Crafting Vicky

Hello!!!!!  How is your week going?!?  I'm doing good.  It's Thursday and we are getting closer to the weekend!!!  Woohooo :) With this being said it's time for a new release over at Julia Spiri .  And this new release is just perfect for Valentine's day.  The one that I used is called My heart. I made a little video of my process for this. I made a little journaling out of the box for this. I had lots of fun making this with some paint, some homemade stencil out of a piece of paper that I had punched out.  The flowers are from my stash as well as the little pearls.  I made the heart with a die cut from Marianne's dies. The text is from a magazine.  The image was colored with my copics and then fussy cut.  I also used some scrap papers. I'm entering this in the following challenges: Crafting by designs  - Add a flower Moo-mania  - Use your scraps The sisterhood of crafters  - Love - I used a heart as well...

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.

ohhhh it's time for a new collection release over at Julia Spiri Etsy store and this time it's about cuties for the garden!!!!  My make is the super cute little Lady Bug . I took a class over at Scrapbook central a local store this weekend and we played with totally YUMMY silk paint and gels.  I decided to make the background for this little journaling during this process and when I came home all that was required was to color the cutie up and fix her on the page. I also added some little transparent butterflies that I had from a fellow crafter's clean up sale.  Those were fixed on the page using some E6000 glue.

Hello everyone!  I hope you like this new make that I did for Julia Spiri.  She has some totally fabulous new digis out and I got to play with the great  Pineapple girl .  I decided to make a little journaling for this taht would show how much I'm longing to go on vacation :)  It's getting darker out here and it would be totally fab to be in a hot country with lots of sun right now!!! I also made a little video of my process you can see it here: And here's the journaling

OMG how cuuuuuuuute are the new release images over at  Julia Spiri ?!?  I just looooove her images and I was super excited to play with the great image  The bunny and cake . It was also just PERFECT because it's my stepmom's b-day coming up in about a week and she ADORES bunnies!  So this card is going to her :)  shhhhhh Aline.... Je sais que tu regardes mon blog... .c'est une surprise :) So here's the card that I made with this totally adorable digi.

wooop woop I have finally finished my last season for my calendars that I was making to put in my Etsy store. So I get to share with you my latest video of that series as well as one little calendar the month of August that I made using a great little image from Julia Spiri called Rose !!! and here's a closer look at Rose.  She was colored with my copics.  The calendar comes from here . Isn't she adorable?!? I'm entering this little calendar in the following challenges: 2 creative chicks  - Anything goes Crafty hazelnuts patterned paper  - Anything goes but used patern paper Noor design-uk  - Anything goes The sisters of craft  - Anything goes Glitter n sparkle challenge blog  - Anything goes That's it for me for today!!!!  Hope you enjoy my video!  I will try to post the finished product this week :) Hugs

Hello!  It's time for the new release over at Julia Spiri which you can see if you are part of the great FB group .  The image that I had the chance to work with is called The snow queen . I always love to have a chance to get ahead of my Christmas cards and this card was a great time to do so. I did a type of monochromatic look.

I've been trying to keep myself busy.  I really need to in order to progress and get my energy up!!!  And this past weekend I had taken a brake and gone to visit my dad.  We ended up making some little wood boards that I could use for my mixed media.  Those were cut by me and and sanded with the big power tools of my dad!!!!  ALL by myself!  I was so very proud! Of course I really wanted to try it out.  And I had won a super cute little gnome image from Julia Spiri over at the FB group.  I figured this would be totally awesome to use on one of those little board as mixed media.  I did a video of that process and you can see it here: Here's my little make for you.  If you want to purchase this little wall art you can do so here .

I'm totally EXCITED to be able to share that I'm part of the new release team over at Julia Spiri!!!!  Such fabulous digis .  There's an awesome FB group as well that is how I found out about them.  And of course you can play in the challenge and have the opportunity to win some great digis. My make was done using the brand new Sea and Hair .  I decided to make a  page journal layout with this.  I have to admit that I'm really really scared of the sea.  I love looking at it. But I know that it's so incredibly powerful and yes I'm very scared of the idea of being on a boat.  So that image touched me a lot. I have been tearing some magazine's apart and I found the great text that I could use on this layout.

I've been feeling down in the dump.... and I mean really really down in the dump.  I went to empty out my office on Saturday (you can imagine how it was emotionally draining and such).... and got a nail in one of my tires...... :( We were having my oldest son's girlfriend and my daughter's boyfriend over for supper that day... and I had the special visit of my dad.  It was fab that it took my mind off my issues... but that soon caught on to me actually the next day I was feeling blah and today was the pits. All I wanted to do was stay in my pjs in bed... didn't want to do anything.... and I really had to go and get my tire fixed but I didn't want too.... didn't want to do anything and I could feel the depression edging closer.... wanting to come back.... and I was ready to just let it come back with open arms and just go and crawl in a corner to cry. But then I thought how I have fought this soooooo hard and I can't give up.... it would be so very...

Hello everyone!  I got some devastating news 2 days ago.  My job was abolished.  So even if I was ready to go back on a progressive basis well I have no job to go back too.  It's taking me so very long to scrap the bottom of myself from the floor.  And to read this news well... it just brought it all back. I had to remember if it was all worth anything.... most of all AM I worth anything.  And I have to say that I'm totally BLESSED to be surrounded by so many loving people.  Everyone pulled close to me and sent me virtual hugs.  After spending 2 days crying none stop I have to find ways of getting myself back. The best way that I know how is to go through what I did to get out of the initial big hole and that is to create.  So that's what I did.  I created something for my daughter.  It was in the pile of need to do and well today it got done.  Then, as I was pocking around FB I came across the cutest little release ever fr...