Vera Stamps

Sometimes the weather interferes with my card making; today it was a tornado warning that temporarily halted my CASEing of today’s Featured Stamper’s Happy Goldfish card (I was sitting in the basement for a while, listening to the radio). Perhaps that’s why I ended up making more changes in my design than I was planning to.

I decided to use light aqua card stock instead of white for the base of my card, but I kept the colors similar to ravengirl‘s original. Her scalloped trim embellishment inspired me to use the big scallop border punch along the bottom edge of the card. I layered my ribbon and added my sentiment on a round tag, since there was no room for it on the image panel.

Gina K.’s Happy Fish Card- featuring Copic Markers StampTV episode also inspired me, so I decided to add this card to her Design Team Blog Hop as well.

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When I saw that Gina K.’s Design Team blog hop was all about favorite StampTV episodes this month, I jumped at the chance to finally try this idea of Cropped Circles. I’ve been wanting to use this technique on a card for a long time.

I used the sailboat image from the Enjoy the Sunshine stamp set to make a wedding anniversary card for my parents. In the Dutch language, we have an expression for getting married (in het huwelijksbootje stappen) that literally translates to “getting into a wedding boat.” My parents have (figuratively) been sailing around in their boat for 49 years!

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I’m thrilled to be waltzing along with Claire from Waltzingmouse Stamps this month. Her Nestabilities-friendly stamps are what first drew me to her store, as you can see on this card. The birthday sentiment by Verve Stamps was framed with a gorgeous design that is a perfect match for one a Labels One die-cut.

This month’s blog waltz theme is the colors of summer… blue and green. I had just the right DSP to make an elegant card for my mother-in-law, who celebrates her birthday next week.

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My Waltzingmouse Stamps order arrived in the mail today, and I saw that as a sign that I should participate in their sketch challenge for the first time. The deadline is tonight, so I just made it in the nick of time. This would have been a very quick card if it hadn’t taken me a few tries before I had the background stamped the way I liked it. I am so used to breaking out my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig that it felt weird not to use it with these clear stamps.

I got lots of birthday cards to send out this month, so I selected a birthday sentiment that I received as a “thank you” gift with one of my Verve Stamps orders. It’s also one of the stamps in the Big Wish stamp set.

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I’m still feeling very patriotic after the July 4th festivities last weekend, so I decided to make a red, white & blue card for the shoebox swap I’m attending at Fort Meade today. The American Hero stamp set from Verve was just perfect, and it comes with several sentiments that fit nicely inside this frame so my stamping buddies can pick the one they like best.

I try to make my cards quick and easy for shoebox swaps, and this one is no exception. Just sponge some red ink on the dry-embossed background, stamp the frame and sentiment, color the stars red and set four silver eyelets. Adhere sentiment panel to card with dimensionals and you’re done!

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