Happy Bombshell New Year

Hope you have some fabulous celebrations planned to bring in the new year.    This Bombshell gal sure does.   She's ready to party Vegas Showgirl style.   The image is from Bombshell Stamps Butterfly Queen.  The card is a mash up of two challenges Retro Sketches (rs95) and ColourQ (cQc221) challenges.

The Bombshell image is stamped using Memento Ink in in Rich Cocoa and colored with Copic Markers and accented with a Sakura clear Stardust Gel pen.

Here's an angled view to see some of the dimension.   The Bombshell and the main layer of the cards is pop dotted up using SU dimensionals.

And lastly, the inside of the card.   It's simple and mimics the front of the card.

  

Merry Muscle Car Wishes

This card is also posted on Bombshell Stamps' Muse Monday post today.  I got inspiration from two challenges: Retro Sketch 94 and Dynamic Duos 83. The card features Bombshell Stamps' Speed Shop Stamp set.  The car is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic markers. 

I wrapped pieces of ribbon onto a scrap of cardstock for the blue chevron accent.   The ribbon is from Stampin' Up in Marina Mist.  The background is embossed using Stampin' Up's Arglye embossing folder

 Printed papers are by Stampin' Up and SEI.   The cardstock is Stampin' Up Crumb Cake.  The greeting is from SU's retired Lots of Thoughts set.

 

And the inside of the card. 

  Here's the sketch and color challenge inspiration.

Patriotic Showgirl

This beauty is ready to celebrate Memorial Day in all her red white and blue glory.  Just think of her as one of the showgirls traveling the world to entertain our loyal troops. 

Featuring Butterfly Queen

Credit for the sketch goes to Retro Sketches (rs64).  

Stamps: Bombshell Stamps (Butterfly Queen)
Ink: Memento (Rich Cocoa)
Coloring: Copic
Papers: My Minds' Eye and Jillibean Soup
Cardstock: Stampin' Up & Neenah
Ribbon: Misc.
Accessories: misc Bling

Blue Harley Spin

This card is a challenge Mash up of Bombshell Stamps Monday Muse and this week's Retro Sketch #58.   I Bombshell Stamp's Muse Monday challenge was to use what happened to be one of my favorite stamp sets - Harley Bikes.   The motorcycle stamps are just awesome.   They really capture the character and a lot of detail of the real thing.  

 

Here's an angled shot to show some of the detail and dimension.

The inside is mostly still blank except for a simple image of the bike. 

This is the Retro Sketch #58 that I used for inspiration. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Bombshell Stamps ( Harley Bikes)
Ink : Memento (Tuxedo Black), Stampin' Up (Midnight Muse, Cherry Cobbler)
Coloring: Copic Markers
Paper: Stampin' Up Cardstock (Sahara Sand), My Mind's Eye printed paper (On the Bright Side)
Toosls: EK Success Corner rounder, Tim Holtz embossing folder (Diamond Plate)
Accessories: Hemp twine, Misc ribbon, Stampin' Up mesh.

Simply Love

I made this card a couple of days ago but am just now getting around to uploading it.  It's for the Retro Sketches Challenge #47 and if I'm going to submit, it's gotta be in before midnight.   Well, It's still before midnight my time. 

And thanks to Lyndal leaving me a comment below, I've also submitted this card for the Keep It Simple #6 challenge.   Thanks Lyndal.

Inside of the card

Supplies: 

Stamps: Stampin' Up (Papillon Potpourri, & Seasonal Sayings)

Ink: Stampin' Up

Paper: Stampin' Up cardstock

Tools: Stampin' Up butterfly punch,  Stampin' Up Embossing  folder, Martha Stewart Score Board (for the inside of the card)

Accessories: Pearls

Victorian Blue Christmas

I've been making some Christmas cards and needed to get out of the standard red and green color mode.  When I saw this week's Dynamic Duo's challenge (DD29), it was just the ticket.   I combined it with this week's Retro Sketches challenge (RS38) and came up with this card.  

The stamp I used is one I unmounted some time ago and wish I could recall the brand.  Some of the first stamps I unmounted, I didn't think to keep track of the manufacturer.   I want to say it's Good Night Media, but I'm not sure.  If you recognize it, please post. 

Here's a bit of a close up.  I used SU watercolor wonder crayons to add some muddled hues to the background of the image.  And markers, to go over the "Merry Christmas".  I also colored in a few little spots on the black and white print paper using a Marina Mist SU marker just to tie it all together a bit more.

...and a peek into the inside of the card.  I haven't add a greeting yet.  I'll do that as I get ready to send it.

Here's the sketch and color inspiration.   My main image was a bit large so I had to adjust the sketch, but the inspiration is there nonetheless.

Supplies: 

Stamp: Inkadinkadoo

Paper: Stampin' Up (Night & Day DSP, Subtles Patterns stack), SU Cardstock (Marina Mist, Basic Black, Whisper White)

Ink: SU Basic Black (gotta wait for it to dry after stamping)

Coloring: SU markers, SU watercolor wonder crayons

Tools: EK Success Border punch on the inside

Accessories: SU ribbon

Birthday Winner

I love the ColourQ combination this week.   The turquoise and orange are just such a fun and vibrant combination. I was also determined to use the elephant in this fun new stamp set called You're Amazing from Stampin' Up.   My local demo, Chris Galbraith and I were talking about the elephant and the birthday hat.  So I just had to make use of him.   Here's the card I came up with.

I used my Copic markers to color the elephant.   I stamped the Winner tag back ground using one of the stamps in the stamp set and several masks.   The little tickets are stamped, punched and pop dotted out. 

Here you can see the dimension and all of the layers. 

Lastly, the inside of the card.   Most of the supplies used are Stampin' Up,

Here's the ColourQ inspiration for this week.  The only black I ended up using is the ink for the stamped image, but it's there.

I also used some guidance from this week's Retro Sketches challenge, though I deviated some.  I just needed more white in the card to balance it all out and reduced one of the strips. 

Supplies

Stamps: Stampin' Up (You're Amazing)

Inks/Color: Stampin' Up Inks (Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie), Memento (Tuxedo Black), Copic Markers

Papers:  Stampin' Up cardstock and printed papers, Neenah cardstock for the elephant colored with Copic markers. 

Accessories: Stampin' Up ribbon, misc. brads,

Tools: Stampin' Up Embossing folder, Stampin' Up large scallop circle punch, circle cutter, EK Success tag punch,  EK Success border punch used on the inside of the card.

Challenges: rs25, cQc151

Black Bow Wishes

Two challenges provided the inspiration that created this card.   For the colors, I was inspired by this weeks Dynamic Duos challenge and for the layout, I used this week's Retro Sketch.  I started with the colors and pulled papers with black and/or River Rock.   I settled on the papers from Stampin Up's Neutral's Patterns Stack.   The prints use an image that is also part of Stampin' Up's Artistic Etchings stamp set.  Voila, I have my paper and stamp set.  Next is to assemble it all using the sketch.  

Additional supplies include SU Very Vanilla cardstock, SU black satin ribbon, and a SU antique brad.

 Inside of the card.

Color and sketch challenges used. 

Newly Wed Elegance

I don't have any cards in my stash for newly weds, well...now I have one.   I used last week's Retro Sketch #24 and last week's Dynamic Duos #15 as inspiration. I wasn't paying attention to the challenge cut off dates and missed the submission deadline, however, I enjoyed the inspiration nonetheless.   I don't get to do these challenges that often, so this is a treat.   Here's what I came up with.

The embossed layer is slightly smaller than the card base and popped up.   I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  I cut the pink medallion using my KNK Zing after tracing the image using Make the Cut.  I wasn't sure I'd like the medallion and may end up investing in the die after all.   The upper left corner is rounded using a Martha Stewart punch.  It has a bit of a larger radius than some of my other corner rounders.

The seam binding ribbon and antique brad are from Stampin Up.  The greeting is stamped in Certainly Celery Classic Die ink and using a stamp from Stampin' Up's Teeny Tiny Wishes set and then punched using SU's Word Window punch and layered on a punch out (SU Modern Label punch).   Add some pearl accents and SU dimensionals and the front of the card is complete.

Here's the inside of the card. 

And lastly, icons from the two challenges I used as inspiration. DD15 and RS24