Vera Stamps

Kristina Werner of Online Card Classes had some great tips on using bold patterned paper on your cards. One of her techniques was applied on this card: the patterned paper was cut into 4″ x 3/4″ strips and adhered to the card base. I didn’t want to cover up this striking background, so I finished the card with a simple, yet elegant Spellbinders label. Next time I won’t be too lazy to pull out the Bow-Easy; my bow would have looked a whole lot better!

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I’m learning so much about using patterned paper in this Online Card Class! Doesn’t this background look striking? I stamped the bold Baroque image onto light blue patterned paper with VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with clear powder. Then I rubbed Wild Wasabi ink all over the paper and wiped off the excess ink sitting on top of the embossed image with a paper towel. I dug up a very old On Board Accents frame and “painted” it with (even older) Very Vanilla Craft ink. It was embellished with Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware (remember this?) and adhered on top of the ribbon with dimensionals.

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Online Card Classes started their Pattern Play class today, and Jennifer McGuire inspired me to create this card as my homework for Day 1. I placed three heart dies on top of a stack of four different patterned papers and cut them out at the same time. I only made one card today, but I have die-cuts to make three additional cards now. This class is off to a great start, and hopefully you’ll see more homework cards from me this week.

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“Luck” is the theme of this month’s Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Party. Not surprising, since today is of course St. Patrick’s Day. The song “Luck Be A Lady” immediately popped into my head, and when I discovered that ladybugs are considered good luck charms I followed the directions in Kelly Slattery’s YouTube video to create Ladybug Punch Art for my card.

The card design was based on SCS Featured Stamper Nancy Littrell’s Simply Congratulations card. Instead of using several patterned papers, I stamped a variety of background images and ended up using five different WMS stamp sets! The dots on the ladybug were created with a small solid circle stamp from the Vintage Circles Small set.

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I just found out Stampin’ Up! now has demonstrators in the Netherlands (since last fall, actually), and I discovered a neat challenge blog started by several Dutch SU! demonstrators called SU-per Challenges. It’s a lot of fun to read about Stampin’ Up! in my native language! I decided to play along with their sketch challenge this week.

Spring is upon us in a few days, but I still love this retired Fall Flowers designer serier paper so much that I just had to use it. I heat embossed the flowers and sentiment in black and trimmed the ends of the strips of patterned paper with the smallest Window Frames Collection framelits die.

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