Vera Stamps

I am looking forward to another year of Jen del Muro’s “Sketches For You To Try” and hope to create cards for all 12 sketches this time around. January’s sketch was a great starting point for my father-in-law’s birthday card. He loves sailing!

There are still a few days left to participate in this challenge. Click on the sketch below for details…

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Here’s a card I made for my aunt Maria in Belgium (hence the Dutch greeting). I used an old Viva la Verve sketch from last September that included this diagonal design for the background, which took a little bit of puzzling with the vertically-striped DSP. It had been a while since I last set an eyelet, but this little tag just didn’t look right without one. To decorate the tag even more, I cut a couple of tiny flowers out of the patterned paper and glued them above the sentiment.

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I missed Chupa‘s day in the spotlight when she was chosen as SCS’s Featured Stamper on Christmas Day, so I’m playing catch-up. The gorgeous For You card I found in her gallery features the out-of-the-box technique (which I am still struggling with, but practice should make perfect someday).

I found a similar floral image in Gina K.’s Friends Are Forever stamp set, but colored my flowers yellow to match the designer paper I used. Since I turned my version into a 5-1/4″ square card, the layout was changed up a bit as well. Although I was very close to pulling out the sewing machine for this card, I ended up just piercing the paper along the edges. Maybe next time…

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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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