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Thursday, October 17, 2013

31 Days of Halloween - Day 17

Welcome back friends! Just in case you stumbled across my blog and are wondering what all the hoopla is about the Smeared & Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop, you can head on over to Terra's blog to check out all the deets and see what awesome sponsors are taking part in this years hop.

I've seen so many inspiring fat pages on this hop I decided to make one for my own collection.

I started with a black CS base and my image is from Wonderstrange. I colored with pencils and lots of glitter. In fact I'm still waiting for those eyes to dry but I had to get my pic done so I could go to bed :) I also added some white dots down the side with a gel pen.

Now go see what Anna has created for today.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Skull Appreciation Day 2013

Do you know what day it is?!? Skull Appreciation Day, wahoo! The fabulous gals over at Smeared and Smudged Forum have organized another hop for this year and I think it's the biggest one yet.

My first project is an ATC. The image I used is Anatomy 101-skull Front from Smeared Ink. I cut her out and layered onto a black CS base that I added dots to with a metallic sharpie. I also choose a light green ribbon for her to wear as a headband because what skull doesn't want to look pretty once in a while :)

For my second project I wanted to create a journal page. I do this every year for Skull Appreciation Day and it's always fun to look back. I used the skull again, just printed larger and cut her out. I added her to my page that I used some glimmer mist on to add color and texture to the background. You can't really tell in the pic but I also used shimmer mist on the skull to make her sparkly. Butterflies have been on my mind lately so I added a bunch to the page. I curved their wings so they would pop off the page a bit. The quote I found while surfing the web. "Life's true face is the skull." Nikos Kazantzakis

Thanks for stopping by, wishing you and your skull all the best on Skull Appreciation Day!

Here's the blog list, I hope you join in and hop along. Don't forget to leave a little love along the way, we all appreciate comments :)

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

For more information about Skull Appreciation Day please visit Skull-A-Day.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Skull Appreciation Day 2012

Hello Friends! Thanks so much for hoppin' on by today for the Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop. I know you've got lots of stops so I'll make this a short post. Last year one of my projects was a journal page so I wanted to keep up the tradition and create another page for this year's hop.

The image is from Smeared Ink and I used Aqua Markers to color the page. My second project is an ATC.

I used one of the freebie images from Wonderstrange. They have new freebies every Tuesday. I colored this fabulous skull with Aqua Markers and Gel Pens.

The hop list is to the left but if you are going in order your next stop will be Glittery Katie's blog. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Challenges:

ATCs and Cards with Attitude challenge 15 - anything goes

Smudgy Antics - anything goes

Sunday, October 30, 2011

31 Days of Halloween - day 30

Welcome back my friends to the 2nd to last day of the Smeared & Smudged hop. I'm going to miss having all your wonderful comments to read everyday and actually making myself take the time to create everyday has been awesome. However I am looking to catching up on some sleep once the hop is complete. Most of my projects have been finished around 11:00 each night, so that on top of everyday life has left me pooped.

For today's project I've started working on a skull that I've had sitting around since last Halloween. I've had it painted white and ready to go but nothing was coming to me, so today I decided to tackle it. I started with stamps from After Midnight Art Stamps. I stamped the skeletons on tissue paper to mod podge onto the skull and stamped the sentiment directly onto the skull (very carefully).

I'm really happy with how my flowers turned out. I smeared some purple, grey and black ink onto book pages before I used a scallop punch to get the layers I needed. I wanted a grungy looking flower and I think I succeded. After gluing the flowers on I added the stickled swirls to the face for some bling.

I'm not happy with the back, it seems rather blah. So I may be adding more swirls or sponging.

Thanks for hopping on by, I'd love to know what you think of my skull. If you have any suggestions for the back please feel free to give me some ideas :)

Next stop Ikes' World.

I will be entering this into the following challenges:

Forever Night Challenges #15 - flowers

The Emerald Fairie Garden chalenge #11 - flowers, flowers, flowers

Paperminutes #189 - skeleton

Friday, October 21, 2011

31 Days of Halloween - day 21

TGIF! Only 10 more days of this awesome Smeared & Smudged blog hop. I hope you are all enjoying it as much as I am. Since it is Friday the Wicked Bloggers are encouraged to use images from Smeared Ink. I chose to use the skull from my favorite set. I'm sure I've mentioned it more than once so all you hoppers should know which one that is :)

I went with a journal page again since the last one was so fun. I scribbled with my watercolor crayons and then I couldn't find the paint brush I used last time so I just used my finger. This actually worked better because if the colors started to get too muddy I just rinsed my finger real quick. I dabbed away some extra color with a paper towel. I had these skulls already stamped on tissue paper left over from a project I did a while back so I just mod podged them onto the page. I was looking for a skull poem but couldn't find one that fit my mood so I went with part of the description on Wikipedia. Weird, but I like it :)

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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/

Saturday, June 4, 2011

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!