Vera Stamps

This idea popped into my head when I saw Emily’s Color Combination challenge (CC194) on SCS this morning. The plaid background was created by inking up just the edge of my brayer (first with Really Rust ink, next with Going Gray ink), and drawing stripes onto the Very Vanilla card stock in two directions — a technique I learned at the Stampin’ Up! regional seminar in Virginia Beach earlier this month. The rest of the card is pretty self-explanatory. Clean and simple, just the way I like to make them!

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I am happy I got to make a card for today’s Featured Stamper challenge on SCS, as I have missed a few Sundays. We’re CASEing cards made by ebethneu, and I was inspired by her Inspired Anniversary card. It felt a little bit like cheating to use three different patterns of Parisian Summer Designer Series Paper, seeing that Elizebeth had stamped and dry-embossed her backgrounds. I didn’t do any paper piercing either, but I did add a few pearls from the Pretties Kit to my card.

The sentiment is from the Beautiful Life stamp set (still for sale, but currently on the Dormant List) and was stamped with Basic Gray ink. I sponged the edges and used a Basic Gray mat with distressed edges.

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Stampin’ Up! used to offer spectrum (aka Kaleidacolor) ink pads, like the Late November one with its fall colors that I used on this card. I brayered the ink(s) onto Glossy White card stock and stamped the Fresh Cuts image with black StazOn ink on top. I stamped the saying from the All Holidays set with Not Quite Navy Craft ink on white vellum card stock and embossed it with clear powder. I attached two 1/4″ strips of Basic Black card stock on either end, and adhered the vellum panel to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The little flower from the Baroque Motifs set was stamped with black StazOn ink on More Mustard card stock and punched out. It was mounted on top of a leftover piece of Glossy White card stock covered with the two lightest colors from the spectrum pad.

This card was inspired by another great weekend sketch found on Beate’s blog (#67)! Thanks for stopping by!

I just subscribed to Jen’s i{heart}2stamp blog in Google Reader yesterday, and I couldn’t resist her Sketch For You To Try that showed up today. My idea was to use the Top Note die for both of the rectangles in the sketch. The smaller one was just trimmed from the center outwards, both horizontally and vertically, and taped back together. The taffeta ribbon hides the seams!

The Holiday Collection star image was inked up with Old Olive ink and stamped on scrap paper first, then on Very Vanilla card stock and punched out. The little star was punched out as well, and the edges were sponged with Ruby Red ink. I placed a white Chit Chat rub-on in the top right corner of the larger Top Note die cut. The edges of the card were pierced with the help of my piercing tool and Mat Pack.

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I got a Janome Sew Mini sewing machine several months ago, but I hadn’t even used it until I made this card. In fact, I made several of them for a winter card swap with my upline’s group. You can see I started out with just a little bit of sewing this time. Still, I hope I’m making my mom (a very talented seamstress) proud!

The sentiment from the Holiday Collection stamp set was stamped with VersaMark ink and white embossed. I stamped the little snowflake with Baja Breeze ink on Whisper White card stock and punched it out with a 1/2″ circle punch to fit inside the Build-A-Brad. I punched a 1/8″ hole through the felt snowflake and the striped ribbon for the brad, attached everything to the Kiwi Kiss card stock, and then adhered this to the front of the Real Red card.

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