Space Judes Blog Hop - Simply Betty Stamps

My name is Denise, and I have a Simply Betty Stamps addiction!  If you have not checked out the wonderful stamps, take a cyber trip over to her web shop here.  There are some really lovely digi stamps, but also a full line of rubber and clear stamps.  You can now even commission a custom 'headshot' digi.  Believe it or not, I am in no way affiliated with Simply B Stamps, so all this gushing is actually coming from a place of love.

Anyway, to celebrate the release of a new line of digi stamps, which are for sale for a limited release, Betty's facebook group is having another Blog Hop.  The hopping starts at the Simply Betty Stamps Blog, so if you just happened here as one of my followers, or a new visitor, you might want to pop over to the main blog to hop along from beginning to end.

If you are following the hop, you should have come here from Olivia's blog.

Anyway, here is my creation.

I used two of the new Judes digital stamps, Outta this World Ali and Battle Galactica Lilly from the Space Judes set which you can see here.  I merged them in Craft Artist Professional software.  They are colored with Flex Markers.  I cut out some glitter and holographic card and paper using Nestabilites and Grand Nestabilities dies, put the lovely space ladies on top and viola!

I was really pleased with the final result, and I can't wait to work with the other Space Judes!

Right, this is a blog hop, so your next stop is Michelle's blog.  As the hop is not live yet, I have not seen the other people's creations, but I can't wait.  These digis are a joy to work with and I love getting ideas for different ways to use them!

It has been a busy blog week for me, so if you haven't caught up with me for a while, check out the current challenges of the blogs I design for including Crafty Boots Challenges, Just Inspirational Challenges, and the newest addition, One Stitch at a Time.  All three have fun challenges going and some great prizes...so definitely worth throwing your hat in.

Take care and thanks for stopping by. 

xx Denise

And it was all Yellow

Happy Monday Morning to everyone!  This Monday is extra special because it is the start of another fun challenge over at Crafty Boots Challenges.  This fortnight's theme is yellow, and here is my card:

I used this adorable Sassy Cheryl image.  I love her images and couldn't resist coloring this beauty up in a pretty yellow dress.  The coloring was done with Flex and Pro Markers.  I used a Spellbinders Nestability die to cut the image layer and then an Edgeability die for the pink backing layer.

The flowers and the sentiment are from different Create and Craft kits that I purchased sometime last year and have been using sparingly.  I made a promise to try to use up at least some of my stash this year, so this was a perfect opportunity to do just that.

I do hope you will go over to Crafty Boots Challenges to check out the yellow inspired creations by the rest of the design team and to link up your own.  I really love looking at the wonderful projects you come up with.

I thought I would enter this card in the following challenges:

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Birthday
Fairy Fun Fridays - Anything with Flowers
Southern Girls Challenge - Get Your Girly On
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Birthday
Passion for Promakers - Cut it Out

Also, don't forget that Just Inspirational Challenges holds a new photo inspired challenge each week starting on Thursdays.  This is the photo inspiration for the current challenge (which is sponsored by Stamping Dragon Designs.

Thank you so much for stopping by, and I hope you come back soon.  Please feel free to leave a comment.  I really do love reading them.

Take care and I hope this is a start to a lovely week for you!!

xx Denise

JI Challenges - A Stroll in the Meadow

Well, it is that time again!  We have another challenge over at Just Inspirational which is being sponsored by DTsArt and My Creative Classroom.

 Here is a lovely picture chosen for you to use as inspiration for your project.

I was inspired by the colors and the emotion of this photo.  I can imagine walking through a field and coming upon a lonely tree and seeing such a beautiful sky and just feeling a bit of peace.  I found all that difficult to translate onto a card, but this is what I came up with.

The coloring of the image is done with pro markers.  It took me ages to decide how to put her onto a card.  At first I was going to go with primarily green, but I found this lovely backing paper in a Papermania pack that I have had for yonks, and thought it would be quite pretty to pull out the blue to match the blue flowers on the girl's dress and in the basket.

The layers behind the image are cut from Nestabilities dies.  The blue layer is embossed with an Impressability and distressed with stormy sky to accentuate the embossing a little.

I picked a matching vintage ribbon and the blue gems.... but I thought it needed a little something more.  I broke out yet another Spellbinder - a flower die.  I had never used it before (and actually got a plastic packaging cut on my hand getting it out..lol).  Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised with the resulting flower.  I was a bit impatient and took the picture before the glue in the flower was completely dry - so please forgive me.

Well, like it or not, this is my contribution...but of course I hope you like it. :)

Pop over to the Just Inspirational Challenge blog to look at the other design team creations and to link up your own.  Just Inspirational Challenges have also recently launched a facebook group, so if you like entering our challenges, or just looking at the creations from the DT and other entrants, do join the group.  You can enter our challenges there as well if you prefer that sort of thing or don't have a blog to link up.

Take care and come back soon!

xx Denise