Vera Stamps

I’ve been waiting for my (Stampin’ Up! exclusive) Top Note Sizzix Bigz Die for what seems like forever, and yesterday it finally arrived! Just in time for me to design a card for the SCS shoebox swap I’m attending in Reisterstown, MD today. The colors in the Frosty Day Designer Series Paper are not your […]

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I made this card with Scandinavian Season for a Holiday Mini swap, also hosted by my friend Sharon. Looking for inspiration on splitcoaststampers.com, I found that week’s Sketch challenge (#193). The card base is a regular 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip card stock folded in half. I did a lot of silver embossing […]

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Sharon, our swap hostess, decided we needed to make Autumn cards this month, so this is what I came up with. I stamped the leaf from Happiness Always in several colors on Very Vanilla card stock and used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to line up the Lovely Letters to spell the word Autumn. I adhered this piece […]

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I’m thrilled with my new Stampin’ Up! Big Shot die cutting machine! It cuts through several pieces of card stock at once. I made these large Chocolate Chip scallop circles for my 10 Holiday Card Challenge cards in less than a minute. The regular circles were cut out with the Coluzzle. For my September cards, […]

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It’s been a while since I’ve done any soot stamping, and I thought this train image would be great for this technique. Never mind that I set the first piece of card stock I used on fire (really be careful with those edges!). Perhaps I should have read that warning in step 1 of SCS’s […]

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