FSS Emma the Hugger-Snowman

Good afternoon! Well, I have been working on this card for almost 2 hours!!!! I am the SLOWEST card maker in the world! BUT, I had tons of fun creating it and tons of frustration photographing it!!! I used a FSS image today...Emma the Hugger-Snowman. I used the pre-colored image, cut it out with scalloped circle nesties, and layered the image with the teardrop circles nestie. Added a little Diamond Dust to the snow and on Emma's hat. For my card base, I used a 4x6 card and folded the front of the card in half. Added an embossed layer (Sizzix Snowflakes #3) to the front and inside of the folds. On the inside of the card I had a blast with using photoshop to add the elements of the snowman to the melting snow! The sentiment that I used is part of the image pack. The paper I used for the matting and the inside of the card is also from FSS..called Catchin Flakes. My snowflake embellies were made with a MS snowflake punch, velum and Diamond Dust. Here is the card opened up:

Hope you enjoyed my creation! I now need to get on with the rest of my day! LOL. I think this week I may be concentrating on re-acquainting myself to my Cougar so be on the lookout for some Cougar creations! Hope your Sunday is beautiful and blessed...I am thankful for all your support and love!

HUGS!

Vicki



Doodle Pantry Candy Cane Ants!!

Hello again! Well it is a new month and I am delighted to have been asked to stay on as a Guest Designer for another month with Doodle Pantry! And oh oh oh, what awesome images we have to work with this month! I chose to work with Candy Cane Ants.This is one of the pre-colored images...Laurie does a great job with her coloring...I just added a little Xmas Red Stickles to that sweet candy cane. I used a MS punch around the page punch...Vintage Floral I believe it is called to frame out my image...the inside of the frame was cut out using Scalloped Square nestabilities. The awesome red gems, the red paper and the red and white bakers twine are all from Pizzazz Aplenty. The sentiment used on my card is included in the set along with some other sentiments and some digi paper! I just love those darn ants...they are so fun to work with and just make a card unique. Be sure to stop over at the Doodle Pantry today and check out all the new releases for October...and come back often as I will be showing off some more of those awesome images! Hope you have a great weekend...we are off to a wedding this weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Wee Hummingbird

Good morning! Well back from my business trip...oh my gosh it was so nice and warm in Arizona and it is so unseasonably cool here at home! But I do love fall, and I am ready for a change in the season. I am all unpacked and had a little time yesterday to play...soooo above you will see my creation! I used the FSS Wee Huminbird colored image and desaturated it in photoshop...wanted to work with black and white yesterday but ended up with gray and pink! I do love how it turned out though. The MS punch around the page punch that I used was Vintage Floral. The embossing folder is one from Paper Studios (Hobby Lobby) and I scored the right hand side of the card with the ScorPal. Of course had to add some fancies to the card...all the pink flat back pearls are from Pizzazz Aplenty and the pretty pink flouish on the side is from Cheery Lynn Designs called Tropical Flourish. I am finding that I really like the lacey feel and look to the MS punch. I think I will use it quite often.
Today I will be out taking pictures for my photography class...my honey got me a Cannon Rebel for my birthday in July and I am now taking a class to learn how to use it...it was too expensive of a camera to just use it as a point and shoot camera so off to school I go! We will be getting 2 of our grandsons for an overnight visit later on in the day today after church. Hope your day is filled with fun today as well! Thanks tons for stopping in to see me...as always I appreciate the love you leave!
HUGS!
Vicki

Doodle Pantry Ant Masquerade

Good morning! Just wanted to share this fun card with you! OMG is this the cutest image or what? This is one of many images and sentiments included in the "ANTS MASQUERADE COLORED PACK" at the Doodle Pantry. Once the image was printed, I used nestabilities to cut it out and mat it...added my ribbon and a homemade flower. The butterflies are from an MS punch just cut from the border strip and placed on the corners for "fun". The swirly is a flourish die from Sizzix. And that awesome butterfly paper...it is included in the colored set as well...this is a really fun set and is so versatile. As you can tell, I am having quite a lot of fun playing with the Doodle Pantry Design Team this month as their Guest Designer. Just take a walk through the store and you will see instantly why I am having so much fun!

Well, I am going to be leaving for the airport here in about half an hour. Will be back on Friday but hope to have another card posted more towards mid week.

One last important note...Today is the 10th anniversary of Sept 11...please take a moment to remember all those who lost their lives ten years ago in the terrorist attack on our country. God Bless the USA.

HUGS!

Vicki

FSS Tattered Rose Spray

Hello my friends. I am back! I decided to take a few days off work this week and really thought I would get to play quite a bit...well, my days went FAST and the days were so beautiful outside that I just couldn't stay in! On Tuesday afternoon I went to see my very good friend Stef...aka Glitterbabe! We have not seen each other for some time and we live soooo close...but we had a wonderful afternoon catching up. On Tuesday night we got two of our grandsons and sat for them through Wednesday...On Thursday I worked outside in the yard ALL day and on Friday I had a lovely visit from my some family members and got some more yard work done. Today...it is raining and cold...so I thought it was a good time to sit down with some of the flowers I had mentioned I was going to play with. Tracey has some beautiful SVG files in her FSS Tattered Rose Spray and Heart Cutting File Set. I used the MTC files and cut on the cricut. I cut my flowers out on white paper and inked them up to make them the color they are.

And here is my finished card....which was inspired by Kittie...who has some lovely lovely designs.

One more thing...I wanted to update you on my niece's cancer diagnosis...her trip to Loyola went very well on Wednesday...she will need some surgery to remove her cervix and uterus...the doctor is hopeful that is all that will be needed. What wonderful news...thanks to all who said prayers for her. Well, hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I am off to do some more playing...and will be by to visit all of you who have left some love!

HUGS!
Vicki

JustRite For You

Hello to everyone! I sure hope your are all having a wonderful start to your weekend! I spent this morning with 3 of my grandchildren while Mom and Dad put some finishing touches on a new pool. Ohhh gosh I swear the little ones grow overnight! We just saw them Easter Sunday and I know the new baby has changed in just a week! Well I did get to finish up a card that I had started so I thought I would share it with you today. The nested frames and sentiment are from JustRite...Victorian Nested Frames and Occassions set. I don't have the special nestabilities to go with the set so I had to cut my nested shapes out by hand. The white lacy border is one of the MS punch around the page punch sets and the pink background layer I had embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots. Then, I went to work on framing that all out with some flowers! The leaves in this creation were an SVG cut file from my friend Penny Duncan..,and the "ferny" type leaves are the MS punch I have used lately for my flowers. The flowers I punched with a Marvy punch...touched them with a little Momento Angel Pink ink and shaped them with my stylus. I added some "bling" in the middle of each flower and then added the gorgeous pink butterfly which I had purchased from Pizzazz Aplenty! Well I am off to church and then maybe will get some much needed visiting in a little later tonight. I want to take a moment to thank each of you who have so kindly left me some lovely comments over the last few days...it means a lot to me and I love reading your feedback. Have a great night!

HUGS!
Vicki

Fred She Said "I LOVE YOU THIS MUCH"

Hello!!!! Surprise...it's NOT an Easter card! Bet you are breathing a sigh of relief! Now mind you, I do have some Easter cards I created that did not get posted....sooooo you never know when they may pop up! I did get to play a little tonight and just had to show you this creation. I fell in love with this pre-colored image from Fred She Said...I love you this much. Isn't she just gorgeous? I thought this might make a nice Mother's Day card. My mother passed about 8 years ago so I have no one to give it to but I do sell my cards so I am sure this one will go quickly! I created the red base of this card and the flowers using cardstock from Pizzazz Aplenty. This paper is just so so soft...like suede soft. The white frame was created using a MS punch around the page punch and the center of it was cut out using Nesties Classic Scalloped Squares Large...which was also used to cut out the red layer. And, I am proud to say I made the flowers! I used a punch and layered several flowers together for the big flower and then just a small single flower for the others. Each flower has a rhinestone center from Pizzazz Aplenty. The leaves of the flower were punched using a MS punch. Here is a close up of the flowers:

Well, have to get to bed! Morning will be here before I know it. I hope your day was a wonderful one. Thank you very much for stopping by to see what I have been up to...I truly appreciate it and always look forward to reading your comments. I will be by to see all of you sometime tomorrow!

HUGS!
Vicki

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to each and every one of you! Today I wanted to share my last two Easter cards with you.  I bet you are saying..FINALLY she is done with those Easter cards! LOL I actually have more but won't bore you with them. My first card today was created using an image from Phindy's Place called Easter Joy and is for my 2 year old grandson:

I colored the image with Copics, added some diamond stickles for some sparkle. I stippled some ink on the background of the image after cutting it out with the Spellbinders Label 10. To get the green layer of the nestie, I traced over the outside of the die on my green cardstock and then cut that out by hand. The white background layer was embossed with the Cuttlebug Polka Dots folder. OHHH and one last touch...I just had to add a cotton tail!

For my last card, I used an image from the Doodle Pantry called Easter Bunny and it is for my 3 year old grandson. This image came pre-colored! I added the sentiment to the image...it was part of the Easter Bunny package...along with the background paper! The only thing I added to the image was some diamond stickles to the eggs in the bunny's basket! The border across the card was created with a MS punch and then I threaded some green and white Baker's Twine from Pizzazz Aplenty through the holes. Rather clean and simple but I think it turned out just swell. Well I am off to start my day...having my children for breakfast this morning so I have to get hoppin here! Thank you for stopping in to see me and I hope your day is full of fun and family! Happy Easter to all!

HUGS!
Vicki

Grandaughter Easter Card

Ohhh gosh I know I am Eastering you to death!! But I have 5 cards to create for my beautiful grandchildren! So today's card is the first of the 5...for my only grandaughter Ava Sophia. She is 2... soon to be 3 and what a doll baby she is! The image I used is "Eggstatic" from Phindys Place...is this the cutest image or what??? The image was colored with copics...added some glitter to the egg and cut the image out with the square nestie. All the cardstock used is from Papertrey...their cardstock is awesome! Used my Martha punch to create the green branches around those awesome flowers. The flowers are from Pizzazz Aplenty as well as the pink pearls on the egg...and take a look at the cording running across the double layer of eyelet punched border...I had a brainstorm...the cording is Dream String from Pizzazz Aplenty...I used three colors...Yummy Yellow, Cotton Candy and Amazing Aquamarine and braided them. Is that beautiful or what??? Can you tell how excited I am about it? The colors of the cording just matched the colors I used on my card so well! I also used some of the cording to tie the tag onto the card too. The tag was cut using a sizzlet die and the sentiment was computer generated by me! I LOVE how this card turned out! Hope you do too! I will be boring you with more Easter cards over the next few days as that is all I am making right now. Well I am off to do some visiting...hope your day was great and thanks for taking the time to stop in and see me!

HUGS!
Vicki

Fly By Easter Greetings

Hello again! I just wanted to share another one of the cards that I created for my 6 card Easter order...these cards were made for a lady at work...individualized for each of her grandchildren. Now this card was for a 4 year old boy who loves planes. Gosh, I was challenged! How do I make an airplane into an Easter card? My imagination just has not returned to me yet! But I did find this coloring page and decided to try my hand at it. All my coloring was done in Photoshop...except for the shadow around the plane...that was created using BG00000 Copic marker. The sentiment was a stamp. Added some spring colored paper trimmed on the corners with a MS punch and voila...an Easter card! Now most of you may not have been challenged by this type of request but you have to remember...I have been out of commission for a while! OHHH I forgot to mention the "eyes" I glued onto the plane! Maybe not the most appropriate thing to put on a card for a 4 year old but I just couldn't resist! Hope Mom keeps a close eye on him! Well that is all for today, hope to see you back soon. I am making sure that I return the visit to all of you who leave me love! It is greatly appreciated. Have a great day today!

HUGS!
Vicki

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

Glitterbabe Challenge

OHHHHH it is Thursday again and time for a new Glitterbabe Challenge! This week we are being sponsored by Digi's with Attitude and we must use button(s). We were given a couple of images to use and some sentiments...The image I used is called Birthday Gretchen...I colored the image with copic markers...the icing on the cake is colored using Sakura Stardust GellyRoll pens. I used nesties to cut out my colored image and to mat it...the background paper is from DCWV and the corners were cut using a MS punch. I added a couple of black swirls and done! What fun it was to work with this image...you have to stop by the challenge blog to see what my fellow Glitterbugs created...and hey...why not join in the fun! Hope your day is wonderful, thanks tons for stopping in and leaving some love!
HUGS~
Vicki

Family pic and a card

Well it has almost been a week since I posted last! Time is just getting away from me. I have an awesome card to share with you today...I cased this card off of Kittie at Kittie Krafts. Thanks so much for the inspiration Kittie! Is this beautiful or what? All of my paper is from Pizzazz Aplenty, the punch is a MS punch and the ribbon is from Hobby Lobby. The greenery is also a MS punch with a little "Holly Snow" on it...what you think? I also wanted to take a moment to share a pic of my babies from Thanksgiving! My oldest son is sitting with all 4 of my grandchildren on one couch...let me tell you this is a very very rare occasion to get all 4 kids in one pic at the same time! Of course grandma seen this as a photo op!

Meet from left to right...my oldest son, Michael, Collin James(1 1/2), Jacob Michael (3), Ava Sophia (2) and Nathan Michael (11)...what a blessing I have received from God! Well,  hope you had a wonderful day today and thank you for visiting and letting me share my joy with you!

HUGS,

Vicki

Glitterbabe Sale on Friday and a NOEL card!

Hello and happy Wednesday! I wanted to share with you a sale going on at Glitterbabe's Art Shop! She has some really awesome xmas images out there...please stop by and take a look...you'll be sure to want them all!! I also have a card to share with you today...

This image was in a bag of stamps that was given to me and it does not have a notation on it as to what company put it out. I hate when that happens...oh well, I love how this turned out. I colored the image with copics, blinged it up with 2mm red rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty and cut it out and matted it with the Long Rectangle Nestie. Added a 1/2 inch strip of Scor Pal tape under the image and glittered it up! The punch used at the bottom of the card is a MS punch. All the card stock used on this card was purchased from Pizzazz Aplenty as well...I wish you could see the red card stock...it is sooooo shimmery...really adds to the card. Well I am off to finish up some cooking for tomorrow. I hope each and every one of you have a blessed Thanksgiving...I am thankful for each and every one of you...thank you for stopping in today!

HUGS!
Vicki

NEWS!

Hello Ladies! Oh I have some news to share with you! I have been honored to join not one but TWO new design teams this week! First I have been asked to design for Glitterbabe at Glitterbabe's Challenge! Stef has some awesome images and I can't wait to work with her...be sure to drop over and join in the fun at the Challenge Blog...we will be doing weekly challenges and of course there are going to be PRIZES! Second...I am now a new member of the Squigglefly DT! My term will be from July through December. Holy moly! They also have the most awesome images as well! Be sure to go out and check their store if you haven't been there! The variety and versatility of the images is awesome! I am anxious to begin my new duties and hope you will join in on all the fun at both places! Thanks so much to Glitterbabe and Squigglefly for having me!

OOOOPS! Bet you want to see a card today!!! Well I do have one for you!

Today's card uses another one of Gina K's stamps...the butterfly...I stamped the large butterfly several times to give it a "shadowed" look and then randomly stamped the smaller ones. The embossed background was created using one of my Spellbinders Impressabilities..inked. I love how it turned out...very deeply debossed! I have heard that some users have been disappointed in the way these emboss and deboss...I found that the trick to getting a good imprint is to run it through my cuttlebug more than one pass...after several passes it makes an awesome image. It just depends on your paper thickness how many times you need to pass it through. Don't give up using them! Once I discovered this, I will use mine more often now. The border that I used was a MS punch that I created 2 of and put them together covering up the join with a ribbon.

Well hope you enjoyed this card...and hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I hope to get to play this weekend...will be off to see you all and catch up with you too. Thanks tons for coming by!

HUGS!
Vicki

Friendship card

Hello! Oh my it has been a while since I have posted. I am sorry for my absence...a lot has been going on in my world that has not afforded me the time to blog or much time to create either. I have started to do some extra duties at work and I have found that leaves me drained. We also have been trying to get some outside projects finished at home which took about 2 weeks to complete. The card I have to show today is for all of you!! It is a friendship card...thank you all for your friendship and support... Although this card is fairly simple in it's design, I really like how it turned out. The friendship sentiment is from SU. The designer paper is actually some vellum that was given to me by my friend Stef...and the pink and brown papers were from my paper stash of scraps. The border was cut using an MS punch. Thanks so much for visiting me and I plan to visit each and every one of you yet tonight to see what I have been missing! Lots I am sure. Thanks for stopping in to see me...and have a blessed evening.

HUGS!
Vicki

SU Thinking of You

Good morning! How are you all doing today? I am feeling better today after another round of a cold...the worst has passed I think and I am back on the mend. Last night I stayed up till almost 1 AM playing in my room...trying to create and get inspired....having a rough time coming up with ideas lately. The card that I made for today was designed with the SU set Thoughts and Prayers. I inked the flowers with VersaMark and then embossed with clear embossing powder..the sentiment was also embossed with VersaMark and then embossed with white embossing powder. The border is a MS punch. This card was mailed to a new blogging friend who is going through a rough time with her health and I just wanted to let her know that my prayers and thoughts were with her during her difficult times. I hope you enjoyed your stay with me today and I will be sure to get out to see what you all have been up to as well. Thanks so much...may you day be blessed!

HUGS!

Vicki

Freebie Tulips

Happy Friday ladies! Oh gosh am I glad the weekend is here! First because I am beat and ready for a break from work and second because I plan on spending some time with Glitterbabe on Sunday and can't wait! Well this card is a nice springy card and the image was a freebie from Fred She Said...she created it for the Stars and Stamps blog...be sure to visit their blog! Lots of inspiration. I had a blast coloring this image with my copics! I must say this is really the first time in a long time I have been happy with my coloring! Does that mean I am finally getting it??? LOL! But the real challenge for me with this card was the border! I used a MS around the page punch...well all of us who use these punches know that you can only use certain sizes of paper to create the punched design....my image did not fit into those dimensions. So I punched 3 different pieces of paper out with the punch and then lined them up to go around my card....lot of work...turned out ok...not sure I will do that again...but it was a challenge I was not going to give up on. Hope you like it! Also, I wanted to reminde you that if you have not commented on my giveaway card on my Wednesday post, you have until noon today to post a comment there. I will be posting the winner on my blog either later on today or Saturday morn! Thanks tons for stopping in to see me and leaving some love...have a great day today!

HUGS,
 Vicki