Creative Card Crew challenge 8 - Sketch It

Over at the Creative Card Crew there's a fab sketch to follow, so this is the card I've made. It's my son Ryan's 15th birthday on Saturday and he loves fishing to I thought this would suit him. I've coloured the image using Copics, for the sky I used pastel shimmer chalks, I also added some glossy accents to the drops of water.

The papers are Basic Grey "archaic", cuttlebug embossing folder, sentiment is computer generated cut out using my new SU oval punch, some tulle to emulate the fishing net and his catch...lol!!!

Thanks for popping by my lil oasis, luv 'n' hugs

xx vicki xx

For the hostess with the mostess......

Last October I joined Julies Stampin Up, Stampers 10 club and I have to say she has been such a marvelous hostess, she's a fine Yorkshire lass.......lol!!!! she's also a very bad influence when it comes to me buying Stampin Up goodies, well not that I need that much persuading though.

Anyway I sent her these lil bits 'n' bobs, my way of saying a humongous thank you for all the hard work and organising she's done for us girlies. Now Julie is just a lil bit keen on the odd cupcake, hence the cupcake card I also sent her a box of make your own cupcakes/muffins....If you pop over to her blog, you'll be able to see the cupcake addiction for yourself. She also makes some truly wonderful creations herself. If anyone is wondering where to get Stampin Up goodies from, Jules is the person for you. Thank you Jules for all that you do for us Stampers 10 girls, your hard work is always so very much appreciated, your a lil gem (((hugs))) xx vicki xx

Colour Create Challenge week 13

This weeks challenge over at the Colour Create challenge blog is to make a card using the colours brown, orange and green.

Now I have a cheated a little and made two, the reason being is that the teacher in the school where I work asked if I would be interested in making cards with the children in the art club which is held at lunchtimes. I thought we could begin with a theme and as Fathers day is around the corner, that's what we'll be making. So I needed something pretty straightforward for the children to be able to use as a guide and this is what I've come up with, don't it seam strange making cards with no patterned paper. I bought a few Jolly Nation stamps last week simply because they had some ok ones for the guys in our lives. I've used Cuttlebug embossing folders and the sentiment is computer generated.

I've coloured the images with Copics, for this card I stamped the "gone fishin" stamp to back a background, cut out some of the lil fish and stuck them onto the Tulle, again sentiment is computer generated.

Hey, get me two posts in one day....can you tell it's my day off...lol!!! Full day at work tomorrow though.......oooooo. I'm gonna try and do some blog hopping later as I've been an awful blogging buddy to you girlies, for which I do apologise. Thanks for popping by, ttfn xx vicki xx

Golden Oldies.........

....is the name of this stamp set and as soon as I saw it in the new mini Stampin Up brochure I was lmao....the sentiments are so funny.
I thought this would be a fun card to give my FIL for fathers day....just hope he doesn't take offence....lol!!!!

Now this one most certainly sums me up.....pmsl......The papers are K & Co, scallop sentiment is also Stampin Up.

Cardstock, ribbon, sentiment and image all Stampin Up, pp is K & Co.

Just incase you were wondering I always buy my Stampin Up goodies from Jules, she's a brill hostess and always willing to help out, cheers Jules.

ttfn xx vicki xx

All pink 'n' girly

I've made this card for the daughter of a work collegue of my hubby, you may remember a few posts down that I made THIS mother's day card with a photo of a lil girl holding out her arms, well this card is for her. Jess will be 3 this week and her dad asked if I could make a card for her, she loves horses and butterflies, she also loves Peppa Pig plus other characters.I thought I would go with the horse and butterfly theme and used the Magnolia horse and my new Sugar Nellie stamps, which have been coloured in using...yep...none other that those well popular Copics. The papers are K & Co "Sparkly Sweet", I've also added a few of my lovely new Prima flowers. The scalloped corner is an EK success punch which I bought from The Hobby House

Just a few other pics to show you around the card

Have you noticed a lil something extra on my pics....yep...I got meself a watermark...wooo hooo, I'm slowly catching up with you lot now....lol...it's all thanks to my fabby friend Jilli, who kindly gave me instructions on how to do it, huge thanks again luvly. Now as I've said before I'm hopeless with technology and never venture into my graphics package, so when I opened up PSP I didn't even know how to get the photos from their folders into PSP....doh...what a plonker...but after a lil play around, hey presto....I have a watermark...I'm well chuffed with myself...hehehe!!
Well the Easter Hols are well and truly over and I'm back at school today, so is Ryan, but Georgia and Yasmin go back tomorrow, so I've left my eldest son Tom babysitting, never done that before, he's 17 now and about time he did something to help out....oh poor Georgia & Yassy.

ttffn xx vicki xx

p.s. I can't seem to make up my mind which background colour I prefer my photos to be taken, either a brown or a white background. It would be interesting to have your opinions, if you don't mind. The brown seems to make the cards stand out a little more I think.