Welcome back! Today we’re showing off Jinglin’ Jessie – another Sketchy Zombies from Simply Betty Stamps! This time I took the initiative from my teamies and colored her as a frozen zombie and I love the blue much better than the green or purple that I’ve been coloring.

The background images are part of the Winter Scene Elements from Make it Crafty. The other half of this project will be shown in two days. ;D Yep, I’m making you wait. LOL Make sure you head on over to the SBS blog and check out the other samples!

Whohoo – it’s the third day of previews for the Sketchy Zombies and I’m excited to show you the other half of one of my journal pages! LOL I had them all printed out before I realized what the order of previews was but at that point didn’t want to change it. He he he… So today we’re showing off Pepermint Brooke from Simply Betty Stamps!

Now you get to finally see the whole project with both half pages together! The image was colored as a whole when as I assembled it I cut each of the layers in half. For the picture I taped it on the back so it would be aligned. ;D

On this side of the project, I used ribbon, charms and more chippies (Mix ‘n Match Centres) from Make it Crafty. The background image is the same – Winter Park from Make it Crafty and this side you can see the bench. Here’s a close up of Peppermint Brooke. It would be funny if she was sucking on a segmented arm or bone … but then she wouldn’t be as cute. LOL

To get a better look at the lightning bolt, I scanned the image in before I cut and covered some of it. To read about how it was done then click HERE for the Falalala Lexi post. As you can see with the larger image I had problems with blending this time around and better paper would have solved that. Unfortunatly, I layered down the darks too fast and wasn’t able to smooth them out. None the less, it still turned out better than I expected.

I’m so excited to say that I’m the new DT member for Simply Betty Stamps! Whohoo! So I guess you could say my guest term was super short! he he he. To kick start the celebration right, I’m joining in on the Sketchy Zombie releases and today we’re showcasing Falalala Lexi!

Of course with a Christmas release I had to combine it with some winter scenes so I used Winter Park from Make it Crafty as the background; as well as a few snowflake chippies too (Mix ‘n Match Centres). ;D Finally, I used non traditional colors and even a few left over Halloween embellishments to finish up the project.

As you may have noticed I created a journal page, but you’re only seeing half of it! The other half will wait a few more days but I wanted to show the lightning bolt in detail. As part of a super-super difficult challenge this month, Make it Colourful is challenging you color storms with lightning bolts. Since I wanted the Zombie Christmas theme to be dark in nature I thought, sure, why not! LOL

I first colored the lightning bolt with a gel pen so I could see where it was. Then I started building up the colors around using the Neutral grays – keeping it darker around the outside and lighter the closer I got to a white line. I also added some B91, B93 and B95 once I had the gray tones laid down. Finally I went back over the white lines with the gel pen again to brighten them up.

Hope you liked the first day and make sure you come back for another six days of more previews with Simply Betty Stamps!! 😀