Season's Greetings

Hello! Wow, it has been almost a week since I have posted! Time has gone by so quickly with the holiday hustle. I hope all of you are winding down with your holiday shopping! I am soooo close. Going to do a few last minute things this afternoon. I am not sure I will get back here before Christmas so I wanted to share possibly the last Christmas card! This was an easy peasy card! I let my designer paper do the work for me. This paper was some I had purchased from our local scrapbooking store prior to it closing down. It was a Murdock Country Creation called Winter Day...12x12 sheet. I added some glitter to the snow...matted it on some Gina K paper...stamped a sentiment...easy peasy! And quite beautiful! I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas...and to thank you for the wonderful year you have given me! Thanks to each and every one of you for all the love and support!

HUGS!
Vicki

Heavenly Christmas

Just logging in with a quick post tonight! Hope you are all well and had a wonderful day today. I just wanted to show you a card I created by request...The lady wanted a religious Christmas card created in purple hues...so here is my creation! I created the sentiment on the computer...the colored layer of the card was created using the Cuttlebug Brocade Window Emboss Plus folder. I added a little bling in the form of flat back pearls and irridescent cording (actually stitched on) from Pizzazz Aplenty...the pointsettia flower is from Making Memories...of couse I  had to bling it up a little with some glitter and some more of the flat back pearls in the center! Sorry for the quickie post today...off and running...hope to see you tomorrow!! YIPEE for me I have one more day of work (tomorrow) and I am off until December 28th! I am so looking forward to having some more time off! Thanks so much for stopping in to see me!

HUGS!

Vicki

Toadally Merry Christmas

Oh wow, sorry for being gone so long...time has flown by for me! I spent all day Friday with two of my grandsons and they spent the night...Saturday morning after Dad came to pick them up, I went in to make the bed and pulled my back out of place picking up a pillow!!! Can you believe that!! Needless to say, Saturday and Sunday were a wash for me...couldn't sit, couldn't stand, etc! But today I did get into the chiropractor very early this morning so I am back on the road to recovery! AND...I haven't made my bed since!!! LOL. I have been blessed with two card orders from ladies at work...for a total of 18 Christmas cards. The one you see above is one of them. One of my ladies has a relative that loves frogs...so...this is my creation for her. Pretty simple...the image is from Pink Cat Studios...colored with copics and a little glitter added to the hat. The image was cut out with the Lacey Square Nestability then matted on two Inverted Scalloped Square nesties cut in half and lined up. The background of the card was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and spritzed with Frost Shimmer. My sentiment was computer generated and cut out using the Labels Eight nestability...added some flatback pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty to the tag and used some of the Red and White Bakers Twine from Pizzazz Aplenty to tie the tag to the image. Turned out kind of cute! I hope to be back tomorrow with another creation...and I will be sure to come by and see all of you as well...I thank you for stopping in to see me today and hope the rest of your day is a great one!

HUGS!
Vicki

Glitterbabe Challenge!

Hello it's Thursday and time for another Glitterbabe Challenge! This week Glitterbabe challenged her Glitterbugs to create a Christmas Card without the traditional red and green colors AND we are being sponsored by Pizzazz Aplenty!!! You have heard me talk about Pizzazz Aplenty for a while now...believe me, you HAVE to visit Judy...she has the most awesome bling at the most reasonable prices and of the utmost quality. For my card today the "bling" I used from Pizzazz Aplenty is the 8mm pink brads and the white metallic banyon leaves...gosh I so wish I had used a darker color so the leaves showed up better...they are awesome. If you want to see them a little closer, just click on the pic and you can see a close up. For the rest of the card design, I used Glitterbabe's Dove image as well as one of her Christmas sentiments. I so love the Dove image...it just makes me think of peace. Thanks to my dear friend Glitterbabe for drawing us such awesome images to create with! The corners for each of the layers was punched with a MS punch and the medallion is the Nestability Fleur de Lis....Oh and of course I had to add some embossing...the top pink layer is embossed with the Sizzix Snowflake #3 embossing folder. Please hop on over to the challenge blog and check out the rest of the DT's art! And play along with us!!! The prize is awesome...nope not telling you...get your hiney over to the challenge blog to see what it is!!! Hope your day is an awesome one...and I just want to say how much I appreciate all the comments on my cards...thank you soooo much!

HUGS!
Vicki

Another Snowflake card!

Happy Hump Day!!! Well you guys are really going to think I am giving you one big snow job!!! All of my most recent postings have to do with snow and snowflakes! I PROMISE to change this up a bit for tomorrow! Today's creation I used the Cuttlebug Snowflake die to create the flake, Fancy Circle and Standard Circle nestabilities to mat it. I used an SU punch that I had purchased from Pizzazz Aplenty to make my silver border around the red layer...yeah it was time consuming to cut and try to line them up but it didn't turn out too bad. The ribbon I added was from my stash...more than likely from Hobby Lobby...and the Shiny Silver flatback pearls are also from Pizzazz Aplenty. The red cardstock is embossed with the Sizzix Snowflake #3 folder ...and yes, the card stock is also from Pizzazz Aplenty! I have ranted and raved about the texture and quality of this red card stock in previous posts...it is just right for the season. Be sure to check out the new and used craft items that Judy has for sale at Pizzazz Aplenty...she has stamps, ink, punches, cricut items, etc for sale. Well I am off to begin my day...I hope yours is a great one and I look forward to visiting you all later on tonight to see what you have been up to! Thanks for stopping by!

HUGS!
Vicki

Sad Goodbye to Squigglefly

Happy Monday! This is a sad day for me...today is the last day for me on the Squigglefly DT...my term is up. I enjoyed working with the rest of the DT and with the Squigglefly images...thank you for having me Squigglefly! For our challenge today, we were to create a card using snow and or snowflakes...well if you have been visiting me lately, you know snowflakes come easy for me! LOL right up my alley as we sit in about 7 inches of new snow here in my neck of the woods! I chose to use Santa Mailbox image...colored with copics and Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll pens. I used some "Holly Snow" at the bottom of my image and added an embossed background of snowflakes using the Sizzix Snowflakes embossing folder. I used the Square Nestie and the Eyelet Square Nestie to enhance my image. Add a ribbon and some bling from Pizzazz Aplenty and voila...Be sure to join us over at the Challenge Blog...and check out my fellow DT members awesome creations for some inspiration. I hope your day is a great one...thanks so much for coming by and leaving some love!

HUGS!
Vicki

To a Wonderful Friend

Hello everyone...I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday. I have been playing a little bit today, trying to catch up with challenges for the next week and having fun with a new image by Jess Holland at Squigglefly. The image is called Wonderful Friend. I decided to make this into a holiday card using the snowflakes and silver foil paper. The card base is cut out using the largest of the Labels Eight Nestabilites cut on a folded piece of paper. I then took the next size down from there and cut out the other white layer and embossed it with Sizzix Snowflakes #3 embossing folder. To get the silver layer, I took that same die and put it on the paper and traced around the oustide of it to get a slightly larger shape...of course I had to cut this layer out by hand. I cut the Oval shape out of the white layer using the Ovals Nestabilities...and becasue I wanted my oval cut out on the silver layer to be slightly smaller, I traced on the inside of that oval nestie and cut it out by hand as well. IF I was lucky enough to have both the Ovals LG and Ovals SM I would probably not had to do all that hand work, but since I don't, I improvised! I decided the card was complete once I cut out a white and black snowflake using the MS snowflake punch...I used an 8MM Crystal Brad trimmed in silver from Pizzazz Aplenty for the center of my snowflake. Thanks tons for stopping by! I plan on doing some visiting today now that I feel "caught up"...plan on seeing me at your place a little later on today!

HUGS!
Vicki