Two-For Tuesday Blog Hop

Welcome to the Two-For Tuesday Blog Hop! The Bombshell Girls and Pin-ups are thrilled to join forces with Altered Pages Artsociates to hold a huge blog hop that showcases Bombshell Stamps together with digital backgrounds from Altered Pages!

At Altered Pages we Hope to Alter YOUR Creativity ~ so join us in the adventure!  We pride ourselves on providing the BEST customer service possible!   Find Collages, inks, papers, art tools, doo-dads, paints, Gelatos, embellishments. and so much more at ALTEREDPAGES.COM. Our Design Team will take you to new levels of inspiration with projects and Kits available for purchase.   Join our newsletter for specials and deals!  Follow our Blog to win prizes and join challenges!

HOP RULES:   Our rules are simple, simply hop and stop by each participant's blog, become a follower, and leave them some love by way of a comment.

HOP PRIZES: There will be two randomly drawn winners from those who follow the above rules and join the fun.

  Prize One A sponge brush, silly sticks, a tube of acrylic paint, and a stencil from Altered Pages PLUS  Bombshell's Hula Girl stamp set.

  Prize Two A Niji Pearlescent Watercolor Set and Gold Leafing and Tape from Altered Pages PLUS Bombshell's Wild Horses stamp set.

  Winners will be announced Tuesday September 3.

Today I made for you a Tag using Bombshell Stamps Butterfly Queen and Altered Pages Victorian Butterflies!  I really had fun making this tag, the butterflies on the Altered Pages collage sheet are wonderful, and you all know I LOVE my Bombshells!!! 

The tag is colored with color wash ink sprays in stream and denim, Dylusions in Turquoise, and Pearl Glimmer Mist.  I then fussy cut the butterflies off of the AP Collage sheet and glued them down with matte medium, then while the medium was still wet I sprayed again with the Pearl Glimmer Mist.  I popped the Bombshell off the page with pop dots then went around each butterfly with my white pen with a straight line outline and a dotted outline. I sprayed the ribbon with the stream color wash and attached it to the tag! I hope you enjoy!

 Your next stop on the hop is Leslie Rahye.

  Here's the blog hop order in case you get lost or feel like hopping around randomly!

Bombshell Stamps Blog

Kelli Green

Leslie Rahye

Katie Shanahan-Jones

Trisha Too

Alison Heikkila

Roni Johnson

Jodi Elam

Lyneen Jesse

Alaine Medio

Daniella Hayes

Kim Gaughan

Becky Voth

Sharon Rogers

Tristan Robin Blakeman

Jenn Cochran

Danie May

Marnie Bushmole 

Stephanie Siatta

Kathi Rerek 

Gia Lau 

Altered Pages Blog

Altered Pages February Challenge!!

Hello Lovelies, it’s time for the Altered Pages challenge this month and it is Red and Gold!!!  So pull out your paints, stamps, collage sheets from alteredpages.com and get your craft on!!!

 

Here is what I made using some cool little ephemera from altered pages, some red maya mists and some eco gold paint, all from alteredpages.com!

So head over to the alteredpageschallenge blog and cast your vote for your favorite dt creation, add your creation for your chance to win an awesome prize pack!!

Ink Stains Altered Altoid Tin Blog Hop/Art Festival

 Hello Lovelies, today I am super excited to show you this Altered Altoid Tin I have been working on for a while.  A few months ago my friend Roni Johnson sent out an email asking for people who would like to participate in her Blog-a-versary/Birthday!  She love to alter things so she asked that we alter an Altoid tin and link it up to her blog for this Wonderful 5 year celebration she has going on!!!  So I love to alter things as well and of course I wanted to participate as I think Roni is a wonderful artist!  

 

Now I do know that Roni is going to have a little something to give away and although I don't know exactly what it is I know that it is going to be wonderful!!!!  This hop is going to be amazing just to see the diversity in the things people can do with Altoid tins!!

 

Now you all know me and my love for Halloween but coming in a very close almost tied 2nd is Christmas and on top of that is SNOWMEN!!!!  I love me some cute little snowmen!!!  So I wanted to make a winter scene with my altoid tin not to mention I received this wonderful little picket fence from AlteredPages.com that I had to use!!!!  So quite honestly this whole little altered tin came about because of a blog birthday and some tiny littly picket fence emphemera!!!  Who knew!  I hope you enjoy my little tin and leave me some love because you never know where the winner will come from and head over to InkStainswithRoni to see the rest and see what awesome prizes are available!!!

 

Linkey Party with Terri Sproul!!!!

Hello Lovelies, today I have to share with you a holiday card I made for my friend Terri Sproul's Linky Party!!!  Every other friday all year long Terri and a few other friends make christmas cards so that no one is rushed to make them after thanksgiving or the beginning of december and all of the cards are different which makes me happy!!!  So this week she decided to have a linky party hop so that more people could show off their Christmas cards!  I am showing a Christmas card I made using products from AlteredPages.com.  This card is part of the Christmas Card Kit I designed for AlteredPages which is now on sale!!!  I hope you enjoy and if you are making Christmas cards today please take a moment to link them up to the Linky Party!!!

 

 

A little Thanksgiving

Hello Lovelies,  Today I have to share with you some lovely little Thanksgiving ATCs I made for a 1-4-1 ATC swap.  I used images from the Happy Thanksgiving Collage sheet AP-135 from AlteredPages.com and  some microbeads from PennywiseArts.com.

New Challenge at Altered Pages

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you my DT project for the new AlteredPages.com November challenge!!!!   This months challenge is Rusted Colors!!  I know you can pull those off!!!  Be shre to head over to the challenge blog for the complete rules and to see what all the other DT members have made!!! 

I have made some table decorations for my project!  Remember you can also vote on which DT members project you like the most so that that DT member can win a prize as well!!! 

I made a paper rosette out of rust colored cardstock and used an image from the Happy Thanksgiving Collage sheet AP-335.  I tied the rosette on with hemp twine.  The ring is an assortment of beads attached with wire.

I took the large one out of it's ring to photograph them together because they are not going to be together on the table so the small one doesn't have a ring....

This little guy has a strip of foil embossed with my Tim Holtz embossing folder and then colored with alcohol inks.  It is attached with brads. 

The rosette has gold metallic paint rubbed on with my finger to give it a gilded(kinda) look!

 

Day 13 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a card I made for the newest Dilly Beans Challenge issued yesterday! Spooky Girls!  I don't know if she is spooky but if she's not the saying is!  The saying is from AlteredPages.com

 

If your wondering why there is not journal for my art journal it's because with this one I have taken the spiral out to make it easier to make a two page layout with them!!! 

 

Remember to leave some love for your chance to win those wonderful prizes and the blog roll is on the sidebar!

Day 6 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have 1 tag, and  2 cards for you it is World Card making day isn't it!!! I made the tag for the new Dilly Beans challenge issued yesterday Black, Purple and Pink...and the two cards are for...one for AlteredPages.com where our blog hop is still going on and you can find that post right under this one!!! and one for Bombshell Stamps.  Wow that's a lot!!!

My Dilly Beans challenge Tag:

Background colors and the ribbon are colored with dylusions inks.  Image is colored with prismacolor pencils and the senti is from Dilly Beans as well!!!

My AP card:

I used the AP 458 Wicked Witches Collage sheet for this card!

My Bombshell Card:

I used the Bombshell Stamp Sets Sugar Daddy, Retro Cowgirl, Bombshell Angel, Butterfly Queen, Mi Amor, Man's Ruin and Bombshell Accessories

Sorry guys, I know I said they would be short posts but I had to make this one long!!!!

Remember the blog roll is on the sidebar and to leave comments on every bloggers blog for your chance to win some awesome prizes!

Day 5 of 31 and Altered Pages Blog Hop

Hello Lovelies, today is a wonderfully spectacular day!!!  Are you enjoying 31 Days so far?  Aren't all the projects wonderful!!!  There are some wickedly talented peeps this year!!!

Today is a little different here on my blog.  One of my design teams is having it's own little halloween blog hop so as always the 31 days list is on the sidebar and the rules for that are posted with day 1 and you can find them at Terra's blog as well. 

To qualify for the prizes from the AlteredPages blog hop, which is totally separate from the 31 days blog hop although I am using the same project for both.  Here are the rules for winning the AlteredPages hop prizes!:

    There will be One grand prize winner will receive a scissor mouse from AP. There will be two winners from each blog that will receive a free digital collage sheet. To be eligible for that the hoppers must leave a comment on each blog & become a follower of each blog. To be a winner they must finish the hop and go back to AP's blog and let us know they did. They must, also, leave a comment and follow every blog.

This is a huge bottle cap that my wonderful friend Alison sent me a long time ago.  The image is from AlteredPages.com the Altered halloween collage sheet. The chain is from a key ring thingy and the small gears are some that I had sitting around from taking apart old clocks and watches! 

Everything is covered with Glossy accents. The glitter in the background was a oops... It was supposed to be off white embossing powder but I grabbed the glittery one instead....

This is the background stamp I used with the glitter above...wouldn't that have been wonderful in off white on the background????  Why didn't I redo it you say...well simple, I had no more ink in either printer!  :((

Remember to leave some love no matter which hop you are from and  I would greatly appreciate it if when leaving a comment you let me know if you are here for S&S or AP!    There are some awesome prizes to be won from either hop!!!Thank you so very much!!!

Day 4 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have to share with you a 5x7 canvas I made using images form AlteredPages.com.  Collage sheet 1964D Little Sweeties to be exact and a witch hat stamp I got last year from inkadinkado!  I used some crafters spackle for the crows which were a cupcake stencil from Martha this year!!!  didn't make cupcakes but those stencils are awesome for canvas and art journals!!!

We are all a Little Mad here!!!!

Hello Lovelies, today I have to share with you a tag I made using an image from AlteredPages.com.  I love their collage sheets so many to choose from!  Today I took one image from the Black and Sepia collage sheet AP-2023 if your searching for it!  I made the image into 4 sizes just by resizing it.  If I would have thought about it I would have written down the sizes I used but I didn't!  sorry.  Anyway I took a tag and colored the background with Dylusions Ink Sprays: Lemon Zest, Pure Sunshine, Melted Chocolate, and Black Marble.  I love my sprays!!!!  I then ran the tag through my big shot using a Halloween embossing folder my Tim Holtz.  I fussy cut the skeleton images that I resized and layerd them like a totem and adhered them to my tag then added words from a dilly beans set called Cute and Dark sayings, added some black ribbon and a little walnut ink and there you have it!  A cute little Halloweed tag!  Hope you enjoy!

New Challenge and Voting going on over at Altered Pages!

Hello Lovelies, hope this day finds you all doing well... It's cloudy and crisp here this morning and I for one have to say I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!  Ok so on to todays post!

Jean over at AlteredPages.com came to us a while ago and asked us to come up with a project for her new challenge...HEADDRESSES!!!  Well lots of things came to mind I mean really, I saw all sorts of headdresses flashing through my mind!!!  Problem was there were no logical ways of pulling off what was flashing through my mind along with those headdresses going through my mind!!!  So after thinking long and hard about it I fianlly came up with something!  You all know how I love steampunk and warm colors so this is what I came up with!! 

My friend and fellow DT member Roni called it Steampunk Cleopatra and I like it!!! 

So if you will head on over to the AlteredPages Blog and click on the challenges tab at the top you will be able to see what everyone else is doing also and find out how to make one lucky dt member very happy!!!  You will also find out what our new challenge is and what you need to do to become part of it!!!  I really hope that you will!!!

That blog is on pacific time and will go live at 9 am pacific!  that is noon for east coasters....

Saving the world one Bracelet at a time…..

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a little tutorial on how to make a bracelet using a plastic water bottle!! 


See it’s good to keep the water bottles!!!  I hope you enjoy and I am sorry I don’t have picture of this on my arm but my daughter promptly took it, put it on, and then left for the movies!!! 

Altered Canvas

Hello Lovelies, today I bring to you an altered canvas I made using products from Alteredpages.com!   I have decided to cover the creative dungeon and the game room with art made my me and  my family!  It's a slow process but it's gonna happen!!!

So here is my canvas and go check out alteredpages.com to see all the wonderful products they have there!

Altered Pages Materials used:

Winged Women ap1056

Artist Spackle

Vintage Text Pages

“Metal” Image Transfer

Hello Lovelies.  Today I have for you a small tutorial on a new to me image transfer.  Transferring images is not new to any of us I am sure but transferring images onto metal is new to me!!!  I used Collage Sheet 1056D Winged Women and Metal Sheets found here, a little fluid matte medium, some water, and finger power and you have a cool image transfer that can be used on anything!!! You can find more great project ideas on Altered Pages Blog!

Now pick out your image(s) you want to transfer.  I chose the two winged women in the top right corner for mine. 

cover your image in your fluid matte medium.  A good coverage as you can see here.  When you spread it around on the foil it will seep out and that is ok!  Turn your image onto your foil and smooth it out!  Use whatever tool you want to but make sure it is completely smoothed out on the foil.

Here’s the kicker… it has to dry and you have to be patient with it.  No heat guns here….sorry guys, I know I love my heat gun too but this one has to be sat aside until it is completely dry all by itself!!  I had to wait overnight!!!!

Once it’s dry spray it with water and begin to gently rub the backing off with your finger!  VERY GENTLY!

Keep doing this until you have the image the way you want it!  I personally went a little to far but that is ok as it will work with the shabbiness of the project it is for so I am happy with it! 

There you have it!  An image transferred onto metal!!!

I have not completed project for you today as this transfer is in a long line up for a major project I am working on in my spare time!