Vera Stamps

I made another card for Gina K.’s Illustrator/Design Team Challenge, this time using the Lovely Labels stamp set and the new Innocent Pink and Lovely Lavender card stock. The image would have been perfectly cut out if only I owned the Labels Eight Nestabilities (but sadly I don’t). However, I was pleased to find out the inside sentiment could be punched out with Stampin’ Up!’s wide oval punch!

I used today’s Sketch Challenge on SCS (SC270), which is a great one for using up little scraps of patterned paper. For embellishments, I added a trio of buttons to the right bottom corner.

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Spring is my favorite season for birthdays (including mine!), and I’m counting the days till winter is finally over. These crocuses from the Spring Florals set are just perfect for a spring birthday card. I stamped them with Memento black ink and colored them in with Copic markers. It was fun to match up the Backgrounds 1 texturz plate with the retired Wild Wasabi Prints DSP. The layout I used is Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC63).

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Before you go thinking that I came up with this cool medallion look (created with the Lattice Bigz Die), please check out Kay Kalthoff’s fabulous Fancy Irish Tote! I just had to CASE her idea for the shoebox swap I’m attending in Laurel, MD today. The color combination I came up with was influenced by the vast amount of Not Quite Navy brads in my stash. Since the swap is SUO (Stampin’ Up! only) and has 31 participants, it matters a great deal to have enough identical embellishments for your design.

I’m quite thrilled with my new Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder; it works great for entire 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ card fronts! And the clear mounted stamps that SU! has come out with are very nice (including their packaging). No longer a demonstrator, but still a fan!

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I found an interesting sketch on StampTV and made a quick card with it. The image was stamped with Memento black ink and cut out with a Nestabilities die, then colored with Copic markers and two Stampin’ Up! markers (because I didn’t have all the colors I needed in my small Copic marker collection). I was inspired by the colors in the Nouveau Chic papers: Apricot Appeal, Sage Shadow, and Basic Gray. I sponged Apricot Appeal ink around the image and sentiment while the paper was still sitting inside the die.

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The buttons you see strewn across this card were added for another Gina K. February release party challenge (Bunch o’ Buttons). I don’t use buttons that often because they aren’t very USPS-friendly, but they sure look great on cards. These were adhered with little pieces of Scor-Tape, torn to size.

The Inspiration Mosaic background was stamped directly onto Wings of Hope digital paper, printed on Georgia Pacific card stock from Wal-Mart. I also stamped it on Pure Luxury white card stock for the two sections that I cut out. The swirls on the DP reminded me of the Baroque Motifs image, which I stamped with Orchid Opulence ink around the sentiment.

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