Vickie Lou Designs

Saturday, 7 December 2024

Choose Happy Greeting Cards. The Project Share Project CASE the Catalogue Blog Hop. December 2024

Good Morning Everyone,

Today I'm taking part in this months Project Share Project Blog Hop and our theme for December is 'CASEing the Catalogue'.

The catalgoue is full of inspirational project ideas and a great creative resource.

CASEing is another great wat to create by using another project to 'Copy' or use as a inspiring start to your project.

I've used the Choose Happy stamp set which is full of lovely small element stamps including this sweet flower outline. I decided to use the sample card in the catalgoue as a guide and I adjusted it slightly - changing to card orientation and switching up the colours.

what do you think?

Measurements

Melon Mambo Card Stock

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

Basic White Card Stock

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

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

1pc - 4 3/4" 3 1/8"

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

Ink up the flower image in Melon Mambo and stamp a few flower in the top left and bottom right.

Clean off the stamp and then ink it up in memento black ink and on the smallest piece of Basic White stamp the images to create a sort of rough diagonal line.

Once the ink is dry colour in the leaves with your Shaded Spruce Stampin Blends and add some Melon Mambo to the inside of the Petals, colouring in the centre of the flowers with Daffodil Delight.

Ink up the 'Choose' in Shaded Spruce and the 'Gratitude' in Melon Mambo and add below some of the flowers.

Layer this to the remaining piece of Basic White Card Stock and add to the centre of the card front.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today. Please take a few minutes to continue through the hop and check out what the other fabulous ladies have created today - Jayne is up next, click on the button below to head over to her blog.

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

Thursday, 5 December 2024

The Project Share Project - 5th December 2024

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 couple of cards she created earlier this week. It's a simple yet very effective idea - she has stamped the Thanks Sentiment repeatedly down a strip of card in colours from the same colour family! It gives a great rainbow effect as a background panel. Click on the link which will take you to the blog post for more details on the card -https://inkybutterfly.com/2024/12/03/colour-family-thank-you-cards/

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Heather Forgan

www.stampwithnellie.com/

Heather has used this week's Creative Colour Challenges combo and the Hearts of Elegance bundle to create a fabulously sweet card. Check out her blog to see how she made it.

https://stampwithnellie.com/2024/12/03/hearts-of-elegance-card-ccc170/

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Craft with Jayne

www.craftwithjayne.co.uk/

Finally we have Jayne, who created these fabulous Gift Packs decorated with the A Little Bit Festive DSP. These are super easy to make and are a great way to gift a little chocolate treat. Head over to her blog for all the details

- https://craftwithjayne.co.uk/2024/12/03/hot-chocolate-cocoa-gift-pack-a-little-bit-festive-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.

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Thursday, 28 November 2024

The Project Share Project - 28th November 2024

Good Morning Everyone,

Verity Pursglove

www.inkybutterfly.com

Verity shared this stunning card and it just screams traditional Christmas! The Robins are coloured beautifully and sit in in front of a fab foliage background, the two tones give great depth. Click on the link which will take you to the blog post for more details on the card -https://inkybutterfly.com/2024/11/19/seasons-greetings-with-the-winterly-treetops-bundle/

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Heather Forgan

www.stampwithnellie.com/

Heather has created such a fun little project here - using the Snowy Wonder Bundle she's made a Tic Tac Holder where you can see the Tic Tac's through the Snowman - so Cute! Head over to her blog for all the details on how the make this yourself

https://stampwithnellie.com/2024/11/19/snowy-wonder-tic-tac-holder/

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Craft with Jayne

www.craftwithjayne.co.uk/

Finally we have Jayne, who created these fabulous Christmas gifts. They are very cute Festive Christmas Pencil Holders! They are super simple to create and look amazing - do head over to her blog to see how she made these. -https://craftwithjayne.co.uk/2024/11/22/festive-christmas-pencil-holder-craft-fair-series-craft-with-jayne-stampin-up/

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Cheerful Daisies Happy Birthday Card - Creative Colour Challenges #CCC168

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Today I'm sharing a card I made for Creative Colour Challenges #CCC168. I did make this last week in plenty of time to post into the challenge when it was live, but life got in the way and I didn't get the chance - so i thought i'd post it here anyway, I think its a lovely card that should be shared! haha

I absolutely love the mix of Pecan Pie, Lemon Lolly and Crumb Cake. I've used the Cheerful Daisies Bundle, but with these colours these flowers look a little like sunflowers rather than daisies.

What do you think?

Measurements

Pecan Pie Card Stock

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

Crumb Cake Card Stock

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

1pc -scrap

Basic White Card Stock

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

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

1pc - scrap

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Take the Pecan Pie card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Ink up the leaf image in Pecan Pie ink and cover the whole of the card front. Make sure you cover the edges well as that is what will be seen as the middle will be covered with the next layer.

Add the larger piece of Basic White card stock to the inside.

On the remaining piece of Basic White stamp the flowers to cover the full piece. I used Pecan Pie for the outline and the centres and Lemon Lolly for the petals.

Layer this to the Crumb Cake mat and then add to the centre of the card front.

Cut out a Hexagon from Crumb Cake card stock using the Heartfelt Hexagon punch and then using a blending brush add some ink around the edges.

Bring in your Stampin Cut & Emboss machine and cut of the label shape from the Cheerful Dies.

Stamp the sentiment into the centre in Pecan Pie ink. Add this to the Hexagon punch out. it fits perfectly edge to edge, so take a bit of time to get it line up well.

Add this to the card front with dimensionals.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I had a lot of fun creating it. I love the design with these colours, but I think it would work with so many other combinations.

If you would like more information on how the challenge works, or would like to join in with the current combination - head 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