Well now if you’ve got a cutie who’s a real sweet petutie…

This new Lola Western Cutie image from Simply B Stamps I have on my card is a real sweet petutie, don’t you agree?

I loved colouring the folds in her skirt and am really pleased with how she turned out.  I tried a new red combo (see ingredients list below) and I love it, especially teamed with black.

My card layout is from the current sketch at Cheerful Sketches where I swapped out the circle elements for some hearts.  I wanted to use some of my new dies on this, the two scalloped ones are from an Anna Griffin set I picked as this is actually going out to the sweet friend who got the die for me.  The black lace is new and I thought worked perfectly for the horizontal element, the shape suited the western theme and tied in nicely with the image.

Over at Hanna and Friends they have embossing as their theme, I have two kinds on my card.  I’ve got some heat embossing with some Fran-tage to make my sentiment just a little more special and my dies were embossing dies also.

As I have a number of hearts on my card I am also entering this in the current challenge at Live and Love Crafts.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E31, E37

Mouth R00, R01, R02, R05, R20

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit C00, N0, N1, N2, N4, N6, N8, R22, R35, R46, R59, W6, W8, W10, 0, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Cuttlebug Anna Griffin ~ Lovely Impressions

Lin & Lene Design ~ 3 Piece Heart

Embellishments

Petaloo Darjeeling Collection ~ Dahlias Teastained Cream (coloured with R35 & 100)

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Pitch Black & Red

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Aged Mahogany & Tea Dye

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Stella

BoBunny Timepiece ~ Moments

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Licorice

Prima Stationer’s Desk ~ Red Romance

Ribbons & Trims etc

Guipure Lace ~ Floral Scalloped Black

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Lola Western Cutie

Stampin’ Up! ~ You Are Loved

Challenges

Cheerful Sketches ~ Sketch #21

 

Hanna and Friends # 215 ~ Embossing

Live and Love Crafts #32 ~ Hearts

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Nibble, nibble, gnaw who is nibbling at my little house?

This is my last Halloween card for this year and it features the fun new image, Elisabete Spider Witch, part of the fab Halloween Gals collection from Simply B Stamps.

To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch over at Cheerful Sketches, I just swapped out the circle element for some cobwebs and made the left rectangle a bit larger to accommodate my image.  I managed to raid my scrap drawer for all of the papers on this card too and stuck to traditional Halloween colours.

Being a Halloween card, the best holiday in the year, I am also entering this in the current challenge at Die Cut Diva’s.  I cut my cobweb die twice to create my circle element so I’ve got their die cut element covered.  Given my image is of a witch I think this card definitely qualifies for a fantasy theme so I am also linking it up at C.R.A.F.T. for their current challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eye E21, E23, E27

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit C0, C1, C3, N4, N6, N8, V12, V15, V17, W6, W8, W10, 100

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

La-La Land Crafts ~ Spider Web Corner

Embellishments

Close to My Heart ~ Haunted Assortment

Inks & Paints etc

Gel Pen ~ White

Spica ~ Silver

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Mowed Grass, Scattered Straw, Seedless Preserves & Spiced Marmalade

Papers

Close to My Heart Cardstock ~ Orange

Close to My Heart ~ Mischief

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Black Cat

DCWV ~ Bewitched

Graphic 45 Hallowe’en in Wonderland ~ The Mad Hatter

Graphic 45 Patterns & Solids ~ An Eerie Tale

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Elisabete Spider Witch

Challenges

Cheerful Sketches ~ Sketch #18

C.R.A.F.T. #283 ~ Fantasy

Die Cut Diva’s ~ Holidays! Any Holiday?

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Wolves may lurk in every guise!

There’s a fabulous new release of Teen Scene images ready for Halloween, Spooky Teens, from Simply B Stamps and I’ve got Big Bad Wolf Chris on my card.

To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch over at Cheerful Sketches.  I’m loving all the layers, which allowed me to use a range of papers and patterns to jazz up my card without the need for embellishments.  Which was just perfect as I’m planning this for one of my male friends hence the no embellies or frills and the good, solid manly image.  As this card is for a male I’m also entering it in the current challenge at Chocolate, Coffee & Cards.

It’s the right season and this is the right image for a Halloween card and I do love to make Halloween cards.  And what better colour to go with this image than orange.  As I have both Halloween and orange I’ve got both themes for Simply Create Too’s current challenge so I’m also linking up my card over there.

Now it’s also Day8 over at SBS’s 13 Days of Halloween where the theme is embossing, either wet or dry.  I’ve used both on my card, creating a cool bit of background paper using an embossing folder and then adding some colour with ink and embossing powder.  I’ve also used embossing powder to highlight some of the lettering on another piece of paper.  I took the sentiment that comes with Big Bad Wolf Chris and printed it several times on a piece of coloured paper and added in some fangs.  With my trusty VersaMarker I then went and traced over the bits I wanted to emboss, sprinkled on some embossing powder, blitzed it with my heat gun and voilà, the perfect sentiment and background paper combination.

To join in the fun of the 13 Days of Halloween and to see the rest of the images in the awesome Spooky Teens collection head on over to the SBS blog.

Ingredients:

Copics

Fur E30, E31, E33, E34, E35, E37

Eyes E21, E23, E29

Ear, Nose & Mouth R000, R01, R02

Hair E49, E53, E55, E57, E59

Outfit N4, N6, N8, YR12, YR14, YR16, YR18, YR68, 110

 Chalks & Powders etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder ~ Byzantine Bronze

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Cape Cod

Inks & Paints etc

Prima Ingvild Bohme Chalk Ink ~ Rusty Keys

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Rusty Hinge & Walnut Stain

Papers

Christina Re Shimmer Cardstock ~ Pearl

Echo Park Apothecary Emporium ~ Wicked Potions

Echo Park Chillingsworth Manor ~ Orange

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Licorice

We R Memory Keepers Black Widow ~ Happy Halloween

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Big Bad Wolf Chris

Challenges

Cheerful Sketches ~ Sketch #17

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards #76 ~ For the Boys

Simply Create Too #72 ~ “Halloween or use lots of orange”

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