Swirly Curly Kitty

For the Simply Betty Fan Page challenge this month Betty gave us fans this awesome digi of her sister, Elaine, to play with.

When I took a photo of my card the kitty cat looked almost white and the rest is all a bit off colour so here’s a close-up of the detail of the front.

I decided to use her on a twisted easel card and took inspiration from a simply gorgeous card by Jenny at Jennifer D’s, go and check it out and the rest of her wonderful creations.

The challenge required ribbons and swirls so I loaded up on both with paper that has swirls on it, swirly die cuts and crystal flourishes and loads of beautiful ribbon I got at my LSS, The Crafter’s Haven.  I’m also trying my hand at multiple challenges, to make life more interesting, so I went with the colour purple for my card to match the theme at Crafty Catz for their challenge 180 – the colour purple, used several die cuts (not just the swirly) for the Stampin’ for the Weekend die cuts and/or punches challenge, added a couple of gorgeous blingy buttons for the Digi Haven use a button challenge and finally made this into a special birthday card (but shhh, I can’t say for who) for the Fairytale challenge #66 – a very special occasion.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E000, E00, E02, E50 (E93 cheeks)

Eyes E23, E25

Eyeshadow B00, B02, Spica Clear

Lips R22, R24, R46

Hair E84, E87, E89

Dress V09, V12, V15, V17, V93, V95, RV99, Spica Lavender

Cat C00, C1, C3, (E93 ear, E95 nose)

Dies

Memory Box Big Splash border

Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles Large

Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Ovals Large

Embellishments

Flourish with a Bling pearl

Green Tara gathered ribbon

Kaisercraft paper roses

Prima Say it in Crystals flourish

Ribbons and rhinestones from stash

Paper

CTMH La Belle Vie patterned paper and mauve plain paper

Stamps

CTMH Art Philosophy

Simply Betty Stamps Elaine

Challenges 

Crafty Catz challenge180 – the colour purple

Digi Haven use a button challenge

Fairytale challenge#66 – a very special occasion 

Simply Betty Fan Page challenge 

Stampin’ for the Weekend die cuts and/or punches

Thanks for stopping by :-)

Simply Sweet

This is a fairly simple birthday card I made for a colleague, no embellishments and fuss as this one is for a guy.  I followed a sketch from The Sweet Stop for their SSS207-Sketch with a Spin challenge.  The spin was to make a birthday card.

I decided to leave the front with just the cupcake and stamped my sentiment on the inside instead.

Ingredients:

Paper

American Crafts black cardstock

DCWV Bewitched matstack

Purple cardstock from stash

Stamps

CTMH Art Philosophy

Challenges

The Sweet Stop SSS207-Sketch with a Spin

Thanks for stopping by :-)

Bubbly Birthday

This card is one I made for yet another March birthday, a real CAS one.  It features the Wicked Good image that was the freebie on the Simply Betty Fan Page when the number of fans recently reached 500.

The sentiment is part of the set; I just skewed it to fit into the bubble shape.  I didn’t have any bubble patterned paper so I made my own for the inside.

 

I’m entering this into the Lady Anne’s Challenges Anything Goes Challenge #8 – use a sentiment.

Ingredients

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E02, E11, E13 (cheeks E93) / YG00, YG03, YG06

Eyes B00, B02, B05 / E04, E08

Lips R20, R24, R46 / G00, G03, G05

Hair Y13, Y15, Y17 / C-3, C-5, C7, 100

Hat C-1, C-3, C-5, C7, 100, G03, G05, G07

Crown RV000, RV02, C-1, C-3, Colourless Blender, Spica Silver, Spica Clear

Dress RV000, RV02, Colourless Blender

Bubble BG10, BG70, Colourless Blender

Papers

Echo Park Summer Days stack

Stamps

Simply Betty Stamps Wicked Good

Close to My Heart Art Philosophy

Stampin’ Up Outline Occasions

Dies

Spellbinder’s Circles

Challenge

Lady Anne’s Challenges Anything Goes Challenge #8

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my card, please leave a comment, I'd love to hear your thoughts