SHABBY CHIC TO A 'T'

And today children we will be playing with the letter 'T' LOL........hey there folks, a couple of weeks ago whilst at a craft fair with my best friend Theresa, we bought some bits and pieces of MDF shapes and some other goodies too, and Theresa, gave me this 'T' to decorate for her cause she wasn't sure how to go about it and knew I would do something nice for her so I took it off her hands and decorated it like it is below here!
I went for the shabby chic style as I love it im sure Theresa does too, but her favourite colour is blues and turquoises so I thought, go with a sky blue pink (shabby chic shades) theme.
So I painted the whole letter in cream acrylic paint and then mixed some Kroma Crackle that you can buy HERE with sky blue acrylic paint in one mixing pot, and the same KC with a pale pink, I then added them to the 'T' with a palette knife in a random fashion.
After that had got to the state of crackle that I wanted I added a clear acrylic seal (as this stops further cracking & protects your work by adding a seal) you can use your own but if you don't have any you can buy that too from the same place its called 'Slap it On' then when that was dry I sprayed over it with pink glitter spray and varnish spray.
I added cream satin ribbon to all the sides, and on top of that laid down a natural crocheted lace, i added my embellishments with my glue gun where I wanted them, and voila!! we have the loveliness below, I hope you like it, im sure my friend 'T' will, hugs x V

ROYAL NEWS!

Hey there folks!

How are you today? well here in the U.K we have Royal Baby fever, I and hubby have been glued to the News for the past couple of days since Kate went into labour and then waiting for the new Prince to come home with his mummy (Kate) and daddy (Will's) we are very laid back here but if you aren't familiar with their names, they are HRH's Prince (Duke of Cambridge) William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge, our future King and his beautiful wife, they have just given this country the future (3rd in line) king of England. Its been so exciting here and we are now letting them settle in with their new baby but we are still awaiting the naming of the Prince, I like William after his father, or Michael as first names! And hubby likes the idea of George, anyway, that is what I have been doing, being very patriotic, love it all!!!
Hugs for now, from Vick and the hubster xxx

INDIGO BLU FEST!!!!

Well howdy folks,

I thought I would say hi and show you the latest cards to come out of the madness that is Vick's crafty space, well, a corner of my small bedroom, lol......anyway, I thought I would make some cards out of some indigo blu stamp sets I have I hope you like them

**THIS POST IS PHOTO HEAVY**



 

 

INDIGO BLU STAMPS

Hi Folks,

Here is a card made from the brilliant Indigo Blu Stamps CLICK HERE where you will find outstanding value&quality red rubber stamps and top quality products that are such fun to play with! I had the stamp set 'Live Laugh Love' to play with, and play I did.  I made the card below into an 8x8 card and used one of the beautiful sentiments from the set and 3 different flowers from the same set, it's such a great all rounder, with images for men too! And the sentiments are in beautiful fonts that are so pleasing to the eye! Hope you like what I have created, if you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments and I will answer as soon as!!
Hugs, V x

the full card

a close up on the beautiful sentiment

the professional (hehehe) angled shot

and the beautiful bow

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients used to make this card

 

 

DP is 'Rose Garden' by First Edition Paper

Indigo Blu A5 stamp sheet 'Live Laugh Love'

Spellbinders Labels 4 & Grand Labels 4

Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles used for the Sentiment

Spellbinders Venetian sets

Black Leather effect card

Soft Gold Pearlescent Card

Crushed Silk Black ribbon

A sewn on Antique button from my stash

2 Ivory Heart hatpins from my stash

Melissa Frances ivory self adhesive Pearls

Dove in Das Air dry clay, handmade by me!

Cosmic Shimmer E.P in 'Ancient Copper'

Versamark Embossing Inkpad

and lastly

Metal corners rubbed with Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Wax in

'Cast Bronze' to tie them in (colourwise) to my project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 



 

CRAFTERS.........CHECK THIS OUT!!!!

Through The Purple Haze Challenges: Christmas Competition for the crafter who enters a...: How about something to whet your appetite? Do you like competitions where you can win a lovely bundle of goodies? Well here you can!! ...

SATURATED SUNDAY!!

Hey there folks,

I thought I would join in the fun at Saturated Canary's fortnightly blog challenge HERE and its all about strange coloured hair! #44 "Hair that is different"  Even though brighter more gawdy colours are for the younger generation, we had a long tradition for years where elderly women would have something called the 'Blue Rinse' and it was a mix between a fabby lilac and sky blue, it was kinda cool!!
So as Blanche is one of the, lets say, middle aged stamps of the lot, I thought she would look snazzy with a 'Purple Rinse' so that is why she can be entered into this challenge, why not have a go and see what you come up with? I often colour my stamps in with strange coloured hair just to have more fun with them and usually they never make online and take a leap head first into my bin, but this time Blanche is here to stay........its not one of my best cards but I hope you like it all the same, Hug&Blessings, hope you have a great Sunday!!
V xx

MY FIRST SPECTRUM NOIR COLOURING

Hey there folks,

Well I am now the proud owner of my first 48 Spectrum Noir pens, and will buy 24 every month until I have the whole lot. But, today I had a play for the first time and did a pretty much 'ok' colouring with them, I will do a review on my findings, good and bad, as a video this week and will post the link here, but for now, here is my first colouring using the 'Speccies', as I have heard them affectionately called!! Hope you like it, and it cheers you up, cause its been torrentially raining all day here and its been grey and dreary, not a bit of sky has been seen, just thick, grey rain clouds!! so I hope this makes you smile, at the very least.......it will reach a card or project before the end of the week! Hopefully........Hugs & bye for now crafters ......Love, Vick xx

MY SATURATED CANARY VIDEO, GUEST SPOT & SHOUT OUT TO THE WONDERFUL KRISTA SMITH

Hey there people,

As you may know, as it's in my sidebar, I am the Team leader for the Design Team on YT of Saturated Canary, and another idea of mine was to allow the ladies on mine and Krista's design team (Krista, is the lovely Krista Smith, artist & owner of Saturated Canary, if you didn't know already, can't believe there's many peeps in the craft world who haven't heard of her) a guest spot once a week to showcase & share with followers what they can do with their stamps, digi or rubbah! as well as their videos that they do every week too, they are a lovely bunch of girlies and I love each and everyone of them, including our gracious & very unassuming Krista, whom in my opinion is not only a fantastic mama & business woman but an awesome human being who listens intently to my madcap schemes, allows them and has always pardoned this mad English woman who stalks her!! LOL.......
Anyway, she is very modest and will probably hate this blog post, upto now, but I don't care!! she won't blow her own trumpet and I understand that as I am the same but I will blow it for her, she is a blooming good 'boss' if I can call her that.........she'll hate that too.........(sticks tongue out) nah nah nah nah nah............lol

So, here is my guest spot project and also is my video this time, you can see the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOqzqQQb7lQ  for Part 1 and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSGnTcxEEAs for Part.2 the reason I made 2 videos this time was I thought now and again, it is nice to see how a larger project is made from start to finish and because of my channel I am allowed longer videos however, I still broke it up into 2 videos as the first one is 'how to do a crackle effect' Where I turn a boring piece of MDF into a vintage looking cracked piece of wood with normal PVA glue and acrylic paint. Now I have done this before a few years back but that was on my personal channel Vixcrafts here http://www.youtube.com/user/vixcrafts so that is why I made the project into 2 videos for people who already can do or know this technique and are only interested in the actual project. I made the 2nd video with 'warts an all' deliberately crafting 'on the hoof' so not knowing what I want it to look like in the end or what I wanted to use, with emphasis on the concept of composition, texture and colour combos!  for those that either aren't sure about these things or haven't done this before.

So, IF YOU ARE STILL WITH ME AFTER ALL THAT, LOL without further ado, here are my pics!!! Hope you like my project

OH DEAR M.I.A YET AGAIN!!! MAYBE I WILL STOP CRAFTING, NOT SURE

Oh I am so so sorry to all my blog followers, I know I haven't got many but the ones I do have I value so very much!
Recently my disabilities have stopped me from crafting altogether and I have made NOTHING. This has upset me as I love to craft, and even though I have just bought a meltpot and some pens (all yet to be delivered) I am of the mindset to sell everything I have and stop this hobby in its tracks, or not, as the case may be, as I feel I am not able to do it at all of late, it also hasn't helped that I have no dedicated craft area for some months now and not really anywhere to craft.
I have a video to make for my team channel Saturated Canary and haven't been able to do that either due to illness, but I have what I want to do all set up on a tray so it will have to be done today from my bed, a day late.........I do hope that my friends will remain me friends still, if I do not craft, just so that I can see what you are all making.
I have hardly been on Facebook/Twitter either and I love Facebook and all my friends, so I am right out of sorts, I do hope I can carry on doing that at the very least, anyway, I will post my video on here too when it is done, hope to chat again soon, take care, hugs, Vick xxx

CARD COMMISSIONED BY MY SON

Hey Guys,

I made a big A4 card last week and forgot to put it on here, my son commissioned it from me for his partner, they have been together a year, so here it is, hope you like it

CRAFTER M.I.A

Hey Guys,

"Hello Stranger" I hear you say........."where have you been?" If you don't go on Facebook, you'll have thought that this old girl fell of the face of the earth! but obviously I haven't, as I am now here, talking to you all!
Basically, I have been a very bad blogger of recent weeks, as you can see, I haven't been here since Mother's Day, tut tut, very naughty blogger!  I have had so much on with trying to move my bedroom and craft room around, all into one room and we are still only half way through, due to disabilities everything is done in very slow mode, so its a case of things that would have been done in a day before, now take days and sometimes weeks in this case! It didn't help that John, my hubby was in the middle of moving around the living room and then starting on the craft room and bedroom without having a break and rest and has now burned himself out and nothing is being done! So, I have been ill, and behind with everything and i'm afraid my blog & my You Tube channels came last and I have to apologise for that, and hope that you all stick with me and know that I will be back on form very soon! Give me a couple of weeks to 3 and I will have everything up and running. I could just post everyday on here without a card or project and yes, I would be posting and keeping in touch but that's what Facebook is for, my blog is to share my crafty escapades & my channel is to do tutorials, so, please, bear with me, and I will be back as soon as I can, thanks guys and see you all soon!! Vick xx

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Hey there my lovelies!

Yes, there are no pics or cards today i'm afraid but I just wanted to say to all my followers out there who are mummy's Happy Mother's Day......I am presuming that outside of the U.K it may not be your Mothers Day but today 10th March, 2013 it is Mother's Day in the U.K.......so, however you are spending it, with your children? or with hubby, as they have all grown up and left? or on your own/with other family or friends?
I hope this post greets you with how it was intended, with hugs, love & blessings for you to have a lovely day whatever you are doing, stay safe and happy
Hugs x

LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE

I'm afraid I am late this week as I am not well and bedbound, serves me right, I actually dared to go out on Saturday night and enjoy myself!!! tut tut........I went to a haunted house and did a paranormal night with our friends.  Anyway, I haven't been able to move since, so luckily I had coloured in my digi stamp already from our sponsor this week Eureka Stamps with my beloved Promarkers, check out Love to Create Challenge blog HERE and join in!! The challenge is 'Wrap it Up' with twine, rope, fibres, ribbon whatever you want!
I chose to use the father & son fishing bears, I kinda think they are cute and would make a great Father's Day card/Dad's Birthday Card.........so, I spent a painful hour sat up at my desk making my coloured digi into a card and this is the upshot! Hope you like it, drop by the blog and visit my fellow clever designers to see what they have made they are a talented bunch of gals,
Hugs&Blessings Vick xxxx

SORRY!!

I do really have to apologise for not blogging very often as I had intended originally when I started this blog sometime ago now!  I am not going to promise you specific times but I am going to promise you certain things.
BLOG CANDY
PRODUCT REVIEWS
& MORE OF MY MAKES which include my design team work & things I love to do....... ALTERED ART&MIXED MEDIA

So........check back as these above subjects will turn up anytime, better still, why not do what I do with some of my favourite blogs, I subscribe to them via email, which means I get an email when they post, so whether they post everyday or just once a fortnight, I never miss a thing!! Don't miss any of my thangs' and subscribe via email
Smiles, hugs & blessings dear followers
Vick xxx

LOVE TO CREATE DT CARDS

So, this week at Love to Create Challenge blog we got the chance to work with some fantastic digital stamps from our sponsor this week A Day for the Daisies HERE I was that taken with the stamps on offer that I didn't know what to choose and when I had I ended up making two cards, so this post is a little bit photo heavy folks, LOL !!! Our challenge this week was 'All That Glitters'

This 1st card is, as you can see in lilac and teal, (with my beloved ProMarkers) I just love this colour combo and I don't use it enough, I thought it really suited her well!!  The flowers on the right of the card are handmade by me with vintage seam binding, and a lovely bow I made from one of my favourite materials, scrunched taffeta! I completely forgot, when I had nearly finished that our challenge this week was 'all that glitters' LOL........so I hoped adding tiny diamantes to her hair and teal coloured diamantes around my flowers, could pass for glittering!!! Ha!! x

 Close up of my girl!

 I just love how she has turned out!! x



This is the 2nd card I did from the same stamp in Pink and Light Green, again with my beloved ProMarkers. I am very taken with this colour combo too, so you can tell why I had such a dilemma choosing which one to use so I thought, what the heck! I'll do two this week!!! LOL....the lace flower and stickpin are both handmade by me, I love them......and I have added crystalline glitter around the girl and through her hair......topped off with a iridescent butterfly and some Melissa Frances pearls, this card has turned out to be one of my all time favourites!! I hope you agree, I love them both

 An angled shot of my card below showing some lovely blooms including my handmade lace flower&stickpin.

Finally a close up of my handmade lace flower from genuine vintage lace, and my handmade pink crystal and pearl stickpin..........

Thankyou so much for looking and bearing with me, indulging me in this long post and I hope you will pop over to Love to Create and join in with the challenge, Happy Crafting!!!

LOVE TO CREATE'S BIRTHDAY!!!

BIRTHDAY WEEK AT LOVE TO CREATE

It's PARRRRRTY time down at Love to Create Challenge Blog this week, as its our 1st Birthday, to get there, click on the link HERE
We have many sponsors this week for our whole Design Team, myself personally was sponsored by The Digi Garden.
Here is my card, hope you like it!!

Please go to our Challenge blog to see what my designer friends have been upto too!


In Memory of Jacqui......owner & artist at The Digi Garden......