2 February 2011

My Inner Bombshell and Multi Masking Tutorial

Mary G has challenged the Bombshell team to come up with a Bombshell project that reveals their inner Bombshell!
As a Gemini I find I have two distinct sides to my personality and my crafting! Sometimes I'm neater and nicer and like to go with pretty, glittery and happy. Other times I'm inky, grungey, showing a dark sense of humour and loving skulls and tattoos!
So my Bombshell project is kinda my Gemini self!
I layered multiple Bombshell images by using masking. 
First I stamped the Bombshell Bride onto my card with Memento ink.
I stamped her again onto some scrap paper and cut her out to make a mask. A little repositionable Hermafix on the back of the mask and placed it over my stamped image:


Next I lined up where I wanted my second stamped image and stamped her over the mask:


Then I had my two main Bombshells 'Lucky Bride and Butterfly Queen' next to each other:


I stamped Butterfly Queen onto scrap paper and cut her out so I could make a mask for my second stamped image, I could then start stamping over the two Bombshells without making a mess of them. Here are both Bombshells, masked with some of the next layer of stamping going on:



As I progressed I added more masks so that I could over stamp more of the card:


Not all the masks were stamped on scrap and cut out- for smaller images, sometimes all I needed to use were strips of paper to protect an image below:




Once all the stamping was done and the masking removed the card looked like:


The final job was to colour the images in and add some extra images with 3d foam to make the pop off the card


I really enjoy this technique as you get a really dense layered look but you can still focus on the main subjects of the card. It's quite involved but i find it quite relaxing and my 'DH' commented on how quiet the colouring in kept me!!

I've used this technique before:


and if you leave the images uncoloured apart from sweeping with Distress inks it forms a cool background:


Happy Crafting!
Love,
Glittery Katie xxxx





14 January 2011

December Bombshell Sketch

I KNOW it's a little late but with the dead computer and so on I wasn't able to download this from my camera until now!





Supplies:
Girl's Ruin Bombshell Stamps
Copic Pens
Glossy Accents and Glitter for the shoe
Papers: Graphic 45 (Steam Punk Debutante) October Afternoon
Embellishments: Florist holly leaves and berries, Idea-o-logy Trimmings, idea-o-lody Tissue Tape
Tools: Nestabilities Lables 14, Quickutz 12" scallop die

9 January 2011

Magical!

Hiya All I'm back!!!
Picked up our new 'pooter today and we are cooking on GAS!!
It's amazing how FAST this new model is- LOVE it!!!
LOVE Apple iMac!!!

So on January 4th we had a solar eclipse and I thought I'd have a go at capturing it on camera (not really knowing what I was doing!!)
Well today was the first chance I'd had to see the piccies and I was REALLY pleased at the results!
You can actually see the crescent!!

It was a beautiful sunrise and I loved my photos but to capture the eclipse itself was really special!

Currently I am embroidering and working on 'The Blonde One's' quilt- seems that New Year makes me wanna stitch!! 

4 January 2011

Sorry MIA

My beloved iMac has gone caput and I am VERY limited in my internet time :( oh i miss you all!
I have sent iMac off to the docs but with the Chrissy hols and New Years break it will be a while before  hear what I fear will be BAD news. Fingers crossed that I will be back with y'all by mid January.
I'm so gutted- all my photies are on the 'pooter and my misuc *sigh* I 'spose this is the DOWN side of being all technological!
I have been busy crafting- I have some Bombshell cards ready to photograph and share and a gorgeous teeny bear that I made from a ki I received from 'DH' for Christmas. See Emilyfarmer.com if you want to see the cutest lil bears EVER!!
Today I started making a quilt for eldest son 'The Blonde One' using the drunk log cabin style of block- taking it easy as it's new!! Lovingthe fabrics-all tattoo and skull inspired mostly by Alexander Henry- awesome!
Well I'm off to try and get some onlinbe chores done whilst I have access to the net!
Love GlitteryKatie xXXx

17 December 2010

Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 12

Day 12:
Here it is at last- had to wait for the Crackle glaze to dry and I LURVE the effect of it over the Red Distress Ink- it looks enameled- gorgeous!!
Waltzing Mouse stamps and matching nestabilities.


Tim's


There's a fab challenge for any Tim 's tag  related crafting over on  Simon Say's blog HERE!!

15 December 2010

Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 11

Tag 11:
I don't have the Sizzix die for the Crimbo tree so I hand cut this from cardstock and text paper.
Loved the mix of colours on this Tag!


Tim's Tag:

Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 10

Tag 10:
Well I used a lil Sizzix snowman and I didn't have a snowflake embossing folder so I embossed snowflakes onto a piece of Vellum for a snowy look.
Lovely Snow tag by Waltzing Mouse Stamps.


Tim's Tag:

Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 9

Tag 9:
This one was a quickie! Music paper with lots of Distress inks and a rosette flower with a gold chenille pipe cleaner for tinsel. I used a QuicKutz die for the letters and a Sizzix star all glittered in gold. This was the first time I coloured some of Tim's ribbon with Distress ink and I loved the effect!


Tim's:


Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 8

Tag 8: This one was the one I was most pleased with!
I don't have a sleigh stamp or mask so I used Tim's car and Stampotique's Gobby Lin to fly over the town with a Hero Arts cloudy stamp background!

There's a fab challenge for any Tim 's tag  related crafting over on  Simon Say's blog HERE!!




 Tim's


Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 7

Tag 7:
I used Distress Inks to colour the canvas like Tim did and cut it with the tattered Florals die and the Leaf die. I used a Hero Arts Woodgrain Stamp for the background:



Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 6

Tag No 6 and the only thing I had that Tim used was his Christmas Washi tape!
I improvised with another of his Sizzix Texture Fades Patchwork and a Sizzix Star die with some Grungeboard stars from Tim's range- all glittered with 3dJean's Glitter Glass, Sizzix Branch cut with sticky canvas
There's a fab challenge for any Tim 's tag  related crafting over on  Simon Say's blog HERE!!



Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 5

Tag 5:
So I don't have a Santa stamp to my name so the Lovely Pirate's Life Bombshell was a great stand in (and her legs are better than Santa's!!) No holly stamps so QuicKutz and Distress stickles instead and Waltzing Mouse Christmas Sentiments

Tim's Tag


Go to Tim's blog to see all his deets and tuts on how to make the tags HERE!

Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 4

Tag 4:
 I don't have the seasonal paper stack so I created a digi image using elements from itkupilli, some Prima gems and a lil square facet from Idea-ology:


Tim's:



Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 3

Tag 3:
I used Hero Arts text stamp, Stampotique "peggy', Waltzing Mouse Season's Sentiments, Copics, Sizzix Branch and Heart Wings dies.
There's a fab challenge for any Tim 's tag  related crafting over on  Simon Say's blog HERE!!




Tim's:



Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 2

Tag 2: 
So I didn't have a pine cone stamp so I used florists greenery from Hobby Craft Hero arts text and scroll stamps, "Love" Stampington & Co, Bluebird is Bombshell Stamps Luck & Fate


Tim's:


Tim's 12 Tags of Crimbo 2010 Tag 1

I've been playing along and having a GREAT time- I still have inky fingers!!!
Here's Tag 1:

I Used Sizzix  Branch die, Tim Ticket stamp, Hero Arts Snowflake stamps, Stampotique Moth Fab, Picket fence hand cut.


Tim's Original:

There's a fab challenge for any Tim 's tag  related crafting over on  Simon Say's blog HERE!!

5 December 2010

Bombshell DT Girls FIGHTING.......

....for your vote!!!
The Bombshell DT girls were challenged to design a project using the very first set of Bombshell Stamps they ever owned and it's up to YOU to vote for your favourite HERE!!!





I have a fab lady here in England, 3dJean who is dead arty and luckily runs her own lil online shop.
One day she advertised that she had some new stamps in stock 'Bombshells'.
Well I've never been a cutesy stamps girl- no bunnies in bonnets for me, so when I saw the Bombshells i was in LOVE!!!
This was December 2008 and I asked my lovely 'DH' if he could possible get me a set for Chrissy that year.
That was how I came to own Retro Cowgirls :D 

I love my Bombshell Stamps and was so excited to be chosen as a Guest DT member in 2009 and then a full time member later that year!

I work for a gorgeous boss who loves tattoo art and caters to those of us who want something MORE than cute for our cards and crafts!
I am part of a team with the most talented bunch of wenches in the crafting hemisphere- I tell you they scare me into trying harder and harder!!! :D 

My card is a little kitsch, she's an old fashioned cowgirl working down on the farm in her plaid yet still looking drop-dead gorgeous and ready to kick a lil butt with those sexy boots!!!

So show your love for the Bombshells and vote for the one that tickles your fancy most!!



Love GlitteryKatie
XxX

3 December 2010

More Western Bombshells-Yee Haw!!!!

Here is the is a new card using the FABULOUS Western range of stamps Bombshell Stamps this is from the Wild Horses set.


Coloured with Copics: E31, E33, Y28 and Y21
Prima papers and QuicKutz Cookie cutter dies for the flower.

These beauties are available as digitals for instant gratification or in trad rubba for stroking!!


and if you subscribe to the Bombshell Newsletter you can pick up the digital Wanted Poster for FREE!!!

Wanna chance to win some stamps?


Then pop over to Toodles & Binks Blog and see HOW!