Vera Stamps

I found a lovely card to CASE in Featured Stamper nancyt‘s gallery: Enjoy Today. My image was a little bit too large for the long rectangle Nestabilities die I wanted to use, so I took a quick look at the Out of the Box with Nestabilities tutorial to refresh my memory on how to do this technique. I colored the images with Copic Markers and added some Wink of Stella glitter to the flowers.

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Today I am having fun at a shoebox swap in Hampstead, Maryland. The card I brought with me was inspired by Wendybell’s Banner for a Friend card. It’s the first time I have used my Banner Blast stamps with the banner punch. So cute!

Does anybody still remember the Afternoon Tea Designer Series Paper? One of my all-time favorites, and I still have plenty of it in my stash. 🙂

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This cheerful card was my contribution to a spring-themed shoebox swap in Pasadena, MD today. When I saw this technique in the February/March 2014 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter, I went looking through my stamp collection for an image that would work. The Enjoy Today Plain Jane stamp from Verve was perfect.

Not wanting to cover up my stamped background too much, I finished off the card with a tag. A 7″ length of ribbon was folded in half and both ends were pushed from the back of tag through the eyelet. The ribbon was secured to the back of the tag with Scotch tape, and the tag adhered to the card with dimensionals.

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This is a little bit of a twist on Tasnim Ahmed’s “Tracing Images” technique from Day 7 of the Clean & Simple 3 online card class. Instead of tracing a stamped image, I dry-embossed the card front and traced part of the “image” with a gold pen. Then I colored inside those traced, raised lines with Twinkling H2Os. It had been a long time since I used those watercolor paints, and I’m glad this class inspired me to dig them up.

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Here’s another card that uses the die-cut inlay technique, taught by Debby Hughes on Day 1 of the Clean & Simple 3 online card class. No stamps or ink were used in the making of this card. Well, I did splatter some shimmer paint (aka all-purpose ink) onto the Early Espresso panel before I assembled the card.

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