Moved

Hello to all,  I have not been at this blog for awhile... the reason is I moved to another blog ;)  You can now find me at the following blog: http://crafting-vicky.blogspot.ca/

Looking forward to seeing you from that one.

Have a wonderful day.

Vicky

Away

I've been gone from the blog world pretty much all of last week... It was busy with work and mostly because I was planning a getaway weekend!!!  It was a great weekend and here's what I got done:

The family loved it.  It goes with the camping scrapbooking album that I'm doing... not sure that I will be doing many cards this week if I make any at all.  I will be busy seeing my cute little niece and nephew!  And I might if I have time continue this album since I'm now back in the mood for this ;)

So Cinzia this posting is especially for you to see what I did this weekend!

Have a great night.

Vicky

Heartlace

To finish today I ended up doing an all soft card using a bingo card from Magnolia down under challenge.  I just loooove magnolia images so it's so much fun to play around with them.  I left the sentiment out because I have lots of French friends and most of my sentiments are English :(

In the background I used the walkway from magnolia for the cute flowers ;)

In the magnolia down under challenge, I have the buttons, glitter/bling (it's the little bling on the top of her dress) and polka dots.  I also used a brand new technique that I had never used but definely will again PAPER piecing.  I did the dress that way and I'm really really happy with the results.

I will be entering my little card in a few challenges ;)

Voici la dernière carte de la soirée.  Je l'ai laissé sans texte afin que la personne qui l'utilisera puisse le faire comme il le désire.  Étant donné que mes estampes de textes sont surtout en anglais ce n'est pas pratique pour ceux qui désirent obtenir mes cartes ;)

À demain peut-être.

Vicky

Easter card

My last card of this afternoon is another little rabbit for my step-mom.  This one is a silhouette and is from Little miss muffet beautiful digi images.

I used a digi image, some bling and under the sentiment that's from digital delight I used an embossing folder organic flourish of Cuttlebug.

I'm entering in:

Cardcrafterscircle - digi, bling, embossing folder

Ok so I'm back to crafting... we'll see if I get to do another card tonight or if I will be posting tomorrow.

Voici une deuxième carte à lapin pour ma belle-maman.  On verra si je suis capable de faire une autre carte ce soir.

A+ peut-être.

Vicky

Happy Birthday

Here's card number 2 for this afternoon.  Very simple but I like the way it turned out.  It could be used for anyone ;)  I love those cards it's always good to have them in stock.

The sentiment is from Craft meow.

Voici la carte numéro 2 de l'après-midi une petite carte de fête qui peut-être utilisé pour n'importe qui.

Vicky

truly grateful

I managed to make another 3 cards this afternoon.  I wonder if I will get to make another one later tonight... we will see.  Weekends go way too fast.

The image and sentiment are from Craft meow.

That's the 1st one.  I'm really grateful that I have great friends and family that support me through all!

Voici une des 3 cartes que j'ai fait cet après-midi.

Vicky

Egghunt

I had printed out my digi freebie image Egghunt from Nina J May last week and didn't have the chance to color it.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.

I'm entering this little card in the Theres magic in the air challenge.

I'm going back to my craft room before my visitors arrive...

Voici ma dernière création.  Je retourne à ma salle de "scrapbooking".

A+

Vicky

Attitude

All is about the attitude that you have towards life.  This little digi image from Bugaboo really touched a nerve.  I just love Ruby.

I really love how my card turned out!  It's not colors I would have played with but it was a really good mix in the end.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

• Totally stampalicious - Turquoise, green & purple
• Love to create challenge - Anything goes... this is my 3rd entry and last.  I just love the anything goes challenges ;))))
• cute card thursday - anything goes

That's it for tonight.  I'm hoping I will be able to craft a bit tomorrow.  I'm expecting company... so might not end up doing much.  And I'm going away next weekend... so I have to pack all my gear!  It's a small retreat and I will be scrapbooking YAY! ;)

Voici ma dernière carte de la soirée.  J'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir à utiliser ces couleurs que je n'aurais normalement pas jumelé.

Bonne fin de soirée.

Vicky

Bonne fête

I was going on my Bestee's blog Cinzia-creations to check out her new cards and I noticed a challenge with a sketch that I didn't know.  It was a beautiful sketch so I just had to try it out.  Here's my take on this challenge and it was a great sketch to use with another challenge.

The beautiful sketch is this one:

I used miscellaneous paper and stamps with memento inks to make this card.

I'm entering it in the following challenges:

• Freshly made sketches - the gorgeous sketch
• Aud sentiments challenge - song (happy b-day in French)
• Cas-ualfridays - Pastel and Black (not easy but I really like the look that I achieved ;) )
• Flutterbywednesdays - anything goes and butterfly
• The stamping boutique challenge - CAS (not an easy one...)

Going back to crafting ;))))

Voici une petite carte que j'ai fait en pensant à mes amis (es) francophones qui ont pris beaucoup de mes cartes dans la dernière semaine.  Donc un petit texte en français.

A+

Vicky

Souris à la vie

Last week I received a challenge from my stepmom to create a card with a rabbit.  She's a BIG rabbit fan.  She has 2 at home.  I must admit to loving them as well and I have one named Frosty.  He's silver.  I made this card with him in mind.

I used this beautiful sketch to make it:

To make this card I used:

• a stamp from Penny Black  I just looove him
• My copic markers, prismacolor coloring pencils and some chalk at the bottom
• I used the paper recollection paper, Colorbok cardstock, Tea Time by Helen Jones

I'm entering the following challenges:

• sunday sketch and stamp - The beautiful sketch
• Penny black at all sorts - Springtime
• Audsentiments - song
• Crafty catz weekly -spring
• Diekreativenstempelfreunde - spring
• Raise the bar challenge - in the garden outdoor (what could be more outdoor and garden then my little rabbit and pot)
• Love to create challenge - anything goes

I'm going back to my crafting ;)  I missed it but I had a great excuse, my beautiful niece and nephew were born ;))))))  soooooo happy!!!!!!

Voici une carte que j'ai fait pour ma belle-maman ;)  J'ai complété un défi qu'elle m'avait lancé.  J'espère qu'elle va aimer.

à plus tard.

Vicky

Owl Always love you

Hello everyone.  Tonight I was desperately lacking inspiration... well I did have some inspiration but the project would have been too long for a weeknight... so I decided to tackle a challenge and try to get some inspiration from that.  I've been working with sketches for the last few days... and it was hard tonight to come up with a concept but guess what... I think I managed to do a few challenges again with one simple little card.

To make this card I used:

• A book that I tore some pages from and used vintage photo distress ink on it
• A Stampendous sentiment and I'm not sure where the owl came from because the sentiment usually goes with another image...

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• Simon says stamp and show - show your handmade background
• The pink elephant challenge - use kraft in your projects
• The stamping boutique challenge - CAS clean and simple.  This is always a hard one for me to keep to a bare minimum but I think this card was good for this
• Going-buggy - use something not intended for card making ( I tore out pages from an actual book and distressed them! )

So that's it for tonight.  I'm pretty happy with my little creation.  I think I have just the right person for this card ;)

Pour mes amis(es) francophones, je manquais de temps ce soir pour faire le projet que j'aurais vraiment désiré effectué.  J'ai donc regardé les défis que j'avais pris en note et j'ai pensé à ce que je pourrais faire rapidement afin d'en combler certains.  J'ai déjà je crois la personne à qui cette carte pourrait s'adresser.  En passant le mot Owl veut dire hibou mais ce prononce comme "I" qui veut dire je... donc "je vais toujours t'aimer... petit jeu de mot anglais.  Par contre le livre qui est déchiré lui est en français!

Sur ce bonne nuit et à demain peut-être?!?

Vicky

Best buds

Today was another gorgeous day here!  I spent it inside at a great excel class but couldn't wait to be doing something crafty.

So I made a little card tonight.  I know that this card is a boy's card... but I was thinking of my bestee when I made it.  This is why I chose this sentiment for the card.

I used the same fantastic sketch as yesterday:

But I turned it around and did the same thing to the sentiment ;)

To make this card I used the following:

• Measure by measure embossing folder from Cuttlebug
• my square cm punch
• Some craps of papers (if you search my previous blog entries I'm sure you will find this paper elsewhere ;) )
• And the digi stamp from Bugaboo Best buds.  It's one of the great stamps that I won for the humor challenge.  I just love it.  I didn't have a lot of images that fitted for boys.  Now I do.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• Catchthebugblog - my 3rd entry ;)  I love their sketch!  So yes it was the sketch
• Audsentiments  - a song (and yes it's my 5th entry but there are so many songs lol this one is one of the ones that I really love check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMKX22BHeE )
• Whimsy inspires - wet or dry embossing (in my case I used dry embossing)
• The poodles parlour - my 3rd entry to anything goes
• Love to create challenge - anything goes

That's it tonight ;)  I'll be back tomorrow I would think.  I love this way tooo much... much better than TV

Voici ma dernière création.  C'est la troisième carte que je fais en utilisant ce croquis.  Je crois que j'ai quand même créer des cartes qui sont différentes.

À demain!

Vicky

WOW

It's been a good weekend and the start of the week is pretty fantastic as well!!!  I went to check who won the Stamp and create candy and guess what it was me ;)))  After a long day of training on excel it was fun to be back in my craft-room.  I organized my new copics pens (a great crafter I know was not using them anymore and offered to sell them to me YAY!)  So happy and most of the colors she had were not the one I had... so it was a great continuation to my new collection.

Then I crafted a great little card with the great Bugaboo stamps freebie.  If you don't know this site you HAVE to check it out.  It's amazing and their freebies are as well!!!!  So here's my card:

I used the same sketch as earlier this week but it was a completely different look with this card:

To make my card I used:

• prismacolor coloring pencils
• Stickles for the icing
• A cuttlebug embossing folder to make the flowers
• scraps of papers from different other projects ;)  love it when I can reuse
• and obviously the piece the resistance the Pigcupcakes digi image

I'm entering in the following challenges:

• Catch the bugblog - sketch
• Daisydoodlescreativechallenges - tie it up and I used a digi image
• Wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps - use green

So that's it for tonight.  I'm off to dream of new cards ;)))

Voici ma carte de ce soir.  J'ai eu une journée pas mal occupée en classe à apprendre Excel... ça fait du bien de retourner à ma salle de "scrapbooking" à la fin de la journée.

Vicky

Candy

There's the chance of great candy at Polkadoodle go and check it out! ;)))

me and my dog ;)

So I ended up making yet another card... this is really addictive!  I chose this image and colored the little poodle black because I have a little black poodle called Chanel.  Fitting right when we think that the mimi set is the one in Paris?  Chanel and Paris ;)

I used this amazing sketch:

To make it I used:

• Mimi in Paris stamp from Penny Black
• KI Memories paper
• My CM border punch
• x-mas red stickle for the bow

I'm entering this little card in the following challenges:

Sketchsaturday - Sketch

Polkadoodle - Animal or bird

Chocolate coffee cards - Feathers and fur

Dutchdare-cardchallenges - Use of strips and polka dots

Audsentiments challenge - Song 

Raise the bar challenge - Embellishment in fours
Penny Black at all sorts - Spring time

OK that's officially it for me.  I'm off to read a bit and then off to bed I go.  Weekends go way tooo fast.

C'est officiellement ma dernière carte de la journée.  J'espère que vous l'aimerez.  Pour ceux qui me connaissent bien vous reconnaîtrez Chanel... ;)

Vicky

Hello

I just loooove how this card turned out ;)  And it's my 2nd time coloring black hair.  It turned out pretty good I think.

Again I was lucky to be able to follow a great sketch:

To make this card I used the following products:

• Hero Art Sentiment - CL282
• Tilda goes shopping stamp
• Quickutz doily die cut
• Paper from Bird Song and Spring Feast both are by Mindy Terasawa (just really really loooove her paper)
• Buttons from Guylaine (my mother-in-law) and the ribbon is also from her it came of one of her fabulously wrapped present

And I'm entering it in the following challenges:

• The pixie cottage - sketch and pastel colors
• Stamptacular sunday challenge - buttons
• aud sentiments challenge - song Hello from Lionel Richie
• Rubys rainbow - Lace (paper little doily and lace on ribbon)
• All sorts challenge - Three in a row
• Magnolia down under challenges - old treasures (buttons and ribbon)
• The poodles parlour - Anything goes

That's it folks.  I'm not sure that I'll be back tonight... but I will try tomorrow for sure!!!  Especially since I will have new copic markers ;)))  I'm buying a bunch from a great crafter I know who's no longer using hers.

Don't forget to leave me a comment I always loooove getting them.

Voici ma dernière carte de la journée je crois.  Je ne penses pas en faire d'autres ce soir.

J'espère que vous aimerez et n'oubliez pas de me laisser un commentaire!

Vicky

follow your dreams!

I thought the saying was fitting as I've been doing something I love to do.  I'm hearing the birds chirping outside as I'm crafting and the wind is softly blowing in the open windows!  What an amazing afternoon.  BTW I realize that the picture of my card is crooked... the card is really a nice rectangle lol.

I used the following sketch to make this card:

And I used these:

• an EK border punch
• Jam Tilda magnolia stamp
• Paper from KI Memories

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

freshly made sketches - Sketch

Aud sentiments challenge - a song (check out this youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbh4ibVjltc)

Magnolia-licious  - color inspiration

So this is one of the creation.  I will be back with the other one shortly

Voici une de mes 2 cartes que j'ai fait cet après-midi.  L'autre s'en vient.

Vicky

A little birdie told me...

Today is a gorgeous gorgeous day here in MTL!  I took a walk with my kids and dogs.  It really feels like spring is here.  When I got back and got to my crafting room I definetly wanted to create something fresh.  I think I succeeded.  Here's my card:

To make this card I used the following:

• Paper and cardstock: American Craft peachy keen, DCWV cardboard, ATD cardstock
• Bugaboo Angel a little birdie told me didi ( and I added the it's your b-day part)
• Copics: E000,E00,E01,E01,R20,B91,b93,b95,E50,YR31 and E31 and my prismacolor pencils
• And stickle

And I followed this sketch:

I'm entering the following challenges with this card:

• papersundaes - Photo inspiration
• Catch the bug - Sketch
• crafting for all seasons -yellow and green
• card makin mamas-buttons
• Divas by design challenge - citrus colors
• Flutter by wednesdays - card for a child with angel
• Send a smile 4 kids challenge - card for child with wings
• Scrap bitz copics - use of copics 

I will be back later with some other creations!!!  Enjoying my weekend!!!! ;)

Voici une petite carte qui représente le printemps.  Je m'en vais faire d'autre création.

A+

Vicky

Rapunzel

So we are up to card number 3 for the day.  I saw today's sketch from Kraftin Kimmie's so I wanted to do it.  This is my card:

I followed this sketch:

To make this card I used the following:

• Paper and cardstock: DCWC at home stack and metallic stack, GCD Studio cloisonné
• EK border punch
• CM oval shape 
• Kraftin Kimmie's Rapunzel stamp and sentiment

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

• Card crafters circle - gold
• The stamping boutique - gold
• Card makin mamas - buttons
• Simon says stamp - a little bit of green
• Kraftin kimmie stamps - sketch

I'm going back to stamp some more.  I don't  think I will be able to finish another card tonight but I will tomorrow!!!!!!

J'ai eu encore beaucoup de plaisir à créer cette carte. 

À demain

Vicky

SKZ wings

As mentionned in my previous post I won some new digi images... and I'm using another perfect little one with this card.  I just LOOOOOVE everything that has to do with vampires and other darker characters.  I have discovered through one of the blogs that I follow that there's a site that does challenges for the crafty ones and it's based on the creepy ;)))  What fun to find a way to do a card that won't be Halloween related but that uses a character usually kept for that time.

To make this card I used the following:

• some bling and foliage from Dollar store (and it's dark bling ;) )
• Immortal love paper and cardstock
• a bugaboo digi image - SKZ wings
• the sentiment is from Kimmie's Wonderland Sentiment
• and dark black diamond stickles

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

• forevernightchallenges - creepy bling project
• All sorts challenge - three in a row 

I will definetly back later.  I'm having a blast ;)

Voici une petite carte qui reflète bien le fait que j'adore les vampires et autres créatures plus noires ;)

A+

Vicky