Happy Birthday to Simply Betty Stamps with Love to Create!

Join us at Love to Create challenges today to help celebrate the 4th birthday of Simply Betty Stamps!

 

Our new challenge this week is 'Happy Birthday' and we would love to see your take on the theme. I had great pleasure in playing with this fabulous new SBS image - Franken Cutie Helen and her matching sentiment 'Ghoulfriends Stick Together'.

I have coloured her with promarkers and fussy cut her out, mounting her onto a Spellbinders die cut panel. I added some pewter gilding wax to the edges of the panel. The papers are from Bo Bunny 'Fright Delight' paper pad with some black and orange pearlescent paper used for matting. The little bats are die cuts from my stash.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:
Crafting At the Weekend - Challenge 2 Anything Goes
Hiding in my Craft Room - #151 Freestyle (AG)

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

New Challenge #8 Embossing at The East Wind

Good morning! It's June... already!! And it's time for a new challenge at The East Wind! Why not pop over and sign up for the mailing list... Unky sends out a freebie every month and we love to see you using it in the challenges! This month's freebie image is 'Aurora Gardening' and the theme for the challenge is 'Embossing'. I have used dry embossing with an embossing folder, but you can use heat embossing too if you want!

I have coloured her with Promarkers, and fussy cut her, mounting her on a die cut panel edged with Milled Lavender Distress Ink. This panel was then mounted onto purple pearlescent card embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The card blank was covered with lilac paper from Lily of the Valley (a current magazine freebie) and the card is finished with card candi. The sentiment is a peel off sticker on a Joy Crafts banner - more DI highlights the embossing on the banner and the card edges.

I look forward to seeing all your fabulous embossed entries in the challenge! 

I will enter my card in the following challenges - 

Ditzie Digi Design - Anything Goes week 5

Eclectic Ellapu - Spring

Robyn's Fetish Challenge - #214 Anything Goes

Here are the links you need -

The East Wind Blog

The East Wind Facebook Group

The East Wind Facebook 'like' page

The East Wind Etsy Shop!

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Lucy Loo 'Lucy Longstocking' Released at The East Wind

Oh Wow!!!! Kyra AKA Unky at The East Wind has done it again!!! Another absolutely Fantabulous Lucy Loo image is being released today! She is called 'Lucy Longstocking' and she is sassy and sexy!

I have gone with a very Halloweeny Colour palette but a sassy sentiment rather than all out Halloween!
I have coloured her with Promarkers, giving her shiny green hair! My papers are a mix of Echo Park and My Mind's Eye. The mount for Lucy is a Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Square done in black pearlescent paper. I've finished with some card candi.

I will enter this card in the following challenges -
Tuesday Throwdown - #197 Wild Coloured Hair
Addicted to Stamps and More - Make Your Mark (Promarkers)
Digi Stamps for Joy - Girly/Feminine


Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Skully Tag!!

Ok, so another quick post from me today, it's Thursday and there's only a few hours left to join in the Delicious Doodles challenge for this week - 'On the Dark Side' and I have had this tag sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks now... It was supposed to have been posted already for a tag swap... it will be in the mail first thing in the morning! Ooops!

So I have used a Kraft Tag from Craftwork Cards, embossed it with a skull and bones folder and tinted it with Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Inks. The 'Pile o Bones' image is from Delicious Doodles and I haven't added anything to it, just stuck it down and cut it to fit. The other image is a Zombie Pirate also from Delicious Doodles and I have highlighted his bandana and necktie with red Promakers. He's been mounted onto black pearlescent paper and attached with 3d foam to make him pop.... well, as much as a dead zombie pirate can pop! The tag is finished with red and black organza ribbons and black sticky pearls.

I will enter this tag in the following challenges:
Delicious Doodles - On the Dark Side
Haunted Design House - Ripped to Ribbons
Crafty Catz - Embossing

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Steampunk Peg!

I have another quick card for you today. I got this fabulous Rick St Dennis image from his Randi Dandi line at I Brake For Stamps as a prize during the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop last year and love her! I've used her a few times and thought that she would be perfect for the current Progressive Challenge over at Sparkle and Glitter The RSD EDT Blog.

I have kept the card simple, the challenge is almost over and I didn't want to miss it! (This has been on my to do list all month!) I coloured her with Promarkers and inked the edges with Black Soot. I have used Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells papers (8x8 and 6x6) and layered them up with black pearlescent paper. The Cogs are from a Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Die and the senitiment is Craftwork Cards (layered on a cog!).

I will enter this card in the following challenges:
Sparkle and Glitter With Rick - Steampunk
The Corrosive Challenge - #200 Celebration Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - #284 It's All About the S - (Steampunk Theme, Steampunk Spells papers) 
Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - #312 Masculine
The Paper Shelter - #160 Make it Manly
Rhedd and Rosie's Challenge - Nothing Floral
Ruby's Rainbow Challenges - #80 One for the Boys
Die Cuttin Divas - #167 For the Boys
Crafty Girls Challenge - #19 Anything Goes
 
Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Another quick post...

I have put together a quick layered card using the freebie digi stamp from Lelli-Bot Crafts. They are running a guest DT Call on their blog and I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring! I have used the 6x6 'Believe' paper pad from Prima and a simple matting and layering composition. I added a lace punched border using an x-cut punch and finished with a sentiment from Craftwork Cards. The image is coloured with pencils rather than my usual Promarkers.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges -
Lelli-bot Crafts - Guest DT Call

Party Time Tuesday - #174 Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Perfectly Rustics - #23 Photo Inspiration (I have used several from the colour palette)
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
Created with Love - #82 Lots of Layers
My Craft Creations - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Anything But a Card Challenge at Crafting by Designs

We have a fabulous challenge at Crafting by Designs this week - I'm hosting and my theme of choice is 'Anything but a Card'! We have the amazing Octopode Factory as a sponsor and I have used the Jareth image! Jareth is the Goblin King from The Labyrinth movie, played by David Bowie! One of my very favourite movies from when I was a kid.

I have made an art journal page using the image which was printed out quite large and coloured with Promarkers. I coloured the  background of my page with turquoise, purple and orange Dylusions sprays. I used water in a spray through a spotty stencil and then modelling paste through a Dutch Doobadoo Star Stencil.

I sprayed some more turquoise Dylusions and once dry used my white Uniball Signo pen to draw around the stars. The black stamping is a Visible Image stamp - 'Ripped Fishnets' - with a Ranger Black Archival ink pad.

The wording are quotes from the movie in a free (for personal use) font from Dafont.com called 'Bleeding Cowboys'. I've printed them onto white pearlescent paper - the larger quote is mounted onto a spellbinders Fleur De Lis square coloured with Dylusions.

The final touch before attaching the image and quotes is some Turquoise Sparkle Medium from Imagination Crafts through a chevron stencil.

Thanks for looking! I hope you'll join in this challenge and create something... just not a card!
Mo xxx