Vera Stamps

My cousin Anneleen gave birth to a little girl last month and they named her Louise. I like to personalize the baby cards I send to family and friends, and this time I used black die-cut letters to spell louise. They were very easily adhered to the Sweet Mango strip by using a Quickie Glue Pen.

I combined StampTV’s Color Spotlight 11 challenge with Jen del Muro’s February 2011 Sketch For You To Try.

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My Hopewell neighbor Heather Pulvirenti started a Totally Hues color challenge on her blog today. Even though I don’t own any PTI card stock, I wanted to jump right in and tried to find colors similar to: Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst, and Simply Chartreuse.

These colors might be considered a little too bright for a baby card, but that’s what was on my to-do list today and I thought, “Why not?” And then I realized that the image I wanted to use was probably too Christmassy, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s so cute! Don’t you agree?

After a quick refresher visit to the Out of the Box with Nestabilities tutorial on SCS, I stamped the irisstamp with black ink on white card stock. After cutting it out with the aforementioned technique, I colored it with Copic markers and did some faux stitching along the edge. Card layout is this week’s sketch challenge on SCS (SC318).

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As you can see I haven’t put away my sewing machine just yet. The striped Grasshopper sheet in BasicGrey’s Green at Heart collection already has some (faux) stitching going on, so I thought it’d be nice to do some actual stitching on the card as well.

I made this birthday card for a stamping buddy of mine and used the first of this month’s Viva la Verve sketches. Now all I have to do is to actually drop it in the mail tomorrow!

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My brother-in-law Roel is a teacher and I thought this notebook image from Blue Skies would make a nice background for the birthday message I’m sending him. I chose lined patterned papers from the Basics Kraft paper pad to add to this monochromatic brown card. The layout is this month’s Sketch For You To Try (Jen is now doing monthly sketches instead of weekly ones).

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After I don’t know how many months I decided to pull out my sewing machine again. It’s a good thing I remembered Gina K.’s Janome Sew tutorials, especially the threading one. Things didn’t go as well as I’d hoped, as you can tell, so please don’t look too closely at the stitching.

I made this card for my husband, who’s returning from a trip to the MacWorld Expo in San Franscisco today. The layout is another Viva la Verve sketch, the first one of the new year. I cut two Vintage Oval frames out of Very Vanilla card stock, stamped the sentiment on the bottom one, and made a 1-1/4″ window in the top one, then put them together with dimensionals.

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