MissAlaineous' Mosaics

Two cards - just not the one I was supposed to have done :-(

2012-02-08T18:11:00.000-05:00

Hey all. It has been a crazy few days with me being sick, my little one being sick, work making me crazy! I have not posted much, but I do have two cards I finished over the weekend to share with you.

The first is a Stampavie stamp that I felt like coloring. I used a bunch of BVs and R8x and YGs and Gs... I know so specific of me... I just don't remember all the different colors. I thin close up my favorite part is the dotting I did on the green with the violets. If you also go close up, I attempted to make the Rose bottle look a little transparent... there is a slight tip of the leaf green you can see through the bottle. Just a bit.

The second card I did for Flourishes Release Week Challenge of B+W+1.

Obviously Red (R27 to be specific) was my +1. :-)

And the card I was supposed to do - maybe I will get it done tonight... Sorry Bombshells - I was a very bad girl this week... Naughty Naughty Alaine! But, you should really head over and check out the Bombshell Stamps blog today to get in on the Sketch Challenge - the ladies have some really different takes on the sketch that Kathi provided today!

I hope to have some new cards for you soon. Have a great week!

Mushroom School

2012-01-29T17:57:00.000-05:00

Hey all. I got a wild hair and just started looking through stamps today. No clue what I wanted to color. Not much was jumping out at me. Until I came across my old Cornish Heritage Farms Mushroom Lane stamps. They are ADORABLE stamps, and I decided I needed to make a little red schoolhouse.

I looked up some red mushrooms and found all sorts with little white dots on them. OK. Call me weird, but I really thought that those little red mushrooms with white dots were just made up whimsical things. They actually exist. WOW. Ok... so I decided after I colored my red mushrooms that I had to add the little white dots. Once I had colored it (colors below), I started digging through my DCWV stacks. I have this one stack (the Green stack) that has all sorts of cutesy things in it - including mushrooms and owls and stuff like that. This paper was in there. So I cut out my mushroom (leaving a LITTLE bit of white around it (not what I usually do), and then added it to this sheet. Afterwards I used my Nestie to make the tag out of another paper in the pack, and mounted both of these on red.

The colors I used are:
E40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47
G40, 43, 46
R32, 35, 37, 39, 59
Y35, 38
BG000
W1, 3, 4, C5
B41
Copic White for the dots.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you back again soon!

A New Bombshell Hop

2012-01-25T00:01:00.000-05:00

New Technique that is! That is right - Alison, the Hostess with the Mostess has challenged us to celebrate the new year, with a NEW technique. I hope you arrived from Laura's Fabulous blog. If not, head on over to the Bombshell Blog to start this New hop of right!
So we had to pick a new trick. Well... if I am anything - I am an overachiever - so I chose to try TWO NEW to me techniques. OK... two really SMALL techniques.

The new techniques?? OK... so I did say - new to ME. The first is that I antiqued the "Frame" I used a Nestie and cut it out and embossed it, then got some gold rub and buff and applied it using a q-tip (and yes - it was actually the q-tip brand) :-)

The second technique was the crackle. I have NEVER been able to get this right. So I took the mermaid from the Mermaid Treasure set and colored her upper half. Once I cut her out I glued her to the frame and I applied crackle accents.

So I ended up happier with the crackle (Surprise surprise) than the "antiquing"... Maybe I should have stuck with a single technique. ;-)

Hop on over to Sparkly Mary's blog and see what she has cooked up for you. If you get lost along the way, then you can check back here, as I have the entire list below.

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Laura: http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/
Sparkly Mary: http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com
Meredith: www.papercanteen.com
Cheryl: http://inktrap.blogspot.com
Paula: http://heyheypaula-heyheypaula.blogspot.com/
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Stempelientje: http://stempelientje.blogspot.com/
Glittery Katie: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com
Kathi: http://kathstales.blogspot.com

Have a great crafty day, and I hope this hop has inspired you to try something a little new.

Challenges I am entering with this Card:
http://sundaysketchandstamp.blogspot.com/2012/01/sunday-sketch-stamp-90-donnas-sketch.html
The Crazy Challenge # 103 - Vintage
Stamp with Fun Challenge #144 Cute Vintage - She is IMO one of the cutest Bombshell Stamps there is
Creative Card Crew #2 - Seeing Red

Bling it ON - Kenny K style

2012-01-23T20:20:00.000-05:00

The Kenny K challenge this week is to Bling it up. You all KNOW I can't resist the blingy bling.

I colored her outfit up in shades of blue - B9x series to be exact. I wanted a rich blue. Those are the ones I usually use for Denim, but this time I just colored a little darker and a little bit smoother than I do the denim look. Her skin is E00, 11, 13. The browns are primarily E3x and I added in some dark E79 to some of the piping to provide some contrast. The golds are Y11, 23, 26, 28, and the mettalic on the tank and her shoes are C1, 3, 5 with a touch of E04 to make it look a little rusty.

Her hair and her skirt are BG70, 72, 75. I added in the black dots with enamel accents. Then came the BLING. I used dark blue Jolees to go around the oval lacey Nestie. Then I wanted it to appear as if the gun was shooting. I used multishaded blue and brown Jolees in various sizes and did the bling coming from the gun.

I hope you all enjoyed this today. Don't forget to come back on Wednesday for the BOMBSHELL Blog hop.

See you soon!

Traditional Wedding Gown

2012-01-21T16:24:00.003-05:00

Hey there lovely friends!!! I got in my "new to me" stamps from Bombshell the other day, and one of the ones I got was the gorgeous Lucky Bride. She reminds me of the lovely Spanish brides. Traditionally, the Spanish Wedding Gown was black, so I colored her up in lovely black satin. Then I added a touch of red to dress it up. The greys are C1, 3, 5, 7, 9, the reds R22, 24, 29, 39. Her skin is E00, 11, 13 and her veil is BG0000 and E50. I chose t5o try to go pretty simple with just the silver paper behind and then adding the black bow with white flower and pearls. The hose were a little plain, so I chose to try to mimic the swirls from the veil on her hose... and make it look like lace there as well.

I am entering this in a few challenges this week.

My Sheri Crafts Challenge - #77 New Things - - the stamp is NEW!
Drunken Stampers Challenge - #81 Love - The hearts are on there, and it is meant to be a bridal card
SCS Friday Free for All - Have a Heart or Two - - There are hearts on the fan
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday - Have a Heart

Hope to see you all back here again soon! Have a great rest of the weekend.

Sweet Pea iCopic Fairiy

2012-01-19T20:40:00.002-05:00

The iCopic challenge this week was to give some love to your lonely Copics. You know - those ones you don't use very often. Wow... I can actually say that of the colors I used on this, the R29 and 39 are the only colors I use frequently.

I used one of my Sweet Pea stamps. I love the images. They are so pretty. I started my color scheme with the greens. I picked the greens I use the least - those ended up the YG91, 93, 95, 97, 99. I colored her dress. I really wanted to work on adding a lot of depth of color. So I made sure I went across the entire spectrum. Once I was done with that, I moved onto the Poppies. Those are red... OK... So I looked at my more orangey reds - R02, 05, 08 and colored them up. I added in the R29 and 39 on the edges. The yellow centers are Y15.

I moved on from there, to the fairy's skin. So I looked at the colors I usually use, and decided to go all out with this challenge. I have not used (that I remember) YR0000, 000 as skin colors. So Voila. I used a little BV000 in the shadow. Now - onto her hair. Hmmmmmm.... Of the browns, I KNOW I don't use the E9x series, but I don't have enough of those to work with... Plus the ones I have pretty much would make it look like her skin is peeling off of her head in strips. So that won't work. So I moved to the next least used... E70, 71, 74, 77, 79. I then added a little stardust to some of the strands to make it sparkly. The last two colors I used were for the leaves and stems - BG93 and BG96, and then Y0000 for the background.

Although I crossed across pretty much all levels... the 2x, 0x, 7x, 9x, etc... and not natural blending families. I am pretty happy with how it came out. (The sentiment is from Flourishes).

Hope you come back soon. :-)

Why don't you Tag-along with the Bombshells?!!!

2012-01-17T19:56:00.001-05:00

Ms. January, Laura B., has challenged everyone to a game of tag! That's right the January Pin Up challenge of the month was to create a tag using your Bombshell Stamps, or make a project that includes a tag. I got new to me stamps in the other day - the wonderful Alter Skulls, and decided that I needed to make my project using that set.

I used Warm Greys to add some dimension to the skull itself. The reds are R32, 46, 59. The yellows are Y32, 34 and then I added in some R46 into it to give it some color. The little swirls on the skull I went over with a green brush copic multiliner. Once I was done coloring up the skull, I went over the black in the eyes, nose and mouth with a black brush multiliner. I love how it looks. I used a Nestie I have to cut out the brown lacy background, and then added some hotfix crystals in amber to the different areas.

Now... Why don't you head on over to the Bombshell Blog (Wednesday morning) and see what all the lovely Bombshells have in store for you. And then, go ahead and enter into the challenge. You could win yourself some new rubber!!!!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Tic Tac Toe - The Crazy Challenge (lace, image, gems)
No Flower Embellishments - Crafty Cardmakers Challenge No. 59

Queen of Hearts

2012-01-15T18:22:00.000-05:00

This is the Queen of Hearts from Kraftin Kimmie's December release. I had so much fun coloring her. I colored her once before, but somehow she disappeared under the new sectional that I can't move. :-( I really liked the colors on her there too, oh well... I will find her eventually.

I followed the Kraftin Kimmie Sketch Challenge Sketch (and I am entering this in that challenge. I colored her up primaril with the R2 series for the reds, although there is a bit of R59 in there as well. The Yellows are primarily Y2x series, but I started with a base of Y11 to give it a bit more brightness. The shadow is BV00.

The sentiment is a little weird to me. My husband agreed that it didn't quite fit the Red Queen theme from Alice in Wonderland... but I think it fits the card pretty well. I used the red heart cards from a little Jolee's pack of cards, and I matted all of them in black to mimic the rest of the card. And the ribbon is two different ribbons. I think it worked out well considering where the panel on her dress is, and that it kind of matched. Other than deciding to layer the ribbon there, it was actually a happy accident in that the sketch had it going across there. I always intended to do gold ribbon, but saw the red and black dots and thought it added something.

OK... Enough rambling. Hope to see you back soon. I have a really blingy project I worked up for the Bombshell Pin-up challenge that goes up on Wednesday... and I am getting ready to be all colorful a bit more in a few. :-)

See you soon!

Ahoy Sketch!

2012-01-11T00:01:00.000-05:00

It's Bombshell stamps sketchy time! Kathi came up with this gorgeous sketch to design to this month. I decided to use Ahoy Sailor with the DCWV Tradewinds paper for my take on the sketch. I stamped the image twice. Once on the base paper that I cut out with a Nestie. While still in the Nestie I used B41 and B45 to airbrush. The color was a little bright when done so I went over that with the C3. I tried to focus the airbrush more on the outer edges and get lighter as I went in.

The second image I colored up with R32, 46 and 59, B91, 93, 95, 97. I added a light touch of B0000 to white of her collar and her hat. Her skin is E000, 00, 11 and a dab of R20 for her cheeks. Her hair is E23, 27, 29. Once I assembled the card, I cut out the second image and pasted it on top of the first image on the base. I did it this way, so that her tie could fit over the bottom panel.

Now, I hope that you head on over to the Bombshell stamps blog and check out what all the Bombshells have prepared for you this month. And remember if you play along with the sketch challenge you have a chance to win a free set of stamps. Where is the bad in that???!!!

See all of you soon!

Smooth Sweetie

2012-01-06T23:07:00.000-05:00

Hello there. Having a great evening just a coloring away. I actually designed this card tonight to meet a couple of challenge requirements, and I am SOOOOO happy with how it turned out.

iCopic Lover is having a challenge to color smooth or shiny hair. That is where I started... See I don't have a lot of images with smooth hair. So... I found this cute Paper Pretties image I have and then went and looked at the Paper Pretties challenge for the week. They want you to use brads or eyelets on your project. OK... hmmmm... I don't have a lot of those. Luckily I dug through a bunch of supplies, and found these three flower brads with blue sparklies.

I colored the hair with E21, 23, 25, 29, 39, 47. Whew... that was a lot of browns, but as I said I really like how it turned out. I also used BG11, YG21, 23, 25, BV00, 11, 13, B21, 23, 24, 26 and G21, 24, 28. Her skin is an unusual combination of E000, E11 and BV000 with R20 for cheeks and lips.

I really tried to work on the shading on her face, and shadows... I think my favorite part was how her shadows on the face ended up looking. I don't know why. Just it looked more "real" than usual.

OK... So as I said I am entering this into the Paper Pretties challenge, and the iCopic Lover Challenge.

Have a great weekend and see you again soon!

Dark Heart

2012-01-05T21:43:00.000-05:00

I made this card as a tutorial over at Bombshell Stamps Blog scheduled for Friday the 6th of January. For the heart I used Sacred Heart Art, and stamped the image with white on black linen paper. I embossed over it with white EP, and then colored it with a white Prismacolor pencil. I cut the heart out, and then popped it up over the black linen paper below it.

The white paper with the polka dots was made by brayering versafine onyx black onto a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I ran it through my Grand Calibur and then I clear embossed over it quickly. I then just started layering. Once done, I wanted the theme of the dots to continue and so I added the pearls around the edges, in the corners, etc...

I hope everyone has a great lovely crafty weekend!

Quick Tag

2012-01-03T17:38:00.000-05:00

So... I have a really quick tag today that I made for the Kraftin Kimmie challenge.

The tag itself was from VERY heavy black cardstock. I added glimmer mist, and then sponged on some purple and green. Once I had all that done I VersaMarked it and then Clear Embossed it. It has a really cool effect in person. You can kind of see the swirly colors here, but not as well. The Cheshire Cat image was colored with RV62, 66, 69 and BV00, 01, 02, 04. Over the top of it I added Crystal Effects to make it more sturdy. The tag is layered and in the end I added these picks I found in the Wedding Area of Hobby Lobby. There is not as much difference in the purple on the tulle compared to the purple on the cat. Again - I NEED to work on my picture taking skills.SIGH.

OK... That is it for the day. Hope to see you again soon.

A Steamy Dip

2012-01-02T12:38:00.001-05:00

Hey there all. I have been even more inspired due to the December Bombshell Theme of Steampunk to get more steampunky all around.

I used this amazing Kenny K image to create my Steampunky vision. WILDLY enough I picked the colors and then found paper to match the colored image. I couldn't believe I found this paper. I nearly fell into shock when I did, and that it worked so well.

Because she is a lovely deep sea Steam gal, I decided to use a lot of BG7x series in addition to the browns. For the browns on her outfit I used the E7x and then the boots and leather stuff are E3x series. As always, when I want to show something sheer, I color the underneath part as if the sheer overlayer is not there. Then I use the color of the sheer items and color slightly over it to make sure that the underneath AND the sheer colors are mixed in.

I had a LOT of fun with the golden and metalic colors on this.

For the gold, I used Y11, layered with Y23, 26 and 28.. then I added some E07 in spots to add some red depths to it. For the silvery metal pieces / or pewter / iron???? I am not sure what the metal would be, I used the C1, 3, 5 and a little 7. Once I was done, I used a little bit of E04 to give it a patina. I LOVE love love overlaying the colors with the Copics. It gives such interesting depth and changes the look entirely.

I finished her up by adding enamel accents for buttons and stuff on the leather. To get them that tiny was REALLY hard... I did pretty good on most. HAHAHA. Because it is still going on, and it fits the Challenge of Anything Goes - - I am entering this into Kenny K's challenge this week.

Ok, Hope to see you back soon. Have a great day. I intend to as it is back to work tomorrow!!!!

New Year - New Post

2012-01-01T13:55:00.001-05:00

New Card!

I made this the other night. I prmarily used Y0x family with a little Y1x thrown in... the greens are YG21, 23, 26. The Image and Sentiment are Flourishes. The paper is Basic Grey with DCWV Shimmer cardstock for the green and yellow. I popped up the heart on the green cardstock, and I think by using the darker colors behind the lighter ones on the image, it almost looks as if the flowers are layered on themselves.

I hope you all have a gorgeous 2012, and hope to see you back again soon.

Last Christmas Card of the Year

2011-12-31T10:24:00.001-05:00

Hey there guys. This is the last Christmas Card I will be posting for the 2012 season. Yeah, I know... Christmas is over, Blah Blah Blah. But, I didn't get this one posted, and so I will just do so now! HA!

This is a gift card holder I made for my cousin for the Christmas gift exchange. I used Stamps by Judith, and different shades of blue. The snowman itself has shades of B0000, 000, 00 and a little sparkly stuff thrown in. The scarf and mittens are the B2x family, and 24, 27, 29. The boots and hat are C1 - 7. Once I was done, I cut out the image, and then I left it in the hodler and used my airbrush to place B24 (I think) as the sky. I tried to make it darker at the edges. If you look at the image up close, you can see the overspray on some of the snowman and hat of the B24. I actually really like this effect. To me it softens it a bit, and makes it seem as if it is snowing maybe. In the end I added some Gelly Roll Clear Star to it to give it some sparkle (the snowflakes and the lights and a little on the snow.

The inside was done with the same colors, although the from panel ended up being REALLY dark compared to the other. Need to practice a little better control. LOL. Actually looking back at the pictures I think it is the little image inside that is the off color. Hmmmmm.

Anyway, hope to see you back soon. I have a spring card I have made and will post soon using Flourishes stamps, and I have been having a blast coloring up some of the new Kraftin Kimmie Alice in Wonderland series - although I am thinking I need more practice on Alice. And as always, January brings a month full of Bombshell goodness with it.

Talk to you soon.

Give it to Me ONE MORE TIME!

2011-12-28T00:01:00.000-05:00

Hey there y'all! It is that time of the month again when we celebrate all things Bombshell via a krazy fun Blog hop. This month Alison challenged us to think inside the box - the gift box that is. She asked that instead of a card we make a gift. It has been the season of giving you know! you should have arrived from taking a gander at Alex's project... if not, hop on over to the Bombshell stamps blog to start the hop out!
I have made two different gifts. The first one I made for my Sister-in-law and gave her her gift of Wonder Woman Pajamas in it. I have been dying to post it, but didn't want to blow the surprise. She got it Sunday night, and I haven't posted since then. :-)

I used a box I found at Hobby Lobby, and I added DCWV paper to it, I then steampunked it out with all sorts of doo dads, and then I added the Bombshell Retro Cowgirls and then made her a lovely Steampunky Dress type thing. I used tracing paper to design with pencil the dress. Then I used a lightbox to transfer the dress design onto the thicker paper to allow me to corlor it. To "top" it off I added the hat from the Halloween Costume Digi Stamps.

The second gift I made was a real departure for me - in the dimensional sense.

I used gold and white paper and mod-podged a wooden egg. I then colored up the lovely Rose in shades of yellowy gold (Y11, 21, 23, 26, 28). I cur out Rose, and then I trimmed her up a little to allow me to mold it to the egg. So where the back hairline meets the front hairline I cut it to the rose, and then tucked the back hair slightly under the front portion. I did the same with her hair on the side.

Once I mod Podged her up and it dried, I added all sorts of delicious bling all over the egg to give it a little dimension and interest to the back. I am entering her in the iCopic bling in the New Years Challenge.

There you have it. My attempt at mixed media (well a little bit of mixing), and gifts for the holidays.

Thank you for stopping by. The next stop on you hop is the INCREDIBLY talented Milo!!!! If you get lost on your way the full list is below.

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Sparkly Engineer Mary: http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com/
Torrey: http://left-field-studio.blogspot.com/
Alex: http://paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/ - - ME ME ME!!!!
Milo: http://milolilja.net
Meredith: http://www.papercanteen.com
Kathi: http://kathstales.blogspot.com

Thank you for coming and I hope you come back soon!!!!

Koi - Sketch Style

2011-12-14T00:00:00.000-05:00

It is that time again, when thoughts turn to the incredible sketches that Kathi, our fearless Bombshell leader, challenges us to use. This month she chose a simple beautiful sketch, and honestly, this ended up being one of my favorite cards I have EVER made.

This card was made a little bit differently - in that I worked different than I usually do. I first decided which way I wanted the sketch to be. Kathi challenged us to use this sketch, and I decided it needed to be flipped. Then I chose my stamp. I looked through all the Bombshells I had to figure out which ones went best with this layout.

Then I chose my paper. I found this Best Creations paper with a dragon flying up, but the great thing about it was the water at the bottom. And it coordinated with the other sheet of paper (the back paper). THEN I chose my colors to coordinate. I say this was different because I typically color up an image and then try to find paper that matches, then come up with a layout... so this was reversed almost.

I colored the Koi up with YR21 and then started layering from the inside edge of all of the scales with YR23, R22, 24 and 27, then I went back over with YR21. On the fins I layered the same way and added in R39 at the base to make it darker. I then added shading with the R22 along the scales. The "water" I tried to match some of the water splashing on the paper and used the W4, 6, 7, 9 series to try to match it.

I used crystal stickles over the water colored to add some shimmer to match the paper, and also used crystal effects to make the fish all shiny. The I used some charms from the jewelry section at JoAnns to anchor the top.

Ok... Now that I have bored you all to death, I really hope you pop on over to the Bombshell Stamps blog and take part in the Sketch Challenge this month. And if you don't have any Bombshell stamps, take a look at the "Anything Goes" special challenge, for a chance to win some of these super fun stamps.

Talk to you soon!!!!

Gingerbread Pretties

2011-12-12T20:30:00.002-05:00

Very excited - - Bombshell has a great new limited Digital Set of adorable Gingerbread Pin-ups. AREN'T they amazing!!!

So I colored up the "bread" with E33, 35, 37, and the icing is G05, 06, 09 and R22, 24, 27, 39.

Ok... This is a QUICK post because I am exhausted, and need to go to bed! PLEASE come back on Wednesday to check out the next card made for the Bombshell Sketch Challenge. It is absolutely one of my favorite cards EVER!!!!

Talk to you Soon!!!!

It's beginning to smell like Christmas

2011-12-04T18:15:00.001-05:00

Hey there. The tree is up, the baking supplies bought... Gingerbread house decorated (ok - pre-baked gingerbread... wouldn't trust anything I baked not to be too soft), Chex Mix made and set of Peppermint brownies made. WHEW... crazy weekend... but it is beginning to smell like Christmas in MissAlaineous' Casa. I did get a chance to color up these two little angels and practice on my lighting from a point source.

After I colored up the Angels using the shading to try to make it look as if the lantern was the light source, I used som Y00 to highlight the lighter areas on the two angels and the snow. I also added some nice sparkly prettyness on the fur, wings and snow to try to make it look like the crystals are reflecting the lights. LOVE... how it turned out.

I chose the colors based on the paper this time, and used RV9x and BG7x series as the primary colors. The boots are C series, and again I used a little yellow reflection.

I hope you all drop back by soon. I hope to have a bunch of Christmas cards up over the next couple of weeks, as well as some Bombshell Beuaties. TTFN!

Stamps - Stampendous, Flourishes (Sentiment)
Copics - BG70, 72, 75, 78, RV91, 93, 95, 99, E50, 51, 53, C1, 3, 5, 7, Y00, Y21, 23, 26, 68, BG0000, 000, 01, B000, B00, B91, 93, 95, 97, Stardust Gelly Roll

Bombshell Blog Hop!!!

2011-11-30T00:01:00.000-05:00

It is Blog Hop time over at Bombshell Stamps If you arrived from Kelli's blog you are on the right track, and if not, then head on over to the Bombshell Stamps blog to start your journey off. This month Ms. Alison chose a Color challenge with a pallete of oranges (shudder says the Aggie) and a touch of blue that she found on designseeds.com.

She asked that we use at least 3 of the colors shown above. I tried to take it a step farther because I am a suck up. HEE HEE.

I used Y21 and BG11 and airbrushed the background. I colored the yellow and oranges of the butterflies from Butterfly Queen. I used all sorts of copic colors to get the different shades (see below) The sentiment is from the Banner Sayings set. Once I was done, I fussy cut them out and placed them in crazy places on the card to look like the leaves in the inspiration picture. Because tha antennae were a little to difficult to cut, I drew them in. I used redline tape on their bodies and then I used foam dots of different thicknesses on the different butterflies to make their wings raise to give it some dimension.

I made this card with a friend and co-worker in mind. I was a little late for her birthday. BAD ME! The butterflies colored up and flying up this way for some reason reminded me of her.

Now it is time for you to hop along on your journey.

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Laura: http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Mary G.: blog: http://www.mystampinhide-away.blogspot.com
Torrey: http://left-field-studio.blogspot.com/
Cheryl: http://inktrap.blogspot.com
Stempelintje: http://stempelientje.blogspot.com/
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/ <<< YOU ARE HERE!!!!!
Glittery Katie: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com/
Celina Anthony: http://poniesandcrafts.blogspot.com
Paula: http://heyheypaula-heyheypaula.blogspot.com/
Milo: http://milolilja.net
Sparkly Mary (The Birthday Girl!): http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com/
Alex: http://paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Kathi: http://kathstales.blogspot.com

Hope to see you back here again soon!!!

Copic Colors Used -- Y11, 21, 23, 26, 28, YR02, 07, 09, 14, 16, E07, 08, 09, BG10, 11
Stamps Used - - Bombshell Stamps Butterfly Queen and Banner Sayings

Oh Christmas Tree

2011-11-28T20:41:00.001-05:00

Had a blast with this simple little Christmas tree. I love these Mindscapes images. They are just so much fun and I can stare at them forever!!!

The oval was airbrushed with B32 I think. :-) I then stamped the image and sentiment (Flourishes) with Black Versafine and then clear embossed them.Once done I added crystal Stickles to various areas. After mounting them... I ran the bottom white cardstock through the Matha Stewart Score Board.

OK... now I am going to go upstairs and try to ignore the fact that it is raining STILL. Have a great week, and please join me back here on Wednesday for the Bombshell Blog Hop!

A Christmas Ghoul and some Special Deal Info

2011-11-26T17:22:00.001-05:00

I feel like it has been forever since I posted anything. It has been quite a while. But I finally was able to get my craft on and work on a few things. I have a card to share for you that I got a giggle out of. It is a classic Christmas card with a Ghouly twist.

Going through my already printed / stamped images I came across the ever so lovely bride of Frankenstein and thought she needed to spread a little Christmas Cheer:

She put on her Christmas bandages, and is here to wish one and all Happy Holidays. I colored her up with G02, 05, 07, 09 and R00, 02, 05, 08.Her skin is W1, 3, 4.

I really like how she turned out. Also, I want to let you all know Bombshell Stamps is having a SALE:

It'sBombshell's Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale!

Receive 25% off your entire purchase from NOW throughMonday, Nov. 28!

Just use coupon code "CYBR30" at check out!

See you all back again soon. I am working on more Christmas Goodies.

Theme Challenge - Waste Not Want Not

2011-11-16T00:00:00.000-05:00

Hello All - - It is that time again - for us to get together and play along with our Monthly Pin-Ups challenge for the month.

Celina, Ms. November, has given us a GREAT challenge this month - to only use leftovers to create our card. All I could think about when I thought of leftovers was CRAZY Quilts.

I took a bunch of paper scraps and pieced them together in different configurations. For my first attempt I used straight lined piecing. I looked at a bunch of different crazy quilt "stitches" to decorate the edges. Some turnedout much better than others. LOL. These were done with enamel accents. The main focal image is from the Love and Luck stamp set. I stamped it on an off white scrap with some really juicy Inksentials Pigment ink. This ink works really really well if you are not coloring with copics. It can stamp really black and also because of its juiciness works well on textured paper like I used here.

Once I har my image and heat embossed with Clear EP, I got out the Stickles and went to town. I used three different colors - Burgandy and two different greens. Once I dried it out I placed it on the black and added the dots for the "stitches" so that I had an applique on my card.

Ok... Now if you haven't been to the Bombshell Stamps blog - you should head over there and check it out. There is some great inspiration this month, and you can even enter to win some free RUBBER. YAY!

Floating a Sketch by you!

2011-11-09T00:01:00.000-05:00

Yay verily it is that time again... time for the Sketch challenge over at Bombshell stamps. Kathi, as usual, has come up with a delightful sketch, and I am ever so thankful for it this time as it helped me get my mojo on this month.

I chose the LOVELICIOUS Mermaid Treasure stamps to make this card. For the sentiment I masked off the Last two words and just stamped the first two... then I masked off the first two words and stamped the second two below the first. So it FITS!!!

For the mermaid, I want to tell you a little bit about how I get the colors. I REALLY enjoy combining colors on different thing. For example - The base coat of the Mermaid tail was YG11. I colored the tail COMPLETELY. Then I added deeper colors with B12 and B14. I blended back with the B12 to lighten it a bit, but I then colored over all of it again with the YG11. This gives the colors some really pretty depth and you get an overall feel that is different than either of the two color palettes alone. YAY.

So... The remainder of her was colored with Y000, 11, 13 and YR14 for her hair. And the skin tones are E00, 11, 13. Also the Flower is R11, 14, 17.

I was so excited to find the paper... It was in a stash of old Sizzix little sizzlets paper I had that I had so completely forgotten about. I squeeeeed when I saw it, it works so well for water!!! Ok now - go on over to the Bombshell Stamps blog and CHECK IT OUT!!! There is some seriously beautifimus schtuff going on over there.

See you again soon!

Snowy Delights

2011-11-08T18:26:00.000-05:00

Flourishes is having the Snowy Delights challenge for their release week challenge and I HAD to join in... Ok... I admit it I am very very very desirous of wining free rubber, therefore I had to join in. LOL..

I had a lot of fun coloring up this lovely Cardinal. I started by using some a Distress pad to sponge on the blue color. Once I had that done I stamped the image with Memento and started coloring. R24, 27, 29 and 89 was used to color the Cardinal and the berries. The branches are E23, 25. Once I was done, I got to make it SNOW! I took a really small paintbrush and used the Copic Opaque White to add snow to the branches and to the berries.

For the sentiment I used the same distress inks to get the background to match and then stamped with Versafine and clear embossed it.

I so cannot wait to see what Flourishes stamps are getting ready to release this week.

Have a great week!

Christmas Card - Friendly Flier

2011-11-06T18:32:00.000-05:00

Ok. It has been a while since I made an Outlines Card, but I still LOVE their stamps, and I REALLY love using them for Christmas Cards. They are having a challenge this week over at the Outlines Challenge Blog for Friendly Fliers... Well this one just struck my funny bone - and I KEPT coming back to this stamp.

See Cuz Santa FLIES!!!! HEE HEE. And he is FRIENDLY. So... there you go.

For the colors I used R3x, E3x, Y11, and Y3x and E3x. I did use a bit of E04 on the bricks to add some red dimensions to them.

Hope you have a great week, and I hope to see you again soon.

CAS Time

2011-11-05T17:03:00.000-04:00

Hey there all you people... It has been a Lot o' Crazy at work these last few weeks. Unfortunately it won't get much better for another couple of weeks; but, after that Hopefully it will be just a Lot o' Crazy at home for the Holidays.

So, these last few days I haven't created much, but what I have created has leaned WAY to the Clean and Simple land. I love CAS cards... as long as there is some coloring. :-) I have two cards to share with you today that are CAS.

The first card is a combination of a Karen Lockhart stamp (the image) and a ThereSheGoes sentiment. I used a YG2x, BV2x, R2x and Y2x as the primary colors along with some Cx colors

My second card today is using Flourishes stamps and Y3x colors with a little E33 added over the yellow to deepen the shadows. The glass table is BG0000, BG000. The Reds are the R3x series.

In both of these cards the sentiment is stamped with Versafine and then clear embossed.

I hope you all have a great weekend. Mine would look a little better if the Aggies would pick up some speed and Beat the Heck out of OU!!!! ACK... Almost halftime. Hope the second half goes better. :-)

No Card / Project today

2011-10-31T00:01:00.000-04:00

Instead I am here to announce that Bombshell stamps is re-launching it's forum, and they are throwing a RE-LAUNCH party. And even better - you are invited!!!

Where: Gambler's Anonymous in The Casino @ Bombshell Stamps Forum

When: Monday, October 31st through Wednesday, November 2nd
What: Games, challenges, and PRIZES!!!

We hope to see you there!!!

As part of the festivities I am participating in a scavenger hunt. To play along - look for Bombshell's Senora Muerta logo.... Several of the Bombshells will be hiding the spectacular lady on our blogs in past Bombshell Posts. There are prizes to be won for those who spot the most logos. When you spot those logos - email Glittery Katie at thecelticwitch@googlemail.com with the address of the blog and the date of the post where you found the logo.Easy Peazy.

On that note I hope ALL of you have a great Halloween, and get lots of treats!!!

Geisha Sweet Pea

2011-10-27T21:21:00.000-04:00

Hey there lovely ladies. I wanted to post something I did recently using my new (to me) Sweet Pea Stamps. But alas, I finished this card a few minutes ago using the new Bombshell Stamp digi stamp, and I was so happy with how it turned out I HAD to post it first.

She comes with a blank umbrella and this lovely Cherry Blossom one. I printed the image out both ways, and then cut them both out. I cut out the umbrella only with the cherry blossoms and then used a brad to attach it. So it spins around. EEEEk... The quote is something I found from Fiskars stamps and I thought it worked out well. The markers I used are above. The flowers are the R8X series. The other colors I layered on top of each other, so the R0000 and RV000 are on top of each other which gives it a wonderful interesting look. Same with the E7x and the G8x. Turned out really fun.

The second card I have to share with you is from Sweet Pea Stamps, and is colored with the BV0X, E0X and YG0X series. I used the BV04 to color the white pearls around the edge.

I love the Fairy here. She is so beautiful.

So there are my cards for today. YAY. Loved coloring both up.

Hope everyone has a great weekend, and I hope you come back soon and check out what else I might have cooked up.

Very Skelly Halloween

2011-10-26T00:01:00.000-04:00

Hippity Hoppity - Halloween is on its way!! It is time for the Bombshell Blog Hop. The theme this month (go figure - Alison came up with it ;-) ) is Skelly's. We have to use Skeletons on the project somewhere. Well that is a load of EAZY for me. My favorite stamps are the sugar skulls. You should have arrived from Milo's blog. If not you should head on over to the Bombshell Stamps Blog to start your tour.

This is the outside of the card. I made a pop-up card for this one. On the black outside I stamped the long series of skulls from that set with black Versafine and clear embossed.

Inside I used the pop-ups (I may show how I did this sometime in the future), and added different design paper on the top and bottom. I taped a black piece (partially cut out with a Nestie) onto the popup area. Originally I intended to just use the pop up area (they were stairsteps) and paste on the skulls, but they jus did not stand out enough for me against that paper, so I added the black.

I used one each of the Sugar Skulls. I colored them with E81, and then added shading with YG91 and 93. The leaves are YG93, 95, 97. I used RV91, 95, 99, V91, 93, 95, 99, E04, 07, 09 and Y21, 23, 26 to decorate the skulls.

Now - you really REALLY should go check out what the other Bombshells are doing today - it is bound to be SKELLY! Sparkly Mary is the next lady on the hop!!!

Think PINK

2011-10-19T00:30:00.000-04:00

Ms. October, the wonderfully talented Hey Hey Paula, has challenged us to Think Pink. Well, obviously pink is my youngest daughters favorite color, but interestingly enough the Copics Pinks are hard to match to paper. SIGH... It took a couple of tries, but I think I got close.

The design paper is Basic Grey, and quite frankly a little strange for me to use two different ones but it feels good. Although I love the sentiments that come with the different stamp sets, sometimes you want some of the "basics" in sentiments to go with your card or work. I used the "new to me" Bombshell Sentiments. I love these, because they can be added to whatever other stamp you want to work for so many different occasions. Also, there are a couple of blank banners you can add anything to. YAY.

I used the Lovely Halloween Costume digi-stamps to color up. I love this lady because she can be used for so many things. The pinks are RV10, 11, 13, 14 and 17. The blacks are C3,5,7 and her skin tones are E00, 01, 11 with her hair being the darker of that line - E13, 15, 17, 18 and a little E29 thrown in.

In this image, the light is coming from the front left, and the cape is bollowing quite a bit, so for example, the bottom right hand part of the cape in the image is out in front of the front edge of it. I also made the "black" a bit lighter grey, so that it looked a little shiny, reflecting - like Satin.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you check out what the other lovely ladies have done for this challenge by checking out the Bombshell stamps blog. And, if you play along with it, or with the Sketch challenge... you are entered to win a chance at free rubber!!! "Nudge Nudge"

Thank you for stopping by. I love having all of you visit. Have a great rest of the week.

Gettin' Sketchy

2011-10-12T00:01:00.000-04:00

Hey all. It is time for the Bombshell Sketch Challenge for October. I got in the Ahoy Sailor stamps, and decided to ink them up and go with the classic red, white and blue for the scheme, but it needed some flash - - needed to add silver.

The blues are B91, 93, 95, 97, and the Reds are R32, 35, 37, 39. The skin is E00, 11, 13 and the hair E13, 15. I added some of the stardust pen and added some sparkles to her hat, and to her Outfit. Cuz really - can you imagine me making a card without sparklies? Yeah Right.

I hope you all check out the Bombshell blog and what the lovely ladies have cooked up for your inspiration. And maybe even try your hand at winning some REALLY cool stamps that are SO Much fun to color. Seriously... You can do so much with them.

OK... See you later this week.

A little Buggy

2011-10-10T21:07:00.000-04:00

I had so much fun coloring this one up. Really... And for some reason it is one of my faves in a LONG time.

The image stamps are Stamps by Judith and the sentiment is Paper Pretties. I colored up the bug using YG11, 13, 17 and the wings are the same cool greys as the cap. I went around the bug with a little Y0000, and then used BG0000 and BG000 for the glass.

The paper is DCWV, and for the ribbons I actually used two different ribbons and layered them solid Yellow and then a sheer lime green with white dots.

OK... It has been a long day, and I need to go get ready for my work t-con with China, so... I will let you all go now. Please make sure to stop back by on Wednesday for the Sketch Challenge card for Bombshell stamps for October. I had a blast with this sketch.

Heavy Metal - MissAlaineous' style

2011-10-09T14:42:00.000-04:00

So Flourishes release week challenge this week is Heavy Metal. Use a little Heavy Metal on your card. I chose to use this GORGEOUS wreath to make this.

I used several different greens to get the greenery - from G21, 24, 28 to YG63, 67 to G82, 85 and 94, 99...I did this to try to get massive color gradiation - alas... can't tell there are that many greens in here. Hmmm. Back to the drawing board. In my last post I talked about really liking the B60, 63, 66 colors, and these are what I used. I was going for a silvery blue color throughout, and tried to make everything realted in color. Once I was done I used the stardust pen to go over the ribbon and the balls and pine cones to make them look a bit shiny and glittery and a little metallic.

The final Metal piece is - - you got it - - metal. :-) This is a sheet of metal foil that I used my Impressabilities on and ran it through my grand Calibur. So now you have the snowflakes in the background.

Hope you enjoy, and I did make another card so far this weekend and plan on making a couple more... so I will definitely have at least one to share tomorrow. And honestly, I think it is my favorite simple card in a while. Not sure why, but I love how it turned out. So I hope you come back again and see how this one turns out too. TTFN!

Sprakly Serenity

2011-10-08T17:20:00.000-04:00

Hey Weekend peeps. Well I have to say so far it is a pretty good weekend - had my nails done, Oklahoma walked all OVER tu, and the Aggie game is on tonight. So it is all good. Including this fun card I made last night and finished today, and WHOOP it works for the Kraftin Kimmie challenge today which is to Sparkle and Shine. So Coolness abounds!

The paper is DCWV Once Upon a Time Collection and has a lot of sparkly shiny pieces as you can see. I also added stardust sakura to the flute, and her hair ties. And last - the With Love charm is all shiny and pretty.

But the best part of this for me was the coloring. I had a blast coloring her up, and layered lots of different colors. I was a little inspired by the paper that had different color layers layered on top of each other.

The Green part of her gown was BG10, 11 and a little 13. But I went over it with G40 to brighten it a bit. The bluish purple was colored with B60, 63, 66, and again I went over it after with RV0000 to add some other tones to it. The E50, 51, 53 was her skin, and I used the RV000 again to add some tones to her face. Her hair was Y21, 23, 26 with a little E04, while her belt was E04 with RV34 for the shadows. I used the purpley blue again on her eyes and flowers in her hair bows.

I am really starting to dig the B60, 63, 66. I didn't use much of this in the past, but I am loving the colors now. Not sure why.

OK. Off to be doing some more Crafty things. Have a great weekend! I plan on it!

Devil with the Blue Dress

2011-10-05T19:30:00.000-04:00

Hey there guys. I am here to share a card I did the other day... ok... I started it a couple of weeks ago, and then finished it up tonight.

This is a really sexy Kenny K Steampunk Image that I colored up with Copics. I used B1x series on the blues and Cool greys on the blacks. The skin is E000, 00, 01, R20. Simple, easy, peasy. Once I had her colored up, I cut her out, and then found this wonderful keyboard paper in a DCWV stack. Placed it on there, and then used some blingy bling to finish it off.

Other than that, not much going on Crafty wise. Waiting for the weekend when Maybe I can truly get my Craft on! So check back later this week - and hopefully I will have be adding some more stuff!!!

Have a beautiful week, and see you soon.

Wacky World Card Making Challenge - Flourishes

2011-10-03T20:47:00.000-04:00

Flourishes hosted a World Card Making Day challenge - to use a picture of your favorite cartoon character as inspiration for your card. Well anybody who knows me, knows I LOVE TINKERBELL.

I found this picture of Tink out there and used it as my inspiration:

Based on the colors in this, I came up with the following card:

I used YG21, 23, 25 for the greens, and BG01, 02, 05, 07, 09 for the rose. The ribbons were B61, 63 and then I went over a lot of it with a stardust pen - Youc an see that a bit better on the closeup below. Once I cut it out, I left it in the die and airbrushed with RV02.

The Paper is DCWV and I embossed the Dream with Zing Silver.

This is the first one that I have made in a long time - since I was in Germany last week. It was great to get back in with such a fun challenge.

2011-09-28T00:01:00.000-04:00

It is Bombshell Blog Hop Time. And this time we are celebrating HOLIDAY HOOPLA! Alright, I will admit, I went a little bit standard here, and made mine Christmas. Goddess Alison also challenged us to make something NOT a card... hmmmm OK... I can do that.

I colored the GORGEOUS Pirate Lady up in elfen clothing. She is colored in shades of red and green and her bodice is covered in white flower soft. Her belt and boots have been covered in Glossy Accents. I cut her out and glued her to a White candle and wrapped it with this gorgeous red beaded ribbon.

Thank you so much for joining us on the hop. If you got here through some other means then run back to the Bombshell Blog and the full list is provided.

Speed Demon!

2011-09-21T18:49:00.003-04:00

Hello and welcome to todays post. I am a little slow on the upload today, since I had to work last inght... so sorry!

Ms. September's challenge over at Bombshell stamps was the theme of Speed, with a little extra tweak of Red thrown in. Well of course I had to use the wonderful King of the Road stamp set and come up with this card.

I LOVE the Asleep at the Wheel song "Hot Rod Lincoln" and honestly I do not know what kind of car this is, but I loved coloring it up. I used R12, 24, 27, 29, 39 and feathered that into YR02 and 07. I added a lot of spica glittery stuff to it at the end. It was fun. I cut out the car, and I printed the lyrics on a piece of vellum. I layered it... and added in the car on top.

Now, you should check out the challenge over on the Bombshell stamps forum and on the Bombshell Stamps blog. You have a chance to win free stuff! And we all love FREE! Ok at least a statistically significant portion of the world loves Free!

Have a great week and I hope to see you again soon!

Puttin on the Costumes!!!

2011-09-18T00:01:00.000-04:00

Hey there all! Welcome to the Ghoulishly divine Bombshell new release Blog Hop. YES! Isn't it wonderful??? All new eerie costumes for our favorite ladies. You should have arrived here from the Bombshell Blog. If you didn't - well LUCKY YOU - I am the first on the hop... HEE HEE. Well lets start this off with my first devilish creation - The Bombshell Bride of Frankenstein.

I followed the September Bombshell sketch and I colored her up with Warm Greys (W00, 1, 3, 4) and then went over it with a bit of YG0000 to give her a little green glow. Her couiffure is colored up with Cool greys starting with C0, and working up to C7. I then went over it with W00 to make it a little toned down and more matching her skin color. Her blush is V91. Her dress was colored with V91, 93, 95, 99. I love this color set.

The paper is Basic Grey!!! I cut the Sentiment out, and used the W00, W1 and YG0000 to make it more closely match the paper colors.

I cannot look at this image without thinking of "Young Frankenstein" and Madeline Khan!!! I adore her! "Sweet Mystery of Life at last I Found You!" :-) And that leads me to the "Puttin on the Ritz" song from that movie and my next card to share with you! I now present Bombshell Angel Puttin on the Glitz!

Isn't this costume just Fantabulous!!!! What I love love love about this, is it isn't just a Halloween costume moment. It can be used for so many different things.

I colored her up with Cool Greys (from C1 through C9) and the reds are R22, 24, 27, 29 and 39. Her skin is E000, 00, 11 (for the hose I added a bit of C3 over her colored legs) and her hair is E23, 25, 27, 29. I added a TOUCH of BV00 and BV01 to her eyes for a little shadow. After I had her colored up and cut out, I added glossy elements to her boots, hat and her sleeves. You can see the reflection of the white on her sleeves in the close up below. For a final touch I made these rolled flowers from a die cut I had and then added some BLING to her.

Now that I have totally shown off these two ladies, you should continue along on the hop and check out the next set of beauties. Halloween is many of the Bombshell's favorite holiday... and we are SOOOOo excited to show these off. Next on your journey is ALISON who ADORES Halloween, and has a WICKED sense of style! Thank you for stopping by, and I hope to see you again soon!

Drink Up

2011-09-14T00:01:00.001-04:00

Hey there ladies. It is that time of the month again when we are all challenged by our lovely Bombshell Sketch Goddess to create a project following her sketch.

This month she has given us this sketch. Now, I really liked this sketch and I came up with two cards following it. The first I am showing you today... the second one... well it is a bit of a surprise, but it is so GHOUL!

I used Man's Ruin and some lovely colors to create this lovely lady:

I will be honest... I REALLY love the skin colors on her. I am not sure why, but it worked so well. I used the following colors to color her up:

For the glass and liquid, I colored the lady and her dress up, and then I colored the glass. I went BG01 around the edges and BG000 and BG0000 inside. I colored over her dress and legs. Then I took the YG11, and went over it from a little inside the glass to the other edge, again over the lady and her skirt. I colored this up to the edge of the liquid line up top. Once she was colored up, I cut her out and then added glossy accents over the glass. I cut a piece of the green cardstock out with a nestie and then sponged purple over it. The lady was adhered to the cut out.

Now... I have been a slacker with this lately. We have started school and already had a nasty bout of strep in our house. Add that to a dance competition this past weekend, and work and home and and and... well.. I have been a slacked with the cars. But I have been a bit creative over the past couple of days and I am really excited to be uploading and doing stuff again. So I hope you come back this weekend for some more cards, and then next week is the September Bombshell's theme challenge over at the Bombshells blog followed by a blog hop the next week. WHEW! Lots of stuff going on.

Why don't you head on over to the Bombshell blog and check out the rest of the crews stuff this week. You know you want to!

Welcome to the Movies

2011-08-31T00:01:00.001-04:00

Howdy and Welcome to the Movies - Bombshell Style. Sit Back, Have some popcorn and let us entertain you! If you arrived here from Laura's blog then you are in the right theater. If you didn't, you should hop over to the ticket counter (Bombshell Blog) and see where the first feature is at.

This month the lovely Direcetor Alison has created a wonderous adventure full of glittery stars and dramatic overtones, comedic fun and freeze you in your chairs frights. That is right - she has created the Bombshell Movies Blog Hop. What movie career is complete without having your own award. I am presenting this award for outstanding directorial accomplishments!

This award is a sparkling Bombshell Angel, dressed in a fabulous evening gown and covered with glittering gold accents (Copic Y00, 11, 21, 23, 26, 28, clear spica) to make this a truly unique award!

Now that the directorial award has been given out, you should check all the rest of the entertainment we have for you at this exciting day of the Movies. Head on over to Paper Canteen (Meredith's domain) to see what she has in store for you. I am sure you will love it.

In case you get a little sidetracked on the way, here are all the wonderful feature films:

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Laura: http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/ (My Theater)
Meredith: http://www.papercanteen.com/
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/
Mary G.: http://www.mystampinhide-away.blogspot.com/
Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Sparkly Engineer: http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com/
Celina Anthony: http://poniesandcrafts.blogspot.com/
Glittery Katie: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com/
Kapree: http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/
Cheryl: http://inktrap.blogspot.com/
Dianne: http://dkspinner.blogspot.com/

Have a great time at the movies!!!!

VSN Challenge Posted - and here is my Sassy Saloon Girl

2011-08-27T19:14:00.000-04:00

Hello all. WHEW. It has been a long day, but my challenge finally went live over on SplitCoastStampers. Here is the sample I made. Love the Bombshell girls, and she was perfect for this challenge (no... I did not plan it that way..wink wink... really).

She is colored up with E0000, E000, E00, E01 and R20. her hair is the E21, 23, 25, 27 and the blacks are C1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and reds R22, 24, 27, 29, 39.

I really hope you take a look at the different challenges over at SCS, and try some out. It is seriously cool how everyone translates these challenges into something unique.

I have two quick others to post below that were also challenge cards.

Thank you for coming by today, and I hope you come by again really soon.

Two VSN Cards!!!

2011-08-26T21:46:00.000-04:00

I feel like I have been absent all month. I really have been busy. I was lucky enough to be chosen to be a hostess for the Virtual Stamp Night over on Splitcoaststampers, and I have been busily making several samples for the challenges. My challenge that I am hosting is not until tomorrow, but I have a couple of samples I want to share with yyou tonight.

The theme over there is Rodeo, and there are a bunch of great challenges up. The first on I made a sample for was for the God Bless Texas challenge. I have a couple of great Texas stamps - one that lists a whole bunch of cities on it, and another that has the Texas Bluebonnets on it. I used the colors from the Texas flag, and then added the Bluebonnets and yellow roses.

The next sample I made was for the Through the Saloon Doors challenge. I used one of the Lovely Cowgirl Bombshells and colored her up in shades of Blue. and sparkly silver. I used my Grand Nestabilities and cut out the largest and second largest nestie in White and Blue. I gatefolded it, and put her inside. I added daisy flowers all along the edge and a double bow. I have velcro on the of the two edges to allow it to close and stay closed. I love how she is peeking out.

I should have a bunch more posted tomorrow, and then please join me later this week for teh BOMBSHELL BLOG HOP!!!! Some really remarkable artwork should be shown along the way - as usual!!

It's not so Shabby - and it's pretty Chic

2011-08-17T00:01:00.001-04:00

Hey all! The challenge this month posted by Milo - the oh so talented Ms. August is to create a card that is shabby chic. I am not so hot with the Shabby - - it is so not linear and symmetrical enough for me and very distressed which is a little distressing to me. So I took my best shot and created this card for you. My interpretation of Shabby chic is to have differnt layers of the same thing with different textures and then throw a little glam and glitz and a slight color in there. I hope you like it.

I used the base card, and have a layer with one embossing folder, a second layer under the frame with a second embossing folder, and then the frame. I colored up the gorgeous rose, and cut her out and placed her in the frame. The frame was created by using two Nesties and Nesting them. :-) Then while the frame was still in them, I airbrushed with my copics. RV91, 93, 95 and 99. The first layer RV91 is created with the chisel end... and the other colors are layered on top of it using the brush end to airbrush... this makes it more speckled. I used the same technique on the fancy label nestie.

For Rose I used the E0000, E000, E00 because I wanted really light skin. The pinks are the RV91, 93, 95 and 99. The hair is E50 base, with E71, 74, 77 layered through. The green is YG61, 93, 97, 99. The eyes are BG70 and 72, with B63, 66 and 79. I added some sparkle to the edges of the rose and the earring to make it shine.

Thank You for checking out my attempt at shabby chic. Please go check out the other Bombshells and see what all they have cooked up for this lovely challenge.

Bombshell Monthly Sketch

2011-08-14T17:24:00.000-04:00

Hey there everyone. It has been a while since I posted. I have had a heckuva a last month, and I have gotten a little behind in my relaxation. I did have this card done about two weeks ago, but didn't have time to get it loaded for the Bombshell Sketch challenge posted on the blog on last Wednesday - - So I am posting it now, and hoping you all take a gander and then go enter into the monthly sketch challenge.

This is the sketch for the month, designed as always by the lovely and talented Bombshell Cap-ee-tan Kathi. I LOVE this sketch... the symmetry of it, the clean lines, everything.

This is my take on the sketch. I used the Love and Hate stamp set. The paper is some DCWV I had. I decided that I did not want to go with standard colors for the rose, so I colored it blue and brown, and then mimiced it with the birds and the sentiments. The blues I used are B00, B21, 23, 24, 26, 29, and the Browns E21, 23, 25, 27. I tried to feather some of the blues in with the browns on the birds.

Once I was done, I cut out all of them and uesd Glossy Accents to cover them. They are also popped up on the card with pop up tape.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, and I hope that you come back soon. I have some fun stuff coming up. I have a card for Bombshell Stamps that I am working on for their monthly pin-up challenge - it is a great challenge by Ms. August - Milo... I also have a tutorial I am working on, and then at the end of August Splitcoaststampers is having their Virtual Stamp Night and it is going to be a Rootin Tootin Good time. I am lucky enough to be one of the Rodeo hosts for the VSN, and I hope that you will check it out. It will be two days full of challenges.

Have a great week and see you soon.

Mini-VSN cards from last night

2011-07-30T11:59:00.000-04:00

Splitcoast stampers held their mini Virtual Stamp Night last night and it was a rootin tootin good time. I tried to participate in as many as I could (you still have time to check them out and play along if you want to). The Houston Sized Rodeo is August 27 and 28th and I will be hosting one of the challenges then, so make sure you ride on over and join in the fun!

I am showing off a couple of my faves from the festivities last night that I put together (and one my daughter did).

First up is from the Challenge to Bring on the Clowns. For this challenge they wanted us to use 4 bright colors in our card. For the bonus round they also asked that we use something that was popped up. Ok, I cheated a bit and used the bling on that one. The bird is from the Bombshell A Pirates Life Set, and I colored it up with the Copics.

My second card I am showing off today is a little bit of Faux Brayering. The challenge was to brayer a sunset on the plains. As I told them over there - I TRIED. REALLY REALLY hard. I just am very very bad at it. So I cheated, and used my airbrush and Copics to create the majority of this scene. Everything is airbrushed with the exception of the sentiment (Flourishes), and the little black shrubs (Stamps by Judith).

And last, but certainly not least is probably my favorite from last night - the All that Glitters challenge - the challenge was to use SEQUINS. I don't ever use those, so that was a challenge. But luckily - - my assistant (12 year old daughter) came to the rescue and made this lovely card with the sequins as snow. Didn't she do a fabulous job. I am very proud of her.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope to see you back here really soon!

A very COLORFUL Blog Hop today

2011-07-27T00:01:00.001-04:00

Hey there all! It is Blog Hop time over at Bombshell Stamps. If you arrived here from Alison's blog you are on the right track. If not - head on over to the Bombshell Stamps Blog and start your trail off right! We are a hopping away today with a little bit of a color challenge. The Rockin Alison - The Goddess of the Bombshell Blog Hops has asked us to follow this wonderful colorful theme in our pursuit of Bombshell Hoppiness today!

Apparently she wanted us to use at least three of the colors in this. You know me - I can never just sit back and coast through, so I used ALL the colors. :-) The image is from the new GORGEOUS Lotus Garden Stamps - one of Bombshell Stamps new Asian themed stamp sets.

I used V000 and then RV63 and 66 for the main flower. The water is BG70, 72, 75, 78 for the water. Now - A few of you know this already - I did take the Intermediate Copic Certification about a week and a half ago. It was AWESOME! One of the things they encouraged was more use of Shadows and darker colors. So I also added in a bit of RV99 to the flowers. I thought - it looks good, but to me the shadows really show up cool in the close up. I hope to show some more off, but have not had the time since I got back later Saturday night and I have not had much time to practice. And trust me when I say, the key to Copics is PRACTICE.

Now - Your next stop on the hop is to visit the lovely Jennie's blog. And if you get lost you can always head back to the Bombshell Blog and start again!

Thank You for stopping by. I hope to see you again REALLY REALLY soon!!!

Summer Daze

2011-07-20T00:01:00.001-04:00

Hey there all! Our lovely Ms. July over on the Bombshell stamps blog has challenged us this month to make cards that remind you of summer. The little trick this time, was to make your own embellishment out of another Bombshell stamp. OK... I can do that.

The background is airbrushed with B0000, B000, B00, and E30, 31, 33, 35.

I colored up the Rise and Shine gal with the R3x series, and then cut her out. in the areas that are "Nuthin but net" I masked off the other parts and then airbrushed those so it would look like the background. The "buttons" holding up the hammock are made from little floral images colored up and then cut out with a circle punch. I then used crystal lacquer and let them dry and then added them on. The blue background "paper" is actually fabric as is the towel I have hanging over her feet on the hammock.

The only thing my little girl said was "Mom why is she hanging by flowers in the middle of the air". Uh hunny - this is my dream... In my dream I can float anywhere - and I can be super model skinny!!!! :-)

Now, HEAD ON OVER to the Bombshell Stamps Blog and see what all the other lovely Bombshells have cooked up for this challenge. And you might have a chance to WIN SOME RUBBER if you enter. Seriously... you should enter. Free Rubber. What could be better?

Talk to you later.

Flourishes Farm Fresh Challenge

2011-07-13T20:22:00.000-04:00

If you are looking for my Bombshell Stamps Sketch Challenge Card - Scroll on down to the next entry!

The release challenge for this month for Flourishes was to do a card or project that captured fresh picked fruits or vegetables. I chose to color up this lovely basket of Strawberries that have obviously just been picked.

After coloring it up I chose to cut it out and pop it up in the center cut out. I wanted to go very traditional looking so chose the gingham blue and red gingham ribbon. I love how it looks very picniccy.

The basket is colored with E31, 33, 35, 37. The cloth is B21, 23, 24, 26. The strawberreis were really fun to color. They were colored with R20 to start. Then I went over them in areas with R22, 24, 27 and a little 29. Once I was done blending the reds I went over the ends with Y11. The tops were YG23, 25 and then a little G28. After - I went over the entire thing with Glossy Accents.

If you haven't yet checked out the Flourishes Challenge - DON'T - IT MIGHT RUIN MY CHANCES OF WINNING. :-)

Talk to you later!

Balance the Sketch

2011-07-13T00:01:00.001-04:00

If you know me, then you know I LOVE and ADORE symmetry in design, and I believe that Kathi - our Bombshell stamps glorious Sketchy lady with the mostest - has achieved that Spectacularly with this months Sketch Challenge.

I used the Lotus Garden stamp set from the New Asian inspired sets over at Bombshell Stamps. I chose to color up the Lotus Flower as the focal point of this. As usual, afterI colored it up I found the paper. But this paper from Kaisercraft was perfect for it (of course it was the absolute last paper pad I went through - so that was a bit frustrating).

I used V000 and then RV63 and 66 for the main flower. The water is BG70, 72, 75, 78 for the water. The stem is YG61, 63 and 67. The yellow center is an amalgamation of about 7 or 8 different yellow and Yellow Reds because I couldn't get it just right, so I don't know which ones they are. The flower and water was colored with a little Spica and then some Gelly Roll star for a few highlights.

The background for the image and the sentiment are not quite white. They are both BG70. :-)

The band across the bottom is used with my favorite new obsession - microbeads. I used the red line tape and then covered it with Microbeads. However, since I plan to send this to Operation Write Home, and they don't want anything prone to falling off that is sparkly I went over all of the beads with Crystal Laquer.

I hope you liked my card today. Please head over and check out the loveliness that the rest of the Bombshells have for you, and then get your own Bombshell on and join us in the Challenge. You can possibly WIN some rubber. Go ahead - CHECK IT OUT!

Koi Tattoo

2011-07-10T11:38:00.000-04:00

Bombshell stamps has some GORGEOUS new Asian inspired stamps reminiscent of lovely tattoos - Koi Tattoo and Lotus Garden. And even better, money from the sale of the sets goes to support Japan Relief fund. YAY. A couple of us on the DT got together and decided to show them off. My card uses Koi Tattoo, and I decided to go a little simple in the design, to showcase the image.

The fish was colored using Copics (of course). I used BV0000, 000, 00, 01 and 02 for the purples and tried to blend them into the greens on the fins. For the scales I used a technique I use on a lot of mermaids. I color the entire thing with BG10, and then lightly layer slightly darker and darker toward the inside of every scale (BG11, 13). I smooth over with the BG10. I tried to give some shading so I went a little darker on the underside of the fish in general. Once the scaling is done, I went over it all with YG11. This gives it a nice coloration.

Once I was done coloring the water, and the fish, I added a little bit (okay a LOT of bit) of Copic qhite on the waves. :-)

I cut out the image and monted it on a blue as close as I could find to the water I colored. I also used some Clear Spica on the fish, but it is not easy to see in the images because it is so subtle.

That was my first project. For my second I used the Lotus Garden set and made some Magnets.

The tutorial for making the magnets are over at the Bombshell Stamps blog here.

Thanks for joining me today, and I hope you check out more of the teams inspiration through the weeks over at the Bombshell Stamps Blog!

Flutter Fairy Baby

2011-07-09T17:27:00.000-04:00

I have this adorable stamp from Stampavie by Mo Manning, and finally got a chance to color it up. I chose my colors first and then the paper. I need to start with paper some time, it may save some time in the end when I am trying to make the card. LOL. Now I know why I like cardstock so much - much easier to match. :-)

I used BV0000, 000, 00, 01, 02 for the purples, and then BG10,11,13, 15 for the Aqua colors. Her skin is the lightest I could get it with E0000, E000 and E00 with a bit of R20 on her cheeks - both sets, and her leg and shoulder!!! I outlined her lightly with B0000 to give her a little glowing feel.

The paper is an adhesie multistack I have with Bazill underneath and white cardstock for the base. I then used a bit of Red Line tape as "ribbons" and then my new Recollections micro-beads on them in a similar color to the Aqua.

The sentiment is from Inkadinkado, and the pearls are white pearls that I colored with BG18. When I color accessories, I find I need to ues the darker shades to get what I am used to as a lighter shade.

I think this is an adorable image to use for a baby shower gift or first birthday. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you stop by again soon.

Shot Through the Heart

2011-07-03T17:01:00.000-04:00

Hey there all. I have had a great long weekend so far - how about you? YAY - No work tomorrow for me. YAY YAY YAY.

Ok... now that that is out of the way, I have a new card to share with you... This is one of the REALLY cute digital stamps over at the Paper Shelter. I bought a few of them the other day, and this one just made me smile all over my face.

He was so very cute, and a lot of fun to color up. I got to practice a lot of little things on this. Shading, White, Black, Red, transparent things... all those hard things in one card. WHEW. I think it is time for me to have a drink... maybe a Margarita or something. :-)

The blacks are cool greys, and the Skin is E0000, E000, E00 and I added a little R20 in places. All the reds are R20, 22, 24, 27, 29. The Golds are the Y2X family with Y21, 13, 23, 26 and 28 and the White is actually blue - B0000 feathered and then spread more with some Colorless Blender. I went over the wings, the tips of the arrow etc... with a clear gelly roll star pen. It has more sparkle than Spica, so I use it when I don't want subtle, but still want the colors below to show through. For the glasses, I colored everything under the glass as if it would be completely clear. Then I added B0000 and B000 over the coloring I had already done. This gave it a transparent look, but still maintained the color under. I also added some Crystal Effects over the glass in the glasses.

I am entering this into both the Paper Shelter Anything Goes challenge and the Copic Creations white clothing challenge (Diapers are white clothing right? )

See you soon. I plan to color a bit more today and tomorrow and then enjoy some good old fireworks.

Ghostly Skulls

2011-07-02T01:00:00.002-04:00

The Bombshell Stamps Design Team has challenges issued to them occasionally. The last challenge was for us to use a technique that we have never used before. I decided to ETCH GLASS and stamp with STAZ-ON. It was very very easy.

I took some Frisket Film and used a Nestie to cut out a shape. I placed that shape on the top of a mirror. I then brushed on the etching solution and then let it set for a while. When I wiped it off I had the clear mirror in the middle and then the smoked glass on the outer edge. I then took a Sugar Skull and used white stazon and stamped the skull in the middle of the mirror. After it dried I had the lovely mirror. My older daughter has already stolen it even though I intended to give it to her. LOL.

Here is another picture of it. I LOVE the reflection of the image on the blue paper.

Thanks for stopping by. And head on over to the other Bombshells that took up the challenge to check out what they have done!!!

Have a great weekend, and see you again soon.

Check out the Booty

2011-06-29T00:01:00.014-04:00

It is Hippity Hoppity Time at the Bombshell Stamps Blog. If you arrived from Allison's blog you are going great. If not, then head on over to the Bombshell Stamps Blog to make sure you don't miss a THING.. The theme this month is "Shiver me Timbers". Now... I could go really raunchy on that one, but I decided to keep it PG (you see bare back in this one - GASP). When I think of Pirates, I think of Romance Novels, and the clinch poses on Johanna Lindseys Gentle Rogue. Since I don't have a Fabio Bombshell Stamp (Hmmmm that would be fun to have hint hint) I had to go in a different direction.

I do have this lovely Mermaid Treasure stamp set!!! And I thought YAY... I will do up a mermaid and show off her stuff.

I colored her up using my Copics. I used a ton of them!!! She was primarily colored with BG10, 11, 13, 15 and YG11. For her skin E0000, 000, 00 and her hair E11, 13, 15, 17. I added some Star gelly roll in areas to give her some sparkle.

Both she and the treasure chest are cut out after they were colored. I used gold and champagne stickles for the gold.

The background is all airbrushed. YAY!!!! I had fun with that. (And it allows me to enter iCopic Challenge #36 HEE HEE). I used E30, 31, 33 for the sand, BG02, 05, 07, 09. The sky is YR00, RV00, BV00 then B21, 24, 26. The moon is white Inkprintz Ink stamped on and then embossed with white EP.

For a close up of her I have her to the right... Isn't she cute. After the airbrushing and placing her in the water, I added a couple of fish from the same stamp set. YAY.

Now, why don't you HOP on over to Kelli's blog!

If you get LOST on the way - you can always head back to the Bombshell Stamps blog to find your way.

Hope you have fun with this hop !!!

Krafty Krafts!

2011-06-26T19:56:00.000-04:00

Hey there y'all. I have had a faboo weekend. Friday was my daughters 12th birthday and we had a blast at the Melting Pot. Saturday we went to The Dinner A'fare with my daughter and my mom and made up 6 meals each for Mom and Dad and for us girls for the next few days. My 12 year old had a blast and we cooked the first meal tonight and it came out great.

I did do quite a bit of crafting, but some of it has to wait a while... since one is for the Bombshell Blog hop on Wednesday and the other is for a special post on Sunday showcasing the new Bombshell Stamping Goodness!!! Yes Bombshell stamps has some AWESOME Asian themed stamps and profits from the sale of these sets go to help the Japan relief fund.

I did get this card completely finished. I am entering into both the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge, and the Sketch Saturday Challenge. I would have entered the ICopic challenge, but alas I was late. :-( BOO.

I used a Kraft cardstock that I had and cut it up to make the center square and the tag with the Sentiment. The DP is Graphic 45, and the copic colors used were YG61, 63, 67 and E23, 25, 27. The eggs are colored with light blue spica, then dark blue spica then gone over with the light blue again to pread out the dark blue. The very center piece is not a cut out piece of Kraft cardstock. I had the image all done, and it just looked lonely. So I cut out a lacey square with the Nesties, and then cut the center and one edge of it off. YAY... showoff box. :-)

The flowers are Glimmer Misted, and little buttons added to their centers. I used the same DP for the edge "ribbons".

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you come back again on Wednesday during the Bombshell Blog hop (I may have some pretties before that, but I definitely will have some then!!).

Dreams and Wishes

2011-06-21T20:30:00.000-04:00

Hey everyone. I wish a few things right now... I wish there wasn't a storm running through here giving me a headache. I wish that my stomach was back to normal from its bout with a virus, and I dream about winning the lottery. Unfortunately none of those are coming true tonight.

But, I did have the good fortune to be able to color up the wonderful new release from Flourishes yesterday and make these cards.

The cards were colored up with YG21, 13, 15 and 67, Y11, 21, 23, 26, 28, and a little YG 91 and 93 under the pillow. I used the DCWV Lemon Flower paper pad for the background paper and CoreDinations for the green paper. The oval Nesties, had silver stickles applied to them to match the silver on the paper. I used a gold ribbon to match the gold in the coloring.

I LOVE how these turned out. Now I am going to head upstairs and take some meds to make me sleep through the night and dream some more about winning that lottery!!!!

See you soon!

SCREAM

2011-06-19T21:11:00.001-04:00

Hey all, Here is a really quick post for a card I want to enter into the Outlines Ribbon and Bows challenge this week. The first design team I was on was the Outlines design team for 2010. It was a new team, but I made a Blog Buddy on that team (Hey Terrie!!!), and I learned a lot and had a great time. As all good things, this one came to an end for me at the end of the year, but my love of the Outlines stamps did not. It has been a while since I have picked one up and made something with it, and this challenge sang out to me. I started looking through my stamps and this one screamed at me to use it. Maybe because I so want to be on vacation right now and I am not.

I used Palm Tree Square and stamped it three times - once on white, once on blue and once on yellow. I colored up the white one with my copics, and then cut out the inside square. I layered the three. The white background was stamped with another stamp from them that I CANNOT for the life of me remember which one it is. I stamped it with versafine and clear embossed.

Now for the sad part for me, because I used a sentiment that is not Outlines, but Art Impressions, I know I am not eligible for the challenge prize. However, it said exactly how I feel... "It's been Lovely..." and the inside finishes it "But Now I have to Scream!" So I had to use it. I linked up anyway, just cuz... :-)

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you come back again soon.

Fathers Day 2011

2011-06-18T21:41:00.000-04:00

Isn't this little dude so cute.???? I found him over at the Paper Shelter, and I just fell in love with him. I decided to make this card for my father for Fathers Day. I think it makes it even better that he is using sewing paraphenalia to defend the world. For me it is funny because my Mom quilts, and so their house is covered in the stuff. :-)

I used my Copics to color him up. THe greens are YG11, 13, 17, and the purples are V12, 15, 17. I feathered the two together and then I added a little bit of dotting using purple and green multiliner brush pens. The skin I did up in my standard E0000, E000, E00 scheme with R20 as the blush. I used brown .01 multiliner to add freckles. I also used the green multiliner brush to add lines on the feather. The "white" was done with B0000, B000, and then I added Copic White to spots on his teeth and then also on the glove. The greys are cool greys (C0, 1, 3, 5 and 7).

Now... for this one the coloring was SO EASY compared to the rest of it. This is unusual, because hey - - the card seems simple right? SURE. RIGHT. Well some of you know already from my post on Facebook that my Cuttlebug exploded. YES, you read that correctly - it EXPLODED. I did not do anything other than try to cut out the flower petals with the quilling dies... I couldn't get a good cut. I tried it several times. I added a shim. Tried it, added a slightly thicker shim, tried it... still not cutting completely. So I got rid of the 3 paper shims (standard cardstock), and tried it one more time with a standard manilla folder I had cut in half. About 1/4 of the way through - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!

The left side (side without the handle) Flew off and the top blew upward and it scared my husband to death. We tried putting it back together. Yay - it popped back in...but as you cranked , the top came back up and there was no pressure. We tried and tried, and nope... and finally the gears were making a horrid sound, and we just said BLECK. So I went out and got a Grand Calibur. Popped the dies in and it cut oh so sweetly. And I was FINALLY able to make the flower. YAY.

So there is the story of my card, and the death of a Cuttlebug. I am entering it into the Paper Shelter Challenge for Punches and Dies. I think I earned every bit of this one!!!!!

Have a great rest of the weekend and next week. See you back here soon I hope!

Happy Birthday Dear HUBBY!!!!

2011-06-17T00:01:00.005-04:00

So, I had trouble trying to figure out what to make for my hubby for his birthday. He really likes the Bombshells, so I thought I would make this card up - - Plus they are so much fun to color... So honey - DON"T look below until after you get the card!!!!

This was actually a pretty simple card to put together. After I colored up the Bombshell (psssst there is a tutorial on how I colored her and her hose on the Bombshell Blog today), I stamped the image a couple additional times onto some red cardstock and some zebra print adhesive cardstock. I cut out the entire shoe (minus the straps) out of the zebra print and adhered it to the non colored image on the white cardstock. Then I cut out the red portions and used some zig glue to stick it to the sole and heel of the shoe and the straps.

The image I used was Girls Ruin from Bombshell, and the sentiment is from one of the digi dress up sets called Evening Bombshell. I really love how the zebra print turned out with the red accents. She is one hot lady!!!

Edited to add - I am entering this in the Copic Creations Doodling Challenge. The lace on her bra, and hose along with the lacey ruffles on the top of both were added with a Brush Multiliner! I had meant to include that but realized I had forgotten when I went to enter her. GASP.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have an awesome weekend.

Peacock Butterflies

2011-06-15T00:01:00.002-04:00

Here today for the June Bombshell Pin-up challenge. Ms June - Emily - has challenged us to release our inner WILD THING and use animal prints on the project.

I had all sorts of things in my mind with zebra print, and leapord print, but ended up with peacock feathers!

I used the DCWV English Garden paper that had a paper with strips of different designs, two of which had this beautiful peacock strips in it. I then took the Butterfly Queen Butterflies and stamped them on some other paper - cream and royal blue with Versamark. I then embossed with detail gold. I did this several times and layered some of them using dimensional adhesive to give them a flight look. I also stamped the sentiment from Rise and Shine on a cream cut out shape and also embossed this with the detail gold. I finished it up with a few gold beads... and Voila - Peacock Butterflies!

Now head on over to the Bombshell Stamps Blog and check out all of the other wild creations they have in store for you... And if you enter the challenges, you have a chance to win some rubber. I love winning rubber don't you???!!!

OK, that is it for today... but come on back later this week. With Hubby's birthday, Fathers day and me having gotten a bunch of new stamps lately, I am looking forward to a lot of creativity!!!!

A Rose by Any Other Name...

2011-06-12T16:06:00.001-04:00

I got new Bombshell Rubber in - YAY. I got the gorgeous Rose's Portrait in and couldn't wait to color her up.

So, this is my first take on this image. I had so much fun coloring her up. I loved turning her into a blonde Bombshell. The roses on the bottom and top are from Recollections at Michaels, and were a little too peachy, so I added some red to them with the R24 and 27 copic, and then a little diamond Stickles.

She is colored up with the Copics in the following colors:

Y21, 23, 26, 28

R20, 22, 24, 27, 29,

G21, 24, 28

B12, 14, 16, 18
E50, 51, 53, R20. I used a gelly roll star pen for the glitter on the earring and the gold portion of the shawl. The fringe is gold spica, and the roses and eyes / eye shadow have clear spica on them.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you back here again!!!

One last super quick Challenge Card!

2011-06-10T17:59:00.000-04:00

I made this card SOOOooooo fast. I didn't have but a few minutes from when I got off work and when it was due, but I tried.

This is following the Flourishes Sketch provided on Wednesday.

I used antique linen distress ink to distress it and Versafine brown for the stamped images. Thanks. WHEW!

See you later this weekend!

Pretty in Pink

2011-06-09T23:38:00.000-04:00

Wow - Two posts in one day. This is going to be a quickie. This is for the Flourishes Release Challenges Pretty in Pink. This is about as clean and simple as they come IMO.

I cut out the white paper with the Nesties. While still in the Nesties, I used the Sweet Peas stamp set and stamped in Rose Bud several times. Then I used the Rose Bud and a dauber and sponged the ink on... again while still in the Nestie. Then I took it out and clear embossed. I then took the sentiment stamped it with versafine, and clear embossed that. Mounted it all, added a ribbon and done.

Not sure I like everything about it, but I do like the pink on pink with the stamped image and the sponging.

Thanks for stopping by again. Now I need to go to bed. BYE!

Flourishes Release Week Challenge

2011-06-09T22:11:00.000-04:00

Have you all seen some of the sneak peeks over at Flourishes this week. WOW. They are so cute. I must have them. So I am going to try to win them!! How will I do that, By entering their challenges this week. And first up is their Release week challenge to show off the colors of your flag.

I looked at my stuff, and I thought about Strawberries, and flowers, but I kept coming back to this image. I know it is a Christmas wreath and would typically be colored up in the colors of the Christmas season, but I kept picturing a red, blue and silver wreath. What was really cool about this is it gave me some extra practice on trying to make balls look 3D. Now after I colored it up and mounted it, I realized that now the light is coming from the bottom. LOL...

Reds are R22, 24, 27, 29, 39 - overcolored with clear spica

Blues are B21,23,24,26 - overcolored with clear spica

Silver - C00, C1, and a little R22 and B21 to try to get some light reflection (not sure how well that worked out for me- I think I need more practice). I then used a Star gelly roll pen to overcolor the silver balls.

Thanks for stopping by. If I can get another one done, I am going to try to do the Pink challenge... or see what tomorrows challenge is. I mean really I would LOVE to win these sets. LOL.

See you Soon.

I have a Talented Daughter - Oh and a card!

2011-06-08T00:01:00.007-04:00

This week has been crazy and I have a lovely card to share with you.. but first - My daughter is an AWESOME CLOGGER. LOL... she won 3rd in Acapella solo for 15 and under at the competition on Saturday. She is 11! WOW... she competed against 5 other people, and they were all 15 except for her. SHE ROCKED!

WHEW - PROUD MOMMY! OK, I also have a card to share with you :-).. This is the time of the month for the Bombshell Stamps Sketch Challenge. Kathi - our ubertalented DT Queen has provided this gorgeous sketch for us to work with:

It is so very cool. I stretched myself with this. I say stretched because the card is big - even for me!!!!! I used the Man's Ruin stamp Set and colored it up with Copics. (Sorry I don't remember the colors as I colored her up a few days ago and forgot to write them down.)

Once I had her colored up, I used Crystal Effects to make the glass shine, and bubbles all bubbly. The paper is Basic Grey. I outlined different areas with black multiliner. The oval cut out image, the paper , the paper ribbon across the card on top and bottom.

Head on over to the Bombshell Blog and tke a gander at what all the other Bombshells have to show you this month. You have a chance to win some free goodies, and best of all Have some FUN!!!!

Check you all out later!

Graduation Time

2011-05-31T00:00:00.001-04:00

Hey All. I want to THANK all you for hopping over to my blog during the Operation Write Home Blog Hop this weekend. It was so much fun, and the lovely comments all of you left for me just made me smile all weekend long!!!

For today I am including something I don't do a whole heck of a lot which is cards with no coloring. Three girls from my youngest daughter's dance team graduated from high school this year. WHEW. So I needed to make some cards that were unique, yet similar. I decided to try my hand at Twisted Easel Cards.

I made three different cards with different sayings on each in different colors. I let my daughter pick the colors and the charm I added to them (that they can remove and use on a necklace later if they want) for each girl. I think she picked really sweet things for each one:

All cards used Mega Mount for the background with Versamark Dazzle and clear embossed.

This card is using a Technique Tuesday sentiment, and Paper Pretties Butterflies. The charm is a butterfly with the saying "Spread Your Wings and Fly"

This card used a sentiment I have from an old set that I cannot remember. The Charm is a cross with the saying " Have Faith in Yourself" underneath.

This last card has a sentiment from Flourishes stamped on it. The Charm is a bunch of stars with "When You Wish Upon a Star" underneath.

All of these girls are so special. The dance team has been the best thing that has happened to my almost 12 year old. She has seen some really great girls who are all about being genuine. They get compliments from Hotel staffs all the time when we are at competitions for how incredibly nice and well behanved they are. And they love on all the younger girls and help them out. I am very happy they are in my daughters life.

I hope you have a great week. I hope to be back in the next few days with some colored up things.

Have a great week.

Operation Write Home Memorial Day Blog Hop!

2011-05-28T09:59:00.023-04:00

Today is the day for the Operation Write Home Memorial Day blog Hop. Operation Write Home Supports the armed forces stationed overseas by sending blank handmade greeting cards for them to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them. You should have arrived from Jennifer's blog Crafty Card Gallery. If not, click on the image above and it will take you to the beginning of the hop.

The theme of this blog hop is "Missing You". And here is my Missing You card. I think she reminds me of the old tyme USO gals!

We are asked to keep this short so that all of you can visit all the other great crafty people out there participating in this hop, so I will try. :-)

Background is stamped with Versamark and clear embossed. The white pearls are pearlex paint. The image is Bombshell Angel with the Evening Bombshell Digital Stamps. I colored her up with Copics - main colors are the 2X series (B2x, R2X, Y2X). The sentiment is from Flourishes Orchids Set.

THE NEXT STOP ON THE HOP IS PatQ's Cards.

Thank you so much for joining us! Have a great weekend.

Hump Day Hop!!!!

2011-05-25T00:00:00.015-04:00

HEY THERE!!!! I am so excited because it is the last Wednesday of the month, and that means the Bombshell Hump Day Blog Hop! WOO HOO. If you arrived here from Stempelientje's blog, you are ON THE RIGHT TRACK... if not, hop over to the Bombshell Blog to start with, because you don't want to miss this wicked theme. Bombshell Alison - Our HHL (Hump Hop Leader) has challenged us to Goth up our Bombshell Stamps for this blog hop. You might think that was easy, but OH My!!!! Mine kept wanting to go to the Oscars or something. So this was as close as I could get her - a fancy Goth.

Now, you may say - something doesn't look quite right. I have never seen that particular stamp. You would be CORRECTAMUNDO. I took 3 different stamps to make this particular lady up. The first was the ever versatile and lovely Bombshell Angel. But I have to say the flower in her hair kept screaming Goth Faker! So I used her only as the base - ok - basically the shoes are hers. :-)... The outfit is a Digi Stamp called "Evening Bombshell" that has three great outfits. The head came from "A Pirates Life" .

This lovely lady was colored up with Copics. I added some tattoos in various spots on her body (some may be in unmentionable places LOL). The skin is E50, 51, 53 and her hair is B02, 05 and black. Her outfit is colored in shades of C. I think I used everything from C00 to C9 somewhere on here. On her dress I did two things. For the "bodice" I used a Copic multiliner to add lace. I also added more delineation of the bodice. For the shawl, I wanted it to be sheer... So I colored her arm underneath, and added a bit of a line to indicate the arm. I then used very light C00, C0 and C1, and a little C3. I shaded it to make it look like it is doubled up in some areas, and flowy.

Once I was done with her, I cut her out and put her together. I decided that the dress needed to be vinyl or shiny... so I added some black enamel effects and clear crystal accents all over the dress (the black was only at the cinch of the bodice).

I hope you all liked my contribution to the hop. Now you need to get hopping along to visit the other ladies blogs. Your next stop is at Emily's - but if you get lost along the way here is the entire Hip Hopping Group!!!

Bombshell Blog
Alison
Kelli
Sparkly Engineer
Sugar
Meredith
Jennie
Mary G.
Milo
Cheryl
Stempelientje
Alaine YOU ARE HERE!!!
Emily
Dawn
Kathi

I hope you come back this weekend... Operation Write Home is having a Memorial Day Blog Hop (see the button on my sidebar) and I have another lovely Bombshell all dressed up for the occasion!!! See you soon!

2011-05-22T03:00:00.002-04:00

I was thrilled a few weeks ago when I was asked to participate as a Guest Designer for Kenny K Krafty Girlz Challenge. I LOVE the images produced and the chance to work with the amazingly talented Design Team and have my work shown with theirs is extremely exciting for me.

The challenge this week is White on White. WOW. That was a little intimidating. But a HECK of a lot of fun!!!

I printed out Club Kid on Hammermill 80 lb paper. I colored her up with my Copics. (colors below). I tried to color her up lightly and make it look like she had predominantly white on, while still being colored. Once she was colored up, I cut her out and mounted her on the card base. I used the base layer, layered that with another piece of the same white cardstock that I used my MS scoreboard and made lines on about 1/4 inch from the edges. I cut a slightly smaller piece of cardstock and embossed that through the Cuttlebug, and then I cut out one of the new fancy tags from spellbinders and that is the top layer. Each one of these is spritzed with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist.

I topped it off with the ribbon and the pearls to bling it up.

I started out coloring her face with E0000, E000, E00 and E01 with R20 used to blush her up.

The "whites" of her hair, and clothing is B0000, B000, B00. I also went over it a great deal with the Colorless blender. I only did the outside edges of the areas I wanted to color. I did not fill in everything, leaving some spots open. I colored her shoestrings and tie and belt with BV00, BV01, BV02, BV04. I also used this to color her eyes and her eyeshadow. When I was done I went over several areas - her tie, eyeshadow, jewelry with clear spica. I then took a very very fine paintbrush and touched it up with Copic White - the collar, the glints on her eyes, some places in her hair and the rips in her jeans. You can see the copic white in a few places of her hair and her collar on the close up picture.

Now, check on out the challenge over at Kenny K brought to you this week by Team A. You do not need to use a Kenny K image to enter the challenge, but if you do use one and are randomly selected as our winner, you will receive a really cool prize pacakge.

Thank you for taking a gander at my creation and THANK YOU to Donna and the lovely ladies at Kenny K for including me as a Guest Designer this week for you!!!

Built for Speed!

2011-05-18T00:01:00.003-04:00

Hey there everyone! It is time again for the monthly Pin-Up challenge for Bombshell Stamps. Miss May - the wonderful Raven has challenged us this month to use LINENS or LACE on our creations. I found this lovely black and whiet checkerish fabric over at JoAnns, and used it to make up my finish line flags and the road!

I used the King of the Road Stamp set to stamp out the car. I colored it in hot pink because it was too much fun! I almost titled it Pink Lady! I cut out the flags with a triangle Nestie. I used red line tape to wrap around the flower soft stem, and then wrapped the edge of the triangle flags. After that I dipped the red line tape edge into gold flower soft and made it stick. I know that you can use glue, but I think I like using this tape better. It was not quite as messy. I also cut a length of the tape and placed it on the fabric, and the wrapped it around the tape to get the "ribbon".

For the coloring I used RV00, 02, 04, 06, 09, C1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and then B000 for the glass and the headlights. I also used a LITTLE bit of Y00 in the center of the headlights. Once I was done with the initial coloring I colored over the grey areas with clear Spica, and then I colored over the pink with the very lightest of pink spica, to give it that shimmery paint look. I used crystal effects on the windows and the headlights to finish it off.

The sentiment (also from the King of the Road set) is stamped with Versafine and clear embossed.

Now why don't you all just SPEED on over to the Bombshell Blog and see what the other hot ladies have for this challenge. And, while you are there - why not just enter a creation. You can cross the finish line there or over at the Bombshell Forum and maybe end up with some lovely rubber as your prize!

Hope to see you back here again soon. Next week is the oh so Goth Bombshell Blog Hop (you can sign upto participate in it here, or you can just come back and hop along with us)!

If You Want My Body

2011-05-14T12:03:00.000-04:00

It is Retro time over at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz Challenge. I have this wonderful DCWV Paper Stack that reminds me of some wallpaper that we had in a house when I was in college. It had this gold and brown foil wallpaper on the walls that was at least 15 years old in style. So when I looked at the Kenny K images I have, this one just was perfection.

I colored him up with Copics. I couldn't decide whether he should wear the gold or blue, but the gold looked funny, so I opted for the blue leisure suit look. I cut out the image I had started coloring gold and used some stencil glue on the back of it to make it sticky. I then placed it over this fella, and airbrushed. A little bit of speckling snuck under the mask because the stencil glue is so light. I kond of like how it turned out though, because it makes it look more like night.

Colors Used: B000, 00, 02, 05, Y21, 23, E0000, 000, 00, 01, R20, R24, R27, R39, E13, 15, 17, 18, C1, 3, 5

Airbrushing - B32, 34, 37

A note about the coloring. For his glasses I used B0000 and RV000 feathered together to give it a rose colored glasses look. When I was done, I used Crystal Effects and shined up his glasses, disco ball and shoes.

Thanks for hopping over here and checking out Mr. Sexy. See you again soon.

Sketchy Time!

2011-05-11T00:01:00.036-04:00

It is the Bombshell Stamps Sketch Challenge Time! WOO HOO. Bombshell Sketch Goddess and our Glorious DT Captain Kathi has prepared this wonderful sketch for us to be challenged with.

I usually try REALLY hard to follow the sketch to the letter, but the stamp kept screaming at me to use it. "USE ME - - ME, ME, ME, MEEEEEEE!!!!". I tried to use another stamp... and it never worked right. I kept coming back to this one. It would NOT be quiet. Since the stamp already had the sentiment in it, it insisted that I keep it solo. Make it the shining star (which I guess the sun is... so it works out great)!

I used Bazill cardstock and cut 1.5 and 1.25 inch squares out of them. I alternated those, and then added a double circle of the same colors. The image was stamped in black versafine on white Hammermill Color Copy Cover and then clear embossed. I then used Spicas to color in the image and make it all sparkly. I topped it off with the red and black polka dot ribbon and the red and black sparkly gems.

OK... here are the pesky rules - really easy and simple:
• Feel free to flip it, flop it, and make it your own.
• Use Bombshell Stamps!
• Upload your take on the sketch on the Bombshell Blog by May 31st for a chance to win a fabulous prize.
• Also, you can check out today's Bombshell Blog post. Upload your take on the sketch there and double your chances to win!!!
• Have fun!!!

Today is the day it is being posted on the Bombshell Blog!!! Go check out what all the other gorgeous Bombshell's have for inspiration on that post there. They are truly WONDERFUL.

Hope to see you all back here soon!

HAPPY Mother's Day!!!

2011-05-08T19:18:00.000-04:00

Hey all. I waited until I gave this to my Mom to post it! And now that I did, here it is!

I used Flourishes new stamp Set Motherly Love as the Sentiment, and the set Butterflies and Blossoms for the image. The image was stamped with Memento on Hammermill Color Copy Cover. I did this twice. The first image I colored up sections of it, the two large flowers, and the butterfly. The second image I colored the entire thing, including the background. I popped the two flowers and butterfly up with pop tape. The sentiment was cut out using Nesties, and then while still in the nestie airbrushed with B00. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine and then the entire thing clear embossed. The paper is DCWV, and had white ribbon wrapped around it. and topped off with a bow. Had to add some of the lovely pearls - - I love these pearls.

Copic Colors:

Flowers with Y00, Y11, Y13, Y15 and a touch of Y17
Center of flowers with G21, E13, 15
Leaves - YG21, G21, 24, 28
Butterfly - Y11, 13, 15, BG11, 13, 15

I am going to enter this into the BBB10 challenges for Flourishes for the Beauty of a Flower!

Happy Mother's Day to everyone! Especially MY Mom!

Orchids

2011-04-30T22:15:00.000-04:00

These new Flourishes Orchids stamps are gorgeous. But let me tell you they were very hard to color the rirst time. I looked up many photos of Orchids. And this is the my first finished one. I took several tries at different colors and then decided on this color scheme.

I started on the edges with RV63, and then added some RV66 to darken. I went back over with RV63 and went toward the center, leaving some white areas. I went back over it and blended into the white areas with RV00. For the inner petals I did the edges again with the RV63. Then I started in the center with Y11, 13, 15 and went out toward the edge. After that I went inside the line of the RV63 with RV69 and feathered and streaked into the yellow with that. I outlined the very center of each flower with the RV69 and the inside is the RV63. The leaves are YG61, 63, 67.

Thanks for stopping by. Going to go stamp up some sexy ladies next I think. See you soon!!!

Brighter Days

2011-04-28T22:01:00.000-04:00

I got my new Flourishes stamps a couple of days ago. LOVE them. The boots were just so cool, I had to have them.

I don't do a LOT of masking but I get the urge once in a while. I stamped the Boots first, and then I used post its to protect the areas I didn't want stamped over. I then stamped the bucket and tulips and followed that up with the tulip blooms on the other side. I really like how the image was so easy to mask.

I started coloring the boots first (colors below), then I colored the leaves, then the bucket, then the ground and then the flowers. I want to talk little bit about the bucket and the flowers and how I did them. The Bucket I started coloring with the Cool Greys. Covered the entire thing with C0, then went over a little on the edge with C1, C3 and C5. Just a small bit and blended in. Then I used the C0, and I picked up using tip to tip a little E08 and used that in the deep back edges. For the middle rusty look I added a bit of E04 with tip to tip and had those streaked a little in the center. For the flowers, I did a similar thing. I used the Yellows and layered them how I wanted (Y11 all over, 13, 15 closer to the edges of some of the petals, and then also darker toward the base), Then I used Y11 and picked up from the cap of the R11 and R14 and added the streaked coral to the tips of the petals and dragged it down toward the middle of the petals.

Ok. so to finish it up, I added the Paper Studio paper and (Adhesive Simplicity). I matted the main image in black. I also masked another stamp from Flourishes to split up the sentiment. I stamped in Versafine, clear embossed, and then matted those in black and placed them on the card.

Easy Peasy. Really. Masking is sometimes seen as hard with intricate cutting, but it doesn't have to be. It can be fairly quick and simple.

Copic Colors Used -

Flowers - Y11, 13, 15, R11, 14, YG11, 13, 17

Bucket - C0, 1, 3, 5, E08, E04

Ground - E11, 13, 15

Sky - B0000

Boots - B12, 14, 16, 18, G12, 14, 16, V12, 15, 17

Thanks for taking a gander at my blog today. Can't wait to see what creativity this weekend brings!

PWC151 - Paper Piercing

2011-04-27T00:01:00.001-04:00

WOW. I cannot believe that it has been 2 whole months! This is my last time to participate as a Guest Designer for Paper Pretties and play with the Prettie girls. I have thouroughly enjoyed the entire stint, and have been inspired to try some very new things (sentiment only cards WHEW). The girls over there are a super bunch and incredibly talented. And the images are some of the cutest out there! I want to thank both Heather for allowing me to represent her company and images for the past two months, and Frances for being an amazing Design Team Captain, extremely talented paper artist and all around nice lady.

The last card for this term is for their weekly challenge - PWC151. This weeks challenge is Paper Piercing. This is one of those stretches I have had to go through, as I don't do a lot of Paper Piercing. But Jabbing sharp metal objects into things. . . how can that not be fun?!!

I started by choosing the image. I ADORE this image of the dragon illustrated by Victoria Case (Imagine). She is such a pretty dragon. I have colored this one before and tried to make it more of a male image (a boy dragon with REALLY pretty long eyelashes). This time I wanted it all girl. So I asked my girly girl what colors a girl dragon would be. She said purple and green and pink... There you have it, Firebreather is purple, pink and green.

Here is a close up of my Firebreather (named such by my girly girl). I used the G000, G12, G14, V0000, V000, V12, V15, RV0000, RV000, RV00 and RV02. Once I was done, I used a Sakura Gelly Roll pen called clear star to outline the wings, horns, ears, add some sparkles to her eyeshadow, and the spots on her tail. I know, shocker... didn't use the Clear Spica... but the Gelly Roll is a little more sparkly, and I didn't exactly want subtle. She wanted to show off her pretty!
So after coloring her, I layered her on the black paper and then pierced the edge. I used a plastic mesh for this, and really... I think I actually like the ones I freehanded on the big black background cardstock better. But, live and learn. :-)

If you play this week, you will have a chance to win a fun stamp set. You do not need to use Paper Pretties stamps in order to play along, but if you do, you will get a bonus entry into the drawing! Please be sure to mention our challenge and link back to the Paper Pretties blog in your project posting. When uploading to SCS or PCP please use keyword PWC151.

Thank You so much. Can't wait to see you later, and if you didn't come here from the Paper Pretties Blog - head on over and check out all the stabby stabby fun!

Sketchy Masculine Card

2011-04-24T20:39:00.000-04:00

I recently got some new to me Bombshell Stamps - the King of the Road set. I love the look of the oldfashioned cars. This is my first attempt at coloring up one. I hope to get better at it as time goes forward.

The image is colored with B21, 23, 24, 26, 29... and a C0, C1, C3, C5, C7. The Nestie was edged with a radk blue of B29. I also sponged on the Dark Brown Memento Ink using a dauber. I am entering this into a couple of challenges:

Sketch Saturday # 152

Challenge #108: PILE-IT-ON!

Color Throwdown #138

OMG - THREE WHOLE Challenges with one card. I feel like a Challenge Junkie!

Have a great week - I hope you had a wonderful Easter!!!

In olden days a glimpse of stocking

2011-04-22T20:46:00.000-04:00

Was looked on as something shocking,

But now, God knows,

Anything Goes.

That is the theme of this weeks Kenny K's Krafty Girlz challenge. Anything Goes. So here is my anything!

I used Devilish Donna, and colored her up with new shades of Copics... and a little old. :-) Colors below. I then cut her out and mounted her on the black oval. I circled the oval with the clear crystals, and added slightl bigger ones on the bottom. I was trying to make it seem as if she was coming out of the card. There is a sheer ribbon that has tinsel going through it behind the oval.

For the colors I used RV000,00, 63, 66, 69 for the pinks. The skin is E0000, E000, E00, and the blush is the RV00.. For the greys I used C0,1,3,5,7. For her wings I feathered the greys and the pinks together. I think it turned out really really slick looking. I love it! (If I do say so myself!) Her grey eyes, also have a touch of the pink in it to seem as if they are reflecting some of the pink.

Hope you have a GREAT Easter weekend, and I will see you all again really soon!

Bombshell Blog Hop

2011-04-20T00:01:00.003-04:00

If you are looking for the Paper Pretties Post please scroll down.

Hey all. Today is the Bombshell Stamps April Challenge Showcase and BlogHop! This months challenge was designed and is hosted by the oh so talented Ms. April - - Racheal! The April Challenge is to make something Wedding related. If you are arriving from Sparkly Mary's blog then you are on the right track. If you haven't arrived from there, why don't you head on over to the Bombshell Blog and get started!!!

Now, I am not sure about all of y'all, but let me tell you I absolutely am extremely excited about the Royal Wedding. I know I am not from England, but I remember both of the royal weddings (Diana and Charles, and Sarah and Andrew), so I can't wait to watch William and Kate. YAY. Yes, I will be watching! EEeeeek.

Anyway, my take on this was to try to make a wedding bouquet.

I got the idea from the World Card Making Day Challenges last September where we were to make a card using JUST the icons. I made a wreath. For this one I used the same technique... coloring and cutting out flowers. The flowers I stamped are from the Hula Girl set. I then put the flowers in a bouquet like shape (or my attempt at it). :-) The sentiment... well I am a dorkfish, so I liked it. LOL.

The other cool thing was to use the Text Generator and Font Database on the Bomobshell Stamps page to create the sentiments!

The flowers were SIMPLE. I colored them up with R81, 83, 85 and YG61, 63, 67. That is it. Then I cut them out, ran them through a Xyron and then pieced them together. :-)

I hope you all continue along on the blog hop. The next step on the hop is Stempelientje's Stamped Creations.

Hope to see you again soon!

Paper Pretties - It is Pink and Green

2011-04-20T00:00:00.000-04:00

Hello. I am a busy little chick these days. If you are looking for the Bombshell BlogHop Please hit the Main Blog Home or scroll up to the previous post and you will get to it. If you are looking for the Paper Pretties Post - - YOU ARE HERE!

This weeks challenge was a Pink, Green, Neutral challenge. I have been itching to use this little chick for a LONG LONG time. I made this card specifically for a cousin (and I sent it to her and I HOPE she gets it today)!

The colors used were RV00, 63 and 66 and YG11,13, 17. The paper was DCWV and Bazill. I LOVE this card. I think the image is one of the CUTEST ever!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you check out the Paper Pretties blog and all the wonderful talented Design Team creations that are posted there this week. You have a chance to WIN RUBBER - or at least a clear version of it. :-)

Have a great week!

Bookend Birthday Cards!

2011-04-16T23:23:00.001-04:00

I have been very busy lately as I have had two big birthdays to make cards for. My mother's birthday was a week ago, and my oldest daughters birthday was last night. Two more different types of cards you cannot imagine.

The first card I made for my mother. I have this Kraftin Kimmie stamp with the lady sewing a quilt and so I used that and colored it up with BG7x series, E7x, YG9x and B9x series primarily. The Paper is Old World DCWV, and the other stamps used were Darcies that I stamped with Versafine and clear embossed on a slightly beigeish grey paper. I then followed a tutorial on SCS for a stair step card. What is weird is after I colored it and put it together, I remembered I had these extra little embellies... and then discovered that the spools of thread matched EXACTLY the colors. WEIRDNESS.

My second Birthday card is for my daughter and is using my lovely Bombshell Sacred Hearts and Sugar skulls. YAY. I colored with Cx greys, R2x and B2x. I then cut them out, and then used Crystal Effects on the top to make them shiny! I stamped on black paper the sugar skulls with Imprintz White, and embossed with white. I mounted the heards on the top of this. Then on the inside I repeated the excercise, and stamped in black on white the sugar skulls. YAY... I had a birthday card for my daughter!

What did I say - VERY different! Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see you all again really soon!

Flourishes SPEED Challenge for April

2011-04-14T23:49:00.000-04:00

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEkkkkkk.... I was so excited when I found out they had a speed challenge this month, because 1) their release this month is so STINKING cute, and 2)I had just finished coloring up one of the Lenten Roses, and hadn't done anything with it. YAY.
I followed their sketch, and here is is done, photographed and put in in less than an hour. So what if I am exhausted, and I have to go to work tomorrow. YAY.

So here is my take, and I hope that you like it! The paper is Linen Closet from DCWV. The stamp is Lenten Rose. The water is BG0000, 000 and the leaves are G21, 24, 28. The Lenten Rose parts are the YG21, 23, 25 amd E50, 51, 53. Not sure about the green, but I did see some that were green on the web, so I thought I would give it a whirl.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a great weekend! I plan on it!

Paper Pretties Blog Hop!!!

2011-04-13T00:00:00.000-04:00

Hello Everyone! Happy Wednesday. It is the day for the Paper Pretties Blog Hop and weekly challenge. I am so excited to be a Guest Design Team Member this month and have the opportunity to work with the very sweet ladies over at Paper Pretties. If you arrived from the Paper Pretties Blog, then you are on the right track.

For this weeks challenge, we were asked to use 2 design papers on our layout. I found this wonderful Sock Monkey paper, and I could not resist - I had to use the new Sock Monkey stamp set. I colored the sock monkey to match the one on the paper as best I could.

I decided to make a box in a bag. I based it on the tutorial over at SplitCoastStampers. For my second DP, I used this lovely Cork paper. I also took this opportunity to use the Lacey Pennants Nesties I got.

I colored these with Copics. I used several colors, but a lot of E70, 71, 74 and some C0, C1 over it to get the color. The reds are R22,24,27,29 and the whites are E50 and E51. For the wrapping paper, I used E30, 31, 33 and just used little bitty dots on it to make it look a little like the cork. Once I was done, I layered it on the same red carstock I used everywhere else, and then cut it out with a bit of an edge.

Thank You for joining me today. Your next stop on the Paper Pretties hop is Amber Hillman's blog "Amber's Antics".

Hope you come back again soon!! have a great week!

Bombshell Hotness

2011-04-12T21:49:00.000-04:00

Hey there everyone. I haven't made a big deal about this yet, because this is my first OFFICIAL post, but I have been honored to be selected to be a full time member of the Bombshell Design Team. I am so extremely thrilled with this. I LOVE their stamps, and everyone on the design team is so incredibly talented. It is really exciting to be a part of this wonderful group of ladies!
Every month, in addition to just having fun with the stamps, the Bombshells bring you a couple of challenges. The first is a Sketch Challenge, and the second is a challenge selected by the monthly pinups. For this post I am concentrating on the Sketch Challenge.

Kathi came up with this very wonderful Sketch:

I used Girls Ruin for this sketch, and a couple of pieces (little ones) from other stamp sets. For the Main image, I colored it with my Copics. Before coloring it I added some squigglies in the top and the tops of the hose as well as some scallops on them as well. This was to make it look like lace.

I colored her entire body with the E000, E00, E01 first. This included her chest and legs. Once I was done and had them looking the way I wanted, I went over her chest and the hose with C0, C1 and C3. This made them look like they were transparent with the skin showing through. The shoe is R22, 24, 27, 29 and 39 along with C3, 5,7,9. Once I was done with all of the coloring, I layered it on red cardstock, and then decided I did not like it, so cut through both layers. This gave it a little more heft and made it easy to stick down and stay. I then went back over the shoe and her hose and bra with a little clear Spica. It made it shiny and sparkly. You can really see that on the red shoe in the close up picture. On the red squares I used black liquid pearls. I need to practice a bit more on this. I will say it looks much more even in real life than this picture indicates. The camera shows every flaw.

Please head on over to the Bombshell Stamps Blog On Wednesday April 13 to check out what the other ladies have done. You can also check out the Bombshell Stamps Forum which is always hopping with great ideas!

THANK You for stopping by. I hope you are having a great week! And I hope to see you back soon!

Paper Pretties Day 2 - Inspired by a stamp set!

2011-04-12T00:01:00.003-04:00

Hey there all you people out in Blogland. This is the last of the Paper Pretties Previews for the month of April. This set being previewed today is Inspirational Quotes.

I have done up a clean and simple (for me) card for todays preview. I found this beautiful black and white print paper. I LOVE the simplicity of black and white. I think it looks so pretty. I cut out the blcack Bazill paper (Raven I think) with a Round Nestie. I stamped the quote and butterfly from the set using white Imprintz Ink and then embossed with detail white EP. I then used the next size up Round Nestie and cut out a white circle. The last layer(s) are the same size black and white Lacey Circle Nestie. I cut the white parts all around the Nestie (one side only), and then laced it in with the Lacey Circle Black cut out. I added a touch of the black pearls around where the white edge was cut, and then a black bow. It was very quick and simple, and turned out so elegant (IMHO).

• Join us for our release Blog Hop tomorrow (Wednesday) starting at 12 AM EST 13th April, starting on the Paper Pretties Blog.

• New Release Stamps available in the Paper Pretties Boutique from 7AM EST Wednesday 12 AM EST 13th April.
• Don’t forget to check out the Paper Pretties Blog to see who else is previewing the new stamps today.

THANK You so much for stopping by. I hope you stop by again tomorrow for the Blog Hop for Paper Pretties, AND I will have my post for the Bombshell Stamps Sketch Challenge.

Paper Pretties Preview Day 2 - Sock Monkey

2011-04-10T00:01:00.002-04:00

Hey there all! I am so happy that I was chosen to be a Guest Design Team member for Paper Pretties this month because I got SOCK MONKEY to play with! I LOVE this little fellow. He is sooooo cute. And my daughter recently became obsessed with sock monkeys so that made it even better.

I used the Core'dinations whitewashed paper for the card base and the red paper as well. I love the look it gives. The diamond paper is from DCWV Safari Chic. I cut it so it would fit the card base... well to be honest I cut the card base to fit the already cut cardstock that I trimmed. LOL.

The sock monkey was stamped with Memento on Hammermill. I used E70, 71, 74 for the colors and R24, 27, 29 for the red and B21, 24, 26 for the blue. The beige was a lttle E50 put on with the colorless blender.

When I was done I cut him out and attached him to the cardstock with pop tape to give him a little bounce. :-)

• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Wednesday 12 AM EST 13th April, starting on the Paper Pretties Blog.

• New Release Stamps available in the Paper Pretties Boutique from 7AM EST Wednesday13th April.

• Don’t forget to check out the Paper Pretties Blog to see who else is previewing the new stamps today.

THANK You so much for stopping by. I hope you stop by again on Tuesday for the next Paper Pretties Release, and Wednesday for the Blog Hop for Paper Pretties, AND I will have my post for the Bombshell Stamps Sketch Challenge (I better get cracking to get that one done!!!).

Happy Birthday Pardner!

2011-04-06T00:01:00.025-04:00

This weeks challenge over at Paper Pretties was a SKETCH challenge. I was lucky because I JUST received my new Banners Spellbinders Nesties, so I was able to use them for this. YAY!

I inked up Cowboy Cooper and colored him up all purdy-like! He was colored with Copics. I used several browns - the E50,51,53,55,57 family, as well as the E31, 33, 35 family. I also used the Warm Greys which I rarely use. But the reds on there... yup - - those are E04, 07 and 08. Gives it a nice BRICK Red look.
Once I was done coloring him up I cut him out and then went around the edge of the cutout with a Black Copic Brush tip Multiliner. This kind of makes the edges disapear and if you have a little oops in the cutting, it doesn't show up as much. YAY.

The Happy Birthday Pardner was stamped using versafine, and then clear embossed. The DP is a double sided Creative Imaginations paper.

I hope you enjoyed this, and I REALLY hope that y'all hop on over to the Paper Pretties site and join in on the challenge. The ladies over there always have WONDERFUL inspiration pieces to help you to get your craft on!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you all back again really soon.

Bring on the Bling!!!

2011-03-30T00:01:00.001-04:00

Wow - it is already Wednesday again which means it is time for another Paper Pretties challenge. They have challenged us this time to BRING ON THE BLING! WOO to the HOO! You all know how I LOVE me some blingy bling. :-)

I have been wanting to color up this oh too cute image (Love Birds) for a while. Once I had it colored my 11 year old daughter wanted it. She said she wanted it in a bookmark. Well, ok, ANYthing to encourage reading. So I made it up as a lovely little bookmark.

The bling around the edge of the beaded Nestie are clear hotfix jewels. I also had some teeny tiny bling that I used in their eyes, and some light green that I used on the flowers.

The colors I used on the birds are YG11, 13, 17 and BV11, 13, 17 and Y11, 13, 15.

The tree / flowers are E11, 13, 15 and G12, 14, 16, RV10, 13, 14.

Once I was done, I outlined with B000 and B00 to give it a little shading and interest.

The ribbon already had the bling on it, so that was easy. I just cut two of the nesties out and stuck the ribbon between the two and glued them together. Then blinged out the front.

Please check out the other items that the DT have prepared for you blingy inspiration over at the Paper Pretties Blog!!!

And this weekend is the start of the Paper Pretties April release Previews. I have been having a blast with the sets I get the privelage of previewing so I hope you all come back this weekend to take a gander!!!

Have a great week!

Recyled Gift Box

2011-03-27T16:00:00.000-04:00

While I was cruising around looking for something to challenge me, I came across the Basic Grey Challenge for Soemthing Recycled. Well I have been storing up these little boxes that you get jewelry in for gifts, wanting to do something with them, and I thought this was the perfect chance. I love me some Basic Grey paper, and you all KNOW how I feel about my Sugar Skulls from Bombshell stamps, so I had no choice but to combine them!!!

I covered the Jewelry box with some of the Halloween paper from the 6 x 6 paper pad. I used two different ones, one for the base and one for the lid to give it a bit more of a funky look.

I stamped the Sugar Skull on Neenah with Memento, and used the E81, 87 to shade it. I also used V91, 93, 95 for the purpley, YG91, 93, 95, 97 and YR61 and 65 to decorate. When I was done I cut it out and then covered it with Crystal Effects to give it a nice shiny glaze. I colored the flower using my airbrush with the YG91, 93 and 95 and then highlighted or actually lowlighted with the V95.

I stuck the flower on with the one of the huge 3D glue dot, and then used foam tape to tape on the Skull. I love how it turned out, and I think it will be great for my older daughter, or one of her friends.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Geek Out

2011-03-25T23:18:00.000-04:00

Hey there... This quick post today is for the Kenny K Krafty Girlz challenge this week. They challenged us to use 3 Designer Papers, 2 Ribbons and 1 Image. WHEW... I am great with the ribbons and Image, the 3 DPs... well let me just say THANK GOODNESS for DCWV stacks, because, if I didn't have those, I would not be able to mix and match so well.

I used this nerdy man image from Kenny K. Usually I go for the scantily clad ladies to color cuz they are so much fun to color with all their curves, but I ADORED this image. He just makes me smile.

I colored him up with Copics. The primary colors I used other than the skin tones were reds and blues (hee hee the primary colors I used are primary colors HAHAHAHAHA). The blues on the shoes and bow tie and pants are B21, 23, 24, 26. The Reds are R22, 24, 27 and a bit of 29.

For the jacket I used the tip to tip method, but I used it with the Colorless Blender. I grabbed the colorless blender and picked up blue from the B21, and added it to the shadows and edges of his jacket. In the shaded areas I would add more of the blue using this method until it got to the color I liked. I love how this gave the jacket shading but still left it looking bright white!

I finished the card up using a sketch from SCS from their weekly sketch challenge. And then I added the two black ribbons to finish off the Kenny K Challenge (the inch wide one with the little looks, and then the black and silver ribbon on top of that.

The finishing touches are the protractor and compass. To quote my husband "You seriously had a protactor and compass as thingies, whatever you call them, to go on your card?" LOL... Yes and I have a pencil, hole punch, stapler and locker lock too. HEE HEE. There are embellishments for pretty much anything!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you again soon and hope everyone has a great weekend.

Peek a Boo

2011-03-24T20:46:00.000-04:00

Hey there folks. I am here with a quick post today to show off my latest lovely lady. I had such fun coloring her up. I wanted to go with all shades of brown, and I succeeded pretty well. The only non brown color was a TOUCH of R20 for her cheeks. Other than that, it is all brown.

The paper is an actual wood paper that I cut out using just a paper cutter and a large oval nestie. I cut out the inside of the oval with a slightly smaller Nestie. Once I had the cowgirl pasted on the inside I positioned the cuts. I then added the bar of white and the wood paper to the bar as well. The flowers on the outside are white flowers that are sptritzed with suede Glimmer Mist.

When you open up the card you discover that it was a little bit of a tease from the front... I know that is pretty dorky, but Hey... I admit I am a dork, and if I forget, my daughters remind me that I am.

Colors:
skin E000,00,01 and R20.
hat, boots, outfit E21, 23, 25, 27, 29
Hair E11, 13, 15, 17, 08

Please keep the people in Greenback, TN in your thoughts. There were several homes damaged / destroyed last night when an F3 tornado touched down over there. We have some friends who were hit hard, and I am sure they would appreciate any thoughts and prayers you can send their way!

Thanks for stopping by, and hope to see you again soon!

PWC146 - Inspired by Spring

2011-03-23T00:01:00.001-04:00

YAY!!! It is spring... and even better IT FEELS like spring! This weeks Paper Pretties Challenge was to use spring as our inspiration. WOO HOO. When I think spring, I think bright colors and little cute animals... and Easter Eggs! Now I know Easter is really late this year, but Seriously... Spring means Easter. Just like Fall means Halloween and Winter is Christmas!

I stamped with Memento and colored up this OH SO CUTE What the Cluck Image. And The chicken looks so shocked, I thought what would shock me if I were a chicken?? I think if I laid Easter Eggs I would be a little shocked. I think even if I looked at eggs I didn't lay I would be all What the heck are those things?

So I colored this outraged mother up with my Copic markers. I used the 0X series of the colors (Y0000, Y000, G02, G05, etc...)

The eggs and eyes I went over with clear Spica when I was done, and then I cut it out with a Nestie and while still in the Nestie, used the B00 and G02 to airbrush around the edge. The sentiment was stamped with versafine, and then clear embossed.

The bow is cute and I thought it went really well with the scalloped look of the beaded oval. The beaded oval I blinged up with some colored pearls.

I really hope you join in the fun over at Paper Pretties this week. They have some really cute stamps, and all you have to be is inspired by spring and you have a chance to win one of them. And this is available to any stamper - you don't have to use Paper Pretties stamps!

See you soon. I hope to have another Bombshell Card posted soon... I have been working on it. Plus I am getting some new stamps in soon (Bombshell and a couple of Mo Manning stamps from Stampavie, and Flourishes new release), so I should have a lot of fun stuff coming up. EEEEk (Stalking the mailbox).

Thanks for coming by and I hope you have a great rest of the week!

Think Pink!

2011-03-18T22:22:00.000-04:00

Hey all!!! I am so happy to be typing this on my new computer! YAY. My old one got to the point that I could not be on the internet AND be on my e-mail at the same time. YIKES. This one is super fast on the uploading of pictures and that is so exciting to me. Plus my ultimate favoritist thing ever is that it has a fingerprint reader for logging into websites, etc... I love to log out just to log back in with it. My husband says it will get old soon... but it hasn't yet.

So my first card to post is for the In a Sweet Pea Dream "Pink Challenge". I used a stamp called "Radiant Butterfly".

The background paper is the Old World Stack from DCWV, and the bow was made from a BowEasy. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado. I colored her up with my Copics.

For colors I used BG70, 72, 75 and 78 for her hair. I am really really happy with the way her hair turned out. I layered all the colors before I began to blend. When it came time to blend... I used the BG72 primarily for the blender, except in the lightest areas where I went back to the 70. I also used a bit of these on the butterflies.

For the PINK part which for this IS the most important in this challenge - I used the R81, 83, 85, 89. These are some of my favorite colors for pink. These blend so very well!!!

The gold is Gold Spica, and the blacks are all cool greys. So on a side note... how do you spell grey? Is it grey or gray? I was told both were correct from a technical standpoint... but that gray is the American way of spelling it, and grey is the English way. Ok... I am born and bred in the US and I find myself spelling it grey. All I can figure was it was from reading my Mimi's Barbara Cartland novels when I was in Jr. High!

Thanks for stopping by. I am so looking forward to the next week. I hope you stop back by again soon!!

PAINT IT

2011-03-16T20:37:00.002-04:00

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE PAPER PRETTIES CHALLENGE DAY POST - - scroll down to the next post.

This months Bombshell Monthly Challenge was a stretch for me. I mean I had to THINK about it. The challenge this month was from the Lovely Anita Marie, and she challenged all of us to use Paint!

Wow, and WOW! So I thought and I thought and I thought a little more. And then I pondered. Hmmmmm... So what I ended up with was trying to paint a Bombshell. Yeah - -trust me - - I need to stick with my trusty Copics on the ladies. She ended up a little bit, well, uh... sickly looking... like she had some weird skin disease.

What I CAN paint is backgrounds.... well... at least so they don't look too bad. Here is my Painted Card!

I painted the water, sand and background on the main image first. I have no clue which paints were watercolors and which were acrylics... My daughter has them combined on a palette. I then punched out the oval, and then I used Memento ink and stamped on the island image from the Hula Girl set. I painted the island and the trees. I then used some white ink paint and painted the clouds. Once I was done I stamped some palm trees from the same set on the bottom of a tan piece of cardstock. Then I did the skyline the same way I did on the main image. The blue "water" on the main image is painted on, but on the bottom layer, it is a transparent turquoise ribbon that just happened to match. How FREAKING lucky was that. WOW! I added some bling bling and a couple of more layers and flowers, and Voila! I figure this is a good "wish you were here" card or "have a great summer" card or something along those lines.

Hope you all enter the challenge this month. Go check out what all the Bombshells have done, and hop around the forum a bit!!! THANKS ANITA MARIE for the wonderful challenge!

2011-03-16T00:01:00.004-04:00

Howdy Y'all! It is time for the Paper Pretties Weekly challenge. This weeks challenge is to make a MASCULINE card. Now, I have two daughters. Even my dog is female. Believe me when I say my husband is outnumbered. So I was really happy to be making a masculine card because I don't make a lot of them.

I decided to make a bookmark card for a little boy. I used the Imagine set and stamped the image with Memento. I colored him up using R22, 24, 27, 29 and W1, 3, 4, 6, 7. The Yellow is Y21, 23 and YR21.

Once I was done, I cut out the image with a Deckled Rectangular Nestie, and then airbrushed the edges with W1. I went up one size and cut out two of the red leaf background paper.. I placed these back to back before I cut them so they would match up, and then I ran a ribbon through it. The bookmark sits inside the triangular wooden corner, and the red leaf strip.

Thanks Everyone for stopping by, and if you havem't been there already you should check out all the handsome cards over on the Paper Pretties Blog!

I'm LATE - BOO HOO

2011-03-12T17:42:00.000-05:00

I love this card I did for the Kenny K challenge this week. Sadly I am too late to enter. Not my fault!!! Ok... so maybe my fault. I didn't photograph it this morning, and by the time I did, the challenge was closed. But I couldn't let it go without posting it, because I think it turned out really pretty.

I colored her up with the Copics. I wanted her to be wearing denim, and I think I came close.The boots, gloves, and glasses are all covered with Crystal Effects after I colored her up.

Colors:

B91, 93, 95, 97, 99 - Jacket and Shorts
E000, 00, 01, R20 - Skin
E11,13,15,17,18 - Hair
C1, 3, 5, 7 - Boots gloves
E00,01, C1, 3 - Net Hose

The challenge this week was a sketch. The DP's are always a problem for me, so I stuck with one of the DCWV stacks... those are supposed to coordinate. The brads are doodlebug and the flowers behind them are from Recollections. The trim around the main image is a felt ribbon. (Going to go in the SCS Ways to Use It challenge this week as well).

I love coloring up these images. They are so much fun, and the flowing hair is a lot of times the best part. I like to make them look like they have all sorts of colors in their hair, so I use the entire range of one family typically.

OK... that is it for this post. Thank you for Stopping By. Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Keep Japan in your thoughts and prayers!

Quick Post of Neutral Beauty

2011-03-10T23:05:00.000-05:00

This is my entry into the Flourishes Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge 08 which is to construct a card with Neutral Colors.

I stamped this on Black linen cardstock with white ink. I then used a white prismacolor pencil to color in the roses. The black dots are perfect pearl paint.

For the inside I used part of the extra stamps, and then cut out the roses and layered them on white. The sentiment is also from Flourishes.

Thank You for stopping by! Can't wait to post some more this weekend!

The Pretty Girls are HOPPING

2011-03-09T00:01:00.000-05:00

Hey there and WELCOME to my home on the web. I am thrilled to be one of the Guest Designers for Paper Pretties for the months of March and April. For the last four days we have been showing off sneak peeks for today's release! To celebrate today's release, the girls are HOPPING! If you arrived from the Paper Pretties Blog - you are on the right track (how was I so lucky as to be the first to be hopped on?!!!). Since it is Wednesday - - it is also Challenge day. The challenge for today was to use Ribbon on our project.

I chose to use the Sympathy set that is being released today, and to do a White on White card. I tried to be really simple on this, and used a couple of Nesties. The first was an oval, and on this one I stamped the sentiment. I can't tell you how much I love the fonts on this set. I then cut out a Fancy Label Nestie and mounted the white oval on top of that. This I popped up on the main layer of white cardstock that I had embossed with the Cuttlebug. I wrapped a satin ribbon around this layer, and using redline tape stuck it down. The embossing underneath leant itself to giving some dimension to the ribbon.

I found this little floral sprig in the wedding section of Hobby Lobby. I used a Bow Easy and made a triple bow for it out of a thinner satin ribbon.

Your next stop on the hop is Amber Hillman's blog.
I am sure you will LOVE what she has done.

Hope to see you again soon. Thank you for visiting!