Vera Stamps

I was intrigued by last week’s Let’s Go Camping demo challenge on SCS, and decided to try making a card with that cool card fold (aka tent fold). First I made one out of copy paper, and when I had the folding down, I started out with an 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ piece of Bordering Blue […]

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I just received the gorgeous Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set as a gift from my friend Connie, so I looked for a floral card to CASE in today’s FS’s gallery (juliemlacey). This wonderful Floral Thoughts card became my inspiration. I took the colors for my card from the striped Parisian Breeze Specialty Designer Series Paper. […]

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My dad is an avid card player, and I thought he might enjoy a birthday card with “cards” on it. Can you guess how old he’ll be next week? I wanted to use the exact colors from Kristina Werner’s color inspiration challenge (#41), but substituted Real Red for Riding Hood Red because it looked more […]

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I had this idea of using the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Stem Sayings set with the curvy branch of my newly acquired Cheep Talk set. It took a little bit of Stamp-A-Ma-Jigging, but I am not totally unsatisfied with the result. First I inked up the branch stamp with Kiwi Kiss and removed the […]

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I have a dear friend who has a February 14 birthday, and I always try to make her card special. This year I happen to have a stamp of the date itself, an image from the A Happy Heart set, and I just had to use it. Kristin, one of my fellow Great Swaps Girls, […]

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