LOTV Challenge

Hi everyone, I'm back again today with another card. This one I made for  the LOTV challenge.

This week they have an awesome sketch to follow by Bev.

And here is my take on it.

Again I have colored with prisma pencils. Added some dies's from Marianne Designs, spacers, rhinestones, charm, lace, ribbon, and glitter.

Well that's it for today..

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

Happy Halloween.

Hugs, Linda

House Mouse Challenge

Morning all, Hope your all enjoying this beautiful Fall morning. I'm here today to share a card that I made for the House Mouse Challenge.

The theme is

Fall

 

As always I have colored with prisma pencils.. Added a few

 felt leaves and that's it.. Well I'm off now, got to run to the store and get Candy

 for all those little Trick or Treater's..

 I'm really bumbed that My little grand kids and great grant kids live so far away now, and I wont get to see them  all dressed up this year. That's a first..   :(

Well you all have a wonderful Halloween and stay safe..

 Thanks everyone for stopping by and for all your lovely comments.

 Hugs, Linda

The Great Secret Pumpkin Exchange Blog Hop

Morning all. hope your all doing well, If you arrived here from Rio's your in the right place.

How was your hopin' yesterday? 

Are you ready for more ?  I hope so cause we have a new bunch of DT members and guests for today's hop! Tomorrow is one day till Halloween, and you can all guess We are happier than a tornado in a trailer park! HA! 

Ok, ok, here is the blog hop list for today. Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for the announcement of the last prize and how you can win that prize,for todays, and yesterdays!

Today's prize is this awesome bucket... it contains six brand spankin' new stamps from our Jude and the Rockers Fall release, embellishments, and candy! All the fun stuff in this bucket will allow you to make six cards total, and have extra paper for more projects if you wish!

Details on how to win this prize will be in tomorrow's post, be sure to come on by tomorrow for our final Hop day! Of course I have one single prize for today and that too will be a new secret Betty digi that will soon be available, but again only in clear stamp form! Only the DT and the winner of today's Betty will have her in digi form TOMORROW! Everyone else will have to winner on different occasions!
Now here is what my secret Pumpkin
Lelia
gave me

Pretty cool !!  Ok so now Your next stop is Erika's,

Get to hoppin' and have a Ghoulish good time!

Like yesterday you start and end here at Simply Betty Stamps Blog, your next stop is Betty, of course you will be directed to the next person from there, but here is today's complete list in case you lose your way:

SBS

Betty

Cyndi

Rio

Linda (your Here)

Erika Guest

Robin Guest
Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..
 Hugs, Linda

One for the fun of it..

Morning all, Hope your all doing well and enjoying your day. Well I had a little time on my hands yesterday so I made this card  and wanted to share  it with you..

I still have a ton of Christmas cards I need to try to hurry and get made..

I have used one of last years LOTV images on this one..

As always I have colored with prisma pencils.. The beautiful snowflake border die cut, and snowflakes, are from my dear friend Patty.. I know they are going to be on my

Christmas wish list now!!

I absolutely love them.. I also added some lace, pearls, and the sentiment is one from my stash..

Well that it for this one.. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.. Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda  

Saturated Canary Challenge

Morning everyone.. I'm back again today with another post.. This card is

 for the Saturated Canary Challenge. 
The theme this week is
 As Easy As 1-2-3-
1-image
2 designer papers
3 embellishments

 The darling little image

 I have used is called

Noel

She is just one of the newest images that Krista has released in her shop

HERE

As always I have colored with prisma pencils. Well I hope you like her..
Thanks for stopping by again and for all your lovely comments.
Hugs, Linda

The 12th. Day Of Halloween

Morning all, Well are You all ready for the last day of the 12 days of Halloween?

Let's recap a bit... you have until the 30th at 10pm PST to enter any of the 12 days. Each day has prizes. One person will win each prize for each day by votes. One person will be chosen to be the next DT member for 2011, you must enter all 12 days and have the most votes to win this prize!

Now that the recap is out of the way, let's get on  to the last day...

On the twelfth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Twelve bats a-flying

Eleven casks a-leaning

Ten ghouls a-groaning

Nine ghosts a-booing

Eight monsters shrieking

Seven pumpkins glowing

Six goblins gobbling

Five scary spooks!

Four skeletons

Three black cats

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree

As you all may have guessed, incorporate bats in your projects! 

Today's prize is any three digis in store, winner's choice! Not too shabby!  We will see you tomorrow for a fun Hop!

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

 Hugs, Linda

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone, hope your all enjoying your day..I'm here today to share

 a card that I did for the MMSC.
 They have an awesome prize 4 House Mouse stamps.. WOO HOO gotta love that!! So I going to  give it a go. There is a choice of two SKETCH'S  you can follow
I picked this one..

Here's my take on the sketch.

I used one of my little HM Happy Hopper stamps..

As always I have colored with prisma pencils.. hope you like it..
Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..
 hugs, Linda

MO's Digital Pencil Challenge

Hi everyone, I'm back again today. Yep this is my second post today, so I do hope you will scroll down and have a look at my Paper Shelter DT project..

I wanted to join in this weeks challenge over at Mo's Digital Pencil
And I hope I'm not to late..
I absolutely love this darling little image and wanted to work a card
up using it for my little grandson (Cage)

As always I have colored with prisma pencils. Added
some prima flowers, rhinestones, and glitter..
Well that's it for now.. Ive got to go pack, Im leaving in the morning for Calf..
You all have a wonderful week..
Hugs, Linda

The Paper Shelter Challenge

Morning all, Hope your all well and enjoying your day. Are you all ready for a

new challenge at The Paper Shelter. I hope so cuz its that time again.

This week The A team is hosting the challenge and the theme is

ANY THING GOES

I have used ( I may have exaggerated image)  

on my project today. You and find her here.

I really had a lot of fun making the little book.. First I painted an old book purple, Added the gauze some DP, prima flowers, MS punched bats and spider webs. A skull button,

and some little spider from my stash..

My grand daughter stopped by and saw it and loved it.. So I gave it to her.

I hope you will come join us this week.

We love seeing all your awesome creations..

Now don't forget

If you enter the challenge and you used a Paper Shelter image, and you are randomly selected in the drawing, you could win a $15.00 gift certificate to spend in The Paper Shelter shop. If your creation is randomly selected, but you did not use a Paper Shelter image, you could still win your choice of one digi image from The Paper Shelter shop Isn't that great!? That means that everyone can play.

Well thanks for taking the time to stop by today and for all your lovely comments..

 hugs, Linda

Day 9 of the 12 Days of Halloween

Morning all.. well here it is day 9 already, of the 12 Days of Halloween over at Simply Betty Stamps

On the ninth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Nine ghosts a-booing

Eight monsters shrieking

Seven pumpkins glowing

Six goblins gobbling

Five scary spooks!

Four skeletons

Three black cats

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree

So today all you have to do is incorporate a ghost in your projects. Like yesterday you have two chances to win the three new images we will be introducing today... Lulu, Hamlet, and Priscillia! One lucky winner will get these three digis by simply leaving a comment, the other lucky winner will win the images by participating in today's challenge.

Hamlet

Lulu

Priscillia

Thanks again for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

 Hugs, Linda

Day 8 of the 12 Days of Halloween

Happy day 8 of the 12 days of Halloween! Today we have combined the 8th day with a new release sneak peak! That's right we have a brand new line, and they are the cutest! Let's get right to it...

On the eighth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Eight monsters shrieking

Seven pumpkins glowing

Six goblins gobbling

Five scary spooks!

Four skeletons

Three black cats

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree

So today you must incorporate a Monster in your projects pretty simple yeah?

You will see three of our newest stamps appearing on our projects today, the new line is called the Coquettes and today we are presenting Cosette, Nicolas, and Lolli! Please let us know what you think! Leave a message for a chance at one of these digis (they will not be available in digi form)! Today's prize is also all three of these in digi form, but of course you have to participate and join today's challenge! That's two chances for all three of these fun images in digi form!

Nicolas

Cosette



Lolli

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

hugs, Linda

Happy Holidays with Saturated Canary

Hi all, Hope your enjoying this beautiful Sunday.. I was so excited when Saturated Canary came out with this Beautiful little images last week .. I just had to grab her up..

Tomorrow there will be more adorable images released and I cant wait to head on over and grab some more.. They are such a dream to color up..

Here is another one.

Well I do hope you all have a wonderful upcoming  week.. Thanks for taking the time to stop by today and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda

One for the fun of it.

Hi All, I had such a great time yesterday pulling out a lot of my old Christmas stamps and images.. I forgotten how many I have..  I picked out a few of my favorites that I want to work up this year..

On this one I have used one of last years LOTV stamps..

As always I have colored with my prisma pencils. Used some MS punches, ribbon,

lace, flowers, glitter and pearls.. I hope you all have a wonderful day..

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments.

Hugs, Linda

Old Saint Nick

Hi everyone, I'm back again. Yep this is my second post today. This one is  just for the fun of it.. If you would like to scroll down you can check out my 5th day of Halloween card..

 Ive really been feeling in the mood for Christmas,  so I thought Id get started on those many cards I need to get done. I absolutely love this darling little  Old Saint Nick form Sugar Nellie..

You can find him here

As always I have colored with prisma pencils, Added Some glitter to his hat and suit but it does not show up to well.. Added spacers to the snowflakes with rhinestones, & ribbon.. 

Well I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and get lots of crafting done..

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

 hugs, Linda

On the 5th Day of Halloween

 Morning all Hope your all enjoying your day. Well were all most half way through the 12 days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps.. Are ya still with us.. Here we go now with day 5.
 On the fifth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Five scary spooks!

Four skeletons

Three black cats

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree
You all know what to do right? Just add spooks to your projects, either five spooks, one spook with the number 5, it's open to you imagination! Now remember we will be watching really closely at the participants, the more you enter the more of a chance you will have at that big prize of being part of the DT for 2012! Let me tell you, we have some awesomeness coming in 2012!

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments.
 hugs, Linda

Day 4th of Halloween

 Good morning everyone. Hope your all doing well.. Are ya all still with us?? Hope so..
Here we go then.

On the fourth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Four skeletons

Three black cats

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree
So there you have it. Your projects can feature the item for that day, the correct number of times, or have the number and one instance of the item. i.e. twelve bats or number 12 and a bat! Open to interpretation.
Today's prize is the lovely Addams Couple in digi, yep for the first time and only time available in digi to one lucky winner of day 4!

Well be sure to pop on over and have a look at the awesome creations the DT has done up for your inspiration.. Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..
 hugs, Linda

Day 3 of The 12 Days of Halloween

Morning everyone, well how are you all liking the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps  so far.. Ive been having a ball playing along with all these cute little images..
Today's Prize is another non digi released digi... Evil Queen Rio from the Teen Scene Halloween line! YEEEHAW! I know many, many of you bought these awesome stamps, as they were never available in digi form, and let me assure you that they will continue not to be available in digi form unless you win them. I encourage you to still play along for the digi version as you can have lots of fun with digis! They can be colored digitally, re sized, merged... well lots of fun! I do hope you will all continue to play along and again you have until October 30th at 10PM PST to upload for day 3!
On the third day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Three black cats

Two trick or treater's

And an owl in a rotten oak tree

Well I hope you'll come join us and have a look at the awesome creations that the DT  has done up.. Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..
Hugs, Linda

Day 2 of The 12 Days of Halloween

 Morning everyone, are ya all ready for Day 2??

On the second day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Two trick or treater's

And an owl in a rotten oak tree

Well be sure to pop on over and have a look at all the awesome creations that the DT has done up..
 Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..
 Hugs, Linda

Stepping Down

Hello again everyone.. Well I hope your all enjoying this beautiful Monday morning.. I wanted to pop back in, and fill you all in with some decisions that I have made.. After much thought and talking it over with hubby.. I have decided to Step Down from most of my DT commitments. My health has not been that great since I had my heart attack a yr. and a half ago.. And I think its time for me to start taking better care of ME.. I also feel the need to spend more time with my family and friends.. So I will be saying Far well to;

Bizzy Bec’s Blue Butterfly Stamps DT

Anita Be Stamping DT

And at the end of Oct.

Simply Betty Stamps DT..

I have so enjoyed designing for these Fantastic Ladies and working with their awesome images!! It has been such a joy getting to know so many talented DT mates!! I know I’m going to miss the groups and all the chatter and sharing in their life’s.. You gals are all just Amazing!!!

I will be staying on at The Paper Shelter.. And I Will still be doing cards, but just for the fun of it. I’m also hoping that this will give me more time to hop around and visit my followers and leave them some love.. Well thanks you all for understanding..

 Big Hugs, To all !!

Linda

Day 1 of the 12 Days of Halloween

...My true love gave to me

An owl in a rotten oak tree!

Welcome to the Simply Betty Stamps second annual 12 days of Halloween! If you all joined us last year, welcome back! If you are new, hang on to your coloring media it's going to be a bumpy Broom stick ride!

Let me explain the game... unlike last year where you had two or three days to complete your projects, this time around you have until the 30th of October to upload all your projects for all the 12 days. Of course each day will have it's own linky, but you must upload your projects accordingly. Each project must be a new project. On the 30th, all links will close, the winners will be announced on Nov. 5th. There will be several winners, but one person that enters ALL 12 days and is best of the best will be chosen to be a part of our DT for 2012!

For today you must create anything; card, scrap page lay out, altered item.. ANYTHING using an owl and creepy tree in your project. Pretty simple right? 

You have until 10pm PST on the 30th October to upload your project and be considered for the prize.

The prize for today is Miller Igor from the Teen Scene Halloween in... DIGI form! That's right you heard me right DIGI form for one lucky winner! The Teen Scene Halloween line has never been available in digi form, nor will they ever be in the future, so you may want

 to play along on for this one! 

So get going on that Owl in a Rotted Oak tree project!

Well that's it for today see you all tomorrow for day 2..

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

 Hugs, Linda

Saturated Canary Challenge #2

Good evening everyone, WOW!! Did this weekend every go by fast.. It was such an

 awesome one that I didn't want to see it end.. My Daughter her son and My Son and his two girls and grandson all came to visit..The only thing that would have been better is if all the kids,

 and their family's could have been here.. I'm really hoping that they will all make it next month for Thanks Giving..After all there's nothing better than spending time with family..

Well On to my card, or I should say cards.. I'm so loving these images.

 There such a dream to color up.. This week at Saturated Canary Challenge the theme is

Stitching.. (Real or Fake)

I went with the Fake..On my first card I have used Peggy Sue  

You can find her here

This little cutie is called Let it Rain

As always I have colored with prisma pencils.. Hope you all like them.. Id like to Welcome all my new followers.. So glad to have you following my blog!!

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to stop by today, and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda

Merry Christmas Teen Scene Release Day

Morning all, Hope this beautiful Friday finds you well, I'm sure ready for the weekend to be here..At SBS were all pretty excited that today is release day for these darling little Teen Scene images..

Today you will find three more awesome images from the Teen Scene Christmas line! Now here's the cool part... This will be the very first and limited time only these Teens will be available in digi form!   It is for two weeks only.
Today I only have one image to share with you so be sure to pop on over

And have a look at the rest of the images.. And the awesome creations the DT has done up.Now Id like you all to meet

 Betty Sally.

Well that's it for now.. Have a wonderful weekend..

 Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda

More Holiday Cheer from Simply Betty Stamps

Are you ready to see more of these darling little Christmas cuties??  I hope so cause today we are showing off Frosty Rio and her Snowman!  And  Scrogged Miller. They are from the 

Teen Scene Christmas collection.

We will also have a few more images to show you tomorrow..And then the Release..

Frosty Rio

Scrogged Miller

OK so I forgot to tell you yesterday that if you leave comments on the DT's cards & Simply Betty Stamps, you will have a chance to win one of these stamps. Well thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda

The Paper Shelter Challenge

Morning all, Hope your all well and enjoying your day. Here it is time again for a

new challenge at The Paper Shelter.

This week The A team is hosting the challenge and the theme is

We Love Animals

I have used  Teddy Bear Picking Flowers

on my card today. You and find him here.

As always I have colored with my prisma pencils. Well thats's it for this one.

I hope you will come and join us this week.

Now don't forget

If you enter the challenge and you used a Paper Shelter image, and you are randomly selected in the drawing, you could win a $15.00 gift certificate to spend in The Paper Shelter shop. If your creation is randomly selected, but you did not use a Paper Shelter image, you could still win your choice of one digi image from The Paper Shelter shop Isn't that great!? That means that everyone can play.

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda

It's Beginning to look alot like Christmas

Morning everyone, Well it really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas over at

 Simply Betty Stamps this week.. Today we are previewing

Two of Seven, of the Christmas Teen Scene images

First up is Merry London

And Here is Season's Greeting's Lola

We will have more to share with you tomorrow, so I hope you'll pop back by and have a look..Your going to want to check out the rest of the DT's creations there all just awesome.. Thanks for stopping by today and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda

Hand me Downs from Saturated Canary

Hi everyone, hope your all doing well.. I had a chance to play today, And of course I

 just had to use another SC image..

This one is called

Hand me Downs.

As always I have colored with prisma pencils.. Now I'm really not a fan of the color Yellow.. So I'm not sure why I ended up using it on this card.. OH Well

 something a little different from me.. Well I hope you all like her.. She was

 so much fun to color up.. Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

 Hugs, Linda 

Meet Janessa form Saturated Canary

Well Happy Sunday all, Hope your all enjoying your day.. Just a quick post here today..
I was so excited to get my hands on some of the newest images

 from Saturated Canary.

I really love coloring them up.. They just seem to come to life..

Today I have used Janessa 

Isn't she just adorable.. As always I have colored with prisma pencils.. I did her with gray hair like mine. Wish I had her shape..LOL!!  Well that's it for now you all enjoy the rest of your day.. thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda

Trick or Treat Kitty

Morning all, Hope this raining Friday finds you all well, and enjoying your day.. For the life of me, I couldn't sleep last night. So I thought Id just get up and make another card..

I used another Saturated Canary image

Trick or Treat Kitty

You can find her here. Now your really going to want to pop on over to Krista Etsy shop to night at 7:00 EST as she is going to be adding 7 new images.. WOO HOO !! Cant wait to see what she has come up with.. There sure to be adorable!! Im going to enter this in ;

 Little Darlings Challenge

Crafts and Me Challenge

 Well thanks everyone for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

Hugs, Linda

Saturated Canary (Cornelia)

Hi everyone, Hope your all doing well.. Are you all staying warm.. Ive been freezing all day today. I turned the heat on and then wouldn't you just know it the power went off..

BRRRR!!

I really don't like the cold...

Anyways I did have a chance to make a card today..

This Native American beauty is called Cornelia Indian, and you can find her at the wonderful Krista Smith's Etsy shop called Saturated Canary Digis.

I just think she is so cute..

As always I have colored with my prisma pencils.. Added a few beads, some pearls and raffia.
I'm going to enter this in
Papertake Weekly Challenge
Crafty Card Makers
Do You Stack Up
Well Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments.. Hope you all have a good night..
 hugs, Linda

Blog Hop

Welcome to the Xander Zone!!  You are in for quite a trip through todays Blog Hop and Auction.  Our dear friend Betty Roberts, owner of Simply Betty Stamps has just found out this week that her 17 year old son Christian has Stage 1 Throat Cancer.  He will be having surgery next week and many months of Therapy to follow.  (To read more from  Betty on what’s going on please go HERE)

Betty’s DT and the Crafty Sprouts DT along with a few friends have come together today for the From the Xander Zone Blog Hop and Auction!  If you are stumbling into this hop please head to Crafty Sprouts to catch the beginning of the hop!

If you hopped here from Carley's then you are right on track!

As you hop along today you will see cards created with Xander, the first in a new series to be released called “From the Xander Zone”.  He is available with a donation to Betty’s family.  Christian will be undergoing Surgery next week to remove his tonsils and then the thrice weekly Therapy will begin on the tumor.  His therapy could last for many months.

                                                                

There is also  a contest running through October 16^th and Christian will pick a random winner who will receive the whole collection!  The details on the contest are at the SBS blog.

As you hop today you will also see many cards and projects up for Auction.  In order to make a bid on an item leave a comment on that person’s blog with your offer AND your name and email address.  Please remember that it might not be you who gets the winning bid, so check back if you really want it! 

At the end of the Hop (Tuesday night October 11^th at 9pm EST the auction will come to a close.  Winners will be sent a paypal invoice and the Winners will be announced on the Simply Betty Stamps blog.  Please note that we are asking for timely payment, with 48 hours of the announcement on Tuesday morning or the runner up will be chosen.  This is for the simple fact that Betty’s family needs this money as quickly as possible for all of these unexpected and out-of-pocket needs.

Here is my card for Christian

Using  Xander

Phoebe

is also from this line.

From here please hop over to Pam's

If you get lost along the way, here’s the hop order!

Crafty Sprouts  

 Cyndi

Kristi 

Suzi 

 Zeni 

Wendy

 Rebecca

 Vicki

   Alison  

   Raven 

Jess 

  Lea   

Lelia 

  Sandra
Aeryn

 Nicole  

  Elsa 

  Cheri  

Carley  

 Linda

Pam

Susan

Simply Betty Stamps

Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

 Enjoy your hop!!

Hugs, Linda

One for the fun of it

Morning all, hope your all enjoying this beautiful Sunday morning.I wanted to pop on and share this fun card I made up, using a darling Wee image.

Christmas Bunny

You can fine it here

As always I have colored with prisma pencils. I added some snowflakes with glitter on them but it

does not show up to well in the photo..

I going to enter this card in the

 ABC Challenge 

Well everyone I do so hope you all have a wonderful day.. Thanks for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

 Hugs, Linda

Release Day at Simply Betty Stamps

Morning all, hope your all doing well.. Is it starting to feel like Fall to all of you??

It is here, and at Simply Betty's, So were going to start it off with

 Jude and the Rockers Fall Release..

Ive got to tell ya I just love these little cuties, and I'm sure you will too..
There is also a reason why we did not do a Preview this time.  Some very sad new
 to be shared with all of you over at Simply Bettys so please be sure to pop
 on over and help if you can..

First up is

Jude Pumpkins

Ali Baby Turkey

Brittany Bundled Up

Ariel Sunflower

Lilly Pie

Oscar Leaves

So there ya have them what ya think?? Cute huh??

Well I hope you will hop on over and have a look at the awesome creations the DT has worked up..

And then do a little shopping!!

Thank you all for stopping by and for all your lovely comments..

 Hugs, Linda