September Bombshell Blog Hop!!!

It's time to hop and find out the theme Alison has set for the September Hump Day Hop! 

Many of our major holidays are just around the corner. I think we all know what my favorite holiday is (Halloweenie!  )...but what's yours? My challenge to you is to make a Bombshell project for your favorite holiday. Bonus points if you make a decoration!!! Use any holiday you want and create something that's going to make us want to celebrate!!! 

Great challenge thanks Alison and I agree with you that Halloween is my favourite too!!

A book or a card?

 Peer inside the book:

A room?

 

Ahhhh! A secret lair for the bride of Frankenstein to escape to when Mr Monster when he's in one of his moods!

So what sort of things does Mrs Monster have in her den?

Well she decorates with her own special touches:

...and a place on the shelf for her potions (she likes to cook)....

...and of course when the stresses of the day become too much there's always some liquid relaxation on hand.....

I hope you enjoyed  the tour of The Bride's crib!

Now HOP along to Sparkly Mary's blog to see her HOLIDAY HOOPLA creation!!!

Happy Crafting!

 love ,

    GlitteryKatie xxx

Here's the full list of hoppers!!

Bombshell Blog
Alison
Alex
Terra
Kathi
Kelli
Jennie
Glittery Katie-you are HERE!! 
Sparkly Mary
Mary G
Alaine

Bombshell Stamp Release BLOG HOP!!!

We have some GORGEOUS new digital Bombshell stamps HERE being released today and to celebrate we're having a lil Blog Hop to show you how much fun you can have with these three beauties!!

Now these Bombshells have a definite Halloween vibe but I wanted to show that they are very versatile.
I coloured her with Copic Ciao marker R59, R29, R22 for the dress; 100, C7, C5, for the cloak; E00, E02, E11, E09 for the skin.
Papers: 7gypsies
Handmade paper rose.
Stamps: Halloween Costume Digital Stamps; Mi Amor
Spellbinders Nestabilities

So now it's time to HOP along to the next blog and see what KELLI has created!!

Happy Crafting!
GlitteryKatie xXXx

Here's the blog list if you missed anyone out:

So far, the hop list is:
Bombshell Stamps Blog
Alaine
Alison
Mary G
You are here!!
Kelli
Kathi

How cute are these??!!

GORGEOUS from Prima!!!!!

August Bombshell Blog Hop

I can't believe that it's the end of August already-where does the time go?!
I still owe you a tutorial on the splodgy backgrounds, I'm totally blaming our holiday to Dorset cos it chilled me out so much that time got away from me ;)

So this month's Blog Hop challenge from Alison is based on the movies, here's what Alison says:

It's time for a new Bombshell Hump Day Hop challenge! This month, the theme is "Put Me in the Movies." Take a movie, and/or movie poster, and use it to inspire your Bombshell Stamps project! Any of your stamp sets will work! And, you can make anything you want!

To get the inspiration flowing...think about using a hot rod set for Cars 2, Sugar Skulls for a horror flick, ship for a Pirate's of the Carribean movie, etc. And that's not even mentioning your Bombshell gals!

 So I decided to play with my cool "Mi Amor" Bombshell stamps for Alison's challenge based on these film posters:

 

 I stamped Mi Amor onto Kraft cardstock and embossed her with clear embossing powder.
I built up a few layers of copper embossing powder on some cardstock and then stamped the rose into the soft embossing powder. I cut out the roses and added them to the edges of the card.
The background to the card was made in the same way as the roses but using a text stamp instead.
The frame of the card is a Spellbinders Square Fleur de Lis die.

I hope you enjoy my interpretation of Alison's cool theme (there were so many other ideas buzzing around in my head for this one!) and I hope you play along!

Ok so now it's time to hop as you head off to Kapree's Blog

Happy Crafting!
Love,
GlitteryKatie XxXxXx


PS if you got lost along the way here's the route to all the blogs:

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Laura: http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/
Meredith: http://www.papercanteen.com
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Mary G.: http://www.mystampinhide-away.blogspot.com
Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Sparkly Engineer: http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com/
Celina Anthony: http://poniesandcrafts.blogspot.com
Glittery Katie: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com
Kapree: http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/
Cheryl: http://inktrap.blogspot.com
Dianne: http://dkspinner.blogspot.com

Butterfly Dreams

Catching Up...

....with the Bombshell July Blog Hop

Alison gave us a colour theme:

..which I will admit I struggled with- not that I didn't LOVE the colours but I am a crafter of habit and I tend to stick to a limited palette and didn't have most of the colours...so I cheated!

I used some Ranger Adirondack Colourwash sprays to get as close as I could and played with my new Butterfly Dreams stamps too:

Paper made with the spray and squidge method (I'll pop a  Tutorial up this month as it's great fun to play with!) and the butterfly from my glitter tutorial HERE on the Bombshell Blog.

 You can see I used some Perfect Pearls in with the color wash sprays to add some shine:

Handmade paper rose above with coloured seam binding (I'll pop up a tutorial for these this month)

Used my Banner Sayings stamp and my new Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Squares- which are beautiful!!

I have another card I made with my Butterfly Dreams stamps which I'll pop up tomorrow- quite different from this one- this is such a versatile set of stamps!

Happy crafting!
GlitteryKatie XxXxX

I can see clearly now......

....I have new glasses!!!

YAY I have new specs and I can see!!!
I hadn't realised how poor my close vision had become until I put these on this morning- I can see the keyboard clearly now!!
I knew I needed a new pair because I had been lifting my specs out of the way when I read or crafted but didn't realise HOW long sighted I'd become until I did the reading test with the optician last week!

So now I am the proud owner of a shiny new pair of Varifocal specs- so I can see Near, FAR and in the middle all sparkly clear!! Thanks to everyone at Specsavers in Bicester especially the very nice lady who let me do the glaucoma puff test just once in each eye 'cos I am a baby and hate it so much!!!
I just have to spend some time letting my brain get used to this pair then I can go order my free second pair, i fancy a nice burgundy or red pair I think!!! :)
Here's me pulling my usual 'photo' face!!!

Happy crafting!
GlitteryKatie xxxx

More perty papers!!!

Gorgeousness from Prima- I LURVE text papers so much!!

Newness from Glitz Designs- YUM!

Fabulous Halloween/Crimbo charms from Tim Holtz!!

That list is getting LONGER!!!

GlitetryKatie XXxxXX

New Stash for 'the list'

...you know 'the list' I bet you have one too?! That list that has all that GORGEOUS stash on that you'd buy if money was no object and you didn't need to eat or feed children/pets/husbands!!
Well I spotted the yummy new range of papers by Authentique
First of all some Halloween papers (of course!!)
See the rest HERE

Love the blues of JOURNEY

Soft Pinks of Uncommon

So lovely!!!

More stash soon!!!

GlitteryKatie XxxXxxX

A little bit of Glitter!!!

I've been getting glittery this week!
I've posted a lil tutorial of the technique I used over on the Bombshell Blog HERE hope you like it!!
I've been playing with the gorgeous new Koi Tattoo and Lotus Garden stamps from Bombshell Stamps- they are divine!!!

If you want to have a go at this glittery technique pop over to the BOMBSHELL BLOG where I've popped up a tutorial for y'all!!

Happy crafting!

love GlitteryKatie xxxXxxx

A Little SteamPunk

I've been loving Steampunk for a while so broke out some fun stamps and digi images from this tag:

Lots of embossing on this one and die cutting!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Tim Holtz ; Queen's Dresser Drawers: Stamper's Anonymous

Digi Balloons: Jen Ulasiewicz Designs

Inks: Distress Stains, Distress Inks

Other: Tim Holtz Cogs Dies; Seam Binding

Entered into GingerSnaps Cogs Challenge

Happy Birthday!!

A lil card for a special chap who's eighteen!!

Supplies:
Paper: Cosmo Cricket and Basic Grey
Embellishments: Seam Binding, Tissue Tape, Glass Glitter, Dymo Tape
Stamps: Stampotique Gobby Lin
Colouring: Distress Inks water colour brushes
Dies: Spellbinders Labels Seventeen & QuicKutz Finale Grande numbers

I stamped Gobby Lin on lined paper and used Distress Inks with a water colour brush to colour him in.
I cut him out using Nestabilites Labels 17:

I cut out '18' from the QuicKutz Finale Grande font and coated it with silver glass glitter.

I took a length of seam binding that was twice the width of the card and made a running stitch down the centre to gather it in. 

I dampened the seam binding and squidged green Distress Stain on to it as well as some brown Distress Ink. I then crumpled it up and left it to dry.

I added the seam binding to the card with a little Dymo message.

And that's my card for a very special nephew,

Love Katie xxxx

I know I'm late...

....but I seem to be having a little Nestabilities addiction going on!! :)

I 'm gonna blame CHERYL!!!!! WHAT???!!! It's those gorgeous cards of hers!!! Hee-hee!
Well in researching the various nesties and I came across :

which I thought were LUSH!!
Have you seen JustRite's damples- soooo fab-U-lous!!!
Have a peek here
Enjoy!!!

Happy Crafting!
GlitteryKatie XxxX

Lil bit of Steampunk

Just saw some ace news about some new Steampunk stamps coming this month
Tiddly Inks and Make it Crafty are releasing a joint collection of Victorian and Steampunk images- YAY!!!
Cool news as I do like me a lil bit of steampunk!!!
POP along to the BLOG to get the low down!!!

June's Bombshell Blog Hop!!!

Shiver Me' Timbers

Alison has chosen a cool Blog Hop theme to celebrate the summer, Shiver Me' Timbers!!! Here's what Alison says:
 "Arrrrrrrrr!!!! In honor of the latest Pirates of the Carribean flick, and the start of Summer (cruises and such...work with me here, folks) I decided what better theme than pirates! More like the phrase "Shiver me timbers!" Now, I am thinking pirates...but what do YOU think of when you hear that phrase?"


Here is my take on Alison's theme! I paper-pieced the galleon from the Homeward Bound Bombshell stamp set with the lush Cosmo Cricket 'Wanted' papers.
I used the compass and serpent stamps in the background (Tim Holtz Distress Ink Frayed Burlap)
I used Aged Mahogany Distress Ink to colour the ribbon.

Close- up of the paper piecing:

So if you started at my blog you can HOP along to the Stempelientje's Blog (just click on the link below) and you can see what the rest of the Design Team (and our guests!) have come up with!

Bombshell Blog
Alison

Alaine

Kelli

Mary G.

Sparkly Engineer
Meredith
Jennie
Debbie
Freddie
Cheryl

YOU ARE HERE!!!
Stempelientje

I hope you enjoyed the projects by everyone, be sure to leave a little love on everyone's blogs for a chance to be entered into the Bombshell Draw for a set of stamps!!

Keep Crafting!

GlitteryKatie xXxXx

Bombshell June Sketch Challenge!

Can you believe it's June already- the year is whipping past but the daylight is lasting way longer, which is wonderful and June is my birthday month!!
Here is this month's sketch challenge from Kathi Rerek

Here's my take on the sketch using Sacred Heart Art, Banner Sayings and Lucky Bride:

I stamped the Banner Sayings blank banner and carefully positioned the Words 'Sacred' and 'Heart' from the Scared Heart Art set over the banner and stamped them place.

I used a cute little stamp from the Alter Skulls set

to create a border around the card:

 and to create a background for the Bride:

I used some of the very vintage 'Timeless' collection from Kaisercraft from Chrissy at Merly Impressions

and sweet little roses from 3DJean.

So pop over to the BOMBSHELL Blog to see the DT's take on Kathi's sketch and to take part in the sketch challenge.

So perty!!!

When I was away scrapping for the weekend one of the MANY fun things is to be able to peruse other scrappers' stash! Gwyneth has lots of Papertrey Ink stamps and dies that we all drool over and I spotted this one die that I borrowed to cut some butterflies. I was worried it was a Papertrey Ink die and you can only buy these from the states which can be expensive but LUCKILY, after much googling and pestering Gwyneth I found out it was a Stampin' Up one YAY!!!
So my pal FrenchieJo is sorting me out with one and some of their gorgeous white cardstock which is dreamy to use with Copics!
If you click on HERE you can go to FrenchieJo's blog then select the new SU mini catalogue (on the right sidebar) page 8 has the Embosslits dies, they emboss and cut so perty!!!

Here are the butterflies I cut- LOOK at that teeny tiny one, they are so cute!!

Love Katie XxxxX

Bombshell May Sketch Challenge

Hey there this week is Kathi's Sketch challenge for May:

Here's my take on the sketch:

I used Sacred Heart Art Bombshell stamp coloured with Copics.

The banner is from the Banners Sayings stamp with 'Sacred Heart' stamped inside it

Papers were from Tim Holtz's paper Stacks

I used Sizzix Ornamental die and Quickutz bracket die and a CM square punch

Now pop over to the Bombshell Blog to see the Design Teams takes on Kathi's sketch.

Love GlitteryKatie

xxx

PS my tattoo is all healed now and is BEAUTIFUL!!