Summer Quencher

Oooh I lurve cocktails and couldn't wait to use this fab new image 'Summer Quencher' from the Digi Stamp Boutique.

Sorry about the shadow over the card - didn't realise until I'd uploaded it! I've coloured the cocktail with Copics and used oodles of glitter for the liquid. The patterned papers are all from the DCWV citrus stack and I think the bright colours are fab with this image. The sentiment and punches are both Stampin' Up! The cocktail image is part of this months offer of the month - so hurry up and get yours.Cocktails always remind me of Summer weddings and I'm off to one next week - chin chin!!

I'm joining in with these challenges:

• Pink Elephant - Something yummy
• My Time To Craft - Drink it up
• ABC - August
• One Stop Craft - Patterns

Hugs
Victoria
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Get out your gingham

This week at Die Cut Dreams we have a fabulous challenge to use gingham on your projects. We also have some new Design Team members with loads of creative ideas to inspire you so please take a look at their work. Here's mine:

I've used a CC Design stamp and shaded her with ProMarkers and done some paper piecing on her dress and the butterfly too. The papers are DCWV and are from a stack I haven't used in ages.

I apologise for the short post, but I forgot to blog this today and now I can barely keep my eyes open!! I'd better be quick and join in with:

• Passion for ProMarkers - Green
• Creative Friday - Things with wings
• Pile it on - Butterflies, bugs and bees

Hugs
Victoria
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Tilda in blue

Well it's challenge time over at Die Cut Dreams again and this week we want to see you using your Magnolia Tilda stamps and the colour blue. You can use skin tones and hair and a smidge of colour but your project must be mainly blue. Here's mine:

I've used Copics for her hair and face and ProMarkers for everything else! One day I will have all shades in one or the other! The patterned papers ar Bella Bleu by Stampin' Up! as is the ribbon and cardstock. The silver charm was a lovely surprise from Susie - I won DT of the month at Die Cut Dreams! Our Susie likes to keep us on our toes lol! I've used nesties labels to pop Tilda in and have her sitting out at the base.

I've used the Stampin' Up! distressing tool to age the edges of my papers and daubed some Brocade Blue ink on too.

I'm going to join in with:

• Papertake - Cute
• Passion for ProMarkers - Distressing
• Everybody Art - Blue and white
• Simon Says - Martine's sketch
• PaperPlay - Blue, cream and one (craft)
• Just Magnolia - Vintage

I actually really enjoyed shading this little lady in!

Hugs
Victoria
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Oh I do like to be beside the seaside......

It's challenge time at Bee Crafty and this fortnight our theme is 'At the beach'. You of course need to include a digi image too. Here's mine:

I've used Whimsical Girl Summer Ducky and coloured her in with ProMarkers for a change and cut her out before popping her on 3-D foam on my beach scene. My beach scene has all been created from the Stampin' Up! Sunny Day scrap kit, I used the cloud stickers for the sky and created waves using the scallop edge border punch. The pink and orange sand are border stickers. I love the bright colours and didn't want to do too much to detract from the image. I'm joining in with:

• Kaboodle - Hawaiin beach party
• Everybody Art - Holidays
• Creative Craft - Summer Lovin'
• Stamp Something - Digital something
• If the Show Fits - Vacation
• Frosted Designs - Border punches
• Secret Crafter - Summer holidays
• Our Creative Corner - Beach layout
• Allsorts - Summer days

Well it's not been very Summer here today, it's rained - a lot! Fingers crossed it's paddling pool weather again soon!
Hugs
Victoria
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Cupcake Challenge Time

This week at Cupcake Craft Challenge our theme is 'World Cup Wonders'. You don't have to do football, just a sporty image of theme. I went with a very summery sport and picked surfing!

I've used one of last Summers CC's digi images as never actually coloured this one in before. I needed to make a bright and cheerful card to cheer me up and this certainly did the trick. I've shaded her skin with Copics and everything else with ProMarkers and a white gel pen on her cheeks. All the papers and pink card are by Stampin' Up! from the Sunny Day Scrap Kit, along with the little heart sticker too.

I'm joining in with:

• Digital Tuesday - Summertime
• I love ProMarkers - Stripes
• Quixotic Challenge - Sketch
• Dare U 2  Digi - The great outdoors
• Stampin B's - Summer vacation
• Anyone for Anya - Open theme
• Crafty Calendar - Summer
• Pile it on - my favourite things (it ain't surfing but I do love Stampin' Up! scrap kits)

It's not been an easy day so far, (if you didn't read yesterdays post, today should be my first son's fourth birthday), I took the boys to the park and for an ice cream and this afternoon I'd planned a snuggle on the sofa but Zac was having none of it so we've been playing with water, blue paint and cornflour in a big bowl. Quite theraputic actually!

Hugs
Victoria
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3-D it

It's challenge time at Bee Crafty and this fortnight, as well as using something digim we want you to 3-D it too! You can 3-D your image or use lots of layers or add embellishments to add dimension - we don't mind! I've made a 3-D item and a 3-D card too:

I've used Bunny and Flowers - such a sweet image and gone pink and red - although the red looks a bit pink on my pics! The treat pouch is really easy to make and you can find a tutorial HERE. I created an easel card to go with the treat pouch:

I've used loads of 3-D foam between the layers to give my card lots of dimension:

Check out the other Design Team creations - they're a bit yummy! I'm joining in with a couple of challenges:

• The Play Date Cafe - Colour combo
• Polka Doodles - Decorative item

Right I'd better go and get the online food shopping order done and see if Hubby is OK. He's pulled his neck and is in a lot of pain and I've left him downstairs with the kids!!!!

hugs
Victoria
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Meet Tallulah

Aw she's a cutie and she's new and on offer over at the Digi Stamp Boutique!

I've shaded her with Copics and added glitter to her balloon, cake icing and shoes. I've embossed the background and punched chocolate circles, layering them with gems and pearls. Finally stamped a sentiment on matching card, punched it out using a Stampin' Up! punch and added another pink gem. You can see the sparkle a bit better here:

Going to join in with:

• Stamp with Fun - Birthday
• Crafty Creations - Ice cream and cakes
• Stampavie - Sparkle
• Alphabet Challenge - Jewels
• Fun with Shapes - Pink, brown and green
• One Stop Crafts - Pink and brown
• Sweet Sunday Sketch - Sketch (I love this sketch)

I'll be back tomorrow with more pink!

Hugs
Victoria
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Life's a beach

How hot? Very apt that our challenge this week at Die Cut Dreams is 'life's a beach'. So let's see your seaside themed projects! The Design Team have come up with some fabulous projects this week to inspire you, here's mine:

I've used one of the new CC designs stamps, I just love the cute rubber ring she's sat in. I've shaded her with Copics and cut her out to sit her on my seaside scene. I tore up a piece of patterned paper and then stamped a bucket with a towel and sunglasses off another CCs stamp and cut it out. The shell came off a scrapbook page I'd made that I wasn't keen on so at least it's been put to good use now! I've had the metal framed sentiments for ages and I'd planned to use them on scrap book layouts, but I just don't get the time to scrap these days. I'm joining in with:

• Cute Card Thursday - Reuse, recycle, renew
• Paperplay - It's sunny here
• Stampin Bs - Summer fun
• Pile it on - Fold it, bake it, do something with it (I tore it!)
• Rosie-D's - Summer Birthdays

Hope you're enjoying the good weather, I spent the afternoon cowering under a kiddie gazebo with Blake in his stroller and Zac in the paddling pool!
Hugs
Victoria
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An easel frog

Our challenge this fortnight at Creative Card Crew is to make an easel card. We all used digi images on ours, but you can use anything you like. Here's mine:

I've used this cute image Beach Baby Jayne which was a freebie on the Whimsy site, just love her. Went for one of my favourite colour combos of pink and green and coloured her with Copics. I've had this patterned paper for ages and not sure if I've used it before or not. The ribbon was in one of my ribbon drawers and the button is by Doodlebug.

The sentiment is by Stampin' Up! as are the oval punches used. I'm going to join in with:

• Everybody Art - Pink and green
• ABC - Weather

Please hop over and check out the fabulous creations the other Design Team members have made to inspire you. Also we say goodbye to Paula this week who has decided to step down from both running and being on the Design Team and welcome Janna as the new Chief of the Crew!

Hugs
Victoria
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Pink and Girlie

Is the theme this fortnight over at Bee Crafty. Remember to use a digi image too! Here's my creation using Whimsical Girl and Ice cream:

I've done some paper piecing with the Doodlebug papers, took me a while to get the flower on her top in the right place, but I got there in the end. I daubed around the image using a SU ink and stamped a matching butterfly from Flight of the Butterfly stamp set. Image and frame are cut out using oval nesties and flowers have been punched using boho blossoms punch from Stampin' Up!

I'm going to join in with:

• The Pink Elephant - Sketch
• Papertake - Ice cream flavours. I went with neapolitan
• Paperplay - Something old. This is one of the first images I got from Bee Crafty
• Dare U 2 Digi - Blooms and butterflies
• Fun with Shapes - Flowery
• Crazy 4 Challenges - Paper flowers
• Just Us Girls - Light Pink, chocolate and vanilla

Can't stop, I'm off to bake some whoopie pies for Hubby as a Fathers Day gift tomorrow from the bubbas. Will post a photo so you can drool over them!

Hugs
Victoria
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Angels

This week at Die Cut Dreams our challenge is 'Angels'. We've all been given an image to work with and here is mine:

I went cute and girlie with this image and used lots of pearls and glitter and pretty things I had in my stash! I think the large scalloped oval is off a journalling pad and I die cut the smaller one once I'd stamped the sentiment.

The sentiment is by Stampin' Up! as is the Melon Mambo spotty ribbon and the very posh pins are made by my friend Vikki.

I'm joining in with these challenges:

• Pollycraft - Ribbon and bling
• Corrosive - Die cuts
• Cuttlebug - Colour challenge #86
• Daring Cardmakers - Pearls

Thanks for all your get well wishes for Blake, he's not much better but has had lots of sleep today - making up for the absolute lack of it last night! Poor mite, so no blog hopping for me tonight, I'm done in and off for a sleep whilst I can get some.

Hugs
Victoria
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blooming Marvelous

What a day, I was up most of the night again with Blake and ended up back at out of hours with him this morning. He's OK apparantly - all throat related but can't do anything other than calpol to treat it, even though it's making him cough so much he chucks up all his feeds. So a very late and very tired post from me. It's challenge time again over at Bee Crafty and we have a fab challenge of 'Blooming Marvelous'. We want to see flowers and a digi image on your projects. Here's mine:

I've used the 'flowers in vase' image which made a nice change for me as I don't usually pick floral images. I gambled this week and just asked Merrigan to send me an image to use and really enjoyed working with this one. I went for a simple theme and layout and kept to black and white and red. I added red to the patterned paper using a Copic. Sparkle has been added with red and black gems and my little added extra is:

a flower tied into some Real Red ribbon and a couple of very posh pins from our lovely Vikki. We say goodbye to Kim this week on the Bee Crafty team, Kim's been a member of the team since it started and creates fab stuff. Miss you Kim.

I'm joining in with:

• Charisma Cardz - Flowers
• Paperplay - Flowers and sparkle
• Crafty Catz - Red and black
• Alphabet - Flowers
• Stamp Something - Digi image
• Create 4 Fun - Red, white and one
• Crafty Creations - Black, white and a splash of red

Hope you can join in.
Hugs
Victoria
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Cupcake Monday

Wow Monday already! It's Bank Holiday here and James actually had a day off so we took the boys to Sherwood Forest, had a fab time but came home all itchy as so many gnats and greenfly everywhere. Yuk! Anyway, this week at Cupcake Craft Challenge our theme is 'Summer Delights' and we want to see what Summer means to you. Here's my project:

I've used this CC digi image and for a change used ProMarkers to shade her in, I don't think I manage as well as when I use Copics so I need to practice more! I've used DCWV papers and embossed the pinker ones and used the same paper to make the bunting in the corner.

I've cut the image out and popped her on 3-D foam for a bit more dimension to the card too. I'm joining in with these challenges:

• The Pink Elephant - Use bright fun colours
• Digital Tuesday - Cute people
• Passion for ProMarkers - Anything goes
• Lucy's Cards - Digital
• ATS Wednesday -  Sketch
• Quixotic - Emboss it
• Cuttlebug - Pennants
• Just Us Girls - Dry embossing

As I'm starting to feel better normal blogging service has resumed and I'll be back tomorrow!
Hugs
Victoria
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All about lace

At Die Cut Dreams this week our challenge is 'lace it up'. We want to see lace used in your creations. Here's mine:

Can't believe I didn't have any lace but luckily Vikki came to my rescue and sent me a fab selection to choose from - thanks loads Vikki. Defo a case of Die Cut Dreams to he rescue as I got these fabulous Die Cuts from Susie's shop, aren't they brill? Nice big size too. I went for a bit of a grungy feel with this one as it matches my moood of having one of those weeks! Only due to my laptop issues, everything else is tickety boo!

Please take a look at the other Design Team creations as they're all so different and yummy! I'm joining in with:

• Stampavie - Pink
• Creative Inspirations - Use punches or die cuts

Can't wait to see what you create
Hugs
Victoria
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Cupcakes anyone?

Sorry I've not made an edible ones, just a card with some on:

I made this for my buddy Susie Sugar as it was her Birthday on Friday - I know I'm safe to pop it on here now! I've made my own patterned paper using Stampin' Up! True friend stamps set and used this cute Kimmie stamp in chocolate and browns. Ok so I added a smidge of red in there too!

Susie's a huge fan of pink and brown and cupcake stamps so I thought this would be just right for her. I'm joining in with:

• ATS - Pink and brown
• Simon Says - Birthday celebrations
• Stamp Something - Birthday somethings

Just realised I don't actually have a birthday sentiment on here - it was handwritten on the inside!
Hugs
Victoria
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April Showers bring May flowers

That's our theme this fortnight at Creative Card Crew set by the lovely Linda. Here's my creation:

I made my own patterned paper by rolling over plain pink and regal rose card with a jumboWhimsy wheel in chocolate chip. I've distressed the edges and daubed over more chocate chip too. The metal tag has been in my stash for so long and I finally opened the bag to make this - so maybe I'll use mroe of them now! The little love charm is attached with some linen thread.

Once I'd coloured the cute image, I added some chocolate spots using a coordinating Marker and then cut her out and popped her on some dimensionals. Have a look what the rest of the Design Team have created, there's some fab stuff there to inspire you and please join in, we love to visit and see what you've created.

I'm joining in with:

• Everybody art - Song title 'Singing in the rain'
• Quixotic - Make a splash
• CRAFT - Pink and brown
• Stamp Something - Charmed something
• Secret Crafter - Distressing
• One Stop Crafts - Metallic
• Anyone for Anya - Sketch
• Chorrosive - Charms

Well it's another beautiful Spring morning so I forsee playing in the garden with the boys for the remainder of my morning!

Hugs
Victoria
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DCD Shoes

This week at Die Cut Dreams it's all about shoes and boots. There's even a free digi image for you to use. Here are my creations:

I'm going to join in with the ABC challenge as their theme is red. Please visit the other DT blogs to see what fab inspiration they have waiting for you.

Hugs
Victoria
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Meet Matilda

Yesterday I introduced you to Marty, today it's time to meet Matilda!

This is Ballet Matilda and you can get her on offer at the Digi Stamp Boutique during April.

I've done a bit of paper piecing which is really easy with digi images if you haven't tried it yet. I didn't have much of this flowery paper left so I printed the image on white card and stuck a few scraps over the image where I wanted them using low tack tape and ran it back through the printer again. Then peel the paper off and cut around the areas I want and stick back down after colouring the little cutie in first.

I've followed the sketch from this weeks challenge at Sketch and Stash - my new stash being the gorgeous Matilda image. Digital Tuesday want scraps to be used up - I think you know from previous posts that I keep ALL my scraps lol! Finally Stampin' B's want to see humorous card, hopefully I've managed this with my printed sentiment!

I went out for a lovely lunch with my friend Mary today and then as I had time to kill afterwards and birthday pennies to spend I found myself buying some scrummy Channel Allure perfume and then my legs wandered over to Bobbi Brown and I decided to brave it and sit down and get a free makeover! I did of course buy a lipstick before I left, but I felt much prettier than before I'd sat down so it was well worth it. I wouldn't have done it if the shop had been busy though!

Have fun
Victoria
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Spring Showers

I saw a challenge today that asked for the use of an umberalla, I have this cute Emma stamp that I've been wondering what to use for!

I'm joining in with these challenges:

• One Stop - Let it shine
• Pollycraft - Sparkly things
• Alphabet - Umberella
• Friday sketchers - Sketch
• Saturday Spotlight - Use your birthstone colour (aquamarine for me)

Now I've used shiny aqua gloss card for my card base, shiny gems and loads of glitter on the puddle I drew but even though it's sunny today, I can't seem to get it to show up very well:

I'm going to hide out in my craft room for the rest of the afternoon, hubby has been to do the weekly shop and come back in a bit of a mood - let's just say another driver would have driven into the side of our car if hubby hadn't slammed his breaks on and because he had the boys in the car with him he had to stay calm and not let off steam, so I think that's happening at the moment lol! He's taking it out on cooking a roast dinner so I'm staying put! I'm planning a few future classes so that'll keep me quiet for a bit!

Hugs
Victoria
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Party Cat

One of the cats that lives next door (yes with real people too!) is always spotted strutting home in the early hours, so me and hubby have named him 'Party Cat'. So when I saw a challenge to make an invitation, I had to feature a party cat! Spencer from the Digi Stamp Boutique is my perfect party cat!

I followed the sketch from Sunday Sketch and Stamp and changed the squares to circles - hope that's OK?

The Pink Elephant want to see party invitations so I thought I'd better stamp the inside too, Digital Tuesday want to see paper piercing and finally, Dare you to Digi Stamp don't want to see any patterned papers.

I probably went a bit overboard with the dotty embossing - I lurve these folders though!

Hugs

Victoria

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