Vera Stamps

My older sister has inherited the photographing gene from our dad and I thought this TAC image would make for a great birthday card for her. When I saw Jen del Muro’s April Sketch For You To Try I knew I was going to use the filmstrip frames die-cuts in my layout. Then I found [...]

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Suzanne J Dean is celebrating the first birthday of her Color Me Creative Classroom this month, and this is a card I created for her birthday celebration sketch challenge. After taking a Copics class in Suzanne’s lovely home last year, I immediately signed up for several of her on-line classes. She also has lots of [...]

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My cousin Anneleen gave birth to a little girl last month and they named her Louise. I like to personalize the baby cards I send to family and friends, and this time I used black die-cut letters to spell louise. They were very easily adhered to the Sweet Mango strip by using a Quickie Glue [...]

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My Hopewell neighbor Heather Pulvirenti started a Totally Hues color challenge on her blog today. Even though I don’t own any PTI card stock, I wanted to jump right in and tried to find colors similar to: Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst, and Simply Chartreuse. These colors might be considered a little too bright [...]

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When I looked through my collection of stamps, I thought this was the perfect image for a little girl’s birthday card. Sketch and color combination were quickly decided upon, thanks to the SC306 and CC296 challenges on SCS. I stamped the fish princess with black Memento ink and colored her with turquoise Copic markers. The [...]

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