I didn’t quite finish all the Verve Spring Fling challenges I wanted to participate in this weekend, because a wonderful thing happened to me on Saturday night: Beth Silaika aka MyPrecious picked me to be Featured Stamper #161 on SCS! I was too excited to stamp all weekend, not to mention trying to comment on every card in the FS161 gallery while the server was having some issues.

Tonight I managed to make a quick card for Verve’s Clean and Simple Flower challenge. I stamped images from the Love’s Flower set in Soft Suede ink on Dusty Durango card stock and punched them out with a circle punch. ‘Hello Sunshine’ was white embossed (and yes, we saw plenty of sun today!). The layout I used is Fall-to Layout 81 from the clean & simple stamping blog.

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I’m trying to get a few cards made for Verve’s Spring Fling challenges this weekend. This card was created for the sketch challenge (VSMARSF2), hosted by Amy Sheffer.

Amy’s layout called for a big circular image and the pretty one from Accent Notes fit perfectly! I replaced the smaller circle with the flower from the Love’s Flower set (cut out and colored with Copic markers). I also colored the white half pearls with my E02 Copic marker to match the Groovy Guava ink.

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Where I come from, we sing this Dutch birthday song called Lang zal ze leven (you can hear it here on YouTube) instead of (or in addition to) the world-famous Happy Birthday song. The person I made this card for is celebrating her 19th birthday and because she’s a very talented musician and singer, I wanted to use these musical background stamps and this particular Dutch sentiment on her birthday card.

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Sometimes you stamp something, cut it out, and then it lies there on your crafting table for days (weeks even) before you actually put it on a card. That’s what happened to this framed anniversary sentiment that I created with two stamp sets from Verve Stamps. It wasn’t until I saw the Mojo Monday 128 layout that I figured out what I wanted to do with it.

My card is only 5-1/4″ wide to match up better with the scallop trim border of the Basic Grey designer paper. I punched 10 small hearts out of Lipstick Red card stock and adhered them above and below the vanilla ribbon with Scor-Tape (the awesome adhesive). Two little mini heart brads finish off the card and the ribbon.

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I used the new Oh, Baby! stamp set by Rupa Shevde and (my new favorite) the Lovely Labels set by Nina Brackett. I downloaded a wonderful free digital paper pack called 100% Sweet from the StampTV Freebies page and printed one of the papers onto Georgia Pacific White card stock for the background of my card.

I didn’t feel like coloring tonight, so I stamped the teddy bear on pink card stock and cut it out. The green background was sponged with Glorious Green ink and the bow was created with the help of the Bow-Easy.

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I made another card for Gina K.’s Illustrator/Design Team Challenge, this time using the Lovely Labels stamp set and the new Innocent Pink and Lovely Lavender card stock. The image would have been perfectly cut out if only I owned the Labels Eight Nestabilities (but sadly I don’t). However, I was pleased to find out the inside sentiment could be punched out with Stampin’ Up!’s wide oval punch!

I used today’s Sketch Challenge on SCS (SC270), which is a great one for using up little scraps of patterned paper. For embellishments, I added a trio of buttons to the right bottom corner.

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Spring is my favorite season for birthdays (including mine!), and I’m counting the days till winter is finally over. These crocuses from the Spring Florals set are just perfect for a spring birthday card. I stamped them with Memento black ink and colored them in with Copic markers. It was fun to match up the Backgrounds 1 texturz plate with the retired Wild Wasabi Prints DSP. The layout I used is Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC63).

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I’m quite thrilled with my new Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder; it works great for entire 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ card fronts! And the clear mounted stamps that SU! has come out with are very nice (including their packaging). No longer a demonstrator, but still a fan!

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I found an interesting sketch on StampTV and made a quick card with it. The image was stamped with Memento black ink and cut out with a Nestabilities die, then colored with Copic markers and two Stampin’ Up! markers (because I didn’t have all the colors I needed in my small Copic marker collection). I was inspired by the colors in the Nouveau Chic papers: Apricot Appeal, Sage Shadow, and Basic Gray. I sponged Apricot Appeal ink around the image and sentiment while the paper was still sitting inside the die.

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The buttons you see strewn across this card were added for another Gina K. February release party challenge (Bunch o’ Buttons). I don’t use buttons that often because they aren’t very USPS-friendly, but they sure look great on cards. These were adhered with little pieces of Scor-Tape, torn to size.

The Inspiration Mosaic background was stamped directly onto Wings of Hope digital paper, printed on Georgia Pacific card stock from Wal-Mart. I also stamped it on Pure Luxury white card stock for the two sections that I cut out. The swirls on the DP reminded me of the Baroque Motifs image, which I stamped with Orchid Opulence ink around the sentiment.

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