Vera Stamps

I didn’t quite finish all the Verve Spring Fling challenges I wanted to participate in this weekend, because a wonderful thing happened to me on Saturday night: Beth Silaika aka MyPrecious picked me to be Featured Stamper #161 on SCS! I was too excited to stamp all weekend, not to mention trying to comment on [...]

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Where I come from, we sing this Dutch birthday song called Lang zal ze leven (you can hear it here on YouTube) instead of (or in addition to) the world-famous Happy Birthday song. The person I made this card for is celebrating her 19th birthday and because she’s a very talented musician and singer, I [...]

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Two new babies have been born into the family back in Belgium, and I have been meaning to send cards to my cousins. This will be the first one to go in the mail!
I used the new Oh, Baby! stamp set by Rupa Shevde and (my new favorite) the Lovely Labels set by Nina Brackett. [...]

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Before you go thinking that I came up with this cool medallion look (created with the Lattice Bigz Die), please check out Kay Kalthoff’s fabulous Fancy Irish Tote! I just had to CASE her idea for the shoebox swap I’m attending in Laurel, MD today. The color combination I came up with was influenced by [...]

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I found an interesting sketch on StampTV and made a quick card with it. The image was stamped with Memento black ink and cut out with a Nestabilities die, then colored with Copic markers and two Stampin’ Up! markers (because I didn’t have all the colors I needed in my small Copic marker collection). I [...]

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