My first stationery set

Hiya folks, well so much for me keeping on track with my blog hey!!!!  But the good news is that I have been  busy making lots of cards and will be popping them on my blog over the next few days or so.

I've been wanting to make a stationery box for so long now and after watching many videos on You Tube, voila.  I thought I'd also enter this into this weeks "Vintage" theme over at Just Magnolia.

Below is a picture of the entire set, which comprises of the stationery box, notelet set, box of gift tags and a matching birthday book.  It did take me forever to make, just because I always do things the difficult way and never make life easy for myself......lol

The inside of the stationery box holds the birthday book, large paper clip bookmarks, tags, postage stamps, a small address book and pen.

The papers are Anna Griffin, Tilda has been coloured with Copics which are available from the lovely Tracy over at Dies To Die For.

Thank you for popping by my lil oasis and for all the lovely comments you kindly take the time to leave.

luv 'n' crafty hugs

xx vicki xx

The wanderer returns

OMG!!!!!!!!!  I can't believe how long it's been since I was here last, almost forgot how to upload a post .....lol!!!!  Well where do I begin ?  Firstly humungous apologies for not being around for the best part of four months.  It all started back in March when we had an awful ordeal with our eldest son, some of you know what happened but I am glad to say that he is back on track and we are all so very proud of him.  Then I decided to decorate the house from top to bottom......hhhhmmmmm.....big mistake cos we are nowhere near finished.  Plus I've only got and landed myself with doing Art GCSE at work, (working as a Art Technician at a local secondary school) and that has taken up quite a lot of my time lately but I am really enjoying it.

Now I've not made any cards since the end of March, I've got a few to show you from then, so I'll begin with these Magnolia's.

The Prima flower and Martha Stewart order punch can be found at the best online craft store that is Dies To Die For.

I am hoping to get back into the swing of things now and I really must send a massive apology to Tracy over at Dies To Die For for not being much of a DT support also loads of love and huge hugs to her too xxxxxxx.

Rightyho, I will do my best to catch up with all your wonderful blogs, mind you it may take me a while so bare with me.

lots of love and crafty hugs

xx vicki xx

A few CC Designs....oh they're so cute...

Hiya folks, hows you all doing?  I've been playing with some more deliciousness that the lovely Tracy over at Dies to Die For sent me, thank you so much my luvly...mwah.   OMG!!!!  just pop over to Tracy's blog and check out all the new scrummy new goodies she has available at Dies To Die For.

For the card above I've used:-

Stamp - CC Designs - Miss Rosalie with Roses

Papers - Bo Bunny - Love Bandit

Martha Stewart Punches

Flowers -Prima E-line Pinks

Stampin Up sentiment

COPICS

Glamour Dust

For the card above I used:-

Image - CC Designs -  Balloon Emma

Papers - Bo Bunny Persuasion

Martha Stewart Deep Edge punch

Stampin Up sentiment and Crystal Effect added to the Balloon

For this card I used:-

Image - CC Designs - Flower Power

Papers - Prima Watercolour Rainbow

Martha Stewart border punch

Stampin Up sentiment and crystal effects

COPICS

Glamour Dust

Thanks for popping by my lil oasis and for all the lovely comments you kindly take the time to leave, I really do appreciate them, but I must apologise for not being that good at visiting you all lately, seems like I'm spending more time crafting than blogging lately....lol!!!!

take care all, luv 'n' hugs

xx vicki xx

Tres Chic cont'd

Hello to all and a very happy Monday.  I hope you all enjoyed your weekend.  We had a fabulous one, what with it being Tom's 18th etc, he had a really great time,  so did his dad, lots of celebrating....lol!!!!

Anyways back to the cards and remember I made a couple of cards a few posts down using these fabby Pink Cat Studio Fashion Stamps, available from Dies To Die For well here's the other four that I made the same day but am only now getting around to posting.

Goodies used were:-

Stamps - Pink Cat Studio 

Papers - My Minds Eye, 

Spiders Web, 

Oooh La La Just Lovely

Abbey Road Orange Crush 

and Lucky Me

Martha Stewart Punches

Prima gems

EK Success Retro Floral Punch

Sorry for the quick post, got a lot going on at the mo so must dash.

ttfn, see ya soon

luv 'n' crafty hugs xx vicki xx

My lil lad is 18 today......omg!!!!!

Hiya folks, happy Friday to you all.  I've not posted any cards at the mo, I will be back lately as I've made loads over the last few days.  Just wanted to wish my lil boy Tom a very Happy 18 th Birthday, I can't believe how quick these years are flying by, seems not that long ago that I was celebrating my 18th, crikey do I feel old now......lol!!!!!   Here's a lil piccie of Tom with the lovely girlfriend Becca,  I must get a more recent piccie of these two together, think this was taken last Summer and Tom has aged since then.....hehehehe!!!!!!!

Today is kind of bittersweet as it's also 14 years ago today that my mum passed away.  Usually when it's the lead up to Toms' birthday I get really upset, I think this year is the first year that I feel normal, maybe because it's such a special birthday for Tom, I know it's been 14 years since my mum passed away but I think it's something you never get used to, no matter how long its been, you just learn to cope I suppose. March is my worst month, what with the Anniversary of mums death, plus Mother's Day, it's also my mum & dad's wedding anniversay on the 18th and mum's birthday on the 26th, so far I'm doing ok but roll on April.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, 

take care, luv 'n' crafty hugs 

xx vicki xx