Harley Ornament Card

For those bikers out there, here's a card that speaks to the passion of chrome and two wheels.   I used Bombshell Stamp's Vintage Motorcycle set to create the ornaments on this card. 

Here's an angles shot to show the dimension.   the ornaments are colored using Copic markers.

And the inside of the card.  Add a stamped or computer generated greeting and another motorcycle peeking onto the card to tie it all together. 

Supplies: 
Stamps: Bombshell Stamp's (Vintage Motorcycle), CTMH (greeting)
Paper:K & Company (printed paper), cardstock, vellum
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black and Rhubarb Stalk)
Coloring: Copic (markers and multiliner)
Tools: Stampin' Up (dies)
Accessories: Misc ribbon.

Hope you like this card.

from Ms. December - Monika Franziska, PaperChrome

Muse Monday - Week 3 - Pin Stripes

It's Muse Monday! This month's set is Pin-Stripes, which is one of the sets in the Hot Rod Collection.

I thought they looked very regal and elegant, especially in black - I heat embossed them in a group in black on black cardstock... Jodi using Pin-Stripes.

This is Alaine and I also think that these look so elegant. I took three of them and spun them around a circle to get a star! I then added a sentiment, and a LOT of bling!!!!

Thank you all for joining us for another Muse Monday! I hope that you all have some new inspiration for different ways to use these beautiful images!

December's Sketch Challenge!

Here's December's Sketch that would be perfect for those last minute holiday cards or even a gift, such as a calendar, wall hanging, or the top of a box!

Please feel free to flip it, flop it, and make it your own. Just as long as you use your Bombshell stamps and have fun with it, it's good!

Be sure to use the Inlinkz below to share your creation with us AND have the chance to win the fabulous prize of a $20 gift certificate to the Bombshell Stamps store!

Here's what the Bombshell Girls and Pin-ups did with this sketch!

Kelli using Rise and Shine, Holiday Accessory, and Pin Stripes

Jodi using Sugar Skulls

Alaine Used Butterfly Dreams

Rachael used Vintage Motorcycle and King of the Road sets

Stempelientje used: Piston Rebel

Sparkly Mary using Koi Tattoo and Wild Horses

Torrey using Mermaid Treasure and Tiki Party

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Muse Monday: Week Two -- Pin-Stripes

It's Muse Monday! This month's set is Pin-Stripes, which is one of the sets in the Hot Rod Collection.

Pin-Stripes and Striped by Me are very versatile sets.

 

 

Kelli using PinStripes

 

 

Kathi using PinStripes

Green Hot Rod Holiday

Happy Holidays from one roaring mean hot rod. Speed Shop is my newest Bombshell Stamp set and I couldn't wait to break it in.   This big ole hunk of a hot rod winked at me and just begged to be stamped and colored.    I had good intentions of using him in a sketch, incorporating him with other accents, and just dressing him to the nines.   But that's not what he apparently wanted.  He wanted the stage to myself.   So somehow, I ended up using a Bombshell stamp in a clean and simple card... and I love it.

I carefully ran the colored image through the printed to add a greeting, added some brads and then a bit of layering.  The layers are pop dotted up from the page.   And if you look closely, there's a bit of shimmer on this beast's paint job... just the trim work.

Supplies:
Stamps: Bombshell Stamps (Speed Shop), Computer generated greeting
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black)
Coloring: Copic, Sakura Gelly Roll (Clear Star)
Paper: Strathmoore Bristol Smooth, Stampin' Up (Poppy Parade, Basic Black), Canson (Gold Shimmer)
Accents: Paper Studio (star brads)

Hope you like this card.

from Ms. December - Monika Franziska, PaperChrome

Slider Card Tutorial

Rachael here!
Break out your favorite Bombshell and let's get started with a great style of movable card - slider cards!

You will need the following:

1.  Pop dots - preferably the round ones, but if you do not have those, you can always round off the square ones.

2.  Two pennies

3.  Stampin' Up Word Window Punch (or the like) OR a craft knife/xacto

4.  Your favorite Bombshell image. I am using Bombshell's 

Hawaiian Girl set.

First, select the papers that you would like to use and stamp out your images. Stamp, color and cut out the images that you would like to use.

Now create the base of your card.

Now, on the base of your card, figure out how far you want your slider to go, lengthwise.

On a scratch piece of paper, punch out a template if you like, as I did here.

Trace and punch the actual paper you would like to use. Distress if you like. I'm using Tim Holtz's Distress Ink in Antique Linen.

Add pop dots to the back of this, but try to stay clear of the sliding area.

I am layering with another piece of paper of the same color and print. Glue.

Now glue the first layer to the base of the card. Set aside.

Using the piece that you've punched and distressed, take one penny and adhere a pop dot to it. I used two small square pop dots, but if you would like your moving bit to spin, you can round off the edges of the pop dots to a circle and the image will spin instead of slide. Sandwich with another penny after sliding it into the area you punched out.

Adhere your colored image to the back of the penny.

Adhere the entire piece onto your card and decorate.

ENJOY!

Thanks for joining us today! I hope you give this fun style of card a try. 

Xo, Rachael

December Hump Day Hop Preview: Make it a Gift!

Hello out there! Alison here. Who's ready to read about the December 2012 Bombshell Stamps Hump Day Hop? December is often a month filled with lots of gift-giving. So...that's our theme! "Make it a Gift!" Use any Bombshells you want, and make any gift item you want...but no cards this month! 

You can sign up for the hop in THIS thread. I cannot wait to see the gifts you all make! This is going to be a fabulous hop, and a great way to end the year! Thank you in advance for joining me in this hop!

Christmas Harley

This card uses the Bombshell Stamps Harley Bikes stamp set and some festive designer paper - Christmas Home from Theresa Collins.   I can just imagine Santa taking a spin on this beauty when he needs a break.

A bit of a close up...

and the inside of the card.  I'll add a greeting later. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Bombshell Stamps Harley Bikes
Ink: Memento and Ranger Distress Inks
Coloring: Copics
Paper: Theresa Collins - Christmas Home designer paper, Stampin' Up cardstock, Gold mirror paper from the art dept at Michael's,
Accessories: Red seam binding.

Hope you like this card.

from Ms. December - Monika Franziska, PaperChrome

Muse Monday: Pin-Stripes: Week 1

Hello Bombshell Stamps fans! Alison here, and today I am going to tell you about the December Muse Monday. What's Muse Monday, you ask? Well, each month I pick a stamp set that I want the Design Team to work with. Each Monday of the month, different Design Team members show off that set in their own unique style. Our goal is to give you some fresh ideas, and to inspire you to use these sets as well! This month, I went with Pin-Stripes. I adore this set. I use it pretty frequently. And hopefully, after this month, you will want to do the same. Here's what Pin-Stripes looks like.

This is what I made using this set.

It's a glitter-iffic ornament! The ornament started as a clear, plastic cube. I coated the inside with floor wax, and then a coat of clear glitter. Next I inked up my stamps using a glue pad, and stamped the left image. Added the glitter. Stamped the right image. More with the glitter. Then I did the center, and I bet you can figure out what I did next....more glitter! I added a pretty tinsel ribbon, and voila! It's ready for my mom's Victorian/Steampunk tree.

Here's what Sparkly Mary created. It's a gift card holder for a local tattoo parlor.

Front

 Back

Thanks for visiting the Bombshells today! Be sure to come back next Monday, for the next installment of Muse Monday, featuring Pin-Stripes! Have a fabulous day!

Meet Ms. December

Monika Franziska is Bombshell's Ms. December. Her coloring and design skills, coupled with her love of motorcycles, are evident in all of her work.

Here's her little interview so that you can get to know Ms. December a bit better!

1. Brief info about yourself, including your name, where you live, your family (if you want), etc.
Hi everyone. I'm Monika Franziska (just Monika on the Bombshell board). I currently live outside of Memphis, TN and have lived all over the US. I'm a proud soccer mom of two incredible kids. I have a beautiful eight year old little girl that I promise you has turned into my real live Barbie doll since we discovered Justice. She loves to go shopping at Justice and this mom tends to have "sucker" written all over her forehead. My son is ten and just as smart and handsome as can be. He has a kind heart and makes for an amazing big brother. He's growing up by leaps and bounds. Not sure how much longer I can take this... where did my babies go? And their dad (a.k.a. my husband) is sometimes just another kid in the house. He is a great husband and father, but never lost that kid-at-heart. If we ever get to meet IRL, ask me about how I met my hubby. I'll drop one clue, he was ten and I was eight.

2. How long have you been stamping and/or crafting?
For as long as I can remember, I've had this thing for paper, markers, paints, and whatnot. Even as a little girl in Germany (where I was born), I'd go to my friend's house with a bag full of art supplies. Nothing's changed in the last 30 plus years. I started seriously scrapbooking in 1999. I can't recall when I purchased my first stamp, probably in the 80's, but I got serious about stamping in the last 5 years. Love it....love it... love it.

3. What are your favorite Bombshell sets and why?
Now that's easy... I ride a Harley and the motorcycle stamps are what drew me to Bombshell Stamps in the first place. I've got three sets of Bombshell motorcycle stamps, but I have to say the Vintage Motorcycle set has been my most loved thus far. Then there's the Bombshell Angel set. Add her wardrobe of cutting files and I'm in crafty heaven. So if I'm not dressing my real life Barbie doll, I can still dress up my Bombshell Angel pin up. LOL

4. What kind of projects do you like to do?
My interests are far and wide. I love to make cards, scrapbook, 3D projects, and just about anything else I can conjure up. I enjoy my e-cutters. I started out on a Wishblade and was making cutting files with Inkscape. I've since upgraded to a KNK Zing and use Make The Cut software. Though now and then, I still go into Inkscape for a familiar platform in which to do vector editing. The e-cutter has opened up a completely new world for card making, scrapbooking, and crafting in general. If I get an idea in my head, I can often design something on my PC and cut it rather than having to chase down an obscure product in stores.

5. What are your favorite coloring mediums?
My latest love is Copics. Yum. Those are fabulous. Prisma colored pencils are a classic and I used them for quite some time to get the same kind of blended effect that you can get with Copics... Ok, not the same, but you know what I mean. It's great subtle shading. For watercolor, I really got into watercolor crayons. Not a lot of people get into those, but I really like how they have a bit of opacity to them.

6. Describe your crafting "style".
My style will vary from clean and simple to grungy and distressed. It all just depends on what the project calls for and what I feel like working with that day.

7. Describe your crafting process. Do you start with a stamp set? A sketch? A technique you want to use?
All of the above. I'll get inspiration from a variety of things. I'll let that one item serve as a springboard to create the rest. If I'm in a rut, I'll pull up a sketch and color challenge and make myself pull something together. Does wonders for the creative juices. With scrapbooking, motivation is a bit easier. It's all about the memories and the pictures. Thus I let the pictures or event be the jumping off point for the rest of the page.

8. Do you have any other hobbies?
When I'm not busy being a Mom or working, I like to hit the road. I ride a Harley Davidson Road King. My hubby has an Ultra Classic. We're a riding family and it's not unusual for us to go out for a ride and dinner as a family. We do practice safe riding. I also enjoy sewing, needlework, and scrapbooking. Last but not least, a bit of amateur photography.

9. Free for all including little facts, etc. about you.
Some things I've already alluded to. I'm a first generation immigrant to the US from Germany. My parents decided to move to the states when I was eight. I basically grew up in the US. I wanted to be sure the US is the place for me to spend the rest of my life, so in my 20's I went back to Germany for several months at a time to live, work, and study. It was a hard choice, but I ended up coming back to the country I knew best. In 1999, I took my oath of citizenship in Oklahoma City in the Federal Courthouse right across from the Murrah bombing site.

So by now, I've managed to tell you more about me than you'd probably glean at the standard cocktail party. Hey... we're missing the cocktails! If one of these days I decide to retire and don't have kids to chauffeur, I'd love to load up my motorcycle and pull behind trailer with some crafting supplies (and a few clothes) to tour the US and visit my fellow crafters. Wouldn't that be awesome?

-Yes! Yes it would!

Now that you've learned more about Monika, here are some of her favorite Bombshell cards!

Click HERE to check out Monika's Blog and HERE to check out her Bombshell Gallery!