Magnolia Down Under Challenge #16

Gosh two posts in one day, not very often that happens, all I have to do now is get better organised at blog hopping and visiting all your wonderful blogs....lol!!

These two cards I made a few weeks ago and forgot about posting them until I saw this weeks challenge over at Magnolia Down Under. There are three different colour combinations to choose from and these two fitted in with the brown/blue/cream or white catagory.
Isn't this Tilda so adorable.....ahhhhhh....I've coloured her with Distress Inks, my poor Copics are well and truly on the back burner at the mo. the papers are from my scrap box, mainly SU, Autumn Leaves "ticketed" sentiment tags, some tulle, lace, Prima flowers and a lil feather to finish off with.

The very lovely Tara sent me a fabby RAK, these papers were amongst the goodies she sent me, huge thanks againly luvly. Tilda has again been coloured with Distress Inks, some more Tulle, sentiment is from THAT Brenda Pinnick scrapbook kit, a few pearly gems to finish.

Thank you all for visiting my lil oasis and for taking the time to leave such lovely comments too, I really do appreciate them.

luv 'n' hugs xx vicki xx

For my sil birthday

Today is my lovely sil's birthday. I've made this card to give to her from my children. I have made another card from myself and hubby, but that is to be shown another day because it's also my DT card for an upcoming challenge over at SFTW, so mums the word....lol!!!

Sorry for this being another quick post, got loads to do again today, so ttfn,

luv 'n' hugs xx vicki xx

Happy Father's Day

Just a quick post for today to show the Father's Day card's I made in a mad dash Friday night. I thought I had made them all and realised I'd forgotten about my hubby's card from me and the kids.....doh.......so this is what I very quickly put together Friday night, plus I'd forgotten one to my day off the kids.

I find myself apologising again for being a dreadful blogger, I know it's been ages since I visited my blogging buddies, I will do my best to visit you all as soon as I can. Hope your all ok, enjoy th erest of the weekend, luv 'n' hugs xx vicki xx

SFTW - Challenge #3

It's Friday whoooo hooo!! and you know what that means another new challenge begins over at Stampin for the Weekends challenge blog.

This week we have a wonderful prize very kindly donated by Simon Says Stamp, $25 gift voucher......wow!!! how fab is that.

Also, many thanks to Sandie for being our Guest Designer again this week.

So for this weeks challenge, which is entitled

"Rock 'n' Roll 60's".

We would like you to base your card around one of these song titles:-

1. Whiter Shade of Pale
2. Time of the Season
3. Please Mr Postman

I decided to go for White Shade of Pale......

...mind you it doesn't look this dark in real life though...lol!!! For my card I have used a pale pearlescent grey cardstock and cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder. The image and sentiment, which is SU "Baroque Motifs" firstly I stamped the scroll image with versamark then added silver embossing powder and heat embossed, added quite a few lil gems, plus the sparkly heart and ribbon.

There are so many options with our challenge this week, my lovely fellow DT buddies have come up trumps again, with so many wonderful creations, just take a lil peek for yourselves. Thank you for visiting my lil oasis and hopefully you will be able to join us this week with our challenge over at SFTW.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, luv 'n' hugs xx vicki xx

Stampin for the Weekend - challenge #2

OMG!!!!! what a tremendous first week we had and thank you to all who entered our first challenge over at SFTW, we also received some lovely comments and e-mails of encouragement and good wishes, which we are all so very grateful for.

So now onto this weeks challenge which is entitled

"Going Digital"

For challenge #2 we would like for you to create a card or project of your choice using a digi download image. Our sponsor for this week is the very talented Dustin Pike who has kindly donated a fabulous prize, just pop over to SFTW to find out more. You can either click on his name above or the picture below to take you to Dustin's blog
We are also very pleased to welcome Sandie, who is going to be our Guest Designer for the next two weeks, Sandie creates such beautiful cards, why not pop over to her blog and see for yourself.

So here are the cards I have made for this weeks challenge. I used the "Grads" download from Dustin Pike's blog, which just so happens to be a freebie, how kind is this guy, there are also many more freebie downloads available. As the both freebie images were downloaded together I thought I would go with that and make two cards. Both images have been coloured with Copic markers, around the images I have used Brilliance ink pads in Pearlescent Blue and Silver with a sponging technique. Both cards have HOTP papers from a kit I bought yonks ago from QVC. The sentiments are a mix of Cuddly Buddly and SU, with some gems, ribbons and punches as embellies.


Well done and congratulations to the rest of the fabby DT at SFTW for creating some delish designs this week. After such an overwhelming response to our first week, I do hope you will be able to join in with this weeks challenge. Looking forward to seeing your creations.

Have a fab weekend all.

luv 'n' hugs

xx vicki xx