Vickie Lou Designs: 2025

Saturday, 15 November 2025

Friends are Like Flowers - You are Remarkable Greeting Card

Good Morning Everyone,

Today I'm sharing a card I made a little while ago, but never shared - so here it is.

I absolutely love the You are Remarkable stamp set - the flower is so pretty and looks fabulous when coloured. Today however, I decided to use card stock and an inked outline image to give me some colour and some wonderful circles for interest.

What do you think?

Measurements

Basic Gray Card Stock

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

Basic White Card Stock

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

scrap

Melon Mambo Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Blueberry Bushel Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Coastal Cabana Card Stock

1pc - scrap

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Take your Basic Gray card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base.

Ink up the flower image in Basic Gray ink and stamp all over one of the Basic White card stock pieces. Gently ink the edges with Basic Gray and add to the card front, also ink the edges of the remaining piece of Basic White and add this to the inside of the card.

Using the scraps of coloured card, cut out one 2/3" circle using the punch in each colour.

Ink up the flower image in the same colour ink as the card and stamp so that you get the whole flower head on it. Then lightly add ink in the same colour around the edges of the circle. Repeat for all three colours.

On a scrap of Basic White stamp the sentiment in Basic Gray ink, trim and then add Basic Gray ink to the edges as well.

Arrange the sentiment and the circles onto to card front - making sure you've spaced evenly. Adhere the two lower circles and the sentiment flat and then pop the Melon Mambo circle up on dimensionals.

I loved creating this card it's a quick and easy make, minimal supplies and a good way to use up scraps! Would work with so many different colour combinations!

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

Friday, 14 November 2025

Friendly Foliage Get Well Soon Card. We Fall in Colours. November 2025

Good Evening Everyone,

I'm hoping with the fabulous We Fall in Colours group and as usual we have a gorgeous combination to work with for November. It's Shaded Spruce, Balmy Blue and Pretty in Pink - I love this mix of colour, but I wasn't too sure how I was going to make them all come together in a project. So, I decided to keep it pretty simple and focus on layers of card stock and a bold leaf image in the green shade. The Friendly Foliage stamp set is a beautiful set, and really helped me create a striking, yet simply made card.

What do you think?

Measurements

Balmy Blue Card Stock

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

Very Vanilla Card Stock

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

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

Pretty in Pink Card Stock

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

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Take the Balmy Blue Card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base - adding the larger piece of Very Vanilla to the inside.

Ink up the foliage image in Shaded Spruce and add it to the centre of the remaining piece of Very Vanilla, stamping the sentiment below in Pretty in Pink ink.

Layer this up to the Pretty in Pink card stock and add to the card front.

And that is it, told you it was incredibly simple. I love this layout and design and I think it looks awesome in this combination - but would also work in so many others, which I'm keen to have a play with!

Please, if you have a few minutes, take a look through the rest of the hop, these ladies are incredibly talented and you are sure to get so much inspiration on using these colours together. Head over to see Simone first.

Roll Call

derdiedasKleine bastelt - Simone Kleine

iriStempelt - Iris Philipps

basteltimemitpetra - Petra Kurth

gittisgiftcorner - Tatjana Niederberger

Vickie Lou Designs - Vickie Littlewood

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

Friendly Foliage Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[167021]

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

[147007]

Pretty In Pink A4 Cardstock

[163794]

Very Vanilla A4 Cardstock

[166785]

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad

[147088]

Pretty In Pink Classic Stampin Pad

[163807]

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Beautiful Gallery Thinking of You Card - Cards TV Mary's Sketches #4

Good Evening Everyone,

I'm sorry that this series has been slow off the ground. I honestly have had the best of intentions but my crafting has had to take a back seat recently.

I struggled for time during the school holidays as the girls were home for 6 weeks solid meaning some fantastic quality time and fun memory making, but there's not much down time.

I have two daughters - Imogen who is 6 and Poppy who is 4. In September Imogen headed back to school and into year 2 and Poppy started reception. Poppy has additional needs and is non-verbal, so it's been a tough transition with a reduced timetable and what not - that added to the usual tolls of being an adult. During the pandemic Dave started working from home and has done every since, so he uses the space I craft in during the day - meaning I can only create in the evenings so that has made it nearly impossible to get some quality craft time in. I have managed do have a few cards here and there, so I will crack on with sharing those and hope I can get some sort of routine back! But, honestly, I'm not even sure what my routine can even look like - all I know is that I need to craft (for my sanity) and I want to craft, so I will make it work somehow - just needs a little adjusting. As I write this the girls are due to head back to school after the October half term, so maybe - let's see. Sorry for the long script - but I felt I needed/wanted to share where I am and that I am very much around, just sometimes not a visible as I would like.

Today I'm sharing the next card in my #maryscards series. I had to get super creative here because I don't have an oval die, and my freehand cutting really isn't brilliant.

I've used a few bit from here and there to pull this card together, the Flowers are from Gallery Blooms, the sentiment is from Beautiful Motifs and I've used the Bright & Beautiful DSP - which is now retired - I made this card over a month ago and it seems to have sold out in the meantime, But it took quite a bit of work to make this and It was too pretty not to share, right?

What do you think?

Sketch from http://cardztv.blogspot.com/

Measurements

Blueberry Bushel Card Stock

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

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

Bright & Beautiful DSP

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

Basic White Card Stock

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

scraps

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Take the Blueberry Bushel card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Adding the Basic White piece to the inside.

Adhere the strip of Blueberry Bushel across the centre of the DSP and then add to the card front.

On a scrap strip of Basic White stamp the sentiment in Blueberry Bushel ink and trim - leave a good 3/4" each side of the wording and then glue to the centre of the card front onto the card stock strip.

Now stamp a whole bunch of flower images in Memento ink and then colour in using Flirty Flamingo, Bubble Bath, Daffodil Delight, Shaded Spruce & Granny Apple Green Blends. Once coloured in cut then all out - either using the coordinating dies or fussy cut. Then I cut away the larger cluster of leaves from one side. This made it easier for me to get a better oval shape - but keep hold of the cut leaves...

Now arrange all the flowers around the sentiment. I used dimensionals to stick mine down. I overlapped some flowers, and then added some of the cut leaves to fill it in a bit.

I absolutely Love how this turned out - and I'm sorry the DSP is now unavailable, but this layout and design would work with some many papers and colourways! I will definitely be trying it again!

Be sure to head over to http://cardztv.blogspot.com/ to check out the sketches and so much more from Mary.

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