Crystal Ball

Good morning to all of you! I am so glad the weekend is here. Not sure what is in store for me this weekend but at least I know it is not going to work! Thank goodness! Well today's card was created using a new image just released at Squigglefly called Crystalball. I had a grand idea for this card but not so sure it was as grand as I had hoped. I thought I would make a shaker card using a SU "cup" designed for shaker cards...it didn't turn out too bad, I just think the cup needed to be bigger for my image. I filled the cup with Diamond Dust. The embossing folder I used is a Cuttlebug folder called Gracie's Frame. I added some flowers that I had purchased at the Dollar Store in the lower right hand corner and a few pieces of bling in each corner of the embossed frame. The background paper was from SU both the patterned and the solid. I like how it turned out but just wish my shaker cup was a little bigger. Anyhooooo...that is it for today...I will be out to see each of you today a little later. Thanks thanks thanks for stopping in to see me AND leaving some love! May you have a blessed day!

HUGS!
Vicki

Blog candy winner!!!

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
Random.org picked comment number 5:


Wow, Happy Blogoversary!!! I just love reading your blog and seeing all the great eye candy. Thanks so much for a chance to win.
Hugs,
Rhonda

Rhonda if you would please drop me an email with your mailing address I will get this package out to you! Thank you to everyone who played and left me so much love and encouragement! It truly does mean a lot.
Have a great rest of your day!

HUGS!
Vicki

One Year Anniversary Blog Candy

ONE YEAR!!! CELEBRATION!!
This post will stay at top till Friday...scroll down to see new daily postings! :)

Oh my it doesn't seem like a year already...but yes, it has been! I just wanted to post a little candy for all of you who have faithfully followed me over the last year! I have thought of hanging it up a few times but your words of kindness and encouragement kept me going. Thanks to all of you...it is so awesome to have such a wonderful group of friends. I will leave this post at the top until Friday morning...All you have to do to win is just leave me some love! On Friday morning I will go to random and get a number for the winner and post the winner on Friday afternoon or evening...so what is here you ask???? Well there is a Martha Stewart Glitter Stamping Starter Kit (with 3 vials of glitter and over 30 stamps to play with), a Cloud 9 Accordian Album, Autumn Leaves clear stamp set (heart and flower), some rub ons, a Copic Marker, and 9 various sheets of A2 size paper embossed with various Cuttlebug folders as well as 3 5x7 size of embossed paper. I am looking forward to sending this to a lucky winner. Thanks again for supporting me over the last year!

HUGS!

Vicki

Squigglefy Sneak Peak!

Yipee!!!! It is Friday!!! Although my day is going to be a long one as I have to work late tonight, I am looking forward to the weekend! I have a card for you today that was created using a new image from Roann Mathias at Squigglefly...another of her beautiful caligraphy designs. What beautiful work she does. I framed the image using the Cuttlebug Brocade Window Emboss Plus folder. To add to the card, I made some paper roses in "fallish" colors. These roses were fun to make and not hard at all. If you would like to try your hand at these, I got the file from Penny Duncan...she even has a video explaining how to put them together. And even if you don't have a cutting machine, you can cut the pattern out with scissors and assemble them. I inked up the edges a little to cover up the white core of the paper after cutting and also sprayed some Shimmer Spritz by Tsukineko. I am very happy with how this card turned out and thank both Roann and Penny for the files that I used to create this beauty. Well I am off to work and will be back around noon today with a posting of the winner of my blog candy...so check back a little later! I want to thank each of you for stopping in and leaving comments! Have an awesome day!

HUGS!

Vicki

Time for Glitterbabe's Challenge

Good morning ladies! It is Thursday today and time for Glitterbabe's Challenge! This week our theme is Asian...Glitterbabe gave us a couple of images to work with and the only other requirment was bling, sparkle! I chose to work with the Panda image...she is one cute Panda...and she is holding a stalk of bamboo...so I thought what better sentiment for my card than Good Luck. The sentiment is out of a SU stamp set . My background paper was embossed using a cuttlebug folder...Stef embossed it for me and sent it home with me last weekend. Well the only thing left was to add some bling...and I struggled with that!!! WHAT!!!???? Don't know where to add bling...I can just hear Glitterbabe! So I took my clear Sakura GellyRoll Stardust pen and outlined the embossed area. Came out rather cute! Be sure to get on over to the challenge blog and play along with us this week! We had a ton of awesome entries for the last challenge...glad I am not the one who has to pick a winner cause you would all be getting prizes! Well, get going...I am going to start my day. Thank you for stopping in to see me today.

HUGS!
Vicki

Vellum Thanks

Good morning!Wow what a nice crisp morning I woke up to!!! 56 degrees!!! It actually feels good for a change but not sure I am ready for this colder weather yet. I do love the change of seasons but just not quite ready for it to be this cool! Not complaining though! Well today's post is going to be short...got to run. I played with creating a flower out of cut out folded circles...I love how it turned out and it was super duper easy to do. Added a vellum background that I had embossed with a couple of flowers in the corners...the sentiment was stamped on the vellum with white ink. Kind of a fun card! Don't forget to comment in the candy area so you can have a chance to win some goodies! Thanks to all who have left me love already...I am so appreciative of you all! Have an awesome day today and look for me at your door a little later!

HUGS!
Vicki

Fred She Said

Good morning! Well, todays card is featuring the one and only Rosie...a precolored design by Fred She Said...Now isn't that one cute pup??? And if only I could color like that!!! Oh well some day when I grow up maybe...or in my next life! Honestly that is one cute digi. The front of my card is an embossing folder from the Cuttlebug Heritage set...it is a set of 4 folders... 2 5x7 folders and 2 A2 size folders. The center is not open in this embossing folder...I put an oval nestability in the middle to cut the opening in the center. The tag is a Nestability too...Fancy Tags. I guess I could have dressed this up a little bit more now that I look at it but I thought maybe I would mess it up if I went too far. You know how that goes...oh I could do this and this and THAT messed it up!!! Thought I would leave well enough alone. Throughout the rest of the week you may see a few more of those folders from this set...they were all awesome. If you can't tell, I am an embossing addict...and if there is treatment for that....I DONT WANT IT! Thanks for all the awesome comments on yesterday's card...I actually got a request from a lady at work yesterday to create a wedding card for her using that design...although she would like the wedding couple's name in the middle rather than the "together forever" so when I get that done I will post it too. What I have discovered BY MISTAKE with the Cuttlebug Embossing Plus folders, is that there is a back flap on the folder that will allow you to lift it up and apply color to the embossed area BEFORE you remove it from the embossing folder. That is way cool. Ok...I have had one cup of coffee too many as I am blabbing away. Thanks so much for stopping in to see me today and I will be out to see all of you that leave me love later on this evening! Have a blessed day!

HUGS!
Vicki

Good Monday Morn! Well I had a very creative, crafty weekend! Oh my gosh I didn't see any of my grandbabies this weekend! I am starting to go through withdrawls...but I did keep myself busy in my craft room. Today's card is really very blah as far as color goes but I think it turned out pretty good. This was created using one of the Cuttlebug embossing plus folders. OMG those things are so darn nice...but pricey. I think this one is called Brocade Window. The sentiment is an embossing folder that is in the Wedding #2 set from Sizzix. Added a few pearls and voila! I have some other ideas for this folder and will be making a few more wedding cards with it that is for sure. And I want to thank each and every one of you who took the time to comment on blog over the last few days! And I am almost up to 50 followers!!! WHOOOO HOOO! Later on this week I will be posting blog candy for my 1st anniversary of blogging! Be sure to check back! Thanks so much for blessing my day with your presence! I hope yours is wonderful and I will be out to see each of you later!

HUGS!

Vicki