Sweet Thing

Here's a quick post to share a card I made yesterday. This is Strawberry Lou by Di's Digi Downloads. She's so cute, I colored her to go with this Echo Park For The Record pattern paper. 

FYI, if your looking to get you hands on some Echo Park Paper, Simply Betty Stamps is offering these coupon codes till April 1. She also has some other sales you can read about here. 

Any 12 Echo Park Papers for $8.00 use code Echo800

Any 6 Echo Park Papers for $4.00 use code Echo400

Challenges:

Get Sketchy 80- Sketch

Die Cut Dreams 86- Food Themed Digi

Supplies:

Strawberry Lou

SU card stock, border punch and ribbon

Echo Park For The Record pattern paper and letters

Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

Simply Betty Release Day and Challenge

I'm very late getting this post up so I'll make it short and sweet. Today is release day of the Sweet Gothic Kids Easter in rubber and digi. Not only is it release day but there is also a new challenge over at SBC. This time around we challenge you to create a card, page layout, or any crafty project Easter themed, and use any or both of the following in your projects; one Chocolate Bunny, two Easter Eggs.  Three lucky winners will be chosen for the following prizes:

1st Winner: Scott and Wednesday digi

2nd Winner Judy and Alex digi

3rd Winner Tilly and Sally digi

Supplies:

Wednesday Easter

Basket from Inkadinkado 

Sentiment from TAC

SU card stock and pattern paper

Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

SISC 52 Punch It Out

Hello, this is my second post today. If you are looking for my Simply Betty Preview card please scroll down or click here. 

This is my card for SISC 52- Punch it out. We want to see your creatives uses of those punches. I decided to make a flower with a couple of circle punches. I colored Morgan to go with this Echo Park Playground pattern paper. 

Challenges:

Mojo Monday 183- Sketch

Supplies:

Zen Morgan by StampInsanity

SU card stock and ribbon

Echo Park Playground Pattern Paper

EK Success punches

Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

Another Simply Betty Stamps Preview

Today we at SBC we are previewing Tilly from the Sweet Gothic Kids Easter collection. Isn't she a cutie with her umbrella, big eyes and flashy smile. Head over to the SBC blog to see what the rest of the DT created. Also tomorrow we have our final preview along with the release in digi and rubber and a new challenge. 

Challenges:

Quirky Crafts 6- Sketch

Flutter By Wednesday 147- butterfly, fairy or angel

Little Red Wagon 73- Butterflies

Supplies:

Sweet Gothic Kids Easter Tilly

SU card stock and butterfly die

K and Company pattern paper

Kaiser rhinestones 

Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

Hubby's Birthday Card

Yesterday was my hubby's birthday and I don't know about you but I truly struggle with masculine cards. So much so that I waited till the last minute to make his card. I finally decided to go with this HOT image by Kenny K. Too bad I don't look anything like her, lol. This is my first Kenny K image, I really need to get a few more.

Challenges:

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz 37- 3 Designer Papers, 2 ribbons and 1 image

Everybody Art Challenge 134- Happy Birthday

Lexi's Creations 36- Ribbons but no bows or knots

Corrosive Challenge 108- 3 papers, 2 ribbons, 1 image

Macabre Monday HDH081- Dastardly Divas

Supplies:

Devastatia

Sentiment from StampInsanity Les Coquettes Set

SU Black card stock and ribbon

Echo Park Be Mine Pattern Paper

Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

Preview Day 2 Sweet Gothic Kids Easter Judy

Hello friends, today is Preview Day 2 at Simply Betty. We are previewing Judy from the new Sweet Gothic Kids Easter line. These sassy Easter images will be available on Friday at the Simply Betty Shop  in digi and rubber. 

I started coloring Judy in soft colors and had a hard time deciding which colors to add because my mind thinks pastels with Easter. I'm not really a pastel kind of girl so I decided to go a bit non traditional with the pops of black. This isn't your traditional Easter image so I figured it would be ok. Head over to the Simply Betty Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the DT did with Judy.

Challenges:

Paper Craft Planet (sk031911)- Sketch

Creative Inspirations Paints- Easter

Fashionista Friday 71- Aquamarine 

Supplies:

Easter Judy

Echo Park Playground Pattern Paper

SU card stock and ribbon

TAC sentiment

Black Kaiser Rhinestones 

Copics

You Rock

Happy Friday everyone. Today I am sharing my card for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 32. Our challenge is to use the fabulous sketch created by Mindy. 

I made a card use 2 of my favorite things, Echo Park Paper and an image by Di's Digi Downloads. This is Little Rocker Chick, isn't she adorable. I paired her up with For The Record, the stickers are part of the collection as well. I love the little scrabble tiles especially because right now I'm a bit addicted to the game called Words with Friends. I'm not as good as some of my friends but it's still fun just playing with them. Well, thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend!

Challenges:

Cute Card Thursday 156- Music and dance (rocker chick loves her music)

Freshly Brewed 39- Spots and Dots

Supplies:

Little Rocker Chick

SU Card stock

Copic Xpress It Blending Card

Kaiser Rhinestones 

Echo Park For The Record Collection (pattern papers and stickers)

Copics

DICC4

Hello, today there is a new challenge over at Desert Islands Crafters Challenge. Sharon was the winner of Challenge 2, so we are using the itinerary she created. Wow, I have to say that the possibilities are endless with this itinerary. Remember you only need to pick 3 items but if you can fit more on your project go right ahead. 

Sharon's Itinerary

Not a Card!

Black & White

Celestial

Buttons

Unusual Sentiment (ie. not “Happy Birthday” or “Best Wishes” etc).

Charms

Wire

Fancy Fold

Fibres

No images

Here's what I came up with. I made an acetate box using this tutorial. I've been wanting to make one of these for a while now, couldn't believe how easy it was to do. Also this is a lot smaller than I thought it would be, perfect size for party favors. The items on the itinerary that I used are Not a card, Black & White, Unusual Sentiment, and No image.

Box filled with candies.

Empty box

A Groovy Girl

Hello friends, I'm here to share a card I made this weekend using the new Echo Park Playground pattern paper. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to love this line. Well, now that I have it I can't wait to make more fun cards with it. 

This card I made for my daughter's friend. Her party was "peace, love, groovy" themed so I thought Hippie Anya was perfect. The yellow bow was added after card was put together because my daughter insisted it needed to be on the card. She is so opinionated about my card making that she might need to make her own cards soon.  

Challenges:

The Pixie Cottage 60- Sketch

Do You Stack Up 10- Layers

Little Miss Muffet 4- DP(Pattern Paper)

Supplies:

Hippie Anya from The Greeting Farm
SU Card stock and ribbon
Echo Park Playground pattern paper
Copics

Simply Betty Celebration Challenge

Happy Friday everyone. Today I am sharing my card for Simply Betty's Let's Celebrate Challenge. We are celebrating the release of Sweet Gothic World Kids in RUBBER. 

DISCOUNT CODES:

all six Sweet Gothic Kids Birthday Rubber: $36.00 SGKBD36

three Sweet Gothic Kids Birthday Rubber: $18.00 SWGKBD18

I used my favorite girl Tilly Birthday. For some reason I really struggled with getting this card together. I think it was because I was set on using some of my Echo Park pattern paper. I've colored her a few times to go with that paper and wanted her to not look like the other times. Well in the end I used this blue that I pulled from a sheet of Little Girl pattern paper. Once I added the brown I decided she no longer went with that paper so I went through my papers and found these 2 Bo Bunny pattern papers. Crazy how you can envision one thing but in the end come up with something completely different. Below are the challenge I will be entering this card into. Have a great weekend. 

Challenges:

Unscripted Sketches- Sketch

Fun With Shapes & More- Birthday

Fairy Fun Fridays 48- It's My Party

Digi Doodle Shop's Best 50- Pearls

Supplies:

Tilly Birthday

Bo Bunny pattern paper

Kaiser Pearls

SU ribbon

Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die

Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

A Couple of Card I Forgot To Post

I made these cards on Friday. The first one I made for my mom for her birthday. The second one I made for my niece for her birthday. They were over this past weekend so I was kind of busy. I meant to post them after I gave them out but forgot to. Since I forgot the challenges I made them for are no longer running. That's ok though, I mainly use the challenges for inspiration. 

Challenges:

Hanna And Friends 84- Sketch

Supplies:

Veronica

SU card stock

Echo Park Be Mine Pattern Paper

XPress It Blending Card

Want 2 Scrap swirly bling

Prima flowers

Copics

This card was for my niece Keira for her forth birthday. They are so much fun at that age. My girls have out grown the princess phase so it's nice to have a little one who still thinks she's a princess.

Challenges:

Stamp With Fun 100- Sketch

Supplies:

Fairy Princess

Echo Park Little Girl Pattern Paper

SU card stock

Xpress It Blending Card

Dazzling Diamonds

Copics

SISC 50

Hello everyone, feels like forever since I've last posted a card. I actually have 2 cards I forgot to post over the weekend. I will hopefully post them later today.

This is my card for StampInsanity's 50th Challenge. Wow, I can't believe we are already at 50. This challenge is called Holy Guacamole, you can create whatever you want as long as there is a pop of green somewhere on your project. 

I tried to make an "easy" card by opting to use a sentiment instead of coloring an image. Well, this "easy" card took just as long to put together as one of my more involved cards. I guess "easy" and I don't mesh. 

Challenges:

Card Patterns 105- Sketch

Supplies:

It's Your Birthday Maddie

SU card stock, border punch, and pattern paper

Maya Road hat pins

Flower and brad (unknown company)

Fussy and Fancy 31

Happy Friday blogging friends, today I am sharing my card for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 31. Our challenge is Embossing and/or Paper Piecing, I decided to do both. Our sponsor Paper Pretties generously offered digi's for the DT to use. I picked Cuddle Me because I thought it would be fun to paper piece her dress. This was my first time paper piecing with digi's and I have to say it was pretty easy. I will be definitely be doing it again soon. I need to run, have a busy weekend. Thanks for stopping by. 

Supplies:

Cuddle Me by Paper Pretties

SU card stock and rub ons

Echo Park Little Girl Pattern Paper

Copic Xpress It Blending Card

Copics

Veronica and Gang Release and Blog Hop

Hello friends, if you are here for the hop you should have arrived from Gloria's blog. If you didn't come from her blog but want to hop along please start at the Simply Betty Challenge Blog. 

For my card I decided to use Christy. She was colored with Copics on X-Press It Blending Card. I paired her up with this retired SU paper that I really wish I would have stocked up on. My daughter loves to tell me how I should color my images and she suggested that Christy should be a blonde. She's cute as a blonde but I'm thinking next time she will be a brunette. Enough about my card, next stop on the hop is Lady B's blog.  

Challenges:

Inkspiration 59- Sketch
I Did It Creations 43- Punches or die cuts (flowers are from a punch)