Vera Stamps

I spent a wonderful day stamping with 11 fellow Splitcoaststampers in Laurel, MD today. Kathy sure hosts a fabulous shoebox swap every time, and it was very nice to not feel rushed because of the smaller group of stampers. Since I knew we had more time to work on each card, I decided to add […]

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My younger sister is celebrating 12.5 years of marriage today — a copper wedding anniversary in Belgium. I created this “copper” card for her, using the March Viva la Verve CAS (Clean and Simple) sketch. The brushed copper card stock was embossed with Stampin’ Up!’s Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder. I stamped the frame and Dutch sentiment […]

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I missed Chupa‘s day in the spotlight when she was chosen as SCS’s Featured Stamper on Christmas Day, so I’m playing catch-up. The gorgeous For You card I found in her gallery features the out-of-the-box technique (which I am still struggling with, but practice should make perfect someday). I found a similar floral image in […]

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My contribution to this month’s WMS Friends Blog Waltz (with a birthday party theme) is this elegant, yet very simple birthday card I made for my dear mother-in-law. She loves butterflies, so I chose this pretty background paper from the Ambrosia collection by BasicGrey. I embossed the Vintage Circles, Small image with black powder and […]

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I can never have enough birthday cards in my stash, so that’s what I made with Viva la Verve sketch #4. I grabbed my Cappella paper pad and found two patterns to use for the background. The Classy Label was also cut out of the patterned paper. I dry-embossed the pink paper before attaching it […]

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