All My Love

Good morning! BRRRR it is frigid cold again here in the Valley! Mother Nature is just letting us know that winter is NOT over yet even though most of us are impatiently awaiting spring! Well last night I got a couple of new cards made with some of Tracey's new images at the Stamping Boutique. If you have not been to the Boutique lately, be sure to stop on over to see all the new cute images Tracey has added....they are simply awesome and what's more...she is having a SALE! Yep, 35% off! You can check out the deets here! Today's card is for Stef's Sketch Challenge. Once I printed the image, I colored it with copic markers and added a little bling with a red Sakura glitter pen. And oh my, I bought my first bottle of crystal effects and am really loving it...notice the rose and the bow are accented with it? I know it has been around for a while but it is new to me and I am excited...you will probably see it on a lot of my upcoming projects. I love dimension. Also the image was trimmed out with one of my new MS punches. The senitment was computer generated and cut out using Spellbinders Labels...added some ribbon and voila! I sure hope you stop on over to see what the other DT ladies have created and join in the fun! Remember....there is a prize for one lucky winner! Well hope you all have a great day today and as always I thank you so much for stopping in to see me....it means a lot to me and I treasure all of you and your comments. Hope to see you again soon and I will be by to do some visiting with you a little later on today.

HUGS!
Vicki

Friends are Flowers

Well I am running a little behind! This card I had created for Stef's sketch challenge at The Stamping Boutique a few weeks ago and didn't get it posted in time...so I am going to show it to you now. This image is Sunflower Girl...it is so cute and fun to create with. I colored the image with my SU markers...not real fond of how they color but I just don't have a huge assortment of copics yet. I added the sentiment around the image. Hope everyone is fine...with all the snow we have gotten in the last few days I know it headed east...so to all my eastern friends I hope you are all doing ok. Wow you really got socked. I will be back tomorrow with a new card for this weeks sketch challenge. ON TIME! LOL...thanks so much for stopping by and leaving some love!

HUGS,

Vicki

I Love You

Happy Monday! Hope everyone's weekend was great. I spent the weekend enjoying my kids and grandkids on Friday night...Saturday I finally got to church after missing two weeks because of that cold/flu I had! Sunday was a fab day cause my hubby and I went and spent the day with Stef and her husband! The boys chatted and watched the super bowl and Stef and I shopped and crafted and chatted! We had a blast and time went by so fast. Today it was back to work! But I did have a few cards made up ahead...so here is one of them. The card base on this card was embossed with the Stylized Flowers cuttlebug folder. The heart is an SVG file that I had downloaded and cut on my cricut using the Sure Cuts a Lot software. I stamped the sentiment on the heart with a stamp from the Lil Cupid stamp set from Whimsie Doodles and embossed it with white embossing powder. I had thought this card would make a great Valentine's day card but really it could be used for any occasion. Well it is snowing pretty heavy here tonight and supposed to snow all day tomorrow so we will be covered in a new blanket of white again! Hope you are all doing great...thanks for stopping in today to visit with me. Have a wonderful night and I will see you all a little later.

HUGS!
Vicki

Friends

Good Friday morning! This seems to have been a long work week and I am ready for the weekend to be here! Tonight my kids are all coming home for dinner and I get to see all 4 of my grandbabies! I am excited to have them home. Family has always been so important to me since I started to have one of my own. We are actually celebrating my one of my sweet DIL's birthday...and tomorrow I will post a pic of the card I created for her...but for today, my card above is about friends! The circle sentiment is one of my creations available at the Boutique. It says "Friends...are umbrellas in the storms of life..." and how true that is. The card base was cut on my cricut...I added a bow and some background paper. Well, enough for today...I will be back tomorrow with that bday card I promised. Take care, have a great day and don't forget to hug a friend! I will be by to see you all a little later in the day...thank you so much for being here for me!

HUGS!!!

Vicki

SB Sketch Challenge

Good morning! Today's card was created for the Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog. Today is Stef's Thursday Sketch challenge...hop on over to the blog and check out the sketch and what the design team has cooked up...and we would love you to play along! For my card, my paper was all from my paper stash...I colored the image with copics, added a little bling ...you know me, gotta have a little! The colored strips were embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder and voila! Wishing each and every one of you a wonderful day today and thanks so much for stopping in to see me. I will be visiting each of you later on today. HUGS!

Vicki

Love

Good morning! I am finding I am off to a slow start with blogging...but I promise to get back to me....this illness really did knock my socks off. This is another card I had created before I got sick and just didn't get it posted. The card base was cut on my cricut using one of my cartridges. I am failing to remember which one at this moment but if you are interested in that, be sure to let me know so I can get that information to you! The heart stamps on the background are from a wonderful set of stamps that I had won from Whimsie Doodles called Lil Cupid...such a fun set to play with. I stamped the hearts in VersaMark ink and used clear embossing powder and my heat gun...created an awesome background. I added the white background behind the hearts embossed with the Love Language Cuttlebug embossing folder...I cut it so it would show slightly over the front edge of the card. The "love" sentiment was also cut with my cricut in Design Studio. On the inside of the heart, I cut a couple of hearts using the Nestabilities Hearts dies, embossed them and added a little glitter. Hope you liked my creation! Well off to start my day, and I hope yours is wonderful. Thanks from the bottom of my heart for sticking in there with me!

HUGS!
Vicki

I'm Back!

Well good morning to all! I am so sorry for the long absence...that cold/flu that I had really knocked me on my tail...After almost a week and a half of its onset, I am now feeling well enough to blog! Have not done any creations...the ones you will see over the next few days had been created prior to getting sick and they have been sitting on my desk waiting for me! Well this card is my first easel card! It was fun to make and I do believe I will be making more cards with this design. This card was created using one of my own sentiment designs from the Stamping Boutique. I pop dotted the sentiment on to the Contemporary Hearts pendant shapeability from Spellbinders. The background paper of the card has been embossed with using the Friends embossing folder from Sizzix. For the inside of the card, I created a strip of the same embossing and glued some of the hearts from the pendant cutout on it. Although the card is small (4 1/4 square) I think it turned out great. Well, that is it for today...thanks so much for coming back to see me after such a long absence! I promise that I will be back out to see all of you this week...as I hope to feel stronger each day to come now!

HUGS!

Vicki