Crafting Vicky

Hello!  It's time for a new challenge on the FB group of Oddball Design .  And for this I decided to use the wonderful image 296 which you can find here . The background for this journaling that was done in a modified book was done with brushos.  I love that you can't really know in advance how this is going to turn out!  I used a stamp border to do the edge.  The image was colored with my copics and I used some prima chalk ink around the sentiment. If you don't have any images from Oddball you should go and check out the great Etsy store and you can use this code DTVICKY10 to get a 10% discount on your purchases. Hope you enjoy your day and your stay creative!!! Hugs

Hello!  It's Thursday!  And I don't know about you but I'm ready for this week to be over with... it's been such a LONG week and busy and I have been staying late this week because of our year end... I'm so very tired. Anyway you are not here to hear that right?!? I'm sharing with you a journaling out of the box that I did for the Oddball FB challenge of July .  You can find the image that I used  here . The paper that was used as a background was stamped and stenciled while making other projects.  And I thought it was the perfect color for this image!!!! I also founs a sentiment that I thought was just PERFECT for this.  The image was colored with my copics. I'm entering this in the following challenges: Fabnfunky challenges  - Add a sentiment Inspiration destination challenge blog  - Anything goes Word art wednesday  - Anything goes Crafty sentiments  - Anything goes Digi choosday  - For the girls That's it for me for today!!!! Hope y

WOW where does the time go?!?  Anyway it's the 1st of July and I just realized that all the post that I'm sharing today are from Canadian artists!!!  How cool is that?  So if you missed the other ones check it out. This post is about Oddball design.  There's a wonderful FB challenge and you can do WHATEVER you want so long as you use an Oddball image.  This time I chose to make something with a digi that I colored while away with my friend Erin (which I miss a LOT right now!!!).  And I used an index card that had left over paint as a background :)  super fast and easy and most of all FUN. The image that I used is  Image 297 Here is the make: I had a big stamp that I purchased from a liquidation at my local craft store and I finally used the words from it here!!!  The image was colored with both copics (the fairy)  and colored pencils (all the books).   I also added some gelli roll pen on the wings.  I fussy cut her out.  And I used my Faber castell pen to edge it

Hello!  I'm here with my midway post for Oddball FB challenge .  It's always anything goes using fabulous Oddball images.  If you don't have any you should totally check out the store and you can have 10% off using the code DTVicky10. The image that I used is Image 103 . I used this fab digi to make a little ATC.  This was done on some gelli printed paper.  I added a little border and a little sticker sentiment. The image was colored with my copics and I used my pen to add another sentiment as well as some false stitching. I'm entering this in the following challenges: Come and get it  - Weird/whimsical - I think this fits :) 2 creative chicks   - Anything goes Left of center challenges  - Stencils - I'm going LOC Cards galore challenges  - Anything goes Dark n daring  - Anythin goes That's it for today!!!  Hope you have a fabulous Tuesday!!! Hugs

Ouf... Last post of the day :)  This last one is for the new Oddball Design FB challenge !!! And you should totally enter since it's anything goes always with Oddball images.  If you don't have an image go right on over the store and use the code DTVICKY10 to get a 10% off your purchases! And yes I have another postcard to share with you.  However for this one I have done a video that you will be able to see here: The entire reason for this postcard was to share with a friend what I had made with a puzzle piece from a puzzle she gave me.  However if you didn't watch the video... I can tell you I was really surprised by the size of the puzzle piece.  I thought it would be small ones.  Which obviously you can see is not the case.  But I was able to make something with it so I was really happy that it worked in the end. The image was colored with my copics.  I used my faber castell pen on the stenciled pieces and of course lots of paint.  The stencil used for the

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

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

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

Hello!  It's Thursday and it's time to share with you my make for the midway post of the FB challenge going on at Oddball  .  It's anything goes so long as you use an Oddball image and if you don't you should go and shop :)  You can use the code DTVICKY10 and get 10% off your order!!! In this little make I used the fabulous image 293 .  I wanted to try out something different!  I get a lot of inspiration from the wonderful crafters that put videos on Youtube.  And one of the channel that I really love to watch is  KagedFish .  If you don't know her you should check her out and tell her I said "Hello" :) There was a flip through of some of her previous work and she showed something using some collage square little pieces of paper.  And I thought this was really clever.  In my cutting up of magazine I came across some black and white pictures that I thought would be interesting for this process as well as a little poem (I didn't keep the entire poem

It's already time for a new challenge over in the FB group  Oddball Art  and as always it's anything goes with an Oddball image!!!  The image that I used this time is  Image 292 For my make I did a little postcard that I intend on sending to a special little someone!  you can hear all about it in the video that I made. If you didn't check out the video here is the little make that I did.  The base is a recycled cereal box!  Love that I get to recycle for this. I used all sorts of papers from my working table.  There was some sewing patterns as well as some book paper and some delipaper that I had used to cover my table.  The dream sentiment is from a magazine.  I used a little paper that I had punched a bunch of holes in as a stencil and then I doodled with my Faber Castell pen on that. I'm entering this little postcard in the following challenges: 2crafty girls challenges  - Anything goes 4 crafty chicks  - Anything goes dlart-thankful-thursday-challeng

WOW it's almost 4 years!!!!  I'm so amazed that I'm still blogging!!!  And I have gone through such changes from my beginnings. Here is the card that I posted with my 1st post on March 27th 2012: And here is my latest post that I have done prior to posting this My style and everything as totally changed I think!!! I have also been through lots and you guys have supported me the entire time!!!  And that's why I wanted to celebrate you as well. So I'm celebrating BIG TIME and I have a lot of prizes for you because the artists that I design for have been SUPER GENEROUS!!!!!  I'm putting them in the order of when I joined their teams so the oldest team 1st and so on.  I really do hope you go and visit their shop and FB group to give them some love and check them out if you haven't already.  If you click on their logos you will be brought to their store. I'm also doing a little giveaway on Youtube for my subscriber there!  So don't miss t

Hello everyone!  It's already time for the midway post of Oddball for the Facebook anything goes challenge with an Oddball image. I have been having different issues recently and I wanted to art journal about it!  This time it's all about earlier this month when I reformated the little sd card where I save my digis.  Why you will ask?!? because I was taping a video and it didn't recognize it and asked me to reformat... and me?!? I didn't think about it and just did it and realized after that it was AWFUL that I had just deleted all my digis.... I was lucky I had saved but not all of them back in July 2015.... that's still a whole lot of digis lost.... and then a crafty friend suggested that I try to get them back with some special programs.  I did but they all lost their names and folders :( So now I have to find where they go... and rename them.... So this is the journal page about that!!!!  Using the fab image 288 . I used my distress paint wilted viol

Woop woop it's time for a new challenge over at the FB group .  And for this time around since I was SICK like crazy last week as well as the family I just HAD to journal about it when I found this great image 289 . And since I really WASN'T feeling really alive.... I figured she would be a zombie and I would go with my favorite color combos purple and green! I used a lot of stencils on this make but one that I know who it's from is Tim Holtz bubble one (BTW for the designers of stencils, you should always put the names on the stencils.... it would be easier for us when we throw the packages to remember what we are using... just a thought).  I used some Faber castel oil pastels for the background with some baby oil to spread it (smelled awesome).  Then I used my Deep purple archival ink as well as my wilted violet distress ink.  I also stamped with my Paper artsy stamps (they are really getting to be one of my go to stamps in Stazon olive green. The digi was colored

Happy Valentine's day to you all!!!!  Hope you are staying warm.  Here it was -46 Celcius with the windshield factor yesterday.... yikes that is very cold.  But we really can't complain because so far the winter as been really mild and not much snow which is totally fine by me! Today I'm here to share with you my latest journaling with a great image from Oddball. There's a challenge on FB and it's anything goes with an Oddball image so super easy to participate!!! If you don't have an Oddball image just go to the store and use DTVICKY10 for a nice 10% discount on your order :) My image this time was Image 278   It's a set of 3 fabulous images!!! I made this in my little junk journal that I had created out of a book cover.  I was using the book page for some scrap paints to reuse in later project :)  I had not used it in a while. The stamps are from Paper artsy.  I used my copics to color the image.  The bubble was just hand cut. I'm enteri

Wow time sure goes by quickly!!!  It's already time for the new challenge over at the Facebook group of Oddball designs . It's always anything goes if you enter those challenge so long as you use an Oddball image.  If you don't have one don't forget you can get a 10% off using the code DTVICKY10 :) For my make I used the fab image 184 .  I have been coloring in one of those adult coloring book and I've been thinking that it's all good that I have fun doing that.... but then once I'm finished what do I do with all that coloring?!?  Do I just throw it away?!?  And then I suddenly thought I could use it as backgrounds for what I make and turn this into a little journal!!!  So this is what I did with this image!  The background was colored with my prismacolor as well as with my polychromos by Fabercastel. The digi was colored with my copics and I used some gelli roll pen on the wings for sparkle.  I used a sentiment from Dylusions. Here's a cl

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 :)

Yesterday I had some time to play and I decided to participate in a challenge that I am following but that I don't participate in enough!  That's the Sunday postcard challenge .  I want to do more mailing to my friends and I thought this would be a great way to do one just because for the fun of it :) For this make I decided to use a great image from Oddball called  image 140 . The challenge over at Sunday postcard is about Comedy.  Well I think this is pretty funny :)  I used a bunch of papers that I had in my stash as well as a magazine cut out that I had a little piece left and I tore the sentiment out.  It's from  Ginger house .  I doodled with my sharpie pen and also did the edge.  The sentiment was edged with a prima chalk ink.  The image was colored iwht my copics. I had so much fun doing this and I really hope that the person that I send this too will like it as well. I'm entering this in the following challenges: Sunday postcard art  - Comedy/Humor

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

Hello everyone it's time for the midway post of the FB challenge of  Oddball Design .  Wow the month is going super fast and I'm trying to get everything ready for Christmas.... not as easy as it looks!!!! Anyway for this post I want to share a little make that I did for a colleague at work :)  She was PMSing and wasn't in a good mood.  That day I got this fab sentiment from  Create with TLC  and I already had a great image from Oddball image 161 . So that was the perfect make to make my colleague smile!!! I used for the background some photo paper that I had sprayed with my alcool inks. I colored her up with my copics.  The edge of that little 4x6 make was dong with my memento ink.  I used some recollection bling as well and my Nellie's oval dies. I'm entering this little make in the following challenges: Crafty catz weekly challenge  - Sparkle and shine - there's bling here Craft rocket challenges  - Anything goes Crafting with an attitude  - An