Wishing You Well

 

Happy Monday Peeps!!!

I pulled out my Come To Gather Bundle along with the matching Designer Series Paper.

I was determined to embrace and use one of the color combos in the paper

that I had been ignoring.

They really didn't say "Fall" to me but I wanted to try.

I like the outcome of this card and besides the leaves, it almost has a winter feel to it. 

I used a technique I had read somewhere, press the die into the ink color and then die cut with

the same cardstock. I really like how that looks. In fact I did a bunch of leaves in

several colors. 

I have a whole card series to share with you the next several days using all the leaves I die cut.

 

The base of my card is Pretty  Peacock and then both designs of the DSP are matted with Mint Macaron.

The Die Cut circle is thick Whisper White and the die is from the Stitched Shapes Dies

I added it to my card with dimensionals.

I then arranged the leaves and glued the leaves in place. I added a second Pretty Peacock Leaf over the first with some dimensionals.

The leaves are from the Detailed Bands Dies and the white leaves are from the Bouquet Bunch Dies.

I tucked these around the leaves and glued down.

The sentiment is from the Gather Together stamp set and is embossed with white embossing

powder on Peacock card stock.

I cut the words apart and added them to the circle with mini dimensionals.

 

I added a white twine bow and a few little rhinestones from the Noble Peacock rhinestones.

A peek at the inside:

 

I am adding this to the challenge this week at The Paper Players.

A Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge:

I am using the diagonal...Leaves, die-cut and Patterned Paper.

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

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MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less! 

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

 

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki

Christmas Cheer

Happy Friday Peeps!!

Popping in here with a late post!

I love this Hostess set in the Holiday mini called "Holiday Haul" when I first 

spotted it I knew I would need to get it!

It is such a fun little set and I have a few more things to show you that I made using it

down the road.

This was my first go with it, So cute right?

I stamped my images onto some thick whisper white and die cut it 

with one of the Stitched Nested Label Dies.

I also stamped the tree and holly on scrap paper to cut out.

 

I used Real Red, Crumb Cake, Balmy Blue and Garden Green.

The tree is added o he truck bed with dimensionals.

I fussy cut the holly out and added it to the "trailer". 

I added three red rhinestones for the berries.

My sentiment comes from the Ride With Me stamp set.

The base of he card is real red and the DSP is from the Let it Snow pack

 

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

XJ3K2FGZ

MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less! 

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

 

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki

Wishing You a Happy Birthday

Happy Thursday Peeps!!!

I was excited to see a new challenge was up at the

Stamps, Ink Paper Challenge Blog after they had

took the summer off.

The new challenge is one of my favorites:

Make a card using your favorite stamp set, ink colors and paper!

Well, folks you know the Good Morning Magnolia is a favorite of mine.

This is another flower I had colored last week when playing with Cajun Craze.

This one is also colored with Cajun Craze but was watered down so much more than the first.

Amazing that it looks so much like Terracotta Tile. 

 

You can see the darkness of the Cajun in there tho, around the bottom 

and in between the petals.

I colored the leaves with Mossy Meadow.

I stamped the flower with Black Stazon in on Thick Whisper White and colored wih my Aqua Painter and ink pads.

I used the matching Magnolia Dies to cut it out.

The base of the card is Terracotta Tile and then a layer of of gingham DSP from the In Colors pack that is mated with Whisper White.

I used another piece of Terracotta and embossed it with the Basket Weave EF.

I matted that with more Whisper White card stock.

The Magnolia was then added with dimensionals.

The sentiment is from the Band Together set, stamped with Black Memento ink and die

cut with a Stitched Rectangle Die.

I finished with a few basic Rhinestones.

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

XJ3K2FGZ

MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less! 

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

 

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki

Happy Harvest Blessings

 

Happy Wednesday Peeps!!

Today's card share is a Clean & Simple Harvest Blessings card.

I used the sketch this week at CAS(E) this Sketch . I hadn't played in any

challenges lately and I decided I needed to get back to doing some.

This card came together very quickly. 

I already had the leaves cut, I cut several when

making a card last week and

 they were just laying in a bowl of spare parts on my desk. 

I used a base of thick whisper white card stock and then I used another layer of thick white

for the main panel.

 

I stamped the sentiment, from the Country Home stamp set, first using 

Merry Merlot ink.

I had intended to emboss this piece, but I forgot after stamping the sentiment.

I added the Crushed Curry leaf first and then the other two on the sides, 

Merry Merlot and Cajun Craze.

I then added another Crushed Curry Leaf over the middle one using a few dimensionals.

 

I then added the main panel to the base with more dimensionals.

A very simple card but also elegant in it's simplicity.

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

XJ3K2FGZ

MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less! 

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

 

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki

Birthday Wishes

 

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!

I so wish you all could see this card in person, it is so much prettier than the picture shows. 

I wanted to play with my Good Morning Magnolia set, I love this flower and it is

so fun to color.

My original thought was, of course, fall so I stamped my big flower with

black stazon ink on thick Whisper White and pulled out my

Cajun Craze ink pad to color.

I used my Aqua Painter and I colored it up and used Mossy Meadow for 

the leaves. I have to tell you I was not real happy with how it turned out but decided to

persevere and try to finish it.

I cut out the flower image with the matching die and then put it

into the Subtle Embossing folder and that is where my inspiration for what you

see here came from. I liked the look of my flower through the Embossing Folder, it toned done the color enough to make it look nicer, to me anyway.

So my answer was Vellum, I die cut a piece using the die for the flower and added it over

the colored the flower.

 

The base of my card is  Cajun Craze card stock, followed by a layer of Whisper White.

The next layer is Early Espresso and then two pieces of DSP from the Come To Gather pack.

I added a strip of Early Espresso card stock across the card between the two pieces of DSP. 

Next I used one of the dies from the Stitched Rectangle dies and Early Espresso card stock, I embossed this die cut piece with the Basket weave EF.

I added the Magnolia to the Espresso piece with dimensionals.

Then added that piece to the card with more dimensionals.

 

My sentiment is from the Itty Bitty Birthday Wishes set and is stamped

with Early Espresso ink and die cut with a Stitched Rectangle Die.

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

XJ3K2FGZ

MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less!  

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki

Season of Thanks

 

Happy Monday Peeps!!!

Today's card share is another fall themed card.

I love Fall and the Fall color palette, I used Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze,

and Merry Merlot.

I die cut my leaves from the Gathered Leaves Dies in the above colors, spritzing the cardstock first.

That little trick gives a much better embossed leaf and a two tone effect of color.

 

The base of my card is Cajun Craze.  

Then I used another piece of Cajun Craze,

that I stamped using the Buffalo Check stamp and Cajun Craze ink.

I die cut a piece of Whisper White to use for my Leaf Arrangement.

The die is from the Stitched Labels Dies.

I arranged my Leaves layering and gluing down when I got an arrangement I liked.

I used a die from the Detailed Band Dies with Crumb Cake cardstock to add a bit more interest my arrangement.

When I wen to stamp my sentiment, I of course, smudged it.

So I had to develop an alternate plan.

But I think it works and if I hadn't confessed you may have not known I didn't 

intend for my card to be the way you see it now.

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

 

I stamped the sentiment from the Come to Gather stamp set  using Black Memento ink

and added the scallop die cut to the bottom, it comes from the

Be Mine Stitched Dies.

I slide it in under my leaves, in two pieces, coming in from both sides 

I finished with a jute twine bow, I pulled individual strands from the

burlap ribbon, I added it two my card with a glue dot.

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

XJ3K2FGZ

MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less!  

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki

Open If You Dare Coffin Box

Happy Thursday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a fun little Coffin Treat Box.

I love this little treat box, I have had these laying on my craft table for several weeks and

had not opened them, why was I waiting??

So fun to work with, they come flat in a pkg of 12 (12 tops and 12 bottoms) ready to assemble.

I used tear and tape for this one. You definitely want a good strong adhesive.

I assembled the bottom first and then traced around it to make a template for the inside.

I wanted to "line" mine with some Gorgeous Grape card stock.

I cut the template I made out just inside the drawn lines and then used my 

trimmer to trim down the edges just a hair more. 

I embossed my Gorgeous Grape piece with the Stylish Scroll EF and then glued it into the bottom of the  box.

I also embossed the lid for the box with the same EF before assembling it.

After my lid and bottom was put together I used some Frost White Shimmer Paint on a 

dauber and sponged the edges.

So cool, love the look.

I stamped the sentiment from the Spooktacular Bash stamp set on a scrap 

of Whisper White and used a die from the Ornate Frames Dies to cut it out.

I cut another one of the Ornate Frame Dies in Pumpkin Pie to use on the box top as well.

 

I added a piece of Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon next and the Dracula image is cut

from the Monster Bash  Designer Series Paper. I added it over the ribbon with dimensionals.

The sentiment is then glued on and a Enamel Dot was added at the edge of the 

sentiment piece.

So cute ...right?

All ready for some Halloween goodies!!!

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this treat box.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

XJ3K2FGZ

MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less!  

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki

Monster Bash Treats

 

Happy Wednesday Peeps!!

Today"s share is some fun Monster Bash Treat holders.

I love Halloween it is one of my favorite Holidays to create for, and of course

treat holders are what it is all about right?

 I have created a PDF with instructions for this project.

Click here for that 

These little treat holders are so much fun to put together.

It starts with a piece of DSP 6 x 4.5 inches

so you could make 4 out of on sheet of 12x12 DSP!

 

I used the Ornate Dies, they are so amazing, I love how intricate they are!

I cut images from the DSP to decorate some and for some I stamped sentiments from the 

Spooktacular  Bash Stamp Set.

I added the die cut layer to the box flap with dimensionals.

 

I used Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie and Crushed Curry along with Whisper White

to create the tag fronts.

I also used a few of the fun Monster Bash Enamel Shapes.

 

Here is a pic of the little treat holder to show how I did the 

closure. Pinch up the sides a bit and fold top flap over.

I used some tiny thin sticky back velcro dots, I go mine at JoAnns.

 

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

XJ3K2FGZ

MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less!  

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki

Be Jolly

 

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!

Today's card share features the Snow Front stamp set.

This set is so cute I love that little snowman!! 

I have had a hard time getting into the Christmas cards this year,

I bought several sets during the demo pre-order and even a few more since the catalog went live and I

have yet to use them much.

I am such a seasonal stamper and I think it is just still

too hot for me to really be in the swing of Christmas card making, but I will get there.

This is one of the few sets I have played with a bit.

I stamped the little scene on thick whisper white, and my sentiment comes 

from the Christmas Gleaming stamp set.

I added it using Real Red for a pop of color!

 

I matted this piece with some real red card stock.

The base of my card is Crumb Cake card stock and the DSP on here

is from the Let It Snow Specialty  pack.

I think this is a perfect little country Christmas card, it definitely 

give off that vibe.

 

A  few little red rhinestones finishes it up.

Listed below are all the "ingredients" used to make this card.  

If you would like to buy the products for yourself,

 I would be very happy for you to shop with me.  

You can get to my online store by clicking on any of the thumbnail images below.

If you purchase from me be sure and use

my hostess code:

XJ3K2FGZ

MY SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!!!

Place an online store order valued at $50 or more (before shipping and tax),

enter the host code  XJ3K2FGZ

and you will earn YOUR CHOICE of ANY Current Item valued at $15 or less!  

Be sure and email me your choice after placing your order.

Items will be ordered and shipped near the end of the month

As always if your order is 150.00 or more don't use the hostess code, you will

still receive a gift from me.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Vicki