August Bombshell Blog Hop

Wow!  Another month gone by.  This month our theme is “Put Me in the Movies”.  We were to make a project inspired by a movie, or movie poster.  I chose one of my favorite movies of all time…Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.  That’s right, I’m a huge Marilyn Monroe fan.:)  I used the Bombshell Angel stamp and some of the Digital Stamp Outfits from Bombshell Stamps to make this.  I tried to make their dresses like some of the ones from the movie.  I made a mock poster to insert in an empty dvd case I had lying around…

And in the case…

I used Diamond Glaze on Marilyn’s dress, and Distress Stickles and a sparkly pen on Jane’s dress.(I swear their dresses look better in person)  The names and sentiment are from a French poster I found for the movie.  The paper is DCWV.

Now, if you’re following the hop order you should have arrived here from Alison’s blog.  If you just stumbled here by chance then you may want to start at the beginning on the Bombshell Blog.

Here’s the entire hop list…

Bombshell Blog

Alison

Laura – THAT’S ME!

Alaine

Meredith

Kelli

Mary G

Alex

Sparkly Engineer

Celina Anthony

Glittery Katie

Kapree

Cheryl

Dianne

Thanks for looking!  Happy hopping!:)

-Laura

Purpley Anniversary Card

I know, purpley isn’t a real word.;)  That’s OK, though.  My mom asks me to make anniversary cards for friends and relatives all the time, so this was one of the ones I made recently.  I used purple because the husband in the couple that this is going to loves purple.:)

This beautiful image comes from Kathie at Beary Wishes.  I just love it. 

And there’s a butterfly, so I’m going to submit this for Flutter By Wednesday #168.:)

Oh, and I keep forgetting to post this other anniversary card I made.  I made this one for Taylored Expressions sketch challenge a week or two ago, but forgot to submit is in time.  Oh well.  Here it is if you want to see it anyway.:)

Of course the stamp is from Taylored Expressions.

Thanks for looking!

-Laura

A Hello Card

I was cruising around blogland the other day and stumbled on the cutest image at A Day For Daisies.  All you had to do is play along with their current challenge – “It’s a Twine Thing “– and you could have the adorable image.  So here I am playing along.;)

This also goes along with Jen’s Deconstructed Sketch No. 16.

Such a cutie…

Image colored with Copics.  Paper from Echo Park and Wasau.  Sticker sentiment from Echo Park.  Twine from a local stamping shop.

Thanks for looking!

-Laura

Shabby Chic

I decided to finally give this challenge a shot.  I was a little overwhelmed at the idea of having to do a really feminine, lacy, and mostly white card.  You can find out more about the challenge over on the Bombshell Stamps Blog.  I tried some new things with this one…

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Sorry the lighting is not great in this photo, I do most of this stuff at night and my camera is worthless.  Anyway, I used the roses and sentiment from the Rose’s Portrait set from Bombshell Stamps for this.  I sanded the edges of all the paper and then took some pale Copic colors along the sanded edges.  These are some of my first rolled ribbon flowers, so hopefully they don’t look too bad.

Thanks for looking!

-Laura

Heart Journaling Week 5 Page

Here’s my page from last week’s Heart Journaling assignment from The Greeting Farm.  The assignment was Pieces of Me(layers and paper piecing). 

Rag Doll Sally stamp from Simply Betty Stamps.  Mushrooms are from Torico.

This week we have to use lots of text on our pages, so it should be fun!  Thanks for looking!

-Laura

Carnival of Curiosities

With a theme like that I knew I wanted to play along with the HDH Macabre Monday challenge this week.  OK, so I’m cutting it a little close on time, but I really wanted to play along since I’ve always been a fan of circuses and carnivals.  I kept trying to figure out what to do, but today inspiration hit me in the form of my darling little pretzel…

She can seriously lay on the floor and watch TV like this.  She and my husband are freaky double jointed people.:)  I wish I was half as flexible as them!

The stamp at the top is from Michaels, the circus tent is from Make it Crafty, the contortionist stamp and the sentiment are from Smeared Ink, and the paper is from DCWV. 

Thanks for looking!

-Laura

Forever Night Challenge

I stumbled across the Forever Night Challenges blog a few days ago and I was definitely intrigued.  Then I saw what the current challenge was and I decided I had to play along.:)  The current challenge is Mystical Women, you have to create a project with a mythical or magical woman in it.  I chose to use an oceanid or water nymph.  I decided that in this project she would be the famous Calypso.(the card shows her name in Greek)

I know it’s probably not as “dark” of a project as they were hoping to elicit, but she does fit the mythical category.:)  And I was dying to use this Water Nymph stamp I just bought.  I’ve been having fun with the mosaic stickers lately, too.

Hope you like my project, thanks for looking!

-Laura