Vera Stamps

I have been saving this pattern of Ski Slope Designer Series Paper to CASE the card on page 12 of the Holiday Mini Catalog. I love that card! Since I needed to make 10 Christmas cards for my last installment of the 2008 Holiday Card Challenge, I decided the time had come to make this […]

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Kristina Werner has a festive color inspiration challenge this week (#32): Riding Hood Red, Sahara Sand (or a metallic), Very Vanilla, and Whisper White. I combined her colors with the Embossing Resist Technique. I started by stamping the large snowflake from the Holiday Collection set with VersaMark ink on Very Vanilla card stock and embossing […]

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I just subscribed to Jen’s i{heart}2stamp blog in Google Reader yesterday, and I couldn’t resist her Sketch For You To Try that showed up today. My idea was to use the Top Note die for both of the rectangles in the sketch. The smaller one was just trimmed from the center outwards, both horizontally and […]

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I really wanted to stamp the big Paisley background with Pacific Point ink for this card (and I really liked how it looked), but I didn’t quite know what to do with the rest of the card. I decided to try the SCS color combination challenge (by adding Basic Gray and Certainly Celery) and use […]

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Today I’m joining a whole bunch of enthusiastic Stampin’ Up! demonstrators at the Regional Seminar in Virginia Beach, VA. I signed up for a swap with 19 other Splitcoaststampers, and we’ll be having dinner together after the seminar. This is the card I made for them, featuring the To You & Yours stamp set. I […]

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