Simply Challenged Challenge ~April ~ Anything Goes!

Hello, everyone! I hope you are all finding yourselves well. Me, I am venturing into new areas of the craft world. I finally took the plunge and became a vendor at a fair! I'll make sure to write a post all about it very soon. Now, on to business!


Today is the start of a new challenge over at SCC. So make sure to stop by and check out all the creations from the DT and the winners from the last challenge.








This month's challenge is Anything Goes and we girls at Simply Challenged Challenges used images from the 4th of July Betties for this.

Here is my card using BBQutie Betty.

 

I used some bright papers and a butterfly border punch to give this card a summer feel. What do you think? Did I pull it off?

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Spring Has Sprung Teen Scene Release!

Hello, all! It's the first of March and time for the first release of the month over at Simply B Stamps! This collection is called the Spring Has Sprung Teen Scene Collection! And it is made up of images perfect for all your spring creations; with bees, bugs, and beetles!

Check out the cards I created with this adorable stamps!

Beetle Christian.

Buzz Buzzing Jude.

Daisy Boy Miller.

Flower Child London.

Fluttering Butterfly Betty.

Miss Ladybug Lola.

Moth Man Chris.

Princess Bee Rio.

Go and check out what the other DT ladies created with these adorable stamps! These images are now available at Simply B Stamps!

SBS
http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/

 Corinne
http://wishuponascrap.blogspot.com

 Celina
http://scrapvamp.blogspot.com/

 Irene
http://irenescardcreations.blogspot.com/

 Trish
http://scrappintillthecowscomehome.blogspot.com

 Rachel
http://rachelspaperwishes.blogspot.com/

 Kaylou
http://kayloucraftyblog.blogspot.com/

Punky Scraps Challenge #47

Hello, all! Today I bring you a page I created for Challenge 47 over at Punky Scraps. Check out the challenge below and visit the Punky Scraps Blog to see what the other DT members came up with. I hope I will see some of you participating over there!

Hey, everyone!! It's time for a sketch challenge. Here is the sketch created by our fearless Punky leader, Natalie:

Here is my take on the challenge:

Monochromatic Monday 4-18-2011

Hello, all! I can't stay long but wanted to drop off my Monochromatic page for today. I have a lot of assignments for my class and not much time to finish them! This week's color is Lilac Bush Purple with the twist of adding as many butterflies as you can.

Cuteness layout. This is a photo of my youngest daughter with our dog, Attila, when he was a puppy. He was such a darling little thing! To get as many butterflies as I could on this page, I stamped the background full of them then cut some in various sizes to glue on. I also stitched some flowers onto the paper using my Bazzill In Stitch'z templates and some purple embroidery floss. The flowers are Prima and 7 Gypsies (Thanks to Pat aka Gentlewood Farms for those!).

Tea Time Tuesday 2-8-2011

Hello, all! I have something really fun to share with you! At least it was really fun to create! Over at The Altered Alice Blog they are running their first monthly challenge since taking over for the Oh! Alice Blog. Here is the challenge in there words:

To reflect all these puzzling changes, the challenge is to make something that features a dress form, OR to make something that changes in form! While it is not required that your project include Alice in Wonderland, we do encourage it. If your project does feature Wonderland you will get two chances in the prize drawing instead of one!


I thought about doing a dress form on my project but I'm not really into the dress form craze that is going on right now and so I began thinking of something that changes form. What better thing than a caterpillar changing into a butterfly?! So I took that idea and used a fabulous sketch over at the Pages In Time Blog and designed this page below. Look carefully because the caterpillar changes into a butterfly in the next picture. Following the photo of the page, I'll show you how I did it.

Sketch for Thursday Sketch at the Pages in Time blog. 

Metamorphosis (caterpillar) layout. Using the beautiful sketch from Thursday Sketches at the Pages in Time Blog, I created a base for my design. This is the caterpillar part.

Metamorphosis (In Between) layout. There is a "wheel" underneath the striped green paper on which both the caterpillar and the butterfly are on and as you turn it, the charachter "changes".

Metamorphosis (butterfly) layout. Here is my version of the butterfly the Disney Caterpillar turned into in the movie. I used many flowers from my stash, The Paper Studios Basics papers, Thickers, and a whole lot of stickles. (Sorry my watermark navigated itself onto the photo, lol).

So this is where I started with this idea. I used a regular little eyelet to fasten my "wheel" to the background.

Here is where I realized that if I kept the wheel where it was, my characters would bever fit. So I moved the circle over some.

This is the green striped paper strip for over the wheel. I added quite a few layers of mounting tape to make sure it was raised enough.

This is me arranging things and testing the wheel mechanism. 

Here you can see that I love using Stickles! Lol! The butterfly wings are stamped and cut out and glued on a different color of caterpillar.

This is a close-up of the face on the flower. I made it with a push mold and modeling clay and painted it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze in Northern Lights