Vera Stamps

Susan (aka susiestampalot) is today’s FS on splitcoaststampers.com. I chose her elegant Sprinkles of Kindness card to CASE, but ended up omitting the ribbon and brads that attracted me to the card in the first place. Four different stamps from the Frames with a Flourish set were used on this card. I stamped the frame […]

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Have you tried the Wet Watercolor Crayons technique yet? I’m teaching a stamp class this weekend where we’ll be making this card with the retiring Wild Rose set. The rose and leaf stamps were colored with wet Watercolor Wonder Crayons and stamped on watercolor paper, then cut out. It’s such a different look than when […]

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Goodbye to Sweet Shapes, a stamp set that has been a joy to stamp with. I have always been fascinated with the way the background stamp displays various shades of whatever ink you apply. Very cool! I used the colors from Kristina Werner’s 16th Color Inspiration challenge (love this combination!), and I also tried tying […]

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I found two other cards in Featured Stamper Stephanie Hargis‘s SCS gallery that inspired me to create this one. First, her fabulous Embrace Life card (for the colors and designer papers) and second, her Friend card (for the layout). I stamped the Smarty Pants saying in Ruby Red Craft ink on Very Vanilla card stock […]

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Time for my favorite SCS challenge: Featured Stamper! This week, I picked this lovely All Rub-Ons card, but I forgot to notice that Stephanie made this card for a sketch challenge (and we’re not supposed to CASE those layouts in this challenge). Maybe I’ll make another card for the challenge later. This is a quick […]

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