Purple and Green And Black - Oh My!

Bombshell Angel for this card along with Halloween Costume Outfits. I love these outfits... especially this caped one. Gorgeous, and a lot of fun to color up (more on that later). The background print is not printed paper, but black paper with VersaMark stamped image from the Bombshell Patterns stamps, then embossed with purple and green embossing powder. I mounted these on sparkly green paper, and then on black card base.

I colored her up with all sorts of pretty puples and greens. For the purples I used a standard V12, 15, 17, 09. But for the greens I got a little more adventurous. That is YG13, 25, 67. I tend to color light to dark. So I start by coloring all the light colors in first, and layering on the dark and going back over it. For the Green on her dress I tried to make it a little more smooth, where the purple lining I wanted a little bit of texture, so I did a lot of streaking motions on this one. For some reaosn I picture the inside of this cape as royal purple velvet.

Entering this in the MarkerPop Challenge for Anything!!! (cuz this is anything!)

 

Thanks for popping by. Hope to see you again soon.

Puttin on the Costumes!!!

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!

The Details are Sketchy

Flourishes’ October release is next week, and their monthly release challenge is to follow the sketch provided. The chance to win all three of Flourishes October Releases is the prize. WOO HOO.

For my card I chose to use the Flourishes new Halloween stamp set I got not too long ago. Now I had bought the Nesting Owls from Spellbinders, and was trying to figure a way to use them. So I used the large one as my focus.

My first step was to take the base paper and cut it into a 4.25 x 5.5 inch area and sponge summer sky Memento all over it. I then cut out a circle, and temporarily stuck it down. I then sponged over the circle with a dark blue VersaMagic ink and covered the entire area.  Once I had the entire area sponged, I used the Owl template to figure out the placement of the cat and bats. I stamped them with Versafine, and then clear embossed them. I cut the large owl in the black cardstock, and then popped it up over the top of the cat and bat image. The DP behind is Basic Grey. The "feathers" at the side of the owl (what I used in place of the two ribbons on the sketch), were basic leaves that I colored with the airbrush - W1, 3, 6 series of  Copics. I then flicked little streaks of W9. I think it looks kind of like Feathers. :-)

Thank you for stopping by and visiting my little area of the blogiverse.

~~ Alaine

Boo!

Got a new Lockhart stamp the other day, and decided to ink it up and do a Halloween card. I wanted to make the background a bit spooky, so I decided to stamp on Grey paper.  Stamped it up with Memento and Cut it out with the Nestie. Once done, I left the paper in the Nestie and used Brilliance Black and sponged around the inside of the Nestie with it to make it a little smoky looking. 

I colored the clothes with V12, 15, 17, G13, 17 and YR14 and 16. I added a bit of sparkle with spicas. The Sentiment is from Pink Paislee, and has been double stamped with Versafine and the Brilliance. I sponged the edge of the grey sentiment.

The flowers are Prima. The bottom layer I airbrushed with C3, C7 and C9, then spritzed purple spica over them. The top layer I airbrushed with V12, 15, 17 and then to make it match the color on the card better went over it lightly with C7. I added silver spica through the airbrush on that one. I then stuck them together and added a black bling on top. The design paper is Basic Grey from their Halloween 6 inch pack.  I added a bit of bling to the corners on the edge of the mats, and done.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a happy and safe Fourth of July Weekend!

~Alaine