The Cherry Bomb Tattoo Co.

The Cherry Bomb Tattoo Co. is a woman-owned tattoo studio and retail shop on Blue Parkway in Lee’s Summit, founded by Wendy Scott — one of the first women tattooing in the Kansas City metro — and known for cover-up work.

Description

The Cherry Bomb Tattoo Co. occupies a storefront at 1100 SE Blue Parkway in Lee’s Summit and is arranged as two businesses under one roof: roughly half the floor is a working tattoo studio, the other half a retail shop stocking goods from local makers and vendors.¹² KCUR’s 2025 guide to Kansas City tattoo studios described the split layout as a deliberate part of the shop’s character rather than a sideline.¹

The studio’s signature is cover-up work — reworking existing tattoos into new designs — and owner Wendy Scott has been given the shop nickname “The Cover Up Queen.”³ Her own tattooing sits in traditional and floral styles.³ The shop keeps a roster of several resident artists working across distinct styles, from black-and-grey to watercolour.³ Walk-ins are welcome; clients must be 18 or older.²

Community programming is part of the shop’s routine. KCUR reported that Cherry Bomb hosts events including a Teacher Appreciation Day and Taylor Swift-themed flash days.¹

Ownership and history

The shop is owned by Wendy Scott Creason and Chris Creason.² Wendy Scott is described on the studio’s own site as its founder and owner-operator, and states that she opened her own studio so that her standards for cleanliness and safe practice could be upheld directly.⁴

Scott’s tenure in tattooing is long: the shop’s site cites 37 years of experience and describes her as among the earliest women tattooing in the Midwest, and KCUR reported that she has been in the business since the age of 16 — more than 40 years — and was one of the first female tattoo artists in Kansas City.¹³ The two accounts are consistent in substance but differ on the count of years; both are reproduced here rather than reconciled.

The founding year of the Lee’s Summit shop itself is “. The studio’s own site described it at time of writing as “Lee’s Summit’s newest tattoo shop,” which implies a recent opening but does not establish a date.²

Links

• Website: https://www.thecherrybombtattoo.com/
• Retail shop: https://shopthecherrybomb.com/
• Owner’s booking site: https://wendyscotttattoos.com/

Services

• Custom tattooing across several resident artists and styles; walk-ins welcome, 18+.²
• Cover-up tattoos (the shop’s stated specialty).³
• Retail: gifts and goods for tattoo enthusiasts, including work from local vendors.²⁵

Sources

Footnotes

1. Shannon Carpenter, “Want to get a tattoo in Kansas City? Here are some artists and studios to check out,” KCUR, May 24, 2025. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. The Cherry Bomb Tattoo Co., official site homepage (ownership, hours, walk-in and age policy, retail section). URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

3. The Cherry Bomb Tattoo Co., artists page (roster, styles, “Cover Up Queen”). URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

4. The Cherry Bomb Tattoo Co., Wendy Scott biography page (address, phone, founding rationale, booking). URL ↩

5. Shop The Cherry Bomb (the studio’s retail storefront). URL ↩