Vera Stamps

The first person who leaves me a comment with the correct “answer” will receive this card in the mail!

ETA: Joy S figured out that I printed the word love (translated into binary code) at the bottom of the card!

I made this card for a new catalog swap with some of the Great Swaps Girls and I received my package back today. Perfect timing, as today marks the first day of the 2009-2010 Stampin’ Up! catalog! Speaking of love, I LOVE this new catalog. So glad we get to keep this one for an entire year!

My card is very clean and simple, and uses some of the new products we (demonstrators) were able to pre-order: Lots of Bots stamp set, Melon Mambo card stock and polka-dot ribbon, and the Punch Windows Movers & Shapers. Hope the girls like it!

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That was the Clean and Simple Cards Challenge on SCS this week (CAS21). I decided to use the word sparkle from the Warm Words set underneath three sparkly chipboard stars in Fall-To Layout #46.

I first inked up these (retired) On Board stars with Whisper White Craft ink and dried them with the heat tool. Then I sponged two of them with Classic ink (Real Red and Pacific Point). I mixed Crystal Effects and Dazzling Diamonds together in a paint bottle, covered the stars with this mixture, and let them dry overnight.

I stamped the sentiment with VersaMark ink and embossed with white powder. Next I drew a frame large enough to fit all three stars on the Night of Navy card. It was tough to capture the sparkle of the stars in my photograph, but I hope you can see it better when you enlarge the picture by clicking on it.

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When I got my new catalog, I was amazed by the many samples I wanted to CASE. This card is one of those “catalog-inspired” creations (check page 33). We don’t have the list of supplies for the projects in the catalog yet (it will be posted on July 1st), but I’m pretty sure they didn’t use the retired Ski Slope DSP! Instead of distressing the bottom edge, I used the scallop edge punch.

It was nice to have a card already designed for me. In the time it usually takes me to come up with and create one card, I made ten of these for the 2009 Christmas Card Challenge on splitcoaststampers.com.

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Dawn L, today’s Featured Stamper on SCS, is also a Dirty Dozen alumna (if you’re not a Fan, you’re definitely missing out!). Talk about intimidating, trying to CASE one of her cards! But I attemped it anyway, choosing Dawn’s Lovely Chocolate card. I was inspired by her color choices, but used Certainly Celery with two of the new In Colors instead: Bermuday Bay and Soft Suede.

The images I used are from a new level 3 hostess set called Kind & Caring Thoughts. I popped one of the flowers up with a dimensional. The partial sentiment from the Boho Backgrounds set was inked up with a Soft Suede marker. I dragged the Soft Suede ink pad across the dry-embossed background, and did the same with the photo corners and the large oval mat before I punched them out of Whisper White card stock.

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“Another bird?” is what my husband said when I showed him the card I made for Kristina Werner’s 55th Color Inspiration challenge. I probably could have tried using other stamps, but these were still sitting on my table from my last stamping session and I happen to really like this set, Friends 24-7. The sketch I used is today’s challenge on SCS (SC234).

I stenciled the Kind Thoughts Brocade with Really Rust ink on the Juntos Designer Series Paper and stamped the sentiment with Basic Gray ink in the right bottom corner. The bird image was stamped with Really Rust ink on top of the More Mustard damask, and again on a scrap of Naturals Ivory card stock with Basic Gray ink. I cut out the bird and adhered it to the card with dimensionals.

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