Come Play Along In Our August Challenges!

Hi Bombshells,

Come play along with us in our August Challenges!  There's still a few more days left to enter!

All you have to do is create your project based on one of the 3 Challenges in August and link up your take on the corresponding blog post. You may use any company's stamps. With every entry, you will be entered to win a $20 gift code to the Bombshell Stamps Store. Use Bombshell Stamps and you will receive 2 chances to win!!!

-Ms. August, Suzi McKenzie's, Pin-Up Challenge - Easel-y Does It! Create an easel card and share it with us.

-August Sketch Challenge

-August Color Challenge


Here's my take (Kim here!) on Ms. August's Pin-Up Challenge:

 I used Bombshell Stamps "Dead Necessities" set for my easel card.
Other Supplies Used:
-Silhouette Cameo
-Easel Card Bracket by Lori Whitlock (Silhouette Studio File)
-Purple and Orange Cardstock by Bazzill
-Key Printed Cardstock by Doodlebug Design "Haunted Manor"
-Colorbox Warm Violet Chalk InkPad
-Adhesive
-Copic Markers
-Glossy Accents by Ranger
-Pop Dots

Happy Crafting! The Bombshell Stamps Design Team can't wait to see what you create!

Ms. April's Challenge

Bombshell's Ms. April, Betsie Golden, has set this month's challenge which is "Junk It!" Use junk mail, packaging, bottles, and boxes and upcycle it with your Bombshell stamps.

It is now spring and warm in my part of the country and I wanted to make something that reflects that. I used the "Hawaiian Girl" stamp set for my project. As I was going through my junk mail this page in my daughter's catalogue (she is 11 and loves clothes with animal print and anything blue, but that has nothing to do with the challenge. It is just useless information.) jumped out at me.

 The colors, style and tropical feel inspired me to use this as the base of my project. Originally I was going to make a card, but I remembered that I had a junk drawer in my craft room full of cool boxes that I have collected over the years. I found a box that originally came filled with lovely chipboard. I just could not get rid of the box because I knew one day it would make a darling shadow box, so it has waited patiently for about 7 years to be used.

 Between my two pieces of junk I came up with this little wall hanging using Bombshell's Hawaiian Girl set.

 I am not quite sure what I am going to do with it, maybe send it out as happy mail or display it in my house.

Make sure you upload your take on the challenge and post your link in the comment section :-)

Kathi using the Butterfly Dreams set and recycled corrugated cardboard.

Kim using Dead Necessities & a recycled chipboard box and old spiderweb confetti.

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Ms. March's Challenge

Leslie Turner, our Ms. March, has challenged you to Bombshell Bingo. Choose any row or column (diagonal also) from the Bingo Board below and create a project. When you're done, be sure to yell "Bingo!" as loud as you can AND share your project using the Inlinkz below.

This month, you can use stamps from any company you'd like! However, if you do use Bombshell Stamps, you'll get another chance to win the fabulous prize of a $20.00 Gift Certificate to the Bombshell Store!

Here's the Bingo Board!

Leslie- Ms. March

using Speed Shop

(hot rods, pink, free, die cuts and pearls)

Kathi, using the Man's Ruin and Dead Necessities sets
(flowers, fancy border, skulls, ribbon, blue)

Kim using Sugar Skulls and Tattoo Font
(green, skulls, free, glitter, twine)

Kelli using Man's Ruin

(green, skulls, free, glitter, twine)

Alison using Butterfly Queen

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Bombshells!

 For this Halloween Treat Bag, Kim used Halloween Costume Bombshell Digital Stamps.

Kim also made a wall hanging using Mi Amor, Dead Necessities and the October Sketch.

Have you linked up your take on the October Sketch and Ms. October's Pin-Up Challenge?  There's still a few hours left to link up your Bombshell Creations!

Have a spooky, safe and happy Halloween!

Let's celebrate World Cardmaking Day Bombshell Style!

October 5th is the eight annual World Cardmaking Day and we're celebrating Bombshell Style!

World Cardmaking Day has its own official website with links to other blogs that are also celebrating, so there's sure to be lots and lots of inspiration on the Interwebs! 

Marnie using Holiday Accessory

Kim using Cherry Bomb

Kim using Dead Necessities and Tattoo Font

Kelli using the Rosie the Riveter Digital Stamp set.

Headstone Skeleton Earrings

Hi Bombshells!

Kim here sharing a pair of earrings I made with the Headstone Skeleton stamp from the Dead Necessities Stamp Set. 

Have a Crafty Saturday!

Supplies:
Bombshell Stamps - Dead Necessities Stamp Set
Tsukineko Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black
Spectrum Noir Markers
Glossy Accents
Jewelry Hole Punch
Glass Crackle Beads
Jewelry Wire, Chain, Jump Rings, Ear Wires
Jewelry Pliers and Wire Cutters

Ms. September's Challenge!

Jenn Cochran, Bombshell's Ms. September, has issued a "Layer It Up" challenge. Use at least three layers of paper, paint, ink, ribbon, etc. to create your Bombshell project.

Here are some of the multi-layered projects by our Bombshell Girls and Pin-Ups!

Monika using Cherry Bomb

Here are 5 layers piled on nice and neat...  a striped stamped card base, an embossed white layer, a teal mat, another background stamped layer in coral, and then that wicked devil from Bombshell Stamps' Cherry Bomb set.

Here's a shot from the side so you can really see the layered dimension.  Two sets of layers are adhered using some dimensional adhesive for even more pop.  

 Alaine has a whopping 8 layers in one little area under the bow. :-) She used Peek-A-Boo Geisha.

Kelli using Rose's Portrait

Kim using Dead Necessities

Kim used 4 layers of cardstock and 3 layers of Coffins

Susie has used Panther Tattoo and 5 layers of card, papers and photos.

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It's Friday so it's stencils, inks and and other messy goodness!

I love getting inky and when Alison challenged us to use our stencils I knew it was the perfect chance just to 'PLAY!'

First of all I cut a piece of 6x6" card to be my base.
Next I took some pieces of patterned paper and glued them randomly onto my 6x6" base:

I trimmed the edges of the patterned paper and lightly brushed some turquoise paint and cream paint onto the base loosely around the edges...

...and I squirted a bit of pink Glimmer Mist into the centre (it was time for some glitter!)

It was stencil time!
I took some of my Crafter's Workshop Stencils out and squidged some Modelling Paste (in any good art shop!) through them onto my painted base:

I love this effect as it adds texture which is easy to hghlight with Distress Ink pads or paints.

Here I brushed Distress Ink pads over the dried Modelling Paste:

The colour was brighter than I wanted so I applied some white paint to tone the colours down:

I was happy with my 'canvas' so next I started work on the stamped images I wanted to add.
I stamped my Bombshell stamps onto some Kraft paper and some Lined paper:

I used my Spectrum Noir pens to colour in the Roses to compliment the the colours I'd used on the base canvas.

I used my Matte Medium to stick the Stamped Images:

I finished off the canvas by adding some chipboard letters and a paper rose:

Ta-da and that's how I built up my inky, stencilled canvas!
I hope you enjoyed my tutorial!

Supplies:
Dead Necessities Stamp Set
Cherry Bomb Stamp Set
Homeward Bound Stamp Set
Classic Tattoo Stamp Set
Scraps of patterned paper
Crafter's Workshop Stencils
Galleria Modelling Paste
Acrylic Paints
Matte Medium for glueing
Distress Inks
Chipboard Letters and shapes

Happy crafting!
GlitteryKatie xxxXXxxx

Skull Appreciation Day!

We, at Bombshell Stamps, appreciate our skulls. In fact, we celebrate them with many stamp sets that feature skulls prominently, such as:
• The Sugar Skull Collection
• Man's Ruin
• Classic Tattoo
• Panther Tattoo
• Sugar Daddy

This is why the Bombshell Girls and Pin-ups elected to participate in Skull Appreciation Day by sharing skull-themed artwork with you and by participating in Smeared & Smudged's Blog Hop!

So check out the fabulous work by our talented team, then follow the hop list below!!!

Stempelientje used: Speedshop , Sugar Daddy, Love & Luck

Kelli used: Alter Skulls

Alison using Sugar Skulls

Alison again, using Man's Ruin and Homeward Bound

GlitteryKatie Using Butterfly Dream and Madonna Woodcut

Rachael using the Alter Skull set and the Madonna Woodcut set.

Kathi using Alter Skull set and Dead Necessities

Sparkly Mary using Mi Amore

Here is the entire hop list for Skull Day! It's a big one! So sit back and enjoy all of the skully-goodness!

Terra
Tori
Black Dragon

Monique

Helen

Lady Brayton

Fiona

Christine

Jane

Judy

Alison

Susan

Andrea

Smudger Challenge

Laura

Lisa

Kristy

Steph

Glittery Katie

Lisa

Kapree

Ms. Ruin

Kathi

Bombshell Stamps Blog

Dianne

Donna

Nydia

Lady Coral

Suzi

Julia

Patti

Miko

Renee

Wendy

Christina

Hazel

Skye

Wenchkin

Betsy

Scrapbook Stamp Society

Be sure to visit all of the participants, both from the Bombshell Blog and from the Smeared & Smudged Hop. There are prizes to be won! All of the details can be found on Terra's Blog. Thanks for hopping with the Bombshells! Have a very Skully day!