Of the sweet years…

My favourite stamp company, Simply B Stamps, is turning four this month and us DT gals are celebrating with a blog hop featuring Betty’s awesome birthday collection of Betty Boos.  If you’ve come here from the lovely Irene’s blog you’re on the right track, if not, head on over to the SBS blog to start from the beginning as you aren’t going to want to miss any of the beautiful cards the talented DT have made.

My card features the gorgeous Birthday Goddess, loving the floaty toga she is wearing and her glorious hair!  I usually agonise over colours when I first start on an image and go looking for paper to make my card but not with this one.  Why?  Because I just used Betty’s favourite colours of course.

To make up my card I followed the current sketch at Digi Sketch, I’ve also got their optional twist of a stamp covered.  I did add in the bottom element to get my sentiment in, which comes with the image.  Birthdays are the theme over at Jo’s Scrap Shack so I am also entering my card there.

You all know how much I love my layers, a good thing too for this card where I wanted to cover off all of Betty’s favourite colours.  With all the layers I am linking this in Suzy Bee’s Bloomin’ Challenge.

Now head on over to the delightful Rebecca’s blog and check out the stunning creations she’s made with these fantastic Birthday Betty Boo images.  And if you’re a bit lost, I’ve got the full blog hop list at the bottom of my post.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes B000, B02

Hair Y21, Y23, Y26, YR23

Outfit BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09

Sandals Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Cake & Candles N4, N6, N8, RV000, RV00, RV02, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, YR02, YR04, YR07, YR31, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder ~ Stardust Candy Rose

Pebbles Cream Chalk ~ Metallic Purple

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Grand Large Labels, Labels Medium & Labels Small

Embellishments

Petaloo Darjeeling ~ Dahlias Teastaine Purple

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Peacock Feathers, Spun Sugar & Victorian Velvet

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz & Ranger Adirondack Cardstock ~ Stream

Docrafts ~ Simply Gorjuss

Kaisercraft Violet Crush ~ Musk

Prima Optimist ~ Whimsy

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Birthday Goddess

Challenges

Digi Sketch ~ Use a stamp and/or sketch

Jo’s Scrap Shack FFC #52 ~ “HB2U”

Suzy Bee’s Bloomin’ Challenge #31 ~ Layer It Up

Blog Hop List 

SBS

Corinne 
Celina 
Irene 
Emily (me)

Rebecca

Tanja

Kay

Louise

Lisa H

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…how strange is that clinging love we have of life…

This is my second project featuring one of the new commissioned images from Simply B Stamps, this one is Franken Cutie Helen, and she really is a cutie.

As these images are commissioned there is no theme to the collection so you really get images to suit any occasion, from the inspirational Fight for the Cause Nancy in my previous card to this image perfect for Halloween.  Not that I’ve really used a Halloween theme on this card, mostly because I won’t be waiting til Halloween to send this one.

My card follows the current sketch at Jo’s Scrap Shack, a sketch that was perfect for Franken Cutie Helen and the ‘stitched together’ theme I was going for.  I’ve used stitching on this as well as distressing, a couple of techniques I am particularly fond of.  With my featured techniques I am entering this in the current challenge over at Scrapping4fun.  This card features a couple of other things I am particularly fond of too, flowers and lots of layers.  I realy do love layering up my cards to show off various designer papers and really add weight and dimension.  It’s L for layers over at ABC Challenges so I’m also entering my card over there.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E23, E25, 0

Lips R29, R46, R59

Hair E30, E31, E33, E35, E37, Y26

Dress BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ ATCs & Labels Four

Embellishments

BoBunny Jewels ~ Glaze (coloured with Y19)

Jolee’s All That Bling ~ Multi Color Multi Shape Gems

Mulberry Roses from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Pumice Stone, Tea Dye, Walnut Stain & Weathered Wood

Papers

7 Dots Studio 9th Wave ~ Golden Sand & Stormy Sea

7 Dots Studio Cold Country ~ Lost Letter

7 Dots Studio Love is in the Air ~ Illusion

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Weathered Wood

Ribbons & Trims etc

Docrafts Gorjuss ~ Simply Gorjuss Baker’s Twine

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Franken Cutie Helen

Challenges

ABC Challenges ~ L is for Lots of Layers

Jo’s Scrap Shack FFC #50 ~ “It’s Sketch Time”

Scrapping4fun #17 ~ Technique Challenge

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On the prowl and hungry too

I don’t watch any kind of sports but apparently there’s some big football game in the US coming up so Betty decided to draw an image to celebrate, Super Bowl Betty.

A friend of mine is a huge Americanophile and follows the Jacksonville Jaguars and their uniform colour combination, teal, gold and black, is really striking so I decided to use those colours.  So with my three colours I am entering this in the current challenge at Fairy Tale Challenges.

My card follows the current sketch over at Deconstructed Sketch.  The round element worked well for a football and banner was perfect for framing the sentiment and the football theme.

Like I said, I don’t watch sports but I know that the Super Bowl is a huge event in the US and people celebrate with parties and things.  The sentiment that comes with Super Bowl Betty also works for other celebrations, even here in Australia we have people use “touchdown!” to denote success so I’ll save this card for when I need one to congratulate someone on an achievement.  Given the celebratory nature of the theme I am also entering this card in the current challenge at Jo’s Scrap Shack.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E23, Y28, 0

Lips R29, R46, R59

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit BG02, BG05, BG07, N0, N1

Hamburgers E30, E31, E33, E44, E47, E49

Ball E11, E13, E17

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders – Nested Pennants

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Black Soot, Broken China & Wild Honey

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock – Broken China & Wild Honey

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Liquorice

Simpleish – Black, Gold & White Football Digital Paper

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Super Bowl Betty

Challenges

Deconstructed Sketch #136

Fairy Tale Challenges #86 – More than two colours

Jo’s Scrap Shack FFC #35 – “Celebrate”

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