Vickie Lou Designs: July 2023

Monday 24 July 2023

Perfectly Detailed Masterfully Made Happy Birthday Card - Creative Colour Challenges #CCC99

Good Afternoon Everyone

This week's brand new Creative Colour Challenges combo was announced at 10am this morning and I just couldn't wait to share with you my project for it. I absolutely love this mix of colours and I just went all out bright and bold with my birthday card.

I have used quite a few products in this card, but that's the great thing about Stampin Up - being able to mix and match is so easy.

Measurements

Poppy Parade Card Stock

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

Basic White Card Stock

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

scraps

Pool Party Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Masterfully Made DSP

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

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Take the Poppy Parade Card Stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add the Basic White piece to the inside and the DSP to the card front.

Using your 2 3/8" circle punch, cut a circle out in Pool Party card stock and ink the edges using Pool Party ink and a blending brush.

Stamp the Celebrate circle image around the edge in Memento ink and add the lines lined images in Pool Party.

Ink up the Happy Birthday Sentiment in Memento ink and stamp onto a scrap of Basic white then trim.

The Perfectly Detailed stamp is a big background stamp, but I love the flowers, so I decided to use this for my card. I didn't want to waste lots of Basic White by stamping the whole image, so I laid down my stamp with the red rubber facing up and applied memento ink to the flower area trying not to put too much elsewhere.

I took a scrap of basic white which was a bit larger than the flower image and place it on a really big block, securing the edges with a bit of washi tape.

Then I took my card and block and pressed it into the stamp - kind like backwards stamping! Usually the stamp is on the block and the card on the table. This way I found i was more accurate and it was a lot less messy to get three useable images, not to mention less wasteful.

Once the three flowers have dried, colour in with Poppy Parade Stampin Blends and then fussy cut.

Take these three flowers and the circle & Sentiment from earlier and create your focal point on the card. I used liquid glue to stick down the circle and two of the flowers, then used some dimensionals to the centre flower and the sentiment.

Finally add rhinestone jewels to the stamped dots around the circle.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today. What do you think to this week's colour combination? If you would like more information on how the challenge works, or have a project to enter - then please 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

Saturday 22 July 2023

Biggest Wish Enchanted Butterfly Happy Birthday Card. Ink Stamp Share Colour Challenge Blog Hop. July 2023

Good Afternoon Everyone

Today I'm taking part in the Ink Stamp Share Monthly Blog Hop and this month we have a Colour Challenge.

Now, this was a particular struggle for me, since we had the refresh with the new annual, I have not yet completed my full ink and card stash so I don't have all the colours yet. I have them in card or ink or both but not a full set yet - so when Bubble Bath and Lemon Lolly appeared - I was a little stumped. But as I was looking through my stash I came across the Enchanted Butterfly stamp set .I realised that I could use black to create my outlines & Images and use coloured card to create the flower petals and leaves!

Measurements

Basic Black Card Stock

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

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

Basic White Card Stock

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

scraps

Berry Burst Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Bubble Bath Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Lemon Lolly Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Granny Apple Green Card Stock

scraps

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Take the larger piece of Black card stock and fold along to score line to create your card base. Add the Basic White piece to the inside with liquid glue and the remaining Basic Black piece to the card front with foam tape or dimensionals.

On the scraps of card stock stamp the following using Memento Black Ink

- One Large flower from Enchanted Butterfly on Berry Burst, Lemon Lolly and Bubble Bath.

- Six leaves from Enchanted Butterfly on Granny Apple Green

- Sentiment from Biggest Wish on Basic White

Fussy cut all these pieces and then place them on the card front using both dimensionals and liquid glue to give different heights.

Add some Basic Rhinestones around the images and it's done!

I hope you have enjoyed my project today - please take a look at the list below and continue through the hop for lots more inspiration using these colours

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

Thursday 20 July 2023

Bold Bouquet Inked Botanicals Hello Friend Card.

Good Morning Everyone

I hope you are all well.

Today I've been playing around with the Bold Bouquet Stamp Set and the Inked Botanicals DSP. Now, these aren't in the same suite I thought they would work. If you look closely at the large mat layer I have used for the background you will notice tiny Calypso Coral and Crushed Curry Flowers. Now i'm not 100% sure what these flowers are, but the pointy petals felt reminiscent of the smaller flower in Bold Bouquet and I just went from there!

Measurements

Pecan Pie Card Stock

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

Very Vanilla Card Stock

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

scraps

Inked Botanicals DSP

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

4pc - 1/2" strips

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Take the Pecan Pie card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base.

Add a strip of the DSP to the right hand side of the Very Vanilla cardstock and add to the inside of the card.

Arrange the three remaining strips of DSP over the larger piece of DSP towards the left, trying to leave even gaps between. Trim off any overhanging DSP and make sure they are all flush with the piece below.

Pop this onto the card front.

On scraps of Very Vanilla stamp the sentiments, I used both Calypso Coral and Crushed Curry Ink. Cut out using the lasting label punch, keeping the sentiment over to the right hand side.

On some more scraps of Very Vanilla stamp the flowers and leaves. I used Lost Lagoon for the leaves, Calypso coral for the large flower and Crushed curry for the smaller flower. I used first generation stamping for the outline, then 2nd generation (stamped off onto crap once first) for the solid in fill stamps. I fussy cut all my images as I didn't want a border, but you could run these through your Cut & Emboss machine with the coordinating dies.

Now, stick down the label onto the front of the card - place it centrally in the larger section of DSP to the right, then to the left add the flowers and leaves. I used both dimensionals and liquid glue to adhere these down to give different heights and a bit of extra interest.

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