Glitterbabe Challenge!

Hello it's Thursday and time for another Glitterbabe Challenge! This week Glitterbabe challenged her Glitterbugs to create a Christmas Card without the traditional red and green colors AND we are being sponsored by Pizzazz Aplenty!!! You have heard me talk about Pizzazz Aplenty for a while now...believe me, you HAVE to visit Judy...she has the most awesome bling at the most reasonable prices and of the utmost quality. For my card today the "bling" I used from Pizzazz Aplenty is the 8mm pink brads and the white metallic banyon leaves...gosh I so wish I had used a darker color so the leaves showed up better...they are awesome. If you want to see them a little closer, just click on the pic and you can see a close up. For the rest of the card design, I used Glitterbabe's Dove image as well as one of her Christmas sentiments. I so love the Dove image...it just makes me think of peace. Thanks to my dear friend Glitterbabe for drawing us such awesome images to create with! The corners for each of the layers was punched with a MS punch and the medallion is the Nestability Fleur de Lis....Oh and of course I had to add some embossing...the top pink layer is embossed with the Sizzix Snowflake #3 embossing folder. Please hop on over to the challenge blog and check out the rest of the DT's art! And play along with us!!! The prize is awesome...nope not telling you...get your hiney over to the challenge blog to see what it is!!! Hope your day is an awesome one...and I just want to say how much I appreciate all the comments on my cards...thank you soooo much!

HUGS!
Vicki

Another Snowflake card!

Happy Hump Day!!! Well you guys are really going to think I am giving you one big snow job!!! All of my most recent postings have to do with snow and snowflakes! I PROMISE to change this up a bit for tomorrow! Today's creation I used the Cuttlebug Snowflake die to create the flake, Fancy Circle and Standard Circle nestabilities to mat it. I used an SU punch that I had purchased from Pizzazz Aplenty to make my silver border around the red layer...yeah it was time consuming to cut and try to line them up but it didn't turn out too bad. The ribbon I added was from my stash...more than likely from Hobby Lobby...and the Shiny Silver flatback pearls are also from Pizzazz Aplenty. The red cardstock is embossed with the Sizzix Snowflake #3 folder ...and yes, the card stock is also from Pizzazz Aplenty! I have ranted and raved about the texture and quality of this red card stock in previous posts...it is just right for the season. Be sure to check out the new and used craft items that Judy has for sale at Pizzazz Aplenty...she has stamps, ink, punches, cricut items, etc for sale. Well I am off to begin my day...I hope yours is a great one and I look forward to visiting you all later on tonight to see what you have been up to! Thanks for stopping by!

HUGS!
Vicki

Sad Goodbye to Squigglefly

Happy Monday! This is a sad day for me...today is the last day for me on the Squigglefly DT...my term is up. I enjoyed working with the rest of the DT and with the Squigglefly images...thank you for having me Squigglefly! For our challenge today, we were to create a card using snow and or snowflakes...well if you have been visiting me lately, you know snowflakes come easy for me! LOL right up my alley as we sit in about 7 inches of new snow here in my neck of the woods! I chose to use Santa Mailbox image...colored with copics and Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll pens. I used some "Holly Snow" at the bottom of my image and added an embossed background of snowflakes using the Sizzix Snowflakes embossing folder. I used the Square Nestie and the Eyelet Square Nestie to enhance my image. Add a ribbon and some bling from Pizzazz Aplenty and voila...Be sure to join us over at the Challenge Blog...and check out my fellow DT members awesome creations for some inspiration. I hope your day is a great one...thanks so much for coming by and leaving some love!

HUGS!
Vicki

To a Wonderful Friend

Hello everyone...I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday. I have been playing a little bit today, trying to catch up with challenges for the next week and having fun with a new image by Jess Holland at Squigglefly. The image is called Wonderful Friend. I decided to make this into a holiday card using the snowflakes and silver foil paper. The card base is cut out using the largest of the Labels Eight Nestabilites cut on a folded piece of paper. I then took the next size down from there and cut out the other white layer and embossed it with Sizzix Snowflakes #3 embossing folder. To get the silver layer, I took that same die and put it on the paper and traced around the oustide of it to get a slightly larger shape...of course I had to cut this layer out by hand. I cut the Oval shape out of the white layer using the Ovals Nestabilities...and becasue I wanted my oval cut out on the silver layer to be slightly smaller, I traced on the inside of that oval nestie and cut it out by hand as well. IF I was lucky enough to have both the Ovals LG and Ovals SM I would probably not had to do all that hand work, but since I don't, I improvised! I decided the card was complete once I cut out a white and black snowflake using the MS snowflake punch...I used an 8MM Crystal Brad trimmed in silver from Pizzazz Aplenty for the center of my snowflake. Thanks tons for stopping by! I plan on doing some visiting today now that I feel "caught up"...plan on seeing me at your place a little later on today!

HUGS!
Vicki