My book of nightmares

Good morning!

Hope everyone is doing great! Today I'm joining as Guest DT for Simply Betty Stamps. Last month I won a couple of little trivia questions Betty gave out at the SBS Fan page... This one was Mr. Gibbs from Pirates of the Caribbean.

If you're just visiting me... Thank you very kindly if you'd like to hop along to see what the SBS DT and other Guest DT created just go to the start:
http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/2013/09/creeps-and-zombies-walking-around.html

Okay here's the image..... BUT let me warn you it's super scary. LOL it's scared me... when I opened the file I was thinking what in the world will I make with that? LOL I tried my best to make it look "dark" even though hubby says it's not dark enough (he was talking about my color choices but he loves the image.) Ha!

Okay, okay, okay.... here it is---

This image was drawn by Abigail Larson for SBS. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Screams of horror Right? That's how I felt. LOL

I decided to cover up a composition journal and make it into a "nightmare journal..."

I colored my entire image with copic markers and I freehand wrote:

"My Book of Nightmares" on the scrolls. 

Betty definitely put a challenge on me with this image. LOL 

I decided to give this to my husband... Lets see if I can read what he writes... heehee.

You can purchase this digi at:

http://simplybstamps.net/item_2377/Mr-Gibbs-Zombie-Pirate-Digi.htm

 or the entire collection

http://simplybstamps.net/item_2374/Zombies-and-Creeps-Bundle-Digi-set.htm

Hope you had fun,

Katya Bess

Hello Kitty Composition Book & Bookmark

Hello Everyone!

Hope all is well. I finally finished my first altered composition book. I used my Cricut Expression to make the shapes and letters. I made this especially for Rosie Mini's challenge: Hello Kitty Birthday Challenge. Here is the link: http://www.scraplovingminis.blogspot.com/2012/06/hello-kitty-birthday-challenge.html

Rosie's daughter is turning 19 years old TODAY! Happy Birthday Ruth! She loves H.K. as so does my daughter and myself.

I left space at the top to "personalize with a name"

I used my Hello Kitty Greetings Cartridge to alter the composition book and make the tiny bookmark. I now kick myself in the butt for not buying the Hello Kitty Font when I had the chance; I went on eBay to "try" to buy it and ALL and I mean ALL listings were over $100.00 that's crazy! I just used Baby Steps cartridge to create the font this time. I embossed the glasses on the big Kitty and the small Kitty (LOL) to give them that "shiny" look.

Here is a "mini bookmark tutorial:"

With a square about 4 inches or so. Mine was 3&3/4 by 3&3/4

fold in in quarters. Cut the as shown in the pix. You'll have

1 square and 2 triangles that you can toss or keep as scraps.

on one of the triangle flaps I also cut just a sliver because

when I folded it down it created a little bulk. 

Fold in this fashion...

use bone folder if necessary to make the crisp folds

paste your nerdy Hello Kitty.

Finished bookmark

Hope you had fun... now to link up at Rosie's place.

Thanks for visiting.

-Katya Bess