Crafting Vicky

I need a card for one of my employees.  And I decided to make one off camera.  OMG it's been FOREVER since I have done that.  And I have decided to use a stamp that I haven't used EVER.  I just ADORE Gorjuss stamps and I haven't been using mine.... I just don't.  But I love them that IS the reason I got them in the 1st place. So it was time to do that and while watching Courtney from Little Raven Ink (on Patreon, I love supporting artists that I like).  I just played with some alcool inks which have not been used either.... and made a really fun background. The other papers used on this card are from a card folder and the other from a very old paper pack that can't identify for you. I really hope that you like my new card for you.  I followed the sketch that you can find on my sketch/layout challenge .  It's been a very long time since I have posted just on my blog.  I hope you like it but most of all I sure hope my employee likes...

WOW such a great turnout for the 1st challenge!  So now it's time for the 2nd challenge.  I really hope that you will like this sketch/layout as much. Here is the sketch for you guys: and here is what I made with this sketch. I went all mixed media on it and turned it around.  I hope that it inspire you: I was given this gorgeous image from Martina from Deutschland.  She also gave me the beautiful strip of sticky papers.  You really have to watch the video of the making to know what I did here: Youtube video So here is the new linky tool please join in!!!!  Cards, atc, mixed media etc. just suprise me and everyone :)

I'm so excited to be able to share with you all the winner of the 1st layout challenge!!!  There were 24 entries overall.  Some came via e-mail, FB page, Instagram, snail mail, pinterest as well as direct entries via blogs.  I am amazed that so many participated and really happy to continue this challenge for another month!  I would also like to thank everyone that became a subscriber of my blog.  I really appreciated that as well. :)  I would like to post more but between life, work, family and youtube sometimes making extra post is difficult, however it's in my list of wishes for 2020. For challenge number 1 here is the winner!   And this Entry was by Patricia Dalrymple who sent hers by mail! Patricia I will be sending happy mail your way soon :) Thanks again everyone for participating and I hope that there will be many more in the challenge number 2.  It's the following post to that one.

I have promised all of you on Youtube, FB and here that I wanted to do something that would include both my youtube and my blog. My new project for you all is a new layout challenge.  I will post the layout here and show what I made on my youtube channel if you are interested in seeing the creation process. I wanted to do something that could help spark creativity when inspiration doesn't come.  My wish is to see what you do with the layout.  How will you use it?  Will you turn it around?  What will you create with it?  Will it be a card, a scrapbook page, an atc or something else that I can't imagine yet?  I know that all of you have loads of imagination and will be able to surprise me! I pondered a bit on the way I was going to do this and how long to keep this open.  I came up with the idea of doing it for a month.  However if I see that many of you are interested, I was thinking of doing more and also leaving them a month.  Thi...

Oh boy oh boy.... 2019 has come and almost gone without any content at ALL on my blog.  If this was like one of my favorite ninendo video game "Animal Crossing" there would be ton of weeds and bugs on here :) It's been a very very busy time in 2018 and 2019 with home renos and a lot of learning on my part.  I have also rediscovered stuff that I really enjoyed doing in the past like canning.  But I took it to another level by doing pressure canning this year not just water bath. I have been binge watching prepper, how-to, zero waste videos.  They have altered a lot of the way that I think and made me think on how to save money and eat healthier.  I have started making a lot of items from scratch like bread. My outside work place has also been time consuming.  We got a lot of different government audit and I was the person responsible for managing them.  I ended up getting promoted to Finance director.  For the biggest part of the year I had e...

OMG it's been FOREVER since I have posted here.  I had such great intention at the beginning of the year and then well that never happened.  It's been quite a year as you would know if you follow me on Youtube. But it's not the same to actually post a story here. Anyway I needed to make a b-day card and the image from the East Wind was just PERFECT for this!  You can find her here .  I don't color much with my copics anymore.  Some of my markers are clogging up.... sad really.  I have been doing so much more mix media. The paper that I used is probably discontinued before  but it was Kaiser Craft Lush.  You might still be able to find some on E-bay.  That's the best to find the stuff that you can't get your hands upon.  That or maybe some destashing.  I think this was the 1st time that I used that paper pack!  How bad is that?!?  I know I used to do so many more cards than I do now.  Now I mostly do videos about...

Hello!  Hope you are staying warm and safe.  We have been battling crazy cold weather here.  Well in keeping with my resolution here is another post just for the blog that won't be shown on my channel. One of my colleagues gave her resignation before the holidays and her last working day was the 2nd of January.  I figured it would be nice to give her a card signed by the entire department.  So I prepared one.  I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do.  I knew that she loves biking and I had a perfect stamp that had not yet been used.  I believe I had gotten this when it was on special with the thought of making her a b-day card.  Since that is not happening now it was the time to use it because who knows when I next will feel inspired with this stamp. Don't know about you but there are many stamps in my collection that are not being used and that should be used... all because I don't see the perfect opportunity and since I don't make card ...