Pen and Paperie: Cut It Up

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Saturday, 14 February 2015

Mine eyes dazzle

I’m sharing a card featuring the new and gorgeous Duchess Betty from Simply B Stamps.

The layout of my card comes from the current sketch at Sketchy Colors, in keeping with the lacy ruffles on Duchess Betty’s dress I’ve swapped out the long rectangular element for some lovely lace. I also swapped out the smaller oval for a floral element instead.

Over at Cut It Up! their current theme is romance, which this image certainly is and I have the three elements they require (flowers, lace and pearls plus a die cut, I’ve got two) so I’m entering my card there.

I love a tic tac toe challenge to help get a card completed so I’ve played along with the current one at Our Creative Corner and gone for a diagonal line featuring embossing powder, a stamps (the beautiful image) and some lace.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E40, E43, E44, Y26

Lips R39, R85

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit N0, N1, N2, RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99, W00, W0, W2, W4, 0

Cake and Plate E09, E43, E44, E47, R14, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, YG93 YR07

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Joy! Crafts Vintage Flourishes ~ Corner

Wild Rose Studio ~ Rose Circle

Embellishments

13@rts Twigs ~ White

Queen & Co Pearls ~ Snowflake

TresorsdeLuxe Fabric Roses ~ Dusty Rose

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Garnet

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Old Paper

Viva Décor Inka-Gold ~ Rose Quartz

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Milled Lavender

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Licorice

Making Memories Greenhouse Paperie ~ Flocked Floral

Prima Romantique Collection ~ Gazette

Ribbons & Trims etc

Guipure Lace ~ Daisy Scroll Edged

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Duchess Betty

Challenges

Cut It Up! #64 ~ Romance:Flowers, Lace and Pearls (die cut)

Our Creative Corner ~ Tic Tac Toe (Embossing powder, Stamps & Lace, ribbon, twine, cord)

Sketchy Colors ~ Sketch #241

Thanks for stopping by!

Saturday, 19 July 2014

Love's fire heats water...

This is my final card featuring the gorgeous new Mermaid collection at Simply B Stamps, this was uses Corinne Mermaid and follows the required theme on the Simply B Fan Page challenge of glitter.

I decided I wanted to go with a real contrast on this card so I’ve coloured my image to be fire and placed it on my blue water background. Fire just seemed to suit this image, not sure why, unless it has something to do with Corinne’s temper. Did I just type that out aloud?! Love how her tail turned out as well as how my first ever shaker card worked out.

To make up my sketch I have chosen an old sketch (#73) from Sketch N Stash, this one worked well as it had a large circle element. I’ve got quite a few items on the card from the stash including my shaker elements and the paper flowers I used.

Cut It Up currently has an under the sea themed challenge going on and as I’ve got Mermaid Corinne underwater, well, at least glitter-water, and I’ve also got a die cut or six, so I am entering my card there. Rather than the rectangle element I added a piece of lace, really lovely lace, a shame the circle I need to cut to fit my image for the shaker part is so big, it makes it hard to see that lush lace. But as it is there, I am also entering my card over at the Alphabet Challenge.

Now hopefully this card has inspired you to come join the July Fan Page challenge. If glitter isn’t your thing then you can always go for Sheri Mermaid and add some twine like I did on my earlier card found at this post. Twine doesn’t do it for you either? How about going for some embossing (wet or dry) and the lovely Bettina Mermaid like on my card seen here? Need some more inspiration? Check out the DT gals and what beauty they have created with these images by following the links at the bottom of the page. Sure hope to see your project in the challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E30, E35, E37

Lips R24, R29, R59

Hair E08, E19, E57, YR14

Top R24, R29, R46, R59, R89

Tail R24, R29, R46, R59, R89, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y19, YR12, YR14, YR68

Conch RV91, RV93, RV95

Chalks & Powders etc

American Crafts Pop! Beads ~ Wave

DecoArt ~ Glamour Dust

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Silver

Silver Glitter from stash

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Grand Circles, Grand Stately Circles & Stately Circles

Embellishments

Metal Shell Charms

Paper Flowers from stash

Petaloo Botanica ~ Faux Dried Flora Alephemera Grey Blue

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye

Papers

Bazzill Dotted Swiss ~ Night Water

Maja Designs Vintage Autumn Basics ~ No 12

Maja Designs Vintage Winter Basics ~ No 8

Ribbons & Trims etc

Live and Love Crafts Lace ~ Reinette Champagne

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Corinne Mermaid
Challenges

Alphabet Challenge ~ L for lace

Cut It Up #49 ~ Under the Sea (plus die cut)

Sketch N Stash #143 ~ Any past sketch (sketch #73 used)

Blog List

Kay

Tanja
Sheri
Bettina

Thanks for stopping by!

Monday, 7 July 2014

That will be quite enough of that, thank you

There’s a fun new release over at Simply B Stamps featuring an awesome witchy image drawn by Betty and some cool word art sentiments drawn by her son, Christian, my first card features the sentiment ‘Fly with me’ and the new Betty Boo image.

To make up my card I’ve followed the sketch over Feeling Sketchy, now I stuck to the sizes on the original sketch of the rectangular elements mainly because they were the size of my Nesties. But, oh boy, do I wish I’d swapped them out for something bigger. Colouring the image and word art when they were that small (I sized the image to 2” tall) was really hard and fussy cutting a nightmare. I had to cut off all the lovely curly bits on Betty’s umbrella and couldn’t face fussy cutting the word art individually so just cut around it all.

The current theme at Cut It Up is twilight and I had just the perfect paper to make a twilight scene. I added some twinkly star like embellies to add to the twilight theme as well as some die cut bats to go flying across the sky. With my bats I’ve got things with wings so I am also entering this over at Crafty Creations.

Now the SBS DT have been having fun with this image as well as another awesome one Zombie Bride Betty and you can check out all the awesomeness over at the SBS blog or head over to the DT blogs listed below. Come back in a few minutes to see what else I have done with Betty Boo and the other word art that comes in this fun bundle.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E30, E35

Lips R24

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit G00, G03, G05, G09, W3, W5, W7, YR00, YR12, YR14, YR16, YR68

Pot C3, C5, C7

Umbrella G00, G03, G05, G09, YR00, YR12, YR14, YR16, YR68

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Memory Box ~ A Bunch of Bats

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ ATCs