Hip Hop Hooray

Howdy All!!

It is the last Wednesday in August -  OMG IT IS THE LAST WEDNESDAY IN AUGUST!!!!! Where the hell did the month go? Since it is today, that means it is Hump Day Hop for Bombshell Stamps.  Our hostess with the Mostest has challenged us to be shiny in this hop and GO GILDED - i.e. use Metallics! 

I decided to make an ATC, and a new product I have (gelatos). 

I used some of the Bombshell Butterflies and colored them in silver and gold (silver and gold, Everyone wishes for Silver and Gold - OMG - NO... It is NOT Christmas yet!!!!),

I took a black ATC base that I had and used the gelatos and SMUSHED them around. I used two colors - a gold and a silvery bronzy thing. I spritzed VERY lightly and mixed the colors and left it so the black comes through. I then stuck the butterflies and metallic elements and VOILA... A metallic background with metalic-ish colored butterflies and metalic elements. WHOOP.

OK... Last but not least - FOOTBALL STARTS

GIG 'EM AGGIES !!!!! WHOOOP!!!!! - BTHO South Carolina

GO DUKE and #47!!!!!!

Here is the BLOG HOP list! :-)

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/

Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Kim: http://craftypinkanchor.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/
Suzi: http://www.suzannebakermckenzie.blogspot.com/
Marnie: http://www.papertivity.blogspot.com/

See you soon!!!! Alaine

I HOPE this week goes really quickly!

Today I am sharing another take on Hope!

This time I wanted her to have DARK wings. Lovely blue wings. I used B24, 26, 29m then the new copic white with built in brush to add some details. I also wanted to have some fun with the hair, so I went HOT PINK with RV21, 23, 25, 29. The greens are YG21, 23, 25 and 17.

Once she was colored, I stamped the image on the green paper, and then cut her out and stuck her to it. That allows for all the gorgeous swirlies to be there on the colored paper but also to allow the image to be colored on the white. I am loving this technique and use it a lot now.

Just so you all know the Zen Beauties collection is available in Red Rubber, and HOPE here is available in both rubber and digi format.

For those of you who love all things Digi - Susana has released several new digi stamps in the store. There is an adorable little hungry seal, a ghost and pumpkin, another fairy with a cupcake :-) and a flowerful owl, along with several other images. You can see the entire collection here.

I hope you all have a good week. All I know is I am looking forward to this coming weekend a bit too much. COME ON LONG WEEKEND!!!!!!! With any luck I will actually have a 5 day weekend and only a 3 day work week this week! WHOOP WHOOP.

Lets have a party!

Hello and happy weekend. Today I am sharing with you my latest creation using one of the new rubber stamps that have been released by SCACD. This stamp is Party Lights Border.

I made what I would consider a small party invitation. This was a fun image to color, but it was difficult for me to figure out how to get it to look the way I wanted it to. But once I did, I LOVE the way it turned out.

First I stamped the image twice. Once for the background and once to fussy cut. I used my copic airbrush to color the background image with dark blue and light yellow for the glow. On the second image I colored all the light bulbs. I then did the hardest part of cutting out all of the light bulbs. I ran them through my little Xyron X thingie, and then stuck them on top of the background image.

Once that was done, I added clear sparkles to the bulbs themselves and then gold dots on the rest of the chains hanging.  I cut the image out and glued it down on gold sparkly paper. Then I gut out the wings out of the same sparkly paper using the Steampunk Wings Pair Die. I also ran this through my xyron to get the wings sticky, and then attached to the sides of the stamped image. For this I ran the top part behind the image and the bottom of the wing in front of the image. I then stuck the entire thing down on dark blue paper.

It looked good, then I messed it up and tried to write with my stickles. EPIC FAIL. So I decided to cut out the entire thing and then place it on a small folded card piece to make it a smaller card. The inside can now read anything I want, and it really frames the image. I love it more than the original idea!

Sketch Wednesday -Bombshell Time

Hi guys - it is time for a Bombshell Challenge - this time I am on time. I am here today to present you with the Bombshell August Sketch Challenge.

I used Growing Hearts image and sentiment for this piece. Just so you know - this is a REALLY BIG Tag - like abnormally large. I colored the image and then to make it fit, the tag had to be obscene. Just saying. 

I colored with purple the head dress. V15, 17, 09. The reds are R12, 14, 17, 29 and the greens are G12, 14, 16. The yellows Y11, 15, 19. The final section is the white skin. If you don't color anything then it looks just unfinished, so I used BV0000, 000 to finish the skin and give it dimension and actual lifelike quality - even if it is portraying death. :-)

Ok - Apparently I am VERY TIRED>... lol. So I hope you enjoyed my sketch and my ramblings. I hope you join Bombshell for the sketch challenge. and our other challenges this month!!!!!

Lucy in the sky

Hi all. I hope you are having a wonderful week. I had an awesome weekend. Got a new car, my youngest daughter passed her permit test and will NOT be allowed to drive my new car, and I was able to be pretty crafty.  One of my projects was to color Faith from the Zen Beauties collection.   I think I should actually call her Lucy. I saw that movie to this weekend. It was BlackWidow meets the Discovery Channel.

And this pose reminds me of Lucy from the movie at times. Well when she wasn't kicking rear and blood all over the place. I mixed the brown and blue together and added a bit of green. I made her skin the lightest I could to give her a bit of an ethereal look. Once done, I added a bit of the bronze dots. It is not very easy to see here, but there are some dots coming off of her feet and it looks like she is blowing some sparkles. This gave it a bit of movement.

One trick I wanted to share with you all is the curly cues at the shoes, wings and hair. If you want to fussy cut something with trailers and curlies, cut them off. You can't get them to cut. I promise you. What I did here was to stamp the image a second time on the patterned paper. I did this with versafine as I wasn't going to color it. Once done I clear embossed it. I fussy cut out the image, and then taped it down over the second stamped image with the curlies. That way you can get all the detail of the image but not be limited to the white background or a background to color.

I hope you all have a great week and keep coming back to check out the inspiration that the design team has for you.

Alaine

Ghouls Only

Hey all. Well, things have been crazy (What else is new), so I wasn't able to get this project done for Wednesday when Ms. August from Bombshell set her challenge of an Easel Card. But Better late than never right?

I have used Bombshell Angel and dressed her up in this lovely witches outfit from the Halloween Costume digi set. 

I have colored witchypoo with purple, orange and green copics. Yeah - I am whacked. LOL. The greens are YG13, 17 and 25. The Purples are V91,93,95,99 and the oranges are YR23, 27 and 16. (I had to look at those - cuz I NEVER use them. LOL). The skin is E50, 51, 53. 

Once I was done, I cut her out and edged her with the copic black marker so when I poppped her u p with black pop dots, you don't see a black edge. For the layout I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday 322 (Which I am entering this into).

 

The sentiment came with the Digi set as well. The ribbon was from my stash and the paper - one of them is from an Authentique paper pad and the striped one - Sorry - - I don't know it is from my stash of 6 x 6 paper, so I don't remember it. 

I hope you all are having a great weekend. Have a wonderful week - see you soon!

Serenity - It's not just a dog or a ship!

Hi All... this beauty full of zen is Serenity.

She is one of the new Zen Beauties and is actually a very calming image. I colored her with my Copics. My favorite is the blue against the pink petals of the flowers. Really love the pretty flowers on this image. They are so beautiful and dainty.

She is embellished with all sorts of silver dewdrops.

Colors used include: B60, 63, 66, 69, YG61, 63, 67, YR000,00,E11, RV81, 83, 85 and E70, 71, 74.  The background is BV00 and BV01. I tried to make it a bit darker on the edges, and lighter near the lovely Serenity.

So, to talk to the post title... Our dog is named partially after the Firefly class ship Serenity with the name Snickerdoodle Serenity. She looks like a snickerdoodle as she is a Cavalier King Charles.  We also have another one (He just turned 1 a couple of days ago) and his name is Malcolms Chaos Theory after Captain Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly / Serenity and since we had a Serenity we needed a Chaos.... and the final is the Jurassic Park tie in with Ian Malcolm and his famous Chaos Theory. So now I have explained my title.


Come on weekend and crafty time!!!!

Have a great one guys!