Vickie Lou Designs: January 2025

Thursday, 30 January 2025

The Project Share Project - 30th January 2025

Good Morning Everyone,

Happy Thursday and welcome to The Project Share Project. Every Thursday we will all share an individual blog post sharing one project from each of the other creators - maybe an inspiring card, a very fancy fun fold or simply a project that made us smile.

Verity Pursglove

www.inkybutterfly.com

Verity is part of the Inspire Create Challenge Design Team and she created this card for the current Clean & Simple Challenge - which she totally nailed! She has used the Country Birdhouses bundle - how cute is this?

Click on the link which will take you to the blog post for more details on the card and how to enter the challenge, if you're interested -

https://inkybutterfly.com/2025/01/26/inspire-create-challenge-185-clean-simple/

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Heather Forgan

www.stampwithnellie.com/

Heather has used the Wildflower Birthday Suite again - she cannot put it down, and who can blame her, it's gorgeous! She's created a very simple, yet very beautifully effective card. I love the colours, it has a lovely springtime feel.

https://stampwithnellie.com/2025/01/28/happy-cake-day-another-wildflower-birthday-card/

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Craft with Jayne

www.craftwithjayne.co.uk/

Finally we have Jayne, who created this fabulous Fruit Salad Treat Box to hold a lip balm. The DSP is a Sale-abration freebie, which makes it even sweeter! - Head over to her blog for more details

https://craftwithjayne.co.uk/2025/01/28/fruit-salad-lip-balm-treat-box-craft-with-jayne-stampin-up/

I really do hope you have enjoyed this post today. I enjoyed taking a closer look at these ladies' project and picking a favourite to share with you! If you have a moment or two, please head on over to their blogs. Check out these projects and see what else they have created too.

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, 27 January 2025

Thank you so much Layering Leaves Enduring Beauty card.

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Today I'm sharing a card I made using last week's Creative Colour Challenges combo - but I never got a chance to get it written up and entered! I adored the combination of Balmy Blue, Shaded Spruce and Daffodil Delight. I immediately knew I wanted to use the Enduring Beauty floral image! I used some of the Beautiful Bokeh DSP to include the Balmy Blue element - and I'm so happy with how it turned out.

Measurements

Shaded Spruce 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

Beautiful Bokeh DSP

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

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Take the Shaded Spruce card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base, adding the Basic White card to the inside. Placing the Beautiful Bokeh DSP on the card front.

On a scrap of Basic White card stock stamp the large floral image from Enduring Beauty in Memento ink. Once the ink is fully dried the colour in the leaves with Shaded Spruce and the Flowers in Daffodil Delight.

Bring in your Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine and cut out the image using the coordinating dies. Also cut out a label shape from a scrap of Basic White.

Stamp the sentiment from Layering Leaves in Shaded Spruce into the centre of the label, and pop to one side for later.

Now with your Balmy Blue Stampin Write Marker 'fill' in all the white space on the floral image. There's a few spaces in and amongst the flowers and leaves, and be sure to colour around the edges too. This won't make the solid die cut stamp out and will help the image look as though it is on the background.

Add both the floral piece and the sentiment label to the card front using dimensionals.

Want to see what this week's Creative Colour Challenge is? Then head on over to my blog - https://creativecolourchallenges.blogspot.com/

I hope you liked my card today - I absolutely LOVED 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 are mid Sale-abration so you can earn FREE products with a qualifying spend - you will find more details on my website (or feel free to contact me direct) Product List

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Sunday, 26 January 2025

Creative Colour Challenges - #CCC177

Good Evening Everyone,

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.

DEBORAH WHEELER

https://deborahscraftyblog.com/

JOLANDA JOHNSTONE

https://jolandasinquespotstudio.com/

CHRISTY STANFORD

https://snapdragonstamps.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

Thursday, 23 January 2025

The Project Share Project - 23rd January 2025

Good Morning Everyone,

Verity Pursglove

www.inkybutterfly.com

Verity took part in an Insta Hop where everyone was showcasing Online Exclusives & Sale-abration products. Verity Nailed the brief with this absolutely beautiful card using the Mixed Florals Bundle and the Spring Corners stamp set. Click on the link which will take you to the blog post for more details on the card -

https://inkybutterfly.com/2025/01/20/product-insta-hop-jan-2025-online-exclusives-sale-a-bration/

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Heather Forgan

www.stampwithnellie.com/

Heather has used the Wildflower Birthday DSP and sticker sheets to create a very simple, yet very beautifully effective card. I love the colours, it has a lovely springtime feel.

https://stampwithnellie.com/2025/01/21/wildflower-birthday-square-card/

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Craft with Jayne

www.craftwithjayne.co.uk/

Finally we have Jayne, who created these gorgeous Triangular Treat Boxes using the Terrific Toadstools bundle and some of the Toadstool Garden DSP. These are so pretty - Head over to her blog for more details

https://craftwithjayne.co.uk/2025/01/21/terrific-toadstools-mini-triangle-treat-boxes-craft-with-jayne-stampin-up/

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Heartfelt Hexagon Sketched Butterflies Sending Love Card. Creative Colour Challenges - #175

Good Evening Everyone,

Today I'm sharing a card I made a couple of week's ago for Creative Colour Challenges. I love this combination of Shy Shamrock, Pecan Pie and Melon Mambo - although I did find it tricky at first to get a concept together.

Sometimes when you have a colour challenge, an idea just comes to you - which is brilliant. Other times it requires a little more brain power to figure out how they are going to work together.

Every time I have a colour challenge, I take out a scrap of card stock in the colours, lay then on my desk and pull out some stamp sets to see what could work - if I have any paper packs with those colours I may bring them out too.

I really wasn't sure where to go with this combination, although I love all the colours - so I did my usual and pulled out scraps of card, then saw the Heartfelt Hexagon stamp set (which is on the last chance list - so an ideal opportunity to get it inked up a little more). I thought i could put a sample of each colour onto my card using the outline from Heartfelt Hexagons, but there's not many images to fit the punch out vertically, but this cute butterfly from Sketched Butterflies worked perfect!

And there you go, I really nice Clean & Simple Card, using scraps! And a little detail on how my process works!

what do you think of the finished card?

Measurements

Thick Basic White Card Stock

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

Pecan Pie Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Shy Shamrock Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Melon Mambo Card Stock

1pc - scrap

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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 outline border stamp from Heartfelt Hexagon stamp set and stamp three times, once on each of the coloured card scraps. Add a butterfly from Sketched Butterflies to the centre of each and then cut them all out.

Arrange then on the card front, leaving enough space in the bottom right hand corner to add the sentiment from Heartfelt Hexagons in Memento ink.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I love a super quick card and this certainly is that! It looks great in this combination - but I can only imagine the many possibilities that would work.

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 that the Heartfelt Hexagon Stamp set is on our Last Chance list and won't be around much longer - be sure to get it whilst you can. Product List