Vera Stamps

I stepped up to the challenge of making an all-white Christmas card (thanks for starting new Christmas challenges, StampTV!). If only they had told me how hard it would be to take a decent picture of the finished project!

I decided to make another tent topper card, with a 4-1/4″ x 8-1/2″ card base made out of dry-embossed Mother of Pearl card stock. The images were stamped and heat-embossed on Mother of Pearl card stock as well, and I added a Labels One mat made out of white card stock. The sentiment reads: “May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace & joy” and is quite legible in person. All in all, the card turned out much better than I expected.

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For me, happiness is making, sending and receiving cards! I’m also always very happy when I can combine a few challenges, like the sketch from StampTV (stvsketchms1) and the color combination from SCS (CC273). Betty mentioned she pulled her colors from BasicGrey’s Cappella collection and I happened to have this collection sitting right there on my stamping table when I got started on this card.

I had been playing around with my new Martha Stewart Daisy punches and the frame I had punched was just the right size for the square in Melissa’s layout. Yes, I do try and stay very close to the original sketches for these challenges. My ruler is my best friend!

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After spending a nice long Memorial Day weekend in West Virginia, I was having a hard time trying to make a card for today’s sketch challenge on SCS (SC283). Next time I will be taking some stamping supplies with me to the mountains!

I used the colors from StampTV’s chocolate, green, and ivory challenge (which made me think of Stampin’ Up!’s Brocade Background DSP). I puzzled two pieces with the same design but different color combinations together in the background. The flowers were colored with Copic markers.

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Here’s a friendship card I made after seeing the Folded Paper Frame tutorial on SCS. This frame works great with double-sided patterned paper.

For the multi-colored background I used the Depth of Field technique from the June 2009 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter. I basically stamped the elegant heart image with a light, medium, and dark ink, trying to cover most of the Whisper White panel.

The scalloped panel started out as a 3-13/16″ square piece of Sahara Sand card stock. After punching the corners, this size lines up perfectly with the guide on the scallop trim border punch.

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I knew I had to try this Reverse Nestabilities technique after watching the wonderful video tutorial Gina K. posted this week. Although it looks like a window card, the stamped image and sentiment are still on the front of the card. The Pacific Point panel is adhered with dimensionals to create the depth effect.

The colors I used for this masculine get well card are from Kristina Werner’s second Readers’ Choice Color Inspiration challenge. I didn’t really have the right purple ink to match the picture, so I ended up stamping with Elegant Eggplant ink (which Kristina said was too dark). I hope she can forgive me!

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