12 Days of Christmas Day 1

Well better late than never eh?  Sorry about my delayed post.  

Today for the 1st day of Christmas I have taken my Witch Mina Halloween image and given her some Yule time Cheer!  I loved coloring her up in Christmas colors!  It almost looked like she was meant to be an elf instead of a witch!  Of course minus the skulls, but skullies are my thing so I don't mind them on her elf hat at all!

I used the following Copics: R27, R46, R39, E00, E95, R02, W5,W6,W7,W8, E50, E55, C3

Papers were from Die Cuts With a View Mat Stack and K& Co stack

I used my Stars Nesties, ribbon from Creative Impressions, and Cinnamon Stickles.  The background stamp is from Stampendous and the Sentiment is from The Cat's Pajamas coated with the Cinnamon Stickles!  Gotta love those Stickles!

I hope you all like her, lately my mojo is missing and I am second guessing myself!  

So Thankful...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I wish you all a wonderful day filled with love, laughter and those you love and cherish.

I have so many things to be Thankful for these four being the top of the list:

Jude @ 9 months

 Christian @ 16 

Rio @12

 Daddy & Jude @ swim lessons 

For moments like these:

I am Thankful for those I can call friends, and do so much for me and indulge me really in my ventures: 

Eulanda 

• Angela
• Cheri
• Barb
• Gloria
• Jennifer
• Lady B
• Lelia
• Linda
• Meredith
• Nicole
• Patricia 
• Suzi
• Tracy 
• Debbie 
• Lisa
• Lori (this awesome woman gave me my first DT spot, encouraged me to get my little Stamp company going and is there to listen to me anytime I call her!)
• Christy  

So Thankful for new ladies I will get to know better and have the pleasure of their company (yeah I know it's just online, but it counts) 

• Danielle
• Tracey O
• Rebecca
• Rosa

• So, as you can see I am very blessed and Thankful for many things every day of the year.  Tonight my little sister (21) and I will cook dinner, put up the tree, have great conversation, and color some digis!  I am Thankful for today and everyday I spend with her as well, as we don't get to see each other too often.  She is studying to become a Veterinarian and I am so proud of her!  

Here she is enjoying a cartoon with Jude

While I miss my little Bro Many and other Sisters Amy (on mom's side), Emily and Kim on dad's side.  

I am Thankful for all of your wonderful support, your comments, and all of my customers without you all

there may not be a Simply Betty Stamps so from the very bottom of my heart Thank you SO much for being a part of my world!  

Hugs, 

Betty

Stampotique Designers Challenge #20

SDC 20 Bling Bling

This week's host is : here are a few word from  Kim herself: Kim Prince here- I am so excited to be offering the challenge again this week!
With Christmas right around the corner, I thought the theme of BLING would be
fun! I love seeing sparkles, shimmer, and shine. So, make your project to
include bling of any kind. This weeks challenge is open to Stampotique Originals
stamps only. This is a great way to grow your collection of Stampotique
Originals stamps, as Carol and Jim, the owners, are giving away a fabulous $30
gift certificate to their store! So, come and upload your card and play along
with us, we would love to see what you come up with!

I too love seeing bling, and love how the snow actually sparkles in the sunlight.  So, I thought of a Sparkly Snowflake with the Stampotique flair of course!  So I have used Noelle found at Stampotique Originals of course, Die Cuts With a View Christmas Mat stack, and the skull was made by my good friend Gloria, check out her Etsy here.  

Well, it was quick and simple, but I really liked the outcome.  See you all soon!


Yay blogger is letting me upload again!  Here's my card!

Recipe Swap!

Hi everyone!  Today I have a yummy dessert for your Thanksgiving dinner!

I am not a Pumpkin Pie fan, but this one is absolutely delicious and hard to pass up.  I believe it is called

Pumpkin Crunch 

I got this 12 years ago when I attended my very first Creating Memories get together and just fell in love!  I make it every Thanksgiving now and it's gone before it has time to be called a left over! LOL

Hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients

1 (29 ounce) can pure pumpkin (Libby's)

1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk

4 eggs

1 1/2 cups white sugar

2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

1 teaspoon salt

1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix

1 cup chopped pecans

1 cup margarine, melted

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 

Line a 9x13 inch baking pan with foil and spray it with baking spray.

In a large bowl, combine pumpkin, evaporated milk, eggs, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. Mix well, and pour into the prepared pan.

Sprinkle cake mix over the top of the pumpkin mixture, and pat down. Sprinkle chopped pecans evenly over the cake mix, then drizzle with melted margarine.

Bake for 60, let cool for 2 hours or one hour in the fridge.  Turn Pie upside down on your platter remove the foil and serve!  Goes great with Vanilla Ice Cream or Top with whipped topping when ready to serve.

Harry Potter Rocked!

Well I survived the Midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1!  It was just me and my two older kiddos Rio and Christian!  We got to the theater at 6:30 and the lines were already insane, luckily all 16 theaters were playing it and at different times!  That was awesome, we did the same for HP6 at a different theater, and that was a complete nightmare!  The lines were insane and when the doors opened everyone was just trampling everyone to get a good seat!  Needless to say we ended up at the front with our necks twisted the whole movie!  Yesterdays experience was much nicer.  They sold tickets according to show times and theaters... not bulk tickets open the flood gates and get what you can!  So, we bought the tickets for the 12:05 showing, sat for several hours played Scrabble, Cards, had real conversations with my teens!  OMG that is almost unheard of!  Just had a wonderful evening with my kids.  I missed hubby and the little one, but the cool thing is that now I have an excuse to see it again, have to take hubby on a date right?  Hee hee!

Here we are just playing away!

My cutie

My handsome boy

We started one game with Harry Potter and made up words that we would only find in the movie or with the HP theme it was quite difficult!  But loads of fun.

Digi Meets Rubber Challenge #7

Hello everyone!  Sorry I am running out the door for the midnight showing of Harry Potter... so I am going to post my pictures and tell you all about them tomorrow... after some sleep.  I have to drive one hour down the mountain and one up the mountain for this movie... so I will probably be beat by the time I get home!

See if you can figure out my rubber backgrounds!
Okay on this one I used Cheri's awesome sketch from a past challenge, better late than never eh?  The leaves on the Spellbinder Nestie is my stamped background from Inkadinkadoo Thanksgiving line from 2007!  The DP is from Dream Street papers Tea for Two.  Love the clear glittered FALL letters from Fancy Pants and the image of course is from my online store the Steampunk Gang!

For this one I used two rubber stamp sets... the clocks and circle words are from Hero Arts, and the snowflakes on the Nestie are from JudyKins!  It was so cool pulling out my rubber stamps and using them!  I think I may do it again!