Crafting Vicky

 Today I have released the 2nd newsletter from my website.  If you are not subscribed you are missing out on some pretty cute freebies :)  Just thought I would mention it.  If you are looking to subscribe you can find it here:  www.craftingvicky.com   I hope that it's starting to look like spring were you are.  I feel the excitement when I go out in the morning and I can hear the bird signing!  I just feels so very good.  I'm also longing to be able to start my garden.  It's still too early here in Montréal but it's coming, you can sense it in the air. I did a bunch of super fun background on photo paper using some alcohol inks for my Patreons .  And I figured it would be amazing to make some freebies using those backgrounds.  Especially since they really felt like spring time. I made a sheet of them for the newsletter and some other ones that are exclusive to my Patreons but I also wanted to include one on my blog for all of you folks!  If you want it just right click

 If you watch my videos or if you have been reading my blog for awhile you would know that I really love to recycle.  And I also love getting playing cards because I use them as journaling cards in my journals or I can make some altered playing cards for ATC(artist trading cards). When I see beautiful backgrounds or images I can't help but think of doing some cards with them.  This is what I have done today in my video .   Here is the series of cards that I have made.  I have to admit to being quite proud of how they turned out. To make these cards I used some of the playing cards that can be found in sets available here in my Etsy store:   https://etsy.me/3qo2SKe The sentiments come from a digital set that I have available here:   https://etsy.me/36f4EGr I hope you will find these to be inspirational for you. Have a wonderful day and week :)

 Today I get to share with you all some Easter cards that I made.  The YouTube video is here . I really love the beautiful set of paper.  It's so soft.  Perfect for spring.  And I used a stamp and die cut set this time around for the image.  I don't often use stamps because I find that it takes me a long time to color them but these were super easy and quick.   I should start stamping images ahead of the time I need to use them and color them so that I can then just be ready when I make cards.  This being said I often like to color the image based on the color of the papers that I will use... dilemmas :)  Here is the 1st card: The addition of the little pearl next to the sentiment were I think the best thing to make it pop!  Got to love all the layers.  Told you the paper is fabulous. Here is the 2nd card: For this one I used some super pretty white seam binding to complete the layout.  I really love how they all turned out.  I'm ready for spring now! Here is the link to al

 I did it guys!  The 1st news letter is out.  So if you subscribed to my website here:  www.craftingvicky.com, you will have received it by mail today.   And as I had hinted, I enclosed a freebie digital download of card toppers.  I think that they turned out pretty awesome and I'm quite pleased with them.  As an added bonus I will include one here for you as well.  Just right click on the image below to save it.  Don't forget that you are to use this as a personal item and not share it with others.  Please send them here instead :) Have a great rest of the weekend everyone.   See you soon and don't forget to go to the website so you don't miss the next newsletter :)

 Well, it's been a very long time since I have posted on this blog!  I have been busy building my YouTube channel as well as my Patreon community. I created my very own website this past weekend and decided to join in my blog.   I have created a subscription on the website so that I will be able to send a monthly newsletter which I think can be fun for little updates on what I’m doing.   But I also thought it could be wonderful to do other news throughout the month that I would not want to put in a monthly newsletter. Therefore, it’s my plan to use the blog for that purpose.   I hope to share with you some cards or other makes that I do.   Here are the recycled Christmas cards that I have made in my Youtube video today.   You can click here if you want to go and see the video.     Take care everyone and see you soon. Crafting Vicky

Hello everyone!  I hope you are all doing well and staying safe.  I am sorry for doing the winner's post so very late!  I was debating whether I would continue to do the sketch/layout challenge or if I was going to take a break. I have decided that I want to take a break.  I don't know when or if I will be starting this challenge again but I really appreciate everyone's participation! You can see the video of the draw here:  https://youtu.be/wEZZGv4dlqg Here is the printscreen of the winning number: And here is the winning card from Catherine Bennett. Congrats Catherine for your win.  It was a gorgeous card. Have a great day everyone.

I hope you are all doing well.  It's time for a new challenge and I thought that at this time it would be good if we had a super easy challenge so that there would be more of you that would participate. Here is the new sketch that is to be followed: And here is the card that I made to show you how this can look.  You can see the video of making this card in this video. You can enter this challenge here: