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

bloody valentine day 3 and winner

sorry a bit late , but my PC decided to give me a hard time........

The winner of the stamp give aveay will be below, just as the blog roll, project first LOL

For today I made an art journal page in my small leather bound journal, it's about atc size, a little bit bigger.

I used a stamp frop the haunted places set designed by Rick St.dennis, you can find them in the Smeared Ink shop


the border stamp is a clear stamp by my paper world, the blood splatter is also a clear stamp I think by Joy designs. The background colours are distress ink and the heartbeat chart is drawn by me (no it was not that though using a ruler, lol). So here it is, small and simple but I like how it came out

and now the drawing of the lucky stamp winner (remember day 1). I could not decide myself so wrote the names of the people that said they wanted to have the stamp on pieces of paper, crumpled them and put them in a box. Shook the box, opened the lid and let Diva our baby cat decide , here a video to show you the result (not Oscar material, but hey I am a newbie in the world of video)

so congrats to the winner I will send it to you asap (email me here for your addy) this stamp was given to me by the Stempelwinkel if you'd like to buy it you can find it here

enjoy the rest of the hop

Black Dragon
Julia
Monique
Jessica
Nan B
Jane
Susan S
Susan R
Lisa
Teresa
Leigh
Fiona
Rebecca
Lady Brayton
Sharon
Kristy

day 2 Bloody Valentine

day 2 of the bloody valentine hop organized by Smeared Ink

I made a tag using Dripping Heart by Smeared ink the skulls in the background is from the Morte Rubber set designed by Rick St. dennis

Blog roll below

Black Dragon
Julia
Monique
Jessica
Nan B
Jane
Susan S
Susan R
Lisa
Teresa
Leigh
Fiona
Rebecca
Lady Brayton
Sharon
Kristy

bloody valentine day one

Yay it's that time again, Bloody Valentine is here.  If you have had enough of cute bears with red hearts and other cute stuff, you are at the right place.


The Bloody Valentine blog hop  organized by Smeared Ink is here again .........


The blog roll is below this post

Anyways here is my project for today, a card, using good old rubber stamps from Smeared Ink (haunted places and morte set by Rick St.dennis, and lots of Stempelwinkel stamps)


No blood, but I tried to create a spooky scene, the heart with rose is very Valentine I think, and the bottle next to the skin is probably a love potion......

I will enter this card in the Winter challenge at de Stempelwinkel challenge blog

Jetske from the Stempelwinkel had send me a stamp as a present for entering the first challenge. It was the lady next to the well, but because I have the plate Grave Tidings, I allready had this stamp.
When Jetske heard, she send me a new stamp and she told me to give this one to a real stamp lover

soooo,.... if you would like to have it please say why you need this stamp  in the comments, and I will send it to one lucky winner (you can find the stamp here )

I will let you know who the winner is on day 3 of this hop


Black Dragon
Julia
Monique
Jessica
Nan B
Jane
Susan S
Susan R
Lisa
Teresa
Leigh
Fiona
Rebecca
Lady Brayton
Sharon
Kristy

Smeared and Smudged Design Team Throwdown challenge 3

Challenge # 3 at Smeared and Smudged forum, rules are here

The theme was chosen by the winners of last challenge, Smeared Ink team, (big congrats to you, you did a great job).

We were to make a mini book:  Your project must be some sort of mini book. Whether it is a small accordion book , an ATC book, a domino book, a match book, a twinchie or inchie book, a tab book, etc... is up to you, but you must include at least 5 pages and your book must be smaller than 4". Use any techniques you'd like within your book.

Our team post is on Airless Chambers the other, darker,  Rick St. Dennis blog,

The team is again Miranda, Rick and me

I was planning on making an ATC book, but as always my project never comes out as it was planned. LOL,  I changed plan a million times along the way but this was what I ended up with (first plan was to go for an old vintage grunchy look, but that failed big time lol).

The book is 4 x 4 inches and inside are ATC's using Rick St. Dennis digi's Alien and Creature images (they are no longer available in Rick's etsy, sorry), I also used Smeared Ink's Grumpies and the sentiments that come with the Grumpies.

I made the book from scratch, used some designer papers that I didn't like and cut that to 8 x 4 inches, folded them in half and glued the patterned side of the paper to each other, that way i got a  4 x 4 inch blanc paged book .

The pages have backgrounds made of  Dylussions and Distress Stains (first time I played with both, and have to get used to the dylussions sprays a bit) and also used paint.

The background of the ATC's are mostly Lost Coast Designs stamps, and I framed the ATC's with some glitter glue.

The covers of the book are made of a cardboard box, I removed some of the top layer and painted them.

Here are all the pics (you might want to put on your sunglasses, cause here's a colour explosion coming)

first the ATC's

the front cover

the inside of the book

the back cover

Hope you like the book, also check out my teamies projects and don't forget to vote

SNS Throwdown challenge #2 Faux Finish and Rock n Rolla challenge

Ok here we go, probably a long post with lots a pics so i will start with getting the linking buisines out of the way.The TrowDown is an Smeared and smudged event, see rules here. The challenge theme is made up by last challenge winners HDH, big congrats to you all and  you'v come up with a great theme I love everything Faux.

The Rick St. Dennis team are again Miranda, me and of course Rick, the post is linked from his blog you can find all the teams projects (and the digi sets) there.

I used Rick St. Dennis digi's check out his blog the set is only available there.
 The Bone bunny is from Smeared Ink (I cut of his ears btw, but made sure it was dead first)

Rock n rolla challenge post is at the end of this one

Now we can start with the fun part, PICS,  I made a poison bottle and a tag will tell you below the pics how i did it

This was a glass bottle, there used to be olive oil in it

first I embossed cardstock and glued it on the sides of the bottle

then covered with aluminum tape, and made sure the embossed pattern showed, very carefully to not tear up the tape.

Covered the tape with black arcrilyc paint, let dry for a bit and wipe off again.

Next layer paint is bronze acrilyc paint, let dry and wipe till you got the look you want.

Now it looked rusty, which was cool but i wanted a more copper look, so added some spots of blue and green acrilyc paint, which could stay on there for a change.

Now that was the messy part. Could start decorating now

This side of the bottle has beads on it spelling the word "poison" the are coverd with alohol ink and attached with a leather shoe lace.

The Skull and bones, and roses are Rick St. Dennis digi's, the skull is layered to make a 3d  faux porcelain look. (6 layers of skull covered with crackle glossy accents and distress ink walnut stain)

Every poison bottle needs a spoon, how else would you know the right amount to take LOL, this was a stainless steel spoon, but it needed to be old (does faux old count lol) so used acohol ink (caramel and green) and sealed with glossy accents. Added ribbon, silk flowers and a faux Ruby (just a plastic bead but hey, you wanted faux stuff). The skully was a necklace and undereath are beads.

The other side of the bottle has an embossed skellie and a framed Smeared Ink digi, wanted to make it look like an old photograph ( is that also Faux?)

The pentagram (which is of course up side down) I made out of wire, bit of a puzzle but it came out ok

the last side has a dragon on it (this was also a necklace) used alcohol ink on it and attached with a chain, the bottle has glitter glue in it but is supposed to be faux blood (faux dragon blood if you want)

some close ups

The stopper isn't a stopper (hey faux again) it's a lightbulb, painted in same colours as the bottle and sealed with glossy accents. The decoration on the stopper are 2 buttons glued together and a plastic skull which i also painted in the bottle colours.

Final touch, a leather shoe lace and another skull charm (with faux diamonds, it's glass sssshhh don't tell)

Kind a cool you can make this using all kinds of stuff that was allready in my stash, never throw away anything cause you don't know when you will need it, LOL

Now the other project is a tag

Same procedure but hand embossed the dots using ruler and embossing pen, did the paint thing again (rusty look this time) and made the embellishment from charms and bat wings stamps (used copper embossing powder on them and the wings are also faux metal)

The Rick St. Dennis skull and bones is available on Rick's blog and the Dead Dancer Falling is a Smeared Ink digi, she is attached to the skull with strings.

The senti on the skulled heart says : dance with death.

that's it, don't forget to check out my teamies projects and to vote.

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this is a tag I made for the Smeared Ink Rock n Rolla challenge,

the skull and hand digi are Rick St. Dennis images and the dead dancer pointing is a Smeared Ink digi, the rubber in the background is from the stempelwinkel

 

the dead dancer is attached with strings again to the hand

 

 

I will enter this tag in the following challenges

http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ challenge 34 fantasy

 

Smudgy Antics Challenge BAD BABY

This weeks Smudgy Antics challenge is called Bad Baby, check out the rules here

For this project the DT were given one of the Smeared Inks Babies of the damned to work with. Now that was a bit of a challenge because when I think of babies I think cute......
When you look at the Babies of the Damned they look everything but cute ;-)
Now there is one other thing I think of when I think of babies (besides sleepless nights, changing diapers etc.) and that is Anne Geddes (you know the babies in a cute flower/bear/bee/bunny outfit put in a flower pot). If you don't know I added a pic for you below:




My daughter used to collect these Anne Geddes Dolls and she has quite a collection, so I thought I'd make here a very special one......

I have to warn you for the next pic, this is not going to be cute. in fact it may scare you. Don't say I didn't tell you.......









Now isn't he a sweet little devil? He seems quite happy in his little flower pot, especially when I gave him a skullie to play with.

When I bought this dolly it was a cute little baby boy. It's a cheap plastic doll and I didn't now if the paint would stick to the plastic. I put 2 layers of gesso on the doll and then painted him with acrilyc paint. It worked out great although it took some time to dry.
The bat wings are from Cricut Happy Haunting cartridge.
The flower pot was painted red and black using crackle medium. To finish I glued the Baby digi on the pot (colored it up first).

Because this project took some time to dry and I was not sure if it would work, I made a back up project. Just in case....



A cute little baby card, the digi is Demon Baby from Smeared Ink.

I had a lot of fun making these, and I hope you will all join the challenge

I will enter my babies in the following challenges:

http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/challenge-70-no-cards-tags-or-atcs.html

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/challenge-19-use-something-recycled.html I receycled the doll and the flower pot

http://nutcrafters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/happy-its-sylvia-here-i-am-hosting.html new beginnings

http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/anything-but-square.html anything but a card

http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup

http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.nl/2012/06/june-challenge-bold-and-bright.html

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.nl/2012/06/simon-says-stamp-and-show-anything-goes.html

Smudgy Antics challenge "Bingo"

Smudgy Antic's got a "Bingo" challenge for you this week.

Here is BINGO card, you have to use three in a row on your project, for all the rules see here.

I picked Skull, Black, Distressed:

The Skull is in the Smeared Ink plaque digi, the black in the lace the domino and I distressed the card and the edges with black ink. The Bingo card had black in it too.

Hope you like it and will join the Challenge at Smudgy Antics.

Look what my daughter made on her computer

she made a digital drawing of Lady Gaga, I think she did an awesome job!!


I'm entering the following challenges:

http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/challenge-142-digis-only.html

http://blog.oozak.com/2012/04/challenge-1-anything-goes.html

http://poisonedpeas.blogspot.com/2012/04/ppps-challenge-no-2-is-starting-today.html

Smudgy Antics, alter an Egg and Paper Creations Ink Challenge

OK this weeks Smudgy Antics challenge"Alter an Egg" is not an easy one, and because of that, you can either alter an egg or use an eggshape or egg in your piece.

Altering an egg is nearly impossible to do, it won't stay put,it's almost impossible to stamp on an egg and If you use a plastic one like I did, DON'T USE YOUR HEATGUN on it because the egg will MELT

So I tried and tried and finally came up with something acceptable.

gonna show you my melted bumpy egg first

I gessoed it and painted it orange, drew a spiderwebb on it and glued some Smeared Ink Bat digi's on it. I used the heat gun to dry the paint and the egg got all kinds of bumps so not goood.......


I don't give up that easy and her is egg 2

again not the result I hoped for, what I did was drew a hole and cracks on the egg using a permanent marker, then cut the eyes of a Grumpie digi and glued it in the hole. It is supposed to look like the Grumpie is hatching from the egg.


And tadaaaa the 3rd egg, again not the most brilliant piece I've ever made

I glued little pieces of designer paper to the egg, to give it an old, distressed look. Then cut the lady out of the Smitten digi
coloured her and glued her on the egg (sounds a lot easier then it was. Then I put crackle medium over the egg and added some distress. The finishing touch are the silk roses.

Here a pikkie of my 3 eggs together

Can't wait to see what you come up with, see you at Smudgy Antics Challenge Blog

I'm proud to be a guest designer for Paper Creations Ink April 2-15-2012 challenge:use Natural Materials; (burlap, twine, cork, twigs, bark etc.)"
You can use any image for this challenge and we would LOVE to see all types of creations (ex. cards, scrap layouts, fat book pages, artist trading cards, tags, boxes, bags, 3D ~ Altered Art or any other crafting projects.

This challenge is sponsored by Shelly's Images Digi Stamps

I made a tag using the hummingbird stamp,

I used burlap, twigs, leaves and some rope and also some wire.

For all the rules and details check Paper Creations Ink, see you there..