SKYLINE CC428

I have made this card for todays SCS Color Challenge, the colors are lucky limeade, island indigo and pool party. I used the very versatile "SKYLINE" rubber stamp from Hambo Stamps. I just love this stamp.

The Battle Of The Bands

Squeeeeeeal!!! Today is the Hambo Stamps customer inclusive blog hop,  "The Battle of the Bands". Today Hambo friends and the Bacon Bits Design Team are bringing you fun creations that depict Band groups! It might be your favorite, or just one that was fun to design. If you arrived here from  Jenn http://jaxbeanstalks.blogspot.com/ you are in the right place! If not, you might want to start back at the beginning at the Hambo blog to make sure you are eligible for a hopper prize!
BLOG HOP ORDER
Talk to the Ham - Hambo blog http://hambostamps.blogspot.com/
Sherry http://bitsofcheer.blogspot.com/
Lyn http://mypurplehouse.wordpress.com/
Kecia http://stampingdeets.blogspot.com/
Deborah http://beadnstampn.blogspot.com

Deanne http://littlebitopaper.blogspot.ca/

Isha http://hobbyandideas.blogspot.com/

Paula http://heyheypaula-heyheypaula.blogspot.com/

Lori http://smilingwhilestamping.blogspot.com/

Jenn http://jaxbeanstalks.blogspot.com/
Jane http://janeelizabethssworld.blogspot.co.uk/

Sue http://cardandjewelrycorner.blogspot.com/

Kendra http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/
Judy http://jarfullofjoy.blogspot.com/

A prize will be awarded to one participant whose Bands creation tickles the Bacon Bits’ fancy, Another prize will be awarded randomly to a hopper who comments on all of the blogs along the way. The winners will be announced on the Hambo blog, Talk to the Ham, on Wednesday, May 29, as well as at the Hambo Hoedown challenge blog. the deadline for prize entry comments is Sunday, May 26 at 5 PM CST.
 

Soooooooo...........Here is my creation!!!  I am so into the metal tape art technique at the moment, so I thought I would have a go at making a prison door type thing to go with the cute PIG INMATE digi image and sentiment. It was so much fun to do, I covered BBQ skewers with foil tape to make the prison bars, and a cut up spellbinders cross to do the door hinges. So can you guess the Band??? well .....actually, I have chosen two bands that are fitting for this card!!!!

 

 

Yayyyyy!!! I'm sure you guessed it....Firstly it could be "The Wanted" The English-Irish boy band who have had hits with Chasing the sun, and Glad you came.

 

 

The second band that I found fitting for this is " The Killers" The American rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001

 

Hope you had fun in my Blog Hop Post, Now Hop on over to Sue
http://cardandjewelrycorner.blogspot.com/ and check out her Band Creation....after leaving me a bit of love :)

Reading Boy

This week at the Hoedown with Hambo Stamps the digi image is READING BOY. The challenge is to come up with your own caption or sentiment, I toyed with a few ideas and decided on  " In my book, you are the best". join in the fun of the challenge and if you use any hambo stamps image, rubber, cling, or digi, then you will automatically recieve next weeks digi for free. dont forget to join us this week where Hambo Stamps are having a customer inclusive blog hop, I am so looking forward to everyones creations, please drop by and give me some love.

Monkey Punch

It's Wednesday...so that means it is Hambo Hoedown time over at Hambo Stamps, and this weeks digital image is called "Monkey Vine" which can be purchased here....unless you joined in the hoedown last week, then you get it for free. The challenge is to use punches with your project, well I am a bit low on punches, I am a die cutting type of gal, I have a mini flower punch that I have used to put flowers on the vine, adding a bit of black stickles in the centre, then I used a border punch on the bottom of my card. I am such a sucker for cute and cheeky animal images, monkeys, pigs, cows and sheep all make me go "awwwwww" and this cheeky monkey is no exception. Hop over and join in the Hoedown fun, I would love to see your work.

Riveting Robot

This weeks HAMBO STAMPS digital Image is "ROBOT", you can purchase it here. This week is a sketch challenge drawn by the super talented Lyn. I adore robot images and as soon as I saw it I remembered seeing a metal tape art video on youtube last week, and as I was itching to have a go at this I thought this is the perfect image to go with that technique, so off I went to the local hardware store and purchased some self adhesive metallic tape, some plasterboard (drywall) tape, and some black acrylic paint.  I totally loved doing this and was soon looking all around my house searching for things I can use this metal tape art on..... frames, canvasses, etc. The sentiment is "Feeling rusty?" so I die cut the letters from rusty and glued them on my cardstock before adding the metal tape over the top, seriously you should have a go at this, it is fun and super easy, somewhat time consuming but the end result is worth it. Here is the sketch and the finished card.

Sunflower, Spyglass, and Staples...Oh My!!

It is Wednesday again, so it means it is Hoedown time over at HAMBO STAMPS, and the new digital image is "Word Search" which can be found HERE, and the challenge is to pick a letter of the alphabet and use two or three things starting with that letter, my letter is S..., Sunflower, Staples, Spyglass, Spots. I seemed to struggle this week, pondering over it all the time, but I kinda like how it turned out, and I just love making paper flowers, especially the sunflowers, for the centre I use a bit of nut brown flowersoft, it does them a treat.
There are great things happening at Hambo Stamps, on Friday the 24th of May they are having a customer inclusive blog hop. the theme is "THE BATTLE OF THE BANDS" Using any Hambo image, create a project that represents and depicts the name of a (professional) band! Maybe it’s your favorite group, or maybe it’s one that you don’t even like! Whatever it is, we want to see your BAND NAME creations! You do not need to have the Band name on your card or project, but please put it in your post.
TO SIGN UP, send an email to hambodesignteam@gmail.com with "BLOG HOP" in the title BY MAY 15. Once we receive that, you will receive all the low-down on how to participate! ........ Now for my Word Search Card

Hope to see you at the Hambo Hoedown Challenge this week :)

Fish Hooks

I know what you're thinking!!!!!!! Where in this world did I get the idea to make earrings out of this weeks digi image from Hambo Stamps !!!!! I am even amazed... I mean.... the challenge is to make anything but a card with this weeks digi image called  FISH HOOKS!!!,  so do I think of anything else like a tag, or a goodie bag,???? ....Nooooooooo, the first thing that I saw when I recieved the image was the loop at the top of the hook, and thought mmmmm I will make earrings, what was I thinking of !!! then to make things even harder I wanted to use shrinkles ( the sheets of thin plastic that you put in the oven and the image shrinks to a seventh of the size) a bit like when I was a kid and would put crisp packets (potato chips to you Americans) in the oven and they would miraculously shrink and go hard. Anyway, as you cannot pass the shrinkles through the printer I first had to print the image onto copier paper then trace it, color it and then finally bake in the oven, then I realised I hadn't used a sentiment so I did the same procedure for the sentiment and used that for the other earring....sooooo... any fishermen out there that wants to give their wife a pair of handmade earrings, maybe for an anniversary or valentines day or just cos you love her?????  Going free to a good home.

SCS CAS217

Todays Clean and Simple Challenge at Splitcoaststampers is a sketch challenge and the minute I saw it I thought of the SKYLINE rubber stamp from Hambo Stamps. I used a white pigment ink on black card then cut round the outline, added an orange semicircle and the sentiment.....simple.

SPIDER WEB

Well, it's Wednesday, so that means it's a new Hambo Hoedown Challenge over at HAMBO STAMPS, and this weeks challenge is to incorporate some kind of webbing or mesh type material with this weeks image which is "spider web" which is given for free if you played last weeks challenge, if not then it can be purchased HERE. As I already have the rubber stamp versions of these two images, I welcomed the digi version because it is so versatile, I can print it to the size I want, so it's all good. I have to say (and I told Monica, the owner of Hambo Stamps) that I totally deserve the fussy cutter of the year award for the cutting I did for this card, I wanted to be able to see through the web to the mesh layer underneath, and as I have just done a bit of cobweb cleaning in my house, that is where I got the idea to put a chandelier on too...pesky cobwebs on light fittings!! Anyway, I love how the cutting went on the web, tricky though, but very theraputic. I added some glossy accents to the spiders and fussy cut them too....somebody stop me!!

Elephant & Bird Balloon

I have made this card for this weeks SCS Featured Stamper Challenge, this week it is Lin aka Bearpaw who is the featured stamper. I have used the ELEPHANT rubber stamp, colored it with promarkers, and for the balloons and sentiment I have used parts of the BIRD BALLOON digital image, both by Hambo Stamps.  HERE is the card that I cased, I changed the sun for the elephant and also changed the sentiment.

Bird Egg and Feathers

The digi image this week at Hambo Stamps is called "BIRD EGG" and is given for free if you joined last weeks Hoedown Challenge, but if not, then can be purchased Here. This weeks challenge is to incorporate feathers in your project, I have some gorgeous feather boa's in my stash, so I decided to make an easter basket and fill it with feathers, and of course some chocolate eggs. I put the sentiment on the end of a barbeque skewer and stuck that in the basket too. I colored the bird with promarkers and then masked his head and egg, and sprayed iridescent spray on his feathers , but you cant see that too clearly in the photo. Hope to see you at the Hoedown this week.

Hambo Hazmat Suit

It is time for switcharound at Hambo Stamps, I have been on the rubber stamps team for the last two months, now it is Lyn's, Isha's and my turn to be on the digital images team. This weeks digi image is "Hazmat Suit" which is given for free if you played last weeks Hambo Hoedown, if not then you can purchase this cheeky chappie HERE, or you can use any other Hambo image to qualify for prizes, you dont even have to use hambo images, just come along and join this weeks challenge, the challenge this week is to make a project using yellow orange and aqua colors. so hop on over and join in the fun, I would love to see your creations.