Crafting Vicky

Hello everyone!  This is my very last post as a DT for SLS lines !  It's been a really fun adventure but now it's time for me to move on.  I will totally miss this great group and would highly suggest that you apply to the DT call because you will LOVE it!!!!!! For my last post I wanted to make something that I could send out to a friend.  That is one of the new resolution that I have to send out more mail to friends.  So I'm trying to make smaller items that will be appreciated :)  I used the fabulous  Love birds floral set  because all the fab elements are precolored so it makes it very easy to use.  I actually prepared the entire tag on my computer and then printed it out!!!  Easy peasy. I actually used 2 different hearts from the set and put them in different size.  I also used the little birds and put them on the little branch that is also in the set.  Once it was printed I distressed the edge of the tag and put a little bit of twine.  The sentiment is from  Cr

Hello everyone!  It's time for a new release series at Karleigh Sue !!!!  And the new release images are just PERFECT for Valentine's day!!!! I decided to make my hubby's Valentine's day card with my image Chocolate Covered Strawberry.  But I made it a funny Valentine's day card!!!  Just didn't want it to be just the typical one!!!

Hello!  It's time for a new challenge over at  Scribbles Designs Challenge .  This time the challenge is about showing some heart!!!!  So I thought this was the PERFECT opportunity to make some little valentine card for my little niece and nephew!!! For the 1st make I'm sharing my little nephew's card.  He totally loves cars and trucks so this was a no brainer I just had to creat with the great  Hearts Truck .  I did it on a smaller card than what I usually use because I wanted to avoid extra cost.  I tend to send big cards and it's costing me a lot in postage... so I will try this year to make them smaller and send some more often instead!!! The paper was some left over that I had from last year.  I added some washi tape and the image was colored with my copics.  The sentiment is from  Create with TLC . I'm entering this in the following challenges: Drs designs blog  - Heart to hearts Fab n funky challenges  - For a child Great impressions stam

Hello everyone!  It's time for my new release post for the fabulous Julia Spiri!  And the new collection is  Venice. I had a lot of fun creating with this one.  I used a background that I had created using a saran wrap method that I saw Cat Hand using.

Wow already the time to share with you my midway post of January for Oddball !  It seems like time is flying by so very fast. For this post I decided to finally get around to doing the 1st prompt of the year that Journal 52 gave which was Word for 2016! My word for the year is Acceptance.  And by that I mean accepting myself as I am and stop feeling guilty or that I'm not good enough!  I need to convince myself this year that I am worthy and that I am enough!!! This doesn't mean that I won't work hard on a bunch of my issues (for example patience which is lacking... lol) but it means that I really need to also accept myself like I would any of my friends.  I tend to want too much of myself and that is not good and it ends up in a bad spiral. I used the great image 171  to make this because I wanted this little girl to look chocked that this was my word :)

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.

Hello!  I had some time to play today (Sunday when I was writing this) and I had purchased some fabulous digis from Sassy Cheryl while she was having the 50% off sale.  I got one that's called Engineer some fun Noah.  Well that totally made me think of my hubby that's an engineer!!!!  So I had to get it! And last friday as a little treat to myself I stopped at a local thrift store and purchased a few items!  I really wanted to make a journal out of a box.  By that I mean that I wanted to have some means to journal but not in a book and more into something that I could put in a box afterwards :)  I found what I was looking for and if you watch my video you will hear more about it! And here's what my 1st make looks like!!!  I used a stencil from Andy Skinner that I purchased this week at my local craft store.  I also used a bunch of different paints from the dollar store, some newspaper that was treated with gesso and sprays as well as some tissue paper.  I finished thi

Well today I was busy playing with the goodies that I got from my swap partner for the You and Me challenge.  You can find the video about this here.  And the group on FB is here . There's a list of goodies that you are supposed to send your partner and with that they are supposed to create 2 index card.  One for them and one for you.  I have received an awesome envelope this week from my partner (I'm very sad to say that my partner as yet to receive hers.... don't know why it's taking Canada post so very long....). And I really wanted to make this in my usual crafting space which is my Laundry room/craft area instead of the garage where I usually film my stuff.  I have an Ipod touch and I mentionned to my hubby how I would love to be able to film with it.  And how could I possibly install it so that I could... at which point he just mentionned how I should use a "selfie stick".  Now I usually know about new "gismo" but I must have missed this on

OMG did you see the new release image from  Faery ink ?!?  She's just sooooo pretty!!!  And I had a special card to make for a friend's b-day... of course I'm late in sending it out... but well this way she will continue her b-day celebration longer.  That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!!

Hello everyone!  I'm here to share with you my very 1st make of the year for the Delicious Doodles Challenge. I made another little Christmas card.  YUP I'm on fire trying to get ahead of the game because as far as it went in 2015 I had barely enough for my family and friends.  I ran out for other people that I would have liked to send cards too! And right now the mailing is pretty expensive so I wanted to keep this card fairly flat.  I used a great image called    Frozen Fountain .  The sentiment is from  Create with TLC . I colored this image lightly with my copics.  I added some prima bling left over from another project and the last on the page of stickers. The sentiment was from  Create with TLC  and it was cut with my large circle and my scallop circle for the background.  The same as the background for the digi and leftover papers from another project. I'm entering this little card in the following challenges: 12 months of christmas  - Anything goe

Hello!  It's time for a new challenge over at  Oddball Stamps .  I had so much fun making this make.  I used a left over index card that I had put left over paint on!  That's the best inspiration EVER. And of course I used the fab image 128 .  I even doodled on this with a sharpie and my uniball white pen!!!  YAY I don't do a lot of that on my art work usually. I thought the sentiment was just perfect for this image.  It comes from the last club over at  Create with TLC . I'm entering this little index card in the following challenges: Deep ocean challenge blog  - Anything goes The papernest dolls challenge  - Anything goes Not just cards challenges  - Anything goes Crafting from the heart challenge blog  - anything goes Love to scrap challenge blog  - Anything goes That's it for me!!! Hope you have liked this make :) Hugs

WOW It's alreay the beginning of January and 2016!!!  And that means it's also time for the midway point for Scribbles Challenge!  For the Bingo challenge .  I used this make for a little gift to put in the stockings of my colleagues. For this one I used the fab   Too Moose Tree .  The pop up box was made using my Cameo Silhouette.  The pearls are from Martha Stewart craft and I used my Nellie's ovals for this as well as some scrap papers.  The image was colored with my copics. and I did Red, sentiment, pattern paper, pearls and glitter (on the star on top of the tree) I'm hoping that you will like this little pop up box. I'm entering this make in the following challenges: Crafting for all seasons  - Christmas - Anything but a card Dream valley challenges  - Christmas My besties uk  - Anything goes Christmas That's it for me for this post but there's still one more post coming up.  Hope you have a very Happy new year. Hugs

Hi everyone!  I hope that you are having a fabulous NEW YEAR's EVE.  I spent today having fun and just playing and using some recycling. I have been watching lots of videos on Youtube and wanting to play with new techniques and finally got around to it during the holidays.  I have put some paint on newspapers that I got from my friend Monique Van Dijk to wrap the fab canvas that I purchased from her. I also recycled a bunch of toilet paper rolls :)  Yup it's a great use for all those little rolls!!!  And with a family of 6 I can honestly say that we go through LOTS. You can find the video of the flip through on my Youtube channel here.  And you can purchase my little album in my etsy store here I have used a lot of digi images that I had from Sassy Cheryl.  I went with a theme of flowers because the title of the book is Life in full bloom.  The sentiments on top of the pages are from  Create with TLC .  The ones that are on the tags are stamps from Dylusions. Here a

Fae Owl Night  is totally magical and is just the perfect image for a CAS card. I really do love owls.  Probably more so because my dad loves them and whenever I can find a great image with an owl I know that I can make a little card for him just to say hello and that I'm thinking of him.  It's my turn to host the blog at  Faery Ink  and here's the make! But I also know that lots of people love owls and Faeries proably because they are mysterious and so very wise so this new image  Fae owl night  is sure to be a favorite of many.

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.

Ok so I don't know about you.... but I always ALWAYS end up being late.... not matter how far in advance I start for Christmas.  I always end up adding people to my mailing list, adding home made items WHATEVER always end up late.  And this year as I was telling my husband how I should have started earlier (I started the Christmas card in January, and the gifts in April) he said how I would still end up adding things to my list.... hmmmm.... well he is probably RIGHT. But I'm sure that I'm not the only one right?!? RIGHT?!? please do tell me that I'm not the only one?!?  For my make for the SLS inspiration blog I decided to make a super fast and easy card.  So I really really love the precolored set that are available over at SLS LINES etsy store like this fab  Christmas Graphic set 1  because all the fab elements are all there for you!  They are precolored and you can just print them and go!  How fab is that?!?  This card must have taken me about 15 minutes at the m

Hello!!!  It's Friday YAY that means more time soon to try and finish everything for the holidays as well as having my inlaws over on Saturday for the family party....  YIKES actually now I'm stressed lol. Anyway that's not why I'm here, I'm sharing today the new image from Faery ink called Gabbie lots of love .  This new image was just PERFECT for my bestee's b-day card.  And I'm very pleased to say that she LOOOOVED it!

Well it's already the midway post over at  Sparkle and Glitter !!!  You need to check out the fab digi that was given to those that played last month progressive challenge the super  Take yer Pick .  I really love that it shows 2 holidays that I adore Christmas and Halloween!!!! So I decided to make something different... a little card that would be on the fence to both! :)  1/2 is Halloween and 1/2 is Christmas!!!

Ohhhhh it's already the midway post for  Scribbles Designs challenge .  For my little make because it's supposed to be about non traditional Christmas I used an image that's not even a Christmas one.  I thought it was super cute and would still be perfect for it. The image is Cozy .

With December comes the holidays.... so if you are not ready well the new challenge over at Delicious Doodles will be perfect to get you going :)  The theme for this month is Christmas!  And of course there's lots of fab images in the store to use. For my make I used the fabulous image  A Crofters Winter The paper for this little card is from Christmas Cottage - Teresa Collins.  I used my Label 11 from Spellbinder and the little decorations are from EK success - swirls.  The sentiment is from  Create with TLC .  I used my copics lightly on this image and put some stickles on the snow to make it sparkle but you don't really see it on the picture here. I'm entering this little card in the following challenges: Craftin desert divas blog  - Christmas Incy wincy designs  - Winter wonderland Ooh-la-la-creations challenges  - Let it snow Stampsfun-creativity  - Winter tones That's it for this post.  Still 2 more to come so please do come back :) Hug