Glitterbabe's Challenge

Hello everyone, I am sorry for the amount of time that has gone by without a post. I hope to be back more often...please bear with me! Well you are not here to hear my problems! Today, the Glitterbugs are sponsored by DeeDee's Digis! What cute images we were given to play with! I chose to use Hay, Pumpkin!. I colored the image with copic markers, added some bling to the yellow areas of the pumpkins using Sakura Stardust pens...although you really can't see the glitter. I used an acetate die cut by K&Company as an overlay on my card...lots of bling on that as well. I chose to hand write the sentiment on my card. Please stop by Glitterbabes Challenge blog and check out the designs created by the rest of the Glitterbugs AND play along! I thank you much for taking the time to stop in and see me...have a glorious day!

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

Squigglfly Challenge

Hello again!! Well we are off to another wonderful week! And to start this week off, I have a card for you that I created for the Squigglefly Challenge this week. Our taks this week was to create a masculine card. Ohhhhh I struggole so hard with masculine cards...that definitely is my weakness. BUT...I did need to make a birthday card for my oldest son so what better reason to create than that? I used the Shy Bear Billboard image as I thought that image gave me lots of white space to put my sentiment! I created the sentiment in Photoshop. After coloring the image with my copics and clipping the corners with an MS punch, I matted the image on Papertrey paper...I love their paper. Well off to work....hope your day is a beautiful one! Thanks so much for stopping in and I will catch you all a little later!

HUGS!

Vicki

Crystal Ball

Good morning to all of you! I am so glad the weekend is here. Not sure what is in store for me this weekend but at least I know it is not going to work! Thank goodness! Well today's card was created using a new image just released at Squigglefly called Crystalball. I had a grand idea for this card but not so sure it was as grand as I had hoped. I thought I would make a shaker card using a SU "cup" designed for shaker cards...it didn't turn out too bad, I just think the cup needed to be bigger for my image. I filled the cup with Diamond Dust. The embossing folder I used is a Cuttlebug folder called Gracie's Frame. I added some flowers that I had purchased at the Dollar Store in the lower right hand corner and a few pieces of bling in each corner of the embossed frame. The background paper was from SU both the patterned and the solid. I like how it turned out but just wish my shaker cup was a little bigger. Anyhooooo...that is it for today...I will be out to see each of you today a little later. Thanks thanks thanks for stopping in to see me AND leaving some love! May you have a blessed day!

HUGS!
Vicki

Blog candy winner!!!

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
Random.org picked comment number 5:


Wow, Happy Blogoversary!!! I just love reading your blog and seeing all the great eye candy. Thanks so much for a chance to win.
Hugs,
Rhonda

Rhonda if you would please drop me an email with your mailing address I will get this package out to you! Thank you to everyone who played and left me so much love and encouragement! It truly does mean a lot.
Have a great rest of your day!

HUGS!
Vicki

One Year Anniversary Blog Candy

ONE YEAR!!! CELEBRATION!!
This post will stay at top till Friday...scroll down to see new daily postings! :)

Oh my it doesn't seem like a year already...but yes, it has been! I just wanted to post a little candy for all of you who have faithfully followed me over the last year! I have thought of hanging it up a few times but your words of kindness and encouragement kept me going. Thanks to all of you...it is so awesome to have such a wonderful group of friends. I will leave this post at the top until Friday morning...All you have to do to win is just leave me some love! On Friday morning I will go to random and get a number for the winner and post the winner on Friday afternoon or evening...so what is here you ask???? Well there is a Martha Stewart Glitter Stamping Starter Kit (with 3 vials of glitter and over 30 stamps to play with), a Cloud 9 Accordian Album, Autumn Leaves clear stamp set (heart and flower), some rub ons, a Copic Marker, and 9 various sheets of A2 size paper embossed with various Cuttlebug folders as well as 3 5x7 size of embossed paper. I am looking forward to sending this to a lucky winner. Thanks again for supporting me over the last year!

HUGS!

Vicki