Vera Stamps

I’m joining in the Valentines/Love-themed blog waltz today, even though I had to look hard for Valentine-related stamps in my WMS collection. Thanks to the little heart image from Nutcracker Sweet and the ‘with love’ stamp from Afternoon Tea Sentiments I managed to put this simple card together. The sketch I used is Fall-to Layout […]

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Looking through Featured Stamper whoistracy‘s gallery this morning, I saw a lot of faux quilting on Tracy’s cards. I especially liked the look of her Sleigh Ride Petal Press Sneak Peek #1 card. My version doesn’t have a colored image; instead I added a butterfly die-cut and replaced the pearls in the upper left corner […]

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For today’s shoebox swap at Fort Meade I decided to make a card using the Silhouette tutorial in the December 2010 edition of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. I figured coloring the flowers with a black marker would speed things up so that the Baltimore Ravens fans in our midst could leave the swap in time […]

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Most of the time, I make A2 size cards (5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″), but this time the card is only 3-1/4″ high. It’s because I tried to follow the sketch from Fall-to Layout 122 on the clean & simple stamping blog quite closely. I actually made two of these cards; the other one carried a Dutch […]

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“Looks like leather,” is what my husband said when he saw the card I made for the Gina K. January Release color challenge last weekend (Kraft, Chocolate Brown, and Turquoise Sea). For the background, I adhered kraft card stock to a larger piece of brown card stock and ran this through my Big Shot with […]

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