Vera Stamps

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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I wanted to make a “Stampin’ Up! only” birthday card for a demonstrator friend of mine and found a great card to CASE in Featured Stamper jazzytobi‘s SCS gallery. The cocktail glass images reminded me of the Cheers to You set, so that’s what I used on my card. I stamped the glass and sentiment […]

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I finished my last card for the Verve Release Week challenges with sketch number 5. As soon as I saw the layout, I knew I wanted to use the notebook paper image from the Blue Skies set — it was the perfect size. I added a couple of suns from the Let It Shine stamp […]

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