To Dye For new challenge at Dragons Dream TIO

This week at Dragons Dream TIO it's Sue's turn to provide a recipe and it is
- “To Dye for” -;Make a tag and use spray ink, die cut(s) and embossing (heat or dry) and use at least one real stamp.

My tag was a bit of a disaster to make, I had it all planned but it didn't turn out as it should.

First I made the background for which I used my DIY spray ink (mixed watercolour paint with water in a spraybottle) and so far it worked out great, I really liked how the background turned out. Then the problems started.
I stamped the Time Traveler using black Stazon and when I removed the stamp from the tag some of the spray ink flaked off the tag and the stamped image was not clear. That was the first problem.....

But I solved this by stamping the image again on vellum, cut the image out and glued it on the tag(over the failed stamped image) then stamped and heat embossed the words Time Traveller.

The tag still needed something extra, so I masked the Time Traveler and stamped the clocks using white Stazon and had the same problem...... the Stazon and my DIY spray ink didn't like each other and when I removed my stamp the spray ink flaked off the tag and the stamped image was not clear. To make the image more visible I used white embossing powder and I liked the result.

Now I only had to add some die cuts and decided to use the TH Gadget Gears and cut them out off metal tape covered cardstock. Because of the mettalic look of the gears I thought the tag had a futuristic feel about it and I thought it would be fun to put some glitter glue around the edges.......you can probably guess what happened......... the glue didn't want to come out of the bottle so I had to squeeze it a bit harder.......then the nozzle came off and half of the glitter glue bursted out of the bottle on to the tag............

Luckely I could remove the most of the glitter from the tag. Instead of ribbon I used wire to finish the tag and attached a light bulb to the wire.

Here it is..... drumroll......

Hope you like and come and join the challenge

I will enter these tag in the following challenges:

http://doodleartifacts.blogspot.nl/2012/05/anything-goes-and-heavy-metal.html the lightbulb was recycled (it is a light bulb form my bicycle light)

Smudgy Antics Challenge: Embellish it!

This weeks Smudgy Antics challenge is; Embellish it! Use at least 3 embellies, now thats not tOo hard, no excuse not to play. Check out the prize and the rules here.

this week I made a tag

The corset is a Smeared ink digi, I colored it using pencils, the embellies are: 3 ribbon roses, some bling, a ribbon bow and a perfume bottle charm.

Hope to see you in this weeks challenge at Smudgy Antics

Next week will be Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop with Smeared Ink, you can still sign up at the Smeared Ink Forum,

Do you love creating amazing projects that showcase skully goodness? Wanna get some traffic to your blog and share your obsession? Join us on June 4th for one wild blog hop event! We will be celebrating Skull Appreciation Day by featuring handmade projects that spotlight the much-loved cranium. We will also be giving away tons of freebies during the hop!

How can you participate, you ask? Well, there are a couple of ways to get in on the action. To spread the word, grab our button here and post it to your blog, facebook page, or website and share the info. Then come hop through the amazing projects on the 4th.

To join in, simply make a homemade project or craft that features a skull and sign up to be included in our hop list. This is open to any crafter or artist who would like to feature a handmade skull-themed project. You can sign up by leaving a comment your name and blog address. All participants will receive a free Smeared Ink Skull Appreciation digi image to add to your collection.

After you sign up, be on the lookout for the hop list to be posted. The deadline for signing up as a participant is Thursday May 31, 2012. We will post the hop list of participants on Saturday morning, June 2, 2012. Then just share your project on the 4th along with the list of participating blogs! During the hop we will also be giving away freebies, so that is even more incentive to participate or hop along.

If you or someone you know would like to sponsor the hop with your own freebie giveaway featuring a skull (and get advertising on our forum, blogs, and other hop information posts like facebook shares), please contact Tori 
here. When you sponsor, we will add your website/button to all of our hop advertising.

Thanks for joining us in this event and spreading the word, and we look forward to a fun skull-filled blog hop on the 4th!

*for more information on Skull Appreciation Day, please visit Skull-A-Day.



I will enter the tag in the following challenges:

http://stampinsistersinchrist.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-141-psalm-1186.html I'm afraid my printer ink will smear and smudge when I use odorless turpentine and my coloring pencils to color my digis, but it worked out fine

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.co.uk/

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/2012/05/simon-says-stamp-and-show-one-for-boys.html

Colour Challenge at Smudgy Antics

This week it's a colour challenge at Smudgy Antics, you have to use at least 3 colours see colour swatch below:

I made a card, the digi is Smeared Inks li'l Grumpie (love them) they are now available as digi too. and I used the sketch from the Smeared Inks forum very Sketchy May Challenge

See you at the Smudgy Antics challenge blog

the mask of the red death/ hot as hell in here

Because I haven't had the time to play at Quoth the Raven and Haunted Design House for a while, I did want to play this time to save time I cheated a bit and combined the challenges so her is my project for "The Mask of the Red Death" and for HDH 133 "Hot as Hell in here"

Tadaa here it is a shadow box

This used to be a cigar box but for Quoth the Raven I turned it into the the red and black room with the ebony clock. Inside the box there is a masked man who takes of his mask and it turn out to be Death himself. There is also a pic of mr. Poe, half human half skull. And then ofcourse all the guests who died in the red/black room they are the dancing skeletons, they dance around the fire. Inside the clock the is a the Plague as Death digi.

For HDH 133: this could be what hell looks like, dancing skeletons around a fire (which is a battery operated candle) in a dark place with scary images all around, and I think it turned out to be a Hot project LOL.

All the digi's are Smeared Ink , the dancing skellies are from Stampinback and the skull border is "Lost Coat Designs". the clock is Tim Holtz Die


I will enter the following challenges:
http://www.tando-creative-challenges.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/wednesday-16th-may-2012.html - alter it

http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.ca/2012/05/altered-art-challenge-anything-goes.html

http://justkeeponcreating.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/challenge-2-at-just-keep-on-creating.html

Tim Holtz tag May 2012 and a baby paperbag album

here is my go at the May 2012 tag

I didn't have the stamps but I used the Die instead, hope you like it.

Also made a baby paperbagalbum sing the Graphic 45 Little Darlings Paper

This will be a gift for a colleague

I will enter the tag in the following challenges:

http://justkeeponcreating.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/challenge-2-at-just-keep-on-creating.html

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/hello-everybody-thank-you-for-playing.html- anything goes

http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/challenge-42-tags.html

Confessions bloghop

It's that time again! Time for the Smeared and Smudged member blog hop.
The theme is CONFESSIONS SMEARED IN INK! Use your art to show us something you have never told your Mom about yourself...or about something you have done. Step outside your comfort zones - the smudgier the better!!!

I have been thingking about this a lot, and the truth is, apart from the normal candy/cookie eating without permission there is not a lot to confess (I know boring.....),so if you are looking for some juicy details you're not at the right blog, but I did make something for the hop.

For this card I used one of the new Milagros Smeared Ink digi's the Cross, coloured it up with pencils and added some bling and lace.

Please cheack out the awesome art of the other Confessions Hoppers and leave them some nice comments, see blogroll below


CONFESSIONS SMEARED IN INK!!
Smeared and Smudged May Member Blog Hop
BLOG ROLL

CONFESSIONS SMEARED IN INK!!

Smeared and Smudged May Member Blog Hop

BLOG ROLL



Tori

Shell

Black Dragon

Susan S.

Jane

Kristy

Lady Brayton

Patti

Monique

Dianne

Ike

I will enter this in the following challenges:

http://justkeeponcreating.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/challenge-2-at-just-keep-on-creating.html

TIO #116 - A Symphony of Flowers

Helen made the new recipe for this fortnights challenge at Dragons Dream TIO.


“Symphony of Flowers”

The ingredients are- a pinch of greenery, buttons and a butterfly or two..., Other than that, you are free to interpret this recipe however you choose - make us a tag, and use at least one real stamp, and have fun!

Here is mine

I used a flower stamp and a musical notes stamp for the background, coloured the stamps with pencils and added distress ink, then I stamped the botterflies and coloured them, added some buttons and bling to finish

Check out the Dream Teams awesome tags here

Hope you all will enter this challenge and have a lot of fun making us a tag



I will enter the following challenges:

http://theprettylittleribbonshop.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/may-challenge-10-blossoms-and.html

http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/challenge-42-tags.html

Smudgy antics challenge Masquerade

This weeks Smudgy Antics challenge is Masquerade (you can use images with masks, use the masking technique or both).

I used Luna one of the new Smeared Ink digis "Women of Power" you have to check them out, they are gorgeous.

Luna has a mask on that covers the Masquerade theme....I kept it simple just coloured the image using colouring pencils and added some bling and flowers.

Hope to see you at Smudgy Antics for this challenge

And for the cat lovers among you, here some pics of one my cats, this is Phoebe, she was sitting on my desk watching me making cards and trying to steal my stuff to play with

I will enter the following challenges:

http://sweetnsassydigis.blogspot.com/2012/05/snsdc53-feminine-card.html

http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2012/05/sad-farewell-our-last-challenge-85.html

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/hello-everybody-thank-you-for-playing.html

Skull appreciation day

Do you love creating amazing projects that showcase skully goodness? Wanna get some traffic to your blog and share your obsession? Join us on June 4th for one wild blog hop event! We will be celebrating Skull Appreciation Day by featuring handmade projects that spotlight the much-loved cranium. We will also be giving away tons of freebies during the hop!

How can you participate, you ask? Well, there are a couple of ways to get in on the action. To spread the word, grab our button here and post it to your blog, facebook page, or website and share the info. Then come hop through the amazing projects on the 4th.

To join in, simply make a homemade project or craft that features a skull and sign up to be included in our hop list. This is open to any crafter or artist who would like to feature a handmade skull-themed project. You can sign up on the Smeared and Smudged forum by leaving a comment with your name and blog address on the event's page....or if you're not a member of Smeared and Smudged you can leave a comment with your name and blog address on this post. If you're a member (or become a member) of the Smeared and Smudged forum and are a participant, you will receive a free Smeared Ink Skull Appreciation digi image to add to your collection.

After you sign up, be on the lookout for the hop list to be posted. The deadline for signing up as a participant is Thursday May 31, 2012. We will post the hop list of participants on Saturday morning, June 2, 2012. Then just share your project on the 4th along with the list of participating blogs! During the hop we will also be giving away freebies, so that is even more incentive to participate or hop along.


If you or someone you know would like to sponsor the hop with your own freebie giveaway featuring a skull (and get advertising on our forum, blogs, and other hop information posts like facebook shares), please contact Tori.
Thanks for joining us in this event and spreading the word, and we look forward to a fun skull-filled blog hop on the 4th!

*for more information on Skull Appreciation Day, please visit Skull-A-Day.

Smudgy Antics Anything goes

This week is an easy on no excuses left not to play, it Anything Goes at Smudgy Antics


I altered a notebook, the Smeared Ink digi I used is Calaveras Bride

Hope you will join this weeks challenge. I will also enter the following challenges: http://forevernightchallenges.blogspot.fr/2012/05/freaky-friday-challenge-35_04.html http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.ca/2012/05/anything-goes_08.html http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/mim-88-with-bugaboo-stamps.html

Behind the mask

The new Tag challenge on Dragons Dream TIO is Elizabeths receipe:"Behind the Mask"; use Stencils, paint and script!! Here is what I made:

I cut a tag out of chipboard and gesso-ed it, then covered the gesso with a layer of red acrylic paint and dried using heat tool (be careful not to burn the paint). Then add a layer of turquoise acrylic paint and wait a bit but, do not let completly dry, then wipe off using babywipe till you like the result and let dry completly. Now the tag is ready to be stamped. I used stamps from the old curiosity shop set from Graphic 45 and the light bulp is a KICOSTAMPS stamp, the lady body is from Lost coast Designers Doll Set The script stamp is My Paper world Viva Decor clear stamp. I used a stencil to add the red paint dots. As the final touch I aged the tag a bit with walnut stain distress ink. So get your paints, stamps and stencils and join us in this challenge, can't wait to see what you create I will enter this tag in the following challenges: http://smudgerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/smudger-challenge-2-youre-it.html http://www.comeandgetitchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/04/anything-but-card-challenge.html http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/05/your-favorite-technique.html http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/challenge-42-tags.html