For All You Do

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card with you than I made back in October of last year. Do you remember this card? It was made with Beate's Weekend Sketch challenge. I made this one at the same time changing just the colors and DS paper. It is very bright and cheery, just what I need on a gloomy, rainy and chilly winter day.

It has a base of summer sun card stock and that is followed with some real red and the DS is from the Pink Flamingo pack. The white panel is a cuttlebug folder, can't remember the name of it right now. The stamp set is "For All You Do".

Well, that is all for today, hope you have time to do something you love today.

Thanks for coming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

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TGIF PEEPS!!!!

The card I am sharing with you today is made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

I think I followed the sketch pretty well, I did have to add a popped up piece for my sentiment, because my BG paper was a bit to dark to show and my sentiment was a bit to long to go right beside the image panel.

I used a few things from that retired Winter Bright Scrappin' kit again. My DS paper and the strip across the top are from the kit. My base card is wild wasabi card stock and I also used some real red card stock.

The image is from the cute little single stamp "Bearing Gifts". I stamped the image onto some watercolor paper and colored it with my aqua painter and some wold wasabi, real red, so saffron and close to cocoa ink. The sentiment comes from the "Berry Christmas" stamp set. I used the word window punch to punch it out and added with s piece of a dimensional. The ribbon is wild wasabi and the button is one I had in my stash.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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Good Monday Morning Peeps! Hope your weekend went well.

Today I am sharing a card I made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

I decided to use some of my favorite DS paper, Maine Blueberry, so sad that it is retired.

The base of the card is a 5 by 10 inch piece of not quite navy card stock folded in half. I also used old olive and whisper white card stock. The stamp set I used is "Happy Everything". I made my flower from a punched old olive circle scallop. I cut into the center at each scallop and curled them a bit with the end of my piercing tool. I added a 3/4 inch circle of not quite navy and a silver designer brad from the silver hodgepodge set.

I added some old olive ribbon and silver brads to the corners for the accessories.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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Good Saturday Morning peeps!

Today I am sharing a card made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge. I hope you can see the sketch peeking out. I am using a favorite set of the moment, "Snow Buddies" which is a level 2 hostess set from the holiday mini. This is such a fun set, you need to get it!!!

I started the card with a base of garden green, a color that I almost never use, and then followed that with some whisper white. The DS paper is from the Merry Moments designer pack.

I stamped the snowmen onto some scrap whisper white and colored them with my markers. I cute them out and used some dimensionals to mount them to the card. I hand cut the rolling snow hills and glued them down. The sentiment comes from the "Berry Christmas" set and is stamped with garden green ink onto white and I used the word window punch and modern label punch. The snow flakes are punched with a MS punch and added to the base with some dimensionals too. I added some bling to the BG snowflakes and the front punched ones too. I used some white embroidery floss at the end of sentiment.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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Good Saturday Morning Peeps!

Today's card is made with Beate's weekend Sketch Challenge.

I am soooo loving this snowman set, it is "Snow Buddies" and it is a level 2 hostess set from the holiday mini. I stamped the snowman onto some whisper white cardstock with black stazon.I colored in his nose and scarf with markers and stamped his hat onto some Holiday Lounge DS paper and cut it out. I colored in parts of his hat with the SU basic black marker. I cut out the snowman with my circle nesties and the black scallop is also a nestie. I then glued on his hat, it sticks out of the top of the circle just a bit.

The base of the card is Shara sand and then basic black and the DS paper is from the Holiday Lounge pack. The sentiment in the lower corner is a single stamp called "Merriment" and is stamped directly onto the designer paper with black stazon.
I added a black mini brad to the corners and mounted the snowman to the base with a few dimensionals. I added a little stardust stickles to the snowman and to the ground below the snowman.

Isn't he cute, like I said before I love this set! Be sure to come back tomorrow to see the fun little card I made with this same set for my Sweet Sunday Sketch card.

Thanks so much for coming by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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Gd Monday Morning Peeps!! Hope you all had a great Halloween weekend!

I got some new toys last week and I had to play a bit with this fun new set, Cold & Cuddly. Isn't this penguin adorable? I love him, he is sooooooo cute!!!

I used ruby red and Shara sand card stock along with some whisper white. The DS paper is from the Holiday Lounge pack.

The sketch used on this card is from Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

I have to thank my friend Lois for her help with this card, she made a couple of suggestions when I was having a mental block. I have been having mojo problems lately, doubting my abilities....LOL!!!

Well, that is all for today, thanks sO much fOr stOpping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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Good Monday Morning Peeps! Hope your weekend was nice. It is another rainy cool day here!

Today's card is made with Beate's Weekend Sketch challenge 103. Another great one sketch, very fun to work with!

This is a 5 x 5 inch square card. The base is real red cardstock, followed by soft suede and the DS paper is the Christmas Cocoa Specialty pack. I matted the two back squares of DS paper with soft suede and real red. The stamp set I used is the "Delightful Decorations". I stamped two of the ornaments onto the main image panel with real red and soft suede ink. I stamped the soft suede ornament another time onto scrap paper white and punched it out with the ornament punch. I then mounted it to the image piece with some dimensionals. I matted the main piece with real red that I had used the lace edge punch on the bottom. Some ribbon, silver cording and sticky rhinestone was used for added embellishments.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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Good Saturday Morning Peeps! Hope your weekend has started out well. It is a cloudy cold morning here in southwest Missouri. I am staying in and staying warm, I feel a cold coming on!

Today's card is made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

I love this size of a card, 3-1/4 x 6-1/2 inches. They fit the SU small open envelope, something fun for a bit of a change from the regular size.

I used rich razzleberry, and pale plum cardstock. The Designer paper is from the Cottage Wall pack. I used another favorite stamp set "For All You Do". I used my circle and scallop circle nesties to cut the sentiment piece. I stamped the sentiment with black stazon. I stamped the flowers and butterfly with rich razzleberry and pale plum ink and cut them out. I added some bling to the centers of the flowers and the butterfly too. The sentiment and flowers are all mounted with some dimensionals. The butterfly is glued only in the middle so I could pull the wings up a bit. I added a bit of piercing to the rich razzleberry strip.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

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Good Monday Morning Peeps!!! Hope you all had a great weekend!!

Today's card is made with the weekend sketch challenge. I busted out some more retired items for this one. The DS paper is from last year. So is most of the card stock, kiwi kiss and tangerine tango. I also use some bashful blue. The stamp set is retired, set called "Just Celebrate", isn't that snowman toooo cute! One more retired item, a felt flurry, sure wish they weren't. I got a gift of them from a friend! Love them!!!

Well, in a hurry this morning, got lots to get done, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!

Vicki

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Good Saturday Morning Peeps!

Today's card is made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge. This week is her 100th sketch challenge! Awesome, I love her sketches and play as often as I can. Her blog is chocked full of wonderful inspiration! Thank You Beate!

I am again playing with retired colors and papers. I so wish baja would make a comeback. I love it soooooo!!!! My card is a 5 inch square of chocolate chip. I followed that with baja and then the DS paper is the retired Parisian Breeze Speciality Paper. The center square is chocolate chip and baja. I pierced around the edge of the middle square. I used the butterfly die to cut out my two butterflies out of the DS paper. I glued the two together, and then mounted them to the center with some dimensionals. I added three sticky pearls to the center of the butterfly.

The sentiment comes from the Upsy Daisy Set and is stamped onto whisper white with chocolate chip ink and punched out with the large oval punch and then matted with chocolate chip that was punched out with the scallop oval punch. I added a small silver clip in the top corner and tied some non SU white ribbon around it. I then added a sticky pearl to each corner.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by, be sure and come by tomorrow for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge card! Until then HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

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Good Saturday Morning peeps!!!

Did you all enjoy the Catty Cruise, I sure did, so many talented people and wonderful projects on the cruise!

Today I am sharing a card I made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge. The sketch was for a long skinny card, mine is 4 inch by 5-1/2 inch. The stamp set I used is from the "Holiday Best", a level 1 Hostess Set. I stamped it with real red ink onto white card stock. I cut it out with my round nesties, and left the nestie on the cardstock and sponged some real red ink around the edge of the image. I used the scallop nesties in real red for the mat. The base of the card is real red followed by white and the DS paper is from the retired Ski Slope pack. The sentiment comes from the "To You & Yours" set and is stamped with real red onto white. I used the word window punch and the modern label punch. I added some white brads and white organza ribbon and a bow.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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Good Saturday Morning Peeps.

The card I am sharing with you today is made with
Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

The card is a 5 inch square of melon mambo. I followed that with a 1/4 inch smaller square of rich razzleberry. The DS paper is from the Razzleberry Lemonade pack. The main image is from the Kind & Caring Thoughts Stamp Set which is a level 3 hostess set from the current cattie. The flower is stamped with melon mambo, rich razzleberry, pumpkin pie and crushed curry ink. The stems are all old olive.

The sentiment is from the Thank You Kindly set and is stamped with rich razzleberry ink. I used the large oval and oval scallop punches. I added some melon mambo ribbon.

I used the lace edge punch in melon mambo under the second layer strip. This card is fairly flat, yup that's right I didn't use any dimnsionals on this one!

Well, that is all for today, Enjoy the rest of your weekend and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

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Good Saturday Morning Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card with you made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

The card is a 4-1/4 inch square. The base is always artichoke, followed by elegant eggplant and then the DS paper is from the Autumn Traditions. The leaf stamp is from the "Falling Leaves" Stamp Set. It is stamped with elegant eggplant ink onto white cardstock and then punched out with the 1-1/4 inch circle punch. It is then matted with a 1-3/8 inch elegant eggplant circle.

I did alot of piercing on this one. I pierced each section around the edges. The main image panel piece is pierced on the corners.

I punched out two more mustard pieces with the word window punch and trimmed them off on one end and added them to the top side. I then added a elegant eggplant brad to each.

That's it, very simple, easy peasy!

Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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TGIF Peeps!!!!

Today's card is made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

I still had the Season of Joy Stamp Set out on my craft table from the card I made earlier this week so I grabbed it to use with this sketch. I used shimmer white and PTI's Night Sky Shimmer cardstock for this card. That blue is sooooo pretty.

I used the snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder for the two white layers. The "ornament" main image panel is made by cutting a circle into some scrap white cardstock. I used some temporary adhesive to attach it to my circle and sponged around the edges with night of navy ink. I then inked up the stamp with more night of navy ink and stamped onto the cardstock. I removed the scrap circle and there you have the "ornament". I added a small square to the top and put some silver string through it. I cut a scallop circle with my nesties and cuttlebug and glued the ornament to that. I pierced the centers of each scallop with my mat pack and piercing tool.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set onto some scrap shimmer white and punched it out with my large oval punch. I matted the sentiment with a piece I punched with my scallop oval punch. The ornament piece and sentiment piece are attached with dimensionals. I added a few silver sticky rhinestones to the ornament and a bow with some white organza ribbon.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

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Good Morning Peeps!!!

Just a quick post today, I wanted to share this card with a new set for me, House of Haunts. It is really a fun Halloween set! I loved Halloween, but I like the fun and cute stuff, not blood and gore, this set fits that bill, I think. It is slightly creepy but still just alot of fun!

The card uses the Weekend Sketch Challenge.

The card is a 5 x 5 inch square. The base is perfect plum and the DS paper is from the Cast-A-Spell pack. Each layer is matted with basic black. I stamped the haunted house image onto summer sun card stock with a black pigment ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. I used versamark to stamp the tree image to the side of the house. The sentiment is also embossed. The ribbon and sticky black pearls are from Michael's.

Well, that is all for today, I am heading off to a friends house this afternoon for some stamping and fun!!! Thanks for coming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Thank You

Good Sunday Morning Peeps! Hope you all have enjoyed the Catty Cruise Blog Hop, I know I sure did, it was so much fun to go from blog to blog and see all the fabulous creations! I am honored and humbled to be included in this wonderful group of stampers. Just a little FYI for all of you, we will be having another catty cruise for the upcoming mini in September so keep an eye out for more info on that. Also you may want to bookmark the Catty Cruise Line Home Port where in the future you will find Profiles of our Stewards, like mini bios, along with some of their projects and other info regarding the upcoming cruise.

So on to today's card. I made this one for the Weekend Sketch Challenge

Most everything I used on this card is retired.....SIGH, I know I love this image from the SU set "Give Thanks" I stamped it onto white cardstock with black pigment ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. I colored the image with my copics markers, I love these and want to learn how to use them, I am fumbling with them alot. I have only mastered this one image with them. I have done it a few times. There is such a learning curve with them, but I have read alot and watched a few videos on the net, but I would love to take a class when I can find one in my area.

I used kraft cardstock for my base which is a 4-1/2 inch square/ I followed that with some white card stock and then some kraft print. The squares on the side are real read followed by some more textured cardstock from the retired, Taste of textile DS pack.The sentiment comes from Garden Greetings and is stamped on white and matted with more real red. I added a red button, from my stash, to the end. I then used some red striped ribbon to make a bow to add to the opposite corner, this is the only part of the card I do not like, I am just not feeling that bow.

I am using this card to give to a the two little ladies who leave next door to us along with some of my homemade apple butter, that I canned last fall. They are super sweet neighbors always keeping an eye on things for us and just generally making the neighborhood a pleasant place to live.

Well, that is all for today, have to go help hubby with some yard work, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

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Good Sunday afternoon Peeps! Hope your weekend has been good. Yesterday I had a busy day and didn't get to post to my blog. I left the house early to be at the Farmers Market when they opened so I could get some blackberries before they where all gone. I did manage to get some, YEAH!!! and also some new potatoes, onions, cukes, and tomatoes. YUM!!!

Today's card is made with the weekend sketch challenge this week hosted by the fabulous Lori Craig.

I had noticed alot of Christmas in July cards floating around lately so I just had to join in. I used real red and whisper white cardstock. The DS is retired and is called Ski Slope. I used the fabulous Level 3 hostess set "Kind & Caring Thoughts." I really just love this set and am so mad that they have such an awesome set as a level 3 hostess set, making it pretty unattainable for many. The sentiment comes from the "Hugs & Wishes" Stamp set. I added some dazzling diamonds to the flower and some real red grosgrain ribbon.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki