Crafting Vicky

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 ...

This week at  Dutch dare challenge  our challenge is about fancy folds :D  And our wonderful sponsor is For this challenge I got to use the wonderful digi Hootie Christmas Corals from Crafty sentiments.  It's soooo cute!  And I made a card that I had never done which is a Step Center card.... it was much more complicated then I had expected.... I also tried to do a different type of embellishment that I learned by going on my DT friend's blog Desire Fourie you can find her awesome tutorial here .  I'm pretty happy with how my card turned out... it's not as gorgeous as Desire... but for me it was a good attempt! So to make this card I used Little yellow bicycle paper and DCWV cardstock.  I used my Large deckled rectangle and curved rectangle from Spellbinder. I used my CM punch to cut out the circles for the flowers.  I added some floss and buttons from my stash. The image was colored using my copics and I added some stickles for the ...