Vickie Lou Designs

Friday, 27 January 2023

Country Floral Lane Happy Valentine's Bridge Fold Card. Fun Fold Friday

Good Morning Everyone

Woo Hoo, it's Friday! I don;t know about you, but this seems to have been a long week! haha.

It's Fun Fold Friday, so Donna, Karen and Myself all have a fun project to share with you. In fact, the card I have created today was inspired by a card made by Karen quite some time back. She is a huge fan of Fun Folds and makes some pretty amazing designs. I have taken all her measurements, Thank You Karen, and just given the card decoration my twist.

I've made a Bridge Fold - super simple, not at all complicated but it looks superb and a real show piece. Using the Country Floral Suite I made a very cuter Valentine's Day Card.

Measurements

Mint Macaron Card Stock

1pc - 7" x 7"

Sweet Sorbet Card Stock

1pc - 5" x 1 3/8"

1pc - 5" x 2"

Basic White Card Stock

1pc - 6 7/8" x 2 7/8"

Scrap

Country Floral Lane DSP

4pc - 7/8" x 6 7/8"

1pc - 2 7/8" x 6 7/8"

1pc - Bicycle Strip - approx 1 7/8" x 5"

1pc - Hearts and Flower Strip - approx 1 1/4" x 5"

3 hearts punched out from the Paper

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Take the Mint Macaron card stock and score at 1" and 2" from either side. Then fold these score lines Mountain, valley, valley, Mountain to create this shape

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Add the small floral print DSP to all the front facing panels.

Ink up the two sentiments in Sweet Sorbet and stamp into the centre of the Basic White piece. Once Dry glue this to the large panel on the back.

Take the two strips of DSP and layer them to the corresponding Sweet Sorbet strips and add these to the card. Place a small amount of glue to each end no further in than 1" (that's the width of the outer facing sides). Position the Bicycle one towards the bottom and the other towards the top, making sure that the they are both level and evenly spaced from top and bottom.

On a scrap of absic white stamp the sentiment in Sweet sorbet ink and trim down. Take this piece and holding vertically, gently tap the side of the card into your ink pad. this will give a very thin border around the sentiment, creating a faux layer. Add this with Dimensionals to the top bridge strip.

Using the Country Bouquet Punch, cut out three of the Hearts from the DSP and the add these to the back panel of the card in between the two bridge pieces using dimensionals. Place a few of the sequins around them.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I really loved creating it. Please check out the links below to 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

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, 25 January 2023

Thanks Friend Card using Fragrant Flowers. Creative Colour Challenges - #CCC73

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are all well.

Today I'm sharing my project I made for this week's Creative Colour Challenges combo - which is Gray Granite, Mossy Meadow and Parakeet Party. I absolutely love this mix, and decided to team up the Fragrant Flowers bundle with some of the Butterfly Wishes DSP. What do you think?

Measurements

Parakeet Party Card Stock

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

Mossy Meadow Card Stock

1pc - 5 3/4" x 4"

Basic White Card Stock

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

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Gray Granite Card Stock

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Butterfly Kisses DSP

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

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Take the DSP and the little geometric design stamp and cover the corner using Mossy Meadow ink.

Layer this panel to the Mossy Meadow card stock putting the stamping in the top right, then add to the front of your card base - made by folding the Parakeet Party card stock along to score line.

Add some of the stamping to the corner of the basic white piece and add to the inside of the card.

On a scrap of Gray Granite stamp the larger floral cluster in memento ink. Once dry add some wink of stella to the flowers and colour in the leaves with mossy meadow Stampin Blends.

Bring in your Mini Cut & Emboss Machine and using the Fragrant Dies cut out a couple of the leaves - I did one large and two small. Cut a label in Gray Granite card stock, and then cut out the flower with the coordinating die.

Stamp the sentiment onto the Gray Granite label in memento. Stamp the 'Friend' onto a scrap of basic white in Mossy Meadow ink and trim.

Now just arrange all these elements onto the card using dimensionals and liquid glue to give two different heights.

I absolutely love how this turned out, and using this layout you could create all sorts of fabulous cards using different colourways - but I must admit I think it looks great using these.

If you would like more information on the challenge, or have a project you would like to enter - head on over to 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

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Good Morning Everyone.

Happy Tuesday, Hope you week so far is being kind to you!

I Just wanted to pop a quick post out to talk to you about something pretty fantastic, which could make your week even better.....

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See you soon
Vickie
Xxx

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Sunday, 22 January 2023

Cottage Rose Best Wishes Card using masking. Share it on a Sunday.

Good Morning Everyone

Happy Sunday - Today we have another Share it on a Sunday for you. We have decided on an anything goes theme. I've been using a lot of new products recently, so I thought I'd bring out the Cottage Rose stamp set from the Annual catalogue that I haven't used in some time, and with a little masking - create a really simple, but very striking card

Measurements

Basic Black Card Stock

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

2pc - 1/4" wide

Basic White Card Stock

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

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Take the Basic Black Card Stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add one of the Basic White piece to the inside.

Using some Masking Paper or Post in notes, section off a diagonal panel along the centre of the remaining piece of Basic White.

Ink up the flower from Cottage rose and stamp it all over the inside of this marked section, making sure that you overlap the stamping slightly, but be careful not to stamp onto any other parts of the card.

Once the ink is dry, go in with your Stampin Blends and colour the whole centre panel. I used Highland Heather & So Saffron on the flowers and Balmy Blue to colour all the background.

Once fully coloured, peel away your masking paper. You should be left with a pretty perfect line, but because of the nature of blends you may get a bit of colour bleed - but that's OK, and what the strip are for. These strips are there for two reasons, firstly the cover any bleed, but secondly the frame a focus your eye to the design in between. Simply glue these to the card making sure you keep them pretty parallel to each other and cover any 'mess'. Trim off any overhanging parts so that everything is all flush.

Stamp the sentiment in the lower left hand corner using Memento black ink.

Finally add this panel to the card front.

It's so simple, and this technique can work with pretty much any stamp and and colouring tools. You could choose solid stamps, or colour with Pencils - each would give a fantastic result I'm sure.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today, please check out what both Donna & Karen have both created 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