Showing posts with label Sugar Skulls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sugar Skulls. Show all posts

7 December 2013

THe 12 Days of Creepmas -Day 4

Happy 4th Day of Creepmas! Today I have created a Skull Flake tag- I am currently covered in glitter after embossing everything that didn't move and maybe the odd passing Beagle so I am a happy bunny!



I used Vintage Noel Sizzix Alterations
Sizzlets Snowflake Rosette
Sugar Skull Bombshell Stamp
Walting Mouse Stamps
Wow! Embossing powders

So now hop along and see the projects created by everyone...here's the Blog Roll:



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Terra

Julia

Emily

Black Dragon

Teri

Wiola

Wendy

Lisa

Kelli

Donna

Violent Kittie

Kristy

Vicky

The Nanny

Tuts and Comments

Airless Chambers

Glittery Katie

Shell

Titbelsoeur

Kat

Lady Brayton

Alison




Happy Creepmas
GlitteryKatie xx

30 October 2013

Bombshell October Hump Day HOP!!!

Happy Halloween everyone!!
I adore this time of the year and am really pleased that Alison has chosen a cool HAlloween theme for our Hump Day Hop!

"Hello Everyone! Welcome to my favorite month of the year! So of COURSE I had to do a Halloween theme. This month's theme is "Witching Hour." The witching hour is the time of night when witches, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures are said to appear. Make a project about those that may be lurking, during the witching hour.'

Here's my project, a cool bar for all the gorgeous Witches to hang out at!



I created a shadow box and covered it with Authentique 'Glowing' Halloween papers
For the front I used a roughly 6' x 5.5" square of covered card and cut a Tim Holtz Vintage Cabinet Card Sizzix Alterations shape from the centre.


I used the Tim Holtz Cobwebs Sizzlets Decorative Strip die and the Martha Stewart Cobweb punch to punch out cobweb strips which I stuck to the back edge of the front section of the shadowbox.

I used Man's Ruin Stamp set but coloured up with green skin (Spectrum Noir LG1, LG2, LG3) and purple hair (Spectrum Noir PL3, PL3, PL5)
I added a witch hat from the Holiday Accessory Set coloured to match the Witch's dress (spectrum Noir OR1, OR3, CR11)
I also used the following Bombshell stamp sets:
Holiday Accessories for Broom and Cauldron
Sugar Skulls
Dead Necessities
Tattoo Background



Now hop along to the other Blogs and leave some love or play along with us for your chance to win a Bombshell Stamp set of your choice!

Bombshell Blog 
Alison
Glittery Katie  ~*You are HERE*~
Stempelientje
Marnie
Kim
Alaine
Leslie
Monika
Kelli
Kathi

Happy Crafting Everyone!
GlitteryKatie XXXxXXX

4 June 2013

Skull Appreciation Day!

Now we here at Bombshell Stamps LURVE our skull stamps and we 're not the only ones who celebrate our skulls which is why Bombshell Stamps is joining in with a super cool Blog Hop organised by Smeared and Smudged Stamps:

Do you love creating amazing projects that showcase skully goodness? Wanna get some traffic to your blog and share your obsession? Join us on June 4th for one wild blog hop event! We will be celebrating Skull Appreciation Day 2013 by featuring handmade projects that spotlight the much-loved cranium. 


Here is my project using Sugar Skulls and the Mini Top Hat pattern from Fleece Fun


Thanks to my gorgeous Daughter for doing an excellent modeling job!


I created a mini top hat using black felt, cardstock for strengthening and sparkly braid along with ....


...a stamped Sugar Skull onto cardstock, coloured it in using Spectum Noir pens IG1, IG2, IG3, IG4, IG5 which I glued onto a double layer of black felt, trimmed and stitched around the edges, before attaching to the front of the hat.

Now hop along to the Bombshell Blog to see what the designers have come up and follow the links to all the other DT blogs!

Happy Crafting!
GlitteryKatie X

18 December 2012

12 Days of Creepmas - Day 10

Happy Day 10 of Smeared & Smudged's Creepmas extravaganza!! See the Blog Roll HERE!
I decided to make a creepy wreath with my Bombshell Sugar Stamp skulls and my Spellbinder Foliage dies which I used to cut gold embossed card and kraft cardstock sprayed with Ranger Gold Perfect Pearls


I added a bow made from seam binding and some Kaisercraft Pearls- I kept with the gold and cream pallette:


See you on Thursday for Day 11!

Happy Crafting!
GlitteryKatie XxXxX

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

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





25 October 2010

ALMOST Halloween Hump Day Blog HOP!!!!

Are you getting ready for the the Bombshell Halloween Blog Hop 2010?!
I LOVE Halloween, one of my fave holidays as it's a chance to dress up and be silly!!
Here we have a Halloween themed meal and decorate the room and ourselves and watch a Halloween episode or two of the Simpsons!!

But I'm really Looking forward to Blog hopping and having you join us on October 27th 2010!

So to get you in the mood for Halloween here's a Halloween/Day of the Dead lamp I made for Kas's Just Halloween Challenge


How to:
I stamped Bombshell stamps onto three pieces of A5 Vellum and coloured it lightly with Copic pens.

I took 3 pieces of black cardstock and cut a section from the section from the centre of each to frame my stamped vellum.

I used a cobweb punch to punch along the top and bottom of each of the three cardstock sections.

I stuck the three sections together to form a triangle and added a triangular base made from black cardstock.

I decorated the lamp with glitter and flowers and used a BATTERY powered tealight to light the lamp.




So remember we start hopping on October 27th starting from our Brand new BOMBSHELL BLOG for fun, inspiration and prizes!!!
You only have to wait until Wednesday and then head on over to.....

................... THE BOMBSHELL BLOG


....to kick off our Halloween Blog Hop!!! YAY

See you there!!!!

GlitteryKatie XxX