Vera Stamps

After a very loooong winter, it is finally time for some Spring Flowers (this month’s WMS blog party theme)! I CASEd a striking Color Blocking card by Featured Stamper Lionsmane on SCS, using various images from the Camellia stamp set. The word “belated” was omitted from the Fancy Phrases sentiment — not only did it not fit onto the tag, I never use it on my cards because DH is not a big fan of belated birthday wishes. He likes to mail birthday cards a week in advance, whereas I try to get them to arrive on the special day itself.

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On April 10, 1983 eight enthusiastic bicyclists took off on an adventure of a lifetime: a bicycle ride from New York to California and back! Only three of them completed the journey (DH was one of them) and I made this card for them to commemorate their achievement!

I believe it’s the first time I’ve used this U.S.A. map stamp that I’ve had in my collection for years — I guess I was just waiting for the perfect opportunity to get it inked up. I colored it in with the colors of the T-shirts they wore on their trip: red, white, and blue. The bike image and die-cut are new, and I bought them pretty much for this occasion. It was wonderful not having to fussy cut those little bikes!

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Jacob celebrates his first birthday today, just a little over a month after his cousin E.J., so he gets a card with the same cupcake image (per DH’s request). My inspiration came from Viva la Verve! Week 3, both sketch and picture.

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Yay! I’ve been able to make a card for each day of the Pattern Play Online Card Class this week. Of course, this is a total CASE of Kristina Werner’s gorgeous card, using the quilted strips technique she demonstrated in her video.

I received this cute teddybear image from the Oh Baby! stamp set in the grab bag I won on StampTV (Lee’s Surprise Challenge). Stamped it on patterned paper, and shaded it with a Copic marker. After I cut out the image, I ran along the edge with a gray marker and it made such a difference! The sentiment was also stamped on patterned paper. Other than the white vellum, there is not a neutral color card stock in sight.

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Day 4 in the Pattern Play Online Card Class was all about altering patterned paper. I slightly altered the Cheerful Treat DSP by adding Dazzling Details to the green dots on the paper. The sketch I used was SC422 on splitcoaststampers.com.

With such spring-like colors, I’ll be sure to enter this card in the “Voorjaar” (Spring) SU-per challenge. I rock ‘n’ rolled the Secret Garden flower stamp with light and dark pink ink and used the matching Framelits Die to cut out the images. The white sentiment was heat embossed on a 3/4″ inch strip of DSP. I used a square punch to create the notch at the end.

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