Vera Stamps

Fans of Melanie Muenchinger’s work may remember seeing her gorgeous Sweet Strawberries card on StampTV last year (also on May 2nd). I waited a long time to CASE it, but I thought it would be perfect for my mom, who absolutely LOVES strawberries. She’ll probably be eating some today, on her 75th birthday! Thanks for [...]

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Remember this card I made when I was taking the Online Card Class Pattern Play? Well, I decided to make an anniversary card for my sister and BIL with some of the leftovers. After I stamped the sentiment on the white banner, I traced the letters (and the numbers on the tiny heart) with a [...]

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Day 4 in the Pattern Play Online Card Class was all about altering patterned paper. I slightly altered the Cheerful Treat DSP by adding Dazzling Details to the green dots on the paper. The sketch I used was SC422 on splitcoaststampers.com. With such spring-like colors, I’ll be sure to enter this card in the “Voorjaar” [...]

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I just found out Stampin’ Up! now has demonstrators in the Netherlands (since last fall, actually), and I discovered a neat challenge blog started by several Dutch SU! demonstrators called SU-per Challenges. It’s a lot of fun to read about Stampin’ Up! in my native language! I decided to play along with their sketch challenge [...]

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Unity really inspired me with the colors of their LOVEfest Inspiration Challenge. Any excuse, really, to dig up Dusty Durango and Bermuda Bay again! I’m also still working on finishing this month’s Viva la Verve! sketch challenges, so I made this card for Week 3. It’s been a while since I ran a Texturz Plate [...]

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