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.

  

Butterfly Red

I'm really quite late posting this.  At the beginning of the Summer I saw these moulds and white clay from Martha Stewart hit the shelves.  I just had to try it out.  I mixed the clay with some red ink and made this gorgeous butterfly.   I then colored the clay with my Copics and some sparkly markers.   Gorgeous!

And a bit of an angle for a better view.

Supplies: 

Cardstock:  white cover stock (Hammermill); Real Red (Stampin' Up)

Tools: embossing tin (Spellbinders); mold & clay (Martha Stewart)

Coloring: dye ink, markers (Copic), sparkle pen (Sakura)

Accessories: dimensional adhesive. 

Roaring Birthday

Here's a perfect birthday card for a guy in your life.  This project is also posted on the Bombshell Blog.  Check it out.   The image is stamped using Tim Holtz Distress Ink, embossed with clear embossing powder, and then colored with Copic markers with a touch of sparkling silver added here and there using a Gelly Roll Stardust pen by Sakura.

And for any of you that might be wondering why I've been posting less lately.  It's simply that day job thing.  Work has been intense for the last few months and there's no sign of it letting up.  So when I come home, it's all I can do to run the kids to their engagements and then I'm just zapped.   I'm sure many of you can relate.

and the inside of the card

Supplies: 

Stamps: Speed Shop (Bombshell Stamps); greeting from Pennant Parade (Stampin' Up)

Ink: Distress Inks - Walnut Stain for the car and Vintage Photo for shading (Tim Holtz/Ranger); Riding 

Coloring: markers (Copic), Gelly Roll Silver Stardust pen (Sakura)

Hood Red (Stampin' Up)

Printed Paper: Lost & Found (My Mind's Eye)

Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip (Stampin' Up)

Tools: circle punch (Creative Memories); scallop circle punch (Stampin' Up); Sequence embossing folder (Lifestyle Crafts)
Accessories: cocoa pearls (Close to My Heart), dimensional adhesive; clear embossing powder

Mermaid Splashes

This card is also published on the Bombshell Stamps blog.  The Muse Monday set for this month is Mermaid Anchor.  Isn't she just gorgeous.

Here's a close up.   The mermaid is fussy cut after coloring and mounted using dimensional adhesive.   She colored using Copics and has some shimmer added to her fin and legs using a Sakura Gelly Roll pen.  

and the inside of the card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Mermaid Anchor (Bombshell Stamps)

Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento)

Coloring: markers (Copic); silver Gelly Roll pen (Sakura)

Printed Paper: Splash (Little Yellow Bicycle)

Cardstock: Midnight Muse, Baja Breeze, Poppy Parade (Stampin' Up); white (Hammermill)

Accents: Pearls; dimensional adhesive.

Racing Blues

This is for April's Bombshell Stamps Pin-Up challenge.   This month's pin up, Theresa Abajo, challenged us to make a monochromatic card.  I used Bombshell Stamps Vintage Raceway stamp set, colored it with Copics, and then decided to hunt down a printed paper to match.  One of these days, I'm going to have to pull out the paper before I color.

Supplies: 
Stamps: Bombshell Stamps (Vintage Raceway)
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black)
Coloring: Copics, Sakura (Stardust Clear Gel)
Paper: Stampin' Up
Cardstock: Stampin' Up (Brilliant Blue, Night of Navy)
Accents: misc ribbon
Tools: Martha Steward (large corner rounder)

Featured Stamp Set: Bombshell Stamps (Vintage Raceway) 

Green Hot Rod Holiday

This post is also featured on the Bombshell Stamps Blog today.

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Happy Holidays from one roaring mean hot rod. Speed Shop is my newest Bombshell Stamp set and I couldn't wait to break it in.   This big ole hunk of a hot rod winked at me and just begged to be stamped and colored.    I had good intentions of using him in a sketch, incorporating him with other accents, and just dressing him to the nines.   But that's not what he apparently wanted.  He wanted the stage to myself.   So somehow, I ended up using a Bombshell stamp in a clean and simple card... and I love it.

I carefully ran the colored image through the printed to add a greeting, added some brads and then a bit of layering.  The layers are pop dotted up from the page.   And if you look closely, there's a bit of shimmer on this beast's paint job... just the trim work.

Supplies:
Stamps: Bombshell Stamps (Speed Shop), Computer generated greeting
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black)
Coloring: Copic, Sakura Gelly Roll (Clear Star)
Paper: Strathmoore Bristol Smooth, Stampin' Up (Poppy Parade, Basic Black), Canson (Gold Shimmer)
Accents: Paper Studio (star brads)

Happiest Birthday Flowers

Without this week's ColourQ challenge, I never would have put this combination of colors together.  And for a while there last night, I didn't think it was going to happen.   But before the night was out, I had this card designed and most of it compiled.  I finished it up this evening.

I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch for the layout.  

Here's a close up of the elements that helps show all of the layers. I made my own DSP by stamping on white and then embossed it for texture.  I had to carefully line up the pattern and run the piece of paper through a second time to cover the entire 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 piece of white.   On top of the pennants, I added the label cut out by hand.  I really wish SU would have released that shape die in the size to work with that stamp.  It's just a tease knowing that SU has a die in that shape, but it's too small.  The flowers are stamped and layered using pop dots.  The bits of ribbon are added to mimic leaves for the flowers.  I managed to adhere the label down before I stamped a greeting onto it, so I improvised and added another pennant with a greeting.  I think I like it better this way anyhooo. 

And the inside of the card.  I stamped some more of the flowers and used some craps of the pattern paper from the Twitterpated DSP for another pennant. 

These are the two challenges I used as inspiration for this card. The first is the Mojo Monday sketch and the second is the ColourQ color combination challenge. 

  

Supply List

Stamps: SU Everything Elanor, SU Apothecary Art (for the greeting)

Paper: SU cardstock, SU DSP (Urban Oasis, Twitterpated, Welcome Neighbor)

Inks: Stampin' Up

Markers: Sakura Clear Star Sparkle Gelly Roll pen

Tools: SU embossing folder

Accents: SU Gumball Green stitched ribbon. 

Challenges: mojo256, cQc152

Hubby's Santa Card

I love that Santa stamp so much to where I had to use it for my hubby's Christmas card.   

Supplies:

Paper: Stampin Up Cardstock

Stamps:  Stampin Up Christmas Punch, Unknown Santa stamp (I unmounted it and don't recall the brand)

Ink/Coloring: Stampin Up Classic Ink, Stampin Up Watercolor Wonder Marker, Sakura Clear Star Gel Pen

Tools: EK Success Border Punch, Stampin Up Curly Label punch, Spellbinders dies

Accessories: Misc. Ribbon

Santa's White Christmas Card

This was last year's Christmas card.   Since I made dozens of these, it had to be a design that I really liked.  Thanks to my local Stampin Up Demonstrator, Chris Galbraith, I found the layout I wanted to use.  Hopefully she doesn't mind me posting her name and linking her blog.  She's a great gal.   I did turn that layout into a white and silver color scheme with this Santa stamp I picked up ages ago and he really needed to be put to some use. 

I started running out of ribbon and brads.  After digging through my stash and a trip to Hobby Lobby, I found a few alternatives.   Here's a sampling.  They still turned out quite similar. 

Supplies: 

Paper: White cardstock, silver shimmer paper I picked up at Xpedex.

Stamp: Unknown - I unmounted it and regretfully didn't track the mfg.

Ink & Coloring: Stampin Up Black Classic Ink and Stampin Up Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star sparkly gel pen

Tools: Cuttlebug embossing folder, aqua painter

Accessories: Misc ribbon, various brads

Technique: 

I colored the stamped image using Stampin Up's Watercolor Crayons and an aqua painter.   After the imaged dried, I added a bit of sparkle to the berries and bell on Santa's hat.