A Couple More Cards

Hi again!!  Be warned...this is kind of a long post.  Have patience!  =D

My first project was primarily made for the Simply Betty Stamps 12 Days of Scary Christmas.  These challenges  happen so quick...I ended up missing Day 5.  BUT, today is another day, and I'm ready to play along with Day 6 which is............................Scary Bells!  Now, if you didn't see my Day 4 post from a couple of days ago, you might not know that Betty has been rewriting some classic Christmas carols, turning them into Christmas scarols for inspiration!!  They are hilarious!  At least I think they are, so I'm going to share the words to Scary Bells with you.  Everyone sing along.......

"Crashing through the night,

With a horrid mangling sound,

Clang each heart with fright,

To terrorize the town.

Bells from belfries ring,

Making spirits rise,

The freaky tones like voices moan throughout the midnight skies!

Oh!

Scary bells, scary bells,

Ring your ghostly call,

Oh what fun it is to scream and terrorize us all. Ah!

Scary bells, scary bells,

With your manic sound,

When you toll the spirits roll from six feet underground!

A day or two ago,

I thought I'd take a ride,

To see the mansion sights,

To see what was inside.

My horse began to rear,

The scary bells did clang,

I fell into an open grave to cheer myself I sang...

Scary bells, scary bells,

Ring your ghostly call,

Oh what fun it is to scream and terrorize us all. Ah!

Scary bells, scary bells,

With your manic sound,

When you toll the spirits roll from six feet underground!"

So what do you think?  Inspiring, yes?  Here's my card:

As you can see, I was inspired by quite a few things in the song.  =D  For images I've used Devina Digi from Simply Betty Stamps, Christmas Bells from Bits N Bobs (including the one I superimposed on the brougham), Brougham is from Arthur's Clip Art, and the graveyard scene is from Andy Bauer at The Digi Street.  I wish you could see the bottoms of Devina and the Brougham...I did a TON of fussy cutting, not realizing no one would ever see it. LOL Oh well!  Good practice I suppose.  The images were all colored with Copics.  You can't tell from the picture, but Devina and the graveyard are popped up with pop dots for added dimension.

Papers are from DCWV (trees) and Stampin' Up (red...thanks Jenn!).  The sentiment was created by me, and edged with Momento Ink in London Fog.  (I guess I was in a East Coast frame of mind.  I tried thinking of a sentiment, and all that kept running through my head was "wicked cool".  So....I figured I'd go with it. LOL)  Ghosties are from my stash, part of a blog candy I won ages ago.

Challenges:

Simply Betty Stamps: Day 6 - Scary Bells

Cute Card Thursday: Anything Goes

Here's my second card:

This is my first (and unfortunately only) card for the 8th round of the Progressive Challenge over at Crafters Digital Art Center (CDAC).  The theme is....Animals Hold Our Hearts!  They really do hold mine.  Except birds.  I really can't stand birds, but this image by....BAH!  Ok, the image is by Sugar Creek Hollow, and what I was going to say is that birds just creep my out, they always have, but this image was too cute not to use.  As I was going to CDAC to verify the artist, I realized that this is actually an image from the *7th* round.  Whoops!  Guess this card actually ***isn't*** for the CDAC challenge.  That will be coming tomorrow night, after work. LOL  Well, anyway.  I colored the image with Copics.  Papers are from DCWV.  The tag is from Dana's Inspirations.  Ribbon is from my stash, and the stars are from Stampin' Up.

Challenges:

Paper Pretties: Use Ribbon

Craft Your Passion: Tag You're It

Tuesday Throwdown: For Someone Special (my hubby)

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days: Tags

Bee Crafty: Christmas

Ok, that's it for now!  Sorry for the long post...thanks for sticking with me, and thanks for stopping by!  We'll see you tomorrow.  =D

Nature!!

Good morning, my lovelies!  It's Thursday, which means it's time for another Digi Doodle Shop challenge.  Woot woot!  Bet you can't guess the theme....unless you read the title of the post, of course. LOL  It's..........nature!

I used the adorable Sliding Penguins, which can be found here.  I just love how joyful they look.  I colored the image with Copics and accented the snow with Stickles.  The paper is from DCWV, the snowflakes are from Martha Stewart (also accented with Stickles) and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.  Gems in the center of the snowflakes are from my stash.

Now you've seen my card, hop on over to the Digi Doodle Shop's Best challenge blog to check out the amazing creations by the rest of the team.

Remember, you don't have to use a Digi Doodle Shop stamp, but if you do it will be entered twice.  Also, you can enter as many times as you want...as long as it's with a new card/project each time.  PLUS.....for the whole month of December.....EVERYTHING is 25% off!!  Woo hoo!!  If there's an image (or two or three) you've been eyeing...now's the time to get it!

I am also entering this card into a few challenges:

Bee Crafty: Christmas

Pollycraft: Christmas Fun

The Emerald Faerie Garden: Christmas - Nontraditional Colors

Dude Time Doodles: Holiday Spirit (I know glitter isn't SUPER manly, but...it's snow! Snow glitters! LOL If you don't agree that this could be a "dude" card, please feel free to remove.)  =D

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes + Glitter

The Pink Elephant #128: Snowflakes and Sparkle

Ladybug Crafts Ink: Snowflakes and Sparkle

Tuesday Throwdown: Celebrate the Season

Let's Get Sketchy!

**For the Blog Hop and Fairy Challenge please scroll down**

Good morning!  It's time for another Digi Doodle Shop Challenge!!  Woot woot!  This week we are challenging you to create a project using this sketch and either snowflakes or flowers (in place of the flowers in the sketch).

Pretty, huh?  I had a lot of fun working with this sketch.

I used the beautiful Winter Snow Bird. I just love this image...between the cute little bird, the fabulous trees and the lovely holly along the edges...it's one of my favorites.  =D  I colored the image with Copics.  It's kind of hard to see, but the majority of lines in the snow are outlined with Stickles.  The snowflakes (which were part of a Martha Stewart border punch I cut apart) are also outlined with Stickles.  I wish y'all could see it in real life...it's SO sparkly!  =D

Well, now that you've seen my card, slide on over to the Digi Doodle Shop's Best challenge blog to check out the amazing creations by the rest of the team.  They are just **fabulous**!

Remember, you don't have to use a Digi Doodle Shop stamp, but if you do it will be entered twice.  Also, you can enter as many times as you want...as long as it's with a new card/project each time.  Plus, all animal stamps are 25% off for the month of November!  PLUS, if you spend $7, you'll get one of these fabulous images:

and a chance to support Pet Pardons! 

I hope to see you join in our challenge this week!  Thanks for stopping by, and we'll catch ya later.  =D

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes + Brown (the trunks of the trees and mailbox post)

Crafty Catz: Anything Goes

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long: Favorite Sketch

Daisy Doodles: Anything Goes with a Digi

Papertake Weekly: Christmas

Top Tip Tuesday: Anything Christmas Goes

Never Wrong a Witch...

Here's a card I made for the Craft Your Passion sketch challenge this week.

It's sponsored by Delicious Doodles, so I just had to use their images.  I just love the little voodoo girl!  That's right...never make a witch mad, you never know what they can do to you.  =D  The skull frames were something I found online.  Images colored with Copics.  The spider paper is red cardstock and a stamp by Inkadinkadoo.  (The creepy bookshelf image on the top left is also from Inkadinkadoo.)

Thanks for stopping by!!  I'd chat some more, but it's 3:46 am and I'm exhausted.  =D  We'll see you soon!

Craft Your Passion: Sketch

Haunted Design House HDH104: I Was Framed

The Corrosive Challenge Blog: Come to the Dark Side

Forever Night: Devilish Intentions

Bee Crafty: Dramatic Frames and Borders

Whoops!

Well, I created a tag for the the current scrappy side Simply Betty Challenges.  However, after I had finished, taken my pictures, and started getting the tabs ready for easy linking I realized....I only did HALF of the challenge!!  I created a Christmas tag....but I did NOT use the specific color combo!  Whoops!  Silly me for relying on my memory. Jeez. LOL  At least there are a few other Christmas in July challenges going on that I was going to enter, and I still have another week and a half to create another Simply Betty Tag.  (Plus, then I can use one of my new images from her latest release!  Yay!  Must always look on the bright side.)

Anyway, after that...involved...intro, here is my tag!

Those of you who know me know that I have two very different sides.  There's what I call the bubblegum side...that side LOVES pink, glitter, fluffy bunnies, kittens, puppies, fairies...you get the drift.  The other side, however, loves skulls, black lace, piercings, tattoos, gothic images...well, you know.  Guess which side came out for this challenge?  LOL

I realize the sentiment is a little hard to read in the photo.  It says "Merry Frickin' Christmas".  Hee!  When I printed this image as my little Christmas elf, she just didn't seem like the "holly, jolly Christmas" type, ya know?  =D  This tag is just perfect for a very good friend of mine.  I'll have to save it to use on her present this year.

So, here's a list of what I used to create this card.  DCWV's Christmas Combo stack.  Simply Betty Stamps image: Pipper, colored with Copics.  Presents, ribbon and flowers are from Michael's Craft Stores.  The holly tag is from Miss Cutiepie.  I had added my text, then printed it out on the computer.  Unfortunately...I'm running out of ink, so it printed light purple with streaks.  Another whoops!  Fortunately I was able to save it by coloring it with my Copics.  The white dotted line on the tree paper is part of the dp.  To match it, I drew a white dotted line around the cranberry paper using a white Souffle pen.

Ok, well...thanks for stopping by!  I promise my next Christmas tag will be a happier one. LOL We'll see you again soon!

Challenges:

Pollycraft: Christmas in July

Craft Your Passion: Christmas in July

Stamp Insanity: Going Goth