S.I. Reunion

Hi all welcome to my bloggie for my part in the Smeared Ink Reunion bloghop, you can find the blogroll at the bottom of this post.


I love making scenes using rubberstamps and for this card I used 2 Smeared Ink sets (Haunting places 1  and 2 by Rick St.dennis) and mixed them with 2 stamps from Sin city sets (the skull and bones are from the Dribones set by Rick St.dennis, now for a special prize of 14.95 USD for limited time,  the Moon is from the Sunshine Cherub set) and the bats from de Stempelwinkel.

I wish the moon was a little more creepy but I still like how it turned out, what do you think?

 Isn't it great to see how well all those different stamps work together.

 The background is distress ink and the stamps are colored using Faber Castell polychromos pencils

 Here a closer look, this did not take much masking, so it was pretty easy to do, maybe I should do a video on how I make these scenes.

The embossed edges on the card got some Deco Art metallic lustre in burnished brass to get some shine. I jut like the effect the metallic lusstres have.


For the ones that have not been around my bloggie for a while, check out my right sidebar, you will find a link to the stamp set I designed for Sin City and a link to my You Tube channel (would very much appreciate if you subscribed there )

Have fun hopping and hope to see you again on my blog

Blog roll

Terra

Alison

Leigh

Leigh SB Designs

Fiona

Shell

Kim

Kapree

Julia

​Val

​Dream In Darkness

​Ike

Kelli

Milo

Nan

Monique

Susan

Kristy

SinCity Sugar Skull bloghop

Hi everyone,  welcome to my blog, and thank you Sin City Art Stamps for hosting a blog hop on my favorite subject Sugar Skulls. Al inspiration team members were kindly given a sheet of the Sugar Skull stamps designed by the talented Michelle Frae Cummings.


The premise of this blog hop is for you to meet our in house Inspiration team members along with a few guest members, discover more ways to create with these stamps and possibly win a set for yourself!

No matter where you have started, To qualify to win your own Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls stamp set, (we are giving away 3!) we ask that you visit each of the blogs participating, leave a nice comment and then come back to the Sin City Blog and let us know which blog projects you liked the most and why.

The blog hop will end on the 27th and the 3 winners will be announced on the Sin City blog and on our FB Fan Group on March 28th. 



If you'd like to see more inspirational projects using Sincity stamps , please check out the DT blog here and the facebook group here.


Blog Roll below at the end of the post......sooooo here it comes....taaadaaaa...my project for the hop......is a Sugar Skull Shrine (duh!)

The skull was stamped into clay and painted after the clay had dried. I made a video how to stamp into clay for my You Tube channel and it shows you not only the stamping but also the painting of this skull. Here is a link to the video (please subscribe to my channel so you won;t miss any of my videos)

Supply List:
Sugar Skull stamps by Sin City (both the skull but also the flower stamp in the backgound are on that sheet)
Deco Art Products:
For the Skull: Americana acrylics in: Sea Breeze, Carousel Pink, Antique White  Moon Yellow, Lamp Black. Triple Thick Gloss Glaze.
For the Shrine: Deco Art Media Gesso and Americana acrylics in Lamp Black,  Neutral Grey, Grey Sky and Driftwood. The Gold paint is Dazzling metallic Emperors gold.

For the Shrine I used Tim Holtz dies the big and small Cabinet card die, and chipboard.  I will have a step by step how to make the shrine for you on the Sin City Inspiration Blog soon, so follow the blog and you won't miss it :-)

All instructions on ow to make the skull ar in the video mentioned above, the roses are bought paper roses, I cut of the wire they were on and gave them a layer of Triple Thick Gloss to make them look like they are made of porcelain, and when dry I adhered them to the shrine.

here some more pictures

 I realy love how the background turned out using the flower stamp that is also onn the Sugar Skull sheet

I used my favorite colors to paint Mr. Sugar Skull, love his moustache

So tha's it folks, please check out the rest of the blogs in the hop and don't forget to check out the give away.
If you'd like to see more inspirational projects using Sincity stamps , please check out the DT blog here and the facebook group here.

Thanks for visiting

Blog rol:

1. Sin City Stamps
2. Michelle Frae Cummings
3. Katie Lamb
4. Chris Pozzi
5. Irit Shalom
6. Shilpa Nagaonkar
7. Sharon Rogers
8. Jenn Gary DuBell
9. Monique Van Dijk
10. Adam
11. Kim Johnny
12. Granne
13. Anne

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Friday the 13th Phobia blog hop

This is the monthly Smeared Ink blog hop; Friday 13 th Phobia.

The theme is WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF? Step outside your comfort zones and share your phobias!!

So time to share my phobia;

I used von Bayros Creepy sleeper digi and this image shows my phobia.

I think there is nothing scarier than someone/something sneaking up on you when you're a sleep. Well there is one thing that comes close and that is sleep paralysis (old hag). What happens is that you wake up and you find out that you are unable to move. You know you are awake and you can open your eyes,but you are unable to speak or move,and to make things worse you can see a man dressed in black who is standing next to your bed, watching you....

See linkie for more info
http://roohikhan.hubpages.com/hub/Do-you-have-Sleep-Paralysis-The-Old-Hag-Syndrome.

Below you will find the blog roll of all the other hoppers, check out their awesome artwork and leave them some nice comments. Enjoy the hop.


Blog roll:

April Smeared and Smudged Member Hop
FRIDAY THE 13th PHOBIA!
Blog Roll
Tori
Black Dragon
MaryKay
Tink
Jane
Kristy
Aletha
Monique
Susan Guzy
Madeleine Bouquet
Lady Brayton
Trisha
Shell
Ms. Ruin
Ike
Christine
Helen
Kapree
Lisa Hall
Fiona

Mixed media mash up bloghop

Welcome to the mixed media bloghop by Smeared Ink.

I love mixed media, it is so much fun to start with a blanc canvas and start adding stuff, but sometimes it doesn't come out like you intended it to be. And sometimes it turns out a lot better than you thought, but this was not the case today ;-). I'll explain what I had in mind before I show you the pics.

I wanted to create a underwater scene with a mermaid and fish and waterplants and a fishnet. I bought some great paint the other day, that's called magic paint and I wanted to play with that also,so I thought the hardest part was done....

I started to cover the canvas with gesso, I put on a lot and brayerd it on what gave me the stucture I wanted. Let the gesso dry and added my magic paint, I have the magic paint in blue and green and both have a bit of gold in it that gives it a great shine.
The paint dried just in the water colour I wanted, so far so good. then the problems started....

Because of the structure on the canvas I could not stamp directly on it, but there is always tissue paper and mod podg ;-) I stamped the fish and the waterplants on the tissue paper but my mermaid stamp was a digi, and I can not print on tissue paper, so I decided to print the meremaid on printer paper colour her up and cut out and stick to the canvas and then put the stamped tissue paper over the whole canvas using mod podge, and this is the result

I am happy about how the fish came out but the mermaid disappeared a bit, if I had used a real stamp instead of a digi it would have turned out the way I wanted. (a lesson learned ;-) )

Sorry for the bad pics but is so shiny that is was impossible to take a pic without the glare.


Please visit all the blogs to see the gorgeous work of all these talented people and leave them a nice comment.

You can find some great mixed media tutorials on the Smeared Ink Forum

A Little Steamy Blog hop at Smeared and Smudged blog

Welcome to the A Little Steamy Blog Hop organized by Smeared and Smudged Blog
The theme this month is A Little Steamy. Use images, pieces, or parts that embrace the steampunk genre. So I got to play with my new stamps, here are my projects

The little creeper is a digi from Smeared Ink the hat and light bulb and the gears are Kico Stamps

Most of the steampunk stamps I used are Kico Stamps the Creepere digi is Smeared Ink.
The Blog roll is below, enjoy their great projects and leave them some nice comments.

Enjoy!

Terra

Tori

Jane

Kristy

Sugar

Sara

Laura

Celina

Joyce

Steph

Helen

Heather

Abbie Kay

Black Dragon

Dianne

Monique

Sharon

Fiona

Ike

Lady Brayton

Susan

Pieces and Parts bloghop at Smeared and Smudged Blog

Pieces and Parts bloghop at Smeared and Smudged Blog The theme this month is Pieces and Parts. Use at least two stamp or digi images combined to make a "new" image or focal point on your project. So, you can combine the top half of one stamp with the bottom of another, or add a part of one to another, or even build a background from several images, it's up to you! Use your imagination and have fun with it. We can't wait to see what you come up with! Also, don't forget the S&S rule that is has to be stamped somewhere (digi stamps are fine), which we're sure you won't miss with this month's theme. Here is my entry:

I used the Smeared Ink Digi Dead Dancer Falling. ,My Paperworld Viva Decor Clearstamp (the roses) and All Night Media rubber stamp 550j74 (the music notes). I printed the digi twice, once on cardstock and once on normal paper to use as a mask. I made an Oval using a colluzle plate( you will need both pieces the oval and the piece that you cut the oval from). I masked the digi and the part of the card where the music notes will be(using the outlining of the oval colluzzle cut ) and stamped the roses with the clear stamps. Leave the masks on the card and use Tim Holtz distress inks (peeled paint, dusty concord and tumbled glass) and color the roses. Then remove the masks and put the inside oval over the part with the roses and the digi. Then stamp the music notes with black stazon and remove the mask.

I hope you've enjoyed taking a look at my project. Below is the blog roll for all of the participants this month, so please hop through from blog to blog and leave them some comments about their work- we all love to hear what you think! Thanks for stopping by.

Terra
Black Dragon
Jane
Kim
Celina
Kapree
Heather
Lady Brayton
Kristy
Monique
Lisa
Ike
Jean
Dianne
Kelli
Sara