Vera Stamps

When Stampin’ Up! announced their new color collections, I felt like making a card using some of the returning, previously retired In Colors. I put together Wild Wasabi and Tangerine Tango, and added the retiring Summer Sun on this birthday card with a fun fold. To make this card, I just followed the instructions in the Easel Card tutorial on SCS.

For the top part of the card, I used a sketch I found on the clean & simple stamping blog. The white grosgrain ribbon was colored with a Copic marker to match the Summer Sun card stock.

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I love the look of the out of the box with Nestabilities technique, so I gave it a try with this Labels Seven die. Although I’m pretty sure I did something wrong, I still like the result. Maybe because I really enjoy this color combination, suggested by Julee as one of the Verve Beach Party Release Week challenges last week.

The layout I used is last week’s sketch challenge from SCS (SC277). Roxie does an amazing job every week in keeping us fully inspired with wonderful starting points for our cards!

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Sometimes a color challenge is indeed a real challenge, and this color combination almost got me stumped. Lee picked these colors for Gina K.’s April Release color challenge on StampTV (GKAPR10LM). I ended up combining the colors with Fall-to Layout 87 from the clean & simple stamping blog.

Since my order of Pure Luxury Turquoise Sea card stock hasn’t arrived yet, I used retired turquoise DSP from Stampin’ Up! called Bali Breeze. The swirly motif looks great with the butterfly, which was cut with the Beautiful Wings embosslit die. I stamped the sentiment from Sung from the Heart with black ink in the right bottom corner, using my trusted Stamp-A-Ma-Jig. No crooked sentiments ever!

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Last night I stayed up way too late making cards and trying to keep up with Gina K.’s release party on StampTV at the same time. I made this card for Theresa’s sketch challenge (GKAPR10TM), using the sentiment from Hope Is Faith.

This layout was perfect for trying out my new Nesties. I cut a large curved rectangle out of Kioshi paper, which matches the Lovely Lavender card stock beautifully! The sentiment stamp was inked up with markers, cut out with a smaller matching die, and sponged around with Soft Sky ink. I thought the polka-dot butterfly looked nice with the polka-dot embossed background.

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Being a big fan of Stampin’ Up!’s Nouveau Chic DSP, I just had to participate in this week’s color combination challenge on SCS (CC267). Apricot Appeal and Sage Shadow are two colors that are retiring soon, and I am sad to see them go.

The birthday cake and sentiment are images from Verve’s Big Wish stamp set. I stamped matching flowers from the Feel the Sun stamp set behind the popped-up cake. The sketch I used is one of this week’s Beach Party Release Week Challenges by Verve Stamps.

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