Crafting Vicky

Today I'm treating myself!!!  I did all the cleaning with the kids yesterday.  And I figured that today I could craft and keep my mind occupied. I saw that  Tickled pink stamps  was sponsoring a few challenges.  I had a great digi that I had been wanting to use and I had not yet done anything with it.  This was the perfect opportunity!!!!   Crafting when we can challenges  had a wonderful sketch and  Card makin mamas  had the wonderful color inspiration a gorgeous cake!!!!  That was perfect for spring.  Here's the card: I had so much fun creating this card!!!!  I got to use some tools that I had not used so far.  The paper is from Paper Reflection and the border was made using My mind's eye paper.  I used a bunch of nestabilities to create the greenery, the flower, the scallop circle, the circle around my digi and the one around the sentiment.  The sentiment is from Hero Art.  I used peeled paint ranger distress inks around the sentiment.  I used my CM tearing tool to

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