***NEW EMBELLISHMENTS & CANDY***

Hey there friends!

I have some news about my handmade embellishments.  As you know i love making my own flowers and even show you how to make them, however, many of my friends have asked me if they can buy them from me! So after Christmas i will open a little store where you can buy some bits and bobs i've made or bought in and my cards and other projects! Obviously this isn't going to earn me big bucks, its literally to earn extra pin money to spend on more crafting goodies and whilst this is the purpose, i will not be charging the earth for things, below i will show you some of the things i will be selling and there will be more to show you in the New Year, once i get some pennies together to make more.............so i hope you will stick with me, the first thing was an embellie i made tonight from baby pink velvet ribbon, pearls and lace, hope you like it, i LOVE it..................

These are beautifully feminine don't you think?

I will also be stocking my handmade vintage inspired flowers, these were all made with genuine ivory vintage lace i recently bought

 

I have also made white ones, coffee&creme ones and antique pink ones

I will also be selling bling crystal heart and round shaped buttons, and also painted wooden buttons at the moment in roses and oriental peony, although i will stock some other types after Christmas!

I am also going to be stocking Czech Crystal multi faceted beads in varied sizes

I will also be selling my handmade stickpins and i hope you like them as much as i do cause i will be giving some away!!

And that brings me on nicely to my ****BLOG CANDY**** I have decided to make another of my famous pincushions, especially for you!!! My 45th Birthday is on 14th December and on that date i will pick one lucky winner from my followers to win one of my pincushions, same as the pic below, maybe just different colours with 5 handmade stickpins to get you started on your collection......these pincushions are made, in the main, from recycled products, which is a cause i embrace!! Recycling!! So all you have to do is copy and paste the pic below into your sidebar and be my follower, thats it!! its that easy.......so here's to my birthday and the lucky winner!! Hope you like all the exciting things coming in the New Year too............Hugs and lots of love, Vick xxx

JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT!!!

Hey folks,

As you all know i work for Krista Smith @ Saturated Canary and just love her artwork and have loads of digis and rubber stamps coloured up, as it's one of the main things i can do when i'm laid up in bed ill!! So 'Autumn' was coloured up sometime ago and i was looking at some ribbon i've just bought and thought it matched perfect to the colours i had used on her weeks ago, so early hours of this morning, due to pain, i was up all night and i thought i would put this card together, it is 8.5inx8.5in and i'm very happy with how it turned out i hope you like it too!!! You can buy 'Autumn' HERE

Ingredients i used to make this card

Base card made from 2 A4 pieces of cardstock from my stash
'Autumn' digi from Saturated Canary (link to shop above)
Copper Mirri Card
Gardenias (large&small) large Rosebud & 25mm Ivory Rose all from W.O.C
All flowers i spritzed with an icey pink glimmer mist and edged with Victorian Velvet D.I
DP from Pink Paislee 6x6 'London Market' pad
Natural Lace from W.O.C
Autumn is coloured in with Promarkers
Sheer 40mm wide Organza Ribbon with Gold Edge
Small Cameo from W.O.C
Corner dies from 'Noor'
All papers etc blended with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink with Cut and Dry foam
Wrought Iron designed heart stamp from stash, was stamped onto shrink plastic, coloured and shrunk down to make the heart embellishment on the right hand side of the card
'LOVE' 3D Sentiment from my stash

Thanks for looking and i hope you like what you see and i have inspired you, Hugs, Vick xxxx

MY LOVE TO CREATE DT CARDS

Hey there Crafters,

It's that time again and even though my cards were on the Love To Create Challenge Blog HERE I forgot to blog my post on here, so as far as my post goes i am 2days late i hope my followers can forgive me, i have a memory like a sieve!!
So, this week saw me doing 2 cards as i had 2 sponsors, the great Sassy Studio Designs HERE from which i used 'My Fair Lady' & The Digi Garden HERE where i used 'Snowman 2'. Our challenge, and yours of course, is to do a project featuring 'Fancy Edges' this could be anything from punched out borders, scallops, diecuts, lace, whatever you want!! as long as its different from straight edges, so without further ado i will now show you my DT cards for this challenge, and as usual give you a list of what i used to make them, under each card!!

Ingredients i used to make this card

Digi 'My Fair Lady' from Sassy Studio Designs
Handmade flower by me from lilac lace & 12mm round lilac gem (from my stash)
White 6x6 scalloped (my fancy edge) base card from Papermania
Ivory Carnation handmade by me from flat petals (tut video on my YT channel)
Lilac/Ivory Calla Lillies from W.O.C
Lilac/Ivory 25mm Rose and Lilac Sweetheart bloom from W.O.C
Purple stamens from my stash
Ivy leaves from Joanna Sheen
Ribbon from my stash
Coloured with Promarkers
Sentiment from stash
3mm clear diamantes

Ingredients i used to make this card


Digi 'Snowman 2' from The Digi Garden
Epoxy Snowman square label & Hohoho epoxy sticker both from my stash
Silver Embossed 'Snowman' Vellum handmade by me
Leaves in Silver mirri and White Pearlescent card embossed with snowflake Cuttlebug folder and then cut out from Spellbinder Leaves
Snowflake stickers from my stash
Ice Blue Diamantes
Silver Metallic ribbon from W.O.C
Small white Gardenias from Ladybug Crafts
Blue Snowflake DP from Papermania, punched out with Martha Stewart Punch around the Page
White 8x8 base card
Coloured with Promarkers
Stickles 'Crystal'


Thanks so much for checking my work out and i hope you liked it, Hugs, Vick xxx

FINALLY I CAN POST ABOUT IT!!

Hi Guys,

Sometime ago, a weekly challenge blog in the good old U.S of A, Love To Create, run by two lovely ladies, Jackie & Tina, ran a DTCall in blogland and on Facebook, and i was lucky enough to be asked to join the team recently, and now my name and mug has been plastered on their blog, LOL, and i have done my first challenge card for today, i can post about it.
Now i must admit i was a little stumped with this theme because of the digi i chose to use, our sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps HERE and because of what i chose, its ended up being a little of a male orientated card, now i have problems with the males  (only cards though, LOL) Mr Mojo goes on holiday, AWOL, MIA whatever you wanna call it, he's never around, so......i hope you like it, and aren't too harsh, i promise to do better next week, lol, hugs, Vick xxx

Ingredients i used for this card

Kraft 6x6 card blank
cardstock
dried leaves
Labels 28 Spellbinder dies
Background was made with my Promarkers
Digi from Bugaboo 'Scarecrow - Crows' coloured with Promarkers
Burlap Cord


Thanks for looking xx

IT'S TIME FOR LADYBUG CHALLENGE AGAIN!!!

Wow,
What the heck happened to October, one minute it was September, next it was Halloween!! I know we say it every year about the years going fast but this year just seems to have sped up so much, especially the second half of it, anyway, i for one can't wait to see the back of it!
Anyway, onto something more happy! here is my dt card for the Ladybug Challenge where this month we are following the theme of 'monochromatic' so i thought i would do a pink&grey assemble, its quite a plain looking card but i have made it too, for my little niece who wouldn't appreciate handfuls of flowers and bling, she's only 7, lol, hope you like it!

Ingredients i used for this card

A linen white card blank
Grey Coredinations card
Pink Satin Ribbon made into one of my chocolate box bows (video on vixcrafts YT)
Small White Gardenia from Ladybug Crafts
Pink fluffy butterfly from my stash
Stamp is 'Bella with Presents' from Wild Rose Studio which i have coloured in with my beloved Promarkers

Have a great day and thanks for looking xxx

4 NEW FLOWERS

Well, i went out over the weekend and ended up with a rotten cold, serves me right for trying to live normally, lol, so whilst stuck in bed yesterday with a cold and my M.E and arthritis playing up i thought i would do some crocheting, so i added 4 new flowers to my growing collection, who'd have thought i've only been able to crochet for a week, lol, so here they are and the last photo is all the flowers i have made this week, hope you like them and thankyou for visiting me i really do appreciate it!, Hugs Vick xxx

DEEP RED CROCHET FLOWER

Hi there crafters,

Through some of last night i made up a crocheted flower (what a surprise......not!!! LOL....) and it is from the same bag of wool my mum gave me last year, although the other colours i have shown you that i've made, can count for Shabby Chic, this colour cannot, so i have simply called it 'Chic' instead. Well.......c'mon its definitely not Shabby!! anyhow, i had this lovely red/gold broken earring in my broken jewellery stash (bought from Ebay) and there are 2 the same, so i will be making a matching flower to this tonight, but i thought i would share this one with you now, i love it!! and i hope you do too. I've also taken a side view shot just to show you how deep these flowers are when i have finished crocheting them and sewn them altogether, at least 4 inches in depth, i think this is a definite favourite for me, behind my fav 1st place, the ex. large cream shabby chic one! anyway, here it is and thankyou for visiting me today, see you around soon i hope, i'm off for a well earned nap!! have a great day....hugs Vick xxx

ANOTHER FLOWER!

Hey guys,

So sorry to bore you all, with yet another flower, but im stuck in bed again and am having the worst M.E crash ever, so i have no energy whatsoever, and it doesnt help that i'm not sleeping well either, an hour here, an hour there, and i've ended up the last few nights being awake all night, so i put it to good use and crocheted or coloured in digi's so that i had images to add to cards when they were needed! So here is another flower triple layered in Antique Rose wool, that's all gone now, i just had enough of it to make this flower, i hope you like it, and thanks for visiting me!
Hugs, Vick xxx

PARDON THE PUN - I AM 'HOOKED'

Hey guys,

Couldn't sleep again so yes you guessed it i've made another crocheted flower and i am so proud of it, it's come out lovely, so its a baby pink one as thats the other colour of spare wool i have, and i have some cream and burgundy left so you'll never guess what colour is coming soon!! hehehehe......the other cream ones you saw yesterday are actually cream with flecks of chocolate brown in, so they arent cream alone but the one i did yesterday i have added a larger cream layer on the bottom so that's different now too, so without further ado here are some piccys for you to see, hope you like them!! xxx Hugs & Blessings, Vick xxx

Bless you for looking and visiting me today i soooo appreciate it, more than you know! x

I'VE NEVER CROCHETED!!!!

But i've always wanted to!!
Hey there folks, As a child i always remember my mum and my late nan always crocheting or knitting, they both tried to teach me to knit but i wasn't having any of it and instead took up embroidery at the age of 5/6 I remember my mum drawing a flower or something similar onto waste white cotton sheets, giving me a needle and thread and me embroidering it, i so wish i had some to show you! Anyhow, i have never crocheted at all in my life, but last year, on a visit to my mum's i asked her for a crochet needle and any spare bits of wool (as she doesnt knit/crochet anymore) i asked my mum to show me one basic stitch, it is the one stitch i know. So, i didn't do anything and put the wool and needle to oneside. Recently i have been scanning the internet for some of my favourite things.....crocheted lace, doilys, and crocheted flowers, and they are sooooo expensive, so i thought last night, why not try to make some myself, now i am no expert, but i watched a couple of tutorials, wrote a few things down, added some bits from each and took away bits i didnt like, these are very basic but they came out ok, if not too big (the first one) but i dont mind i will use it on a journal cover or a box!
So here they are, in all their glory, or not as the case maybe! Please be gentle with me, these are my very first attempts at crocheting

Thankyou for looking have a brilliant day!! Lots of Love Vick xxx

Well......WHAT A LET DOWN!!!

Hey Folks,

I've waited a long time to get over 250 followers so that i could send out my blog candy to the lucky winner, well......i chose the winner for my blog candy and they hadn't advertised my candy in their sidebar which was my only stipulation! easy, you'd think.........so i went to the next winner and the next and the next and in the end i'd chosen , randomly, 10!!!! yes 10 different followers and not one of them had my blog candy in their sidebar so i can't go on forever, this is very frustrating, i've never experienced anything like it, i guess people don't want candy anymore, lol!! so, to be fair, i have decided that i will add this prize to the next and so i will put a new pic up tomorrow of my 350 followers candy, and hope to goodness the followers put it in their sidebar!! LOL........ok so i will put up my blog candy tomorrow!!!

Hugs, Vick xxx