Simply Betty Stamps Elaine

On the Simply Betty Stamps fan group on Facebook Betty runs a monthly competition where you can request the ‘free’ image and you have to make sure you enter a card or you won’t be allowed request any more.

The image above is Elaine and it is part of a larger image of a lady wearing the most fabulous gown. However, when I saw it the only thing that was running through my mind was the kitty song that Penny & Sheldon sings from the Bing Bang Theory. I am not a complete lover of the show but a number of my FB buddies are and they kept mentioning this kitty song so I did a bit of searching on YouTube and found this video. It is quite cute and inspired me to make a sentiment to go with the image. I have included it below in JPG and PNG if you would like to use it

   

If you do download it please give credit back to me if you use it and do not claim as your own. I would love to see any projects you make with it so please leave me a comment and I’ll hop on over

Anyhoo, Back to the card….. The pretty paper is from a new paper pad New Bloom. It is all purples and turquoise, really pretty papers. The purple ovals are shiny and metallic, very pretty but awkward to photograph! It did however give me the perfect excuse to use the lurex ribbon from my stash J

I used a sketch from Chocolate Coffee & Cards for the layout. The sentiment I used to replace the 3 dots, it just wouldn’t fit anywhere else. I used Quickutz Cookuie Cutter dies to cut he image and the matting layer. Finally I added some die cut swirls embellished with glitter and this allowed me to enter the card into the challenge onto the Simply B Blog too.

I had a lovely chilled out day in my craftroom yesterday making cards and catching up on Once Upon a Time. It was nice to make cards for the end of the month challenges and to be able to watch the awful rain and not have to go out in it J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – 5” Square

Image – Elaine by Simply Betty Stamps

Paper – New Bloom First Edition pad

Sentiment – Freebie from Made By Mandy (me!)

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3d foam pads, Quickutz Cookie Cutter die, Crealies Creative Swirls die

Embellishments – Stickles glitter glue, lurex ribbon

Techniques – Diecutting

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Artistic Inspirations – #38 Card for a Lady
• CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft
• Chocolate Coffee & Cards - #37 Sketch for layout
• Eureka Stamps  – #36 Animal catwalk
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Insects or Animals
• Love To Create – #62 Bingo (Sentiment, Ribbon, Bling)
• Make It Monday –  #137 Anything Goes
• Natalie & Amy’s Challenge - #8 Monochromatic
• Paper Makeup Stamps Digi Makeover – #85 Animal Friends
• Passion For Promarkers - #195 Animals
• Simply Betty FB Fan Page - #2 Elaine
• Whoopsi Daisy – Use Circles

CDAC PC Round 4

Woohoo! The 4th part of the Progressive Challenge at CDAC has been revealed this morning and this is the DT card I made for my image, McGonagall by Simply Betty Stamps.

Team A have the pleasure of bringing you some gorgeous samples for these images for this round.

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Halloween images are not something I have ever dealt with as it isn’t really celebrated in the UK. It was fun to work with such a great image though and to work with a different theme than I was used to.

I used a sketch for my card from Sweet Sunday Sketches for the layout covering the card front with a glittery purple paper from My Minds Eye Penny Lane collection. I added a section of stripy paper from the range as it picks out the purple, green and brown from the image. I used a Martha Stewart punch on the edge and added a purple elasticated trip on the bottom. I picked it up from a haberdashery department and thought it was pretty especially as it has metallic threads running through it too.

Another 1^st for me is the concertina or lollipop flower. I have seen them used all over blogland but not made one myself. The 1^st one I made I had to ditch a I hadn’t used a long enough strip of cardstock. However I had another go, punching and pleating until I had a flower I could be proud of. I added  a circle centre which had been cut from another of the sheets in the pad.

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If you have taken part in the 3rd challenge you will have received your images to work with for this part. If however you didn't enter all is not lost. For the paltry sum of only $1 you can buy back into the challenge and you will receive the images.

The deadline to enter your cards is 14th October and then you will receive your images for part 5. For all details on this challenge, the rules and how it works please pop over to this thread at the CDAC

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – McGonagall by Simply Betty Stamps

Paper – Penny Lane by My Minds Eye

Embellishments – elasticated trim

Tools – Scissors, 3D foam, Martha Stewart punch

Techniques – MYO flowers,

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Bows and Berries #10 – Glitter
• Catch the Bug – Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge #133 – Punches and/or dies
• Crafts 4 Eternity R#39 – Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Halloween
• Crafty Purple Frog – Lots of Layers
• Creative Craft World - Halloween
• Critter Sketch Challenge #84 – Anything Goes
• Cutie Sunday #150 – No Sentiment
• Di’s Digi Designs #2 – MYO Flowers
• Do You Stack Up #39 – Swirls
• Fussy & Fancy  #46 – Try a new technique
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – It’s a Girl Thing
• If The Shoe Fits FF92 – Photo Inspiration (big flower)
• Inky Impressions IIC #26 – Punches or Dies
• KB Cute Monday #29 – Halloween
• Little Darlings #8 – Autumn or Halloween
• My Graphico #112 – Halloween
• One Crazy Stamper – Halloween or Autumn
• Paper and Such Design – 3 items from list (ribbon, Designer paper, flower)
• Paper Crafting Journey #20 – Die cuts and/or punches
• Paper Issues – Halloween
• Paper Shelter #33 - For The Girls
• Partytime Tuesday #35 – Anything Goes
• Penny’s Paper Crafty #63 – Anything Goes
• Pixie Cottage #89 – Pop it Up
• Really Reasonable Ribbon #33 – Halloween
• Scrapalicious USA #28 – Anything Goes
• Sew Many Challenges – Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
• Stampin’ B’s DT #130 - Halloween
• Stamp Insanity #76 – Photo Inspiration (Colours from Top pic)
• There’s Magic in The Air – Punches or Dies
• Wags n Whiskers #64 – Handmade (flower rosette)
• Whimsical Wednesday – Anything Goes
• Whoopsi Daisy – MYO Embellishments