Crafting Vicky

Hello!  I'm here for my 2nd inspiration post of the month for Karleigh Sue and I had fun journaling again.  But this time just for the fun of it in a journal that I made some time ago and don't use enough! Here is the make using the wonderful image  Have you heard . Since it's an homemade journal the pages are from the book itself.  And the background came together as an accident because I had put too much brushos on the page on the other side.  When I closed the book to try to absorb some of it this is what happened :)  Love it when the background makes itself!  I use some prima metallic chalk edger in gold. The image was colored with my copics.  Hope you like it!!! I'm entering this in the following challenges: Snarky stampers  - N is for not a card Crafting in a beautiful mess  - Anything goes Art by miran challenge  - Anything goes 2 crafty girls challenges  - Anything goes Crafty-girls-creations  - Anything goes Have a fabulous Sunday and stay

Hello!  It's Tuesday and it was a fabulous long weekend here!!!  Just GORGEOUS and I actually was able to go in the pool yesterday which is pretty amazing because it's really really early in the season and we only got it fully working on Saturday... so yeah all good I'm here to share with you what I made as my cover for a new junk journal for a friend.  I'm trying to make her happy and give her something to look at when she's not feeling well. The great image that I used is from Rick St-Dennis and it's called  April Daisy You can see the making of the journal cover here I had a lot of fun coloring this image with my copics.  The buttons were colored with wink by stella and then I used my gelly roll pen on it. The stencils that I used are from Megan Suarez ( you can find them on etsy)  I used a little tissue paper from a shoe box.  The background of the sentiment is from a spellbinder die and I used a little bow colored with my copics.  The sentiment

While I was in Greece the world lost a great artist.  And at the time I wasn't able to express how sad I was with this loss. Prince meant so much to me.  My teenage years were marked with his singing and of course my dancing... not that I danced all that well but I thought so at the time. Anyway when I saw this fabulous digi from Karleigh Sue I knew that I totally HAD to play with it for this tribute. I wanted to have some of the words of one of his song as the sentiment on this... but at the same time the album Purple Rain with that song was just my 1st thought... but the song didn't fit however "When doves cry". I colored the image with my copics.  The background was made with some deli paper that I painted purple then I did some dendritic print on it with white paint and tore those out.  I added some ribbon as well as a spellbinder diecut.  I used some prima chalk paint on the side. I'm entering this layout in the following challenges: Brow

Destiny Tinman  was my inspiration for the sentiment that was ideal for a postcard to send to a friend. I have a friend who was in need of some pick me up!  So I thought this would be the perfect postcard to cheer her up!  And I'm very happy to report that it did work.  And how easy is it to make a little postcard like this when you have a great image to work with and just some recycled material.   Of course I'm French.... so I messed up the saying... should have said Tin-king of you... and not Thin-king of you... oh well I'm sure that was also part of what cheered my friend up lol I have made a little video to share with you the process of this in case you want to do something similar and this one was a SUPER fast make so you have no reason not to try this out. And here's the actual little postcard that I made. The image was colored with my copics.  I fussy cut her out.  The background was simply some deli paper that I use as the cover sheets to my desk

Well it's Monday!!  But the good news is that it's time to share some inspiration for the  Karleigh Sue  .  And this time we are sharing with you some fab makes with the wonderful Mary Janes series. I used the wonderful Stoner Chick .  I soooo wasn't sure on what to do on this post... but then after thinking I thought of the song from the Beatles called Lucy in the sky with diamonds  And here's what I made with this :) The background was done while at a class with silks.  I added a bunch of washi tape as well as some letters.  The sentiment comes from the song and I wrote it on my word document.  I colored the image with my copics. I'm entering this journaling page in the following challenges: Eclectic ellapu  - Anything goes Crafting-with-friends  - anything goes Crafting with an attitude  - anything goes Through the purple haze challenges  - anything goes Southern girls challenge  - Anything goes That's it for me for today!!!  Hope you have

I hope you saw the post part one on my blog (you can see it here ). The new release from  Oddball art  is just FABULOUS.  I'm doing a 2 part blog post!  For this 2nd part I'm using Image 308!!! I just adore owls and so I couldn't resist playing with those!  You will want to check out the  FB group  for all the wonderful makes that the DT team have done.  They will inspire you for SURE. For this I made a card for my journaling out of the box.  It's using a cereal box cardboard.  This one had been used as a wipe out for the left over paints that I had while making other projects.  I also have a part of stencil showing through. Since I wanted the rest of the paint that was already on this to show through I used silk paint on top.  It's transluscent but does cover the parts that were white.  I added a little yellow mesh, some cork decorations stickers (found at the dollar store).  I fussy cut the owl which were colored using my new peerless watercolor, cosmic sh

OHHHH WOW the new release from Oddball art is just FABULOUS.  I'm doing a 2 part blog post!  For this 1st part I'm using Image 305!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE that set!!! So many fabulous possibilities.  You will want to check out the FB group for all the wonderful makes that the DT team have done.  They will inspire you for SURE. I actually used 2 images on this.  One from the set 305 and the other one is the wonderful image 294  which I have been wanting to use for awhile! I decided to make a journaling page for this. The journal page that I used had already some paint and stencil on it.  I added some brushoes to make it fun.  I also put a bit of washi tape.  The images were colored with copics as well as oil pastels!  Love mixing it up and I don't do that often enough!!! I'm entering this in the following challenges: Left of center challenges  - theme is witch but I'm entering this as LOC Open-minded crafting fun  - favorite technique - I just ADORE doing m

Hello!  It's time for a new challenge over at Scribbles Challenges and this time it's show us your tools!!! Just in time for Father's Day!  Here are the list of the digi's that I used: #807 Wrench 2 #804 Hammer #802 Saw #801 Measure Tape #806 Wrench-1 I really hope that you have liked my make that is now in my En masse journaling journal :)  I just ADORE just collecting and glueing down images :) Hugs

Well I'm here with the second make of the day and this time it's some journaling that I did!  I had fun playing with the image  Noah  and  Celestial-collection  for RSD.  The challenge this time for the designers on the FB group of RSD  is to use 2 digis... but I used more.  You can see my process in this video here: And here are the pictures of what I made for my journal.  I used some great napkins, paint, a stencil from My Favorite things as well as paints from Deco art and liquitex. and here are closer views on the 2 pages  And here is the last page with the 2 sentiments - one that I found and the other that I made I'm entering this journaling in the following challenges: 2 creative chicks  - Anything goes A bit more time to craft  - Anything goes Polkadoodle  - Things with wings - there are 2 birds in the Noah image That's it for this post!  Still more to come today!! Hugs

Hello!  I'm here with a very busy busy day!  Today I'm here with a new challenge over at  The East Wind  and this time it's TIC TAC TOE Here's the TIC TAC TOE For this make I used the fabulous  Merditation .  I made a postcard and you can see the video here: And the postcard is available in my Etsy card here . The image was colored with my copics.  I used some paints on this.  I also used some sentiment that I found while doing a search online (yup using Google) on Meditation. :) I thought this would be great fun for this postcard! I'm entering this postcard in the following challenges: Scrappers-delights-challenge-blog  - anything goes Creative artiste mixed media  - Anything goes Creative fingers challenge blog  - Anything goes Simply papercrafts for all occassions  - anything goes Crafting with an attitude  - Anything goes That's it for this post but there's lots more coming up today!! Hugs

It's Saturday!!! YAY I'm super happy to have the full day to do just what I want lol.  I slept in late (1st thing on my list).  And I will be crafting as well today but since it's gorgeous outside instead of the blah rainy day that was anticipating... I will have to go and play outside a bit as well. Anyway enough about me I'm here to share with you what I made for the FB challenge that is going on for Oddball . For my make I made the card for my son that was turning 15 years old using the image 163 . The paper that I used is from Simple stories.  I colored the image with my copics.  The sentiment is from Create with TLC and it was cut out using the deckled rectangle from Spellbinder. I'm entering this in the following challenges: Art by miran challenge  - Anything goes C.R.A.F.T.  - Birthdays Drs designs blog  - It's a guy thing Moving along with the times  - Man or boy Star stampz  - Birthday That's it for this post!!!  Hope you

I received a batch of FABULOUS stencils from  Megank Suarez artwork .  I have alwasy LOVED her work and was SUPER happy with those.  I really wanted to get to playing with them...   And since I used her stencil... she was super nice to offer a SPECIAL discount code for my followers!!!  It's VICKIROCKS this code will give you 25% off her ETSY store up until the 22nd of May!!!  HOW FABULOUS is that?!?  THANK you so much MEGAN!!!! And yesterday I was told about another Mixed media group on FB called  Mixed Media Pick a stick  (it's founded by a fellow Canadian!!!).  She provides you with some prompts for the week. I had just the perfect item to transform using those prompts!  I made a little junk journal out of a calendar box and some junk mail that I received.  I want to use this to put some great Fonts idea that I come across when I'm going through magazines.  I mean I want to try out some new fonts and purchase books and such but there is a whole lot of them FREE out th

Hey everyone!  It's time for a new release over at  The east wind  and this time it's a great Cowgirl image!!!  LOVE her and just HAD to play with her to make a postcard (yup I'm obsessed with them but you have to admit it's awesome to make little reminders to the ones that you love that you are thinking of them. I made a little video of my process yet again: I have put this little postcard in my Etsy store and you can see it here . And here is the make with this fab image I used an image from a magazine cut out.  The sentiment was found on google and I wrote it on word document to be printed and added to this.  The washi tape that I have put on this is from a swap.  And you have to see the video to see the paint as well as the stencils that I used. I'm entering this in the following challenges: Crafting from the heart challenge blog  - Anything goes Crafty our passion challenges  - anything goes Not just cards challenges  - Anything goes Scrapboo

I want to start out this post by wishing all the wonderful mother's out there a fabulous Mother's day!  I really hope you get spoiled in all kinds of little ways. I made a little mother's day card using a great image from the heart stamps called Bouquet chick.  I thought it would be totally perfect for making a little mother's day card. I colored the fab image withe my copics.  The image was cut out with a grand label 11 from Spellbinder and I used my scallop and circle dies from Spellbinder for the sentiments.  I added a little double ribbon bow and some bling.  The paper is from Oh la la for her by my mind's eye.  I really love how bright and cheerful this came out :) I'm entering this in the following challenges: From the heart stamps  - Sketch or twist - I did the twist with the ribbon Open-minded crafting fun  - Easter/spring or pastel - this is pastel and would also be perfect for spring :) Come and get it challenge  - Card for a woman C

Hello everyone!  It's time for my next post for RSD.  I decided to take on a challenge that my dad set up to me :)  He came over last weekend and when I showed him an icon that I had purchased in Greece that had some silver on it he challenged me to do something similar..... WELL I'm always ready for a little challenge and that's what I did here.  If you want to see the little Icon that was the start of it all you totally have to watch the video.  So before we go any further here is the place where I got the image from the Celestial Collection sheet . And here is the video of my make: And here is the actual make that I did.  I hace to say that I'm super happy with how it turned out! I hope you like how this turned out! Here are the challenge I'm enterning: Alphabet challenge blog  - Embossing folder Art by miran challenge  - Anything goes Crafting-with-friends  - Anything goes Creative artiste mixed media  - Anything goes 2 crafty girls challenge

It's time for a new challenge over at  More mixed media challenge  and this time it's about PINK.  I have to say that I really loved making this little postcard. The image that I used is from Faery Ink and you can purchase that image here . I made a little video of my process that you can see in this video: If you want this little postcard you can purchase it in my Etsy store here . And here is my make. I used many texture on this, a backing from a napkin, a pattern for making clothes.  I added some ribbon.  For the sentiment I used some letter stamps that I had to make the words.  I played with my stars stencil from Artploration , (I joined the monthly club... and it's just FAB so if you don't know that do check it out).  The image was colored with my copics. I hope this inspires you :) I'm entering this little postcard in the following challenges: Open-minded crafting fun  - I did the pastel because Easter is long past Simon says stamp blog

Hello everyone!  I wasn't supposed to play with the wonderful freebie from The East wind because I'm just back from vacation... but I just COULDN'T resist!!!  So here is my make with the image Fung La that you would have gotten if you are a newsletter subscriber here . I made a little postcard with this image.  You can see my process in the video here. I'm putting this postcard in my Etsy store .  I thought that I would share some postcards thinking that if people don't have time to make some they might still appreciate sending them to their pals and might be interested. Here is the postcard that I made using some mixed media way.  I have put lots of different papers that were on my desk.  The sentiment was found online and then I created it on a word document and printed it out at the same time as the image. I'm entering this little postcard in the following challenges: 613 Avenue create  - Anything goes Lil patch of crafty friends  - Anything g

Hello everyone!  It's time for a new challenge over on the FB group of Oddball Designs  and as you know it's Anything goes using an Oddball image.  If you don't have one you can go shop at the Etsy Store  and use the code DTVICKY10 to get a 10% discount! I did a little video of the fast little craft that I made using the fab digi  image 221 . And here is the little sign that I made.  The word Andy was written with my Faber Castell pit pen.  I colored the image with my copics. I'm entering this little sign in the following challenges: Brown sugar challenge  - For the boys Cute card thursday  - No patterned paper Julia spiri challenge blog  - Anything goes - option for a child - this is for my son :) Crafting by designs  - Let's hear it for the boys/men Inky impressions challenges  - All about the boys That's it for me for today!!!  Hope you have enjoyed this last little fast craft.  My son did :) Hugs

Wow time sure goes by FAST!!!  It's already May 1st and that means the midway point of the challenge going on over at  Scribbles designs challenge .  And this month it was all about bugs!  Fairly easy when you think bumble bees, butterflies, ladybug, etc are all eligible. For my midway post I decided to do a little journaling out of the box you can see my series on those on my Youtube channel.  This one however was not taped.  The little playing cards that I use to make those are 3x3 inches. The image that I used this time is  Heart Tulips .  I colored this with my tri tone coloring pencils.  I fussy cut the image and seperated the little bumble bee because the image was not going to fit here otherwise. The background was all made with some left over paints and some leftover stamping (I use some of my little cards to clean out my stamps and it was perfect for this background).  I used my liquitex medium to glue this on and the sentiment is from a magazine cut out.  T

Hello everyone!  It's time for a new challenge over at  Delicious Doodles Challenge  and this time it's a super easy one so you should all be participating!!!  It's all about flowers. For my make I used the fabulous image  Daffodils  to make a SUPER fast little postcard.  I have shared the making of it on my youtube channel you can see the video here. And here is the final postcard.  I used a cereal box as the base.  Then I used some napkin that I had received in a swap to cover it up.  Did 2 layers of that.  I thought the black would be the perfect background for this yellow image. The sentiment is from a magazine cut out.  The image was colored with my copics and then I fussy cut it out. I'm entering this little postcard in the following challenges: Patties creations challenge  - Easter or springtime - I'm doing springtime.  To me daffodils are one of the must have spring flowers :) Qkr stampede  - april showers bring May flowers - y