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 meets Quilling

Good morning! First I would like to thank all of the blog hop commenters for the love that was left on my creation! I hope you all enjoyed the hop. To find out who the winner of all the wonderful prizes is please visit the FSS Blog! Well after a small break, I have a card created for you...I am playing around with quilling again so don't be surprised if you see more of this in future cards. My quilled creation was layered on my card with several colors of cardstock and then matted with the spellbinders nestie...Fleur de Lis. And, the sentiment used on my card is one in the FSS store and is 40% off this week!!! Yep, it is part of the Angel Patience Digi & Coloured and the Sentiments Pack and the pack is on sale! I did add some shadowing to the original sentiment in Photoshop to give my card a little dimension. The white layer of my card was embossed with a Sizzix folder and then scored at the bottom of the embossing with the Scor Pal. Hope you enjoyed my creation, and hope you hop on over to the store! BTW, another DT member Anne has her pick for the digi of the week as well so please pay her a visit!

On another note, rather sad one, I would love you to pay a visit to my friend Glitterbabe. She has been a very good friend of mine for a couple years now...and many of you may have had the pleasure of visiting her blog and getting a huge smile from her on a daily basis. Her humor is never ending! Well, my dear friends hubby is in grave health and hospice is now involved. Please pay her a visit and leave her some prayers...I know she will appreciate all of them! And thank you for doing so!

Well, have a great day today, thanks for stopping in, leaving love and please come back to see me!

HUGS!!

Vicki

FSS BLOG HOP!!!

Good morning and welcome to another Fred She Said blog hop! This blog hop starts today and runs through midnight Friday, July 29th EDT. If you got to my blog from Donna's then you are hopping on the right path! If not and you seemed to have lost your way, stop by the Fred She Said blog for the list of participants. The theme for this hop is FAVORITES and Tracey asked us to interperate that as we wish. So, my FAVORITE holiday is the Christmas season and anyone who knows me well KNOWS my favorite season is winter...SNOW, SNOW, SNOW! LOL if I sound like I am out of my gourd, I might be cause our weather has been so horribly hot (heat index 120) that my mind may be fried or dehydrated!! Anyhoo, I chose to cool things down in my mind with the FSS Christmas Cardinal (colored version). I made the white mat with a border punch I had...and no it was not a punch around the page set! Had to do some math to get it to work out but I think it came out pretty even. Once I had my image printed I glitzed it up a bit with some Sakura Stardust Gellyroll pens.  I matted the image with white cardstock cut with the Spellbinders Square nestability and then matted that with red cardstock cut with the Spellbinders Eyelet Squares Nestability. The sentiment was computer generated by myself and cut out with the Spellbinders Ribbon Tab Trio. And all my bling...from the flatback pearls to the Baker's Twine are from Pizzazz Aplenty! The snowflake was cut out using a Cuttlebug die. OK, OK...now that you have gotten through all that you MUST be wondering what the prize is and HOW to qualify!! ONE lucky winner will win:

$15 Gift Voucher to Bearly Mine Designs

$15 Prize Package of yummy goodies chosen by Judy from Pizzazz APlenty

$30 Gift Certificate to the Fred She Said Store

The WINNER will be announced Saturday morning July 30th on the Fred She Said Blog AND the FSS Challenge Blog. To ENTER, please leave a comment on each BLOG HOP POST. There will be ONE winner. A random hop post will be chosen and then a comment on that post will be chosen randomly to win. BLOG HOP closes Friday, JULY 29 midnight EDT so please leave your comments by then. Commenting on ALL the hop stops is not necessary to WIN... BUT it definitely increases your chances of winning and spreads some LOVE! Please make sure you leave your name in your comment! NOTE: some DT's moderate their comments for evil spam so please be patient if you don't see your comment right away.
I hope you enjoyed seeing my creation and enjoy the hop! Please hop along to Debbie's blog and see what she has in store for you! Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving some LOVE! Have a great day!

HUGS!
Vicki

STAMP TV Challenge

Well today I decided to join in the fun over at STAMP TV...there is a CAS sketch challenge that ends Sunday night so I thought I might try it out. For my card I used all Gina K paper and stamps. The stamps I used are from the Spring Mix set. I stamped the butterflies on the background layer using Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink. The flower is heat embossed onto the card stock and the white sentiment layer is pop dotted for dimension. I used some Chocolate Chip flat back pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty for my corner embellishment. This was a fun card to create and got me back to doing some stamping which I have not done in a while. Well, not much on my agenda for the rest of the day...maybe some playing and visiting are in order. Thanks for stopping in to see what I have been up to and please do come by again! Have a blessed day!

HUGS!
Vicki

Flower winner(S)

Good morning! Yesterday really got away from me and I am sorry for not posting the winner of my flower giveaway yesterday! So today I am going to give all 3 of the lovely commenters a set of these flowers. Please contact me with your addresses Glitterbabe, Rose Petal, and Rhonda and I will get them sent out to you as fast as FTD! Well maybe not that fast! I spent some time after work on Thursday night and made 12 more...having fun creating them and playing around with different punches. I will be back later this weekend with a creation for you...thanks tons for stopping by to see me!

HUGS!

Vicki

FSS Ornate Butterfly

What a beautiful day we have here today! Birds are singing, weather is nice and cool and I have the day off! Can't get much better than that! Speaking of beautiful, that is how I feel about the card above...what do you think? I really love all white cards, like clean and simple. The beautiful butterfly used on this card is Ornate Butterfly....in the FSS Store. Now this awesome butterfly comes as as a digi and cutting file set. I used the cutting file set and cut it out with my Black Cat Cougar. I ran the bottom layer of the butterfly through the Xyron, put the top layer on and then added some glitter. Some of the other elements used on the card are Cuttlebug Musical Flourish and Polka Dots embossing folders and Nestabilities Lattice Rectangles and Labels Eight dies.The embellishments that I used on the butterfly body and on the edge of the frame are from Pizzazz Aplenty. 
Now that my card has been covered, I have a surprise for you today. Today is my birthday and I am giving one lucky commenter a gift...I have begun making my own paper flowers with punches and I will use Random number to pick a lucky commenter on Friday. Want to see what you will get?

 Just leave some love and you are in the drawing! Now know, I am just learning to make these so they may not be "perfect" but I think they are surely usable! Have a great day today and thanks much for stopping by!
HUGS!
Vicki