Betty goes Burtonesque

Hidee ho neighbor-ee-nos!

Once again, all I can say is thank goodness for Fridays, LOL!
I don't have any big plans other than to just enjoy my time off and see where the day takes me. :)

So before I get into my card for the day, I've still got one unclaimed Sweet November candy that is looking for a good home... Kate... I need to hear from you by Sunday otherwise I'm going to draw a new name for the Treasure Tempestwind candy and announce on Monday!

Ok, ok moving on... so this week the Burtonesque challenge is being hosted by Simply Betty Stamps and the theme is inspired by Sweeney Todd, final cut and shave (create a card/project using decorative scissors or paper distressing tools). At first I thought about going dark with lots of red/black/white but when I saw pretty little London staring up at me I decided to go a different direction and took my inspiration from the Johanna character in the movie. This allowed me to create a very girly card with just a bit of an 'edge' to it. Get it? Edge? Sweeney Todd? Bwahahahaa sometimes I just crack myself up! ;)
I even blew the dust off of an old pair of pinking shear edge scissors and put them to work on the pink text paper along with some torn edges as well... what can I say, I'm a tearer. Or is that terror? Hard to tell some days... Bwhahahaaha man I am on a roll today! :)

Sigh, alrighty that's all I got... have a lovely weekend!

Supply list:

cardstock- Bazzill and PTI

paper- My Mind's Eye (pink), unknown (stripe)

stamp- Simply Betty Stamps (London and her cat), October Afternoon (sentiment)

ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox blackbird chalk ink

Kaiser Craft gems

Maya Road heart stick pin

ribbon

Tim Holtz distressed flower die

Deco edge scissors

Sakura stardust glitter pen

Copic markers:

skin- E000, E00, E11, R20

hair- Y000, Y00, Y11, Y13, Y19

eyes- B00, B01, B04, BG000

clothes/cat- RV00, RV02, RV21, RV32, RV23, C00, C0, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, 0, YG23, YG25

Sparkle goes to the dark side

Hey there!
Who all is really glad to see Friday finally roll around again? I am ! I am!

I've got a lot planned for my day off but nothing that I'm dreading so it should be a good day. :)

So I was having fun with the Burtonesque challenge once again and this week we are to use black flowers and skulls somewhere in our card design. As it turned out I ended up only using a single large flower and a single skully brad but I think it works within the parameters. ;)
I thought it would be cool to color miss Sparkle Thistleweed in a bit more dark and twisty kind of way than I have in the past, just to see if she could pull off a look appropriate for the challenge. And I gotta say I think she looks both edgy and cute like this.

Alrighty, I'm outta here... have a lovely day my friends!

Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and PTI
paper- Basic Grey (purple)
stamps- Sweet November (Sparkle Thistleweed), Hero Arts (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox blackbird chalk ink
Heidi Swapp velvet flower
Prima leaves
Karen Foster skull brad and jewel brads
embroidery floss
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E70, R11, BV23, BV25, BV29
eyes- BV02, BV04, BV08
hair- V05, V06, V09
clothes- C00, C01, C3, C5, C7, C9
wings- T0, T1, T3, V000, V01

Another Burtonesque Sunday

Howdy friends!

Well I survived work yesterday and even got to enjoy some sunshine and lovely weather once I got home. :)
Considering all that sunny goodness it's kind of funny that I made such a dark, quick and easy card for Simple Sunday today. But I did want to take on the Burtonesque challenge again, especially since I had this cool Tiddly Inks digi that I wanted to color up and thought would be absolutely perfect for it! So I quickly colored miss Batty in a very monochromatic color scheme and gave her a little scene to inhabit as well. The rest of the card is super simple... just a couple squares of paper and a sheet of doodle looking rub-ons plus rub-on alphas for the sentiment and viola! Finished card... and I was back outside to enjoy the evening! :)

Now it's time to head off to work again... hope your weekend has been fantastic! Supply list:
cardstock- DCWV and PTI
paper- Basic Grey (basics)
digi stamp- Tiddly Inks (Batty)
Colorbox blackbird chalk ink
Making Memories doodle rub-ons
Lil Davis alpha rub-ons
Sakura clear glaze pen
Copic markers:
skin- E0000, E000, E70, R11
hair- E40, E41, W00, 0
clothes- BV02, BV04, BV08, C3, C5, C7, C9
background- BV23, BV25, BV29, BV13, BV17, BV20

Simple Sunday Burtonesque style

Hello, hello!
Can you believe we are already wrapping up another weekend? Yea, me either... but it does mean that I've got another installment of Simple Sunday to share with you. :)

I was kinda worried about finding time to even color something up last night, simple or not. Then I remembered how I had seen Lisa create a quick and easy card using an image that she had colored up previously. Now I don't normally stamp and color before hand because I like to match my images to the colors and papers I choose for each card as I put it together. BUT I do tend to color up drawings that I'm playing around with and contemplating for possible future stamp designs to see how they would work if they make it to rubber.
So I looked through my folder of colored drawings and found little Oleander, who may become part of a 'Weird Sisters' range that I've been working on for a release closer to Halloween. Any way she made me think of the new Burtonesque challenge that started up this past week so I decided to go ahead and create a quick card for her. Now the challenge is to use stripes so right away I new where to start with the design and when I came across this old Rebecca Sower button paper I just had to tear some off and add it as well. From there I raided the neglected metals drawer and found another metal rim tag as well as a sentiment... score! And the flowers were conveniently left on my desk from a previous card. All in all I was cutting it close to my 20 minute mark by deciding to trim Oleander out but I just got this one done under the wire! :)
Oh and sorry for the not so great photo quality... it was tricky getting the lighting to not show the metal sentiment as a black shadow that totally got lost in the background. Sigh... they always look better in person don't they?

Ok, I'm outta here... catch ya later! Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and PTI
paper- EK (Rebecca Sower Buttons), unknown stripe
Colorbox blackbird chalk ink
Prima flowers
buttons
Making Memories metal rim tag and metal word
Zva tiny pearl
Copic multiliner pens 0.3 and 0.1
Copic Spica clear glitter pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E70, E01, R11, E71
hair- BV02, BV04, BV08
eyes- YG95, YG97, YG99
clothes- E40, E41, 0, N3, N5, N7, N9, RV93, RV95, RV99
wings- C3, C5, C7, C9