Kindness

Happy Tuesday Peeps!! Hope your official first week of the new year is going well. The start of the new year is always a little melancholy for me. Not sure why but looking back always makes me feel that way. Maybe because I am getting older and I feel OLD!!! LOL!!

I first made this card last week and it was the start of the 5 valentine cards made with this set, the Stampin Up Greeting Card Kids and the Stampin Up Love Letters DSP. Any of you that follow my blog regularly know that I have been hooked on this set for sometime now and can't make a card without using it. I also have another card planned with it for tomorrow's post so be on the look out for that. I promise I will put it away soon, well maybe after next month....LOL!!!

The idea for this card came from the challenge from the LateNightStampers group. The challenge is to make a card that is about one of your New Year's Resolutions. I am not one to make those so I was thinking what could I make to tie into something I wanted to accomplish in the future? While out shopping this past month before the holidays I saw alot of the worse of people, the pushing, the rudeness, the short-tempered people and sales clerks at the the stores I went to. One day while standing in line at the my local Dollar Store, with my tissue paper and baskets and bows waiting to check out, I finally made it up to the register, I was next in line and the person in front of me was having trouble finding enough change to complete her purchase, I offered her the little bit of change she needed and you would have thought I had given her a million dollars, she was so nice and so grateful it made my day. Now I don't have alot of money and certainly don't have enough to give away, but heck this was less than 75 cents and that will never make or break me. Later in the week I offered a elder gentleman at the grocery store my place in line, he had just a couple of items and seemed upset having to wait behind someone who's cart was full. He wasn't as appreciative as the lady I gave the change to, but still he said thank you and the store clerk smiled at me in the way that warmed my heart and made me smile too. I know these two examples are not much but it is the small things we do every day that define us, I think. So this lead me to the card, the Kindness, the random acts of kindness, and the over all kindness to others and to ourselves. It is what I am striving for this year, believe me it is NOT always easy, I get stressed, I get short tempered, I get aggravated, I just want to work on not being that way so much.

So anyway that is my card and my New Years Resolution, Kindness. Do it, and pass it on!!




Well, since I spent so much time telling you why I made this card I won't tell you all about how to make the card, it is pretty self-explanatory, but if you have any questions, just let me know. Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Paper Crafters Sampler

Only 6 days til the unveiling of the January Issue!!! The Paper Crafters Sampler, will be available on January 11Th! This month's theme focuses on Valentine's projects "With Love." The above photo is a sneak peek of the projects in this months sampler.

This is my first issue as a designer and I have to say, I LOVED getting to preview all the projects from the rest of the DT! I think you guys will love it too! If you're interested in purchasing the issue, you can head over to the Paper Crafters Sampler site, and use promocode PCSVB or mention me.

Each monthly issue includes:

•Step-by-step instructions for 8 projects
•Full color images
•Complete supply list
•Paper dimensions for recreating each project
All projects shown in the Paper Crafters Sampler (PCS) are designed exclusively by experienced Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. Each design team member brings to the sampler her own personal style, allowing the sampler to showcase unique and interesting projects.

Samplers are based on monthly themes, allowing subscribers a one-stop resource for beautiful paper crafting ideas. Demonstrators will also find each monthly theme from Paper Crafters Sampler a useful asset when preparing for monthly workshops. Samplers are planned well in advance to allow time to recreate the projects well before the season and holidays. Each issue provides a variety of projects ideas ranging from cards, to 3D items and Scrapbooking projects.

Can you guess from the sneak peek which item is mine, it is not what you think!!! LOL!!

OK here is a little sneak peek of my project:




Hope you will check it out on the 11th, thanks for coming by HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Vintage Cream & Blue Thank You

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!!

Today's card share is a thank you valentine card I made with a few challenges in mind, first of all the Our Creative Corner Blog challenge this week is a thank you recipe challenge, the recipe is, blue and cream color palette and add metal and vellum to your creation. The next challenge is the Bring Back Beautiful Challenge, the beauty of vintage on the Flourishes Blog.

I started my card with a base of Marina Mist card stock. I followed that with some vellum that I embossed with my Vintage Wall Embossing folder, be careful if you do this, my vellum was kinda thin and putting it through the embossing folder made it kinda brittle and it wanted to break and crack a bit.

I stamped the little Valentine girl, yes I still haven't put that set away yet, with black stazon onto some very vanilla card stock. I colored her carefully with my aqua painter and some marina mist, real red, daffodil delight, blush blossom and crumb cake card stock. I cut her out with my oval nesties and matted her with a piece of marina mist card stock that was also cut with my nesties, the scallop oval on this layer.

I added a strip across the middle with some more very vanilla and marina mist card stock. I punched the bottom edge with my fluer-di-lis edge punch. I added some very vanilla seam binding ribbon and a little bit of silver cording. The sentiment, is stamped onto some very vanilla card stock and tucked behind the strip. I finished it with a few silver pearls.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

SSSC98....Thoughts of You

GOOD SUNDAY MORNING PEEPS!!! It's my favorite time of the week, time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Sample

This is the fabulous sketch Karen has for us this week:





I know what you must be thinking........is she ever going to make something that doesn't use this stamp set? I am way beyond hooked on it!!!! This is one of the set of cards I made with this stamp set and these papers. The base of the card is riding hood red card stock. The card itself is a 4 inch square. My next layer is basic black and then I used three pieces of the DSP. The main image piece with the sentiment is also some of the paper from the Love Letters paper pack. I stamped the sentiment is from the "Filled with Love" stamp set. I stamped it with riding hood red ink onto the paper. I cut the paper and the matt out with my circle and scallop circle nesties. The little valentine girl was stamped with black stazon onto some very vanilla card stock. I colored her with my aqua painter and ink from the ink pads. I used daffodil delight, riding hood red, blush blossom and crumb cake. I cut her out and mounted her onto the main panel with some foam tape. I added a bit of basic black 1/8 inch tafetta ribbon and a bow.

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week, I would love to see what you come up with, create a card or scrapbook page with this sketch and then go to Karen's blog and link up your project for all of us to see.

OK, let's see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Sketch Team has in store for us this week:

Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell


Well, thank you for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Year End Review

Happy New Year Peeps! I thought I would take today to do a year in review, a look back at some of my favorite cards and projects of the past year. I hope you enjoy!

January:



Another for January:




February:



Two for March:






April:






May:







June:



July:







August:






September:




October:






November:






December:







Well, that is it a few of my favorites of the year, here's to another fun filled year, so far 2011, is looking good! I am grateful to each of you for making my blog a part of your life! Take care and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Sweet Valentine

Good Friday Morning Peeps! Yesterday was a rough day here, a neighborhood dog attacked one of our cats and I had to try and rescue it. I tried to beat the dog off with a stick and when I got the cat from him, it was so scared it bit and scratched me up! I have a very sore and swollen hand from the bites. OUCH!!! :(The kitty and I both will be ok, just a bit gun shy for a few days.)

I have another sweet Valentine card to share with you today. Another one made with the Greeting Card Kids stamp set and the Love Letters DSP. This is one of the 5 I told you about the other day. I made this one in honor of my daughter. The little girl reminds me of her, so I colored her with blond hair just like Megan's. She is such a girly girl and loves pink so I had to make her dress that color. I did use riding hood red to color the dress but just watered it down alot and I got this pretty pink color.

Here is a current pic of Megan, they grow up way to fast huh? She turned 24 this pass fall. Seems kinda like yesterday when I was holding her in my arms for the first time........boooo hooooo!!!





Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Pals Paper Arts Best Dressed

A little early horn tooting here! I was surprised to find an e-mail this morning from the Pals Paper Arts Team stating I had been chosen as one of their Best Dressed List of 2010.

This is the card that was choosen:




You can read about it HERE and see my original posting HERE.

Thanks for letting me brag just a bit. HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki