Vera Stamps

My in-laws are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary today, and of course I had to make them a card! I wanted to use big chipboard numbers and luckily I still had a five and a zero in my stash of retired Simon Lower On Board chipboard. The numbers were first covered with Whisper White Craft […]

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Today’s Featured Stamper on SCS, Anne Ryan, is just the sweetest person and leaves the most wonderful comments in the gallery for her fellow stampers. I CASEd a card she created for Inspiration Challenge #145. I kept Anne’s layout and colors, but changed the stamps and omitted the stitching. I stamped the rose and bee […]

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Even though I am surrounded by brand-new Stampin’ Up! rubber, it felt good to pull out these old stamps and papers today. I was immediately drawn to Featured Stamper #87‘s Embossed Vintage Elegance card, because I love that silhouette image so much. The only things I changed were: Designer Series Paper instead of dry-embossed backgrounds, […]

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I joined a second Holiday Mini swap with my GSG friends and used Scandinavian Season this time. The second group was smaller, so I was able to use embellishments that I only have a limited number of (like the Styled Silver Hodgepodge hardware and rhinestone brads) on this card. I love this striped patterned paper […]

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When my mom visited me here in the States, she fell in love with the “rode vogeltjes” (little red birds) flying around outside in our neighborhood. It’s a color bird you just don’t see in Belgium. I bought Stampin’ Up!’s old Christmas Cardinal set several years ago, because I knew she would love it if […]

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