Crafting Vicky

Hello everyone!  I haven't been on since Thursday night... I commented on blogs and tried to think good thoughts... but I was not in a good place.  Yesterday was really hard for me.  I'm trying to stay "tough" so that I can be there for my husband and my kids.  But yesterday I had to come back home (couldn't handle work) and I broke down.  I'm going to lose my Mother-in-law but she's more like a mother to me.  This woman was the one who showed me how to do so many things (sewing, knitting, crochet, cooking,etc).   As I was looking at my blog read list... the 1st one that was there was from  Ikes world .  This great artist had a freebie.... and this freebie was a woman with a cancer ribbon!  OMG I really felt like someone was there to help me... So I thought all day about this card.  I want to send it to my mother-in-law tomorrow. I hope that it reaches her in time.  She's doing a bit better which is great because her kids were able to understand wh

Tonight we received really bad news... my mother-in-law who has been battling a terminal cancer for over 3 years had another cardio vascular incident this week (the 2nd in 2 months).  This time her speech is affected and after the analysis it was discovered that the cancer progressed to her lungs and liver.  She has a few days to a few weeks maximum to live!!!!  This woman was so full of life and such a fighter.  This is a terrible shock to my wonderful husband.  We are all taking this very hard... the kids (my 4 great kids) can't believe that they will be losing their mamy...  Somehow I didn't know what to do with myself.... so I created a card that represents what I'm feeling for my in-laws and I really hope that my little angel can help send vibes to my mother-in-law to alleviate her suffering. I used   my beautiful Bugaboo angel no sunshine and paired her off with  a sentiment I got from birdscard.  That sentiment seemed quite fitting right now.  I colored her wit

wow... not easy making cards for someone else... much easier when they pick from cards that I have already made.  I had a request for a Birthday card for a dad.  And this card needed to be about this person.  The end request was vintage, travel or gardening since he loves to garden and produce tomatoes.  You would be surprised how hard it is to find images that would fit this ;)  But I managed to find some on various vintage sites.  I have put them as reference to this post.  Here's the card: This turned out to be a really difficult card to make but I'm happy with the result.  I used Tattered Angel mist on the sentiment, copics to color the man and some silver dew drops. I'm entering this in the following challenges: Craft your days away  - metal Love to create challenge  - anything goes Make it monday  - anything goes The stamping boutique challenge  - photo inspiration (reminded me of gardening so perfect for my card)  So that's it for tonight and tomorr

Tonight I created a thank you card that my husband needed for work ;)  At least he's going through me and not Hallmark lol.  I used another image from  Spyder corner  this one is called Petal and is a freebie this week if you e-mail. I used my CM border punch to make the border on both side.  I also used stickles on the center of the flower and the collar of the cat and I added Robin's nest dew drops.  The flowers are metal and I think I got them at a dollar store... I used this great sketch: I'm entering this card in the following challenges: Craft your days away  - metal Delightful sketches  - the sketch Tammy scrapin corner  - Anything goes with critters Paper pretties blog  - my color inspiration green and pink Dis digi designs challenge  - animal friends Just some lines blog  - say it with flowers So that's it for my night.  I want to thank my new followers!!!! So nice to see new faces in the list.  Hope you like what you see. Have a g

Today I was checking out blogs as I was taking my coffee and I came across a blog that was showing a new challenge to me.  In order to complete the challenge and get the prize you needed to use one of their digi images.  When I went to check out the post I found some beautiful digis and on top of this I could get another bunch of images for free with my purchase... how wonderful is that! Then I discovered another new site that had a wonderful sketch.  They have a great artist that does fabulous images... but I had just purchased some... so I will have to wait to get them next time.  Here's my creation!  My candy for the day. I put glitter on her wings: Isn't she just stunning?!?  I must admit that I really adore fairies.  This one is Ivy Fairy from Delicious Doodles.  I purchased her at Stitchy bear stamps, they have lots of wonderful digis. I used CC design butterfly die cuts as well as a quickutz doily for the lace doily underneath. What's really funny i