StampNation Guests: Welcome Virginia!
We love discovering places for stampers to play, find inspiration, and learn. If you haven’t heard of StampNation be sure you check out their amazing community. StampNation members have access to over 400 videos, a classroom, fun challenges, gallery, message boards, and more! And as we mentioned last week, Penny Black is proudly sponsoring one of their challenges as we speak. Lucky for us we can get a taste of their designers’ talent here on our blog as we have 6 very special guests joining us this week! Let’s check out who’s up today…
I am Virginia Lu from Ontario, Canada. I started my card-making blog in Sept. 2009 and have loved every minute of it! I love working with all kinds of stamps, pattern paper, inks, digital images, embellishments and mixed media! My favorite style is leaning toward Clean and Simple. I like to add a “wow” factor to my cards as it gives the receivers a lasting impression and a sense of delight and charm. One of my goals in card-making is to spread the love of stamping. In March 2014, I created a challenge blog called “Virginia’s View Challenge”. It’s such an honor to share my work with Penny Black Stamps here!I am loving all the new Penny Black stamps and dies! The set called “Cupcake Day” is such a fun one. You can create any styles to suit the special occasion.
For today’s card, Virginia applied Gelatos with water to create the background and stripes. She also added twine and some hearts which were stenciled with embossing paste.
And just to tease you a little bit J, here’s a peek at another Penny Black creation by Virginia that we snuck over from the StampNation site. (Sssh!! Don’t tell!)
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love your cards!
Awesome cards !
Gorgeous! Love that blue!
Oh how lovely. What a talented lady you are Virginia.
Love Val in Spain x
Love the added depth of goods in butterfly over the blue/green background flower stamp! Simple, elegant, amazing!
Wow Virginia your card is amazing. I love the embossing laste om the watercolor background 🙂
Stunning card with great colors.
Virginia, what lovely cards. I love the idea of watercolour but I have not used the embossing paste yet. Thanks for sharing your cards.
Virginia’s card is lovely. The embossing over Gelatos is gorgeous. Love the stamp 🙂
Very pretty card. Love the embossed sentiment.
What a beautiful background. Fabulous card Virginia.
Woo, hoo! So fun to see Virginia featured! Gorgeous card!
Virginia’s work is awesome! She can do all styles and is always up to date with the current trends. Her new challenge blog is a huge success! Love seeing her work using Penny Black stamps.
High five Virginia!! Beautiful watercolour background!!
LOVE how you used Gelatos here, Virginia! Such beautiful cards. So happy to have you join us at StampNation! xo
Beautiful cards.
Great cards. I like the Gelatos background.
Love the colors. Thanks for sharing!
Welcome, Virginia…love your card designs! Can’t wait to see more of your work here!
Beautiful card! I just checked out your cool blog!
I’m loving the unstructured backgrounds. So much fun to splash on the ink rather than be rigid.
Congrats Virginia, love your card you are so good at getting messy with beautiful results!
Beautiful cards!!! Thanks so much for the chance to win your wonderful giveaway!!!
Beautiful Virginia.
Such pretty cards! Love them Virginia.
That emboss resist with the gelatos is fantastic!
Virginia is not only an extraordinary stamper, cardmaker and scrapbooker, she’s also a fantastic human being! It is so good to see her work here at Penny Black!!
Love the card and off to discover more about the peek ;))
The card with the butterfly is exquisite! I want to know how to make it.
Very beautiful cards Virginia!
Lovely projects Virginia
Love your cards!
Beautiful elegant cards!
Fabulous! The gelatos make such a lovely background. Thanks for sharing…that sneak peek is such a tease!
Congrats on being featured, Virginia! Your cards are gorgeous! Beautiful water coloring, stamping and design…WOW!
Pretty card! Love the colors !
Such a bright & cheery card! I love the colors & the layout.
Love this technique. The whole card is cheerful and fun. Have to go check out that sneak peek card.
This is a really pretty
card, love the colors
and embossing.
Carla from Utah
Love seeing you here Virginia! Awesome as always!
I love the way the butterfly is partly off the card. Makes an interesting design, along with the pretty greens of the leaves. The first card is so pretty. I like the unstructured background.
Virginia, your card is lovely, but I really want to see the card with the butterfly. Beautiful!
Love Virginia’s card. The colours are gorgeous and the swiped background is a great contrast to the beautiful stamp!
Would love to win a free month of Stamp Nation. I’ve been wanting to try the site and learn more! Thank you for the opportunity,
I have yet to see one of Virginia’s card that I didn’t love! I am always inspired by her creations! Stunning card!
Very pretty.
Such cute cards! I love them.
How cool is this? love the multi-colored bg!
These are very cute! Very awesome Virginia.
Love Gelatos! so pretty. You make it look so simple. Thanks!
You actually chose a card maker with whom I am already familiar! I’ve often eyed Virginia’s cards with envy!