Vera Stamps

I spent way too much time on this card today! I followed Beate’s sketch for this weekend, and used a color combination suggested by Stampin’ Up! for the Soft Sky In Color: Soft Sky, Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red, and Taken with Teal. I wanted to use one of the metal edge tags on this […]

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I combined today’s SCS Sketch Challenge with Kristina Werner’s Color Inspiration Challenge #3. When I went looking for an image for the long skinny panel, my eye fell on this retired SU stamp set, Haute Couture. I stamped the dress in black StazOn on Whisper White paper and colored it in with Watercolor Wonder Crayons […]

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I love doing the Featured Stamper challenge on SCS. This week we’re allowed to CASE a card from BeckyTE’s gallery, and I picked her Baroque Birthday card. I chose to use the colors from the Afternoon Tea DS paper on my version, and instead of a jumbo eyelet I embellished with a Build-A-Brad (those are […]

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Today I’m getting together with other Splitcoaststampers in Baltimore for a large shoebox swap. This is the card I designed for the occasion. I used three Stampin’ Up! spots to create the background, following Beate’s tutorial on SCS. Then I stamped the image from Essence of Love twice in black StazOn, leaving room on the […]

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This cute bike image is from the Time for You stamp set in the Occasions Mini Collection. I fell in love with this stamp set immediately, because this image reminds me so much of my mom’s bike (except for the crossbar). The bike was stamped with Jet Black StazOn on watercolor paper (cut into an […]

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