Vera Stamps

I remember admiring LunarLana‘s gallery back in 2004, when I officially joined the stamper’s community called Splitcoaststampers (after lurking on the site for several months). It’s great to see her chosen as the first featured stamper of this new year!

Looking through her gallery for something to CASE, my eyes fell on this orange butterfly card with the faux torn edge. It’s been a while since I used the faux tearing technique — a great way to add some interest to a fairly simple card. I blended a couple of distress inks together and stamped butterfly images with black ink while a torn piece of scrap paper was temporarily adhered to the top of the white card stock.

I hope to be posting with more frequency in the future, but I didn’t quite make it a new year’s resolution.

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I’m so excited to attend another shoebox swap with my SCS stamping buddies in Laurel, MD today! This is the card I designed for the occasion, using some of my new Stampin’ Up! goodies. It’s a Tent Topper card (I just love making these) with a Chocolate Chip base and a Cherry Cobbler Top Note topper that is attached with dimensionals. The base is covered with a Snow Burst-textured vanilla panel.

If you are wondering how the mini jingle bell was fastened to Dasher’s neck, here’s what I did: I pierced two little holes on either side of his neck, threaded a piece of bakers twine through the little hole on the mini jingle bell and used a needle threader to pull both ends to the back of the card stock where they were taped down.

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Here’s a 7″ tall birthday card I made today, using the first Viva la Verve sketch of this month. I paper-pieced the birthday cake from Verve’s Birthday Bash stamp set with striped Bella Birds designer paper and colored the candles with Copic markers. It was the perfect image for trying out my new Liquid Pearls, too.

The sentiments were stamped with Chocolate Chip ink on two embossed oval die-cuts and placed on top of the classy label die-cuts. I tied two buttons to the So Saffron ribbon with embroidery floss.

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I’ve been meaning to make a card for this week’s Featured Stamper, Understandblue, and luckily I managed to do so before the next FS is announced. Back in January I favorited Lydia’s Leadership Swap card, so that’s the one I CASEd. I used a silhouette image from the long-retired Vintage Postcard stamp set and embellished the oval focal point with sparkly brads. Colors were changed (sorry, Lydia, no blue), but the layout remains the same.

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I finally stepped back into my stamp room today (first time after vacationing in Belgium) to make a birthday card for my dear husband. I spotted a very nice masculine birthday card in Featured Stamper sweetnsassystamps‘s gallery that I wanted to CASE. I noticed too late that the original card was made for a sketch challenge, but at least I changed the shape of the card from a square to a rectangle. Other than using different papers and a different birthday sentiment, I kept everything else the same. Why mess with perfection?

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