Vera Stamps

My brother-in-law Roel is a teacher and I thought this notebook image from Blue Skies would make a nice background for the birthday message I’m sending him. I chose lined patterned papers from the Basics Kraft paper pad to add to this monochromatic brown card. The layout is this month’s Sketch For You To Try […]

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After I don’t know how many months I decided to pull out my sewing machine again. It’s a good thing I remembered Gina K.’s Janome Sew tutorials, especially the threading one. Things didn’t go as well as I’d hoped, as you can tell, so please don’t look too closely at the stitching. I made this […]

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I wanted to make an elegant birthday card for my aunt who is turning 75 next week. BasicGrey’s Cappella papers were just what I needed! I used one more layout from this month’s Viva la Verve sketch challenges and embellished the card with self-adhesive half pearls and delicate cream ribbon. Thanks for stopping by! Stamps: […]

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I didn’t feel like adding a sentiment to this card; I expect I will find words for the inside when I’m ready to send it to somebody. The layout I used was this month’s Viva la Verve sketch #3, and I applied the faux tile technique to the image panel. I stamped the tree and […]

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I’ve been working on transforming half of our basement into a stamping room this weekend, and this is the first card I made at my new desk (no more stamping in the kitchen for me!). Trying to finish all four Viva la Verve sketch challenges by Thursday, I started with sketch #2 today. I pulled […]

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