Thank You for your Friendship

OMG Peeps!!! A terrible, horrible, destructive, scary storm blew through here this morning! Trees uprooted, windows blown out, hail rain, hard straight line winds!!! A branch fell on my Jeep and broke the windshield.

I am posting my card late today but it was made for the final sketch on the Stamps and Smiles Blog

My card base is baja and I used some retired DS paper, Urban Garden. I love the colors in that paper and will be sad when it is all gone! I also used PTI white and night of navy. The stamp set is Upsy Daisy and the sentiment is from that same set. I used my handy dandy stamp-a-ma-jig t line up my sentiment.

I added some brads and tied a pretty little bow. This card is not a favorite of mine, but will do.

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

Vicki

LUCKY

Happy Thursday Peeps. Let me start off by apologizing for my picture quality. I am using my daughters camera, because mine has died and I am not very familiar with hers.

My card today is made for the sketch, day three, on The Stamps and Smiles Blog..

The Ducky stamp is from the new set in the current mini, Wagon full of Fun and it is the whole reason I purchased that set. That ducky is just adorable!!!

I stamped him on watercolor paper with black stazon. Colored him in with my aqua painter and some baja, pumpkin pie and so saffron ink. I added some ground with some lite gray ink. I matted with basic black and baja. I layered his wing on a pop dot to add some dimension. I cut the baja scallop rectangle with my nesties and cuttlebug. I added a corduroy baja button that I tied some string through in one corner and the sentiment with oval punches in the opposite corner.

The DS paper is from the Sweet Slumber pack. The base of the card is baja as well. I pierced around the ducky image and put a light wash of baja ink over the sentiment.

The corner elements under the duck was made with the scallop square punch and the 1-1/4 inch punch. The entire center element is up on dimensionals.

I feel so luck to have started this blog and made so many great cyber friends from it! I am lucky to have a great group of stamping friends who took me into their group with open arms and treat me like family, even better! I am lucky to have a super husband who supports me and loves me no matter what, I am so blessed and lucky to have a great daughter and niece who make me feel special every day!

What makes you feel lucky?

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

Vicki

Make A Wish

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!! Hope your week has been good so far.

Today's card is for the sketch on the Stamp and Smiles Blog, day 2.

I sure had a hard card making session with this one, I couldn't come up with anything I was happy with. I couldn't decide between a 5 inch square or a 4-1/4 inch square, I tried trendy trees, nope, tried thoughts and prayers, nope.....then I finally settled on Big Birthday Candle. I like the final result but it took awhile to get there.

All I knew when I sit down to start this card was the DS paper I wanted to use, Sweet Slumber. I chose my card stock colors from there, Sahara sand, so saffron and baja blue.

I really like this set, altho I seldom use it. It is a fun set, could use for young or old alike. I stamped the candle onto my DS paper and cut them out, I did the same with the flame, onto so saffron cardstock and cut out. I sponged some ruby red into the center of the flame with a Q-tip. I cut the oval scallop with my nesties and cuttlebug and pierced the scallops. The center oval and the sentiment is on shimmer white cardstock. I punched the ends of my sentiment panels with the curly label punch. The sentiment, the candles and the oval are all mounted to the card with dimensionals. I added some so saffron brads to the corners and sticky rhinestones for the side element, to meet the sketch.

I decorated the inside too. Here is a picture :







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

Vicki

Live, Laugh, Love

Happy Cinco de Mayo Peeps!!!

Today's card is made for the sketch on the Stamps and Smiles Blog. They are having a week log celebration leading up to the release of five new sets. Each day Monday through Friday a new sketch is posted and if you play along you are entered in a chance to win one of the new sets. I will trying to play along each day.

My card is started with some PTI white cardstock for the base. I used The Rockabilly DS pack and each layer is matted with the white. Last Saturday I borrowed this Birthday set, On Your Birthday, from my friend Lois, so I needed to make the most of it. I really like the Live, Laugh Love sentiment and so I used it for my focal point. The balloon is from the Crazy for Cupcakes Set. I stamped the "string" that is tied onto the balloon to come across the sentiment. The balloon itself is stamped onto some of the DS paper and cut out and mounted with a dimensional.

The rest of the card is pretty self explanatory, I accented with some riding hood red ribbon and black brads. I love brads, and use them tooooo much! How about you? What is your favorite embellishment? I would be hard pressed to choose just one, I love ribbon and brads both.

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

Vicki

SFYTT Wonderful You

Good Monday Morning Peeps! Hope you all had a great weekend!

I just can't stop using this rose from the Fifth Avenue Floral Set. I love it, it looks great in almost every color I have tried!

Today I used Jen's Sketch For You To Try for my card layout. This one was a bit hard for me, but hey, that is why it's called a challenge huh?

I started out picking my Designer Paper, it is the now retired, Maine Blueberry, which contains some of my favorite colors, old olive, not quite navy, and bashful blue. The card base is old olive followed by bashful blue and then not quite navy and finally the DS paper. I used both sides of the same sheet for the two layers.

I then colored my rose, which was stamped with black stazon onto 140 lb. weight watercolor paper, with the bashful blue, not quite navy and old olive ink. I just squished my ink pads a bit to get some ink onto the lid of the pad and used my aqua painter. I have always water colored this way but recently, I used some re-inkers at a friends house and I love water coloring that way, the color is much more intense and takes alot less to achieve a rich color. Some reinkers will be on my next order, a few at a time til I get them all!

I cut the rectangle out with my nesties to mount the rose onto with some dimensionals. I added some old olive ribbon, sorry about the raggedy ends on my ribbon, I need some good ribbon cutting scissors, and some pearl sticky rhinestones to the corners.

The sentiment is from a Hostess set, Wonderful Words, I think, not sure of that one.

Well, that is all for today, well except for one thing, I am still waiting for my sticky rolls Lois!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

WSC Friend Tag

Good Saturday Morning Peeps! It is still raining here today, and more called for tomorrow and according to the 7 day outlook on the weather channel, a little more next week! What can you do? It is out of our control.

My card today is bright even if it isn't here! I really do love these colors together. The DS paper is Washington Apple, that pack is almost gone, I have used it alot.

I used Beate"s weekend sketch challenge, hosted this week by Jen Balcer.


I started with a base of riding hood red. The card is a large one, 5 /14 inch square. I followed with some pumpkin pie cardstock and then the DS paper. When I saw the sketch, I thought of making a removable tag for the center element, maybe like a small bookmark, having it just tuck inside that bottom stip. So I set out to make one. I used my favorite stamp from the All Holiday set, I just love that sentiment. I used a jumbo brad and some riding hood red ribbon, then I promptly glue it down onto my card, so much for removeable!!!!!!!!!

I added some stars and pumpkin corduroy brads and finally some pumpkin flower brads. If only I hadn't glued down my tag!!!

Well, that is all for today, hope you all have a great weekend, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

So Glad

TGIF Peeps! It is the first day of May, the months are zipping by quickly, funny how it seems that way as we get older!

Today's card is my submission for this weeks sketch challenge on the Stamps and Smiles Blog.


I started with a base of tangerine tango, trying to make the most of my in colors paper and DS paper, they will be retiring in just two short months.

I followed up with a layer of so saffron and then some tangerine DS paper from the now retired Haiku pack. The middle piece is also from that same pack.

The main panel is the grass from the Inspired by Nature set stamped with old olive onto whisper white cardstock. I pierced all around the edges of this piece with my piercing tool and mat pack. I added some so saffron ribbon and then attached my center piece with some pop dots. The sentiment is from the hostess set, retired, Best Yet.

I finished it off with a tangerine butterfly punched with my Martha Stewart butterfly punch with some sticky pearls in the center and three so saffron brads in the top corner.

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

Vicki