Vickie Lou Designs

Thursday, 11 August 2022

Butterfly Kisses Four You Duo Jumbo Tealight Gift Box. 3D Thursday

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Thursday, I hope you are having a great week so far. We have another spell of Hot weather again this week so we are trying to enjoy as much of it as we can.

It's Thursday, so we have another 3D Thursday Share for you. I've made a cute gift box to fit two Jumbo Tealight's in. I have made this before a little while back - but was asked to create these for a customer so I thought I'd share them with you.

She requested a few of these boxes for table gifts at a birthday BBQ that she will be holding. We discussed what table gifts would work and we looked through some of our Papers and she immediately took to our Butterfly Kisses DSP - and who wouldn't - it's so pretty!

Measurements

Calypso Coral Card Stock

1pc - 8" x 7"

Crushed Curry Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Basic White Card Stock

1pc - scrap

Butterfly Kisses DSP

Butterfly Pattern

1pc - 4 7/8" x 2 3/8"

1pc - fussy cut butterfly

Heart Pattern

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

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

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Take the piece of Calypso Coral card stock and score as follows:-

Long Side - 1", 3 1/2", 4 1/2" & 7

Short Side - 1" & 6"

Hold the card stock so that you have the thin score lines at the top and bottom. Cut up the rectangles and notch into the squares to create tabs, like so

Now add the DSP pieces to the card as below, if you are using a directional pattern DSP, like I am, be mindful as to how you cut and stick these down.

Add tear and tape to all the tabs and fold in the two tabs at left (surrounded by DSP) towards the right to form the lid, then all the other four tabs fold around to right hand side to form the base

On a scrap of basic white, stamp the sentiment in Crushed Curry ink and trim, angling the left hand side. Layer this to a scrap of Crushed Curry card stock, trimming down to leave a nice even border.

Take the fussy cut Butterfly and add the the box lid - I chose to cut out an identical butterfly as one on the lid and sit it directly over the top,adding the sentiment to the left hand side tucking the right hand side under the raised butterfly.

I hope you have enjoyed my project for today, please head on over to Karen's blogs to see what She has created today

Crafty Karen Designs

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

Wednesday, 10 August 2022

Lovely & Lasting Happy Birthday Card. Touches of Ink Blog Hop August 2022

Good Afternoon Everyone

Today I'm blog hopping with the Fabulous Touches of Ink ladies and you are sure to be spoilt by inspiration.

I chose to use the Lovely in Linen Suite for my card today. I absolutely Love this suite - everything about it is so nice!

My design is super simple and it's a great layout out to recreate over and over with different colours and sentiments.

Measurements

Sweet Sorbet Card Stock

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

1pc - scrap

Basic White Card Stock

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

scraps

Lovely Linen DSP

1pc - 5 3/4" x 4"

Evening Evergreen Card Stock

1pc - scrap strip

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Take the strip of Evening Evergreen and the tile stamp and stamp a line of this image, then fussy cut. Add this strip to the DSP about 1/2" away from the right hand side, trimming off any over hang.

Create a card base by folding the Sweet Sorbet Card Stock along the score line and add the DSP Panel to the front. Pop the Basic White piece to the inside.

Stamp the sentiment and label outline onto a scrap of basic white, making sure the sentiment is over to the right. Cut out with the Lovely Label Punch, and also a plain sweet sorbet label too. Adhere these together, having some of the sweet sorbet showing underneath.

Add the sentiment to the card front so that it;s just on the stamped strip.

Stamp a few of the larger flower images in Sweet Sorbet and Pale Papaya and then cut away a few of the open flowers. Arrange these around the left hand side of the sentiment using both liquid glue and dimensionals to get different heights.

Finally add a rhinestone into the centre of all of the flowers.

Like I said, simple quick and easy but a lovely card. Please continue through the hop by visiting Katja next.

Simone Kleine - derdiedasKleine bastelt
Nina Unbehau - NiNa’s Kreative Welt
Patricia Lemke Pattis-Stempel-Tempel
Angela Köber - Stempelfamilie
Petra Masukowitz - petma-kreativ.de
Iris Philipps - iriStempelt
Sonja Kindler - kreativ-mit-sonja
Liane Gorny - Jungle-Cards
Vickie Littlewood - Vickie Lou Designs (UK)
Katja Martins - Stempelpfau
Sandra Nitschke - Gelettertundgestempelt

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

Monday, 8 August 2022

Happiness Abounds Pretty Flowers Friend Card. Creative Colour Challenges - #CCC49

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Monday - I hope you all had a fabulous Weekend and have some lovely things planned for the week ahead.

As always, I'm starting the week off sharing my sample for the Brand New Creative Colour Challenges combo. This week we have Poppy Parade, Early Espresso and Balmy Blue.

I've simply used strips of the colours and the Pretty Flowers embossing folder to create a fab background, then added a lovely Poppy and sentiments using the Happiness Abounds bundle.

Measurements

Thick Basic White Card Stock

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

Basic White Card Stock

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

1pc - scrap

Early Espresso Card Stock

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

Balmy Blue Card Stock

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

Poppy Parade Card Stock

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

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Take the three strips of coloured card and lay them out in front of you , placing the Early Espresso in the centre. The reason two pieces are slightly larger is just because it was so much easier to work these measurements out than trying to split it into equal thirds - and to be honest, it's not massively noticeable. Flip the strips over and add some tape across all three strips to create a larger panel. Make sure you add enough tape to hold them together well.

Bring in your Cut & Emboss Machine and your Pretty Flowers embossing folder and emboss the full panel. Make sure that your place the panel into the folder right side up, so that you get an embossed image rather than a debossed panel (as me how I know!!haha).

Fold the Thick Basic White card stock along the score line to create your card base and then add the embossed panel to the card front.

On a scrap of basic White stamp the large flower image from Happiness Abounds and the cut out with your coordinating die. Colour in with your Poppy Parade Stampin Blends.

Whilst you have the Cut & Emboss machine out, use the notepad topper die to cut into the short side of the remaining Basic White card.

Stamp the sentiments in Early Espresso ink and then add the flower below, trimming the card tag down if you need to.

Finally, add this onto the card front at an angle with Stampin dimensionals.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today, what do you think of the colours? If you would like more information on the challenge, or to add an entry visit 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