Fresh Cuts image with black StazOn ink on top. I stamped the saying from the All Holidays set […]

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I got a Janome Sew Mini sewing machine several months ago, but I hadn’t even used it until I made this card. In fact, I made several of them for a winter card swap with my upline’s group. You can see I started out with just a little bit of sewing this time. Still, I […]

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I have been wanting to try out this snakeskin technique from the Patstamps Technique Junkie Newsletter (October 2008 issue), and the colors in Kristina Werner’s latest Color Inspiration Challenge (#31) were just perfect for it. Although, what was I going to do with Elegant Eggplant? The background was created by sponging the following colors onto […]

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