I wanna be just like.........

..Lisa Hjulberg.

Over at Club Anya it's time for another I wanna be just like....... Just follow the design of the card over at Club Anya and Lisa will pick a winner. You must use an Ian or Anya stamp. I've sought of kept to the design, just twisted it slightly, not sure if that's ok but you sort of can still see Lisa's original design. I've used my new Dressy Anya, which I bought direct from The Greeting Farm, mind you I'm expecting a few more Wild Sprouts, I think I have another new addiction...oh eck.....lol!!! Anyway back to the card, she's been coloured with Copics, added a lil glossy accents to her shoes and bow. The papers are a freebie download from Shabby Princess, it's the Urban Kiwi kit, I'm slowly getting used to my sewing machine now...added two different types of stitches this time, my sewing machine is a Brother ES2020, it's a fab machine with a choice of 40 stitches so maybe next time I'll try using the more decorative stitches.

Thanks for popping by my lil oasis, hope you all have a fab weekend,
luv 'n' hugs xx vicki xx

Stampin for the Weekend - Challenge #14

Hiya peeps and a Happy Friday to you all. Well firstly wow!!! what an amazing response we had to last weeks Stampin for the Weekend challenge not to mention all the wonderful creations that were entered, cor you guys are so talented.

So on to this weeks SFTW challenge and our sponsors are The Craft Barn, they are very kindly offering a £15.00 spending spree for the lucky winner....



...and all you have to do to win the prize of £15.00 to spend at The Craft Barn is to create a card or project of your choice, as long as it has a stamped image of course, using these three colours below, Orange, Teal and Pink.


Here's my lil card, the papers are K & Co, from that HUGE pad that was a TSV on QVC, so not sure what the design is called, maybe "Berry Sweet", but don't hold me to that.....lol!!! Tilda has been coloured with Distress Inks, the frame that she's sitting in is a Sizzix die and I stamped with Stampin Up "Francais" background stamp, MS butterfly punch (from Tracy at Dies to Die For) the larger butterfly punch is from the Studio catalogue and the swirls are Quickutz die

This week we are lucky enough to have two Guest Designers, they are Carlie (who is only 11) and Lorraine, please check out their blogs to see all those beautiful creations and thank you both for joining us.

It's also an exciting day today at the SFTW home as our lovely new Teamies are joining us for their first challenge, so it would be great if you could pop along and welcome them, they have done a fabby job with their first DT makes, well as have all my other lovely fellow Teamies, just check out their blogs and see their gorgeous creations for yourselves.

Righty-oh, it's Friday, which also means a day off for me and unfortunately a day of the dreaded ironing and housework, two words which we all hate hearing I know and huge apologies for saying them out loud too.....

Hope you all have a lovely weekend, take care and huge crafty hugs to all my luvly blogging buddies xx vicki xx

Stamp with Fun - sketch challenge

Following the fabby lil sketch that is this weeks Stamp with Fun challenge, this is the card I have come up with.


Isn't she a lil cutie with attitude, Megan is a Wild Sprout from The Greeting Farm, she's been coloured with Copics. The papers, sentiment and oval shapes are Stampin Up, from my luvly Yorkshire Lass, Jules. Prima flowers and pearly brads to finish off with.

Well my lil scallywags are all back in school tomorrow, woooo hooooo!!! Haven't these past 6 weeks just flown by....cor it'll be Christmas before we know it...oh gosh I wish I hadn't of said that...lol!!!

ttfn, loadsa luv 'n' hugs xx vicki xx

Boys cards

I was asked to make two birthday cards, an order from the florist who sells my cards. The lady wanted them for her Grandsons who both happened to be 11. Now I don't know about you guys, but I always seem to struggle making cards for orders. When it comes to just playing I'm fine but actually making cards for strangers gets me all in a fluster.

The brief for this first cards was anything to do with either music, horses or swimming. I went for the easy option....The image is a digi download from Pollycraft, which has been coloured with Copics. Computer generated sentiment, the frame around it is a SU stamp. The spotty paper I've had for ages, one of the first paper bundles I ever bought, sorry can't remember who's it by but I probably got it from QVC. Cuttlebug embossing folders. The lil musical notes are the remains from a paper punch.
For the second card the brief was anything sporty, i.e. football, cricket or rugby. I masked the Elzybells footballer image, then stamped the Messy Rabbit net behind, images again coloured with Copics, the lil ball and flag are part of the same Messy Rabbit stamp set. The frame is the negative of a Nestie, cuttlebug embossing folders, computer generated sentiment, the number 11 was originally white so I coloured it with Copics then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.
Thankfully the lady was pleased with these cards, phew ......lol!!!!

Thanks again for visiting my lil oasis, take care all, luv 'n' hugs xx vicki xx

Just Magnolia - Ribbons & Bows

Hiya guys, well today is my last day before I go back to work, goodness knows how I'm gonna get up in the morning after having 6 weeks of fun and lazy days with the kids...lol!!!

Oakey doakey, here's my card/s for this weeks Just Magnolia challenge. The reason for two cards same image is that I've been trying to get along with Sansador....again...not too pleased with the results so nothing new there.

The first card was coloured the easy way with a mix of Derwent Inktense and Karisma Aquarelle pencils paintbrush and water. The papers are BG and MME, hey check out the stitching......I seem to be getting a tad more adventurous with my sewing machine now....lol!!! SU Sentiment and Glimmer Misted flowers.
For this image I coloured using the same pencils as above but tried Sansador and papers stumps....again....me thinks I'm gonna give up now or maybe get some Poly pencils. Papers are Basic Grey "mellow" sentiment is SU.
Righty-Oh, better carry on with the dreaded hous*****...oopsss nearly said it then...you know that word us crafters don't like....lol!!

Enjoy your day and many thanks for popping by,
ttfn, luv 'n' hugs xx vicki xx