I’m thrilled to be waltzing along with Claire from Waltzingmouse Stamps this month. Her Nestabilities-friendly stamps are what first drew me to her store, as you can see on this card. The birthday sentiment by Verve Stamps was framed with a gorgeous design that is a perfect match for one a Labels One die-cut.

This month’s blog waltz theme is the colors of summer… blue and green. I had just the right DSP to make an elegant card for my mother-in-law, who celebrates her birthday next week.

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I stepped up to the challenge of making an all-white Christmas card (thanks for starting new Christmas challenges, StampTV!). If only they had told me how hard it would be to take a decent picture of the finished project!

I decided to make another tent topper card, with a 4-1/4″ x 8-1/2″ card base made out of dry-embossed Mother of Pearl card stock. The images were stamped and heat-embossed on Mother of Pearl card stock as well, and I added a Labels One mat made out of white card stock. The sentiment reads: “May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace & joy” and is quite legible in person. All in all, the card turned out much better than I expected.

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For me, happiness is making, sending and receiving cards! I’m also always very happy when I can combine a few challenges, like the sketch from StampTV (stvsketchms1) and the color combination from SCS (CC273). Betty mentioned she pulled her colors from BasicGrey’s Cappella collection and I happened to have this collection sitting right there on my stamping table when I got started on this card.

I had been playing around with my new Martha Stewart Daisy punches and the frame I had punched was just the right size for the square in Melissa’s layout. Yes, I do try and stay very close to the original sketches for these challenges. My ruler is my best friend!

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Here’s a friendship card I made after seeing the Folded Paper Frame tutorial on SCS. This frame works great with double-sided patterned paper.

For the multi-colored background I used the Depth of Field technique from the June 2009 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. I basically stamped the elegant heart image with a light, medium, and dark ink, trying to cover most of the Whisper White panel.

The scalloped panel started out as a 3-13/16″ square piece of Sahara Sand card stock. After punching the corners, this size lines up perfectly with the guide on the scallop trim border punch.

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I spotted a card made with Waltzingmouse Stamps in FS ctorina’s SCS gallery and thought mine deserved to finally see some action. I abandoned the autumn theme by using the colors from Kristina Werner’s first Reader’s Choice color inspiration challenge: baja blue, kiwi green, rose, pale pink, light gray, and white.

When I first saw Cathleen’s LSC241 Fall card, I thought she had used ribbon in between the two labels. When I read the card description, I found out only paper, ink, and stamps were used on the card. I did use ribbon on mine, but didn’t add any other embellishments. Finally a card that won’t cost extra to mail!

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I finished this card for my MIL in the nick of time, to be hand-delivered tomorrow. But I still have plenty of time to make a card for my mom, as we celebrate Mother’s Day on August 15 back home (in Antwerp, Belgium). Before I started making my own cards, I always had to remember to buy a card for her in May because the stores wouldn’t have any Mother’s Day cards for sale in August.

The layout I used is Mojo Monday 137, and the stamped images are from a brand new set by Verve Stamps that I was lucky enough to win during their latest Sneak Preview.

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I’m trying to get a few cards made for Verve’s Spring Fling challenges this weekend. This card was created for the sketch challenge (VSMARSF2), hosted by Amy Sheffer.

Amy’s layout called for a big circular image and the pretty one from Accent Notes fit perfectly! I replaced the smaller circle with the flower from the Love’s Flower set (cut out and colored with Copic markers). I also colored the white half pearls with my E02 Copic marker to match the Groovy Guava ink.

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Sometimes you stamp something, cut it out, and then it lies there on your crafting table for days (weeks even) before you actually put it on a card. That’s what happened to this framed anniversary sentiment that I created with two stamp sets from Verve Stamps. It wasn’t until I saw the Mojo Monday 128 layout that I figured out what I wanted to do with it.

My card is only 5-1/4″ wide to match up better with the scallop trim border of the Basic Grey designer paper. I punched 10 small hearts out of Lipstick Red card stock and adhered them above and below the vanilla ribbon with Scor-Tape (the awesome adhesive). Two little mini heart brads finish off the card and the ribbon.

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Spring is my favorite season for birthdays (including mine!), and I’m counting the days till winter is finally over. These crocuses from the Spring Florals set are just perfect for a spring birthday card. I stamped them with Memento black ink and colored them in with Copic markers. It was fun to match up the Backgrounds 1 texturz plate with the retired Wild Wasabi Prints DSP. The layout I used is Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC63).

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I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to complete all four Viva la Verve sketch challenges this month. I started with the latest one (January Week 4) and chose this foyer as my inspiration.

I created the tiled look by stamping images from the Accent Notes and Thankful Accents sets with gray and green ink. The happy birthday sentiment and frame were stamped with black ink and clear embossed. I thought a double bow would look nice here, so I made one from white taffeta ribbon with the Bow-Easy (and it is really easy to do!).

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