Sweet Sunday.....Happy Anniversary

Happy Sunday Peeps!! 

Time for a new Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge

Here is our sweet sketch for this week:

What a great sketch! 

This one is free and easy one that has TONS of possibilities!  

Make the background the focal point, make the center the focal point, it's all up to you!

Well, I kinda made the background and the center the focal points on my card!!

I started out with some watercolor paper and stamped my flower image, which is from the Best Thoughts Hostess Stamp Set.

I colored the image using my aqua painter and ink pads.

After working hard to get this vibrant intense color on my flower and letting it dry thoroughly I moved onto the BG.

I wet the entire BG ( avoiding the flower) with some plain water before adding my ink and letting it flow around. I used Pacific Point for this stage.

I added just a touch of the Melon Mambo in a couple of places, and when mixed with the blue turned a lovely shade of lavender, you can see just a hint of it here and there.

After drying this thoroughly, with my heat tool, I went back in a dropped a few drops of water around again avoiding the flower. After letting the water set for a few I dabbed it up with a paper towel to ge the spotting you see.

The sentiment is from the Timeless Love stamp set and the line under that is from the Tim of Cards stamp set. I then added a few gold sequins to finish it up.

I hope you have some time to play with this weeks sketch!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

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Freshly Made Sketches.....thank you

Hello Peeps!!!

Popping in her quickly to share a card I made using the sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches Blog.

I love this sketch and you all know I had to use a flower for that circle element!!!

I pulled out a fave set at the moment, the Stampin Up Crazy About You. I have been obsessed with it lately! That layered flower just makes me happy!!

I started with a base of the new thick Whisper White card stock. I then pulled out my Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack and decided to use a Smoky Slate piece.

I then stamped my flower using Blackberry Bliss ink onto some regular whisper white card stock three times. I then fussy cut it out and layered it up with some dimensionals. I stamped the leaf image twice with old olive and cut it out as well

The thank you sentiment comes from the Tin of Cards stamp set.

I added a Perfect Accent dot to the middle of my flower

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Vicki

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Crazy 4 Challenges....thanks for being you

Happy Saturday peeps!!

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.

The challenge this week is:

Tag You’re It! 

 This week let’s use a Tag on whatever you create. It can be an individual tag or you can add the tag to your card/project you create.

I made a couple of cards for this challenge using tags, 

I like to make tags and use as the focal point on a card, it is really easy and you can 

add whatever you like to a tag.

I , of course, used flowers!

The flower on here is fast becoming a favorite of mine, it comes from the photo polymer set called Crazy About You. It is loaded with words and contains just a couple of flowers and leaf images. It is a must have in my opinion.

I used some paper from the Go Wild paper stack and I love the pop of color the yellow brings to the card.

I cut a piece of burlap ribbon and frayed it apart to add to my tag and behind it also.

Now my other card was a fun one to make too:

This card is made completely using the Endless Thanks stamp set, it is another photo polymer set that I love!

The flowers are little but so fun, I stamped them using Rose Red, Watermelon Wonder and Crisp Cantaloupe. I fussy cut them out and added them to my tag in no particular order, I popped up a few with dimensionals.

So which one do you prefer? 

Leave me a comment and you could win a pack of the Stampin Up new Perfect Accents:

I love these and used them on both of my tag cards today. I will draw a random name on Friday! good luck!!

Thanks for stopping by today

Vicki

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Another Card Set

Happy Friday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a set of four cards I whipped up yesterday.

I had no paticular reason in mind for these but once I made the first one the rest just called out to be made!

These two are the first ones I made, I had the idea to use the flower from the Remarkable You stamp set and the stem and leaves from the You've Got this stamp set and so that was my starting point.

I stamped a couple of the flower heads onto some Naturals Ivory card stock and water colored using Calypso Coral ink. The leaves are in Old Olive ink.

I then fussy cut both out and glued the flower head to the stem.

I knew I wanted to make a square card so I cut another piece of the ivory card stock to mount the flowers on.

The DSP I used on both sets are from the Pretty Petals stack.

The sentiments are from the Endless Thanks, the Petite Pairs set and the Endless Birthday set.

These two are made using the Crazy About You Stamp set.

I stamped the flower three times, for each card, with Calypso Coral so I could cut them out and layer up, The leaves are stamped with Old Olive.

I fussy cut it all out and layered up the flowers with dimensionals between the layers.

The flower is glued directly to the ivory square

I tucked the leaves under the flowers and glued. 

I stamped all the sentiments using Black Memento ink.

The only embellishment on these are a candy dot in Calypso in the middle of the flowers.

I even tried my hand at making my own envelope. I used some retired DSP and the envelope punch board. So fun!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

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Best Thoughts Set

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!!

Those of you who follow my bog regularly know a few things about me, I love flower cards and I love to watercolor.

I have been playing around with this set, Stampin Up's Best Thoughts,

 it is a hostess set and is my favorite set for cards lately.

Coloring is relaxing and is something I love to do,

So when I have reached the point where I feel the need to escape a bit I head to my craft table and make something pretty! 

I colored up these two flowers using Watermelon Wonder and Rich Razzleberry.

I decide to make similar cards with different sentiments.

I used a piece of DSP from the Pretty Petals paper stack and the sentiment comes from the Build a Birthday stamp set.

I stamped the image on these with Black stazon onto some Naturals Ivory card stock and colored using my Aqua Painter and ink pads.

I fussy cut them out and mounted the flower to an oval I cut with the Ovals Collection framelits.

I embossed the back piece with the Elegant Circles EF using my Big Shot.

The DSP on this card is from the Bohemian pack.

The sentiment on this one is from the Cottage Greetings stamp set.

Hope you like my little card set, I enjoyed making them very much. If you are interested in any of the products to make these cards, just click on any of the links below and start shopping.

Thanks for stopping by!

Vicki

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Sweet Sunday......birthday wishes

Happy Sunday Peeps!!!

Time for a new sketch over at the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge Blog.

Here is the fun sketch we have for you this week:

I have been wanting to break into my pack of Stampin Up Go Wild paper stack. So I decided this would be my inspiration for this sketch.

I pulled out my stack and got busy!

The base of the card is Basic Black and then a layer of Crumb Cake and then I pulled out the polka dot print from this pack, I love polka dots, don't you?

My little rectangle elements on the card are layered up with Crumb Cake, Basic Black and another print from the Go wild Stack

I left the middle piece without DSP to showcase my pretty butterfly.

I die cut two with Crumb Cake and one with Vellum, using the Butterfly Thinlits and the Bold Butterfly Thinlits.

I added some Gold Glimmer down the body of the Butterfly and some linen thread for the antennas.

The sentiment comes from the Build a Birthday stamp set and I added a small strip of Gold Glimmer under it as well.

Thank you for stopping by today!!

Vicki

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Crazy 4 Challenges....happy birthday

Happy Saturday Peeps!!

It is time for a new challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges.

This week our challenge is:

The 23rd August is Ride the Wind Day, for our challenge this week create

a card that features something that relies on the wind eg kite, hot air balloon, pinwheel, sailboat, windmill, balloons etc.

I decided to go with "balloons".

I pulled out my Stampin Up Celebrate Today stamp set with it's matching framelits and got busy!

The base of the card is Naturals Ivory card stock. I then used a layer of DSP from the Pretty Petals stack.

The balloon is tamped with one of the new In-Colors, Mint Macron.

I then used some Bermuday Bay for the confetti inside the Balloon.

I cut out the balloon with the matching framelits and the bow is stamped with black and cut out with one of the framelits as well.

The Happy Birthday is from the Birthday Blossoms stamp set.

I used a bit of linen thread for the string on the balloon.

Thanks for stopping by today and

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SIP.....Happy Wonderful Christmas

Happy Friday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the challenge this week at 

Stamp, Ink Paper Cahllenge.

I wasn't intending to make a Christmas card when I first looked at the Inspiration photo, but after stamping my greenery with the red flower it just sort of happened.

It is a fairly CAS card.

The base is Smoky Slate and then I used another layer of Smoky slate on top of the base.

I stamped the sentiment which comes form the Stampin Up Wondrous Wreath stamp set with black Memento ink across the bottom of the Smoky Slate layer.

The image is from the Bountiful Border stamp set and I used Wild Wasabi and Real red on whisper white card stock.

I matted with some Real Red and then glued to the Smoky Slate layer.

I tied some Real Red bakers twine around the layer and left the tails long.

I used some gold sticky back pearls (non SU) for a bit of bling.

This layer was then glued to the base.

So what do you think of my first Christmas card of the year. I have not gotten any of the new mini items yet but they will be coming soon and I have several ideas swirling around in my head for those goodies.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Vicki

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Freshly Made Sketches.....Happy Birthday

Happy Thursday peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

This week is a very special week over there, it is their 200th Sketch and they are Celebrating!!

They have a great sketch and tons of prizes up for grabs!!

So I had to play along!

I pulled out my Stampin Up set Celebrate

Today with it's matching framelits to make my card. This is a perfect set for a Celebration!

I stamped my Balloon with Watermelon Wonder ink and used Rose Red ink for the confetti inside the balloon.

I used the matching die to cut out the balloon. The banner and bow is cut out using some gold foil paper.

I stamped the tail directly onto my card using Watermelon Wonder ink. 

I stamped the sentiment from the Happy Birthday, Everyone stamp set with Black Memento ink across the bottom of my panel.

I then cut it apart and layered a piece of the In Colors Envelope Paper behind my main panel.

The base of the card is the Stampin Up Thick Whisper White card stock.

The balloon is on dimensionals. I added the gold bow and banner to the balloon with glue. I then pulled a few gold sequins off  the string it comes on in the Gold Trim  and that gave me the idea to use that string for the string on my Balloon.

I added a  gold few sequins to finish it up.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

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Sweet Sunday.....Happy Birthday

Happy Sunday Peeps!!!

Time for another new Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!

Here is out amazingly "sweet' sketch for this week:

I LOVE a sketch with a tilted panel. do you?

I love the visual interest of the tilted panels,

 some love them and some hate them 

but either way you have to admit this is a great sketch.

 The large panel is open for almost anything!!

When I started my card I had  looked up another challenge which was a color one to use Bermuda Bay, Old Olive and Crumb Cake. So I started off with that not knowing I would end up using my Sweet Sunday Sketch for it. But that is what happened so I didn't get to link it with the color challenge because it ended before this card was to post. :)

But that is where my starting point was, I used my fave new set from Stampin' Up called Best Thoughts which is a hostess set.

I stamped with black stazon onto some naturals very vanilla card stock. I colored with my Aqua Painter and ink pads.

I fussy cut it out to add to my card. 

The base is Crumb Cake and the next layer is Bermuda Bay and then a layer of the Naturals card stock. I stamped the sentiment from the Happy Birthday Everyone stamp set, which is also a hostess set, with Black Memento ink. 

The flower is added using dimensionals.

I added a strip of Old Olive between the tilted panels and then button is an old olive one that i ties with a piece of linen thread.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Vicki

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Crazy 4 Challenges.....You'll Be Missed

Happy Saturday Peeps!!!

Time for a new challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges. 

It is the third Saturday of the month which means it is a sketch challenge.

I used the Stampin up Wild about Flowers stamp set, which I LOVE.

I stamped the leaves using old olive and the flowers are Perfect Plum.

The base of the card is Perfect Plum and then another layer of Perfect Plum that embossed using the Elegant Dots EF.

The DSP I used on here is a retired piece. and I added some Silver Glimmer Paper fro my banner

The sentiment is from the same set and is stamped with Black Memento ink.

I added a few small pearls in the flower centers and used three silver sequins in the top corner.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

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SIP.....thanks

Happy Thursday Peeps!!

While out blog surfing early this week I came across a new challenge blog, well new to me anyway

Stamp, Ink Paper Challenge Blog, SIP for short!

This week It is fun SKETCH CHALLENGE,  so I knew right away I wanted to play along. I saved it to my computer so I could play along and yesterday I got the chance.

Here is the sketch this week. 

I had colored up this image from the Stampin Up single stamp called SweetBriar Rose a couple of days ago and thought I might be able to incorporate it onto the sketch.

The image is stamped with black stazon onto some of the new thick whisper white card stock. I then used my Aqua Painter to color.

I used Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Tangelo Twist for the flowers and Old olive for the leaves.

I fussy cut it out with my paper snips to use on the circle element of the sketch.

The base of the card is Crumb Cake card stock and then another layer of Crumb Cake that I embossed with the Stylish Stripes EF.

I then added a strip of DSP from the Neutrals paper pad.

I tied some linen thread around this piece and tied a small bow.

The flower piece is added to the circle with dimensionals.

I used the Greeting thinlits to die for the Thanks. I die cut with basic black and Gold Glimmer paper. I glued them together offsetting just a bit so the gold would act as a highlight.

I then cut three small stars and tied them onto a piece of linen thread and added that under the bow with a glue dot.

Well, that is all from me!

Thanks for stopping by today.

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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New Weekly Deals

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SU Only.....Congratulations

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made for the challenge at SUO Challenge Blog.

It was a fairly easy challenge: Butterflies.

Well, after just now going back and re reading the challenge it says to make the Butterfly the highlight, so maybe my card does not meet that qualification. I guess the flower is more the highlight of my card :/

I started my card using a base of  Smoky Slate card stock. 

Next I layered a piece of the Color Me Irresistible Specialty Designer Series Paper with some Black Card stock and cut the end into a banner shape.

The flower is from the Stampin Up You've Got This.

I stamped with Black Stazon onto some Thick Whisper White and colored with my Aqua Painter.

I colored with Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry and Old Olive ink. I then fussy cut out the flower and added some dimensionals to the back.

I scrunched up some of the Silver Metallic thread and added it to the black paper with some glue dots. I really haven't got the hang of how to do that exactly.

I then added the flower. The sentiment is from  the Zoo babies stamp set.

I added a bit of DSP from the Neutrals pack punched with my small banner punch and then stamped a little butterfly and cut it out and added it on the banner,

I put a couple of small pearls down the center of the butterfly and added a bit more silver metallic to the butterfly for his antennas.

Well, that is all from me today! Thanks for stopping by 

Vicki

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Sweet Sunday..Congrats to You

Happy Sunday Peeps!!

Time for a new Sweet Sunday Sketch!

Here is the sweet sketch we have for you this week:

I went simple with my card. I used the Timeless Love stamp set and stamped it a couple of times once on my circle and then another on some scrap. I used some of the new thick whisper white, really loving this new cardstock.

I colored with my aqua painter and ink pads, I used Crushed Curry, Pool Party, Pumpkin pie, Old olive and Early espresso inks.

I fussy cut out the flower portion and added it over the base with some dimensionals.

The congrats to you comes from the Tin of Cards stamp set

The base of the Card is basic Black and then a layer of White. Then I used another layer of Black that I embossed with the Lucky Stars EF.

I used a strip of Silver Glimmer under the main piece.

The DSP here is from the Everyday Chic pack.

I covered the flowers with some crystal effect for some added shine, I then used a few White Perfect Accents to finish it up.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to head over to the Sweet Sunday Blog for even more inspiration using this sweet sketch!

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

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Crazy 4 Challenges......thinking of you

Happy Saturday Peeps!!

Time for another new challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges.

Our challenge for you this week is:

The 7th of August was National Lighthouse Day , so for our challenge today create a

card featuring a lighthouse. 

If you don't have a lighthouse, think where you would find a lighthouse… 

near the sea,beach etc and use

that for your

inspiration.

I don't have a lighthouse stamp so I decide to create a little beach scene, I tried a few times and finally just cut down a piece and went with it.

I used the ink on an acrylic block method here. I used Lost Lagoon and So Saffron ink onto my acrylic block and then spritzed it a couple of times and stamped it directly onto some watercolor paper. I then used a a small paint brush dipped into some water to spread around the color a bit.

I then used the Wetlands stamp set to add the small birds. 

The sentiment comes from the Sheltering Tree stamp set.

The base of the card is Crumb Cake and I stamped the bottom portion with another stamp from the Wetlands set. I used Crumb Cake ink.

The main image is matted with Lost Lagoon card stock and the DSP is from the Neutrals Pad.

I used some linen thread and wrapped around the bottom of the card and tied a small bow.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

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