Vickie Lou Designs: May 2023

Friday 26 May 2023

Everything will be OK Faith Over Fear Charming Sentiments Petal Park Z Fold Card. Fun Fold Friday

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Friday!

Today I'm sharing a Fun Fold Card with you! I absolutely love creating Fun Folds but they can look like they are tricky to create and some can be, but today I'm doing a basic and simple Z fold which should be a fold in every cardmaker's arsenal.

The Delightfully Eclectic DSP has this gorgeous floral print, which i think works well with the Petal Park stamp set.

Measurements

Garden Green Card Stock

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

2pc - 4" x 3 3/8"

Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 5 5/8" x 3 7/8"

2pc - 3 1/4" x 3 7/8"

scraps

Delightfully Eclectic DSP

1pc - 5 5/8" x 3 7/8"

2pc - 1 7/8" x 5 5/8"

1pc - 1/2" x 5 5/8"

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Take the larger piece of Garden Green card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. hold the card in front of you with the fold to the left. Take the open edge of the card front and fold back on itself so that it meets the fold line. This just makes it easier to get even panels, if you try to score its hard to be exact due to small increments.

Open the card stock out and add the three DSP panels like this..

Add the thin strip of DSP to the edge of the Basic White panel and then add it to the back of the card for somewhere to write a personal message.

Ink up the leaf image outline in Garden Green and stamp into the centre of one of the remaining pieces of Basic White, stamping the solid in fill stamp in 2nd Generation (stamped off once) Garden Green ink. Layer this to a Garden Green Mat.

Now, stamp the sentiments from Charming Sentiments in Garden Green into the centre of the other piece of Basic White. Take the floral cluster outline and stamp one cluster in the top left and bottom right using Fresh Freesia. Add the infill with 2nd Generation Fresh Freesia, then using your Cajun Craze Stampin Blend, add a little colour to the flower centre. I did this to try replicate the colouring of the flowers on the DSP.

On a scrap of basic white stamp the cluster again using the steps above. Cut out using the Petal Park Builder Punch. Add these with dimensionals to the leaves panel.

Add adhesive to the back of the sentiment panel and glue this down into the centre of the DSP back panel. Then close the card up and stick down the flower panel so it sits directly above the sentiment piece. Place glue to only the section that sits on the thin top panel, otherwise you will stick your card shut.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - Please take a second to head over and see what Fun Fold card Donna is creating today

Taffy Crafting

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

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See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Wednesday 24 May 2023

Delightfully Eclectic Biggest Wish Hello Greeting Card. Inspire.Create.Challenges #143

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are well, it's glorious again here in the UK - Doesn't the Sunshine just automatically put you in the best of moods!

As you may be aware, I've struggled with my Mojo and getting a decent amount of craft time recently - the balance has been off, but I'm slowly getting back into it. One way I have found that's really helped me to focus and inspire some design ideas is to take part in some challenges. As you know I run a colour challenge myself but over the next few weeks at least, you will start to see a lot more projects from me for many other challenges that are out there - Hopefully I will be able to keep it up and getting that Mojo up and running at full capacity again! who knows!

Today I'm taking part in Inspire.Create.Challenges #143. These challenges run for two week's at a time and the themes vary! This week is a sketch challenge, which I thought was very simple with lots of possibilities.

I've used the Delightfully Eclectic DSP pack - it's a bumper back of 48 12x12" papers which cover all sorts of themes so It's a great pack to have on hand as you are sure to find a design perfect for many projects.

Measurements

Night of Navy Card Stock

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

1pc - scrap

Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 5 5/8" x 3 7/8"

Fresh Freesia Card Stock

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

Delightfully Eclectic DSP

3pc - 1 5/8" x 1 5/8"

3pc - Fussy Cut Flowers

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Take the Night of Navy Card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add the Basic White piece to the inside.

Layer up the three pieces of DSP to the Fresh Freesia card stock and adhere these to the card, evenly spaced and to the left hand side.

Pop a fussy cut flower into the centre of each square sticking down with a dimensional.

Ink up the sentiment in versamark ink and stamp onto a scrap of Night of Navy card stock. Sprinkle with White embossing powder, gently tap off the excess powder and then set with your heat tool. Once cooled, fussy cut, leaving a nice even border.

Add this to the bottom right hand side of the card front with dimensional.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - and can see that a simple sketch and a small amount of supplies can really make a huge impact and a very pretty card.

If you would like more information on how the challenge works, get inspiration from the design team, or have a project you would like to enter - pop on over to the Inspire.Create.Challenges Blog

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

Tuesday 23 May 2023

Circle Sayings Stable Door Birthday Card. Creative Colour Challenges #CCC90

Good Afternoon Everyone

Today I've made a card for this week's Creative Colour Challenges. I absolutely love playing around with bright bold colours, so this combination was right up my street.

I have used the brand new Circle Saying Stamp set, which is amazing!, to create a Stable Door fold. It's super simple in design, but the colours really do pop, especially against the black.

Measurements

Basic Black Card Stock

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

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

Daffodil Delight Card Stock

1pc - 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"

Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 2 1/2" x 5 5/8"

1pc - scrap

Poppy Parade Card Stock

1pc - 2 1/2" x 5 5/8"

Gorgeous Grape Card Stock

1pc - 5 5/8" x 3 7/8"

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Take your Basic Black card stock and mark at 1 1/2" a small pencil dot on the score line, and one at the right hand side, again at 1 1/2". Pop this into your trimmer and cut down to the 1 1/2" mark on the score line, then rotate the card stock so that the cut line is to your left and cut down to the score line from the 1 1/2" pencil mark. You could do this by eye without marking, but I have a tendency to get a bit giddy and overcut! haha.

This should free up a panel of card stock and leave you a 'stable door' card front. Fold and burnish this piece, keeping the score line to the left as you would a standard card base.

Take the cupcake image and ink it up in Gorgeous Grape then cover this whole piece with as many cupcakes a possible. Adhere this to the inside back of your card.

Add the Basic white piece to the inside of the 'door'

Now, ink up the Happy Birthday sentiment in Poppy Parade ink and cover the Poppy Parade card stock with it. This need to be adhere to the outside of the 'door' or front of the card.

Using your Gorgeous Grape ink again, stamp the Circular Celebrate sentiment into the centre of the Daffodil Delight Card Stock. Layer this to the Basic Black Square that's left and add to the card front. Make sure you take a look at your positioning first with a 'Dry run', then once happy add liquid glue to the bottom of the square - only to the section that will sit on the 'door' - if you go too high up, you run the risk of gluing your card shut!

On a scrap of Basic White stamp the cupcake image - once dry colour it in. I used my Stampin Blends along with a blender pen. I colour the icing un Poppy Parade and the top of the cupcake with Ivory. For the Case I followed the lines on the image and used my Daffodil Delight Stampin Blends and, as we don't have a Gorgeous Grape Blend, I used my Gorgeous Grape ink pad and a blender pen to apply the colour.

Fussy cut the cupcake and add to the card front, inside the circular sentiment with a dimensional.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - it was so much fun playing around with these bold colours. If you would like more details on how the challenge works - or have a project to enter, pop along to my blog - Creative Colour Challenges

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