…a very bright, very special woman

I have a shabbylicious card to share today featuring the simply gorgeous Perfect Curls Betty from the new Betty’s Boudoir collection at Simply B Stamps.

This beautiful image started out as a freebie on the Simply B Stamps’ Fan Page but was so popular and so fabulous that she had to have some friends and her own line and I couldn’t resist colouring her up.  Those lush curls and sexy dress brought to mind Julia Roberts in that red dress in Pretty Woman so that’s how I’ve coloured Betty up.

I’ve placed her on a decadently layered card following the latest sketch at Sketch N’ Dies.  The papers are from Authentique’s Audrey inspired Classique Elegant collection, the perfect match for Betty.  The original sketch only had the flower element but I just had to use my Marianne Designs’ Vintage Parasol die and I just had to shabby chic that up a bit with some Fran-tage.  And of course I had to have some lace.

I’ve followed the recipe over at Desert Island Crafters to do up my card, I’ve got a die cut, two actually, there’s also an oval Nestie hiding in the background, heat embossing with my Fran-tage and lots of lovely distressing.  I've got my digi and my flowers so I am also entering this card in the current challenge at Digi Galore.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E23, E27, 0

Lips R22, R24, R29

Hair E08, E11, E18, E95, YR14

Dress R22, R24, R29, R46, R59

Seat B24, B28, B29, B39

Mirror BG000, C00, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby Blue

Pebbles Chalk Basic ~ Turquoise

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Marianne Design CreaTables ~ Vintage Parasol

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Grand Decorative Ovals

Embellishments

Mulberry Flowers from stash

Metal Fleur de lys from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Papers

Authentique Classique Elegant ~ Three, Seven, Nine, Ten & Eleven

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Tumbled Glass

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

Ribbons & Trims etc

Live & Love Crafts Lace ~ Estelle

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Perfect Curls Betty

Challenges

Desert Island Crafters #74 ~ Die cut, Heat embossing, Distressed

Digi Galore ~ Flowers

Sketch n’ Dies #4

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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream

Today I have a beautiful new image from Simply B Stamps’ Steampunk range, Lady Amalthea.

With the big crescent moon I just had to go with silver tones on this card and the great sketch at the Friday Sketch blog provided the perfect frame for Lady Amalthea.  And while this is a Steampunk project, it is also lovely and girly and with Lady Amalthea dressed in her finest and out at night I’ve got the current theme at Die Cut Diva’s covered, not to mention the die cuts with my Spellbinders.  Love how they do the embossed edge and perfect layering.

I decided to take a trip with Desert Island Crafters to help decorate this project, I couldn’t get all 10 items on the itinerary on here but I did get birthday, embossing (helped add to the vintage feel along with my distressing), ribbon or twine (does lace count? it worked better on the vintage feel than any of my myriad ribbons), some sparkle (hard to see on the photo but there’s a lovely sparkly shimmer to the background of the image thanks to some metallic chalks), and three different embellies (brads, metal embellies, lace).  I only managed two patterned papers unless one counts the patterning I did myself for the background to my image so I’m not counting that one.

The stamped sentiment is why I use digis so much; I am a shocker stamper hence the rather fuzzy ‘birthday’!  It would also have been good if the ‘wishes’ sticker was printed in grey but my stash is only so deep.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E25

Lips R46

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29

Dress N0, N1, N2, N4

Moon C00, C1, C3, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel – Chunky White

Pebbles Metallic Cream Chalk – Grey

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities – 5x7 Matting Basics

Embellishments

Creative Memories Clear Sticker

FabScraps Filigree Embellishment – Old Silver

Freckled Fawn – Metal Flower

Making Memories – Pearl Brads

Papermania Chronology – Gears

Prima Finnabair Vintage Mechanicals – Large Flowers & Roses

Tim Holtz Idea-ology – Foliage & Sprocket Gears

Inks & Paints etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang – Black Orchid Satin

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Iced Spruce, Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock – Smokey

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Liquorice

Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love – Calla of Paris & Eau de Cologne

Ribbons & Trims etc

Green Tara – Lace

Stamps

CTMH Art Philosophy

Simply B Stamps Steampunk – Lady Amalthea

Challenges

Desert Island Crafters Challenge #71 – 3 from listed items (Birthday, Ribbon or Twine, Add some Sparkle, Emboss It – Dry or Wet Embossing, 3 Different Embellishments)

Die Cut Diva’s Challenge – Girls’ Night Out

Friday Sketch #62

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