Clean Style, Casing Miss Chupa

My card for the The Case Study Challenge

Hello again friends. I've been away from making cards lately because I'm working so hard on "Looking for Challenges". A quick reference site to help me (and friends) to locate challenges. Take a peek, it's got cats galore! There's the PhD Cat (Dr. Shredder) hot button for anyone who wants to plant it as a picture gadget. Then you can find challenges fast too.

Miss Chupa's Card

We are having fun at The Case Study. It's still anniversary time there. This week we are casing the founder of Case Study, Iwona Palamountain, also known as Chupa. She seems like a great person as well as wonderful artist. Many of her cards have been published, and her style is so cool!

I choose a "clean" card. I really have a hard time with these. I keep feeling like it's not done. But it is and it's very pleasing to me. I hope you like it too.

Computer printed stamp & sentiment, DCWV paper, Cuttlebug embossing, colored pencils, standard watercolor fine point markers, Inkssentials "Glossy Accents", Orange button and twine.

Thanks you so much for the visit, I wish you all a happy evening.

PS. Would someone looking at this older post please tell me how and why you've come to visit. This post is a bit old but has a life of it's own....lots of visits. I'm quite happy about that, but I don't understand how you good folks are finding this post. Thanks, Victoria Lavender

"Looking 4 Challenges" (an online challenge list)

Greeting friends and visitors! You may have noticed...I like challenges. There are SO MANY challenge blogs! Sometimes I wished I had a convenient place to spin through and find challenges that relate to what I'm creating. Thanks to some friends for helping me create the challenge list. You can share my list too! You may even leave in the comments (under the day the challenge starts) a comment with an address I don't have listed yet.

The site is named "Looking 4 Challenges".

If you visit the list please become a follower, so that I may judge how successful and helpful the blog is for other crafters as yourself. The blog will update as time passes. Soon I will be adding addresses for free blog backgrounds, free graphics, free stamps, free cutting files, post tutorials and You Tube tutorials. I'm hoping to make a full reference page for my use and all of you kind friends. If this page works well for you, please spread the word.

Thanks for taking a moment to check out my little press release :)

Halloween Tag

Hi, I just found a little challenge dealing with tags. I really should make more of them, they're fun. "Try it on Tuesday" is the latest challenge blog I've found. The challenge is Tags/Trees. I'm starting to long for fall and doing a vintage Halloween tag is giving me the feeling of leaves and fall. (I LOVE FALL!, we don't have a real fall in the extreme southwest)

I used a public use image found while googling. Also: DCWV Citrus Orange Cardstock, Stickles, pastels, colored pencils, #2 pencil, fine point marker, a ribbon I beat up with black ink, embroidery thread, and the vintage style garland trim I made. I'm going to finish the set I've started, I hope you all have a lovely august day! Cheers!

Lavender Sachet Card, The Case Study, casing Claire Buswell

Case Study #52, My Lavender Card. It's about time I made a lavender card.

Claire Buswell's sachet card. Pretty!

I poured over Clair Buswell's blog, "Claire's Creations". Wow! She has soooo many cards! All quite lovely and I enjoyed looking at the crafts she made along the way as well. I finally saw one close to my heart. A lavender sachet card. It was so pretty and feminine. I gave it a go.

I still had some medallions left over from my last card for Case Study so I thought long and hard. Her sachet is removable...I made mine as the card. My lavender sachet lies between the card body and the face paper. Showing through a hole on both sides. To accent the front opening I cut a slightly smaller hole in the medallion and used pop tape for depth. Little pearls rim the filigree edge.

I made my face paper. I scanned a light green paper that had a nice pattern, and I change the hue to violet and printed it. I scored the entire piece (the hole's were punched at the start of making the card). I filed down the all ridges and roughed up the paper. I used purple, raspberry and sky blue inks to finish my shabby look. There is a lavender print cutout in the interior of the card and peeks through the opening.

The corsage is made from self dyed snug hug seam ribbon and a tattered sheer ribbon. I frayed all edges too. Flowers are from the racks at Joanns and the pins are from the same floral racks. I pulled them out from the bunch they come in. Finishing up with a little oval computer tag wedged under the pearl button .

Claire's crafts and cards blogspot is fun to visit and get new ideas from. Even her site is nicely put together. Go take a peek yourself, and thanks for the visit to me too!

Our Daily Bread Designs is a new blog I visit. I just feel warm all over when I go there. Maybe it's the music, maybe the cards and the wonderful designers.....still, I like it. They have a current challenge for "Tags". Give them a visit sometime, maybe you'll get that warm feeling too.

This card is also entered in these fabby challenges:
Incy Wincy, something old and new
(my newly made paper and the left over medallion)
Blog-a-Doodle, Ribbon & Punch & Pearls
Fussy and Fancy, Use a Lot
The Pixie Cottage, Say it with Flowers
A spoon Full of Sugar, Happy Birthday
Anything Goes Challenge Blog, Happy Birthday

Case Study One Year Anniversary, Casing Andrea Ewen

My card for this challenge -


Greeting! Case Study Challenge is one year old! The fun and talent has been outstanding!

After I followed along with their fabulous blog hop, I went to work on the challenge. Case your favorite CSC designer! They are all sooooooo GOOD! Sometime when you find yourself checking out Case Study, you really should look up the individual designers blog spots.....they are wonderful to see and learn from.

I cased Andrea Ewen of "Ewen Style. She makes cards I would love to receive! Romantic and soft, sometimes clean, sometimes shabby. Sometimes she jumps out of her flowers and makes bright cards. I love the stitching, the lace and flowers the most but her other creations are just as lovely and smart! I enjoy that she has her style "down" and can still break away to do something I wasn't expecting. I like that.



The card I selected is from a Verve Challenge. I learned to cut these medallions from Andrea, so it seems like the perfect choice to case and share with you.

My face paper is from "The Linen Closet, DCWV. Card body and medallion, Bright White Index. Lace from SAS, Ribbon is Snug Hug, stick-on pearls from Joann's. Stick pins made from assorted stuff from the my craft box.

Thanks so much for the visit! I wish you luck if you are playing along, those of you who aren't.....check out the DT's blogs. Have a great day!







This card is also entered with these fabby challenges:
Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, Use Punches
Catch The Bug Challenge, Anything Goes
Our Daily Bread Design, Seamstress Items
Scrap Creations, Bows

UPDATE: I picked up blog candy from designer Julie Smith's blog during The Case Study Anniversary Blog Hop, AND, I won a badge for Top 3 at Scrap-Creations and their "Bows" challenge. I agree too, this is a great bow-one of my best with handmade stick pins. Our Daily Bread randomly selected me for $15.00 discount on future stamp purchases. Whee!

Thanks for the sweet comments folks! Have a great week, Vicki

Feeling kinda Pretty

Fan and evening shoes, patterned paper galore!



Hi, hope you are all having a great summer! I've been away from card making a couple of weeks. But my house has become cleaner. The Shabby Tea Room, challenge 73, must have been reading my mind! The challenge is to use at least 3 different patterned papers. I had just made paper high heels and I quickly ,envisioned a shabby fan to go with the set. More fun still....The Ribbon Carousel Challenge theme is"Lets get Crazy". Whee! This will work out well.



My High Heel, designed by me.



This shoe pattern is from Stacy Cohen. Nice inner heel.



I'd like to thank Stacy Cohen for her inspiration and pattern for the second shoe. After studying lots of paper shoes online, I was ready to design from scratch my own paper high heel. These are so much fun! I'm currently working on the file to prepare it as a SCUT.

I love this fan. I had lots of fun embellishing it. And it's 2 sided. Side One, three or more papers challenge. Side Two, looks like another fan. Open the flower in the middle and see the little surprise.





The Shabby Tea Room, Challenge #73


Did you see my little mice? I made them last year, they like crafting too. Keep enjoying all there is out there! Peace.


This set is also entered with:
Creative Card Crew, shoes