31 Days of Halloween - day 11

I can't believe we are one third of the way thru the Smeared & Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop. The month is just flying by. Don't forget there is a chance to win every single day! Visit Terra's blog for all the details. I can remember when I was a little girl there were several years in a row that my sister and I were little witches. We had the long black gown and tall pointy hats, but I think our favorite part of the costume was the child size brooms. We would fly all around on our brooms, such fun we had. I got this adorable image as a freebie on Ikes' World a few days ago and when I saw her it brought back those childhood memories. I'll also be entering this card for the Forever Night Challenges theme of something that represents Trick or Treating.
Next stop on the hop, Ikes' World. The entire list is on my sidebar if you get lost along the way.

31 Days of Halloween - day 10

So glad I came and peeked this morning as my auto post disappeared :( Sometimes I've had it not post but this time it was completely gone from my edit list.Anywho, here is an ATC for the Smeared & Smuged sponsored Halloween blog hop. I've been having so much fun! I started with a layer of black CS then ran orange CS thru my cuttle bug and smudged some black in ok it. I was lucky enough to be a winner on the blog hop last week so I've used one of the digi stamps from Rick St. Dennis. Isn't this bat creepy? I colored him with pencils and I added some orange glitter glue to his eyes and popped him up with foam tape.
You may have noticed that I love ATCs, well did you know that there is a fun ATC challenge blog that has a new challenge every other week? It's the ATC Sisterhood and the current theme is Orange and Black. We would love to have you come play with us!
Next stop on the hop.... Ikes' World.

31 Days of Halloween - day 9

I'm so happy for the weekend! After a busy morning of getting the kiddo to karate class and then coming home to find one of the dogs MIA, I finally got to do some crafting. (Yes I did find the little Houdini, the stinker.)

I used a wooden gift bag that I got at Michael's a while back and some Halloween paper I found in the $1 bin at Target last week. First I painted it white (acrylic paint) then used Mod Podge to glue the paper to the box and then another layer on top to seal it. I stamped the tag shape, web and "happy hauntings" sentiment in black and sponged some purple over the top then added a spider I cut from the same paper as the front of the bag and threw in some googlie eyes for the fun of it. Then tied on the tag with some black ribbon. I didn't have any stuffing so I cut some orange CS into thin strips and ran it through the crimper. Voila! A fun little treat bag!
Next stop.... Ikes' World.

31 Days of Halloween - day 8

I've been looking forward to my 3 day weekend so I can have even more fun trying out some other projects that I've been inspired to do after visiting every one's blog for this first week of the Smeared & Smudged sponsored hop. There have been so many different ideas!

Here's another ATC to add to my growing collecting. I may finally have enough to show off my ATC carosel. :) Stamps are from CTMH, I've had this set forever! I've also added some wire and beads to make the vine.

Thanks for visiting, next stop Ikes' World.

31 Days of Halloween - day 7

Wow, end of week one for the Smeared & Smudged sponsored 31 Days blog hop. I hope you've enjoyed hopping along, but don't worry it's not over yet we still have over 3 weeks of inspiration, fun and prizes coming your way! For today's project I've created an ATC with one of my favorite sets from Smeared Ink.

This lovely bird is from the Quoth the Raven set. I've also used the background and screen texture stamps from this same set. Minimal colors with black and green ink, purple and yellow gems. I also wrapped some green wire around the card for the raven to perch on.

Next on the hop, Ikes' World.

31 Days of Halloween - day 6

Whew, I really should have started early on getting all my projects ready for this month long blog hop (sponsored by Smeared & Smudged). I just couldn't get a project I was happy with today, but on my third try I came up with this. On this lovely little ATC I've used an image from Paula Best Rubber Stamps. First I stamped in a white dye ink on black CS and it was ok but I wanted some more oomph! to the project so I got out some of my gel pens. I added a row of orange gel dots around the outside of the image and some purple dots on the inside. Then added some more, I really like how this turned out. You may be seeing more of this 'cause I super duper like it, hope you do too!

Thanks for hopping by... next stop Ikes' World.

31 Days of Halloween - day 5

Hello once again my friends to the Smeared & Smudged sponsored 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop, aren't the days just flying by? My project today an ATC. This cute little kitty is from the Cutsey Halloween Blocks set at Bubaboo Digi Stamps. Thanks for stopping by and for all the wonderful comments :) Next stop on the hop... Ikes' World.

31 Days of Halloween - day 4

Hello again! If you've been hopping along or just happened by and you like what you see I encourage you to head over to the Smeared and Smudged forum where all the wicked bloggers on this hop like to hang out.

I have another card for you today and I've used this cute gal from Simply Betty Stamps, her name is Mummy London and she's from the Teen Scene Halloween group. Thanks for hopping on by... next stop is Ikes' World.

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31 Days of Halloween - day 3

Hello again my friends! For todays project I'm using one of my newest stamps from Simply Betty Stamps, meet "Draco the Ghost Gent". Isn't he fabulous !?! Betty has a whole new Steampunk Halloween set that is beyond awesome! (Yes, of course I HAD to get the all of them!)

The papers are from my ol' CTMH stash, I think I could open a store with just the many different papers I have. The sentiment is also from CTMH.

Here's a close up of Draco (yay I finally figured out how to use my scanner!) I colored him with pencils, cut him out then layered him on black and cut him out again. Make sure to come back all month so you'll be able to see all of my new stamps :)
I know the stamping community is tight knit so you are probably already aware of what Betty and her family are going through, but if you just happened by my blog or haven't heard what's going on please take the time to go to her blog and find out. Her family could really use your support in whatever way you can.
Thanks for taking the time to visit my little spot in blog-land now please keep on hoppin' and dont forget to leave some love along the way. Next stop... Ikes' World.
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31 Days of Halloween - day 2

Welcome back for more Smeared and Smudged fun. I was so happy I finished this card while there was still daylight to take the picture :) I used this witch stamp from CTMH. (They had a bunch of Halloween images I had to have this year!) The paper is also from them, but it's last years design. I added a ribbon and used some purple stickles for a little bling.

Here's the inside, I was going to go with the standard Happy Halloween but liked this one better (hehe).
Thanks for all the wonderful comments yesterday. I hope you were able to visit all the wicked bloggers, there was many fabulous projects and neat ideas. Next stop Ike.

I would also like to enter this into the Forever Night Challenges #11 for this week's theme of "anything goes".

31 days of Halloween - day 1

Welcome to my little blog. I'm so excited to be playing along this month with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. There are many more blogs to see so I'll keep my posts as short and sweet as possible.

I decided to go with a small tag for my first project. All supplies used are CTMH, except the sparkley sticker letters are from Making Memories.
Thanks for hopping on by, don't forget to leave some love for all the bloggers for your chance to be entered in the grand prize drawing. Your next stop is Ike's World, if you get lost along the way I have all the aprticipants listed in my sidebar.

31 Days of Halloween

Guess what starts tomorrow?!?!? The 31 days of Halloween Blog Hop with Smeared & Smudged. I went back and forth on whether or not to join and decided what the heck, I love Halloween and I love stamping. Now I'll have stamp everyday, woohoo!

There will be 28 amazing Hoppers on the list that will have a new project to share with you everyday. Not only will you be inspired from all this art, you'll have the opportunity to win some fabulous prizes. Mark your calendars so you don't forget, October is going to be an awesome month! I've already posted the hop list on my sidebar so you won't get lost.

"Hogwarts, A History"

The theme this week over at Forever Night Challenges is Witches and Wizards of Hogwarts. I've used this adorable image from Bugaboo Stamps. I've included one of my favorite Hermione quotes on a tag I've sponged with brown and green.
Thanks for stopping by!

ATC Sisterhood - Favorite Things Challenge

Hello my creative friends! This weeks challenge over at the ATC Sisterhood is to show us one of your favorite things. I had a few different ideas floating around my head but decided to go with stamps as my most favorite things!

I bought this woman and sentiment a while back from River City Rubber Works knowing that I wanted to use them together but hadn't gotten around to it yet. I wanted to keep it simple so I only used chocolate and sweet leaf inks from CTMH, and only colored in her skin with an ivory pencil and touched up her hair with brown. I stamped onto the white daisy CS and mounted onto sweet leaf CS. I've had the little stamp image from my beginning stamping days before I kept track of all the different vendors, you know way back before blogging was invented :)
We would love to see what one of your favorite things is so make sure to join us over at ATC Sisterhood and play along with us.

Thanks for stopping by!

ATC Sisterhood - Era Challenge

I'm super excited to be joining the design team over at the ATC Sisterhood. They are a bi-weekly challenge blog for those of us who love to create ATCs. The current challenge to is pic any era from the 20's to the 90's. So for my sample I picked the 60's, you know bright colors, flower power and everything groovy.


Please stop by the ATC Sisterhood and join in on the fun! They are also looking for DT members for 2012 :) so don't be shy come over and show us what you got!

Supplies used-
CS: white daisy, sweat leaf

ink: bubblegum, sweat leaf

stamps: CMTH D1091 Groovy (retired)

misc: glitter glue, liquid glass, foam tape

Many Shades of Blue

Hello Friends! Did you know that Simon Says Stamp is having the most amazing blog hop going on this weekend! You've got to check out what their amazing Design Team had created for this hop. Only a couple hours left to get in on the prizes and the theme is "Anything Goes" how easy is that?!

I decided to make this ATC for Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge and for the current "Many Shades of Blue" challenge over at the ATC Sisterhood. They have bi-weekly challenges for those of us who love to create ATC's. You still have 6 days to join the "Many Shades of Blue" challenge so head on over there.

Thanks for stopping by!

Who likes candy?

It's blog candy time over on the Tiddly Inks blog, and the more entries the more goodies. Jump on over there and sign up it's easy peasy!

Inner Diva ATC Challenge

For this weeks ATC challenge over at ATC Sisterhood the theme was inner diva. This dramatic little diva can be found over at Digi Design House after seeing one of the divs in this set over on Barb's blog Haunted Design House I knew I had to have this set. I couldn't decide on the color so I did two.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out ATC Sisterhood for their next challenge!

fun card

Made this cute little card for a friend at work, she's obsessed with Edward from Twilight :). The digi image is from Tiddly Inks, it's a new one called Vamp Me. I used colored pencils and added a thin layer of glitter glue so he would sparkle in the sun light. Also to go with the Twilight theme we hung white feathers from the ceiling over her cubicle, she loved it hehe.

Arizona Sunset

Had a crazy little storm yesterday but it created this amazing sunset. I thought it was so pretty I just had to share :)

Freaky Friday Challenge #5

Hello Friends!
Hopping around blog land and I've been finding some awesome blogs with fun challenges! The challenge this week over at Forever Night Challenges is to create a project with mystical or magical woman theme.

I choose this mermaid image from Sweet Pea Stamps to create my ATC. She's September Rhythm from Ching- Chou Kuik's collection, stunning isn't she? (This is the first time I've used my scanner so the colors are a bit dull compared to real life... gotta work on that ) I've colored her in with colored pencils and have added glitter to her tail.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Crafting!

QKD 3 day challenge

Hello my friends! Queen Kat Designs is having a fun little challenge on her FB page and there is still time to join in, you have until Wednesday so hurry and get your supplies out! You need to create 3 different projects and follow the daily theme. The first theme is "fruit". So I've made this card with a cute little image from QKD, (you get extra points if you use an image from QKD) and I've used cheery B&T as my fruit. I've used a sketch from the smeared and smudged forum .

The next theme is "in the shade". I immediately thought of this image from Simply Betty Stamps. I just recently got her and hadn't had the opportunity to play with her yet. Isn't she amazing with her little bat bikini! I cut her out and glued her down before I thought of adding a sentiment so when I found the perfect one I didn't have room on the outside so the sentiment (from CTMH) inside says "summertime.... and the livin' is easy". The third theme is "summer tide" and we were to include the color blue. I've used another QKD image. I won her on one of the FB new release nights, you should really check those out they are lots of fun and you can win stamps!!! Anywho, I stamped her in dutch blue and then colored her in with different shades of blue pencils. I used a blue gel pen to add some brightness to her hair and some of her scales and some glitter glue on her crown and beads. You can't really see in the picture, we are having an overcast day so I didn't have enough sunshine to take a proper picture.
I used glimmer mist and a stencil to create the background then added little dots of blue gel pen and glitter glue so it wasn't so plain. The sentiment is from CTMH.

Thanks for stopping by! Dont forget to hurry and join in the fun all entries due Wednesday!!

color me red

Hello friends! While strolling thru blog land I came across an awesome blog (Twinkle, Twinkle) that has a fun little challenge called Color of Summer. They have a weekly color challenge and this past weeks was red. I choose this cute little image from Tiddly Inks.
You have to go check out all the amazing entries! And make sure to join in the next challenge :)

~happy stamping~

Smeared and Smudged July blog hop

Hello my friends, it's time again for the monthly blog hop over at S&S. The challenge this month was to alter something. It had to be a 3 dimensional object and the only other rule was that it has to have a stamp somewhere on it. So for my project I decided to alter a flower pot.

My first step was to paint the pot and saucer with white paint. While that was drying I stamped the skull (from the Quoth the Raven set) onto white tissue paper with a jet black stazon ink and cut out. Then I used Mod Podge to glue the stamped tissue onto the flower pot. Next I painted pink all over but it looked blah, so I added black stripes to the top rim. Still didn't look right so painted the entire rim black and the saucer black to balance it out. Looked much better but I felt it was missing something so I stamped some circles with a pencil eraser and paint. I think it turned out pretty cute. Wasn't exactly the shade of pink I wanted but it's growing on me.

I think I might add some sparkle later and then apply sealer to help protect it. Super fun to do, I'm going to have to make some more of these :)

Thanks for stopping by, please make sure to visit the other blogs on the hop and dont forget to leave everyone a little bit of love.

Terra- http://www.moresmearedink.blogspot.com
Alex- http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Black Dragon- http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/
Kapree- http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/
Jane- http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/
Steph- http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/
Heather- http://stampdetails.blogspot.com/
Madeleine- http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Helen- http://cromscubbyhole.blogspot.com/
Ike- http://suzy-ikesworld.blogspot.com/
Fiona- http://idontdostraight.blogspot.com
Lady Brayton- http://www.ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/

Smeared and Smudged New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the Smeared & Smudged new release blog hop. I was so excited to be a guest designer for the month and as an added bonus I get take part in this hop. This is the first of two Halloween Releases for Smeared Ink. (The second will be in September.) There are a total of 11 totally awesome digi sets being released today plus one preview single image. The single is part of one of the sets to be released in September but the DT thought it would be cool to give you all a sneak peek. I can't wait to hop around and see what everyone has created.


I was able to play with Dr. Doctor from the Creepers set. I don't know about you but if I walked into the doctors office and this guy was waiting there I'd probably go to another doctor :)


Terra

Tori

Alison

Kelli

Black Dragon

Lady Brayton

Kapree

Sugar

Dianne

Paula

Thanks for stopping by, happy hopping!

I Like Your Style

Made this fun little card for a friend using CTMH papers (Sophia) , inks (hollyhock, bubblegum, lime green), ribbon and an older SU! stamp set. I just recently got this paper pack and I love love love it! I also used some glitter glue, irridesent pearls and a gel pen to add some bling to the dress forms.

~happy stamping~

SSD #83 sketch challange

I was hoping around this weekend in blog land and stopped by to visit Skipping Stones Design

and noticed they had a fun little sketch challenge going on, so I rummaged around my stamp table that is in bad need of some organization and found my SSD stamps and created this card. I used Bras Volume #1 set. I had created this background a while back using stencils and mist and never found anything I liked to go with it. Well I stamped this cute polka dot bra and thought it would work perfectly.

Exciting news!

I just found out that Make it Crafty and Tiddly Inks have decided to combine their creative genious and release a new line of victorian and steampunk images! Check out their blogs for more information and make sure to mark July 14th on your calendar!

ICAD challenge

I'm taking part in the ICAD Challenge over at Daisy Yellow blog. Today's the last day to join in so hurry on over to join in the fun. Our challenge is to create on one Index Card A Day. So this is my first official card since I was late to the game. I stamped ICAD using CTMH alpha stamps, then doodled around the edges of the letters to add some oomph. I drew the other lines on the card becasue I was going for a stained glass look. I choose a bright yellow to color the inside of the letters and then colored more lightly with the other colors. I thought this would make a great cover if I decide to bind all my cards together at the end of summer.
This second card is a "catch-up" card. I'm hoping to fill in all (ok maybe just some) of the cards I missed by joining in a bit late. I used the prompt spring flowers and sketched some flowers and colored them in with pencils.

If you dont hit thdealine feel free to join in and add a link in the comment section, I'd love to see what you've made. The index card is the perfect size too! Bigger than an ATC so you can go crazy with whatever medium you like, but not so big like a journal page that you just stare at a blank page wondering what you are going to fill it with (at least that's what happens to me).

~happy crafting~

Steampunk ATC Swap

I joined in a Steam Punk ATC swap over on Viva Las Vegas Stamps Forum. I used this awesome fish stamp from VLVS and the gear background is a plate from cuttle bug. Can't wait to see what I get back :)

ATC

Made this one a while back. This adorable stamp is from Queen Kat Designs. I colored her with pencils and added some polka dots to her dress with liquid pearls.

Skull Appreciation Day blog hop

Happy Skull Appreciation Day!! Not sure what this is all about? Visit Skull-a-Day to find out all about it.
Thanks for stopping by my blog, I was so excited when I found out that Smeared and Smudged were going to celebrate this day and organize a blog hop. Make sure to check out all the wonderful contributions everyone had made to this hop (we all love comments too so don't be shy). Make sure to go back to the beginning to find out some other fun things going on for the hop and we have some awesome sponsors too! Ok let's get right to my projects since you've got lots more hoppin' to do.


My first project is an ATC. I love this girlie skull dont you? I used bubblegum pink ink for all my stamping and distressing here.


My next project is an art journal page. I can never seem to draw a skull that's even so cheated and only drew half of one :) Sketched it in and added more gesso to the skull for texture. Used red and blue water color crayons to add color to the page and black for the eye. Couldn't find the right paint brush so ended up just smearing it all around with my finger. Then I added a quote from Isaac Bashevis Singer. "There is great treasure behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers an I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do." Cool huh? Here's the list, happy hopping!

Terra

Tori

Alison

Kelli

Jane

Alex

Judi

Kathi

Lisa

Feddie

Heather

Kapree

Susan

Dianne

Barb Foster

JenniLynne

Teri

Cyndi

Pamela

Prissy

Trisha

Dawn

Lady Brayton

Donna

Black Dragon

Paulette

Creepy Glowbugg

Susan’s Crafty Chaos

Andrea

Helen

Kate

Fiona

Sugar

Linda

Dragonfly Jane

Debbie

Who wants candy?!!

Tiddly Inks is offering up some blog candy!  The more people the more candy!  No tricks to join in, go check it out.  this runs from June 1st to June 15th so hurry on over there :)

Smeared and Smudged Blog Hop

Welcome to the Smeared & Smudged April Blog Hop. This month our theme is metal, there has to be metal somewhere on our project (brads and eyelets DO NOT count)! No special rules except to follow the S & S rule of there needs to be a stamp somewhere!!! Which is easy enough especially when Smeared Ink has such awesome stamps to choose from. For my project I repurposed a used fed ex envelope to cut out my tag shape, then I applied 2 coats of gesso to get the texture I wanted. I painted the entire tag with turquoise paint. After it was dry I used a dry brush to add metallic bronze paint. While all the paint was drying I stamped this gorgeous image from the Smeared Ink Nymph set. I stamped her in cocoa ink on an off white CS and then stamped her dress also in cocoa ink on B&T paper. I also added some of the metallic paint to her wings but it's difficult to see that here. I very carefully cut them out and attached the dress to the nymph and then to the tag.

On the left side of the tag is my first actual peice of metal. It's a rusted up piece that I found on one of my walks around the warehouse where my son's karate class is. I wrapped some bronze wire around the metal and attached to my tag. I also found the rusted up washer that I used at the top of the tag around the hole for my ribbon. Cool right? I also used the cross-hatch stamp from the Quoth the Raven set (also from Smeared Ink).

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to stop at all the other blogs along the hop. Don't forget to leave some love (we all love comments).

Terra http://moresmearedink.blogspot.com/
Kelli http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/
Lady Brayton http://www.ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/
Black Dragon http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/
Alison http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Kapree http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/
Alex http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Sugar http://sugscardsnmore.blogspot.com/
Jane http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/
Kymberly http://1darkrosaleen.blogspot.com/
Monica http://giddygreetings.com/
Paula http://www.whatspeaks2myheart.wordpress.com/
Tori http://ndustrial-lemon.blogspot.com/
Lisa http://www.ldfdesign.blogspot.com/
Tiffany http://bkfastattiffanys.blogspot.com/
Dianne http://dkspinner.blogspot.com/
Steph http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/ <--you are here
Judi http://creatingartwithheart.blogspot.com/




Smeared & Smudged is the place to be if you are into alternative, vintage and gothic art rubber stamping.

QKD Challenge March week 2

For the 2nd week of March we had a sketch challenge over on QKD. Here's the sketch...

And here's my take on the sketch. The papers are from CTMH and I used one of the girls from the Deadling sets from QKD in the creepie cuties collection. I stamped her with chocolate ink and then colored her in with pencils.

~happy stamping~

QKD Challenge March week 3

For week 3 over at Queen Kat Designs, the challenge was a photo inspiration. Here is the photo.....

Wicked shoes right?! Don't you love them!!! I was inspired to pull out my shoes stamps, which I have tons of. (During the day I work for a catalog company and I'm the coordinator for the shoe catalog, so I collect shoe stamps instead of real shoes.)

Anywho.... I decided on this stamp, I have no idea who the vendor could be so if you know please let me know so I can give credit. First I stamped the image in black ink and I knew I wanted to add some bling since the photo inspiration had so much eye candy going on. So I put down a layer of liquid glass from CTMH (love that stuff) and then pulled out some beads. Then after making my selections I carefully placed them into the liquid glass. After I was done adding beads I still had some empty space on the shoe so I used glitter glue in several different colors to fill in. Then I used a blue gel pen to color in the bottom and heel of the shoe for extra color and shine. I framed the shoe with black CS then stamped my sentiment on another piece of white framed by the black card base.

Super fun! I think I'll be adding beads to more projects :)

Thanks for stopping, if you like my creations please become a follower.

~happy stamping~

QKD Challenge March week 4

For week 4 over at Queen Kat Designs we had a color challenge. We were to use mint, ivory and coral in our project. Well let me tell you I had to go through all my stuff for paper that would fit close enough to those colors. I have nothing in mint so the closest I could find is sweet leaf. So finally I found this wonderful paper from CTMH in the Twitterpated paper pack. I started with an ivory card base then added a layer of sweet leaf then a layer of the texture paper. Then I stamped my little hedgehog in chocolate ink on another piece of ivory CS and after distressing the edges with sweet leaf ink layered him on sorbet (closest to coral I found in my stash) CS. After searching for sorbet color ribbon with no luck decided on chocolate ribbon. I think it turned out pretty cute. ~happy stamping~

SDC26: Animals, insects or birds

This challenge is for Stampotique Designers Blog. The theme this week is to use animals, birds or insects on your project . I had so much fun learning a new technique for the last Stampotique challenge (see previous post) that I wanted to try it again.

The technique is faux barnwood and you can see it much better on this sample than on my first attempt :) . I started with cobalt blue acrylic paint with a top layer of white paint. I cut this to size and mounted on orange CS. I stamped the dragonfly (SU!) in orange and it's hard to see here, but I outlined the wings with glitter glue to add some shimmer. I used a scallop punch to make some flowers from some book pages and then distressed them with orange ink to tie into the base card and dragonfly.

Thanks for stopping by!

~happy stamping~

Triple Tiara Challenge week one

The theme for the March week one T3 challenge over at Queen Kat Designs Blog  (yes I'm a couple weeks behind) ... is to use alcohol inks or destress inks. So that inspired me to break out my Alcohol Inks that I've had about forever but never took out of the package.

The colors I used are from the Nature Walk set - butterscotch, wild plum and stream. After applying the inks I used blending solution. I'm really pleased at how this turned out and can't wait to get more ink colors :) I attatched this CS onto a black card base. I used Jet Black StazOn to stamp my skeleton from Paula Best onto white glossy CS and cut out. I decided not to color in the skeleton because I didn't want the detail to get lost and thought with the colorful background having it just black and white really makes it pop.

~happy stamping~

SDC25: Faux Barnwood Technique

For this Stampotique Designers Challenge they wanted us to use the Faux Barnwood Technique or another technique from Technique Junkies.

For my card I started with the color plum for my base coat then orchid for the top. I stamped Glimmering Hope in black in then colored with pencils and cut her out. I also used a purple gel pen to help set off some of the lines in her dress and outline her bow and star. I punched 3 small flowers from some text pages then added a pink gem in the middle of each. I dont know if it was because I was drying it or because it was on cardstock but the crackles turned out smaller then my first attempt that I did in my journal so they are not as noticeable unless it's in your hands, but I still liked the way it turned out and this is a super easy and fun technique.

I added some ribbons and wrote "I feel pretty" because that's the song that's always in my head when I use this stamp :)
Thanks for stopping by, don't forget to check out the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog because the design team has some awesome samples with this technique.