VivLyn Designs

Crafty Secrets Design Team Postcard Kit Challenge

Our Crafty Secrets Design Team challenge this month was to use one of the new Postcard Kits that have been released.  They are so much fun to play with!  I chose the Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Postcard Kit - Storybook because I fell in love immediately with the sweet images.  I decided to do two post cards for today's challenge.  The first one is Alice in Wonderland image.  The image is so cute and I cut out an additional Alice and mounted her on dimensionals.  I used a Copic Spica Glitter Pen in gold on the lines in Alice's dress and orange and gold pens in her hair.  I put glass accents on the little jar she is holding and MS glass glitter on the little lines coming out of the jar.  I had an Alice in Wonderland pin that had several cute dangling thingies that I took off and added to the bottom of the post card.  I used gold colored SU wire to make the hanger and some beads from my stash. 

Here is the back of the card.  You can click on it for a closer look.  I copied a page from the Alice in Wonderland book and printed it out on the computer.  I mounted it an angle and then stamped a few of the stamps that are included in the post card kit.  The little stamp in the upper right corner and the star at the bottom are both images that are mounted on chipboard also included in the kit.  This would look so cute hanging on the wall in a little girl's room or even my craft room.

This is my second post card from the same kit.  Another cutie but I didn't get a real good picture of it.  This is a better picture of the image. 

I was a little late in getting my cards done and the lighting wasn't the best.  That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!!  LOL  I didn't do anything special with the image but made a cute little hangie thingie with beads from my stash, along with the star at the bottom.  I mounted the word "Toyland" on the star.  Actually the back of the star is just like the front of it.

Here is the back of the post card.  Oops! I forgot to take a picture of the back!  Rats!!!  It's too late now.  Anyway, I mounted a piece of Crafty Secrets paper and stamped a few stamps from the set and added a banner on it that said "Grimms' Fairy Tales" from an old book.  I used a couple pieces of vintage seam binding for the hanger!

Be sure and go over to Linda Duke's blog since she will also be doing a drawing for a $30 Crafty Secrets gift certificate!  How cool is that?!!

Check out all the design team members' blogs for some real eye candy!  They all amaze me and are super talented ladies and a joy to work with!

Anna Wight

Heidi Blankenship

Linda Duke

Michele Kovak

Michelle Van Etten

Pam Hooten

Vicki Chrisman - Team Leader

Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Blog
 

CSSC83 - Let's Go to the Fair

The Splitcoast Stampers Crafty Secrets Forum challenge this week was to do something with the theme being Let's Go to the Fair.  I saw this image in the  Crafty Secrets Heart Warming Vintage Summertime Images & Journal Notes booklet and it looked like a winner to me.  The background paper is from the CSHV Radiant Paper Pad.  The "blue ribbon" is a Nestabilities pinking circle with a button in the center, grosgrain ribbon on the back and off white twine threaded through the button.  The image is adhered to cardstock that has been punched with Martha's Latice punch at the bottom.  I mounted the whole thing on dimensionals and the blue ribbon is mounted on dimensionals I stacked two high so it would clear the image.  It feels good to be creating again!

Another Challenge Done!

This card was for the Paper Craft Planet Crafty Secret Challenge here.  We were to use ribbon which is really easy to do since I love ribbons of all kinds!  The image is from the Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Homemade Images & Journal Notes.  The journal part of the sheet is a canning jar and I mounted it on the same piece of background paper on the inside of the card for the sentiment to be written on.  The papers, including the aqua that I cut with my Nestabilities scalloped rectangle, are from the CSHV Radiant Paper Pad.  The flower I've had for ages and it's from Bo Bunny.  The ribbon is wide silk that I purchased from Sharon Johnson.  It is yummy to work with.  I used my SU corner rounder punch on the bottom corners just for a more feminine touch.

I need to get busy on work on my last challenge until Saturday!  Yippee!! 

Paperee Crafty Secrets Challenge

I'm trying to get caught up on all the current Crafty Secrets challenges.  This one is for the Paperee challenge and the theme is fall.  You read about it here.  The image I chose is from Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Fall Cotton Scraps.  I sewed it on a piece of paper from Basic Grey's Mellow paper pad, which the background paper is also from.  I punched little leaves, marked veins in them and then crinkled them up.  They are mounted on dimensionals.  Everything is mounted on a Memory Box card in Dill.  This was a quick card to put together.  The time consuming part for me is deciding on what to do, what image to use, what paper to use.  I'm sure we all suffer from that from time to time.  I think I spend wayyyyyy too much time thinking about a card, rather than just diving in and doing it.  Oh well, that's me!

A beautiful day today...warm with a gorgeous breeze.  Perfect in my opinion!

CSSC82 - Challenge Using Yellow

This card is for last week's Crafty Secrets Forum card challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers...yes, last week's.  Tomorrow is a new one!  You can read about the challenge here.  It was a toughie for me since I very seldom use yellow.  I don't know why, but I just don't.  This image is from the Crafty Secrets Summertime Images and Journal Notes booklet.  There were a lot of images I could have used but I thought this little girl with her flowers and butterflys was really sweet.  The background paper is from Basic Grey's Stella Ruby paper pad and is mounted on a Memory Box premade card.  Sorry I don't know what color it is...it wasn't marked and I failed to mark it when I received it.  I went around the edges with my pinking shears and then sewed the image on a pale yellow piece of cardstock and then ran my scissors along the edge to distress it.  The little flower in the upper right hand corner is a piece of PTI saddle stitched ribbon in Lemon Tart.  I saw on Lisa Johnson's blog where she used the stitching on the one side and pulled it to make it a ruffle.  I just pulled it tighter and made a flower...looks like I should have used more ribbon and pulled tighter.  Actually I did have a longer piece of ribbon and then cut some off, now I wish I'd left it on.  Oh well, live and learn.  The ribbon flower and button are attached with a double sticky large circle.  The sentiment from Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps Garden Girls set is stamped in VersaFine Vintage Sepia on another piece of paper from the Stella Ruby paper pad.  I cut it out with a Nestabilities scalloped circle and it is mounted on a Nestabilities pinking circle.  You can't tell by the picture that it is pinked but goes with the pinked edges on the card.  This is mounted on dimensionals to make it lay nicely on the rough edges of the image mount.

What a Sweet Little Witch

I have been so bad this summer...not keeping up with my blog.  I have had some health issues that just seemed to hang around but now am feeling so much better with new meds.  I have so many things in my head that I want to do, it is spinning.  During my blog absence, hubby and I celebrated our 39th anniversary!  I can't believe it's been that long, but hopefully we will have many, many more.

This card is made with the cute Halloween set that came out last year from Crafty Secrets Clear Image Art Stamps called Halloween Fun.  I love this little witch.  She is so cute and innocent looking.  I used up some scrap Halloween papers and some cute ribbon I've been hoarding.  The bat brad in the upper left of the image is Making Memories, I believe.  The bat on the Boo sentiment is a Making Memories metal embellishment with a sticky strip on the back for adhering.  I sewed the orange pumpkin paper on with my sewing machine.  I have been using it way too little on my cards.  I think it really adds something to the finished project.

It is cool today and so nice.  Fall is in the air.  I have some chicken breasts on cooking for chicken and dumplings later.  That's always good for a cool day...warms you up on the inside.