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

MORE Easter!!!

Well I am back to show you 2 more of the Easter cards I created for the grandchildren! The card below is for my 11 year old grandson...didn't want anything to "childish" for him cause he is getting to be a big boy now, but wanted to keep it fun...sooooo...I found this awesome image and sentiment from Doodle Pantry called Jelly Bean Ants...and the digital jelly bean paper comes with it! I think this made a cute card for him...added some diamond stickles to the jelly beans to make it a little festive and came out to be a cute card IMHO.

The next card I have to show is the one for my newest grandson! He is only 3 weeks old! I wanted to use the Easter Chicky image from Fred She Said on this card...Her pre-colored images are just the bomb! Did a little photoshop on the image to add my sentiment. Once I cut it out, I used a punch to edge the sides of the oval shape to give it a little more dimension. Added a blue and yellow bow made from Bakers Luster Twine from Pizzazz Aplenty and added some diamond stickles to the flowers. The background cardstock is embossed with the Cuttlebug Polka Dots folder.

 I have been up since 6 this morn and have all my cards done! I will be back tomorrow to show you the last 2 and then I promise...NO MORE EASTER CARDS! I am just happy that I am back to creating again and now that Easter is almost over, I can move on to some other types of cards. I thank you so much for sharing part of your day with me today...I am blessed to have you all. I will be out to see all of you little later in the day today...got some shopping to finish up and then to mass tonight!

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

Easter card using Fred She Said!

Hello again! I worked my tail off all weekend to get 6 Easter cards done for an order I had. Two of those cards used an image that I purchased from Fred She Said called "Easter Chicky". This was a pre-colored image so it was fairly easy to go from there! I added some glitter to the image after printing, cut it out with Spellbinders label ten, mounted it on the Spellbinders Beaded Oval. And see the ornate white tips at the top and bottom of the beaded ovals? That was one of the dies in the Spellbinders Parisian accents cut in half and one half placed at the top an bottom. Kind of pretty huh? The paper strip on the side of the card was punched with a MS butterfly punch. The embossing on the base card is an SU embossing folder. Now to get to the BLING! All my bling was purchased from Pizzazz Aplenty....the pink pearls on the image, the strip of flowers on the paper strip and the pink pearls on those flowers....I am loving being able to create again! I am counting down the days until my new Black Cat Lynx arrives! Yes, I ordered a new cutter...I love to create using my MTC program and want to be able to continue to get the updates for the program and getting the new cutter will allow me to do so! Well, enough yaking here...thanks for sticking with me on this long post...have a wonderful wonderful day! Thanks for stopping in!

HUGS!
Vicki

First Vinyl Project

Hello all! And thank you so much to those who stopped by and left some awesome comments! It is nice to know that I was missed! I had a chance to play a little bit this last weekend and will get those cards posted hopefully this week. I had mentioned that I had created some vinyl wall art for my new grandson's wall...it turned out simply awesome! I had so much fun creating this. My daughter in law found this saying and asked if I could create it...so I gave it my best shot. I was a little afraid of the vinyl at first but you know it really cut well and transferred to the wall well. I purchased my vinyl from Vinyl Expressions...they have some awesome prices and the vinyl is of great quality...not to mention their speedy customer service! Check them out if you are a vinyl user! Well, here is my project:

I just can't wait to create another vinyl project...it was fun and something different besides cards. Hope you like my creation...and if you really DO like it and would like the file, drop me an email and I would be glad to share it with you! Hope you have blessed day today! Thanks so much for all your support!

HUGS!
Vicki

Long Absence

Hello! I am sorry for my long absence. I have been struggling with many many overwhelming issues over the past few months...but am glad to say, I am doing better and beginning to feel like myself again. I lost a dear friend about 3 weeks ago...we were very close and although she was very ill, her passing was a little unexpected. I am thankful she is home with our Lord and no longer suffering but do miss her horribly. And to go to the other side of the spectrum, I am so happy to have become a grandmother again on March 31! We have a new baby to love on...Mom and baby are doing well. I now have a new staff person at work that is working out very well...he is taking a lot of the stress off my shoulders that has burdened me for almost a year. So....life is looking up, and I will be posting again...maybe not real often at first but surely at least a few times a week. I hope you all have not given up on me...

I do have a card to share with you! On Sunday we celebrated our grandson Collin's birthday. He was 2! My gosh how time flies. What a fun day we had. So here is the card I created for my special boy!

The card is a 5x7 in size...I created the 2 in Make the Cut...and used my glitter pens to write the "a sweet grandson" rather than cut it out. Make the Cut is an awesome software as it lets us work with layers...I am not an expert at it...but am working hard at learning it! The corners on the background papers were created with a Martha Stewart punch. The Happy Birthday sentiment was cut out with a Nestie. I hope you like my creation...and if anyone is interested in the Make the Cut file, drop me an email...I would be glad to share it in mtc or svg format! My next post, I will be showing off some vinyl wall art I created for our new grandbaby's wall! Please come back to see me! Thanks again for your patience while I healed....I will be out to see all of you who leave me love! I missed visiting and promise to get out to see what all of you have been up to! Bless you all!

HUGS!
Vicki