HB2U- From All Of Us

Helloooooo there my lovely friends, how are you all?

Well I'm here with a new stamp today, ok new tamp & dies as my lovely hubby brought me some Stamping Bella stamps &some CC Design dies......yep I'm in love!!

So here is my first card with a Stamping Bella stamp & its also for the Bellarific challenge over here.

The stamp is Tiny Townies Birthday Party & I coloured them with Copics & chopped off their feet to go in thi frame.......this is the bit I took from the inspiration piccy over at Bellarific.. Isn't this image just fabulous!!!

Inisde is decorated & I used dies from CC Design Make A Card Birthday which are awesome!!

Ooooh I forgot to trim off the ends of the lace......better get that done after.

All of the dies used on the front are from CC Design Make A Card Birthday, except the rectangle frmae & that was made using CC Design Dotted Rectangles dies....I cut a few out in kraft & then glued them together to ake a stiffer frame.

Lace is from my stash & the papers are Maja Design Enjoying Outdoors.

The sentiment at the bottom came with the Stamping Bella stamp.

Copic Colours used are......

Skin - E04, 11, 21, 00, 000

Hair (from left to right) - E59,57,55,53,50 - E79,77,74,71,70 - E29,27,25,23,21 

Dress (from left to right) - RV99,95,93,91 - R89,85,83,81,RV10 - V17,15,12

I used the same colours for hat shoes & balloons........yes I know there are no shoes but that was decided after lol. Also the girl on the right I added another 2 colours to her belt but forgot to write them down :-(

I also added pink shabby fran-tage around the image.

Thanks for stopping by lovelies, short & sweet..........ok kinda short & sweet lol.

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

Challenges I'm Entering.........

Bellarific Challenge - Inspirational photo

Magnolia-Licious - Anything Goes

La La Land Crafts - Kraft

Hello everyone.........wooooo hooooo its Friday....yay the weekend is here. Do you have any plans or is it your last weekend to snuggle those kiddies before they go back school.

I'm away for the weekend in the caravans with the whole family.....we have probably left by the time you are reading this.......

Ok the other fab reason its friday is its La La day ;-) Yep I get to show you my creation for La La Land Crafts & this week our theme was to use Kraft.....

I made a pretty in pink card for this pretty lady.......though she would suit all colours dont you think...

I used 'Summer Fun Marci' & coloured her with Copics.....yeah still trying get back in the swing of them, getting there slowly.

I love her hair bunches, reminds me of my grand-daughter Payton when she has her hair like this :-)

The frame Marci is in in the remnant of a Scrapiniec chipboard & I used it as a frame......waste nothing lol. I also popped a Happy Summer sentiment from Maja Design Summertime Die-Cuts in the corner.

The pretty paper is Studio Light No.17 6x6 pad & I machine stitched all layers. The pen nib in the centre of the butterfly is from Noor Design UK, also the flowers & pomegrantae apples are & the Gessso. The lace & blingy button I think were from Live & Love Crafts.

La La Land Crafts Products & Links

Rubber Stamp

Summer Fun Marci

Dies

Two Leaves (set of 2)

Heart Doily Border

Scallop Border

Butterflies Set 1 (set of 2)

Copics Used.....

Skin - E11, E21, E00, E000 

Hair - E59, E57, E55, E53, E50 

Top, Flip Flops & Hair Scrunchie - R89, R85, R83, R81, RV10

Shorts - C5, C3, C1, C0

Well thats it from me pop on over to La La Land Crafts Store to look at all the yummy scrummy products.......beware you will fill your basket ;-)

Tatty bye lovelies, hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Take care. Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

Hellooooo again.....guess what it's me....yes meeeeeee

Hello all you lovely crafty peeps out there. Well I meant to come back before Christmas & wish you a Merry Crimbo, then I meant to come back in January & wish you all a Happy New Year...........yeah both of them failed but I'm here now soooooooooo

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year everyone ;-) lol.

Yep still Thicky Vicky lol. However I am back now, permanently. Things have gone on this year & wasn't quite the start we wanted but you have to roll with the punches in life, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, lift your head, smile & carry on. So here I am smiling because even though things havnt gone as planned, I have my family & that is worth its weight in gold.

Ok so remember that post when I said I was gonna craft but stick to CAS blah blah blah......yeah well that kinda blew out the window You see I've always made foofy cards etc, right from the start so to start making CAS all the time.............well it bored me & whilst I love CAS cards I could not make them all the time..........there would be no challenge for me, no going outside my comfort zone (though crafting CAS 24/7 would deffo be outside my comfort zone lol). So in the last 3 months I've made 1 card..........yep 1 CAS card which probably took me nearly as long as it does doing a foofy card. I made this card that I'm gonna show you in January & I was bored at the fact of doing more like this..........much more :-( Also as the exciting thing that was gonna happen we've now had to put on hold :-( plans have changed.

So as of tomorrow I am back to making creations, CAS, foofy (most the time foofy lol) & lots of other things that will be completely new to me............including some sewing & I dont mean on cards lol. So watch this space as they say.

Ok I had to run & take a photo of it lol.............I thought I took one back in January.... I thought wrong ;-)

Ok so the paper is............ I have no idea lol. I think its a digital set but cant remember to be honest, sorry peeps :-(

The image is of course from Tiddly Inks & is a digi image.......... she is here & is called 'Faythe Flies' & she was coloured with copics......... I will see if I can remember the colours...

E11, E21, E00, E000 - Skin

E29, E27, E23, E21 - Hair

R85, R83, R81 - Shoes, Butterfly

W3, W1, W00 - Dress

I totally forgot to ground her........so she is floating lol.......

I let my granddaughter have this card & so she drew a piccy of me, her smiling nanny apparently as I'm always smiling lol.........she's such a cutie bless her.

The words are because she wanted me to spell different words for her lol, Gaga is what she has always called her grandad, Arjay says the same bless him.

Ok so while the card is not bad & while I admire people who make CAS cards, its not me & I would end up quitting crafting altogether, which I nearly did.

I will show you my christmas makes another time as I've babbled enough now lol. I am back tomorrow with my usual type of card & its my first DT card back..........yep I'm back with the lovely Tracy & her uber talented design team over at Noor Design UK. Excited but boy am I nervous.........so I will see you tomorrow my lovelies.

Enjoy your night & take care mmwah.

Loves yas lots

Vicky xxxx

Helloooooo......

Hello everyone, remember me lol. Yes I know I've been missing in action for quite some time & I will explain why.

Well I decided to take a whole break from crafting & the internet in general to be honest, I wanted to spend more time with my family.........time I desperately wanted as well. We also brought a camper to get away in at weekends...........we just brought a cheap one as we didnt know what Natalie would be like........she loved it, absolutely loved it. We have an awning with & we brought a bedroom extension so it meant we could all go away, the whole family together. There was me, Craig (hubster), my eldest son with his fiance Megan & my 2 gorgeous grandchildren, my daughter Natalie & my youngest son Jake. We went away quite a few times & we had brill times so much so we are doing it a lot more this year. 

We are also going through something important as a family at the moment, I cant tell you what yet but it's not bad.......if it goes through & goes well it will be exciting.......... it will also be life-changing as well. Only the close family know as I dont want to jinx anything but I will tell you when it all goes through & we are successful.

Ok so the other reason you havnt seen me on here is because I was going to give up crafting..........everything!! However a few weeks ago after much, MUCH nagging off Craig I decided to take it back up but its gonna be a different kind of crafting.....

Gone are my foofy style cards & instead I will be doing more CAS style & concentrating more on the colouring of my image. The images will also be done more in copics now & not distress inks......though I will use the inks sometimes lol.

I am moving out of my craft room, yes again but I'm giving it up for a very good reason which I will tell you about another time. We now have a spare room in the bungalow which I was gonna move into but......well that will become something else.

So I'm streamlining everything down & moving into a bureau......yep that black bureau that was once in my large craft room when I was in the conservatory.........yep that!!! I know scary to think I'm fitting everything into that..............so I will after christmas put a 'For Sale' page on my blog as LOTS of stuff will be getting sold. 

I will still make 3D projects & I still want to make things other than cards.....I have a lot of plans lol.

Well a week ago I finally did my first colouring with copics, I've tried a few times over the months but I've normally done the face & then thought....no I dont want to do this.

However a week ago I decided I needed a kick up the bum & it was time to either use those copics or give up completely. So off I went to Crafts & Me & brought an image...........no it's not Hannah Lynn (though that's what I went for lol).

No it was this one...........please excuse the quality it was just taken with my phone camera & not my usual camera...........here is my first colouring with copics in over 6 months.

This is 'The Great Bow' by Jeremiah Ketner & as soon as I saw it I fell in love with it. Another one also fell in my basket...ooops.

My granddaughter says I need to add sparkly glitter to her as because she's pretty lol. She is not on a card yet but I have actually made my first card the other night ready for Natalie's class at daycare. Will show you them once they are all done.

I'm feeling quite rusty at the whole colouring & crafting at the moment but I thoroughly enjoyed colouring this little lady, she does look better IRL.

When she is on a card I will take proper piccies lol.

Ok so if you made it to the end of my long post.............by now you are probably thinking........OMG you can tell Vixster is back.....blah blah blah. I know I know, its the fingers they just run away with themselves when on the lappy lol.

I want to thank you though for not leaving me & sticking with me you are all awesome. I promise my next post will be a lot smaller lol.

Well I'm off to craft.........wow I havnt said that for soooooo long. Well after I've fed my washer ;-)

Tatty bye lovelies, take care & hope you all have a good day.

mmwah

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

The More You Read & CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone I'm here with my DT Project for the Noor Design UK blog using the uber fabulous Shape Art Book by Dutch Doobadoo.

First though we have just reached over 40,000 visitors on the Noor Design UK blog, so why not pop on over there & check out the candy you can win. It will run for a week.

Ok I have to say I love, no I mean I LURVE this Book Art template, its fabulous & something that will be used a lot.........

I have used black card as my base as I thought it added a bit more pop especially against the gorgeous colours that are in this Botanical Paper pad I've used.

I've inked & distressed all the edges & on one side I curled the tops over, just to make it look oldish & well read ;-) This is I'm keeping for myself so I did a test, I used 2 different methods to add a bend to the page & a gap between each page. This side I used 3D glue & the other side I used large Foam Pads & I have to say the foam pads are so much easier but use larger ones, that's only my opinion of course.

The 3D glue was good but you have to hold it in place until it sets..........ok if you are a telly watcher whilst crafting but I'm impatient & not a tv watcher lol.

Ok so my quote is a Dr Seuss quote & this one came with a Sylvia Zet image a long long time ago but I love this quote & thought it perfect. I used the Cutting & Embossing Parchment die to layer the quote on which I also inked & curled the corners.

I've used my favourite Swirld die under the flowers & one of the many gorgeous leaf dies.......eventually I would love them all........its hard to choose a favourite. I added flowers from my stash & calmed the colours down a bit with gesso.

I added seam binding & a fine pearl string to the centre, also made a bow with the seam binding to tie it all in.

I just added an image to this side, its a digi image so was able to make her larger & then fussy cut her out.

The image I found a long time ago & its from Jess College Fund but cannnot find the link ot it, sorry.

I've coloured her with copics......colours used are......

E11, E21, E00, E000, RV21 - Skin

B95, B91, B00 - Eyes & R39, R37, R35 - Lips

E59, E55, E53, E50 - Hair

YR27, YR24, YR21, YR00, - Top & YG97 Trim on sleeve.

W5, W2, W1, W00 - Book & E43, E40 - Pages

Hope you like my make today, dont forget about the lovely candy on offer over on Noor Design UK Blog. Links to products used are below.

Also Tracy has some awesome new goodies in her store including items if you like mixed media.

Take care & enjoy your day.

The link to the Parchment Roll die used is here.

The products used can be ordered in the Noor! Design U.K. webshop:

Botanitcal Paper pad	Shape Art Book	Dutch Doobadoo Gesso White	Swirl Leaf Die
Vintage Flourishes Leaf 1

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