Vickie Lou Designs

Thursday, 27 March 2025

The Project Share Project - 27th March 2025

Good Morning Everyone,

Happy Thursday and welcome to The Project Share Project. Every Thursday we will all share an individual blog post sharing one project from each of the other creators - maybe an inspiring card, a very fancy fun fold or simply a project that made us smile.

Verity Pursglove

www.inkybutterfly.com

Verity created some Monochromatic cards using the Beautiful Butterflies bundle and the Elements of Text stamp set. This designs that a few scrap pieces of card and DSP can really make something pretty special. What do you think?

Click on the link which will take you to the blog post for more details on the card and you can see some other colourways too! -

https://inkybutterfly.com/2025/03/25/monochromatic-card-design-with-beautiful-butterflies/

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Heather Forgan

www.stampwithnellie.com/

Heather has created this absolutely amazing Vintage Suitcase for a 'Travel' themed Challenge. You totally nailed it Heather!

Head over to Heather's blog for all the details on how you can create this yourself

https://stampwithnellie.com/2025/03/23/vintage-suitcase-gift-box-tutorial/

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Craft with Jayne

www.craftwithjayne.co.uk/

Finally we have Jayne, who created these fabulous gift boxes using the Beautiful Bokeh DSP. They hold some foiled chocolate eggs, which you can see peeking through a little aperture created - Head over to her blog for more details

https://craftwithjayne.co.uk/2025/03/25/beautiful-bokeh-gift-box-craft-with-jayne-stampin-up/

I really do hope you have enjoyed this post today. I enjoyed taking a closer look at these ladies' project and picking a favourite to share with you! If you have a moment or two, please head on over to their blogs. Check out these projects and see what else they have created too.

If you are on Facebook, why not pop over and check out our community group Craft & Banter. If you have a passion for paper craft, are brilliant at baking or a super talented seamstress then we would love to see you there. We share all types of crafting, run challenges and giveaways & generally have a right good natter.

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Creative Colour Challenges #CCC185

Good Evening Everyone,

I run the Creative Colour Challenges blog. Each week three Stampin Up Colours are randomly selected and I ask you to create a projects using those colours! Some week's are easier than others - but what I do find is that there's a lot of inspiration given from those who participate, so I thought that on a Sunday, once I have announced the Winner of the Week's Challenge over on Creative Colour Challenges Blog, I'd hop on over here and share the entries with you in the hope that we can give everyone some more inspiration, and I will link to those I can (as anyone can enter, you don't have to have a blog or a website), so It's also my chance to share there work and show some support.

Heather Forgan

https://stampwithnellie.com/

JOLANDA JOHNSTONE

https://jolandasinquespotstudio.com/

CHRISTY STANFORD

https://snapdragonstamps.blogspot.com/

I hope you will head over and take a look at the links provided and check out these very talented ladies!

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Thursday, 20 March 2025

The Project Share Project - 20th March 2025

Good Morning Everyone,

Verity Pursglove

www.inkybutterfly.com

Verity shared this brilliantly simple, yet totally fabulous way to show off our retiring in colors.

Click on the link which will take you to the blog post for more details on the card

https://inkybutterfly.com/2025/03/18/creating-with-the-retiring-in-colours/

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Heather Forgan

www.stampwithnellie.com/

Heather has created a fun gift box decorated with the sweetest little animals. Here's her pink version but Head over to Heather's blog for all the details and to see a second box she created to see which other 'animal' she used??

https://stampwithnellie.com/2025/03/18/animal-themed-gift-box-tutorial/

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Craft with Jayne

www.craftwithjayne.co.uk/

Finally we have Jayne, who created these fabulous gift boxes using the Thankful Garden Suite - Head over to her blog for more details

https://craftwithjayne.co.uk/2025/03/18/thankful-garden-gift-boxes-craft-with-jayne-stampin-up/

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Country Birdhouses Happy Birthday Card. Creative Colour Challenges #CCC183

Good Evening Everyone,

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the Creative Colour Challenges combination #183. I managed to enter it into the challenge, but didn't have time to share it with you all.

The colours we had were Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie and Blueberry Bushel. I used these alongside the Country Birdhouses stamp set to create a really cute birthday card. What do you think?

Measurements

Blueberry Bushel

1pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4", scored at 5 7/8"

Basic White Card Stock

2pc - 3 7/8" x 5 5/8"

scraps

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Take the Blueberry Bushel card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base - adding one of the Basic White pieces to the inside.

Ink up the Birdhouse image in Memento ink and stamp into the centre of the remaining piece of Basic White. Add the sentiments above and below this image.

On scraps of Basic White stamp the Bird image and a selection of the flowers, again in memento ink.

Now colour in all the images. I used my Stampin Blends in Pumpkin Pie and Blueberry Bushel, but as we don't have a Crushed Curry one, I used my Blender Pen and picked up some colour directly from the ink pad.

Once all the flowers and bird are coloured either fussy cut or use the coordinating dies and your Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine.

Add the birdhouse panel to the card front, then using both dimensionals and liquid glue stick on the bird and flowers.

Finally, take a length of the Gingham ribbon and the Pumpkin Pie Light Blends and colour this piece front and back - making sure you get good and even coverage. Now tie this into a pretty bow, trim the tails and them adhere to the top of the birdhouse with a glue dot.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today! If you would like to take a look at the current Creative Colour Challenges Combination - head over to my blog - https://creativecolourchallenges.blogspot.com/

Here's a list of supplies I used in today's project, click on the images to head over to my online store Product List

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Tiled Techniques Happy Birthday Card - Monochromatic Insta Hop - Pretty Peacock

Good Evening Everyone,

I'm working on my backlog of projects to upload to my blog... still! It's taking me a bit of time, but once I'm on top of it - I'm going to try my hardest to keep on track and have them published as soon as possible.

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the Pretty Peacock Monochromatic Insta Hop. I have used the Tiled Techniques card set, and kept the design simple to show off these beautiful images.

What do you think?

Measurements

Thick Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 8 1/4" x 5 7/8"

Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 3 1/2" x 5 1/4"

scrap

Pretty Peacock Card Stock

1pc - 3 3/4" x 5 1/2"

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Take the Thick Basic White card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base, adding the Pretty Peacock piece of card to the card front.

Ink up the corner flourish in Pretty Peacock ink and stamp one image in each corner of the Basic White card stock piece. Using the sentiments from Cake Celebrations, ink in Pretty Peacock and stamp along the top edge and bottom edge, filing in the space between the corners of the flourishes.

On a scrap of Basic White stamp the quadrant image in Pretty Peacock ink four times to create a full circle. Cut out using the 2 3/8" punch, then very lightly add ink to the edges. I held the circle on it's side and gently tapped it directly into the ink pad. This colours the side of the card and adds a very thin line of colour around the circle - giving the impression of a very thin mat layer of colour behind, without adding and extra layer of card.

Pop some dimensionals onto the back and adhere into the centre of the card front.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I love making it, and I love this stamp set. This design is really simple and quick to create and would be perfect to batch make, and would work in absolutely any colourway!

If you have a few minutes, why not head over and check out the Monochromatic Insta Hop for Pretty Peacock over on Instagram - it's full of very talented creators sharing a lot of inspiration using this gorgeous colour - Vickie Lou Designs - Insta Page

Here's a list of supplies I used in today's project, click on the images to head over to my online store Product List