FSS BLOG HOP!!!

WELCOME to the FSS BLOG HOP! OMG I am so excited to be a part of the FSS Blog Hop! Beginning today through midnight Friday June 3 (EDT) we will entertain you AND ONE lucky winner will win an awesome bundle of prizes! If you arrived here from Dani's blog, you are on the right track. If you happened by me to visit today, please join in the fun and start at the beginning of the hop at Tracey Lynn FSS Blog. You are to collect a word as you visit each designer's blog to be eligible to win the prizes...OK enough suspense...the prizes from our sponsors are:

Bearly Mine Designs - £15 gift voucher
Pizzazz APlenty - prize package worth $15.00
Custom Creations from Carolivy- 3 digital downloads
$30 GC to FSS Store
 
Please be sure to visit each of our sponsors...and thanks to each of them for sponsoring us! So you say....where is my card??? Here you go!

I used my new LYNX cutter to cut out another frame like the previous card on my blog and used Tracey's The Wheelbarrow Colored Set found here in the FSS store. I added some sparkle to the image with Stickles. The flower is one I made using some of my flower and leaf punches. I adorned my creation with some goodies from Pizzazz Aplenty...the flatback pearls around the frame, the awesome little gold dragonfly up in the corner of the image and the stickpin in the flower are all products from Pizzazz Aplenty. I am sure you are going to be delighted by each of the other designer's creations. We would love if you would leave a comment so we know you were here! Your next stop on the hop is Anne. And oh yes.... the word you need to gather from my blog is BIRDS. Make sure to gather your words from each blog and follow the directions at the end of this blog hop to be eligible for the prize and thank you so much for joining us! Good luck to all! Have a blessed day!

HUGS!
Vicki

Birthday Card Request

Hello! It has been crazy for me the last week...put in a lot of time for work over the weekend so that really put the damper on playing with my new LYNX! BUT, I had a birthday card request from my neighbor. She had a picture of her mother and herself that she wanted me to frame and put on a card...here is the card I came up with:

I had decided to try my hand at an easel card. Let me give you a few deets about the card...the frame is one that I cut on my new cutter...created by Paulo. He has the most awesome cut files on his web site...if you have a cutter and are interested, please pay him a visit and leave some love! The sentiment was computer generated and cut out with one of the Fancy Tags from Spellbinders. The bling on the front of the card and on the inside had been purchased from Big Lots...Colorbok adhesive flourishes...2 came in a package for a buck...I think I am going to go back for more of those! Also on the front of my card you will see the cute little hummingbird...that is an image from FSS...Wee Hummingbird Colored...isn't he just the cutest? On the inside of my card, I used various Martha Stewart punches to create some interest, added some more of those flourishes and another of the Wee Hummingbirds. LOL now, I have to create an envelope for this card! It is 5 1/2 square so I don't have anything that size...wish me luck! Well I want to thank you for stopping in...and a special thanks to those who leave some love! I hope you had a wonderful day today and tomorrow will be just as grand! I plan to do some visiting tomorrow and will surely check up on all of you! Thanks again!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Tulip Bouquet

Hello again! Well I have come back down to earth after getting some time with my new cutter...although my feet are barely touching the ground! I wanted to share a card I created using the FSS Tulip Bouquet Colored Set...don't these look like they were freshly picked? Tracey does such a great job with her flowers and her colored sets are wonderfully done! Although you really cannot see it, I had printed the image twice and cut out the vase and pop dotted it so that there was a little more dimension on the card. Now I have to tell you about the butterfly border...this was NOT a punch around the page punch set...I watched a video from Becca at Amazing Paper Grace...she demonstrated how to create the punch around the page look with your regular border punches...AMAZING! Little bit of work and measuring but I was very pleased with the end result! Although I did try this with one of my older Fiskars border punches and BROKE it!!! Oh well. Well I am off to do some more playing with my new Black Cat Lynx and hope to have a project to show you soon using it...I am amazed at how FAST it cuts and it cuts like butter!!!! I hope you all had a great day today and that your weekend will be even better! Thanks for stopping in to see me today, I will be by to see you all a little later on tonight I hope!

HUGS!

Vicki

BLACK CAT LYNX!!!!

Hello...just stopped in to say HI! I have been absorbed all evening with my NEW toy! I ordered a Black Cat Lynx a while ago and guess what was waiting for me when I got home today???!!!! You guessed it! I was so excited and wanted to tear into that box as I could hear that baby purring already! BUT...I would not allow myself to do so UNTIL I did my workout at Curves and had dinner...that being said...I have been playing now for about 3 hours...have learned a lot already...have cut a few things out and even did some writing with my new baby! I will be back in a few days to show you some of what I have created with my new toy...I hope you are all doing well and have had a blessed day today!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Paper Piercing

Hello! Happy Monday! Well the sun is shining on us today after 2 days of solid rain and cold! Bad thing is I have to go to work!!!! Oh well, I am glad to see the sun...makes for pretty flowers later on in the season. Speaking of pretty flowers...oh gosh what do you think about today's creation? I used the FSS Pattern Frame and Flourish Set...and it comes with this awesome flower as well. I took the flower and did a pixel trace in Make the Cut software so that I could cut it out with a background layer. I colored, pierced the center, folded up the petals a little and added some green leaves and how pretty it came out! Please as always, whenever you alter an artists' image in this manner, check their TOU! I am pleased with how this turned out. The leaves and the flatback pearls are from Pizzazz Aplenty, the sentiment is an SU stamp and the frame was cut out with a nestability. The background embossing was done with Flowers #6 folder from Sizzix. Hope you like my creation! Have a wonderful day today in whatever you do, and thanks for stopping in to see me! I will be by to see each of you later on today!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Tattered Rose Spray

Hello my friends. I am back! I decided to take a few days off work this week and really thought I would get to play quite a bit...well, my days went FAST and the days were so beautiful outside that I just couldn't stay in! On Tuesday afternoon I went to see my very good friend Stef...aka Glitterbabe! We have not seen each other for some time and we live soooo close...but we had a wonderful afternoon catching up. On Tuesday night we got two of our grandsons and sat for them through Wednesday...On Thursday I worked outside in the yard ALL day and on Friday I had a lovely visit from my some family members and got some more yard work done. Today...it is raining and cold...so I thought it was a good time to sit down with some of the flowers I had mentioned I was going to play with. Tracey has some beautiful SVG files in her FSS Tattered Rose Spray and Heart Cutting File Set. I used the MTC files and cut on the cricut. I cut my flowers out on white paper and inked them up to make them the color they are.

And here is my finished card....which was inspired by Kittie...who has some lovely lovely designs.

One more thing...I wanted to update you on my niece's cancer diagnosis...her trip to Loyola went very well on Wednesday...she will need some surgery to remove her cervix and uterus...the doctor is hopeful that is all that will be needed. What wonderful news...thanks to all who said prayers for her. Well, hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I am off to do some more playing...and will be by to visit all of you who have left some love!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS You are in my thoughts

Hello my dear friends...I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day. I thank all of you who have been so kind to leave me some love and thoughts on my creations. Today's card was created with a heavy heart. Over the weekend my 36 year old niece came to me with bad news...she has been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Being a cancer survivor myself, I am devastated for her...but she is a tough young lady and she will fight this as I did and will beat it. She knows she will have my support and encouragement throughout her battle. My family has been hit hard by cancer...lost both my parents within 3 weeks of each other to the disease, I have had it, one of my brothers is also a survivor...and now my dear niece. Please say a prayer for her...this card was created for her. The image is one of Tracey's new images that are available in the store NOW! This image as with many of Tracey's beauties comes colored or uncolored! You have to check out these wonderful images. The sentiment is also Tracey's. I added a little glimmer to the image with Stickles but that was about all...I just hate to take away from the beauty of the image. The embossing folder that I used is Flourish and Floral #2 from Sizzix, the purple rhinestones are from Pizzazz Aplenty and the corner punch is a Paper Shaper punch. I hope you like it...kind of simple in design but serene. Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by...I appreciate each of you!

HUGS!
Vicki