Vera Stamps

Five days late, but I finally finished my husband’s Valentine’s Day card. I think he was a little bit disappointed I didn’t have a card for him on the 14th (even though he didn’t get me one, either!) I was happy to be able to use my new Jotted Heart die and Love Notes stamp [...]

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“Designing with Buttons” is the theme of this month’s Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz. I had envisioned to be using lots of buttons on my card, but ended up with only one (on top of the bow). The layout is Mojo Monday 178, if you don’t mind my tweaking the brad placement a little bit. The [...]

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It’s great to be able to get something on paper that you’ve been carrying around in your head for days (if not weeks). I’ve been dying to try the retiform technique with this new Easter Blossoms stamp set and today was the day! I found this color combination on a PDF somebody shared on splitcoaststampers.com [...]

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As you can see I haven’t put away my sewing machine just yet. The striped Grasshopper sheet in BasicGrey’s Green at Heart collection already has some (faux) stitching going on, so I thought it’d be nice to do some actual stitching on the card as well. I made this birthday card for a stamping buddy [...]

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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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