Crafting Vicky

Hello everyone!  It's Monday, but it's ok because I'm still on holiday!!! So fun and wish it would last longer!!! Well I have no typical DT post to do today... I'm out of all my Monday DTs except for Path of positivity and that's only every 2nd Monday... so I have time to do a little DT post but this time for  Nicecrane design . He has a great new set of digis called Sweet birthday cards They are such fabulous vintage image!!!  And I just had the perfect embellishment for a card with one of these images.  I got as a Christmas gift some vintage buttons, lots and lots and lots ;o)  I know... I'm spoiled.  Told my family that it doesn't take much to make me happy... just big bins of buttons lol So I had a great button that dates I believe quite a few years... I'm using this to make a B-day card but it might just turn into the mother's day card for my mom... we will see... since "Bonne Fête" could be followed inside with a "bonne...

WOW this is one big b-day hop ;o) I'm so very glad to be part of it!!!! Hope you like the cards that I have done for the occasion! So you should have come here from Christin Myhre if you didn't you should start back at the top here . Here's the huge line up: Betty Roberts ( Vannessa Bland,Carmen Shannon, Barbara Haines Ettinger)  http:// simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/ Tanja Charles,BreAnn McFarland, Samantha Valantean  http:// craft-teeinthecity.blogspot.com / Tanya Johnson  http:// little-scrapper.blogspot.com/ Jackie Rakoski-Diediker  http:// stampingsister.blogspot.com/ Sian Hillman  http:// serendipity-cards.blogspot.co.u k/ Lucy Gregg  http:// loopylass2010.blogspot.co.uk/ Karen Pimblett  http:// www.kraftykarensblogspot.co.uk/ wordpress Maggie Cox Schoener  www.maggiescathouse.blogspot.c om Wendy Billings  www.jazzydoodledesigns.com Darcy Schroeder  http:// craftingwithdarcy.blogspot.com/ Sheri Scraps  www.ma...

Hello everyone!  I'm here to share my last post as a designer for  613 Avenue Create .  It's been such a fabulous team to be a part!  So very supportive of each other and managed by 2 fabulous women Chana and Kathi.  Now will come my time to play along ;o) But for this last post I'm creating something for our challenge Black plus a favourite color (if you take the twist of our Anything goes).  And our fabulous sponsor is: For my card I used the great Hn year ewe digi.  I thought it was fitting for this time of year.  My favourite color for this card is the blue.

For this post I decided to play at  Wicked wednesday atc .  This time the sponsor is Octopode factory and I totally love them!!!  I also figured it was the perfect time to use a freebie image that I had gotten!!! I printed the image 3 times to be able to give it dimension.  I also fussy cut the interior of that wreath... that was not a fun process lol I used some left over dp from another project.  I used my label maker for the sentiment and some added little bling. Here's a look from the side so you really see the dimension. Cool right?!?  I'm pretty happy with the end result.  I really do love making ATCs I'm entering this in the following challenges: Wicked wednesday atc  - Happy holidays Inky chicks  - Christmas Loves rubberstamps challenges  - Anything goes Party time tuesdays  - Anything goes That's it for me for tonight!  I'll be back in a few hours with a DT post and a special post... Hope to see y...

Good evening.  How was your day?  Ours was a pj day!!!!  Love those.  This is the 1st one and now we have another one planned for when we come back from my FIL. So I had time to craft and play ;o)  I made some DT stuff but also stuff just for fun like this Christmas card that's going to be ready for next year!!!  Yup need to start early!!! So I wanted to play over at  Just some lines blog  so I played with the Christmas Robin ;o)

Well it's been forever since there was a post here ;o)  The last one being on Tuesday!  Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas.  Mine was... you could say interesting lol I took down our tree this morning so all trace of Christmas is out of my house now ;o)  And took my Christmas cards out.  The handmade ones are going to be stored.  But I had a little purchased one that I thought was really cute and I remembered  Hazel  making a bunch of cards last year recycled from old cards!  I thought this would be a great opportunity to make one as well. So here's my card with a little image from a Papyrus card.

I'm here to share with you one last little post!!!  Hope you have all a very Merry Christmas with your family!!!  Hope that you get to enjoy it without all the craziness! I'm sharing with you a little card that I did on Saturday with a preprinted image that I had done for  Sami stamp .  I really wanted to play and since I had already printed it out... I figured I really had no excuse not to play along.  And since I have left many DTs I had some time on my hand to play just for fun like this.... not that I need an excuse to play with those cute digis lol So I'm using the great digi called my snowey friend .

I'm back with another little creation made with a great digi from  Dilly beans  This time I'm using the fabulous  452 - Holly girl Framed . I just looooove this image.  It's just perfect for a Christmas card.  Of course mine are all done so this is one for next year's stack!!!  Yup getting ready early this way I don't have to freak out close to the holidays. It was soooo fun playing with some Dilly Beans.  It had been awhile ;o)  Missed it!

Hello everyone!  So what have you been up too today?!?  I got some totally fabulous news!!!!  I'm one of the 2 GDT for Meljen's.  That's the best before Christmas present I could get.   Meljen's image  are just sooo awesome.  There's a few artist like that that I have been hoping to one day to design for... and this day is here at least for this one ;) We also went as a family to see the The Hobbit at the movie theatres!  Great movie except for the part about the disgusting spiders!!!!  Way too long that part... And then I had made some great chili in the crockpot so we got home to a nice meal.  Yup a great day. And to finish it off I made 2 creations just for fun with some Dilly Bean images!  Just adore those.  When I said that there where a few artist... well Dilly bean is one of them. So hopefully one day I get to design for them.  In the meantime I try to play as much as possible... and it's been awhile since I hav...

Hello everyone!!!  It's Monday but I'm on vacation so it's all good... except that this is my last post for the great  Melonheadz challenge .  It's such a great team and I'm very sad to be leaving but it's time for me to move on to something else ;o)  And saying that... they will have a DT call!!!  So send out your name and e-mail out!  You don't want to miss this out. Our challenge for you is Anything goes!!! How fun right?!? For this card I decided to get some Christmas cards done for next year.  And I used the fabulous  Christmas stuff bundle .  I did one of the images twice so that I could decoupage it!!!  And that's what I did with the bow.

Just a little head up that our challenge over at  OSAAT  is still going on and strong!!  So you will want to come and play with us!!! Hugs

So today is a special day!  It's my hubby's b-day!!!!  So happy birthday Marc Paul!!!!  And I wanted to make him a special b-day card.  So when I had been shopping at  The East wind  I came across this great digi called  Christmas tree with sexy girl  and I thought that was just perfect and would be his b-day card! I just gave it to him and I have to admit that I was right... he loved it lol

Hello everyone!  I hope you are enjoying your last weekend before Christmas.  I know that this can be a pretty hectic time for most.  I'm lucky because I got everything done ahead of time... so no running around like a crazy person right now!  Especially since I have absolutely no patience in the line ups and the parking lots... So right now I'm here to share with you a little card that I did for my DT post of  Scribbles and Scrap  and this time I used one of the little digis to make a little card to go with the gift that I had made for my colleagues.  It's good to make little gifts... but you have to make little cards to go with them... yikes that meant 8 little cards!  Good thing that this image is precolored and sooo cute. It's from the great set  Vintage girls photo topper 2  and as you can see they are super versatile because you can use them for Christmas as well as other occasions!

ok so one last post lol  I told you that I made some fast little Christmas cards for my colleagues?!?  Well here are 3 little fast cards that I made using a bunch of different sets from  Nicecrane designs The 1st one using this set : I figured it was fun since I had used this little image for one of the jars... The paper was from my scrap pile The 2nd card was done using this fabulous set : I just love the vintage look of this Santa!!!  The paper is again from my scrap pile And finally my last card using this great set : I just love those 3 little girls so enchanted in front of the tree!!! This time again it's with some left over papers as well as a great sentiment from  Create with TLC  and cut with my nesting frames from Quickuts. It was really awesome because the cards had different feel to them but were so fast to put together since the images were pre-colored!!!  Just what I needed for this project. I'm entering t...

Told you that I would be back... but this time I'm here to share with you 2 little cards that I did for my massage therapist as part of a little gift pack for her.  I decided to use 2 great images from  Nicecrane designs .  These are part of a great pack of Christmas digis but there are some without sayings... so I made them into Thank you cards ;)  For any occasions! See how versatile that set is?!?  Just click on the image to get to the set.  It's only 4.50$ for all 5 gorgeous images. So I used some small card bases that I had in my stash.  And I used some left over papers YAY for me!  in my stash.  The sentiments are from Stamping up!  I was lucky to finally find a great stamping up demonstrator close by!!!  And just had to purchase these Thank you stamps.  I embossed them with some recollection silver powder.  and here's the 2nd card. I think we are always in need for some little Thank you cards so this wa...

Hello!  So how was your Saturday?!?  Hope you got to enjoy it a bit! Here the weather was frightful... freezing rain... but it's ok because we wanted to clean the house and do all the chores!!!  So that's what we did... and now it feels wonderful.  But I have to admit to HATING the dreaded H word lol So remember the little jars that I did for my colleagues... well with a little gift comes the need for some little cards... so here is one of the cards that I did with the super fun image from Pholkart Studio  I used the fun Prim Snowman  he's only 2$$$  So a great deal. The fun part of making a small card is that you get to use the leftovers!!!  So that's what I did here with some scraps from my ever growing scrap pile!  I used my great curved rectangle and petite label 1 from Spellbinder.  I added some buttons from the dollar store. The digi colored with my copics.  I added some evergreen bough distress ink all around the imag...

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!! It's Friday!!!  And it's the last one before my 2 weeks vacation!  Man I'm really anxious for this day to be over lol I'm here to share this exciting Friday with you for a DT post of  Delicious Doodles  and this time our challenge for you is White Christmas! The image that I used is the fabulous  A robins Christmas .

I'm back as promised.  And this time I'm here to share with you the last of my little jar presents ;o)  I made the last one with the great digi that was offered as the  Simply betty stamps  - Fan page challenge!  It's the fabulous Angel Elisabete that I chose... so hard to make a choice because all 3 images were fabulous. I cut out the back part of the digi because I didn't want the matches hope in my image(Corinne and Betty are not too upset with me!!!)... I printed the image twice and mirrored it.

Good evening everyone!  I'm here to share with you a card that I did with a super image from  Create with TLC !  She has 4 fabulous digis for only 1$ each!!!!  Wow what a deal look at the digis: For my card I went with Holly Jolly ornament.  And the fabulous Carla also used that image so you will see how different your card can be with the same image!

Hello!  I'm back this time to share with you my DT post for  Digital Delights .  This time I'm using the super cute and fun  Tangled lights Reindeer  and the great sentiment  Practicing the split .

Hello everyone!  I'm here for my DT post of Creative Knockouts!  This time our faboulous sponsor is none other than: Our challenge for you is Winter wonderland!  And for my card I used the great image  A crofters winter .  I decided to go with a traditional Christmas card!

Goodevening.  It's Wednesday night... and unfortunately I feel that it should be a Thursday night... I'm one day too fast this entire week!!!!  So this is soooo long!!!!  Can't wait for the holidays I guess. I'm here to share with you one of the last 2 gifts that I made for my co-workers ;o)  I'm glad to say they loved them.... and it was much cheaper to make than to purchase at Winners (our TJ Max). This time I'm using one of the great image from  Star in my Pocket  it's the super cute  Christmas elf ornament .  I just find this image sooooo cute!  So I printed this image twice, once mirrored so that I could color it and have it look good on both sides ;o)

Ok so I was thinking all day that it was Wednesday... and it's only Tuesday night... man it's going to be a long week lol The good news of the day is that we (my entire department) decorated like crazy at work and we got one of the VP totally impressed with the great work that was done!!!  And he was in shock that the best imagination came from the accounting department... we had a whole fireplace and village going... with roofs, drapes in our windows etc... I will have to take pictures for you guys!!!! But now I'm here to share my 6th little jar!  This time I'm using the great  Rocky Reindeer  (a freebie from the FB group) from Dragon's lair to make my little gift.  The ladies and man from my team really loved them.  And the VP as well... he was extremely surprised that I had made those when he saw that my entire department each had one different lol  but please remind me next year not to do anything that crazy again (8 last minute gifts... w...

Hello everyone!  It is time for another Bit By the Bug Tuesday and that means that it is time to introduce you all to the newest freebie over at  Creative Bug on the Loose .  This week we have... Winterbug It's the perfect digi for Christmas Here's my creation with this great image  I decided to make a little gift instead of the typical card ;o)  I have seen one of those jars over at winners for 15$ I figured I could do something like this to give to my employees.  I gave them all out yesterday all 8 of them and they totally love them!!! (click read more for the rest of the post)

So how was your Monday?!?  I'm glad that mine is over... it was pretty bad traffic wise... that's what happens when it snows, now the streets are all congested until they pick up the snow... and ran out of windshield washer fluid.... yup over all just happy the day is over. The good news is that my employees really liked their little homemade gifts ;o)  And as promised I'm here to share another one with you!  This time with a really sweet Meljen's  image this time I'm using the great  Cozy winter mailbox .  It was really appropriate with all the snow outside lol  I went with some green and red to be able to play again in the challenge of this week .  And of course I will reiterate how much I want one of those 2 GDT!!!!!  Ok... yup... I know... I'm grovelling... So here's my little Christmas jar.

Hello!  I'm back this time to remind you that there's still time to participate over at  Path of positivity challenge  for the challenge about joy.  All you have do to is tell us what joy means to you, or what brings joy to you! I'm here this time with a digi from   That's only 1 of the 4 sponsors that we have for this challenge!!!  And I'm using the great digi Snowman.

Hello everyone!  It's already Monday!!!  Wow the weekends go way too fast.  I'm here with a heavy heart because this is my last challenge as a member of  Eureka Stamps .  I totally have loved my time with them!!!! A whole year... wow it really does go by fast. So for my last creation I used the really great digi 3102 snowman with wreath.

Here's my last post of the night and no I'm not sharing some other of my jars ;o)  you will have to wait to see the other 5 that I made!!! ;o) This time I'm here to share with you a little card that I made to participate in the latest challenge over at  Meljens designs .  I really really want to be one of the chosen 2 GDT!  Yup only 2 :(  So I'm trying to share with the team how much I want in!!!! lol For this card I used the great image  Pretty poinsettia  and I printed it out 4 times.  I colored it with my copics and then decoupaged it!  It's a long process but I really love the dimension that I got out of it.

Ok so this post is one of the little jars that I made as a gift and this time I'm sharing with you a fabulous address for some awesome freebies !!!  And then you should go and check out the etsy store....  it's the great  Faery Ink  and she even has a FB page here .  I came across her fabulous art via my friend Susan!  And just had to create something. So I have some of the image preprinted... just ready to be colored.  But then when I came across the little jar idea!  I thought there had to be some of the images that I could use for this project.  And low and behold there was!  So I used the freebie called Honey Faery Godmother.  Soooo cute.  I printed the image twice one of them mirror so that I could use it on both side and make it pretty all the way around.

So what have you been up to?  I got to craft today since it was snowing... and since I needed to make more of those gift jars.  I will be back with another one later.  But for now I'm here to share with you a little card that I made for the challenge over at  Lady Anne's .  It's the progressive challenge and this month the sponsor is Oak Pond.   I have already created with one of the images and needed to do something with the other image that was already colored way back... which is great because guess what... if you give a gift.. you should give a card right?!?  So I made a few really fast little cards to give with the jars.  And this is one of them. What's really fun is that I used my scrap papers!!! YAY! The card base in gold is from the dollar store.  I used my Label 18 and petite label 1 from spellbinder.  The image was colored with my copics, I added some stickles to the hat and some glossy accent for the eyes. The...

Hello I'm back to share some little jars that I made this time with a great digi from  Nicecrane Designs .  I used one of the image from the great set below.  You can just click on the image to get to the set! So I printed the image twice and reverse the image for one of them so that the image is the same on both side.  It also gives more strenght to it.

Hello!  I'm back this time with my post for  Scribbles design challenge  and our challenge this time is Shades of white! That's what I dread the most.... well maybe not the most but a lot lol For my card I decided to use one of the great zentangle image because I wanted some interest for the shades of white.... so it's  Seeds of love .

OMG it's been forever since I was here for a OSAAT challenge ;o)  So this time our challenge is a super easy one for the Christmas time!  It's Anything goes. For my card I used the super fun BBKakes image  Emolie Flapper .  I thought it was perfect for the swap that I had to do over at Stamping dragon on FB, it was New year... so I went with a new year celebration type ;o)

I'm back yet again... and in between my posts ended up one of my DT post... so yes it's been a busy night lol. For this creation I did something different... but you will be seeing 8 of these with different digis.  I came across this concept over at Winners (our Canadian equivalent of TJ Maxx) And I thought it would make a great gift.  It was 15$...and well I figured I could probably make it much cheaper and could give it out to my department (well the ones that work on the same floor as me... 'cause over all I have a lot of other folks.. it's just that they are not in the immediate vicinity).  So I went shopping at the dollar store and this is what I came out with!!!  Well one of them lol So for this I used another great digi from  Pholk art Studio .  This time I used the digi  Bundle up snowman .

Hello everyone!  It's Sunday and I'm really glad that I'm staying home... the weather is announcing snow...  so it's nice not to be stuck in traffic and to be crafting instead lol So it's time for a new challenge over at  613 Avenue Create  and this time our twist for you if you choose to accept is CAS!  And that's not as easy as it sounds lol Our fabulous sponsor is: For this card I used the super fun image Snowman Block.