Happy Mother's Day and a Confession

Good Morning Peeps! Another rainy day here!

I have to preface my card with a little confession!!! We all, stampers that is, know about obsessions, I mean seriously, we all are obsessed and addicted, wanting everything we see, always on the look out for the newest thing, wanting it all and wanting it NOW right?

Well yesterday I was looking at the sketch challenge on splitcoast and I knew immediately when I saw it what I wanted to do. I wanted to use a water colored rose from the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set for the circle element on my card. The problem with that being, I don't have that set yet. It will be here Friday, but I wanted to use it last night, what to do, what to do?

I e-mailed my friend Lois, who has the set and who has let me stamp images of that flower before, and told her I needed to come and stamp a few more, half joking, half not. Of course she replied that I was welcome to come. I had talked myself out of going by the time I got off work, she lives about 25 miles from me and that would be a 50 mile round trip, sorta of foolish I told myself.

Well, guess what? By 6:30 I was on the phone to her to ask if it was still alright if I drove up, long story short, DH drove me and I got a few roses to make my card, of course it doesn't look as good as I had imagined, but the point is I AM OBSESSED!!!!! I need a 12-step program, or do I???? LOL!!!

I had the idea that I wanted to make a rose, like the ones you see sometimes, that are mostly white, or pale pink with just the tips darker. I need a bit more practice with that one , thankfully I have a few stamped and the set coming soon. But you know, by then I will be over it and on to some other thing!!! You just know I will!!!!

I used cameo coral to color the rose and used coral for the card, along with some riding hood red and Raspberry Tart DS paper.

Well, that is all for today, Thanks for stopping by and letting me confess a little about my obsession.

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

P.S I have not heard from Michelle, who was the winner of the blog candy on Monday, if I don't hear from her by this coming Monday, I will choose another name.

Just a Note

Happy Hump Day Peeps!! We are half way through the week, all down hill from here!!!

Today I have a fun little project to show you. I first saw this scratch pad holder
here, on Connie Stewart's blog. I knew I wanted to try it. It is so easy. made with one sheet of 8-1/2 by 11 inch card stock.

I wanted to use some of my favorite Rockabilly DS paper. I used Riding hood Red for my base and added the DS paper on the edges.

I am working a few more of these, with the initials, "A", "D" and "R".......the recipients of these may be able to figure it out from that.

I used some borrowed stamps on these. The letters are from a SU set, I can't remember the name of right now, Thanks Lois, I will bring them home to you soon!

The "Just a Note" is a Rubber Stampede stamp that I have had for ages! Not sure where I got it from. I used the curly label punch to punch the ends of the white and kiwi strip, a cute idea that I saw somewhere.

The letter is stamped with black stazon onto riding hood red and punched out with my 1-1/4 inch punch and layered onto a 1-3/8 circle of kiwi and then I punched a scallop circle out of some basic black, pierced the scallops and mounted the initial onto the scallop circle. The whole initial piece is mounted with a pop dot. Finally I added a mini library clip.

I cut up a bunch of copy paper to fill the scratch pad holder. I am thinking I might stamp some little something on the corner of the copy paper.

A little "Thank-You/I am Sorry gift for some of my favorite stamping friends!



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

Vicki

Blooming With Love

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps. Hope your week has started out well. It is another cloudy cool day here. Rain is predicted for most of the week.

Today's card started out to be for
Beates Weekend Sketch Challenge, hosted this week by the awesome Sharon Harnist.

I, of course, varied the sketch a bit by adding my sentiment circle, so am not sure it still qualifies for the sketch challenge.

Anyway, I wanted to use some of my new paper, that was a gift from Lois, The level 1 Hostess paper pack. Very pretty colors. This one is brocade blue, a color I hardly ever use. I started the card with abase of brocade and followed that with chocolate chip and some brocade blue DS paper. I water colored some flower pots and flowers from the Blooming with Love set. I also used some other fun and new goodies, the corduroy buttons and brads. I added some sticky pearls to the flower centers.

I have sure been struggling with cards lately, I am just a little burned out I think, along with not feeling well, family problems and me not sleeping, it is taking a toll on my mojo!!! Darn it all!!!

Well, enough with that messiness, Thank you so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Sketch and a Winner

Good Monday Morning Peeps! Hope you al had a good weekend!

Today's card was made with the sketch on Jen del Muro's blog I {heart} to stamp. I just love her sketch challenges and I try to do them as often as I can.

This card was very much inspired by this beauty made my Mercy Kerin. I fell in love with it when I first saw it and had filed it away to use later.

I used the colors and the stamp set she had used and just changed it up a bit to fit the sketch.

The colors are basic black and basic gray. I used some patterned paper from the level 1 hostess pack in basic gray.


Now on to the fun stuff, the winner of my blog birthday candy! Thank you all who left such kind birthday wishes!

Random org chose number 8. That is Linda Woodward.


Linda Woodward said...
Happy Birthday to you! I hope you have a fun day. I really like your birthday card, I have that set but haven't used it much, I will have to CASE your card. I enjoy your blog, I have you on my favorites on my work computer and home computer.

April 24, 2009 3:25 PM


Thank you Linda! If you shoot me an e-mail with your address, I will get the goodies in the mail to you.

Thanks again to all who left birthday wishes to me. Thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

Good Friday Afternoon Peeps!! Hope you are having a good one!

My card today is made for the sketch on The Stamps and Smiles Blog.

My card is made wit the Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set and I water colored the cupcakes and stand with my aqua painter and some ink from the stamp pads. The DS paper is the Candy Lane DS paper and the card colors are taken from that paper. I used pink pirouette riding hood red and close to cocoa.

It is my birthday today and I am really to old to celebrate much, si I thought I might give away a little blog candy today. Just leave me a comment today and then on Monday I will draw a name for some fun stuff.

I am running behind today, so I will make it short. I didn't get a picture of the candy, some ribbon and a Martha Stewart punch and a couple of other surprises. So be sure and leave me a comment.

Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

2 cards 1 Sketch

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!!! It is a beautiful day here in southwest Missouri, temps heading up into the 80's!!!

Today I have two cards to share with you, both done with yesterdays sketch on Splitcoast.

I am still playing with and loving the Bella Bleu Ds paper. This time I wanted to try my hand at a shabby chic style of card. I achieved the shabby part alright, not sure about the chic! It is hard for me to judge this kind of a card, as it is not my usual style. Altho I do admire the work of the many talented people who make this style look so easy!


This next card uses some more of my fave SU DS paper, this one being Rockabilly. I used the trendy tree set with this one.




Well, I hope you will let me know your thoughts on these two cards, I love reading your comments and suggestions.

Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure and swing by tomorrow for a surprise!
HAPPY STAMPING!

Vicki

Bella Bleu Friend

Happy Hump Day Peeps! Half way through the week!!! Yeah!!! It's all down hill from here.

Today's card is made with the Mojo Monday Sketch.

I again used some of the fabulous Bella Bleu DS paper and my new stamp set "Good Friend" from the mini.

The card is a 5 inch by 5 inch square. I used kraft, very vanilla and Not Quite Navy card stock on this card. I stamped the label image in NQN ink and cut it out. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to add the sentiment, what would we do without it?

The butterfly stamp was first pressed into my versamark pad then onto the NQN ink and then onto the very vanilla cardstock. I then embossed it with some clear embossing powder and my heat gun. I cut it out and added it with a small dimensional.

The bottom element is a strip of kraft cardstock that I made the edge with the curly label punch and added some NQN brads and some offray vanilla ribbon.

The center element is started with very vanilla and then more NQN, I used my versamark pad to add some leaves to the Background. I also added some piercing around the edge.

Well, that is it for today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki