VSN & CCrak Challenge #11 "Textile Blossom"

This card from VSN is an old Flash back to my favorite LO form a few years a ago, but I added a newe twist, adding some of the Embosslit Sweet Buttons to the front of the card and inside of the Button behind the knot.  I had the button and the  emboslit one fit perfectly. since their were no holes I punched one inth ecenter like a doughnut and then slit the button and slid it behind the ribbon the slit is hid by the ribbon.  I have wanted to use the Tartan EF for a while now....and htis  Card seemed to screem for me to use it on the Saharah Sand Paper.

The Sentiment came from Eat Cake and is stamped and matted with Cherry Cobbler. as is the Paaisley backgrounder on to the Big Blossom backgrounder form SU.  I really liked how it turned out for the Using a Background Stamp, not as a background VSN Cahllenge. I had been thinking how I used to love using my background images all the time Pre Cuttlebug...I have been tryign to use them again more and this challenge helped me do that.
 Until Later...Happy Stamping!

VSN & CCrak Challenge #9 "Baby Boy Toy"

For VSN I had some goals in Mind to get my Brithday cards caught up and my Baby gifts caught up..I was behind a Nephew's Daughter, some Twin boys Niece's Son and my stash of cards  was virtually gone.  So I made a couple of this Little Blue Gem.

 I love this Baby words Embossing folder with a little Circular image I like how it turned out...the VSN a Childs Toy helped come up with this little card...I love little babies and how they smile when you wave a rattle at them...so cute.  I loved the look of the scalloped edge on the border punched trim with the QuiKuts Large Dots EF. Card Deets

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

VSN and CCrak Challenge post #1

Yes I have been busy. My MIL was on Hospice most of the month and passed away. her funeral was last week...I had a houseful of visitors..we tripled in size to 15 people visiting..at one point I looked at my Husband and Said ..."Where did all these people come from?"  I was great seeing them but a littel stressful because it was such a busy and  disorienting time.  The first weekend of Hopsice I actually did VSN...I made a lot of cards I havent shared yet.  and Yesterday I made 4 more for a CCrak Thread Challenge.  Today I thought I would show one of my cards. It was an award winner..no gift or prize money but won some recognition. Hopefully before I head out of town I can get some more post sscheduled..so I can show off what I have made!

the VSN challenge was for a Red Dress...here is the card!

I amde it for my Daughter, I got to see her last week and touch her belly...

never felt any movement, but thats okay she looked great and I cant wait to meet the little guy!

I posted details on SCS in my gallery !

Until Later... Happy Stamping!

which I am so going back to do now..afterdoing Taxes and updating, etc... I am ready to have some more Paper Crafting  fun

More VSN

I have been neglecting my blog lately only because I have been way too busy.

I did make some cards for VSN I posted a few, but not all so I thought I would play catch up today.



I made these 2 cards for an Anniversary and as a thank you.
The first used the Merry and Bright snowman, and Wonderful Words stamp sets.
the second used the Merry and Bright Tree.

I used my Snowflake Embossing folder on both and Dvine swirls for the black panel.
I used my Scallop circle punch to round off the edge on my trees after trimming them close. The VSN was too make a geometric Shape...I was attempting to make the trees look like a snow flake. Its a 4.25 by 4.25 square card.

I used Jet Black StazOn for staping and water color wonder crayons for painting. I used GP White, Old Olive, Certainly Celery and Ridinghood Red for the second and GP White, Ridinghood Red, Certainly Celery and a Black for the first. I hope you enjoy them.

Sorry I am late in posting. Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

VSN

I went to bed Thursday night with a knot in my neck and a slight headache..It wasnt any better hwen I woke up on Friday morning...I finally found sometime to create and I was sore and having a lot of pain...UGH!!

I had a terrible day Friday morning a dead battery in the car and I took a fall down the stairs dont ask me how I still dont know...I went to the chiropractor and came home and took a very long nap...Still had a pain on Saturday another very long nap and on Sunday , church and a long drive to a Memorial Service for my friends' father passed away last week...

My neck has felt a little better each day since and today its relatively pain free which is a good thing...the other good thing..that despite sleeping the weekend away i still managed to make 4 cards that I think turned out very cute... today I'll post the Birthday cards I made for my niece and Nephew they had a party Friday that was a lot of fun for my little boys...I used some old SU retired colors that I am uncertain of for the card bases...sorry! trying to use up some old supplies this year...

I also made them for a few VSN things this weekend the pink one use the thumping technique and the green one for Chorus Line...three of the same image in a row...the monkeys needed to look like they were swinging through the trees...I used the swiss dots and Birthday words EF's placement was determined by the big birthday word running up the one side. the sentiment came from Buirthday Whimsy..the Pink one used Bitty Blossoms Backgrounder retired and markers to thump with color after the whole image was inked up with Certainly Celery. I matted the image with CC also and decided it needed a notch. so I punched it out with the 3/4" circle punch. the ribbon was a buy from the $ bin at michaels this summer. The cake image is from So many Scallops...Keep forgetting I have that set...The EF is Floral Fantasy. I adde the metal dimensional spot in White and put the scallopped punched out matting up on dimesionals...It felt good to maek some cards againt hat werent wedding announcements...LOL

I have two more cards to post tomorrow.

Until later... Happy Stamping!

Last of my VSN projects

For VSN besides cards I also made a few projects, so I have one card, a Composition Book and candy bag to show you.

The card was for the Bling challenge, use glitter, stickles or something. I used my Sakura clear stardust gel pen I love how easily it lets you add sparkle to a project and in such detailed spaces. You might need to click on it to see the "bling". I water colored the fish from "Fishy Friends" with my Watercolor Wonder Crayons, and used the sentiment from the fish stamp in "Very Punny". I used Bashful Blue for the background and used my Bubbles Embossing folder to emboss it in my Cuttlebug. Iused the glitter pen to add detailed bling to the scales of the fish. and accented the silvery shimmer with some silver cord tied over the Ribbon.

For the Altered Composition Book I used the Uptown DP from SU. I first used the basic Gray colored sheet of paper to cover the spine. and then the mullticolored sheet to cover the back and front panels butting them up to each other. I cut the paper with my Cricut using "Walk In My Garden" cartridge to cover the seam using the blossom and border feature cutting 3 times at 1-1/2". By reversing the center piece I made a wave of flowers, making sure the center cut out were overlapping the grey paper so they would show up better. I then added ribbon pieces that I thought matched the paper well a satin green, a grosgrain lilac and a snipet of yellow trim I picked up at a local craft store. I had the "e" imbellishment in my stash. I believe given to me by a friend. I like how it turned out nice and simple for my DD's friend.

My last and final VSN Project for January's VSN

are these Covered Nugget Candy Bags. I used some flowers I cut with my Cricut last spring for an ATC. some off white satin ribbon and some cellophane bags. I had about 10 labels left on a sheet of labels so I used my leaf Jumbo Wheel and my mellow moss stamp pad to put leaves on the labels and a sheet of White GP cardstock.

then I used the flower from Think Happy Thoughts to stamp Pretty in Pink flowers all over the labels and images of leaves. Prior to stamping and rolling the wheel I masked the labels with

1-1/4" circles I had punched from Post It notes. I was thinking that adding the Friendship stamp to the blank area would be cute. I used SU basic gray Ink and little pieces to add the heart image to the center and I feel I went wrong here. I shold have just used just the Wheel and flower image as that turned out so cute. I felt the fold over top needed a bit more so I used 2 of my large yellow striped brads for flower centers. Little Punched out flowers would have looked great on the tops of the nuggets.

Oh well to make all these projects each in less than 45 minutes is an accomplishment for me all of its own. Until later ...Happy Stamping!

More VSN

Sorry, but I am not so into posting everything in my blog right now...

I dont know why, but I have been getting a lot more creating done here is a bit more of the VSN Stuff I did last weekend. This first one was one of my favorites.

I used my new SU Celebrate Everything and Happy Everything set and the Word Window Punch. Petals and Paisleys Dp...It fun and colorful and I like it.

This is the Punchie Ewe I made I also used it for A sketch challenge on SCS

Used my Cuttlebug and my giga oval punch, and farm fever for a sentiment I think it turned out cute...

I made this V fold card also I had fun making it also...I used my Autum Leaves swirl & Riveting stamps Uptown decorative paper and my spring flower punch I had fun making it...

I have made much better masking cards but not in 45 minutes or less, so this is the quickest masked card I have ever made and that is the only reason I am posting it.

well Until Later..... Happy Stamping!

I am seriously considering not blogging my cards anymore it is a a lot of busy work and takes away from my creative time...I want thank you now becasue if i do make this decision I might not get to thank you for all your comments and visits. I have a few more post this week but I am debating stopping the beginning of February...we will see then

VSN Stuff

Well Its not like I dont have a lot of stuff to blog about...funny stories or cards to post...I do...

It just that I have been busy making post on SCS so I couldreach the 10K mark the big half way point to giving your self a nick name....

It has been very cold here and my stamp place is the coldest part of my house so I have avoided it for a few days. Trying to stay warm it seems my furnace is not keepin gup with the cold....

I wore a hoodie to do some creating during VSN..I think my few cards I made turned out well. I am just going to post pictures if you have questions ask and I will answer them.

the first was from JAN08VSNA...The challenge was to make a round card using this sketch..

I really wanted to just leave the triangles out, but I followed the sketch...I think it turned out well considering you only have 45 Min to make a card...It is hard for me to create that fast...You should see the mess I made in my freezing space...It's still there by the way waiting for me to clean it up...

the second card was a chocolate shoes card, being inspired by Chocolate shoes they were all pretty Pink and brown and white....georgous shoes, the kind which I will probably never own, because 1. they are probably very expensive and 2. because my toes really love comfort....But this is the shoe card I made because the shoes were so pretty... I like how it turned out but I think if I did it again I would just cut the shoe and put it on a background so I had a full size card. I made this for a Birthday card I need to get int he mail soon.

the last card was a little out of my element. The assignment was to stamp on Black....I love black but I always mat with it or something as an accent. So I decided to use my kaliedescope embossing powder, because I had this cute little fiber ribbon that an elf sent me at Christmas and I wanted to use it.... Doesn't it look great on this card...It took a while to get the pastels on the Cup Cake to show up but all in all I think it turned out nice and it is another Birthday card I was in need of.... I loved using my cuttlebug on these cards it really added some umpf to them..

I will post a new sketch tomorrow... and then some more VSN before the weekend....See how lazy I've been...Just a choice I made for January , 1. because I was tired from all the holiday rush and 2. It is really cold right now..

Until Later ....Happy Stamping!