Simply Betty Good Vs Evil Challenge

Hi all!  I couldn't wait until Monday to post this card!  I've had this image, Spika the Bad Mermaid, from Simply Betty's Good Vs Evil Challenge colored up for awhile, but she'd been languishing due to my lack of inspiration.  What card could I create that wasn't already done by someone else?  Place her on a rock...already done.  Put her in the middle of seaweed...already done.  Float her underwater...already done.  Sit her on a beach...already done.  Hmmm...nothing came to mind until late (2:20 am) last night.  Early Friday evening, hubby and I had been talking about printing out some of our Hawaii photos from this latest trip and putting them in frames.  Inspiration struck (yes, I know, it was many hours later, lol)!  One of our volcano pictures would be the perfect backdrop for this hot, sexy mermaid!  The colors in the photo matched the blue of her skin, and her red lips were mirrored in the lava and lava reflection in the water.  I added the sentiment in red before printing the photo, popped Spika up on foam dots, and my card was finished!

 

Thank you Betty for such a fun image to play with!  And thank you readers for dropping by and commenting!

Outlawz Friday's Copic/Promarker Challenge DT New Member!

After some nudging and an invitation from two of my crafty friends, Dawn of Lily Pink Scraps, and Carla of Carla's Stamping Spot, I've become an Outlawz DT member!  I'm excited and terrified at the same time!  Both of these ladies create fabulous cards and art projects, and I'm thrilled to be working with them and the rest of the team on the Friday's Copic/Promarker Challenges.  You can check out the challenge here.  You do need to sign up at Outlawz to join the challenges, but I promise the ladies there are fun and supportive!

This week's theme is ICE CREAM!  For my card, I chose to use Simply Betty's Ice Cream Lilly.  Just look at that tower of ice cream she's licking!  Back in my younger days, I'd have ordered the same.  These days it's the baby cone for me, lol.  Since I wanted the ice cream to be the standout, I kept Lilly rather neutral with her white bikini, ultra blonde hair, and white out sunglasses.  And by keeping the sentiment to a simple "Sweet", I have plenty of options for the use of the card.

Have a fabulous weekend, and thank you for stopping by!

Simply Betty May Challenge

I'm back!  And I've got a card ready to enter in the Simply Betty May Challenge.  Lilliana was a freebie gifted to anyone agreeing to play in the challenge.  Isn't she a beauty?  The challenge this month was to use the colors Orange, White, Yellow, and Black.  I sneaked a touch of gray in there for the rock and as highlights for the black, but gray is part of the black family, right?  Having a limited, assigned color palette truly was a challenge for me (how would I manage with no green, or blue, or pink).  However, I am tickled with the results!  I used my new Lorelai Outline leaf die, stamped on a sentiment (yes, I really did stamp it on rather than run it through the computer), added some black bling, and the card was complete.

 

Simply Betty Stamps February Challenge

The Challenge was to use non Easter colors, no pastels.  Hopefully my peacock inspired entry fits the challenge!  We could choose, sight unseen, either the male or female image to use on our card.  I chose the female as I figured using no pastels would be challenge enough without having to try my hand at making a masculine card, hehe.  Bunny Ears Judy has such dreamy hair!  I'm so pleased I picked the female image to work with!  I did however erase the skulls she had on her skirt.  If I'd kept the skulls on, I'd have had no one to send the card to.  Without, she makes a saucy Bunny to give to my Honey Bunny!

Hope you all are having a wonderful week!  Looking forward to catching up on all your blogs late next week!

Simply Betty Blog Hop!

Whoo Hoo!  I am so excited!  This is my first time being part of a blog hop!  And I couldn't be happier to show you this fabulous image that was a part of Simply Betty Stamps' January Secret Release Burlesque!  It was so difficult keeping this sassy gal under wraps for a month. Introducing Betty Sweet Cake!

Don't you just love her!  What a fun image to use on a card for a husband, sweetheart, or even a saucy girlfriend.  There are six images in the release and they are all amazing (you can find them here)!  Truly fun, quirky images to add a bit of spice to your cards.  Sometimes you need to add a little playfulness to the cuteness.

If you are following the blog hop, you should have arrived from Dena's blog, The Unknown, Entertaining Mind of Miss Dena Jones, and your next stop is Jackie M's blog, apaperjem.  If you started with me, you can find the complete list on Betty's blog, Simply Betty Stamps.

Simply Betty Valentine

Happy Hump Day!  Today's card features the image Little Dark Homemaker from Simply Betty Stamps.  I'm not sure Little Dark Homemaker was intended to be a Valentine's Day image, but I couldn't resist her chic, Morticia Addams vibe.  In keeping with the Addams family traditions, her sentiment had to be in French!  Remember how frisky Gomez became anytime "Tish" said anything in French?  Hopefully it will have the same effect on my hubby, hehe!  Lau, please let me know if I have the sentiment correct.  Dear hubby won't know the difference, but I'd like the sentiment to be accurate.

Note:  For those of you who viewed this card earlier, I changed the card base from white to red.  The white was bugging me!

Card for Sandy Hook Elementary School

Needed to take the time to make a card for the Sandy Hook Elementary School.  Like everyone else, I cannot fathom the grief the families who lost a loved one and the community of Newtown are experiencing.  While our prayers, sympathies, and cards cannot erase such a senseless and heart-wrenching tragedy, maybe they can bring a ray of light.  This beautiful angel image was graciously drawn and given, to any who emailed her, by the talented Betty of Simply Betty Stamps.  So, this card is heading to Sandy Hook Elementary where I hope it will bring a bit of solace.

The inside of the card reads..."As you deal with this tragic loss, let yourself cry knowing each tear is a note of love rising to the heavens."