Card for Challenge

Hello again! Today's card actually was made for Stef's challenge #5 over at SNR Card Universe. But after creating it I realized I probably needed to use a Squigglefly image and I don't have a lot of markers or ink that fit the color challenge...so I didn't enter the card in the challenge...but here it is in all its glory! The challenge was to use ruby red, kraft, white and grayish blue colors...I embossed the blue and kraft squares with the Sizzix Damask folder and the card base was embossed with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. The flower stamps were from SU (Greenhouse Garden)...I used Momento Summer Sky, London Fog, Bamboo Leaves, and Lady Bug inks to do my stamping. Photo corners were cut with a SU punch and the lace border was MS of course! :) Have a wonderful day today and thanks so much for coming to see me.

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Vicki

Too Cute to Spook!

Another card for today! This one was created last night but wanted to get the OK from my DIL to post it on my blog cause it contains a pic of our baby grandaughter. I took some pics of my grandchildren this weekend and one pic just stood out for me...our little grandaughter and how darn stinking cute she is. And the hair...got to love those curls. We say she looks like Shirley Temple! Anyways...who could spook a cutie pie like that? So for her Halloween card, the sentiment was just that..."Too Cute to Spook". Although you cannot tell it in the pic, I embossed the orange card stock with the Skeleton Scroll cuttlebug folder. Because of the size of my card I had to run it through the cuttlebug twice but in all reality it didn't show much anyway. :) The spider web frame I cut using a file downloaded from Carla at http://scrappedlives.nl/. Carla is good at using SCAL to create files that we can use on our Cricut. The pumpkin is a die combo for the cuttlebug called Pumpkin Spice. Of course I had to add some bling so I used green and orange Stickles on the pumpkin. The font I downloaded from the internet...it was just called Halloween.  Hope you enjoyed this card as much as I did making it. Have a good night and stay warm! It is going to get rather chilly here tonight and a chance of frost for tomorrow night...just a sign of things to come. Thanks for stopping by.

Vicki

Baby Card

Good morning! How are you all on this brisk Tuesday morn? OOOOOOHHHH it was COLD this morning getting out of bed...and tomorrow will be worse! Our temps are supposed to be down to 35 in the morning...like I said yesterday...a sign of what is coming! Today's card is a fairly simple card. I embossed the white paper with the Cuttlebug Baby folder....it has lots of sweet baby sentiments on it. I had found the sticker at our LSS and couldn't resist it...although I see it is kind of hard to make out it is a baby buggy. I embellished the wheels with pearls and added a ribbon. Got to use my Crop A Dile to attach the eyelets. That is something I don't use a lot and really should. I love that tool and just had to have it so I better start using it more! (Lecture to myself) :) Well thanks for stopping by today and hope to see you again soon.

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Vicki

Freebie image!

Hello, I do hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Today was a nice sunshiny day here in Central Illinois...I don't think we will see too many more of these types of days as fall is rapidly approaching. I think I am ready for the season change. Today's card was created from a freebie image from my friend Stef at http://glitterbabegreetings.blogspot.com/. I am so happy for Stef as this is her first digital image...please pay Stef a visit and join her daffodil challenge. For my card, I decided to color the image with copics but then "glitterized" the flower with Diamond Dust! Glitter for glitterbabe...it is only appropriate! I also used small pearls on the stamens of the flower. The image was cut out and mounted on several different colors of paper from Stampin Up. I used the Long Classic Rectangles and the Long Classic Scalloped Rectangles from Spellbinders to cut out the rectangles. The sentiment was stamped using a stamp purchased from Joan Fabrics. The ribbon was just a roll of grosgrain white ribbon from Wally World. Thanks tons for stopping to see me today and be sure to hop on over to see Stef, grab that image and play along. Till Later!

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Vicki

Congratulations

Thank goodness for Friday's! Although this has been a short week for me since I did not return to work until Tuesday, it has been hectic, long and exhausting. I am really looking forward to the weekend. On to today's card...this card kind of "just happened". The card base I cut on my cricut from the Beyond Birthdays cartridge. I then embossed the front of the card with the Cuttlebug Textiles folder that was inked with Stampabilities gold ink. The embellie that the Congrats is embossed on was a piece of some scrap that was left over from something else I had cut...inked again...with a brayer and gold ink. The gold ribbon was some I had purchased at HL during a sale. I hope to start doing a little more with my cricut too...it has been neglected lately. :) Well enough for now, hope you enjoyed your visit and please come back to see me soon. Thanks to all of you who comment on my work! Have a wonderful Friday!

Fall Blessings

Welcome to the first day of Fall! I really wanted to create a fall type card today...not sure I really accomplished my mission but this is what I created. The paper is from K&Company Tim Coffey Fall Paper Pack. This is an awesome pack of paper. The bottom edge of the card was scalloped with one of my Fiskars punches. I altered the orignal paper a little by adding a brown acorn stamp and although you really cannot see it, I also stamped some gold leaves on the paper. The Gold ink used is from Stampabilites and the brown ink is Stampin Up Chocloate Chip. The Blessed embossed sentiment was created by embossing a metal plate made by Pressed Petals. The package came with 3 metal tags..Love, Cherish, and Blessed. I put the Blessed tag through the Cuttlebug and then used a brayer to roll the gold ink over the embossing. I didn't want the "look" to be perfect as the background of the paper is actually crackled so I was pleased with the way it turned out. Thanks so much for visiting me today!

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Vicki

Celebrate

Hello again! Well we are back home again after our two week vacation. It is nice to go but always nice to come home again too. And we were wonderfully surprised by our son and daughter in law...they brought dinner to us last night! And of course we got to see two of our beautiful grandchildren...what a nice homecoming! I plan to try my hand at some cards using some of my pics from vacation in the near future but for today, I have a card that I created for a "celebration". The inspiration for this card was from Friendship & Sunshine card in Paper Creations Summer 2009 Magazine. The card base was created from Stampin' Up paper...the white paper again is my favorite embossing paper...Beckett. The brushed silver paper is from American Crafts Christmas Foil pack that I purchased from Hobby Lobby. The sentiment stamp is from Stampin' Up. The embossing at the bottom of the card is the Cuttlebug Two Frills embossing folder. To add a little "bling" to the card I used Stickles. The lace edge was created using the Martha Stewart Lace Edge punch.

Thanks for visiting me today and staying with me while I took a small vacation. I plan to post much more frequently now I am back home! Have a great day today.