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



Shaun the Sheep Birthday Card

Good morning! After a wonderful, busy day yesterday, we are off today to a birthday party for our 4 year old grandson. He is a Shaun the Sheep lover...watches him all the time on Netflix when he is over...between Shaun the Sheep and Thomas I am not sure which is his favorite but I made his birthday card with Thomas last year, so this year I chose Shaun. I found the image as a free coloring page. The kite had some kind of a face inside it and I removed it and put the number 4 inside (with Photoshop). Lots of green going on as that is his favorite color! The green mat border was created with Martha Stewart punch around the page punch. The cloud background I created in Photoshop as well with some brushes. I am tickled with how it came out...hope he is too.
I have to tell you part of our day yesterday was spent watching this grandson's soccer game...it was such a joy to watch all these little ones play! I almost forgot what it was like when my children were little! Anyhooo, my grandson is quite the ham...when he saw me standing on the sidelines with the camera, oh boy did he start showing off! Here is a pic I captured as he was running after the ball and waving at Grandma...priceless!

Of course Grandma told him to watch the ball, but throughout the game he continued to show off for us! LOL what a blessing to have grandchildren! And I mentioned that our littlest grandson, Baby Dax was baptised yesterday...what a beautiful child he is and now he is a child of God. I am so thankful!

Well it was just a beautiful day yesterday! I know today will be fun as well so I better get my rear in gear and get ready. I hope your day is filled with joy and thank you for letting me share a little bit of my joy with you! Thank you for stopping by!
HUGS!
Vicki

Baptism Card

Hello! Busy weekend coming up for me...just a quickie post to show you a card I created for our newest grandson's baptism. I created the image for this card in Photoshop using brushes. The image of the lamb was a free coloring page that I resized. I have not played much in Photoshop lately so really enjoyed creating this. I had seen a card on the net that I liked and created this one using some of the same design ideas. The card base was created using largest of the Lattice Rectangles nestability. Today we have the baptism and a soccer game to go to and tomorrow is a birthday party for our 4 year old grandson! I may be back tomorrow with a card for the birthday boy if I get time to create.
Today my dear friend Glitterbabe called me to tell me that her hubby passed away. I am deeply saddend for her. She is doing as best as can be through all this but I do know she would be touched by a visit and some prayers.
Well, for now that is all...soccer game in about half hour so I need to run. Hope your day is a blessed one and that your weekend is fantastic. Thanks so much for stopping by.

HUGS!
Vicki

Doodle Pantry Froggie

Good morning! I am back this morning with a card that was rather fun to create but posed a slight challenge for me! My oldest grandson is turning 12 on Sunday...and I always make the kid's birthday cards. Well 12 is a hard age...not grown up by no means but yet nothing to childish will do either!! So, I had seen a card on the internet somewhere a long while ago with a frog and jokes on it and I thought maybe that would be just the right thing for my young man! So the image I used is from Doodle Pantry called Little Frog. Laurie does a great job with her pre-colored images and it was just what I needed to get this card together! I printed the image out twice and cut out the frog on the second print so I could pop dot it over the original image for a little dimension. I created my sentiment and all the jokes in photoshop and found that cute little dragonfly on the net. It has been a while since I really played in Photoshop and I had a blast doing so and working with Little Frog! Well I am off to get some things done today...and I do apologize to all my lovely commentors for not getting out to your blogs over the last couple of weeks...I promise to do better...and thank you from my heart for leaving love! Thanks tons for stopping in today!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Lenten Roses

Hello! I hope everyone is enjoying the long holiday weekend! I just wanted to stop by and show you a card I worked on today for a friend of mine. This image is from Fred She Said and it is called Lenten Roses. I used the precolored image as I wanted to try printing the image on photopaper just to see how it would come out! Tracey does such a marvelous job coloring that I had no doubt it would be nothing but beautiful and I was so right. The sentiment is also from Fred She Said...Angel and Christian Sentiments. I used Photoshop to do my editing. The embossing folder I used is one of my new ones Cuttlebug Tiffany. The flowers that I used are from Pizzazz Aplenty and I added my own textured leaves using a MS punch. The gold outlining around the cut out of the image was created using a Krylon Gold Leaf pen...looks nice...went on easy...BUT, not so sure it will STAY on that photo paper. Well going to close for now...thanks so much for stopping in to see me...hugs to all of you and have a great 4th of July!!!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Sneak Peak!!!!

Good morning! I am just soooooo excited to share with you a sneak peak of a new line of images that will be in the FSS store very soon! Tracey has created a line of Hummingbirds with flowers!!! These are amazing! My card is rather clean and simple as I just didn't really want to take away from the image! I used Photoshop to combine the FSS Hummingbird and Columbine with the FSS Paper Pricking frame. I added the embossed layer which is a Sizziz folder. My "red" paper was created in Photoshop as well to match the colors in the flower. I created a peg bow and once that was in place decided that I was done...I hope you like it and go check out the store as it is comming SOON! Thanks for stopping in and taking a peek...believe me, you will see more cards from me using this line of images! Have a great day today!

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

Playing with Cricut

Hello again. I know I have been gone for a long while and I do hope to be comming back more regularly. The last week or so has been overwheliming for me at work. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel...I have hired a new staff person to help with the load and know he will be an awesome addition to our team. Today, when I sat down to create, I reached out to my Cricut...and that darn bug said to me..."Uh, do I know you??? Do I have a new owner?" LOL I have been ignoring my Cricut for some time now...and have really been ignoring my own creativity. So, you are going to see more of "me" in my creations as the weeks go by and as I re-aquaint myself to my Cricut. For today's card, I used the Tie the Knot cartridge that was a Christmas present. Both the cherry blossom cut and the heart cut are from that cartridge. My background paper was created by myself in Photoshop. I love being able to create again. I added a little glitter to the flowers and the heart using my Gellyroll stardust pens and added some white flatback pearls to the flowers...of course they are from Pizzazz Aplenty. I hope you enjoyed my creativity today as much as I enjoyed expressing it today. Not sure what the rest of my day will entail, hopefully some more creations, but if not, I feel great knowing I am back on track again! Hugs to you all, have a blessed Sunday, and thank you tons for stopping in to see me.
HUGS!
Vicki

Friendship

Hello ladies! Well today's card is all about Friendship...and that is what we are all developing as we share our designs, ideas and ourselves with each other. I am so glad and blessed to have each and everyone of you in that ring of friendship! This card goes out to each of you with all my heart! The card base design and the sentiment design were both from Penny Duncan. This lady is one phenominal designer...God has blessed her with such a talent and she shares that talent unconditionally with all of us! Penny you are one dear friend! The card base I used was Penny's Oval Inner Scallop Card with Scallop Bottom...I am not certain this was the intended design...I had to size the card to paper that I had..but I do like how it turned out. The sentiment was actually created using a couple of Penny's digital designs that I took into Photshop and played with a little. Below is a close up of the sentiment:

I really enjoyed playing with Penny's files and love how my card came out. And speaking of friendship...yesterday I was one happy camper as I got to spend most of my day with Glitterbabe! We had an awesome time together...and do you see that my card is no longer laying flat on my table when i take pics??? That is because Glitterbabe gave me that holder in the pic! How awesome is that...I am so pleased to finally have one of these to hold my cards for pictures. Well, I will close for today...I am back to playing! I hope your day is wonderful no matter what you are doing. Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving me some love.

HUGS!

Vicki

God Bless America

Good morning! Well today is another one of my cards for the SB Blog Hop that was on Saturday. As I had mentioned in an earlier post, the blog hop was dedicated to our men and women in uniform. This card was created using the Eagle head...all coloring and creation was done digitally. I really loved how it turned out....If you look close enough you can actually see the texture that I added to the beak and eagle's head digitally. The star I cut out on my cricut and just made each layer of it a tad bigger. The sentiment was computer generated.

Today was a rather sad day for me...I decided not to continue on my DT path at the Stamping Boutique as of May 1. There will be a new DT call for the Boutique very soon so be on the lookout for it! Tracey is awesome to work for and she takes very good care of her Design Team. I want to thank Tracey for giving me the opportunity...this was my very first DT assignment...I served two terms and I did enjoy it. I will continue to create with the SB images as they are of the best quality and design. I will also continue to create sentiments and most likely give away some freebies from time to time. Right now I am having a creative spurt with my cricut so I will contine down that path for a while. I have one more card created from the blog hop that I will post tomorrow and then I promise to get my camera out to take pics of my many cricut creations over the past few days. I can't wait for you to see them so please check back in. I hope your day is a great one today...thank you for leaving all the encouraging comments...I appreciate them more than you know. Till tomorrow!

HUGS!
Vicki

I Pledge Allegiance

Hello again! Off to another crazy work week! I wanted to show you another card I did for the SB digi day on Saturday. This card used the Flag image that Tracey has in this series. I colored the flag with copics, used my Clear GellyRoll Stardust glitter pen on the stars. The paper I used on my background was created digitally. For my sentiment, I put the Pledge of Allegiance...cut it out with Nestabilities and added some ribbon and a couple of silver stars. I have 2 more to show you this week and then I will post some of the creations I have been making with my cricut. I was lucky enough to get a lot of cutting time in this weekend so I should be able to post cards all week this week! I feel like I am getting back into the swing of things after having such a loss of mojo for quite some time! We had a wonderful weekend...spent quality time with all 4 of our grandchildren and had dinner with our oldest son's family last night. I hope your weekend was awesome...and the upcoming week goes well for you. Thanks so much for stopping in to see me and my creations! I have even caught up with a lot of my visiting...if I have missed you, I will be by to see you soon!

HUGS!
Vicki

Land of the Free, Because of the Brave

Hello everyone! Hope your Sunday is a gorgeous day....we had lots of rain last night but we really needed it here! I have a rose bush to get planted today if the weather cooperates. My dear friend who has cancer brought me a knock out rose bush...the roses are the mosr awesome deep pink! What a sweet heart she is...she told me it was a knock out rose for a knock out friend! I love her for that! Well, here is one of 4 cards that I created for the SB digi day...is this eagle awesome or what? Tracey did a knock out job on these images. I found a mountain scene that I put into photoshop and added the eagle...with the American Flag blended into his head....I love how this card turned out. I created the sentiment myself. I hope you like my creation. Have a blessed Sunday! I will be by to visit all of you today...thanks so much for coming to see me!

HUGS,

Vicki

Have a MOOtiful Day

Hello all! I wanted to share with you my card for the one stop blog hop that TSB had on Wednesday. This card was not at all favored on the hop...I just don't have the knack sometimes. I like to be different in my designing and that most times is not what others like. That's ok....I had fun creating this card. The image I used from the Stamping Boutique was AJ the Farmer...he is a doll isn't he? The cow in the background was part of a free coloring page that I had found on the internet that I edited in photoshop. The clouds and sun were created in photoshop using brushes. I colored the image with my copics and the sentiment was computer generated. I added a little glitter pen to the sun to make it sparkle. The card really is rather cute in real life! I have been very busy outside this week trying to get the yard back in shape after winter...got my pond opened and all my grasses trimmed. Last night I mulched 4 flower beds...have more to do but today it is raining so that may have to wait for a better day! Well hope your week has been the best ever...and that the weekend coming up is also wonderful! I will be out to see what you have been up to a little later in the day today. Thanks so much to my followers for visiting me daily...I appreciate each and every one of you!

HUGS!
Vicki