Vickie Lou Designs

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

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, 20 January 2025

Darling Dinos Happy Birthday Card

Good Morning Everyone,

Today I'm sharing my first project with a new stamp set from our Jan-Jun Mini Catalogue.

My daughter is so obsessed with Dinosaurs and has been for as long as I can remember so as soon as I saw this set I knew I just had to get it. We had a little play with this set over the weekend, and I will share our projects with you soon, but first I want to show you this cute card. I used the Darling Dinos stamp set and some of the Bright & Beautiful DSP to create a fun Birthday Card.

What do you think?

Measurements

Blueberry Bushel Card Stock

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

Basic White Card Stock

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

scraps

Bright & Beautiful DSP

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

1pc - 3" x 2 1/2"

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Take the Blueberry Bushel card stock and fold it along the score line to create your card base. Add the Basic White piece of card to the inside, and the larger piece of DSP to the card front.

Ink up the Sentiments - the Happy Birthday in Blueberry Bushel and the rest of the sentiment in memento. Stamp them to the centre along the top of the remaining piece of DSP. The genius of this stamp set is that as it's in two parts - you can switch up what the word dinosaur means to fit your occasion!

Add this panel to the card front, slightly above centre.

On the scraps of Basic White stamp one of each of the dinosaurs in memento ink. Once the ink is dry jump in and colour them with your Stampin Blends. I used Shaded Spruce, Blueberry Bushel and Melon Mambo - but they would look awesome in any colour.

Bring in your Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine and cut out all three dinos using the coordinating dies.

Arrange these around the edge of the Smaller DSP piece with dimensionals.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I really enjoyed playing around with this bundle - it's such a fun set!

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, 19 January 2025

Creative Colour Challenges - #CCC176

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.

HEATHER FORGAN

https://stampwithnellie.com/

JOLANDA JOHNSTONE

https://jolandasinquespotstudio.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, 9 January 2025

The Project Share Project - 9th 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 shared a project using some Last Chance Products. This card oozes elegance and richness due to that awesome colour combination. Click on the link which will take you to the blog post for more details on the card -

https://inkybutterfly.com/2025/01/07/one-last-card-idea-with-last-chance-products/

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Heather Forgan

www.stampwithnellie.com/

Heather has used the Delightful Wishes bundle to create a very very pretty card. I love the colours, it has a lovely springtime feel.

https://stampwithnellie.com/2025/01/08/delightful-wishes-card-touches-of-ink-blog-hop-january-2025/

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Craft with Jayne

www.craftwithjayne.co.uk/

Finally we have Jayne, who created this beautiful gift box with the Wildflower Birthday Suite! These are a very simple to create, but they would really up your gift giving game. Head over to her blog for more details

https://craftwithjayne.co.uk/2025/01/07/wildflower-birthday-gift-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.