Vera Stamps

I guess I never felt comfortable doing the Mojo Monday challenge until I got myself a few Verve stamps. So, here’s my entry for the Mojo Madness 107 contest!

I used several sheets from the To the Nines Specialty DSP package and stamped my images with Chocolate Chip ink. The sentiment turned out a bit light when stamped with Classic ink, so I ended up using Craft ink and clear embossing it. I colored the image with Always Artichoke chalk and sprayed it with a fixative.

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Sadly, I needed to make a sympathy card today. I used the subdued colors from this week’s SCS challenge (CC239) and designed the card around Gina K.’s Inspiration Mosaic image. Searching for Mellow Moss DSP, I found this sheet from the retired Recollections package, and I used it in three sections of the mosaic.

The Charming images on the Kraft card stock were white embossed. I stamped the fancy label with Sahara Sand ink on white card stock and stamped the sentiment inside with Mellow Moss ink. A knotted ribbon was added to the top left corner of the panel before I adhered it to the card.

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Here’s another card I made for the World Card Making Day challenges on SCS last weekend. I had just received the Charming set from the Holiday Mini, and I thought it would work beautifully with the sketch from the Flourishes challenge. I was quite happy with the result!

I stamped a couple extra lines with the script background stamp to fill out the image panel a little bit more. The center of the small medallion image was inked up with a marker and punched out with a 3/4″ circle punch. I pierced a circle on a scrap piece of Very Vanilla card stock, using the Punches Plus template, and punched it out with a 1″ circle punch.

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Whenever I see an Alphabet Soup sentiment used in the Featured Stamper’s gallery, I always want to CASE that card. It was no different when my eye fell on Clownmom‘s Cherry Birthday card.

I held onto the cherry theme with the papers from the Rockabilly Specialty DSP. I added a ribbon and changed the placement of the brads. The technique I used on the Kiwi Kiss/Basic Black sentiment is called “Rock ‘n’ Roll”.

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There are some exciting challenges going on in the SCS Challenges forum today, all in honor of World Card Making Day. This is the card I made for the first challenge posted there (WCMD09A): Make a card that uses a “QUOTE” or saying of some kind as the focal image on the front of your card.

The saying I used is a (translated) quote by Goethe. I inked up the stamp with VersaMark first and next with Bravo Burgundy Classic ink, so that I could clear emboss the image.

Hope you are making cards today, too!