Bo Bunny Sketch Challenge and some Simply Betty Fun!

Jacob's is on his way to Illinois with Cool Beans LB. 

Visit him here and win a great prize!

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Bo Bunny is having a Card Challenge Tuesday.

My gorgeous friend Karin recently lost her mum. 

She loves to scrap and hasn't found enough time lately.

 Here's the sketch:

I used Bo Bunny Time piece set and grabbed that matching chipboard set. Love it!

The flower is cut from The Timepiece paper also and the flower die cut is from Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake art.

(which is getting a huge run lately, because it is always in my cricut and ALWAYS seems to have a cut I want).

I just started at 1.5inches and kept cutting the same flower one size down until my blade said... 'No. Too small.' 

Yes. My blade talks.

Here is the inside of the card with my message to Karin wiped out for her eyes only. :) 

My love gifting is exclusive stuff.

Besides, I don't do soppy that well. 

But I wanted to show you this awesome paper. 

To make meaning on the front of the card. I didn't want to buy her flowers. They only last moments. I bought her a gift certificate at Inspired Crafts. She can make the memories of her mum last forever instead. 

She is a scrapbooker too and I know she will find healing with this gift much more than flowers can offer. 

Thanks Bo Bunny for a gorgeous sketch and the opportunity to let a good friend know I'm there for her. 

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While I'm on the sop...

May as well crank out this one too and really get the mush oozing out of your comp screen. 

Here's a digi layout using Pickleberrypop Great Outdoors Collaborative collection 'To Go' by Shawna. 

The sentiment says it all really. 

So before you say,

"oooooooo Chloe's soooo CLEVER, how DID she do that????" 

Well, I copied my photo, clicked and dragged it behind the box. Oh - and typed a text box. 

That's it. Done. 

It's a memory worth treasuring in a cute way, 

and it doesn't come much cuter or quicker than Pickleberrypop's 'To go' pages. 

But just for the record... I AM clever. Lol.

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I hope you are having fun at Simply Betty Stamps this week. There are challenges GALORE! Twelve challenges in fact! Counting down 12 days of Halloween and you have until 30th Oct to get projects in and guess who is starring on the 28th!!!

*That was not a trick question* 

Can not wait to show you what I have been doing on this!

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Haunted Design House - Lurid and Looming.

Well, Halloween is LOOMING so let's all get LURID!

This is my second HDH entry this week into their LURID and LOOMING landscapes challenge. I don't know if I am allowed to enter twice, but it doesn't matter if not, because I'm never in any challenge to win anyway, just having fun! 

BUT I thought of all the challenges I go in, 

the HDH fabulous minions would appreciate the spooky content of some of this post. 

Melloween is finally here. 

Well is right now, but I'm home. :( 

I went until the my son had a whammy and screamed the house down in true Halloween style...

I knew he wasn't going to last long. 

That's Ok. That's my lot! Boys First. 

This is Mel.

So here is one big fat looming and lurid landscape... 

An entire party! Minus the messed up zombies at the end.

I'm sure someone will take photos. 

Painted this on a shower curtain. 

Used my copics and stickles to zombify Betty.

Paper Lanterns.

Clay skulls ghosts.

Copic'd candles

(Skeleton Luka from La La Land Stamps in middle)

Megamungus spider.

A witch with a penchant for fashionable boots.

Copic'd (badly) up a zombie bunny for the boys at the bar. 

Vinyl drippy cups.

Ewww.

Watch out!

Gingerbread man is not running now is he?!

Carpet witchy dance.

 Neighbour yelling over the fence. 

And a spooky looking fence it was!

Zombie Hunters convention.

The grub table. 

Glass full of guts. 

Welcome mat.

Even the trees got spooky.

Foam Gravestones.

Liquid Nitrogen is a scorpion's choice of drink.

Then the loonies started arriving.

The ladies mirror.

Flesh Eating Zombie hunters.

Cheers to that!

YOUUUUUU ARRREEEE ALLLL UNDERRRRRR MYYYY 

SSSSPPPPEEEELLLLLLLLLL

Muhahahahahaha...

Come to the dark side and join me in the Haunted Design House challenge #111... 

  

Well, that should be enough macabre for one week. 

For the rest of the week I am going to post that much CUTSIE stuff you'll feel like you've been sucked into a 

Care Bear cartoon and spat out into Hello Kitty land. 

Beginning with Cindy's digis tomorrow... 

OOOOOOh so cute!!!

Whimsical Wednesday Word Collage fun! The end of this post will make you LAUGH!

Sink into your chair... this is going to be a long bumpy ride:

Woohooooo I hope you are joining my fabulous fellow DT ladies at Whimsical Wednesday for our Halloween Decor Challenge. "Halloween has crept into our homes."

Just for fun, and because the DT inspired me so much, I made a wall hanging using Word Collage, Happy Hauntings and Martha Stewart Seasonal Cakes. PLUS Echo Park's Apothecary Emporium paper, using Word Collage cartridge. LOOOOVVVEEE it all! 

Link up at Whimsical Wednesday HERE by 26th October. 

There are some awesome prizes!  

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I got the present from Curt Jensen yesterday in the mail.

I started playing around with the Word Collage cartridge making this project thinking I was pretty cool taking pics to show you this little tutorial!!!

 Make the cut and watch it chirp away happily.

Peel off the excess and go ooooooo at the pretty sight that took you no time at all to create. 

Use the excess paper as a template to stick all your letters on in the right spot.

little bit of Glossy Accents/glue pen 

(Or in hindsight the Xyron)

Then peel away the excess and VOILA!!! 

But then it dawned on me.

I felt silly.

I still do.

I COULD have just cut the letters out on the ORANGE SHEET and layed it on top of the BROWN...

Such as in this example:

One cut. Glue on the middle of the letters like the holes in O's and A's... and you're done. 

Simple.

If you like my collage I made for Curt and Elizabeth Jensen as a thanks for my special surprise in the mail and want to know how I melded two different types of cuts together and added a personal touch  - Read on. 

Using the Gypsy or Design Studio, use the HIDE function on the Advanced page for Gyspy (or right click for DS) and Hide the parts of the collage you may not need for now. 

Tip with Gyspy: Instead of trying to use a caffeine deprived shaking hand to select the little tiny parts you want to hide, click on PREVIOUS and NEXT a few times and watch what the RED part does on your screen. 

So now, just keep clicking NEXT, HIDE, NEXT, HIDE and repeat this several hundred times if you want to create this effect: 

and single out one word.

You can also use your TEXT button to add personalised words into gaps which you have hidden from the major background cut.

My over-achieving camera makes this shot look like a dyslexic mess, but it really is easy to see when you layer different cuts over the top.

I used the Thanksgiving cut as the major background cut, added a lot of singled out words from the Crafting cut and then added Curt and Liz as a personalised touch with text and fonts on my Gypsy.

Chirp Chirp (Ornamental Iron)

Jacob (Robotz cart)

hothop (Birthday cakes)

2011 (Boys will be Boys)

Blog (Blackletter)

Fun! Imagine the possibilites... mind boggles with excitement.

Did I mention I got a cool gift from Provo?

I think I did.

Speaking of Jacob.

Hope you have visited Sandra this week and the winner is HERE on her post saying Goodbye to Jacob:

 Thanks so much Sandra for being a fabulous Hostess!

NOW... he is headed off to see Cool Beans by L.B. in Illinois!

L.B. has a hoard of Jacob fans ready to greet him! 

Poor Jacob... His hard work has only just begun! 

He thought kissing Jinger at Provocraft HQ was pretty special... But he'll need some lip moisturiser now!