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......  

JOIN US AT LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE

Why not pop over to the last Challenge of the year!!!....we are having a break at Love to Create and will be back with the new challenges of 2013!! on January 7th, so from all the designers @ Love to Create Happy Christmas & A Prosperous New Year......we are being sponsored by QKR Stampede  HERE and Dearie Dolls HERE my card is from QKR Stampede!!

 

Ingredients used to make this card

I used a 'mint' smelling engraved cardbase that i've had for years!
I cut a strip from some red and velvet handmade paper from my stash
Red ornate silk poinsettias from my stash
Red large Pointsettias from WOC covered in red fine glitter (glitter is from my stash)
White large Poinsettias from WOC
Silver 10mm width metallic ribbon from WOC
Red Crinkle silk ribbon from Ribbon Girl
Penguin from QKR Stampede and coloured in with Promarkers
Red&Gold sentiment from my stash

MY BIRTHDAY CANDY DRAW!!! AND THE WINNER IS....

WARNING - PICCY HEAVY POST

Hey folks,

Well i had a lovely birthday yesterday, i slept most of the afternoon as i haven't been too well, i went on a trip to visit my mum who's birthday was on the 11th and its a 250mile round trip and it makes me ill everytime and lays me up in bed, so i have been bedbound a lot since, so i didn't come downstairs yesterday until 4.30pm but when i got down here, John (my soulmate, hubby and best friend)  presented me with a gorgeous bunch of red roses, and was cooking my birthday dinner, Steak Diane.........ooh it was absolutely delicious....then after i rested my full belly, lol, a stunning delish dessert i also wasn't expecting, then a glass of wine (the only wine i can drink) and my favourite drink, coffee!!!! a great night sat watching t.v and stuffing my face!!! LOL xxx

Yummy - Sirloin, Brandy, Cream, Shallots, Mushrooms, New Potatoes, Carrots Julienne, Broccoli, Cauliflower.........bliss!!!

12 beautiful red roses!

My dessert......knickerbocker glory Johnnie style!!! Raspberries, Blackberries, Strawberries, Strawberry Icecream, Chocolate sauce, Double Whipping Cream.

Polished it off, Mmmmmm it was good! very good!!

A lovely big glass of wine!


And i had a lovely birthday evening, so.........after it hit 12 midnight i did my draw for my candy and the winner is...................................

JACQUE from Jacque's Magnolias blog

Please drop by Jacque's blog and show her some love, if you haven't been before, which i would find hard to believe cause she is awesome.........

Congratulations Jacque, can you please email me your home address so i can get your prize (my handmade by me pincushion and 5 handmade by me stickpins) out over to you, although i don't think it will be before Christmas as the last date for international post has finished before New Year......you have my email address, but if you've lost it please let me know via FB.

Thanks to all my friends on FB for my birthday wishes yesterday i had over 400, so lovely to read them all...........thankyou from my heart

Please still check out my blog periodically friends, and there will be something new to give away in the New Year,

Hugs, Vick xxx

CROCHETED FLOWER

Hi there friends,


Today i made another flower, i haven't crocheted for a couple of weeks and used the last of my wool on this one, so i wanted to share it! As you know if you were following this story, i have never crocheted in my life until last month and really enjoy it, so i wanted to share, i hope you like it too, i will give one of these away in some candy in the New Year! so lookout for that, hugs, Vick xxx

LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE

Hey there Guys,

Its that time of the week again, where i have made my DT card for Love to Create Challenges HERE our sponsor this week is Bugaboo (HERE) and the theme is 'Holiday Cheer' we also have a new sponsor she is my fellow designer on the LTC challenge blog, Mei.......below is a personal message to you from Mei...........take it away Mei!!!!

It is my pleasure to sponsor this week's challenge at Love to Create with a $20 voucher to my store!

As an added bonus, check out my personal blog at meiaudesigns.wordpress.com for details on how to win an extra $15 voucher!

One lucky winner will win

As my grand opening promotion Yours or Mine Paper Crafts is offering all the Love To Create followers a 20% discount from December 3-9th.
Just use coupon code LTC2012

 

 

 

 So, without further ado i will show you my card for the week, hope you like it.........

Hope you'll join us @ Love To Create Challenge blog.........hugs, Vick xx

***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