LOVE card

YIPPPPEEE today is Friday! Nothing like wishing my life away! And this was a short week for me as my office didn't open until Tuesday! Geesh....well today's card was created with a bunch of those little embossing folders that I tend to do NOTHING with! The flowers are Cuttlebug and the heart and Love are both Sizzix I believe. Added a little glitter and some clear rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty and voila...not too much work and didn't turn out too bad! I am going to have to try to use more of these smaller embossing folders as they are doing nothing but collecting dust! Well I am off to start my day...I hope yours is a good one...and if I don't get back here over the weekend...have a wonderful one! Thanks for all your support and company this week! Bless you all!
HUGS!
Vicki

Another JustRite card

Good morning! I hope the first week of the new year is going well for everyone and you are all well! There is so much sickness going around...I have managed to stay well to this point thank the good Lord! Today's card is another creation using the JustRite stamps that were Christmas presents to me! This card just evolved...may have too many layers...I had a vision...but this was not really where I wanted to go with it. However, it didn't turn out too bad. All paper used in this project were from Papertrey...the ribbon is from SU. Used the Fancy Square nestability to mat the stamped image. The embossing folder I used on the background is an SU folder...Petals a Plenty and the flowers were from a stem of flowers that I had purchased from Hobby Lobby some time ago...just snipped them off at the bud. I am still experimenting with bows/ribbon and again I feel this one may be too big for the project, however, guess I won't learn unless I try! Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving love...words cannot express the gratitude I feel. Hope you have a crafty day!

HUGS!
Vicki

JustRite Stampers

Well ladies, I have another addiction! I have fallen totally in LOVE with JustRite stamps! And for Christmas, my dear daughter in law got me several sets and some fonts! I am good to go...you will be seeing me use a lot of these stamps in the future! This was one of the larger oval sets...colored with SU markers...I know...I pretty much have only been using copic markers but I have a whole set of the SU markers that NEVER get used...they are perfect for small images like this...that fine point does an awesome job of keeping me within the lines! The nestabilities used in this creation are Labels 10 and one of the small dies from the Fleur de Lis set cut in half...half on the top and half on the bottom of the label. All my paper for this card is from Papertrey Ink...and last but not least....how about that butterfly???? This is an Organza Jeweled Butterfly from Pizzazz Aplenty....is it just perfect for this card or what? Also the white flatback pearls on the ends of the label die cut are from Pizzazz Aplenty. I am here to tell you, if you have not ventured out to see all of the goodies that Judy has on her blog you need to! She just put up some really awesome stick pins in crystal and colors...I know those are going on my "must have list"...BUT I better hurry cause she sold out of them like really the first day she had them on her blog. Well, hope you enjoyed your visit today as much as I enjoy having you...have a great day today!

HUGS!
Vicki

Coming Soon!

Good morning! Well I am off to work today, holidays are over! I did get to play a bit yesterday and will have a few cards for you this week. Today's card was created with a new "coming soon" image from Glitterbabe. It is called Pacific Dogwood and will be an upcoming attraction at Glitterbabe's Art...be watching for it! What a beautiful flower! I colored it with Copic markers, added a pink border around it using one of my JustRite stamp borders. Then cut out the image and matted it using the oval nestabilities. The background was created using the smaller of the Fleur De Lis dies...cut and embossed 6 of them and glued them to the pink cardstock...then added the bow. The bow might be a little tooooooo big for the card...hope it doesn't overpower it...but it is on there now!!! I plan on doing some heavy duty visiting tonight and I will be sure to be by to see all of you who leave me love! Thanks so much for stopping in today.

HUGS!
Vicki

Free Make the Cut files

I have been playing a little in Make the Cuts today! I am so excited to be able to create in there AND to be able to cut from the cricut! I am going to share some of my files as I make them...please know...they are very very elementary as I am only a beginner! BUT, I hope you can use them and enjoy them. I will be posting the files in JPG, SVG and MTC format...hope you like!

SVG/MTC/JPG

Hope you enjoy! I would love some feedback...please remember...I am a greenhorn!

HUGS!

Vicki



Happy New Year/Happy Birthday

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope that your holidays were blessed with joy, love and family! Our holiday was wonderful...spent lots of time with our kids and grandkids. We are so blessed to have them all. Now the holidays are over, we are all trying to get back into the "normal" routine...but we had to get together for one more party! My youngest son's birthday was yesterday and we celebrated with a breakfast get together. The card you see above was created just for him! I inked up the Bird Call cuttlebug folder, cut out a section of it with the Inverted Squares Nestabilities and matted it...the die cut across the center of the card was in my Christmas package from my sweet friend Stef...it is one of the Die-namics dies from My Favorite Things. And I have to tell you, the Happy Birthday was created with my Cri-Kits glitter pens and cut out on my cricut using the Make The Cuts software. I had purchased it some time ago, have not really had the time to play with it...HOWEVER, a very good friend and fellow blogger, Penny Duncan, has sparked the fire in me to begin using it! Penny has been so instrumental in this creation! She has some wonderful videos on her web site for us MTC users...I have had those darn gel pens for months and NEVER used them...if it had not been for Penny's tut, they would still be in the box! Thanks Penny so much! Well, our agency is closed today so no work for me...but I AM going to be playing so I hope to be able to be here more often now. Thanks for stopping in and I hope you come by again soon! Have a great day!

HUGS!
Vicki