Vera Stamps

I was impressed with the huge amount of fabulous artwork in FS Twinshappy‘s gallery this morning! Of course my eye fell on an orange card, Stacy’s Sympathy butterflies. I knew I could use the images in the Great Friend Occasions Mini set to make a similar card. The butterflies were stamped with Whisper White Craft […]

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Vicky is such a deserving Featured Stamper on SCS today! I found this gorgeous Friendship card in her gallery and couldn’t wait to pull out my old stamps and CASE it. The Designer Series Paper I used is retired, as is the stamp set, Botanicals. I stamped the image with Basic Brown ink and colored […]

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I designed this Joy Fold Card with the pretty new Raspberry Tart papers for my stamp class this weekend. I changed the dimensions of the smaller piece of card stock from the SCS tutorial to 2-1/2″ x 7″ to fit my stamped images (and to show off more of the designer paper!). The sparkly heart […]

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When Stampin’ Up! came out with the Big Shot this past summer, I finally got my first die-cutting machine. Now I know what I’ve been missing all these years! I pre-ordered the Sweetest Stem embosslit, which will be in the Spring-Summer 2009 catalog, but I hadn’t used it yet. When I was putting this card […]

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When I saw Kristina Werner’s latest color inspiration challenge (#34), I immediately thought of the beautiful (retired) Enchanté Designer Series Paper. The sheet I used in the background has stripes in Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Sage Shadow, and Certainly Celery. I cut a Top Note out of Bordering Blue card stock, which was the only […]

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