Vickie Lou Designs

Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Enjoy Your Day Amazing Year Bouquet Card. Creative Colour Challenges - #CCC75

Good Afternoon Everyone

Today I wanted to share the card I have made for this week's Create Colour Challenges combo - which although I found tricky to initially come up with a concept, I had fun and absolutely love this mix.

I took the Bouquet from Amazing Year stamp set and the bottle from Bottled Happiness and there you go, added to a bold striped background it makes a bold statement.

Measurements

Sahara Sand Card Stock

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

Scrap

Basic White Card Stock

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

scraps

Cherry Cobbler Card Stock

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

So Saffron Card Stock

1/2" strips

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Take the Sahara Sand card stock and fold along the score line to create the car base, adding the Basic White piece of card to the inside.

Create the striped background panel by laying the strips of So Saffron diagonally across the Cherry Cobbler card stock. I used a scrap of card stock that was 1/4" wide as a spacer to make sure that my strips were all at the same angle and evenly spread. Trim down any over hanging strips to get a flush rectangle.

Adhere this to the card front.

On a scrap of Sahara Sand stamp the bottle outline and the label in Sahara Sand ink, adding the sentiment in Cherry Cobbler. Cut out using the Vintage Bottle Punch.

Ink up the bouquet in memento and stamp onto a scrap of Basic White card and colour. I used Cherry cobbler and So Saffron Stampin Blends for the Flowers and I coloured the leaves with my Blender pen and some of the Sahara Sand ink. To colour this way, I gently squeezed my ink pad when closed, this transfers some in onto the lid, then I picked up some ink with the blender pens and coloured in the leaves.

Fussy cut the image.

Add some glue to the lower part of the stems and adhere the bottle to it, so it looks like the bouquet is in the bottle. Once dry, pop this on dimensionals and add to the centre of the card front.

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

Sunday, 5 February 2023

Framed Occasions Wishing You The Best Day Ever Card. Share it on a Sunday

Good Morning Everyone

It's Sunday - and we have our Share it on a Sunday mini share for you today. We are still running with the 'Anything Goes' Theme, so I decided to dust off a couple of products I haven't used in a while.

I love both the Simply Fabulous & Framed Occasions Stamp sets for their smaller element stamps. Both are floral and leafy so worth really well together. I've also used the Beautiful Shapes Dies, which again work really well with these sets.

The colours I have used are this week's Creative Colour Challenges Combo - Yes, I know I'm really late with this one! The Combo is Calypso Coral, Shaded Spruce and Starry Sky - not sure I would think to pop these together - but they work so well.

This designs works so well with these colours - but I think any combination would look great.

Measurements

Basic Black Card Stock

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

1pc - scrap

Basic White Card Stock

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

scraps

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Take the Basic Black card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base, adding one of the Basic White piece to the inside.

With a the largest Hexagon die and a scrap of Basic White, cut a shape out.

Lay this in the centre of the remaining piece of Basic White and secure down with a bit of low tack tape or a smidge of adhesive. You want to be able to remove this easily after stamping, so do bear that in mind.

Ink up your stamps and stamp around the hexagon, making sure you stamp close together and over onto the die cut - this will help you get the placement right for the images around the hexagon.

Once you are happy with all the leaves and flowers - fill in the rest of the white space with the dots stamp.

Peel off the die cut gently and discard.

Add this panel to the card front.

Bring back your Cut & Emboss machine and cut out a large Hexagon in Basic Black and the ext one down in Basic White.

Stamp the sentiment into the centre of the Basic White Hexagon, then layer this to the Black Hexagon.

Place this onto the card front into the exact spot you added the die cut mask earlier.

Finally add a few rhinestones to the centre of the visible flowers.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - please take a look at the links below and see what Donna & Karen have both made Today

Taffy Crafting

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

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Friday, 3 February 2023

Batch Making Thank You Cards using Dainty Flowers DSP.

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Friday Folks.

Today I wanted to share the easiest cards ever! I used some of the Dainty Flowers DSP, which is free during sale-a-bration. The designs in this pack are so pretty and the attention to detail is top notch. This particular design makes it so easy to make up a quick batch of cards with such little effort. The addition of a sentiment and it's done.

I used the sentiment from Charming sentiments to whip up these Thank You Cards.

Measurements

Rich Razzleberry Card Stock

2pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4", scored at 5 7/8"

Old Olive Card Stock

2pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4", scored at 5 7/8"

Garden Green Card Stock

2pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4", scored at 5 7/8"

Dainty Flowers DSP

6pc - 3 7/8" x 5 5/8" (cut from one piece of 12x12")

Basic White Card Stock

6pc - 3 7/8" x 5 5/8"

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Fold all the card stock along the score lines to create card bases, then add a basic white piece to the inside of each.

Cut you 12x12" down to produce 6 mats. making sure you cut into the blank area and not cut off any of the flowers.

Take the DSP and stamp the sentiment to the top of each piece.

Then just add one piece of each of the bases!

Now you could really go to town, adding embellishments and using punches to cut out a sentiment etc, which would look amazing - but you know what - I love this simple effect!

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 Dainty Flowers is a FREE Sale-a-Bration item and only available until 28th Feb, or whilst stocks last

Product List