Vickie Lou Designs

Sunday, 30 March 2025

Creative Colour Challenges #CCC186

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/

LEANNE PUGLIESE

https://weeinklings.blogspot.com/

DEBORAH WHEELER

https://deborahscraftyblog.com/

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

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

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.

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Creative Colour Challenges #CCC185

Good Evening Everyone,

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