Dia De Los Muertos

There’s an awesome new release over at Simply B Stamps to celebrate Dia De Los Muertos in true Betty style and, being a Betty style celebration there are also some fun challenges.

Introducing first Dia De Los Muertos Betty, isn’t she simply gorgeous?

With this beautiful image your challenge is to do funky coloured streaks for her hair.  So get out your favourite hair colours and then go nuts with some funky streaks!

The second new release is Lenore Forevermore, a stunner with long hair.

If you’re using this lovely image then you need to get your sunglasses out as you’re going to be going neon colours.  Yep, the brighter the better.

Of course, Betty has been celebrating Dia De Los Muertos for years so there are other images from the vaults of Simply B Stamps and I’ve got the pretty Sugar Skull Trish on another card.

So if you want to use an older SBS image you can and for this challenge it’s anything goes, just make sure you use one of the Dia De Los Muertos images over in the SBS store (here’s a list for you Annierexia, Day of the Dead Alex, Sugar Skull Betty and Sugar Skull Trish)

Of course we’re hopping to help celebrate Dia De Los Muertos, so you should have come here from the awesome Mei’s blog.  If not, head back to the SBS blog to start from the beginning.  If you are on track then your next stop is the talented Miss Lisa’s blog.

Hop List

Betty

Jackie

Corinne

Tina

Irene

Ruza

Tanja

Mei

Emily (me)

Lisa N.

Chris

Lisa H.

Louise

Kitty

Kay

Katya Bess

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To celebrate the Day of the Dead I have a card featuring the lovely new Dia De Los Muertos Betty from Simply B Stamps.

I wanted my card to have the cheerful aspect of Dia De Los Muertos that seeks to celebrate life rather than mourn death while still being somewhat muted in keeping with the usual tradition of sympathy cards.  The beautiful papers from BoBunny and Lili of the Valley I think worked to create that blend.

To make up my card I followed the current sketch over at Die Sketchtanten and used some beautiful dies to add elegance to the circle and rectangle elements.  The sentiment comes with the stamp and I printed it using a shadow effect although the purple I picked looked lighter on screen so it’s a bit hard to see the black shadowing.

Over at Fairytale Stampers they have a use something new challenge going on, my image is new (released today) and the beautiful lilac paper is new from a Lili of the Valley pad that arrived just this week.  I’m also entering my card in the current challenge at Love to Scrap where the theme is dots, which I have in the lovely BoBunny paper.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin C00, N0, N1

Eyes V0000, V09

Eye shadow V01, V12, V15

Lips & Hearts R24, R29, R46, R59

Hair N4, N6, N8, V01, V05, V06, V09, 100

Outfit Y13, Y15, Y17, Y19, Y26,

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Marianne Designs Creatables ~ Petra’s Large Oval

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Stately Circles

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Sparklets ~ Hearts & Princess

Inks & Paints etc

Shimmerz ~ Sugar Plum

Spica ~ Clear, Lavender, Lemon & Pink

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Milled Lavender, Scattered Straw & Victorian Velvet

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Pansy

BoBunny Double Dot ~ Vintage Maize

Lili of the Valley ~ Timeless Victorian

Ribbons & Trims etc

Live and Love Crafts Lace ~ Chérie (coloured with Seedless Preserves Distress Ink)

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Dia De Los Muertos Betty

Challenges

Die Sketchtanten ~ Sketch #2

Fairytale Stampers #46 ~ Something new

Love to Scrap #40 ~ Seeing Dots

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