Vera Stamps

I’m attending another shoebox swap north of Baltimore today, and this is the card I took with me. I had made a faux pinwheel card before, but saw a slightly different approach in the Technique Junkie Newsletter that I wanted to give a try. I like the way the pinwheel is matted with this version […]

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Sometimes the weather interferes with my card making; today it was a tornado warning that temporarily halted my CASEing of today’s Featured Stamper’s Happy Goldfish card (I was sitting in the basement for a while, listening to the radio). Perhaps that’s why I ended up making more changes in my design than I was planning […]

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Here’s the second card I made for tonight’s double baby shower. First I stamped the ducks on the Labels Eight die-cut and sponged all over with Bashful Blue ink. Then I stamped them again on a scrap piece of white card stock, colored them with Copic markers, cut them out and glued them to the […]

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Thanks to my sweet friend Jennifer I had exactly the right stamps for today’s card. My husband enjoyed riding his bike to work today (as did many others on this national Bike to Work Day) and I wanted to surprise him with a “bicycle card” when he returned. I hope he likes it! The sketch […]

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If I were a scrapbooker, I would probably create scrapbooks of my travels. This new stamp set and paper from Stampin’ Up! would have been perfect for them. Since I only make cards (but loved the images so much that I bought the set anyway), I decided to make a “happy journey” card with my […]

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