CHECK OUT MY PUMPKINS!!

I cut the face for the one on the left using my Silhouette and brown vinyl then just stuck it on the pumpkin.  CUTE OR WHAT?!!  Easy too!!  Then I cut another stencil with pink vinyl  stuck it to my pumpkin, cut it and VOILA!!  The BATMAN signal!!  He never did show up.  LOL!! 

Anyway, I just wanted to share my little projects that I used my new Silhouette for that I got for my birthday from my mom, my sister and hubby!!!  LOVE IT!!  THANK YOU!!  Wait until NEXT year!!  LOL!

Friday Sketchers #126

Yay extra time to play!!!!  Well kinda.  I had to make a birthday card for an aunt of hubby's so thought I'd also use a sketch from Friday Sketchers. 

I had fun with this one and added some Liquid Applique to the cupcake icing and some glitter over top.  Love love love these flowers!!   This is the sketch and I rotated it for my card.

Stamps: Mo Manning "The Dormouse"
Paper: Crate Paper "Brook Collection"
Embellishments: Green leaf pins from Creative Accents, Stickles, lace from Wild Orchid Crafts, Prima flowers, spacer from Hobby House and pearls from ELine.
Punches:  Sizzix leaf punch
Ink:  Copics

12th Day of Halloween

On the 12th day of Halloween my
ghoul love gave to me

12 Witches Cackling

We are down to 2 ladies in the 12 days of challenge over at 

Simply Betty Challenges.

For my card today I am using Willow the Ghost but in another life she was a witch.  She looks like a good witch tho.  SO!!  The remaining 2 ladies have to have a witch incorporated into their projects.  You wouldn`t think it should be too hard at this time of year hey?  LOL!  Good luck to the finalists!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO YOU ALL!! 

I am also entering this into Tickled Pink Stamps monthly sketch challenge.  FINALLY!!

TRICK OR TREATING WITH TIDDLY INKS AND SIMPLY BETTY STAMPS

This is one big collision of a group of truly talented ladies and I'm so glad to be a part of this hop.  If you've come here from Donna's blog "Popsicle Toes" you are on the right track.  And isn't her work something else?!!  If you would like to start at the beginning go back to Christy's blog "Tiddly Inks". 

The ladies at Simply Betty Stamps are using Tiddly Inks images and vice versa.  I chose to use 3 TI images:  Betty Belfrey, Cast Your Spell and Door of Spook.  All images are colored with Copics.

The trick on my project is the door - HOW CUTE IS THAT?!

If you open it very slowly,

TADA!!!!

It's Betty Belfrey throwing around her glittery spells!!

Now for my treat, I am offering this rubber stamp from Magnolia.

"Haunted House"

I will draw the winner November 1st!!!

What's a blog hop without a challenge and more prizes?  Check out all the details at Christy's blog Tiddly Inks or Betty's blog at Simply Betty Stamps for more information.

Now hop along and you may find some more treats today!!  Your next stop is Jennifer at Wanna Be Creative!

For a complete list of the blog hop you can visit Simply Betty Stamps or Tiddly Inks.

Have fun!

I also want to give a callout to my girlfriend Nancy at Another MD Crabbie as she totally inspired this project for me.  If you haven't see her stuff you must check it out.  OOoooodles of talent this one!!  

10th Day of Halloween

On the 10th day of Halloween my
ghoul love gave to me

10 Creepy Spiders

We are down to 4 lades in the 12 days of challenge over at 

Simply Betty Challenges.

An overall winner will be chosen soon!!

SO for this day of Halloween the remaining contestants are to use creepy spiders.  Ok, so mine aren't super creepy, just maybe super cute!!  I used Spiderella from SBS's Spooky Hallow digi line.  My gem web is from Michael's and my flourish web was printed from my Silhouette.  Go ladies go!! 

GOOD LUCK TO THE REMAINING CONTESTANTS!

Jude and his Shenenigan Crew Christmas Blog Hop

WELCOME TO A CHRISTMAS HOP!!

Hopefully you have come over from Debbie's blog but if you like, you could start at Simply Betty Stamps.  

My first of the season but Betty is so smart for thinking ahead!!  The industry moves so fast and ahead of schedule she's going to follow the trend, hence why the early hop and reveal of some new Christmas images!

All these new cuties will be on sale along with the rest of the sale going on at Simply Betty Stamps until the end of the month!  Jude and his Crew Christmas digis will be only $3.00!!

This little cutie is Jude.  Isn't he cute all tangle up?  

Check out this brand spanking new Echo Park Wintertime paper and embellishments!  The whole collection from papers, to kits is available now and ready to ship at Simply Betty Stamps.

So, grab yourself a nice cup of coffee, tea, or hot cocoa and off you go a hoppin'!  Your next hop is over to Jennifer. 

Start here Simply Betty Stamps

Angela

Catherine

Cheri

Debbie
Eulanda (~Me~)

Jennifer

Kim

Lady B

Linda 

Lisa

Meredith

Nicole

Patricia

Suzi

 Tracey

Ends here with Betty

HAVE FUN!

Also, I just wanted to mention I used Papertake Weekly Challenge sketch to create my card.

8th Day of Halloween Challenge

On the 8th day of Halloween my ghoul love gave to me

8 Waltzing Zombies, dancing around a Witches Cauldron!

For the ladies left in the 12 days of challenge over at 

Simply Betty Challenges

this is their next challenge.

Use zombies or witches around a cauldron. 

 I loved using Betty the Witch on my card for this challenge inspiration. I added some barbed flourishes from Silhouette and the sentiment also came from Silhouette.

Good luck to all the girls left.

Wow getting down to the nitty gritty!!  

And I am also entering this card into Cute Card Thursday.  Love their sketches!!

Tutorial

POPCORN BOX TUTORIAL

A number of you asked for me to do up a tutorial on this popcorn box and I'm sorry it's taken so long.  Gosh life gets away on us doesn't it!

I hope it comes in handy!  You can really put whatever you want in these little babies.  Even put some tissue in and then some home made cookies! 

Now you can wrap it in guaze, like I did below or cut 3 3/4" x 3 3/4" design paper and layer each side.  Try wrapping a border around the top in a separate color or using ribbon as shown here:

 Enjoy!

On the 7th day of Halloween

On the 7th day of Halloween my ghoul love gave to me

7 Skellington heads!!!!

For the ladies left in the 12 days of challenge over at 

Simply Betty Challenges

this is their next challenge.

How could I not use Jack Skellington for my card on this day?!!  My favorite part about this card is the frame that Jack sits in.  I cut that with my new Silhouette.  Nifty tool!! 

I also used Sketch Saturday's sketch for more inspiration.  So good luck to the girls who are left.  We have 7 remaining contestants and wow are they stepping up their game!! 

Stamps:  Stamp It Crazy "Jack"
Paper: Kraft paper & unknown but from Stephanne
Embellishments: Frame from the Silhouette gallery, misc ribbon, Tim Holtz mini paper clips, Recollections skull brads and misc adhesive pearls. 
Punches: MS icicle punch
Ink: Momento Ink

On the 6th Day of Halloween

On the 6th day of Halloween my ghoul love gave to me

6 Jack O'Lanterns!!!  

For the ladies left in the 12 days of challenge over at 

Simply Betty Challenges

this is their next challenge.

For a bit of inspiration I've used London Pumpkin digi image (did I mention she's on sale?) and made a luminary.  I'm lucky she didn't catch on fire cuz I just put a real flame in here.  Those stupid little fake tealights aren't so great but WOW this was!  LOL

Good luck to the ladies that are left!! 

Punky Teens Christmas Blog Hop

SIMPLY BETTY PRESENTS

PUNKY TEENS

CHRISTMAS

Can you even believe we are heading into Christmas and haven't even gotten to Halloween yet?  Well, if you're anything like me the sooner the better.  I really need to start on my Christmas cards.  I'm sure we all have a list as long as we are tall!! 

If you have come here by the creatively talented Catherine's blog then you are going the right way.  If you'd like to start from the beginning then hop on over to Simply Betty Challenges. 

So, since this is a rather long blog hop I'll just give you a quick lookie at Becky and send you on your way! 

PRIZE:  Guest DT for the Month of November!
Your next stop is one of my personal favorites:
Cheri!!!
Check out all the details at
Simply Betty Stamps Challenge Blog

Post edited:  I have done a few challenges over the last few weeks using sketches from various challenges and keep forgetting to mention that.  This sketch was using Sketch Saturday's sketch.  I just love them and hope to start using more! 

Stamps: Simply Betty Stamps "Becky"
Paper: Last year's - lol
Embellishments: Dollar Store candy canes, misc ribbon, Bo Bunny button, Stickles, ELine pearls, Wild Orchid Crafts lace, Glaze and Liquid Applique
Punches: The Silhouette "Yummy" sentiment
Ink: Copics

SBS Double Whammy Release Blog Hop

Welcome to another Simply Betty Stamps

Double Whammy Release Hop!

Today we have one last Halloween line and a Thanksgiving line that I know you are going to love!  Did you get here from Debbie's gorgeous creation?  If not and you want to start at the beginning, skip back to Betty Boo's blog. 

Victorian Beauties Halloween

We have Darcy the Vampiress, Day of The Dead Timothy, Mina the Sassy Witch, Elaine the Dark Fairy, Lucy the Pumpkin Queen, and James the Zombie! Just wait till you see all the fun my fellow design team gals have created for you!

Jude and His Shenanigan Crew Thanksgiving for you!

Now these little toddlers are just so cute you are going to want to squish their lil' cheeks and call 'em cute. 

So today I am going to reveal Lucy The Pumpkin Queen.  I think she's so super cute! 

Prizes?  Of course as always!  But for the new release Betty is doing something different.  

After you have hopped along, please go back to Betty's blog and tell her about your favorite Halloween or Thanksgiving memory and why. It can be the funniest, the scariest, the most memorable one you can think of. Us gals and Betty will pick 6 favorite stories as winners! That means 6 of you will get to choose 4 digis.  Two from the Victorian Halloween  and two from Jude and His Shenanigan Crew Thanksgiving.  How easy is that?!! 

You have until Sunday October 10th to leave your story at the Simply Betty Stamps blog. The 6 winners will be announced on Monday October 11th at 8PM PST.

Now off you go to check out 

Gloria's wicked madness! 

Bwaahh ha ha ha ha ha!! 

Simply Betty Challenge #4

SCENE IT!

So this week's challenge at Simply Betty Challenges is all about creating a Halloween scene.  Re-create a card or project and give it your own twist, title or sentiments.  So my little twist is literal.  I twisted 26guage black wire and glue dotted (is that a word?) the bats to the end.  I doubled up the wire so it was sturdier and now they don't go anywhere!

This is the picture we were given for inspiration.  Oh how I loved watching all the seasonal cartoons as kids!!

 

Wanna know what you're competing for this week?!!  The new

SPOOKY HALLOW DIGI'S!! 

I'M NOT KIDDING!

All 6 of them and they're a LOT of fun to color.

So go chick it out chickies!!  Get a few ideas from the all the other SBC DT's and let's see your scene! 

Stamps: Simply Betty Stamps "Franken-Jude" and "Skeleton Peter" 
Paper: Bo Bunny Boo Crew and Ghoulfriends
Embellishments: Tombstone from Colorbok (Michael's), 26guage black wire, Dollar Store web and labeler "RIP"
Punches: Martha Stewart drippy goo border punch, MS bat punch, MS icicles border punch, Quickutz tombstone die (ha ha that's kinda funny) and Spellbinders Halloween Fence
Ink: Copics

3rd Day of Halloween Challenge

Today is the 3rd day of Betty's

12 Days of Halloween Challenge

You can check out all the details at Simply Betty Challenges and see who is left but their next card they have to create is a "Creepy Rag Doll" card so I used Betty's free digi image.  

If you like this image become a follower and catch her next free digi image at 300 followers.  (*250 or 300 I can't remember)

I was trying to add more of something to this card and finally decided that there was nothing right that fit and maybe it was done.  But how could that be?!!  It's not covered with embellishments.  Well, maybe a nice and simple card is good every once in awhile.  hee hee

Stamps: Simply Betty "Sally"
Embellishments: Dollar Store black web and American Crafts black tulle rose
Punches: Martha Stewart Gate punch
Ink: Copics!

New Halloween Lil Lolita's!

TICKLED PINK STAMPS

PRESENTS

LYLAH THE WITCH

I love that I got to use non-traditional Halloween colors on this one.  Well, I didn't do it on purpose but Graphic 45 definitely made it easy for me!!

Kellie's artist, Christina Dee, strikes again on her awesome collection of Halloween digi images.  I have only previewed 2 of the 4 that are available to make sure you check out Tickled Pink store or Tickled Pink blog to see the other 2.  They are just as KEWL!! 

 

Also, you have a CHANCE TO WIN this lovely little witch if you just pop over and check out the other inspirational cards made with her.   There is also a chance to win all the ladies but check out more details at Tickled Pink blog.  I saw the other ones from Monday and OH MY WORD!!  (whistle) Gorgeous!!

Stamps: Tickled Pink "Lylah the Witch"
Paper: Graphic 45 
Embellishments: Misc ribbon, template for "The Flapper" from My Time Made Easy and choco bars - ha ha ha!
Punches: MS bat border punch and MS icicle border punch
Ink: Need I really have this line in here anymore?  COPICS!!  hee hee

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHERI!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIIIIRRTHDDDAYYYY DEAR CHEEERRIIIIIII,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUU!

If you have hopped over here from Chris's birthday card then you're on the right track.  If you'd like to look at all of Cheri's birthday cards you can start at Janet's birthday card. 

Cheri's likes: PINK and COFFEE but unfortunately I made up the card before I knew about the hop and sorry my dear, but you ain't gettin 2 cards.  LOL!  Besides, nothing wrong with a wine card!!  hee hee

So now you know why I told you to NOT to look at my posts from yesterday.  Cuz I made the Lil Lolita preview card for you but I was thinking the release would be AFTER your bday.  Of course, when I realized they are 17 hours ahead of us I had to hurry up my butt and post my preview card for yesterday.  LMAO!!   So many of you will be seeing this for the 2nd time 2 days in a row.  hee hee  No worries I have lots of stuff heading your way this week. 

So!!  Happy birthday my dear friend.  I hope your day goes well...if you have a cup of coffee in your hand and are blog hopping right now, you're off to a good start!  

If I could bake you a cake this is what it would look like so here is your virtual coffee nummy.  LOL!

Now off to Sara's birthday card!! 

New Halloween Lil Lolita's!

TICKLED PINK STAMPS 

PRESENTS

"LILITH"!!

Isn't she just gorgeous?!! 

Check out more details and samples of this lil vixen at
TICKLED PINK STAMPS BLOG
AND head on over to find out how you can WIN this digi image for your own collection!!

Simply Betty New Releases

SPOOKY HALLOW

IMAGES NOW AVAILABLE!  
And Freebie!!

Yay!!  More new Simply Betty Stamps digi images, soon to be available in rubber!!  Join us in hopping around to say "Hello" to our newest friends from Spooky Hallow!  You will not want to miss out on these babies!  Super cute, spooky, and just too fun!

Did you get here by way of the our darling Debbie?  If not, you might want to go back to the beginning to the amazing Angela! 

Today you'll get to know 6 new characters:

Cassandra, Spiderella, Fez

Damien, Devina and Morticia and Morticia is
who I'm going to show you right now.
Is she lucious or what?  hee hee

Now of course we have to have a sale for the release right??  So the Spooky Hallow images are on sale online today for $2.65, the sale ends Wednesday at 11:59pm!

OK SO!!  Betty is celebrating the new challenge blog, Simply Betty Challenges, for reaching 100 followers.  Seriously?!!
CHECK THIS FREEBIE OUT!

Now off you go to hop along to glorious Gloria!!!

Stamps: Simply Betty Stamps "Morticia"
Paper: Martha Stewart
Embellishments: Tin foil, Recollections glitter chipboard sticker, Wild Orchid crafts flowers & adhesive pearls, CB web embossing folder, Dollar Store plastic chain and 26 guage black wire.
Punches: Quickutz branches die
Ink: Copics

Little Hop of Horrors

Canadian Nickel Scrap’n “Little Hop of Horrors” Halloween Blog Hop

There's lots to HOP about! 

YOU MADE IT!

Wozers this blog hop is BIG!!!  BUT!!  So are the prizes!!  Hopefully you will have time to make your way through to everyone and leave some luvin' to increase your chances of winning these grand prizes!!  Also, the ideas these ladies are showing are fabulous!!

You should be just crawling in from Debbie P's Place but if you are just starting your haunt you'll want to creep over to Barb's, she holds the key to your escape!

 

My project for today is a cute little popcorn treat holder.  I used Lola Mummy from Simply Betty Stamps, available in rubber only.

So AFTER I was half done my project I figured I should have done a tutorial on the box at least.  If you are curious, let me know and I'll post a quick tutorial cuz it's really easy!  I did make my own caramel popcorn and found out I hate making anything sticky!!  I used the Martha Stewart drippy goo border punch and Spellbinders new Halloween Fence and distressed it with ink.  My sentiment comes from my great friend CHERI!!

TIP**** I wrapped my box with gauze - try to use gauze that isn't stretchy.  It'll work but just be careful not to stretch it very tight cuz it will make your box bow in or bow out. 

CHECK OUT THE PRIZES!! 

Simply Betty Stamps  Set of 6 Halloween Digi’s

Tickled Pink Stamps Lil Lolita Halloween Digi’s

Tiddly Inks $10 Gift Voucher

Scrappy Moms Stamps Haunting we will Go stamp set

My Pink Stamper Stamp Set

The Greeting Farm  2 Halloween Digis

Scrap Hut October 31st Cricut Cartridge (North America Only)

  

So that's my Halloween project and now I'm going to send you off to all my fellow ghoulfriends so they can show you some more tricks and treats!!  Head over to 
FitterTwit's project and expect a big warm WELCOME!

Simply Betty Challenge #3

Anything But A Card

This week at Simply Betty Challenge we got to do "something" .... "anything" other then a card and WOO HOO this was FUN!! 

Sooooo I decided to make "something" that will hold more candy.  MORE WHAT?!!  MORE CANDY!!!  I won this crafty little box from Creative Accents awhile back and could never figure out what to do with it until now.  My image is the ever so handsome Christian Vamp digi from Simply Betty Stamps.   I've filled the box with eyeball gum balls. 

So are you ready to join in on our fun this week?!!  I am soooo looking forward to seeing other things then a card.  Don't get me wrong, I ♥♥♥ cards but it's just fun to switch it up every once in awhile. 

Check out this week's prize and the

SBC DT's ROCKIN' creations!! 

Stamps: Simply Betty Stamps "Christian Vamp"
Paper: Basic Grey "Eerie"
Embellishments: Misc ribbon
Punches: Martha Stewart bat punch and fence border punch, Spellbinders Labels 16 and Spellbinders Graveyard scenes stone hedge.
Ink: Copics