Vera Stamps

Usually one cup of coffee is all I need to get me going in the morning, but the sketch from this week’s Clean and Simple Cards challenge called for three images. I flipped one of the images by stamping it on the big solid square from Stampin’ Up!’s The Shape of Things first, and then pressed the square onto ivory paper where the now left-handed cup was copper embossed. All three Delightful & Delicious cups were cut out and mounted on the 4-1/4″ square card with dimensionals.

Instead of piercing between the images and the sentiment, I inked up one row of dots from the Bountiful Backgrounds image with brown Memento ink and stamped it to the left and right of the word Delightful.

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When you get to stamp with friends all day, those are always good times! I’m participating in a shoebox swap with fellow SplitcoastStampers today and this is the card I designed for them to make. It is loosely based on Fall-to Layout 83 from the clean & simple stamping blog.

After a quick glance at my Color Coach, I decided to use some of its color combo suggestions for a Gable Green card base. I substituted Melon Mambo for the suggested Pixie Pink. It’s probably hard to see the Fine Lace background (stamped with Gable Green ink), but it adds just that little something to the card. The die-cut and stamped butterflies were enhanced with pink and clear glitter pens.

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For Gina K.’s April Illustrator Challenge I let myself be inspired by this picture of a Dutch book of fairy tales by “Mother the Goose”. Fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Little Thumbling, etc. were my favorites as a kid. I don’t think I’ve outgrown them yet!

I stamped the Inspiration Mosaic background with black VersaFine ink on Red Hot (looks much better IRL, but tough to photograph) card stock and clear embossed it. With the help of a Post-It® note, I masked off some of the sections and filled others with two images from the Picture It! set. The flowers were colored in with a white Sharpie. The goose from the new Spring Mix StampTV kit was stamped on white card stock and colored with Copic markers. The sentiment was gold embossed, to match the title on the red hardcover.

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Although it’s only spring, we are experiencing summer temperatures here in Maryland. Today’s sketch challenge on SCS (SC275) was perfect for using up some of my scraps of Parisian Summer DSP.

I used a 4-1/4″ x 11″ piece of Pale Plum card stock for my card base and matted the patterned paper panels with So Saffron card stock. Two small flowers were punched out of So Saffron card stock to decorate the sentiment tag, and a few vintage brads were added along the bottom of the striped panels. All panels were mounted with dimensionals.

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I have always wanted to try this “VersaMarker + clear embossing + sponging” technique that TheresaCC has mastered like no other, so I was thrilled to discover she had been chosen to be the Featured Stamper on SCS today. After browsing Theresa’s marvelous gallery, I CASEd her You’ve Got Mail card, using a similar image from the new StampTV kit.

The mailbox was stamped with black Memento ink, then colored with Copic markers. Afterwards, I took a VersaMarker and colored the entire image, then embossed it with clear powder. This enables you to sponge the background without getting ink all over your image, and it is much easier than creating a mask.

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