Merry Christmas

 Hello Guys!

Today's card share is made using the challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 

and the challenge at Christmas Kickstart Challenge:

My card:

I pulled out my retired Festive Friends Bundle.

I have to say first up that the orange on my car is very minute just on the snowgirls nose, but it is there so it counts right?

I stamped the 2 images with Memento Black ink and colored with my Blends.

I die cut them out using the matching dies.

The base of the card is Thick Whisper White and then I used a piece of Pretty in Pink cardstock an embossed with the Winter Snow EF. (retired)

I die cut a rectangle using a die in the Nste Essentials for my main image.

I die cut a couple of the trees in the Festive Friends dies using Summer Splash and added them to the rectangle and then added my Snowgirl and Elf image to this with dimensionals.

The sentiment and snowflake die cuts are from the same bundle.

I finished with a few adhesive dots.

Thanks for coming by today!

Vicki

Thank you so much

Hello Peeps!

Sorry I missed a few days here. We had a bad storm blow through and I literally mean blow through. 

We had one heck of a thunderstorm with 80+ mile per hour winds. It took out houses, trees, alot of trees, cell service for some and power. Power poles were downed and so much of the area was without power for a while. Personally, I lost power around 11 on Saturday night and it was just restored on Monday around noon, for me. Some others sooner and some others it was longer. I am thankful for friends and neighbors who helped out so much, A neighbor and his grandson, cut up and remove the large limbs that was in my yard. Since losing my husband they have been a big support for me, mowing and other small things. Sone people really come through when it is so needed.

Now onto my card for today. I made this one using

the challenge at Try a Sketch on Tuesday.

My card:

I used the pretty new Violet Dreams Suite, coming in July.

I stamped the image with Memento Black ink

and colored with my Blends.

The pretty oval stamp is in the set, along with the dies to cut it all out.

I stamped the oval with a background stamp that is in the set using Gray Granite and then added the violets to it using dimensionals.

I used Fresh Freesia for my card base. 

I then used a piece of Highland Heather an added the strips to that layer using some DSP from the matching pack. 

I then embossed it using the Stone and Vine EF.

The sentiment comes from a retired set called Simply Zinnia.

I finished up with a couple of yellow dots in the flower centers an also 3 butterflies.

and finally, a small Fresh Freesia bow.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

Just a Little Note

Hello guys!!

 Today I have a fun card to share that I mae using the sketch challenge at 

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge

Since I have been doing a lot of challenges from different sites, I generally just copied the challenge graphic and saved on my desktop.

I knew I wanted to use this sketch, I had an idea right away and since I love a square card I jumped right in.

My card:

I didn't realize it when I was making my card what challenge this was from,

it is a Clean and Simple Challenge.

I probably won't be linking it over there, since it is not really a CAS car, but it's cute and wanted to show it anyway.

I used the cute Cutest Crew stamp set.

I usd Crumb Cake cardstock for my base and the DSP is from the Easter Basket Suite of Products.

I stamped and colored up the kittens and cut out with the matching die.

I only wanted the three kittens, so I just cut them apart to use the three I wanted.

I used the Nested Essentials to die cut the white rectangle; the Crumb Cake Tag I die cut out and then cut down the top to make it a tag.

I stamped some kitty paws across the bottom of the white piece with Black Memento ink and the sentiment is stamped at the top in black as well. 

I added the row of kittens to the tag with dimensionals.

The tag was added to the card with dimensionals.

I use a small hole punch to make a hole at the top of the tag.

The red strip is a die from the same set. I added some red ribbon tied with some linen thread through the hole at the top

I finished with a few red rhinestones I had in my stash. 

Well, I hope you enjoy my not so CAS square card.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

Father's Day

 Hello guys!

Today I have a fun Father's Day card to share with you. 

I made this one with the challenge at 

 Stampin Up! Only Challenges:

My card:

I used the bundle called Gone Fishing, retired for my card. 

The base of my card is Crumb Cake cardstock

and the net layer is Very Vanilla.

I stamped my images onto some scrap vanilla cardstock using Crumb Cake, Real Red and Misty Moonlight ink and used the matching dies to cut them out.

I cut a couple of things out with Silver Foil.

I arrange the fishing supplies in the "tackle box" on dimensionals.

I stamped the sentiment using Misty Moonlight on one of the pieces that cuts out when cutting the top frame piece and mounted it with dimensionals.

The top frame is die cut with Misty Moonlight cardstock. 

I finished with a few silver metallic gems.

Thanks for stopping by toady!

Vicki

Hooray for You!

 Hello guys!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using a couple of challenges.

I used the sketch challenge at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge:

and also, the challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments:

I pulled out a set I have had for a while, and barley used the Sweet Bugs Bundle.

My card:

I used a variety of supplies on this card, the DSP is from the Lily of the Valey pack, My sun comes from the dies in Bright Skies Bundle (retired), the embossing folder is called Into the Clouds (retired)

My sentiment is from the Quite Curvy stamp and I die cut it using a die from that bundle. (retired)

I stamped the bugs and colored with my Blends using Pecan Pie and Old Olive. We dent have a Coastal Cabane blend so I used a blender and the ink pad to color the flag and scarf, I guess it is a scarf. 

I used a bit of Old Olive to represent the grass, but when I added the sentiment die cut it covered up most of it, but I kinda like the look anyway.

I finished up with a small bow and a few sparkle gems.

Thanks for coming by today.

Vicki

Hello

Hello Peps!!!

 Today card share is one I made using the challenge at Sunday Stamps, a fun color challnge.

My card:

I used two shads of pink for my flowers and two shades of green for the leaves, which is hard to see the difference in the green but it is there I promise.

The flowers come from the Fragrant Layers stamp set.

I use a technique to color my flowers that I saw demonstrate by Patty Bennet.

I stamped the fill in stamp of the flowers in Pretty in Pink and then used a sponge dauber to add Melon Mambo ink to the stamp and then stamp again and it adds the deeper color. really easy but makes a pretty flower.

I did the same with the leaves using Granny Apple Green and Old Olive.

I mounted the flower image onto a Basic White die cut using the Branching Out Dies with dimensionals.

I used DSP from the 6" x 6" 2023-2025 In Color pack that is retired. I love Pfetty in Pink and am sad it is retired too, but hoping it will come back when they do a color refresh.

The pretty embellishments are from the Dreamy Flowers that is a part of the Velvet Meadow Suite.

My sentiment comes from the Fragrant Layers stamp set an I die cut it using a die from the Scalloped Blooms Dies.

That is it for today, thanks so much for stopping by!

Vicki 
 

Thanks, from all of us

 Hey Guys!

Today I am sharing a card I made using a couple of challenges.

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I went with the middle horizontal line, Patterned Paper, Free, Twine.

and also the challenge at Just Add Ink

 

 

I used Patterned Paper, Animals, and Twine.

I just received the new Product of the Month for June last week, a cute stamp set called Wild Bunch

It is so cute, I wanted to use it. My card:

I stamped my three images, there is one more in the set but I just needed three images for the sketch,

I colored these up with my Blends using Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Pecan Pie, Golden Glow and Barely Blush.

No dies with this set so I fussy cut the images out.

The base of my card is Crumb Cake, I then matted a piece of Crumb Cake DSP with Basic White. 

I die cut three white circles using the Stylish Shapes Dies.

I added them to my card with liquid glue.

I then added the two side cuties to the circles with liquid glue and then the cow was added in the middle with dimensionals.

The sentiment is from a retired set called All of Us.

I used some linen thread to wrap around this layer and tied a bow.

I then added this to the bas card.

I finished up with some metallic gold dots.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki