Crafting Vicky

Hello everyone!  I'm here this month with all masculine makes!!!  I know right?!? (yeah same start from last post lol) but it's true!!! It's rare that I did Art by Mi Ran male pieces!!! This is my very last post on the showcase !  I am leaving Art by Mi Ran.  Sad but at the same time I thought it was time.  Not sure that my stuff is up to all the fab work I see on here :)  I'm feeling that I'm totally fortunate to have been able to be here from the beginning and have been with this totally AMAZING group of artists!!!  And the most fabulous of them all is Mi Ran!  So sweet and generous with her time and advice.  LOVE HER and totally will be continuing to follow her and make stuff with her art. Anyway enough before I start crying here.... My last make is a playful one for my little nephew's b-day that is coming up.  I thought that   Jammin Jayden  would be perfect for him. I used a lot of left over papers that...

Hello everyone!  Hope you are all doing good.  I decided to use my 2nd make of the month for Art by Mi Ran  another birthday card.  What can I say I have lots of lovely friends who's birthday is coming up. For this make I decided to play with the adorable  Gina . I really love playing with this image.  And wanted to make her colorful because well it's winter here and pretty dreary.... and grey.... and I miss the green and pretty colors can you tell?!?

I have some friends' birthdays coming up and what better image to use for them than an A rt by Mi Ran ?!? For this make I decided to play with the adorable  Willow . I also decided to tape my making of this card.  It's the 1st time that I make a video of the making of a card.  Hope you like this. In case you don't watch the video here is my card.

I wanted to make a little Christmas card for the 2nd post of the month for my make for Art By Mi Ran  because I am always in need for new Christmas card at this time of year and there are so many fabulous digis at Art by Mi Ran that I wanted to play. For this make I decided to play with the adorable  Beary Sweet . And here's the little card that I came up with.

Well Christmas is at our door!!!  And that meant that I really really had to finish off my calendar in order to be able to mail it out as a gift and have it there in time!  I'm very lucky the great Art by Mi Ran image came to the rescue for the month that I still had to finish! For this make I decided to play with the adorable  Sophia . I used the theme of the month which was use gold or Silver.  In my case I used some gold with the washi tape border.  I also colored the butterfly in a yellow gold color.  I colored my image using some copics and then I fussy cut her out. To make this I used some paints, I also played with scraps napkins as well as papers :)  The calendar was found here . I'm entering this little mixed media calendar in the following challenges: Clear it out challenge  - anything goes - I used scraps of papers and paint from my stash :)  I'm also using some cereal box cardboard as the back so recy...

Oh my.... time is flying by so very fast and my calendar is still not complete.  It's a good thing that I had to make this fabulous post for Art by Mi Ran because it gave me the opportunity to do one more month for the calendar that I'm making as a gift. For this make I decided to play with the adorable  Peaceful thoughts . Here's the little calendar that I made with this cutie that I colored with my copics.  I still have to make the holes on this calendar.  I will be making a video flip through when all the months are completed. My image was colored with copics.  The calendar can be found here .  The background was made using a little napkin that I glued with gloss medium to the cardboard.  The edge were then done with some vintage photo distress ink. I'm entering this little calendar piece in the following challenges: Everybody-art-challenge  - Branch or leaves - I got both here :) Lemon short bread challenge ...

Well it's November already... can't believe it.  But it is what it is and with that comes the new theme for the month of November over at Art by Mi Ran  which is warm colors.  This was just perfect for my mixed media because I just adore warm colors.  And I also looooooove anything that has to do with fantasy so guess what I chose as an image to work with?!? :)  A Fairy the gorgeous  Flutterby . I made another  little video to share with you my process! The base for this make is a piece of pine that I have painted.  You can purchase this little piece here    

Wow where did the month of October go?!?  It's already over and it's just way too fast for me! It's my turn to host the showcase post over at Art by Mi Ran  and I decided to make another little tag to follow the theme of the month. Here's the image that I worked with   Love in a cup .  I really love my coffee so it was a fab image for me to use! This time I made a little video to share with you my process! I did a mix of all sorts of papers and layering on this one but I like the result a lot!

Well I am happy to report that I like this month theme for the showcase for Art by Mi Ran  a WHOLE lot better lol.  It's all about tags and those I can manage.  Of course, seriously you can manage pretty much everything with Art of Mi Ran images but I still like making those a whole lot more than box cards.... Here's the image that I worked with   Sassy Sandra .  I'm not quite sure yet what I will be using her for but I knew that I wanted her to be kinda vintage. And I'm quite happy with the result.  I really went Shabby chic with this one.

Remember how much I hated hated hated the last box card for the Art by Mi Ran blog post ?!?  Well this time around I didn't do the theme for both post.... I decided to do a regular b-day card because well we always need those. For this card I decided to play with  Calla . I think it turned out quite cute.

OMG.... I hate hate hate making box cards lol and when I saw that this was the showcase choice for this month over at Art By Mi Ran I've been dreading it... and procrastinating.  It's a good thing that Mi Ran's image are sooooo adorable that they get the inspiration going. Here's the image that I worked with   Hello Mr Snowman . I decided that if I was to do a box card I would get ready for Christmas time and all the gift card wrapping that I need to do. I think it turned out quite cute.

Well last time I shared with you a fall calendar page.... but this time I'm even farther in the year.... I'm sharing with you a December calendar page because I have to finish my gift.... and well Mi Ran's images are just soooo awesome!!!!  So that was perfect for the inspiration post over at  Art by Mi Ran Here's the image that I worked with   Reindeer Friendship . It's just PERFECT for my calendar page! And since the showcase was about warm colors I thought it was even better! So here's my little calendar for the month of December. I used a bunch of left over papers to make this.  I also did some work using the great stencils from  Stamplorations  and the calendar is from  here. And if you are interested I have the entire process here for you in a video! I really hope you like it and if you do don't forget to give me a thumbs up and even better subscribe!!!! I'm entering this li...

OMG I don't know where time is going but fall is already at our door soon.  And that means that Christmas will soon be around.... yikes I know.  But that also means that if I want my Christmas present done I have to get cracking because this year I decided to make a lot of calendars.  They seem to be quite popular and it's something that is useful.  I really want to be able to give gifts that will be of some use to people. Of course that also means that I might be doing months that are not in fashion just in order to get my months done lol.  This time around the digi that I chose was just perfect for this time of year.  It's the fab   Maple .  And since the showcase theme of Art by Mi Ran for the month of August was about warm colors I thought it was even better! This time around I have a little video to share with you the process of making those calendar pages and this one in particular :)  Hope you will like it and give me a thumbs u...

I am on vacation but that won't stop me from posting my Mi Ran post and I have a great one for you. I'm still working on the showcase challenge with the cool colors but this time I decided to use something that would work in my vacation book and this is the great  Parfait Pam . Here's my make with this super cute image colored with my copics.  The sentiment is from  Create with TLC I think she was just the perfect embellishment for my book! Since I'm on vacation I'm not entering challenges but I sure hope you like my inspiration!!! Hugs

Hi all!! Welcome to our final day of Jackie's birthday blog hop! We secretly organised this 3 day blog hop for our DT leader Jackie, who celebrated her birthday the day before yesterday! Happy birthday Jackie! Wishing you a great day with all your loved ones! Comment on every stop on the hop for your chance to win 5 Art by Mi Ran images! Each blog hop day will have 2 winners. so there are lots of chances to win! Winners will be chosen randomly. You have until July 23rd to comment, and all winners will be announced on the 25th at the Art by Mi Ran blog .  You should have come from  Samantha 's gorgeous blog. If not, go back to the Art by Mi Ran blog , and start hopping from there. For the hop, all team members created a birthday card for Jackie, and I used   A closer look The paper is from MME - Blush.  I used a flower that I made.  I added a border using some Tim Holtz Kraft Glassine.  The background for the sentimen...

Well the new showcase challenge for us over at Art by miran  is Cool colors.  I don't  know for you but to me that means pale and blues.... so that's what I tried to use for this make.  I'm still trying to do other things than cards so for this I made a postcard that is being used in a swap over at International crafters over on FB :) The image that I used is  Tessa .  I really love how she looked for this! Our challenge in the swap was to use all sorts of materials we had received in previous swaps and that's what I did here.   The flowers the border and the embossed paper are all from previous swap.  I added the bling and the sentiment that's from  Create with TLC  and that was cut using my Nellie's ovals. I colored this sweet little image with my copics.  And I think she was just perfect for this.  What do you think?!? I'm entering this little postcar...

Well the new showcase challenge over at Art By Mi Ran  is anything but a square card!  And if you have followed me you know that I'm working on a coffee altered children book.  This was a great occasion to do something on this. The image that I used is  Afternoon Aileen .  She was just perfect for my little book! I used a new paint call Verday Paint on this to make it look like metal  on some left over scrounge up papers from a box.  I used some prima chalk all around the page to give a bit of a distressed look.  I used my spellbinder large circle to cut out the sentiment.  The sentiments come from  Create with TLC I colored this sweet little image with my copics.  And I think she was just perfect for this.  What do you think?!? I'm going to be entering this little book in some challenges later on. Hope you have a great Wednesday. Hugs

Well the new showcase challenge over at Art By Mi Ran  for us is anything but a square card!  So I thought this would be the perfect time to work on my vacation smash book.  Last year I did all the page while camping... but that was stressful to have to find embellishments for them.  This year I'm thinking that I will embellish a bunch ahead of time. The image that I used is  Cocktail Anne  and I thought she would be totally perfect for a vacation smash book.  She doesn't get much more vacation than that! I used a bunch of Project life cards to make a story to go with her and I think I did manage to make this quite the summer book!

It's spring here!  Finally it's been pretty cold last week but this week it's better and what a perfect image to use for a card right now right?!? The image that I used is  Dreaming of spring  and I thought she would be totally perfect for a little thank you card! For this card I made again another flower by hand.  I made the center as well and I'm really happy with the result.  Since it was big I left the rest of the card fairly CAS because I really wanted the great image to have the attention.

Big hello to everyone!  Hope all is well in your part of the world.  I'm doing again a little monochromatic card for the Art by Mi Ran Inspiration post .  I figured it's fun to challenge myself :) I really didn't know what sentiment to use with  Cowgirl Bonnie  and then I had one made just for this image!  I think it's just perfect for her. Somehow to me it's a lot easier to make a cowgirl monochromatic.... don't know if you think so but to me that screams browns and such.