Vera Stamps

Here’s a card I made for my aunt Maria in Belgium (hence the Dutch greeting). I used an old Viva la Verve sketch from last September that included this diagonal design for the background, which took a little bit of puzzling with the vertically-striped DSP. It had been a while since I last set an [...]

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I remember admiring LunarLana‘s gallery back in 2004, when I officially joined the stamper’s community called Splitcoaststampers (after lurking on the site for several months). It’s great to see her chosen as the first featured stamper of this new year! Looking through her gallery for something to CASE, my eyes fell on this orange butterfly [...]

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I’ve been meaning to make a card for this week’s Featured Stamper, Understandblue, and luckily I managed to do so before the next FS is announced. Back in January I favorited Lydia’s Leadership Swap card, so that’s the one I CASEd. I used a silhouette image from the long-retired Vintage Postcard stamp set and embellished [...]

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I finally stepped back into my stamp room today (first time after vacationing in Belgium) to make a birthday card for my dear husband. I spotted a very nice masculine birthday card in Featured Stamper sweetnsassystamps‘s gallery that I wanted to CASE. I noticed too late that the original card was made for a sketch [...]

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To celebrate my parents’ golden wedding anniversary, I designed a technically incorrect (?) card that sports 49 tiny hearts. Ten of these little hearts were left un-embossed and raised with dimensionals create the 50th, golden, heart. I hope my dad (a retired school teacher) appreciates the thought that went into the card, LOL. Looking forward [...]

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