Undertaker

I have een making some art journal pages, I did 3 today, 2 I can't show you yet, that will be next week. But the third I can show you. The image used is called "undertaker" a Rick St. Dennis digi.

The back ground is made using a gelli plate, I am still figuring out how this works best, not sure if the gelli plate and me will become best friends.

anyway here it is

i will enter the following challenges

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/06/left-of-center-challenge-9-use.html

 

http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/thechallenger/forum/topics/welcome-to-oh-the-horror-june-2013

How to creepyfy a cute image ;-)

Glo chalenged me to creepyfy this cute image, for the whole story see Airless Chambers

 the image used is  "Cat Nap" ( a Rick St. Dennis Digi) here a pic of the card that made Glo challenge me and Alison.

 

here is my version

 

 

 

I will enter this in the folowing challenges

 

 

http://smudgyantics.blogspot.nl/2013/06/dripping-with-smudgy-antics-week-1.html

 

and

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.nl/2013/06/hdh170-macabre-monday-unlucky-for-some.html   i used 1 card base, 2 layers, 2 digi's, 1 glitter glue to make dripping and letters, 7 gems

 

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/06/left-of-center-challenge-9-use.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

smeared Ink Design Team Challenge # 6 Dance Macabre

yay time to enter the Design Team Throwdown challenge organised by Smeared Ink.

Although the challenge theme was ours cause we were the lucky winners (if you voted for us, thanks very much), it was still a bit hard to come up with something.

For this challenge I made a jewel box,  the kind of box that has a cute little ballet dancer on top that twirls arround and has a little music box inside. Of course the ballet dancer has a pink tutu  with glittery Jewels and a little crown on her head. and it will all be sweet and girlish.................


Uh......  well.... almost right.........................

There is a pink ballet dancer twirling around, there is a tutu, glitter and a little crown  , just take a closer look and you will see this totally fits the Dance Macabre theme.   Lot's of pics and some explaing further in this post.

Enjoy

The ballet dancer is a Rick St. Dennis Digi

the heart is clip art found on the net, printed 3 times, coloured, cut out  and covered with glossy accents then layered to get more dimension.

the mirror is made of alluminum foil and cardboard

there is some trim around the edges of the mirror and the drawers

the tutu is made of tulle, it was white and I used distress ink to make it pink

to age the mirror I crumpled the foil made it flat again and used alcohol ink

here a closer look of the side of the chest of drawers, it took a lot of layers and different colours of paint, crackle medium and sanding to make it look old.

I got some aging tips from Rick.

a better look of the sparkles on the tutu, hard to see on a pic

and finally the back of the chest of drawers, here you can see the different paint layers better.

O almost forgot, here a pic of what the chest of drawes looked like before I got my hands on it

Go and check out the awesome projects made by my teamies, Miranda and Suzi on Airless Chambers and on their bloggies.

And don't forget to vote for your favorite project here

awwww sooooo cute........

Today i made a card using the cutest image ever..........


It does remind me of my son when he was a baby, he used to sleep the same way, knees tucked up under his belly, and his little but in the air, no cats allowed in his bedroom though. So leave the cats out and it is Dylan sleeping when he was a baby (I am so lucky he doesn't read  my blog, he would hate it when he knew I wrote this LOL)

The image is a Rick St. Dennis digi and it's called Cat nap, here is my little card

 

Now there is a little catch though..........................................

 

This is sooo sweet it will crack the enamel on your teeth,  and I am not the only one that had that problem.  Maybe some of you saw the discussion on face book when Rick introduced thie image.   If you didn't , there was some talk about creepyfying this and it ended by Glo challenging Alison and me to creep the kid up.

 

Results will be shown Friday june 28th on Airless Chambers, so if you are curious, just check Friday's blogpost on AC

 

I will enter the following challenges

 

http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/06/challenge-12.html

 

http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2013/06/cute-and-cuddly.html

 

http://hobbyhousechallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/06/challenge-1-anything-goes-midway.html

 

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/06/challenge-176-animals.html 

 

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/06/challenge-63-happy-families.html

 

http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/3/post/2013/06/stamp-challenge-9.html

 

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/06/ttcrd-challenge-june-18-june-24.html

 

Pia and Leah

Remember Rick's Randi Dandi images, they are now for sale at I Brake for Stamps, see all info here

there are some new ones too and these two pretty ladies are 2 of the new Randi Dandi's, meet Pia and Leah

 

 

i will enter the following challenges

 

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/06/ttcrd-challenge-june-11-june-17.html

Snakewoman as the Star

Another Tarot card of the major acrcana, the Star, meaning can be found on the internet, this is just a quick post to show you.

For this card I used another awesome Rick St. Dennis image, she 's called Snakewoman.

Some of you have been asking how I coloured this Snakewoman, so first the card and then my I pod pics so you can see step by step.  I usedCaran d' ache Luminance 6901 pencils, odourless whitespirit and paperstump.

here are my i pod pics

the plan was to make the body blue and the snake tail purple, and then suddenly there was orange in the tail, cause the blue and purple looked boring to me LOL

then came the point I had to think how to solve this, cause if there's orange in the tail, there should be some in the body too (dunno why, it just has to be)

so made the orange a bit more bright at the bottom of the tail

and then started to fill the white high lighted spots with orange, carefully not to dark

 then she looked like this and I thought "under water look" LOL

and then I didn't know where things were going, so i put it aside and just let it be over night, thinking it needed more purple, cause of the purple in the tail

so next day after work I added more purple  to the body and the face

made the tail a bit 

darker and gave her some eyeshadow

made the face a bit lighter cause I thought it was to dark and didn't like it

coloured the "clothes" and hat

coloured the jewels and the snakes, eyes and lips

made some last changes, some things a bit darker , some things a bit lighter, hard to see I guess

 so for the ones who think I know what I am doing, sorry, I just colour till I like the result, LOL


I will enter this in the following challenges

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/06/colour-inspiration.html

http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/month-long-prize-challenge-june.html

http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/masculine-cards.html

http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.nl/2013/06/challenge-163-opposites-attract.html

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/06/masculine-father-day.html

http://www.gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/06/gl-critters-of-sea.html

http://dominoartblog.blogspot.nl/2013/05/dominoart-challenge-4-week-2-of-any.html

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-june/  i know this is not a tag, but I was inspired by the colours of the tag, I used distress ink in the background and stickles,

Skull appreciation day

June 4 th is international skull appreciation day, see info here.

At Smeared Ink this is cellabrated by a blog hop, the coolest ever LOL

The blog roll in below in this post.

I made something i had planned to make for some time now, but I didn;t know where to start and it involved a lot of cutting with a craft knife.  Craft knives and me is not a very safe combination, but project is finished and I still got all my fingers.

I altered a book, the book was new and it had to be aged, i wasn't sure where to begin and Rick was so kind to email me some instructions.

I needed sanding paper, gesso and  acrylic paint colour names were in the email and I could start.

it was fun to do and I like the way it came out, inside the book i carved a hole to put the skull in. The skull ( which is a RSD image BTW, it can be found in the Skull part of Rick's Etsy)image is fussy cutted several times to make it 3 d and has crackle on it. I found a senti on the internet and added some stamps and embellies and voila

and the inside

The skull is a Rick St. Dennis image, get yours here

check our the RSD rubber skull stamps here

Hope you like my book, here is the blog roll

enjoy the rest of the hop

Terra
Tori
Laura
Kapree
Kristy
Sandy
Jacki
Rick St Dennis
Airless Chambers
Wendy
Julia
Susan
Lady Brayton
Black Dragon
Kay
Miko
Creepy Glowbug
Aletha
Ike
Miranda
Hazel
Monique
Shoni
Suzi
Leigh S-B Designs
DominoART
Alison
Donna M
Donna W
Jane
De Stempelwinkel
Evil Edna
Jenn
Steph
Anna
Bombshell Stamps
Helen
Shell
Movie Magic Monthly Blog
Fiona
Serena
Little Black Kitten
Maureen
Karen
Milo
Teri