Loads of Love

Holy Snow!!! We are getting quite a lot of snow right now! It is beautiful...nice to see new snow cause the old snow was getting dirty. Would be a nice day to stay home and play but I do have to try to get to work. Maybe I will be lucky and the office will close early. But anyhoooo, today's card was created for Stef's sketch challenge at the Boutique at Yahoo....come join in the fun! The inside of my card(the white hearts) was cut using the cricut...the image is from The Stamping Boutique...and if you haven't been over there lately you don't know what you are missing! Tracey and Stef have some awesome images and I have started doing digital sentiments for The Stamping Boutique as well....back to the card.....the ribbon and heart buttons were from my stash. Actually a friend of mine gave me the hearts last year after Valentines Day and I was glad to put them to use. The sentiment on the card was computer generated. And of course, you know me, I had to add some bling to my card with the Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll pens. Hope you enjoyed your stay today and I look forward to seeing you again. Thanks tons for stopping by.

HUGS!
Vicki

Cricut file

Good morning! Hope you all had a wonderful time with the challenge yesterday! There were a lot of creative cards and ideas. For today's card, I played with a file for the cricut that I had downloaded from Shelly at Paper and Flowers. Shelly had shared one of her cricut creations on her blog...isn't this a beautiful design? I typically don't create 5x7 cards but this really turned out nice. The card with the Forever Friends stamp on it was a SU stamp that I added and Happy Birthday was computer generated on the other card prior to cutting. Thanks Shelly for such a beautiful card design...I am sure I will use it a lot. It seems we may be hunkering down for another snow storm tonight and tomorrow....up to 8 inches with significant blowing and drifting...and then another cold snap that is supposed to be worse than the one we just had! Holy moley we were actually colder than Serbia the other day! Thanks so much for stopping by again today...hope all is well with you...I will surely be by to visit later today.

HUGS,

Vicki

Papertake Challenge

Good morning! Well I am hoping to be back on track starting today! Thanks tons for sticking with me! Today's card is one that is created for the Papertake Weekly challenge that is sponsored by The Stamping Boutique. Please be sure to stop by both places and join in the fun! Tracey is offering 5 images up for grabs to one lucky winner. The challenge is as follows and your freebie is Audrey's Brand New Dress:

New Beginnings
How you interpret this is entirely up to you.
It could be a card for something new ie a new house, new baby etc etc or you could use something 'new' on your card - maybe something that Santa brought you!!
Be sure to check out what the TSB DT has done this week with the challenge and show us you projects. Remember to for your chance at the prize you must upload your cards to Papertake Weekly blog.

For my card... I chose to use a new image freebie Tracey has provided for the challenge on the SNR forum...this is Audery in her new dress....isn't she just so sweet....I colored the image with Copics...the background is colored in Photoshop. I added a ribbon and flower (the flower came from a stash of goodies from Stef (Glitterbabe) with a little stickles added to it) and a digi sentiment created by myself. Yes, I am a digital artist! If you haven't had a chance, please stop by The Stamping Boutique to see all the goodies in the store! Well, I hope you enjoyed your visit today as much as I enjoy having you! Thanks for all the love you leave.

HUGS,
Vicki

Happy New Year!

Good morning to all my friends out there! And welcome to my new followers! I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! I am sorry for not keeping up over the last week....I ended up getting a horrible cough that I am still struggling with BUT do feel that it is better today...just having a little trouble breathing. And Friday was my day to take my monthly medication for osteoporosis....I was diagnosed 2 months ago and the med knocks me on my tail for about 2 days. I do feel much better today SO I hope to be able to post a card for you a little later on in the day today. Thanks for being patient with me and sticking with me! I promise to get back on track! I have to! Thanks for stopping in to check on me!

HUGS,
Vicki

Some New News and a Freebie!

Good morning! Well it is snowing again here in the Illinois Valley! And going to get COLD again! Winter has definitely come! Maybe this weekend I will make a snow angel...Holly from Hogwild About Stamping had asked me one of our first snowstorms for a snow angel...hmmm you might get it Holly! Anywhooo...I know I have been a little slow in getting my cards designed for the blog...with the holidays it has been rough as I am sure it has been for all of you! However, there is another reason I have not been creating as much....I am now a new digital designer for Stamping Boutique!! Tracey has been so kind to take me on as a designer of digital sentiments. Thanks so much Tracey for having me on board! To celebrate my debut, I am offering a freebie here on my blog. Please take it, leave me some love, and enjoy it! Wish me luck on my new venture. Thanks tons for stopping in to see me today...I do appreciate each and everyone of you.

Hugs,

Vicki

Just Because

Good morning! Oh my gosh it is so cold today! I just wanted to stay home in bed this morning but I am up and going. Today's card uses another cute little Audrey image from The Stamping Boutique...isn't she a cutie? Tracey makes these images so easy to color...I was afraid of coloring the hair at first but the shading is just perfect...all you have to do is color! I cut the image out and sat it on an oval nestie. The paper is from a paperstack from DCWV...and I used my new MS Loop punch as well. The sentiment was stamped with a JustRite stamp. If you haven't been to The Stamping Boutique for a while, head on over there to see all the new images released by Tracey and Stef...they are awesome. Well, I am off to work! Have a great day today! Thanks again for stopping by!

HUGS,
Vicki

Love

Well, I am hoping everyone's holiday was wonderful! I am trying to get back into the blogging groove...I received a lot of new crafting items for Christmas that I want to play with but the last 2 days I have been a little off....now my hubby would say I am ALWAYS off LOL! Anywhoooo, my card today was created using a new punch that I received from my sweet friend Stef...it is the Martha Stewart Loop punch set...which contained both the corner punch as well as the border punch. Really cool punch! The image I used on my card is one of The Stamping Boutique's new images called Audrey Saving Her Love...isn't this the most awesome image?I colored her with Copic markers....used a little chalk for the background. Added some brown ribbon....really like brown and pink together. Thanks for stopping by to see me today...I promise to get my rear in gear and come visit you very soon.

HUGS!
Vicki