Vera Stamps

I’ve been wanting to use the Postage Stamps Nestabilities die with the large collage image from the Postage Due stamp set for a long time, and this week’s SCS sketch (SC399) was just perfect. It couldn’t have been more timely, because my husband’s birthday was coming up and I hadn’t made his (bicycle) birthday card […]

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My sister’s birthday is coming up and I’ve challenged myself to mail overseas cards at least seven days in advance from now on (since none of my Easter cards arrived there on time). To keep the card nice and flat (in other words: extremely mailable), I only embellished with glitter pens. The sketch I used […]

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I pretty much bought this stamp set with the Mona Lisa image so that I could make a card for my niece, Lize. She has a special connection to this painting, and it’s kind of a family inside joke. The sketch I used was Viva la Verve‘s first one of March. The card ended up […]

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I have very good memories of being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator and making friends through stamping on splitcoaststampers.com. Becky is one of those friends, and she was selected as this week’s Featured Stamper. Since I have “favorited” many of the cards in her gallery, I finally got to CASE one of them (three years after […]

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Here’s a card I made for my aunt Maria in Belgium (hence the Dutch greeting). I used an old Viva la Verve sketch from last September that included this diagonal design for the background, which took a little bit of puzzling with the vertically-striped DSP. It had been a while since I last set an […]

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