Vickie Lou Designs: October 2023

Tuesday 31 October 2023

Charming Sentiment Garden Walk Birthday Card. Crazy Challenge Insta Hop - I See Rectangles

Good Morning Everyone!

I hope you are well?

Today I'm joining in with an Insta Hop run by two amazing Australian Stampin Up Demos - Trish Soliman & Bec Nutley. This challenge is 'I See Rectangles' - a very simple theme, but has so much scope!

Now I don't always follow these Insta Hops with a blog post - but my design for this card is ridiculously simple, a great way to use up scraps and looks fabulous - so i thought it was definitely worth a share.

Measurements

Mossy Meadow Card Stock

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

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

1pc - 3 1/2" x 1 5/8"

Basic White Card Stock

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

scraps

Garden Walk DSP

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

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

5pc - 3/4" x 5 3/8"

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Take the Mossy Meadow Card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base, adding the Basic White piece to the inside.

Now, line up the 5 DSP strips and adhere to the 5 1/2" x 3 3/4" piece of Mossy Meadow. Allow a nice even border around the four edges, but butt up the strips leaving no space between them, Layer this to the 3 7/8" x 5 5/8" piece of DSP and add the whole panel to the centre of the card front.

On scraps of Basic White stamp the sentiments in Mossy Meadow ink and trim into neat rectangles. Also stamp the stamp to get the word 'of' in Calypso Coral ink. Trim this neatly and add to the sentiment directly above the Mossy Meadow version.

Layer up the remaining pieces of DSP and Mossy Meadow, then add the sentiments to it.

Place this into the centre of the card front.

I told you this was ridiculously easy, didn't I? This layout is great for using up your scraps and would work with so many paper designs and sentiments - definitely going to be a go to layout for me in the future!

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

Monday 30 October 2023

Sending Smiles Birthday Wishes Slimline Card. CAS Colours & Sketches Blog. #523

Good Morning Everyone,

Today I'm taking part in the current CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #523 and this week we have a sketch to follow on a Slimline Card. I'll be honest I don;t often make Slimline cards, but I had a lot of fun creating this.

I've used the Sending Smiles Stamp set for the sentiment and I used the circle image from Enchanted Butterfly to add a small amount of subtle interest to the background and finished it off with some black & White gingham ribbon. What do you think?

Measurements

Thick Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 8 1/2" x 7, scored at 3 1/2"

Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 4" x 3 1/2"

Melon Mambo Card Stock

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

Bubble Bath Card Stock

2pc - 3 1/2" x 1/2" approx.

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Take the Thick Basic White Card Stock and fold along the score line to create your card base.

Ink up the Circle image from Enchanted Butterfly in Bubble Bath ink and stamping off first cover the whole piece of the 4" x 3 1/2" piece of Basic White. Flip the stamp and add the small dots image into the centre of the circles, again stamping off first.

Using Melon Mambo ink, stamp the sentiments diagonally into the centre of the card, making sure it's 3 1/2" along the horizontal.

Take the strips of Melon Mambo and Bubble Bath and add then to the top and bottom to create a thin border, I show about 1/8".

Run a length of ribbon below the sentiment and adhere on the back with a bit of tape, then using the same ribbon tie a little bow and add on toto the strip of ribbon with a glue dot.

Finally add this panel to the centre of the card front.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I really enjoyed making it!!

If you would like more inspiration for this sketch head on over to CAS Colours & Sketches to see the Design Team Creations and other participants entries. You can also check out how the challenge works, and maybe enter yourself too.

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

Sunday 29 October 2023

Creative Colour Challenges #112

Good Evening Everyone,

Happy Sunday! I hope you have all had a fabulous Weekend and are ready for a great week ahead.

As you may or may not know - 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.

I do hope to continue this as long as possible, with the entry numbers as they are now, this is something I'm happy to work on, but if by some amazing force, the numbers grow in strength I may have to reassess how I do this!

HEATHER FORGAN

https://stampwithnellie.com/

DEBORAH WHEELER

https://deborahscraftyblog.com/

JOLANDA JOHNSON

https://jolandasinquespotstudio.com/

HAZEL ANNE

https://nuttyhazecrafts.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

Friday 27 October 2023

Modern Garden Walk Christmas Card. Sunday Stamps Challenge SSC320

Good Morning Everyone.

Today I'm taking part in the current Sunday Stamps Weekly Challenge. It's the first time I've joined in with this challenge and I loved it! We were given a very simple sketch layout to work with which has so many possibilities.

I have just had the Garden Walk Suite delivered so I thought this was the perfect time to use this and create my first Christmas Card of the Year. I am usually way more organised, creating a couple throughout the year - but my best laid plans for that have gone to pot this year - so I really need to get on with it.

This Pattern from the Garden Walk DSP has Pretty Poinsettias which meant it was ideal and The Scalloped Contour Dies helped me easily create my layer details.

Measurements

Pretty Peacock Card Stock

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

Real Red Card Stock

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

Garden Walk DSP

1pc - 5 3/4" x 5"

fussy cut flower

Basic White Card Stock

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

scrap

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

Bring in your Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine - Lay the DSP onto the cutting plate and add the second largest Scalloped Contour Die into the centre. Make sure that it's as even as you can get it then cut.

Next, take the die piece from the centre and trim off the scallop edge to create a straight rectangle - use the stitched lines as a guide. I cut the stitched line off, so that you can see that element on the card below.

Also cut one of these shapes from a piece of Real Red.

Adhere the smaller cut piece of DSP to the Real Red die cut.

Now, add the largest piece of DSP to the card front, making sure to get even borders all the way round, and that it is glued down well.

Then, add to Real Red panel. This should fit perfectly into the negative space you created. I made sure that I stuck this down with the DSP the same way round as it was to start with - the pattern then continues through.

On a scrap of Basic White card stock stamp the sentiment from Modern Garden Stamp Set in Pretty Peacock. Cut out using the Modern Love Punch and then trim off the top and bottom to give some straight edges.

Adhere this to the top right of the card front, and pop a fussy cut flower on with a dimensional.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today, please head over to check out Sunday Stamps Weekly Challenge Blog for more inspiration created around this sketch.

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