Showing posts with label Calaveras Fiesta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Calaveras Fiesta. Show all posts

10 March 2013

Design Team Throwdown!

Smeared & Smudged is running a Design Team Throwdown which Myself, Kathi Rerek and Alison Heikkila have entered
The first challenge is Paint and Splatter!

Here's my project!






I used my Mermaid Anchor stamps and added a the little skull face from Calaveras Fiesta. The background stamp is Homeward Bound stamped onto tissue and layered onto the background for a ghostly look !
they were coloured in using Spectrum Noir pens GT1, GT2, GT3, JG1, JG2, JG3, JG4, JG5, BG2, BG3, BG4

I created a shadow box using acrylic paint in cream, turquoise and gold and added SPLATS of each colour as well as sprays of gold and blue mica sprays for glimmer!



Hop on over to Smeared & Smudged's Blog for a look see at everyone's projects!!
Playing in Left Of the Centre's challenge HERE
Challenges 4 Everybody
Catered.Crop
Ginger Loft
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge
Craft a Scene
Great Impressions Blog Spot
Crafting When We Can
No Matter Which Challenge
Simon Says Stamp
CountryView Crafts Challenge


Happy Crafting!
GlitteryKatie X

4 November 2012

Skull Love!

November 1st and 2nd was Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, a Mexican celebration in which families gather to commemorate their loved ones who have passed on.
There are many traditions associated with the Day of the Dead Festival including the creation of sweets from pressed sugar in the shape of a skull, which is decorated with icing flowers. These sugar skulls and Catrinas, carved figurines with a skull head are used as grave decorations or offrendas and during the widely held feasts!
Here at Bombshell Stamps we have several beautiful sets of stamps that are inspired by the Day of the Dead festival see them all HERE!

I created a mini shrine in honour of my relatives- combining beauty with the macabre!


Close up of the left side:

Close up of the right side:

Supplies:
A Pirate's Life Bombshell Stamps
Western Gal Bombshell Stamps
Sugar Skulls Bombshell Stamps
Calaveras Fiesta  Bombshell Stamps
Vintage Cabinet Card Die by Tim Holtz
Mini Bat and Skull Tim Holtz Die
Nestabilities Floral Ovals
Moulding Paste
Acrylic Paint
Authentique Patterned Paper
Various Embellishments
Copic Ciao Pens

Hope you had a lovely Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos!
GlitteryKatie xxx

31 October 2012

Bombshell HALLOWEEN Blog Hop!!!!

Hello!!
October is one of my fave months as it is the start of autumn, we have a half term for the schools here in England And it's HALLOWEEN!!!
Alison has come up with a cool challenge for us to HOP with:
It's a Halloween challenge but this isn't JUST Halloween, it has a twist. For this Hump Day Hop, I want you to create a "Black and White" Halloween project. "Black & White Halloween" can be very elegant or very creepy. If you wish, you can use one additional color, other than skin or hair tones. ~Alison.

I have stuck to Alison's monochrome scheme (mostly!) with just a little orange added!

The Bombshells have a new home and have moved in just in time for Halloween...


and dancing in the garden of their new house....


...the Skull Family who are delighted with their new pad and are holding a party to celebrate!

 I've created a lamp by joining 4 Rickety House die cuts together-they sit over a square base that holds a tea light (battery operated!)



 I've used the following Tim Holtz Alterations dies to create the house and garden:
 The Skully Brothers are Bombshell Stamp set Calaveras Fiesta stamped on shrink plastic and shrunk down!
I used decorative moss stuck down with my good old glue gun to create the garden!



Remember if you take part in any of our challenges you are in with a chance to win Bombshell goodies! Comment on any of the DT members' blogs OR play along via the little InLinkz gadget at the end of the Blog Hop Post on the Bombshell Blog!

I hope you all have a very Happy Halloween!
GlitteryKatie XxxX

29 October 2012

Monday Muse!

This month the Bombshell DT have been showcasing the Calaveras Fiesta stamp set!
Each Monday this month you will find a project featuring these stamps on the Bombshell Blog.
Here's my Halloween inspired project:



Supplies:
Tim Holtz Branch Tree Alterations Die, Rickety House Alterations Die, Tim Holtz Graveyard On the Edge Die
My Mind's Eye and Authentique papers
Distress Inks
Jolees Spider Stickers
Inkadinkado Halloween Stamp
Calaveras Fiesta Stamp Set

Happy Crafting!
GlitteryKatie xxx

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





31 October 2010

Venga La Fiesta!!!

There's a cool Dia de los Muertos inspired challenge over at Sunday Postcards this week I HAD to play!!!




Supplies:
Calaveras Fiesta Bombshell Stamps
Copics
Distress Inks
October Afternoon paper
Sizzix Ornamental Die