Top Monthly Picks of '09

Happy New Year's Eve Peeps!! Where did the year go? It is amazing how fast the time goes by.

My friend Mercy had done this on her blog so I thought I would "borrow" her idea and give you a highlight of some of my favorite cards from the last year.

January:



February:



March: (For My Dad)



April. I choose 2:






May:



June:



July:



August:



September:




October:




November:



December:



Well, I hope you enjoyed this year end review. It was fun for me to look back at my cards from this past year. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you find time this coming year to do something that makes you happy everyday. Happy New Year my friends!!

HAPPY STAMPING!

Vicki

Mojo Wishs

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

Today I have a card to share with you that I made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

My card is made with Sage Shadow, Basic Gray and the Designer series paper is from the Nouveau Chic pack. The sentiment comes from the "Heard from the Heart" stamp set. I used my rectangle and scallop rectangle nesties for the BG layer. I used a chipboard flower from the On board Blossoms and Basics pack. I believe that is retired. I covered it with same more of the DS paper and used a pop dot covered with some glitter for the center. The corner element is cut from the Sizzix "Scribbles Swirls".

Now I have a start on all the birthday cards I need for January.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by. I am heading out in a bit to help a friend with some stamp room organization and purging. I hope you all find some time to do something that makes you happy today.

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SFYTT Wonderful Friend

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!!

Today I have a card to share made with Jen's Sketch for you to try.

My card base is chocolate chip and I followed that with some very vanilla. The DS paper is from the news "Sending Love" Speciality DS paper pack. I matted the DS paper with some Pretty in Pink card stock. The stamp set is used is "Wonderful Favorites" I used my full heart punch and my heart to heart punch. I punched a heart out of real red and pretty in pink card stock that I had used the swiss dot embossing folder on. I added a rhinestone brad to the pink heart and some real red and pink grosgrain ribbon tied to a spiral clip. I cut the circle and scallop circle with my nesties.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

SSSC50 Thank You

Good Morning Peeps! Hope you all had a Blessed Holiday!

It is Sunday which means it is time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. Here is the sketch we are working with this week:



I started my card with a 5 inch square of almost amethyst card stock. I followed that with a layer of creamy caramel and then the DS paper is from a retired hostess print pack. The image I used is from the up coming occasions mini catalog. It is called "Garden from the Heart". I purchased the clear mount set, just to try them out, I was skeptical, but I have to say I really like them!!!!!

I stamped the image with black stazon onto watercolor paper and used my aqua painter and inks to color it with. I used creamy caramel, chocolate chip, old olive, and almost amethyst ink. I used mys nesties to cut it out and matted it with another in creamy caramel. I added some old olive satin ribbon and old olive brads. The bottom piece is made with Ds paper from the Merry Moments DS pack and a MS punch and the sentiment is from the "For All You Do" stamp set.

I hope you can find time to play with this sketch. Come join in on the fun and create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen's blog and link your card using Mr. Linky so all of us can see your creation!




Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this weeks sketch!



Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

MTSC Very Merry

Good Wednesday Morning Peeps. Two more sleeps til the jolly man in the red suit pops in!!! HO! HO! HO!

I have a fun little snowflake card to share with you today. I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge for this card.

The base is made with chocolate chip and then very vanilla and the DS paper comes from the retired Au Chocolat DS pack. I cut a snowflake out of very vanilla with the sizzix Snowflake #2 die. I added a button from the Latte buttons. The sentiment is from, uh....not sure which stamp set as the "very merry" stamp was just sitting on the shelf when I was looking for sentiment to use. So I grabbed it and stamped it with chocolate chip ink onto some scrap very vanilla and used the word window punch to punch it out. I then punched a mat for it with the modern label punch and added another button.

I finished it off with a punched border piece in very vanilla with a MS punch. I added this punched edge to the back of the base with the border to the top. This is a treatment I have seen used around the blog world for awhile.

Well, that is all for today, I want to wish all my blog readers a Very Merry Christmas and a big thank you for all who comes by, I really appreciate you guys!

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

Mojo Chocolate Heart

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

Another quick post and card this morning. This one is made with the Mojo Monday Sketch.

I put this one together last night, I wanted to create something but I was really tired, I did alot of baking and candy making yesterday, so by the time I was done and cleaned up I wasn't doing my best card making work! LOL!!

I used kraft and chocolate chip card stock and the kraft DS paper is from a retired hostess pack. The sentiment is from the "On a Pedestal" stamp set.

Well, that is it for today, I have more baking to do today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!!

Vicki

SFYTT Love You Much

Good Monday Morning Peeps!! How are all you doing this last few days before Christmas? I still have alot to get done. Lots of baking today, so I will keep this short and sweet.

My card today is made with Jen's Sketch for you to Try. I haven't participated in her sketch challenges for awhile. I am done with Christmas cards and so I thought I would move onto a few Valentines, I haven't received any new goodies from the upcoming mini yet, so I dug into my retired stuff. I do love riding hood red, I used that for my base. The DS paper is the retired Candy Lane DS pack. The stamp set I used I "Love You Much".

I did notice after I got this all done and had already taken the picture, my bow is backwards, but I don't have the time to redo. The rest is pretty straight forward, but if you do have any questions, don't hesitate to shoot me an e-mail.

Well, that is it for today, not sure how much I will be posting this week, thanks so much for stopping by and please leave me a comment, I do love to hear from you all.

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki