Stamp Something For Christmas!

This is a card I made for this weeks Stamp Something Challenge. The rules are to make a card using only one layer of cardstock. You can embellish it, stamp it, color it, do anything you wish, but you must only use one layer! So here is my entry!


I used my new Woodware bubble tree stamp and stamped it directly onto the base CS. I coloured some of it in with blue ink before adding buttons, adhesive gems and pearls and glitter glue to embellish. I attempted to distress the edges of the CS with blue ink to give a border, but not entirely sure it works! Sentiment is one of my new stamps I got from stamp magic a few weeks ago. Snowtex and glamour dust added to the CS to finish!

Another realtively quick and simple card for my christmas box. Don't think I've got that many more to make now. Probably another 10-15, mainly personalised cards for my family! Hope you're all managing to crack on with your christmas cards, only 42 days left to make them ( and that's including christmas eve so you'd have to hand deliver them)!

Not been feeling so good today so have spent most of the day in my pyjama's keeping nice and warm! Hope I'm not coming down with something. I've got a few day's off work coming up and it'll just be my luck to be poorly!

On a brighter note my new personalised stamp I ordered from E-Bay came today, so I can start using it to personalise the backs of my cards. I will show you it as soon as I make a card using it!

Hugs, Vicky x

Can anyone help me please?

Evening all. Hope you've had a good day. No cards to show today but I'm hoping that someone out there might be able to give me some advice! I have taken delivery of some tan spellbinders embossing mats today with my nestabilities from the states. However, I'm not really sure how to emboss my nestabilitie die shapes with these mats. I have a cuttlebug and I'm not sure what sandwich combination to do! So if anyone can help me with my conundrum please leave me a message!

Thanks in advance, Vicky x

UPDATE - Thanks to everyone who has left me messages / links with tips on how to emboss with my nestabilities. I am very grateful. I have been practising and think I have got the hang of it now!

Thanks again, Vicky x

Cute Christmas Fairy for Cute Card Thursday!

This is my entry for Cute Card thursday this week. I was also going to enter it for papertake weekly but I missed the boat! Oh well!

The image is Christmas Fairy Maggie from Sugar Nellie! I coloured her in festive christmas colours with my whispers pens. The sketch is based on a sketch from last weeks secret crafter challenge (which again I didn't enter as I misread the rules, you were supposed to use the colours pink and brown!). I added glitter to her wings and wand for extra sparkle. The background paper is from last years dovecraft pack matted onto red CS. I cut out all the circle shapes with my nesties and embossed the red CS circle with the swiss dots folder. The sentiment is from a See D's christmas set. The ribbon is Dovecraft and the 'legless brads' are from craft work cards and I attached them with 3D foam!

Not really 100% sure about this one, think it's the LO! Not overly keen, but I am still going to give it to my neice for christmas! :-)

Hugs, Vicky x

Sketch Saturday meets Sugar Nellie!

This is my entry for this weeks sketch saturday. I have rotated the sketch sightly but all the elements are still there.


This gorgeous image is 'Rory' one of the new soft center stamps from Sugar Nellie available at Funky Kits. I have coloured him in with whispers pens and have attempted to distress the background of the image with brown ink. Matted onto coredinations CS which has been torn to reveal the inner core colour. Background papers are from Basic Grey Archaic pad and K&Co Hopskotch pad. Brown Coredinations CS has been embossed with one of my new cuttlebug border folders. The 'with love' sentiment and flourish has been rubbed over with a emery board to reveal the inner core colour and make the sentiment pop! Flowers are prima and papermania, embellished with a button and some ribbon from my stash!

Hope you're all having a great weekend.

Hugs, Vicky x

Some quick christmas cards!

Afternoon all. Thought I would share a couple of quick make christmas cards that I have made this week. I am behind with my christmas cards and with only 47 days left until christmas I wanted to start making a few quick cards for work colleagues etc. I am determined not to give any shop bought cards! I have to confess that last year I left my christmas cards a little too late and had to give a few shop bought cards to some friends and distant realtives. I know shock horror! But it won't be happening this year!

The image is Nellie with crochet hat and scarf, from the Sugar Nellie range available at Funky Kits. I coloured her in with my whispers pens before cutting her out and using 3D foam to attatch her to the card. Half of the base CS has been embossed with the swiss dots folder. Papers are from dovecraft and DCWV. Ribbons are from Dovecraft. Acrylic flowers are from American crafts and have been embellished with snowflakes (x cut punch) and pearl gems. Red greeting is a rub on also from American crafts and the stampd sentiment is from a see D's christmas set.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. It's lovely weather here in west yorkshire today and the sun is shining. I've still got the heating on though, much to my boyfriends disgust! Lol! :-)

Hugs, Vicky x

Make friends with Porridge!

Evening all. Thank goodness it's the weekend. I've had one pig of a week at work (no pun intended)! I thought I'd share a card with you that I made last weekend with my new Sugar Nellie soft center stamps! You can find them here at Funky kits!

The image is called porridge, isn't he lovely! I coloured him with my whispers pens. They are difficult to use when you want to try and attempt some shading. I'm hoping to get some copics for christmas as these seem to give a better result! Matted onto coredinations CS. Background papers are from my new Basic Grey Sugared pad. Flower brad is from papermania and the made with love charm (which you can see better if you click on the image) was sent to me in my DT pack of stamps so unsure where they're from sorry! Sentiment was created using doodlebug rub on's and a studio G clear stamp (coloued wiht whispers pens and glitter added).

Well I'm hoping to have a semi-relaxing weekend and hope to get some time for crafting! Have a great weekend everyone. Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog and leave comments I really appreciate them! I will be visiting your blogs over the next few days to see what fab creations you've come up with!

Hugs, Vicky x

Christmas for friday sketchers!

Here is my entry for this weeks friday sketchers. I did actually make it last friday and have just realised I need to post it today otherwise it'll be too late, so here it is!

The image is Elzybells and has been coloured with my whispers pens. Snowtex added with glamour dust to give it some snow sparkle! I also added some pearl adhesive stones to the background to give the illusion of snowflakes. Matted onto scalloped ovals cut with my nesties. The background CS is coredinations, which I distressed slightly. Patterned paper was free with a magazine. White flower is Prima and snowflakes were punched from silver mirri card with x cut punches, pearl stones added to the centers. Ribbons are from dovecraft and papermania. I added the sentiment to the white ribbon with black doodlebug rub on's!

I really enjoyed using this sketch and love the effect. I would never have thought to use a triangular shape in the background. Well, I suppose that's the beauty of following sketches!

Hope you are all well on this miserably wet thursday!

Hugs, Vicky x

My next award ....

I received was the Kreative Blogger award from Tab. Thank you so much! I really appreciate it Tab!

Here are the rules!
1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to their blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees

So the 5 people I would like to nominate for this award are as follows.
Sal, Stacey, Sarah, Katy, Kerry and Karen. I am a regular visitor to all these blogs and I continue to be amazed and inspired by their work!

A couple of awards!

I've been given a few awards recently so thought I should get around to saying thank you and passing them on.

Firstly I have been tagged by Kerry and Natalie. So a big thank you. I really enjoyed reading your facts!

Here is how this one works.......Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
Answer the five sets of five (this is the easy part) Tag 5 people in the last section by leaving their names as well as links to their blog. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

THINGS I LOVE

1. My gorgeous boyfriend John
2. All my lovely craft stash including my new craft room
3. All things sparkly, glitter, bling, I'm a bit of a magpie really

4. Handbags and shoes
5. Eastenders
THINGS I DONT LOVE
1. Writing my essay's for my masters degree
2. Housework

3. Spiders

4. Celery
5. Dishonest people
MUSIC ON MY IPOD
1. Sugar Babes
2. Girls Aloud
3. Coldplay
4. The Kings of Leon
5. Adele
FAVE FOOD AND DRINK
1. Pasta especially lasagne
2. Curry (Chicken & Spinach Balti)
3. Cheese
4. Chocolate
5. Ben & Jerry's Phissh food ice cream

I am going to pass this on to Sal, Stacey, Sarah. I can't really think of anyone else as most other blogs I visit have already received this. BUT if you're reading this and haven't received it then consider yourself tagged!

Bev's whiff of joy blog candy!

Bev is giving away some fab whiff of joy blog candy, so what are you waiting for. Pop over to her fantastic blog (if you don't already know it!) to be in with a chance of winning!

I've had a bit of a bad day at work so no cards tonight! Sorry. Hoping to be feeling in a more crafty mood tomorrow. After all I've lots of new stash to play with!

Hugs, Vicky x

My new craft goodies from yesterday!

As promised for those who are interested here are some pics of my craft purchases from yesterday! Sorry I'm a bit late in them posting them, I hope I haven't kept you in suspense too long. I've been out for a meal to celebrate my nephew's birthday tonight.


I got some great bargains. These wood mounted stamps were £1 each or 6 for £5, so obviously I had to get 6! They stamp so crisply! The flocking and glitter set was also only £5 and comes with 3 different coloured flocks, 2 glitters, 15 sheets of adhesive designs and loads of chrstmas chipboard shapes.
I also got this gorgeous box full of felt/paper flowers and buttons from Making Memories! Also £5. I seem to love my £5 items! Lol!

Yes there's more. Got some packs of CS in various colours. Some dovecraft christmas papers, last years design that I ran out of and wanted some more of. Some Craftwork cards christmas sentiments. K&Co sparkly sweet paper pad, these are devine! I got these 3 cuttlebug folders for £10. I couldn't believe my luck when he said even the border embossing folders were in the deal as I almost bought them online last week for £4.75 each! Last but not least some more brads!

I love these christmas themed brads, so did my mum but unfortunately I picked up the last pack, a snip at £3!

I worked out I spent exactly £60 (I haven't told my o/h that though), which I don't think is bad considering the amount I got for my money. I haven't stopped there though as I was online this morning buying the woodware christmas bubble tree stamp set and the square set of nestabilities from cut at home (although I will be putting these away for santa)! I think I will have to give it a rest for a while though now, at least until next week! Lol!

Hope that has whetted your appetite. Some information for you all, I will be giving away 3 lots of PIF candy in the next week or so after having won some from Sarah so keep your eye's peeled to be in with a chance of winning!

I'm off now to have a quick blurfing session before I head off to bed, see what you've all been up to!

Take care.

Hugs, Vicky x

Fab day at Stamp Magic!

Evening all!

I had really great day out at Stamp Magic today with my mum and have come home with my shopping bag bursting, despite telling myself that I really didn't NEED anything!Lol! It was a lovely bonding day with my mum we haven't always had the closest mother and daughter relationship (I'm more of a daddy's girl!), but it's nice to have someone to share my craft passion with now. My OH tries bless him, but gets bored when I try to talk to him about craft matters!
I will take some pics of my new goodies tomorrow and upload them for you to see for those who are interested.

Right I'm off to have a play with some of my new stash before bedtime! Hope you've all had a good weekend and are rested and relaxed ready for another week back at work!

Hugs, Vicky x

Papertake weekly challenge!

This is my entry for this weeks papertake weekly sketch challenge!

I'm a big fan of all things girly so though I would use this image of Lola with Flowers from Sugar Nellie that I haven't used in a while (available online at funky kits). I coloured her in with my whispers pens with little glitter on the flowers! Papers are from the sweet nothings papermania range as is the chipboard accent which I have covered in their spotty paper. CS is coredinations and had been embossed with the swiss dots folder. Sentiment is from a studio G set. Black 'x' rub on's are from doodlebug. The flowers were handmade using my x-cut puches and this tutorial. Embellished with a button and adhesive gems to finish!

I can't sleep tonight, hence why I am on here uploading another card a this ungodly hour!! I thought I could do it now as I am going to visit my parents today and also going the the Stamp Magic papercrafts and stamping show at the Doncaster Dome with my mum! Yes I have also recruited my mum to the dark side! Lol! Really looking forward to it, and all that yummy craft stash.

I had a really enjoyable and productive crafty day yesterday using my new stash that arrived yesterday and managed to make 5 cards in total, which I will be uploading over the forthcoming days. I love these kinds of days, although they don't tend to happen all that often!

Hope you are all having a great weekend whether you're crafting or cleaning (hope it's the first rather than the latter)!

Hugs, Vicky x

New Sugar Nellies have arrived!

Today has been such a good start to the weekend. The postie brought me lots of lovely goodies. To start with a fab card and huge bundle of images from Stacey, they are gorgeous stacey thanks so much!
Then my latest order from Elzybells arrived along with my DT Sugar Nellie stamps! Oh wow. I really didn't know what to play with first. I have been sent 3 of the new soft centers stamps, Porridge, Arthur and Rory, along with Duck in boots and Baby Millie. They are just so gorgeous and I had obviously to ink them up straight away. You can see the full range of stamps from Sugar Nellie here available at Funky Kits, including the new soft centers range.

So here is my first card made using these delicious stamps!

I used Arthur the cuddly teady bear and coloured him in with my whispers pens. Doodle border added before mounting onto pink Coredinations CS. Base CS has been partially embossed with swiss dots folder. Patterned paper is from papermania, retro floral and sweet nothings packs. Sentiment is from PB matted onto same pink CS as before. Flowers are from prima and embellished with a button and ribbon from my stash.

I'm off now to continue playing with my new stash. Hope you're all having a great weekend. I'm off to the Stamp Magic craft fair tomorrow at the Doncaster Dome. If anyone else is going let me know if you want to meet up and say hi!

Hugs, Vicky x

Double challenge card!

Evening all and Happy Halloween!

With so many challenges and so little free time at the minute I have combined two challenges in this card. The sketch is from secret crafter saturday challenge and I have combined it with the cute card Thursday challenge to make a 'drinks' themed card!

The image is Stamping Bella which I received in a swap and has been coloured with my whispers pens. Doodle border added. Matted onto pink coredinations CS. Background paper is from my new Basic Grey sugared stack. Green paper has been embossed with divine swirls folder. Flowers are from prima and I have embellished them with a button tied with ribbon! Sentiment is from hero arts.

I have made this card fror my friend, but is not the colours I would normally use. Combined with the fact that there isn't much sparkle/bling on it I just feel it's a little unfinished and want to add a little something else, but I'm not sure what. So if you can give me any suggestions as to what you think is missing I would welcome your comments!

Hope you are all having a happy halloween and enjoy your weekend!

Hugs, Vicky x

Mojo Monday meets santa claus!

I've used this weeks sketch over at Mojo Monday to make another christmas card to add to my growing (not quickly enought though) christmas card box.

I stamped the Santa Collage image onto both white CS and acetate. I coloured the image on the white CS and then layed the acetate over the top, attaching with blue eyelets with my cropodile. I also added glitter glue on top of the acetate to the snowflakes and some of his beard. In retrospect maybe I should have put it under the acetate, oh well! Matted onto silver mirri card. Background paper is from dovecraft winter wonderland pack. I embossed some white CS with the snowflakes folder and matted again onto silver mirri card. I stamped the see D's sentiment onto the CS before I embossed it but used the debossed side so the sentiment was more prominent / readable. The snowflake felt embellishment is one of the larger one's out of the snowflake embellishement pack I got from The Range for 99p!

Well I'm off the fat fighters (weight watchers) tonight and I am hoping I have managed to lose 1.5 lb's this week, because if so I will have lost 2 stone so far! I've only 12 lbs left to lose to get to my goal weight (hopefully by christmas!). So please keep your fingers crossed for me!

Hugs, Vicky x

Elaine's Fab blog candy!

To celebrate her 4oth birthday Elaine is giving away some fab blog candy, 2 sets of promarkers! So what are you waiting for, pop on over and leave her a comment and a link on your blog before the 16th November to be in with a chance of winning!

I've been given an award....

.... by the very wonderful Tara!
Thank you so very much Tara, it really means a lot to me and thanks for your lovely comments!

Now who can I pass this on to who. I visit some trully inspiring and fantastic blogs out there so if you are reading this and I visit your blog regularly then this is for you!

But I would also like to individually give it to Sal who has a fantastic blog and has done several image swaps with me over the past few months, so thanks Sal. I would also like to give it to Stacey who also has a fabulous blog and is doing an image swap with me at the moment!

Have a great day everyone!

Vicky x

Sketch Saturday Stampendous Bee's!

This is my entry for this weeks sketch saturday challenge and a card I have made for my friends wedding anniversary!
The image is from stampendous and was kindly given to me in a swap by Sal, so thanks Sal! Coloured with my whispers and matted onto a scalloped yellow CS circle cut with my nesties! All background papers are from the papermania retro floral pack. Stamped sentiment is from a see D's set and ribbon is dovecraft! Glitter added to the bee's wings and antenae!

It' not exactly how I envisaged it would turn out but I'm quite happy with it!

Hugs, Vicky x

Something a little different!

Not a card today but a blessing box! I saw one of these on Rach's blog and thought I would give it a go. They are so easy to make and such a cute gift when filled with some chocolates!


The CS used for this box is from DCWV. The flowers and brads are from a set I got from The Range. You get 4 of these for 99p! Needless to say I got them in every colour they had! The white ribbon is from dovecraft. I haven't put anything in this box yet but will be adding some yummy chocs and giving it to my friend who is coming around for a meal tomorrow.

I got into the swing of these boxes and made another one in pink using some papermania double sided CS. I still need to finish decorating this one when I decide who it is for!

If you want to give these a go yourself you can find the tutorial here!

I've had the day off today so have had a chance to do some crafting, in between going to buy a new sofa and dare I say it, housework! Hope you've all had a good day!

Hugs, Vicky x