Vera Stamps

Carolyn King designed the Warm Winter Wishes stamp set for Gina K. Designs and is turning 100% of her proceeds over to the Alzheimer’s Association in honor of her grandmother. When I heard this, I just had to buy the set!

I’m posting this card as the very first one in my StampTV gallery, since I’m using the sketch from this week’s StampTV challenge (STVSC34). The adorable snowman was colored in with colored pencils and odorless mineral spirits.

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I found a great Christmas card to CASE in FS dancerriley‘s SCS gallery: Season of Joy in Pink!. It gave me the opportunity to pull out my Patterned Pines set again, and I really liked the size of her card, too.

My card measures 6″ x 3″ and uses a different color combination and tree image. I also made my own background paper with the retired Paisley stamp. The only bling on my version is the sparkling little star that was glued to the Melon Mambo tree.

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I’m going to need a LOT of practice, but these markers are so much fun to color with! I found this old TAC “gift with purchase” stamp in my collection and its size was perfect for this week’s sketch challenge on SCS (SC250). I stamped the snowman with brown Memento ink on Gina K.’s Pure Luxury White card stock and colored it in with the following markers: 0, B91, B93, E25, YG93, YG95, YR07, and W00.

I added the embossed sentiment after the card was already put together. Usually I plan things better, but it needed something on that wider Close to Cocoa border. Luckily, it didn’t come out too bad (although I did take pictures of the card without it, just in case).

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I love Natasha’s sketches on the clean & simple stamping blog. This card uses Fall-to Layout 62 and the colors from this week’s color combination challenge on SCS: Chocolate Bay Appeal.

No stamping on this card — I used a Chocolate Chip rub-on, which made this a very quick card indeed!

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Here’s a quick card for Beate’s 101st Weekend Sketch challenge. I used a few items from the Holiday Mini catalog (stamp set and patterned paper). The sentiment was stamped with VersaMark ink and black embossed. I colored in the champagne glass with a white gel pen.

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