Vickie Lou Designs: June 2023

Wednesday 28 June 2023

Botanical Layers & Dragonfly Thank You Card. Creative Colour Challenges #CCC95

Good Afternoon Everyone

Today I'm using this week's Creative Colour Challenges combo for my card. The mix of Mossy Meadow, Soft Sea Foam and Crumb Cake made me instantly think of an aged leafy design. I pulled out the Botanical Layers Stamp set and went to work.

I've used the 2 3/8" circle punch to create a mask to get a soft sea foam circle on the background and added a sweet little dragonfly for some dimension.

Measurements

Mossy Meadow Card Stock

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

Basic White Card Stock

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

Crumb Cake Card Stock

scraps

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Take the Mossy Meadow card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add on of the Basic White pieces to the inside.

Using your 2 3/8" circle punch and cut a circle out of another piece of basic white. Bear in mind that you will be using the aperture to 'colour in' so try to leave as much white space around the open edge as possible - just means you get a bit of space to blend. I used a piece of card the same size as my stamping layer and tried to get it pretty central on the long side and towards to left. Doing it on the same size made it easy to line up if i needed to keep taking it away to check coverage.

Lay the open circle over the remaining piece of Basic White and using a blending brush and your Soft Sea Foam ink, build up a lovely soft circle of colour. I tried to keep it a bit lighter towards the centre.

Once you are happy with that circle in up one of the leaf images in Mossy Meadow ink and stamp to the left making sure you overlap into the circle. Then use the foliage image and stamp in the lower right with Crumb Cake ink.

Ink up the sentiment in Mossy Meadow and stamp, this time in the lower left of the card, close to the circle.

Colour the edges of the entire card piece with Crumb Cake ink, coming into the white space a little more on those opposite corners where there's not much going on.

Add this to the card front.

Using the Dragonflies punch - cut out three small dragonflies and layer then together only adding adhesive to the 'length of the body'. Add a run of Pearl Embellishments along the body, placing a larger one at the head.

Place this onto the card front over to the right of the circle.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I really enjoyed making it and it was fun to work with this colour combination. If you would like more details about how the challenge works, or have a project to enter, then pop on over 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

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

Tuesday 27 June 2023

Everyday Thanks Pencil Background Thank You Card.

Good Afternoon Everyone

Today's card is a very simple one, using on of the larger images from Everyday Thanks Stamp Set to create a quick and fun background.

Measurements

Orchid Oasis Card Stock

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

1pc - scrap

Basic White Card Stock

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

1pc - scrap

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Take the Orchid Oasis card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add one of the Basic White pieces to the inside.

Ink up the pencil stamp in memento ink and cover the remaining piece of Basic White to create a background. Colour in the pencils with a selection of Stampin' Blends.

Adhere this to the card front.

On a scarp of Basic White stamp the sentiment in memento and trim down, adding a slanted edge to the right hand side. Layer this to a scrap of Orchid Oasis and trim to leave an even border all the way round.

Add this to the card front, lining up the left hand side with the stamped panel below.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today! I had lots of fun creating it.

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

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See you soon

Sunday 25 June 2023

Inked Botanicals Happy Birthday Bookbinding Fold Card.

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Saturday! I hope you are all well.

Today I'm sharing a card I made at a recent catch up with some team mates! I'm very lucky that Bec on my team lives close by, so she offered to host a craft and lunch session. Karen Egan, lives reasonably close by, so she hopped on over to join in the fun. We had a lovely day - crafting and chatting and we challenged ourselves to make three projects, and this is one of mine!

I'm absolutely in love with the Inked Botanicals Suite. It has such pretty designs and the most fabulous colour combinations.

Measurements

Calypso Coral Card Stock

1pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4"

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

scarp

Very Vanilla Card Stock

1pc - 4 3/4" x 4"

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

scraps

Inked Botanicals DSP

1pc - 4 3/4" x 4"

1pc - 7/8" x 4"

scrap

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Take the Calypso Coral cardstock and score at 5 3/4" and 6 3/4". Fold the cardstock in half as you would normally to create a card base, but then fold the front piece back on itself.

Add some glue to the back of the 'spine' piece and adhere down - just this thin 1" section. The smaller piece glued down against the back piece creates the book bind element.

Wrap the ribbon around the thin piece of DSP, securing on the back. Then tie a bow or a knot (I did a knot because I just couldn't get my bow to look right!!) on the front, I have added a glue dot under the knot to keep it in place and reasonably flat. Add this to the front of the card in the small 1" section.

Add the DSP Panel to the front, and the Very Vanilla to the inside.

On the remaining piece of Very Vanilla, stamp the flower image towards the left. I added both Calypso Coral and Lost Lagoon to the stamp before stamping - you could use your Stamp n Write Markers, or use your ink pad and a light touch from daubers.

Take a scrap of DSP at least 4" tall and rip along the left hand side. adhere this to the stamp piece of Vanilla, coming up to the stamping. Trim off any excess so that it sits flush along the top, bottom and right hand sides. Layer this to the Calypso Coral mat and add this to the card front - centralising it on the 'open panel' section of the card front.

Stamp some of the flowers heads onto a scrap of Very Vanilla - I did two in Crushed Curry and one in Calypso coral. Fussy cut and add to the card in the lower right side of the stamped panel.

Also, on a scrap of Very Vanilla, stamp the sentiment in Lost Lagoon ink and cut out using the Double Oval punch - cut this out using the smaller smooth oval, and cut a scallop oval in Calypso Coral. Layer these together and add to the card front above to fussy cut flowers.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I sure had fun creating it!

Here's a list of supplies I used in today's project, click on the images to head over to my online store - Don't forget, we still have our DSP sale on until the end of June - this paper pack, along with many others, has 15% discount! Product List