Vera Stamps

Spring is my favorite season for birthdays (including mine!), and I’m counting the days till winter is finally over. These crocuses from the Spring Florals set are just perfect for a spring birthday card. I stamped them with Memento black ink and colored them in with Copic markers. It was fun to match up the […]

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I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to complete all four Viva la Verve sketch challenges this month. I started with the latest one (January Week 4) and chose this foyer as my inspiration. I created the tiled look by stamping images from the Accent Notes and Thankful Accents sets […]

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I wanted to make an elegant birthday card for my aunt, who is very elegant herself. The layout I used is this week’s Mojo Monday sketch (MOJO120), with a few tweaks. Since it’s so unusually cold right now, I enjoyed pulling out this Parisian Summer DSP. I stamped the Verve images with SU! ink and […]

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When I saw the color challenge announced during Gina K. Designs’ December 2009 release party (green & blue), I immediately thought of the elegant Spring Silhouettes Designer Series Paper. I stamped the Inspiration Mosaic background stamp on several of the paper patterns, and also on ivory card stock. Then I cut out the pieces I […]

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Sadly, I needed to make a sympathy card today. I used the subdued colors from this week’s SCS challenge (CC239) and designed the card around Gina K.’s Inspiration Mosaic image. Searching for Mellow Moss DSP, I found this sheet from the retired Recollections package, and I used it in three sections of the mosaic. The […]

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