Let's Hear it for the Boys!!!!! while we HOP

This month's theme for the Bombshell blog hop (You should have arrived from Rachael's beautifumous blog) is "Let's Hear it for the Boys."  I don't know about you but I CANNOT get the song out of my head now. Alison has challenged us to make a Boy themed card.  I could have made the original one I was thinking of, but then I couldn't have posted it and maintained my PG rating.  But you know what else it is? It is Bombshell's FIFTH BIRTHDAY! So I decided to make a birthday card for a 5 year old boy for this Hop.

I used some pirate paper from the All About Boys DCWV stack. I matched that with the image of the two Bottlenose Dolphins from Mermaid Anchor, and the Happy Birthday banner from Banner Sayings.

The dolphins are colored with B41, 45 and C3. The reds are R32, 35, 37 and the yellows are Y32, 35, 38. The rope is the standby E31, 33, 35, 37.  The silver being C1, 3, 5. Once I was done, I went over a bunch of it with a sparkly pen.

I used Nesties to cut out the smaller navy level and then layered the pirate speak paper over that with the next size Nestie cut out. The other nifty thing I had fun with was the knot. This is called a Carrick Bend knot. I found a cool page to instruct me on how to make this.

Ok... now that you have seen my Birthday card, I hope you will hop along with us.

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Rachael: http://rachaelshandmadedesigns.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Jodi: http://www.elamdesign33.blogspot.com/
Laura: http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Sparkly Mary: http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com/
Terra: http://www.moresmearedink.blogspot.com
Kim: www.craftypinkanchor.blogspot.com
Stempelientje: http://stempelientje.blogspot.com
Nicole: http://madebynicole.blogspot.com
Glittery Katie: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com
Kas: http://www.artloveschaos.blogspot.com
Kathi: http://kathstales.blogspot.com


HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOMBSHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's Icon-ic

Hey there all. Welcome to my humble abode for my take on the ICON Blog Hop. If you arrived from Jodi's Blog, then you are on the right track... If you just happened along or came directly here - then take a look here and then check out the rest of the blog hop starting from the beginning.

I really love the Steampunk look of things, so I decided to pull out my gears Spellbinders Dies and cut out a few of the gears in different colors of brown.  The Icon image I chose I think goes so well with the gears. The little bitty ships wheel from a couple of the sets (Mermaid Anchor and Ahoy Sailor) and reinds me of the gears. The spokes and all. So I stamped that wheel in the middle of the cutouts that I made of the gears. I also added some ink with sponging to give it more of an antique-y, metal-y look.

I chose the paper from a 7Gypsies set I have. The ATC is made with a clear acrylic base. I pasted all the gears and the extra doo-hickeys to the front of the plastic sheet. Then I stamped "It's Your Lucky Day" from Mermaid Treasure set in Black Versafine. Then I clear embossed it. This I stuck using ATG tape to the back of the clear plastic. I trimmed the paper around the plastic shape. Then I added a bit of extra to it with bendable wire. this I wrapped and twisted in different areas. Where it is coming up through the image... that is through a hole I punched with a metal punch.

I hope you enjoyed this. Just another way to use the Icons in the Bombshell Stamp Sets.

Now - you should head on over to Kim's blog and see what Icon-ic thing she has in store for you. If you get lost along the way, you can always come back here and use the list below to find your way.

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Laura: http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Torrey: http://left-field-studio.blogspot.com/
Sparkly Engineer Mary: http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com/
Stempelientje: http://stempelientje.blogspot.com
Glittery Katie: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Jodi: http://www.elamdesign33.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/ <-- X marks the spot
Kim: www.craftypinkanchor.blogspot.com
Kathi: http://kathstales.blogspot.com
See you again soon. :-)

Linear Sketch

I really REALLY loved the sketch this month over at Bombshell. The straight lines are so classy.

The rules:
• Feel free to flip it, flop it, and make it your own.
• Use Bombshell Stamps!
• Upload your take on the sketch here by July 31st for a chance to win a fabulous prize.
• Check out the Bombshell Blog on the second Wednesday of the month. Upload your take on the sketch there and double your chances to win!!!
• Have fun!!!
For my lovely lady I used Linen Closet DCWV matstack, and incorporated the lines from one of the papers as the lines across the bottom and top. The image is from Mermaid Anchor. I actually chose the paper first, and didn't flip the sketch - it's a mid-summer miracle.

 

She was colored up with the closest matches I could find to the paper. I used E0000, 000, 00 for her skin because she is at the bottom of the sea, so she would be pale now wouldn't she. Her tail is BG90, 93, 96 and BG70, 72, 75. The anchor is B91, 93, 95 and R81, 83, 85. The seashells are E81, 84, 87 and her hair is E30, 31, 35. Now... some of it was a little bland, so I went over areas of the tail and her hair with YG11 when it was done.  It brightened it up quite a bit.

I hope that you head on over to the Bombshell stamps blog and check out what all the Bombshells and pin-ups have for you.  Then I really hope that you participate in the sketch challenge for a chance to win some free Bombshell stamps.

Talk to you again soon!

Itty Bitty Sketch

It is that time again Bombshell Peeps when the sketch comes out on the blog and the Bombshells strut their stuff with their interpretation of the sketch.   This time I went little bitty. Not intentionally actually.. there is a story.

You see I got my new to me stamps in, and had the lovely Mermaid Anchor to color up. And color her up I did. I turned her top into seashells, and I was so freaking proud. Then I colored her hair and skin and it was all glowy and beautiful. And had colored most of her tail. But then I went to layer a color on it, and apparently I received that marker a tad overfilled. As I was coloring lightly an entire blob of color came out and saturated the area. I worked it and worked it until I thought I had it done. Then I bled some of the marker off and went to finish up the rest of the tail with that color.  Yeah, didn't bleed off enough. a freaking POOL came out of the marker. There was no salvaging this. It had gone up her belly, etc. etc. etc...  So I had to improvise.

I cut her out and made up this tiny gift tag. 2.25 x 3.25.



Now - here comes the best part - - if you take Kathi's sketch - - flip it, flop it, interpret it - use Bombshell Stamps and upload your take on the sketch by the end of the month, and you have a chance to win a wonderful prize - a $20 gift certficate to Bombshell Stamps. You can upload at the Bombshell Stamps Blog or on the forum... or double your chances and upload your take in both places.




Have a great rest of the week, and I hope to see you again here soon.

Mermaid Mist and Mystery

I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
And it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho
Look out, lad, a mermaid be waiting for you
In mysterious fathoms below

Every time I see this lovely lady I think of the Little Mermaid. I just got her in the other day and inked her up and colored her in, and of course she ended up with Ariel ish hair - although this is a little more orangey red. Although she is obdiously on the anchor of the ship or the prow... I still think of Mermaids encompassed in mist and mystery. When I originally chose the ribbon for the bow and the placement, I wasn't thinking about how this gave a little bit of mystery to the mermaid, but I love how it turned out. You can still see her through the sheer ribbon, and yet it shrouds her a little too.

I love my Nesties, but sometimes it is not big enough. I tend to use larger images, and need the largest nestie to cut the image itself out. To solve that sometimes - I tape down the Nestie and trace the outside of it with a pen or pencil on the wrong side of the cardstock I want to use. I then do the fussy cutting and cut it out to allow for layers. So, even though it is not a simple twist and crank, it is still fairly simple.

 

Stamps - Bombshell Stamps

Mermaid Anchor - mermaid
Ahoy Sailor - sentiment

Copics:

skin - E0000, 000, 00, R20

Hair and Flower - YR21, R02, 05, E07

Leaves - G14, 16, 28

Anchor - BV20, 23, C5

Legs / fins - YG11 - all over, BG11, 13, 15, 18 faded in for the blue green

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you stop by again soon!!!