Vera Stamps

Wouldn’t this card make a nice iTunes gift card holder? Of course you can’t see the inside (I haven’t prettied that up yet), but I followed the instructions found in this old SCS Try a New Technique challenge: TLC165 – Gift Card Holder.

I started out with a 5-1/2″ x 12″ piece of textured card stock and scored it in half first. Then I scored it at 4-1/4″ from each end and ran a piece of Sticky Strip along one of those score lines to glue both sides together. Inside the card you end up with a 1-3/4″ pocket. Punch right on the edge of that pocket with the Word Window punch to create an opening for your gift card. I marked with a pencil how long my opening needed to be and had to punch three times to make it large enough.

The front of the card was embellished with beautiful new Cappella BasicGrey paper and double-stitched 1″ wide grosgrain ribbon, using the sketch of today’s SCS challenge (SC282). I rubbed the sentiment directly on the ribbon after it was already tied to the card. The Extreme Guitar image was stamped with Chocolate Chip ink and I sponged Bordering Blue and Sahara Sand ink around it while the panel was still inside the Nestabilities die.

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Just having fun with my beloved Up, Up & Away stamp set and combining a few challenges: Verve’s Ready, SET, Stamp challenge and this week’s sketch challenge on SCS (SC281). This would make a nice graduation or retirement card, I think.

I paper-pieced the hot air balloon and colored the basket with a Copic marker. The sentiment was stamped with VersaMark and white embossed.

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Thanks to my sweet friend Jennifer I had exactly the right stamps for today’s card. My husband enjoyed riding his bike to work today (as did many others on this national Bike to Work Day) and I wanted to surprise him with a “bicycle card” when he returned. I hope he likes it!

The sketch I used is this week’s Mojo Monday layout (MOJO139), and I used colors and papers from the Sale-A-Bration 2010 DSP pad. The wavy pattern I used behind my rub-on sentiment reminded me of the Pumpkin Pie rick rack in the Pigtails package. I wanted to use the large bicycle image in the Pedaling Past set, but facing the other way, so I stamped the image on a piece of window sheet and flipped it over.

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If I were a scrapbooker, I would probably create scrapbooks of my travels. This new stamp set and paper from Stampin’ Up! would have been perfect for them. Since I only make cards (but loved the images so much that I bought the set anyway), I decided to make a “happy journey” card with my newest purchase.

This 4-1/4″ square card features several of the images in the set in the colors of the matching DSP: Night of Navy, Garden Green, and Pumpkin Pie. I did some 3D stamping on the word “travel” to make it stand out against the Garden Green card stock.

For the inside of the card, I cut two slits in the Kraft card stock (before adhering it to the card) to create the base for the popped-up suitcases. I just used my scissors, but if you want to be more precise you could use a paper cutter or a hobby blade (as shown in the Pop-Up Card tutorial on SCS).

I stamped the images in the background with VersaMark and used a stamp positioner to create the sentiment with Night of Navy ink.

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I spotted a card made with Waltzingmouse Stamps in FS ctorina‘s SCS gallery and thought mine deserved to finally see some action. I abandoned the autumn theme by using the colors from Kristina Werner’s first Reader’s Choice color inspiration challenge: baja blue, kiwi green, rose, pale pink, light gray, and white.

When I first saw Cathleen’s LSC241 Fall card, I thought she had used ribbon in between the two labels. When I read the card description, I found out only paper, ink, and stamps were used on the card. I did use ribbon on mine, but didn’t add any other embellishments. Finally a card that won’t cost extra to mail!

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