Vera Stamps

Kristina Werner’s 17th color inspiration challenge was just what I needed to finish off my 10 cards for the Holiday Card challenge this month. I wanted to create flat, very “mailable” cards, since many of my cards travel overseas during the holidays. The christmas rose stamp from the retired Christmas Cardinal set was stamped in […]

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I found two other cards in Featured Stamper Stephanie Hargis‘s SCS gallery that inspired me to create this one. First, her fabulous Embrace Life card (for the colors and designer papers) and second, her Friend card (for the layout). I stamped the Smarty Pants saying in Ruby Red Craft ink on Very Vanilla card stock […]

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Time for my favorite SCS challenge: Featured Stamper! This week, I picked this lovely All Rub-Ons card, but I forgot to notice that Stephanie made this card for a sketch challenge (and we’re not supposed to CASE those layouts in this challenge). Maybe I’ll make another card for the challenge later. This is a quick […]

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Every Monday, a new Technique challenge is posted on splitcoaststampers.com, and today we were invited to make a suspension card. I thought it was a nice opportunity to use my new Wow Flowers stamp set again. The colors were chosen from the Bali Breeze Designer Series paper I used for the background. I tied the […]

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Isn’t this new Designer Series paper gorgeous? I used it to make this quick, 5-minute card, which follows the Fall-to Layout #2 from the clean & simple stamping blog. The coordinating colors for this double-sided patterned paper are: Pink Pirouette (which you can see in this sample), Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, and Chocolate Chip. […]

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