Falalala Lexi

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!! 😀

Lola Addams

Surprise! Two posts in one today and this one for a very special gal… it’s Betty’s Birthday from Simply Betty Stamps!! Her design team has thrown together a surprise blog hop in her honor and as the November guest I am very happy to join. So without further adieu…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETTY!! 😀


Birthday Blog Hops are always fun way to celebrate. 😀 You should have arrived here from LEA but if you want to start at the beginning then that would be with SUZI.


I made this card to send to Betty and wanted a cheerful yet creepy feel so I used lots of black with a touch of sunny yellow. The image I used is Lola Addams from Simply Betty Stamps, of course, and the moon was a Martha Stewart label that I colored in with N0, N2, N3 and N4.

Most of the card is paper from My Mind’s Eye but I did add a skull charm in the lower left corner and binoculars which is a rub-on. I attempted to add faux stitching around the outside but neither the black nor the white showed up very well… so look closely for those details. Te he


Thanks for stopping by and your next stop on the hop is over to LADY B. Then be sure to check back the rest of the weekend as it’s going to be busy with lots of new inspiration coming your way!!

12 Days of Halloween

Here are my final projects for the Simply Betty Stamps 12 Days of Halloween and it’s a good thing that a blog post doesn’t count toward the project! LOL I’ll be coming back in to add more pictures, descriptions and details. Until then… enjoy!

… okey, dokey, I’m back! I’ve put in a vampire movie, grabbed the kids’ Halloween candy and I’m ready to sit back and relax. ;D So let’s get to it…

Sixth day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Six goblins gobblings!

The Simply Betty characters I used are Raven & Rio, Max & Miller and Louie & Lola and they were colored green for good measure. The combination I used for the skin was YG91, Y28 and YG93 (maybe YG95).


I had originally planned to color all six Teen Scenes gobbling and place them on a journal page but time ran away from me. It was a good thing that these three brought along their pets to help gobble down that barbecue to count as six! The background is made up of images from Make it Crafty including Aussie BBQ and Urban Street elements; I also used Fine Swirls chippies on two of the cards.

Eighth day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Eight monsters shrieking!

Everyone knows that kids are monsters, right? So in this project I used Jude from Simply Betty Stamps jammin’ on his electrical guitar. The other seven monsters are in the Spooky House which is from Make it Crafty, peeking out the windows.


This scene actually reminds me Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends so I had to include Master Blooregard Q. Kazoo in the top window, also known as Bloo. (Love that cartoon!) The other monsters (imaginary friends) are just eyes peeking out of the darkest side of the house. The house was colored the same way Jane did as I loved how hers turned out.

Eleventh day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Eleven casks a-leaning!

I didn’t exactly have any casks on hand so I improvided and used a potion bottle plus ten glasses of leathal doses! Remember my plan to use all my Simply Betty Stamps to color with? Well, I was getting down to my last four to choose from (so I’ll have to get more now!) and none really worked so I used one of my first stamps instead, Lola.


I’m sure you’ve noticed that huge eye by now, which is from Inkadinkadoo, and something I’ve been wanting to incorporate into a project all week now. For inspiration I looked up eyeballs in Google… and did you know some people are getting them tattoed?! Nope, didn’t know that either! Lastly I used a left over tombstone from Epitaphs, also from Inkadinkadoo, and the potion and drinks are accessories from Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps.


This completes the 12 Days of Halloween challenges. If you have a favorite of the 12, then I’d love to hear about it! 😀 I’ll lave you with a parting shot of Jude who will provide the music for the credits. Happy Halloween!!

Update: I’m the 2012 DT winner of the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps!

12 Days of Halloween

Get ready for some more 12 Days of Halloween projects as I’ve got three more for you today! I worked on day five, ten and twelve which means I only have three more days left to finish for the ultimate prize. Whoohoo! For each of my projects I’m still using the same paper – Matilda from Cosmo Cricket.

On the fifth day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Five scary spooks!

Incorporating spooks in this project was an easy task – along with the main image, Freddie Kruger Boy from Simply Betty Stamps; I used a tombstone in Epitaphs, spiderweb and skull, all from Inkadinkado, and the fifth element is the scared kitty charm.


I’ve enjoyed using these tombstones today, and as far as sentiments go, they strike a chord in my funny bone. 😀 This one in particular says “The grass isn’t greener on the ‘under’ side.” As I was coloring Freddie, it was intriguing to discover little bits of details – for example, it took me a while to figure out hes belt was a personal knife sharpener complete with side pockets for more knives – well, at least that’s how I colored it. He he!

On the tenth day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Ten ghouls a-groaning

This one was a little more challenging to figure out how to fit ten ghouls onto a card but after some creative thinking and stretching of definitions, here’s how I counted them up… five are under the tombstones, both bats, the girl and yes, the crow AND spider!


On this card I used Miss Betty Burton Chibi from Simply Betty Stamp and I colored a few feature with the Atou Spica glitter pen. (Don’t we all wish glitter showed up better in the photograpsh!) I also used more tombstones (Epitaphs from Inkadinkado). These ones say “It was a bad day,” “Holy smokes it’s hot down here,” “Poor rover rolled over,” “Does anyone have a shovel,” and my favorite “dying to be here.”

On the twelfth day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Twelve bats a-flying

One bonus about these challenges is that I’m trying to use every Simply Betty Stamp that I have so I can officially declare them inked up! As a result, I’ve had to get a little creative with a few of my projects as I try to incorporate non-traditional Halloween images… this one included. This is Lilly Pie and to fit the them I have a baker’s dozen of bats that have burst out of that fresh hot pie!


This image was really fun to color and her hair really was a puzzle at first – however, I loved how it turned out to look like a ponytail – gosh I wish my hair was that thick! In this project, and the one before, the “moons” are really blank Halloween labels from Martha Stewert that I colored using T0, T1 and T3.


That’s all for today and hope you enjoyed them! 😀 Tomorrow is a busy Saturday but I hope to get a few more projects done – we’ll see. LOL

Update: I’m the 2012 DT winner of the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps!

Drew & Angelica

It’s the start of another challenge at Make it Colourful and this time the theme is “Coloring Texture!” The basic idea is to stay away from all the smooth blending and rough if up. My main textures can be found in the brick and a little in the sidewalk and wall. However, others on the team say there is a lot more than that. ;D


For my project I used Drew and Angelica from Simply Betty Stamps and created a scene for them to go trick-or-treating in using Urban Objects and Urban Street elements from Make it Crafty. The chippies I used were Fine Swirls and a medallion from Filigree Jewels with sticker added in the center which was stolen from my daughter’s project today! LOL

I’m also entering this into the following challenges:

Flutter By Wednesday Challenge #177 – Halloween colors
Simply Betty Stamps 2nd Day of Halloween – Two Trick-or-Treaters
Lollipop Crafts Challenge #54 – Embellishments


Here’s a closeup of the colored image that I scanned in before doing anything with it. I can never get the colors to match up in my photos so the scans are sometimes a great alternative. I had colored the image as normal then went back in with some Warm grays to add more depth – I really liked how it turned out when compared to an earlier version. Lastly the white was added on Drew with acrylic paint and a brush to help her costume get a shiny look.

Update: I’m the 2012 DT winner of the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps!

12 Days of Halloween

I’m excited to show four more projects for the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps. The ultimate prize, if you enter all 12 days, is a chance at a DT spot for 2012! After mulling it over… I decided to go for it! 😀 So here are four days, plus the one from yesterday, leaves me seven more days to work on – I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

On the third day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Three black cats

I needed a couple cards for school this week so that’s what I focused my efforts on. Each of them uses paper that I had stashed from last year which is Matilda from Cosmo Cricket. Where are the three cats? Two of the cats are from a die cut so I put one in the background and one on top of a jack-o-lantern; the third cat, of course, is Lynx.


The image is Lynx & London from Simply Betty Stamps and I used Filigree Jewels chippies from Make it Crafty. I had colored Lynx yesterday as a black cat so today I wanted to give him some color and went for a Siamese look in tribute to my college feline friend. I’m submitting this card into the Third Day of Halloween challenge.

On the fourth day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Four skeletons

On this next card I have a cork sheet for the center and cut it out with my diecuts. Then I stamped four skulls on it with images from Inkadinkado, however, you can only see three of them in the end – so it was a good thing that the image had one which makes the fourth.


The spiderwebs are also from Inkadinkado and instead of using chippies in the corners I stamped two of them in black. The main image is Mad Scientist Christian from Simply Betty Stamps and is actually a school themed image! I’m submitting this one into the Fourth Day of Halloween challenge.

My true love gave to me…
Seven pumpkins glowing

This one turned out to be my favorite out of the set and actually started out being my least favorite, go figure. The challenge is seven pumpkins and I’m sure if you count the half pumpkin images in the decorative paper then I have more than enough. LOL However, there are six mostly complete ones that are visable and the felt pumpkin embellishment makes the seventh – as I count them.


I used Ali & Snuggles from Simply Betty Stamps and corner chippes in Love Heart Swirls from Make it Crafty with gems on them. I also dug out my punchinella ribbon (can’t remember how to spell it) and added a strip to break up the busy decorative paper. Finially I used my marker to draw a dashed line on the white and assembled it all together. I’m submitting this one into the Seventh Day of Halloween challenge.

My true love gave to me…
Nine ghosts a-booing

This last card has plenty of ghosts to count but I couldn’t resist drawing one more in the image as well. I used a ghost on the paper as a guide and thought it would be fun to have it coming out of the pile of leaves. Since the leaves were already haunted at this point, I also added a few eyes burried in the pile – oh, what a surprise Oscar will be getting! LOL


The main image is Oscar Pile of Leaves from Simply Betty Stamps and I used chippies from Fancy Ribbon Slider and Filigree Borders from Make it Crafty (covered with silver acrylic paint). I had fun coloring this image and ended up coloring from edge to edge! This is the last one and will be entered into the Ninth Day of Halloween challenge. Hope you liked them and got some ideas to inspire you with. ;D

Update: I’m the 2012 DT winner of the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps!