Vera Stamps

I am so excited to meet some of my on-line friends from the Great Swaps Girls group in real life at the SU! convention this week. This is the card I made to swap with them. Hope they’ll like it!

It may be a little difficult to see in the picture, but I used the Faux Linen technique with Baja Breeze ink on a 4-1/2″ x 3-3/8″ piece of Glossy White card stock for the four background panels. I then stamped the flowers in Ruby Red and Close to Cocoa ink and cut the paper into four 1-1/8″ strips. The Ruby Red mat was paper pierced along the edges, to match the dots in the frame around the sentiment.

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All supplies by Stampin’ Up!® unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Happiness Always, Frames with a Flourish
Paper: Baja Breeze, Ruby Red, Kraft, Glossy White, Naturals White
Ink: Baja Breeze, Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Kraft Taffeta Ribbon, Crafters’ Tool Kit, Sanding Block, Stamping Sponge, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Stampin’ Dimensionals

You may recognize this card as a CASE of one in an earlier post, created for Beate’s 49th Weekend Sketch challenge. This time I made the card a regular 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ size, and I used some of the new In Colors and patterned paper from my Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog pre-order.

The scalloped edge was created (much faster!) with the new Scallop Edge Punch this time, and I added some taffeta ribbon as an embellishment. Oh, and did I mention I made 46 of these to swap with fellow Splitcoaststampers in Salt Lake City?

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You may be surprised to learn how I created the reflection of the horse image on this card! After I used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig tool to achieve perfect placement of the image on the Confetti White card stock, I simply turned over the imaging sheet, matched up the horse’s feet with the stamped image and rubbed the ink from the plastic onto the paper with my thumb. I then placed a Post-it note over the “reflected” image and used a sponge dauber to lightly add some Always Artichoke ink. Afterwards I moved the Post-in note to the other side and sponged some Blue Bayou ink for the water.

Two sheets from the retiring Western Sky Designer Series Paper were used for the background, and I tied River Rock double-stitched ribbon around an Aged Copper Hodgepodge Hardware buckle to embellish the card.

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Kristina Werner’s 17th color inspiration challenge was just what I needed to finish off my 10 cards for the Holiday Card challenge this month. I wanted to create flat, very “mailable” cards, since many of my cards travel overseas during the holidays.

The christmas rose stamp from the retired Christmas Cardinal set was stamped in Jet Black StazOn ink on watercolor paper and colored with Watercolor Wonder Crayons and an Aqua Painter. The Sage Shadow mat started out as a 4-1/4″ x 3-1/2″ piece of card stock. I punched the scallops by holding the scallop edge punch upside down and matching the edge of the card stock to the bottom of the scallops.

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All supplies by Stampin’ Up!® unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Christmas Cardinal
Paper: Regal Rose, Rose Red, Sage Shadow, Watercolor Paper
Ink: Jet Black StazOn
Accessories: Fairy Tale Ribbon Originals, Scallop Edge Punch, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Aqua Painter, White Gel Pen, Stampin’ Dimensionals

I promised I would post the waterfall card we made at my stamp class this past weekend, and here it is! Using four of the upcoming In Color colors, I stamped images from the Be Happy set on the four white squares that make up the “waterfall.” You can find an excellent Waterfall Card tutorial on splitcoaststampers.com.

The Tangerine Tango card stock was stamped with one of my favorite background stamps, Flannel Plaid. I just had to add scallops to the card with my new punch, and I started out with a 4″ x 1-1/8″ strip of Whisper White. After punching the scallops I glued on a 4″ x 3/4″ piece of Bella Rose Designer Series Paper and I fastened the strip to the card with Old Olive brads. You need to use a strong glue, like Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive, to make sure this interactive card will hold up well, because you’re going to want to pull that ribbon over and over again.

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All supplies by Stampin’ Up!® unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Be Happy, Flannel Plaid
Paper: Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Bella Rose Designer Series Paper
Ink: Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze
Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, 1/4″ Circle Punch, Crafters’ Tool Kit, Earth Elements Brads, Earth Elements Eyelet, Whisper White 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Crop-A-Dile, Stamping Sponge