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

Glitterbabe's Challenge #27

Well, I am back today with my first Glitterbabe's Challenge of the new year! I am so excited to be back on track! The Challenge for this week is to use ANY Glitterbabe image...just be certain to add that BLING! AND this week we have one awesome Guest Designer...Vicki from Stamped Smiles...Please be sure to check out her creation...I am excited to see it as well...she is quite a designer! For my creation this week I chose to use Glitterbabe's Envelope Bear. I added the hearts to the image using brushes in photoshop...and the sentiment was computer generated as well. The white layer has been embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder and then edged on the bottom with the Martha Stewart Heart Punch. For my BLING, I added Crystal Effects to the hearts and dusted them with glitter, added some awesome red lace and those sweet flowers....both from Piazzaz Aplenty...the leaves for the flowers were created using a Martha Stewart punch as well. Please be sure to check out the other lovely creations that my fellow Glitterbugs have designed on the Challenge blog...we would love for you to play along this week...get your bling on girls! Thanks so much for stopping in to see me today and I hope you enjoyed my creation! I will be by to see you soon!

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

Glitterbabe Sale on Friday and a NOEL card!

Hello and happy Wednesday! I wanted to share with you a sale going on at Glitterbabe's Art Shop! She has some really awesome xmas images out there...please stop by and take a look...you'll be sure to want them all!! I also have a card to share with you today...

This image was in a bag of stamps that was given to me and it does not have a notation on it as to what company put it out. I hate when that happens...oh well, I love how this turned out. I colored the image with copics, blinged it up with 2mm red rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty and cut it out and matted it with the Long Rectangle Nestie. Added a 1/2 inch strip of Scor Pal tape under the image and glittered it up! The punch used at the bottom of the card is a MS punch. All the card stock used on this card was purchased from Pizzazz Aplenty as well...I wish you could see the red card stock...it is sooooo shimmery...really adds to the card. Well I am off to finish up some cooking for tomorrow. I hope each and every one of you have a blessed Thanksgiving...I am thankful for each and every one of you...thank you for stopping in today!

HUGS!
Vicki

New Image from Glitterbabe!

Hello! I am sorry for the long absence...I didn't get back here as I had planned. Work has been very very challenging and hard for me over the last 8 months...I find it harder and harder to get creative time. HOWEVER, starting today, I am off work until November 29!!!! I am so pleased to be able to sit and play. Today I made 4 new cards...and the one I am showing you today is one of them. My image is from the one and only GLITTERBABE! It is one of her newest releases and I am LOVING it. The image is called Silhouette Flower. It is actually only one flower...I took it into photoshop and added another flower and some shadowing. Stef just has a way with flowers, and this one spoke to me immediately. Please stop by Glitterbabe's shop...I especially like that you get a colored image along with your black and white one!  I have a few other ideas for the image I used today too so you will be seeing me use it again. I used some of my new nestabilities with this card...specifically the Beaded Ovals...along with the regular and scalloped ovals. The black paper that I used on this card is to die for...it from Pizzazz Aplenty and it is as smooth as silk! The lace and the pearls are also a product from Pizzazz Aplenty...believe me, you do not know what you are missing out on if you don't pay Judy a visit...she has been adding new product weekly and she always has weekly freebies to add to your order if it meets the requirements. Well I am done for today, need to take a break from creating and spend some time with my hubby! Love you all for sticking with me...hope your day was beautiful!

HUGS!
Vicki

Autumn Blessings

Good morning!! And it is Glitterbabe Challenge day! Our challenge this week is sponsored by Jennifer at JLJ Designs. Please stop by and check out her shop and images! Thanks so much for sponsoring us Jennifer! The winner of this weeks challenge will get three...yes THREE digi images and a paper pack from her store! Be sure to include your BLING as that is the main requirement from Glitterbabe! We were also challenged to frame the image we used. I chose to use the pumpkin image....printed it in 3 sizes...colored with copic markers and layered it. For my frame, I created a ring of leaves. I used the Martha Stewart leaf punch to create my leaves and punched them out of glittered card stock for my bling. I stamped and embossed my sentiment on a Spellbinders tag and added a couple of buttons. I received an awesome assortment of fall colored buttons from my daughter in law...I just couldn't wait to use them. Thanks so much Melissa! Well that is all for me for today, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for hanging with me during my absence! I will be out to see all of you later on today to see what you have been up to! Have a blessed day!

HUGS!
Vicki

Glitterbabe's Challenge!

OH MY! It has been a week since I have been here! I am struggling to keep afloat here but this too shall pass! I almost forgot to post my card for the challenge today!! Well if you haven't already been to Glitterbabe's Challenge today, please stop by to see what the rest of the DT created for this week and play along with us! Glitterbabe has lots of freebies to use and we would sure love to have you play along! This week's challenge is to use the colors red, purple, and yellow. Well this was right up my alley for a special card I had wanted to try. My neighbor's mother is an AVID Red Hat Society lady and I had wanted to use one of Stef's lovely 3 hats to design a card for her...what an awesome opportunity! Doesn't that hat just scream HATTITUDE!!?? The sentiment was computer generated by myself. the embossed card was created using the Cuttlebug Perrenials Embossing Plus folder. Before removing the paper from the folder, I colored over the embossed areas using a copic marker. When I trimmed the embossed paper, I intentionally cut it a little short so I could have that red border on the left hand side of the card...which I scored a line through using the Scor Pal. I hope my neighbor's mother likes the card...and hope you do too! Well I am off for now...I have some packing to do for a trip. I will be in Phoenix AZ all next week and need to start getting things together. Thanks for stopping in to see me! I hope your day was a blessed one. I will be by to see each of you later on today or early tomorrow morn!

HUGS!

Vicki

Glitterbabe Challenge Day

Hello all! Sorry for my absence over the last few days! Sometimes it just doesn't work out for me to get here everyday...looking forward to retirement so I have more time to play!! OHHHHH GEEZ!!! That is not for 5 years!!!! Oh well, something to look forward to! Today's card was created for Glitterbabe's Challenge. Our challenge was to use one of the images from Stef's freebies. I chose to use the Sparkly Flower...and did I make that baby sparkle! It was an experiment, and not sure I would do it again but what I did was take some Iridescent Medium (that Holly introduced to us some time ago) and mixed some butterscotch alcohol ink with it....and painted it onto the image. It really looks pretty in real life...there is a glare on the flower from taking the pic. I glued a sparkly element into the center of the flower. The sentiment was computer generated by myself. And the embossing....OMG I am loving this embossing folder...you all know how ADDICTED to embossing I am. This is one of 4 folders that come in the Heritage embossing folder set from Cuttlebug. Then I matted the embossed layer onto some gold cardstock and placed it on my card. Pretty huh? I like it and Stef's image was perfect for this card! Well what you waiting for???? Get on over to the Challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT ladies created and then go grab a freebie and play along with us!!! Can't wait to see what you come up with! Thanks for stopping in today! I will be sure to do some visiting myself today as well.

HUGS!

Vicki

Time for Glitterbabe's Challenge

Good morning ladies! It is Thursday today and time for Glitterbabe's Challenge! This week our theme is Asian...Glitterbabe gave us a couple of images to work with and the only other requirment was bling, sparkle! I chose to work with the Panda image...she is one cute Panda...and she is holding a stalk of bamboo...so I thought what better sentiment for my card than Good Luck. The sentiment is out of a SU stamp set . My background paper was embossed using a cuttlebug folder...Stef embossed it for me and sent it home with me last weekend. Well the only thing left was to add some bling...and I struggled with that!!! WHAT!!!???? Don't know where to add bling...I can just hear Glitterbabe! So I took my clear Sakura GellyRoll Stardust pen and outlined the embossed area. Came out rather cute! Be sure to get on over to the challenge blog and play along with us this week! We had a ton of awesome entries for the last challenge...glad I am not the one who has to pick a winner cause you would all be getting prizes! Well, get going...I am going to start my day. Thank you for stopping in to see me today.

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

New Glitterbabe Challenge

Happy Thursday! And welcome to a new Glitterbabe Challenge! Our challenge today is sponsored by Robyn's Fetish...we were given a choice of 4 images to use and the card must contain 2 flowers. Of course I fell in love with the bird image...colored it with copics, added a computer generated sentiment and stippled a little light blue on the background. I used sticker flowers...and yeah there are two flowers on the card...and I also added a sticker butterfly. I used a Martha Stewart punch to punch around the image and mounted it on some SU paper that I had leftover from another project. I am a little disappointed in my card this week...but I will do better next week...some days I am just off! Well I am off to work...thanks so much for coming by to see me...have a fantabulous day.

HUGS!

Vicki

Glitterbabe Challenge

Hello Ladies! I am so sorry for not being here for such a long time. I believe I am finally over my health issue for now! Tomorrow is my last day of taking meds for 10 days and I am finally feeling a little more like me. Thanks for being patient with me and coming back to see me! Enough about me...how bout that challenge at Glitterbabe's this week? We were given a sketch to follow and are being sponsored by Stampin Dragon Designs! Isn't this the cutest image? The sentiment was computer generated by me. All the cardstock used was glittery card stock from my paper stash...the image was colored with copics and the little tree was cut and embossed using a cuttlebug die. I added some stickles to the tree and to the little guy's hat and wings just for a little more bling! A big thanks to our sponsor! Well be sure to go to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT ladies created. They are all awesome card makers! Thanks for stopping in to see me, I hope to be here more frequently now that I am feeling better! Have an awesome day!

HUGS!

Vicki

Glitterbabe Challenge

Happy Thursday!!! And it is Glitterbabe Challenge day!!! We have had so much fun creating for Glitterbabe so far and are so excited to see all of you play along! Wow and you have all made some really awesome cards...some of those cards should have been accompanied with a warning....BLING CENTRAL...SUNGLASSES REQUIRED!!! Our challenge this week was a Back to School theme. Gliterbabe gave us some really cool images to work with. I used the apple and crayon. Colored both with copics and pop dotted them onto my card. This card was created with a big BLUNDER! I created my chalk board with one of the Nestie frames...colored both pieces with copics and wrote the alphabet on the outside frame....and school days on the "chalkboard". Well I went to run the pieces through the Xyron and put the darn things in the WRONG way! All the glue ended on the TOP of my pieces. GEEESH...well, the mistake solved my dilema of not knowing for sure where to put my bling...yep...you got it...right on that sticky chalkboard. Be sure to go to the challenge blog to check out the other DT members cards...they really outdid themselves again. Come play along with us this week, we would be glad to have you. Thanks for stopping in, have a great day, and hope to see you tomorrow!

HUGS!
Vicki

New Glitterbabe Challenge

Hello again! Today is Thursday and that means we get to do new challenge at Glitterbabes Challenge Blog!! This week the challenge is to use one of two images Stef provided us and use faux stitching. This image is perfect for that challenge as there is plenty of faux stitching around the dress and heart! I think I may have failed in the Bling department! I promise to do better next week! I used Nestabilities to cut out my image and mat around it...as well as the Contemporary Heart Pendant from Nestabilities down in the corner...added a few pearls for some dimension. Please stop by the challenge blog and see what the other DT ladies created! They really did an awesome job again this week...and play along with us! We have had a great few weeks with our challenges and are looking so forward to you playing along with us! Thanks for stopping in today...I know you have many choices when you do your daily blog hopping...I am so glad that you chose to hop by to see me! Have an awesome day.

HUGS!
Vicki

Challenge at Glitterbabes

Hello, hello, hello! Well it is time for a new Glitterbabe's Challenge! Wow, that week went by sooooo fast! We had several wonderful entries into last weeks challenge...and Glitterbabe will be picking a winner tomorrow so be sure to check to see if you won! And come join in the fun for this weeks challenge! We were asked to create a card using a sketch that Glitterbabe provided...and of course...bring on the BLING! Today is sweltering hot in the Illinois Valley so I decided to cool it down...(if only in my mind!) with one of Glitterbabe's winter images called Snowman Hugs...lol a snowman hug ought to cool ya off on a day like this! I embossed my background paper with a Sizzix embossing folder and used a Krylon silver leafing pen to accent that embossing as well as frame out that background paper. Added a few glittered snowflakes to the card and glittered up the image a little. All my coloring was done with copics.

I also wanted to thank all of you who stopped by yesterday and wished me a Happy Birthday! I am so touched. I have a rough time being here every day with a full time job so I was just sooooo touched to see those wishes! I did have a wonderful day! My youngest son and family are in the Ozarks this week so I didn't get to see them but my little 2 year old Ava did tell Grandma happy birthday on the phone...made me just get goosebumps! And later on in the day I got a call from our oldest grandson (Ava's big brother) who is 10! And GUESS who came to see me on my birthday????? Glitterbabe herself!!! How awesome is that!!! Yep, Stef and Clyde stopped by, we grilled out and had some lucious ice cream cake! Later on in the evening my day was complete with a visit from my oldest son and family! Litte Collin is only 1 and isn't talking much yet but he sure joined in the festivities when the candles were lit and everyone sang happy birthday! Our Jacob is 2...soon to be 3...he sang Happy Birthday and it was awesome! Bless his heart he helped me blow out the candles and then said..."Grandma, now you are 3 like me!" These are the moments I will cherish in my heart forever...how could it get any better...the love of family and friends! Thanks for stopping in today...I am going to try very hard to get by to see all of you this weekend...it is back to work for me tomorrow after a wonderful 3 days off!

HUGS!

Vicki

Glitterbabe's Challenge!

Hello and happy Thursday! Today is the second challenge going on over at Glitterbabe's Challenge Blog! Wow, we had lots of very, very nice cards entered into the challenge, full of sparkle ...and the winner is going to be announced today so be sure to head on over and see if it was you!!! This weeks challenge is a color challenge...using orange, pink and turquoise....and I used Glitterbabe's Flamingo image. I matted my card first with orange and turquoise (shhhhh I know it is really light blue but it was the closest i could come!) glitter paper...trying to portray the sky at sunset and the water. The image is printed out on acetate and colored the back of the image with copics....I am not really sure I like this technique but was intrigued enough to try it...for sure there is plenty of sparkle on this card...one of Glitterbabe's biggest requirement! Be sure to stop on over to see us at the challenge blog...the rest of the DT has some really awesome cards as well to show off! I hope you have a blessed day today and thanks for stopping in to see me!

HUGS!
Vicki

NEWS!

Hello Ladies! Oh I have some news to share with you! I have been honored to join not one but TWO new design teams this week! First I have been asked to design for Glitterbabe at Glitterbabe's Challenge! Stef has some awesome images and I can't wait to work with her...be sure to drop over and join in the fun at the Challenge Blog...we will be doing weekly challenges and of course there are going to be PRIZES! Second...I am now a new member of the Squigglefly DT! My term will be from July through December. Holy moly! They also have the most awesome images as well! Be sure to go out and check their store if you haven't been there! The variety and versatility of the images is awesome! I am anxious to begin my new duties and hope you will join in on all the fun at both places! Thanks so much to Glitterbabe and Squigglefly for having me!

OOOOPS! Bet you want to see a card today!!! Well I do have one for you!

Today's card uses another one of Gina K's stamps...the butterfly...I stamped the large butterfly several times to give it a "shadowed" look and then randomly stamped the smaller ones. The embossed background was created using one of my Spellbinders Impressabilities..inked. I love how it turned out...very deeply debossed! I have heard that some users have been disappointed in the way these emboss and deboss...I found that the trick to getting a good imprint is to run it through my cuttlebug more than one pass...after several passes it makes an awesome image. It just depends on your paper thickness how many times you need to pass it through. Don't give up using them! Once I discovered this, I will use mine more often now. The border that I used was a MS punch that I created 2 of and put them together covering up the join with a ribbon.

Well hope you enjoyed this card...and hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I hope to get to play this weekend...will be off to see you all and catch up with you too. Thanks tons for coming by!

HUGS!
Vicki

CELEBRATE!!!!!!

Good morning! And hello Friday! It has been a very crazy week for me at work so I have not had a chance to get back here since Tuesday...BUT I do have a card for you today...My card was created with an image from Stef (aka Glitterbabe) called Sweet Brier...is it darling or what? Stef always does an awesome job with her flowers. I colored it with copics, and then I used Crystal effects on the whole image. Not real sure that I should have done that but...oh well it is done! I tried a new technique for me with the nestabilities...I cut out the nestie shape with part of my flower out of the shape...it was not hard to do and I rather like the effect. Then layered in behind that with another size of that same Blossom nestie and then the green layer is the Fluer de Lis Pendant. I did pop dot the whole layered image on my card...cut out the corners of the designer paper and the pink layer on the card was embossed with the Sizzix Dots folder. The Celebrate Today sentiment was from a collection of sentiments I had picked up at Big Lots from Cloud 9. Hope you like!

And today is a special day for me!!! I am celebrating!!! Why you ask??? No it is NOT my birthday, no I am NOT retiring (though I wish I was!)....OK...I will tell you...I am off to a convention in Collinsville with my bestest buddy Stef!!!! Yep...got the day off work, we will drive down today and stay until Sunday afternoon! I am so excited to spend the time with Stef, I am sure we are going to have a blast. I will take pics and post a few if  I get a chance!

Have a fabulous day today...I will be back to check in later today and maybe get some visiting done tonight if time allows! Thanks so much to each and every one of you for stopping in to see me and for leaving me some love!

HUGS!

Vicki

Have a Toadally Awesome Day

Hello ladies! I know I have not been around much lately...just really having a tough time...yesterday was the first time I have even attempted creating since the loss of Riley...I am going to get back slow but sure. I miss visiting all of you and will be by to see most of you this weekend I hope. I want to thank each of you for your thoughts, prayers and comments over the past couple of weeks. My friend is back home now and is recovering well from her surgery only to find that she needs another biopsy for a new spot that has popped up...I am totally devasted for her...but she has a good positive outlook and I know she will face this head on with all the grace and courage she can. Please keep her in your prayers.
Today's card was created using one of Glitterbabe's images...please stop by and visit her etsy shop to see all she has been creating! Speaking of Glitterbabe, I was lucky enough to be able to spend a day with her on Thursday...hubby went with and him and Clyde yakked their heads off. Stef and I went through tons of paper that she had to share...and she sent me home with a mountain of goodies! I really needed the paper...and I used it on today's card...all the paper in this card creation were scraps from Stef! Thanks to my dear friend. The ribbon used on my card was some I had picked up from Big Lots and really could not find a use for it till now...the sentiment was computer generated...the punched borders are from an EK Success punch and of cours I used my Nestabilities around the sentiment. Not sure if you can really tell from the photo but I sprayed the whole card with Tsukineko Sheer Shimmer Sparkle spray...it really dressed up the appearance of the card. Oh....and I colored my image using Copics.
I will try to be back here more often now...I also want to start getting back to my sentiment creations...I miss doing that and really need to get some new ones in the Stamping Boutique Store! I hope you all have a great day and thanks so much for your support and love!

HUGS!
Vicki