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

Season's Greetings

Hello! Wow, it has been almost a week since I have posted! Time has gone by so quickly with the holiday hustle. I hope all of you are winding down with your holiday shopping! I am soooo close. Going to do a few last minute things this afternoon. I am not sure I will get back here before Christmas so I wanted to share possibly the last Christmas card! This was an easy peasy card! I let my designer paper do the work for me. This paper was some I had purchased from our local scrapbooking store prior to it closing down. It was a Murdock Country Creation called Winter Day...12x12 sheet. I added some glitter to the snow...matted it on some Gina K paper...stamped a sentiment...easy peasy! And quite beautiful! I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas...and to thank you for the wonderful year you have given me! Thanks to each and every one of you for all the love and support!

HUGS!
Vicki

Heavenly Christmas

Just logging in with a quick post tonight! Hope you are all well and had a wonderful day today. I just wanted to show you a card I created by request...The lady wanted a religious Christmas card created in purple hues...so here is my creation! I created the sentiment on the computer...the colored layer of the card was created using the Cuttlebug Brocade Window Emboss Plus folder. I added a little bling in the form of flat back pearls and irridescent cording (actually stitched on) from Pizzazz Aplenty...the pointsettia flower is from Making Memories...of couse I  had to bling it up a little with some glitter and some more of the flat back pearls in the center! Sorry for the quickie post today...off and running...hope to see you tomorrow!! YIPEE for me I have one more day of work (tomorrow) and I am off until December 28th! I am so looking forward to having some more time off! Thanks so much for stopping in to see me!

HUGS!

Vicki

Toadally Merry Christmas

Oh wow, sorry for being gone so long...time has flown by for me! I spent all day Friday with two of my grandsons and they spent the night...Saturday morning after Dad came to pick them up, I went in to make the bed and pulled my back out of place picking up a pillow!!! Can you believe that!! Needless to say, Saturday and Sunday were a wash for me...couldn't sit, couldn't stand, etc! But today I did get into the chiropractor very early this morning so I am back on the road to recovery! AND...I haven't made my bed since!!! LOL. I have been blessed with two card orders from ladies at work...for a total of 18 Christmas cards. The one you see above is one of them. One of my ladies has a relative that loves frogs...so...this is my creation for her. Pretty simple...the image is from Pink Cat Studios...colored with copics and a little glitter added to the hat. The image was cut out with the Lacey Square Nestability then matted on two Inverted Scalloped Square nesties cut in half and lined up. The background of the card was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and spritzed with Frost Shimmer. My sentiment was computer generated and cut out using the Labels Eight nestability...added some flatback pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty to the tag and used some of the Red and White Bakers Twine from Pizzazz Aplenty to tie the tag to the image. Turned out kind of cute! I hope to be back tomorrow with another creation...and I will be sure to come by and see all of you as well...I thank you for stopping in to see me today and hope the rest of your day is a great one!

HUGS!
Vicki