Opening Day for Glitterbabe's Challenge Blog!!!!!

Hello!!! Well today is OPENING DAY Glitterbabe's Challenge!!! Please stop over and join in the fun! Glitterbabe will be so glad to see you! There is only ONE requirement for today's challenge...and that is Glitter, Sparkle...all you can get on one card! I used one of Glitterbabe's newest images...Ladybug! Isn't it just so cute...I added green jewels to the wings and glittered up the body a little as well as added a glittery flower in the corner. Hope you like! Please stop by and pay Stef a visit...and show off your sparkle!!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day today!

HUGS!

Vicki

Hello

Hello everyone! Well I am just not a good blogger lately! I am going to try to do better...being a full time employee and juggling life has become a job in itself for me lately! Work is really intense...putting in 10-12 hours daily is starting to wear on me. But I do have a card to share with you today. This card was created using a vellum technique I saw at the stamp convention I went to a few weeks ago. I really like how it turned out although I do need to perfect the technique...this was my first try. I used a heavy weight vellum (48lbs) and a brass stencil to make my image by running it through the cuttlebug. I then colored my image from the back of the vellum, added a little glitter to the front. I edged all the corners of the vellum and all the mats with a Fiskars corner punch and embosser...then used a Fiskars border punch for the edge of the card. Geez it is not a standard size so I will have to make an envelope for it but I will learn as I go. I have had some awesome weekends with the grandkids over the last 2 weekends...just sharing a couple of pics with you:

This is my family...my two sons and their wives and children! Look at all those little ones! Now do you know why I don't have time to play? I spend as much time as I can with the little ones cause I know some day they are not going to want to spend time at Grandma's! Once they get older, they have bigger and better things to do! This is my pride and joy!

Our little princess Ava Sophia turned 2 this last week and we had her birthday party on Sunday...I just had to share this pic of her stooping at my pond and spitting into it!!! She was feeding the fish she told me.

Ok...so now you see what I have really been up to! I promise to be out to visit each of you and to get back into a routine with posting! I hope I haven't bored you! Thanks for letting me share my first love with you...my family!

HUGS!

Vicki

FREEBIE for you

Hello, surprised to see me TWO times today? Well as I was getting my cards designed for my two sons for Father's Day, I created a digi sentiment that I am going to share with you. I hope that you can use it...if not for this year, maybe keep it in your stash for next year! I am going to start creating more digi sentiments as time goes on...and I will post my cards that I used this sentiment on tomorrow. Have an awesome day!

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

A Little Birdie Told Me!

Good morning! Well I am trying to get back into the swing after our weekend at the convention...geez, I didn't realize how much I bought! I am actually a little overwhelmed with all the new goodies but I am slowly getting them organized so that I can start playing with them! The card for today was actually created before my weekend away...and I am just getting it posted. Isn't it a cutie? The card base was cut using a file from Mary at mawmawslegacy...I love that flower border. My stamped image is from Gina K...and I am sure your recognize all the other goodies....cuttlebug embossing and nestabilities! The ribbon is from SU. Hope you enjoyed your visit today and have an awesome day! The sun is shinning so brightly today and that is such a welcome after all the rain we have had over the last few days! I am off to see you all....thanks so much for stopping in to see me!

HUGS!

Vicki

Back Home!

Well we are back home! We had an awesome time...between the convention and the scrapbooking store we found in O'Fallon, we had a lot of sensory overload! I learned some new techniques using vellum and can't wait to try them out...I just love how it looks. Also bought some brass stencils to play with so I hope to have some new things to show you! I hope you all have been doing great...I will be by to see you soon. Have a great nite and thanks tons for coming to see me tonight!

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