Discontinued Rubber and Pre Black Friday Sale!

PRE BLACK FRIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA! 25% OFF AT SMEARED INK!

Hi Everyone!! I'm happy to announce that we are doing a PRE-BLACK FRIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA SALE over at Smeared Ink. All stamps (digital and rubber) are 25% OFF from November 19 - November 25.

We also have a big announcement to make. We will temporarily be discontinuing all of our rubber sets. After the current stock is depleted they will be offered in digi form, so if you have rubber on your mind get them while you can! This is something we've been trying to avoid for some time now, but can no longer. We hope to one day offer rubber again, but right now it's not practical for us. We will be having more and more digis added to our site within the next few weeks so we hope you check back often to see what new art we have to offer you. Thanks for stopping by and happy shopping!

Monthly Member Blog Hop- Steampunk

Hi everyone, welcome to our November Member Blog Hop on Smeared and Smudged! This month we decided to challenge our participants with a Steampunk theme. They must use images, pieces, or parts that embrace the Steampunk genre, and it must be stamped somewhere.

My card is pretty simple, featuring papers from the Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutant collection, and also featuring stamps from Smeared Ink's Urban Decay.

Please enjoy the hop today as you visit our wonderful participants from the Smeared and Smudged forum!

Tori

Jane

Kristy

Sugar

Sara

Laura

Celina

Joyce

Steph

Helen

Heather

Abbie Kay

Black Dragon

Dianne

Monique

Sharon

Fiona

Ike

Lady Brayton

Susan

31 Days of Halloween: Day 31

It's Day 31 of our month long blog hop, and I can't believe it's over! As promised, I have some fun information for you about My Memories. A few days ago you had the opportunity to win the My Memories Suite 2 software on Sugar's blog, and today you get another chance!

My Memories Suite is the software I have been using for the past couple of 31 Days projects that I have posted, as well as for the banner you see above. I have to say I am thoroughly impressed with it! As most of you know, I am not a scrapbooker. I have made some pages that I loved, and I love the process of it, but unfortunately my life just doesn't allow me the time. I've never used digital scrapbooking kits because, well for lack of a better term, they just seemed cheesy to me. They were all very cut and dry and frankly, too cute

for my tastes.

When I was approached to try the My Memories software for free, I decided to give it a try and be completely honest with my review of it. I can honestly say that I LOVE it! It is super easy to use, and I love that you can add on any extra kits or embellies that you like from the My Memories website. They offer alot of free add-ons, and the others are very reasonably priced for what you get in the files. They come formatted for the Suite program, and also for use in Photoshop which is my go-to for digital work.

After I made my scrapbook page of my daughter's Haunted House picture, I was pleasantly surprised to find out you can export your projects as jpeg files to your computer, so you can share in any way that you like. This makes it amazingly convenient for me to share with family, since we are military and are nowhere near my family. I'm super excited to continue working with the program to finally get some of my memories and important pics put together.

So, now that I've told you about my experience with the program, here's your chance to win it for free!! Just visit the My Memories website and choose your favorite digital paper pack. Then comment here and let me know what it is. As on Sugar's blog, you also have the chance to get extra entries by becoming a follower of one of these three sites:

Blog

Facebook

Twitter

If you follow all three, you'll get three extra entries! After becoming a follower, come back here and let me know you did it.

Finally, for those of you who would rather not wait to see if you won, I have been given a special promotional code that will give you $10 off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store- a $20 value.

Code: STMMMS25878

This code can be used at any time, not just today. 

So, now that you've heard all about it, hop on through the Wicked Blogs one last time! Also, please be aware that we will be posting daily winners over the next couple of days, and our grand prize winner will be announced by November 5th! Thanks for making 31 Days of Halloween 2011 another extraordinary event!!!!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 30

Hello everyone! Today we are being sponsored by, well, me! I will be sponsoring with my etsy shop, Rag Fairy Creations.

Rag Fairy Creations is a mish-mash of my creative endeavors. I love creating mixed media art, homemade herbal items, journals, cards, fabric items, crochet items and sculpture. Over the next two months I will be adding in lots of goodies, so be sure to swing my and check them out! For my sponsorship today, I am offering up two jars of my Herbal Healing Salve, which is not yet in my shop, but will be soon.

Herbal Healing Salve can be used to soothe bug bites, rashes, dry or cracked skin, eczema, minor burns, sunburn, cuts, scrapes, and sores. Also, it is great on healing tattoos! I make it all with organic natural ingredients, most of which are grown or harvested by me. 

To be entered, find the Rag Fairy hidden image on one of the Wicked Blogs. Also don't forget to look for the Rick St Dennis hidden image. Email us when you find them, and have fun hopping today!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 29

Welcome to Day 29! Once again, we are being sponsored by the fabulous Graphicat Designs!

Today Graphicat Designs will offer the winner a choice of a $10 Gift Certificate to the store, or their choice of 5 digi images. Be on the lookout for the Graphicat hidden image and the Rick St Dennis hidden image. When you spot them, email us and let us know where they are to be entered. Have fun hopping today!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 28

Welcome back folks! Today we are bringing you another Smeared Ink day, and a chance to win another awesome digi set!

This is one of our personal faves! Zombie Classics Digi Set

Find our hidden image and email us to let us know where you saw it. And also, don't forget about the fabulous Rick St Dennis' digi giveaway!! His image is hiding somewhere out in Wicked Blog-land too. Have fun hopping!

31 Days of Halloween Day 27- Insane Scrapbook

Hello everyone, welcome back!  Once again our very own Black Dragon is sponsoring with her beautiful handmade jewelry. To enter to win the item of your choice, find the hidden image and email us to let us know where it is.

Also, don't forget about Rick St Dennis and his wonderful digi set up for grabs.

Today I do have a project to share with you. It is a digital scrapbook page and featured one of my favortie Halloween photos of all time.

*click for larger view

I used this same photo last year in one of my projects, so you may remember it. Every year we try to host or participate in a Haunted House. Well, this particular year a friend and I got together and planned out a Haunted House, and the theme was an insane asylum. In my opinion, it was the best one we ever did. My husband played the demented, psychotic doctor who was doing experiments on the patients. My now 12 yo, who was 6 at the time, played the little creepy girl patient who talked to the ghosts. She was super scary, I think maybe even more scary than everyone else, and she LOVED participating and being the little actress!

Well, her favorite line to say was "The ghosts like me but they don't like you", which she came up with all on her own, and she would say it in a creepy voice to the asylum guests as they walked through. Anyhoo, this picture was snapped after we were done and had come inside the house to relax. My husband was joking around with her as the doctor and he grabbed her to "strangle" her and we just happened to have the camera out. I just love the look on both their faces-they look happy and like they truly are enjoying themselves, which is why I love the picture so much.

For the page, I once again used the My Memories software, and just let me remind you to visit on the 31 for more about that. I included her fave quote, and also some journaling about the event. I also added in one of our Raven stamps, which I stamped and then scanned, then resized in photoshop. The raven is there because during the Haunted House, my friend's husband (as a patient) bit the head off of a fake bird, which was gross and completely genious, we didn't know he was going to do it. It's just a reference to that. Before anyone says anything, just know that my daughter was not a witness to this, lol. We kept her out of the gory aspects of the house because of her age.

So, I am completely in love with digital scrapbooking. I have tried some normal scrapbook pages and although I am good at it, I just don't have time. I will probably have lots of these to share in the future. I hope you enjoy it and that this page gave you some ideas. Have fun hopping today!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 26- Skimpy Costume

Hello everyone, welcome to Day 26! Today we are being sponsored by the fabulous Kenny K!

"Digi and rubber stamps from KennyK are a fun and edgy way to add the perfect dose of attitude and style to all of your creations!

The creator, the artist, the man: KennyK is a NYC-born professional illustrator who has brought his funky-but-slick, urban-influenced look to the cardmaking and papercrafts world. His signature style can be seen throughout his various collections of sexy pinup babes, sweet 'n sassy girls, cool rockin' dudes, kid’s stuff, retro characters and more at KennyKDownloads.com .

I’m ElenaK, the woman behind the man. I am an event planner and crafter at heart. KennyKDownloads.com is a collaboration that combines both of our respective skill sets and allows us to create together – and there is nothing better than that!"

For today's prize, Kenny K is offering four digi singles of the winner's choice. To enter, find the hidden image on one of the Wicked Blogs and email us to let us know where it is. Also, don't forget about the Rick St Dennis hidden image. Email us the hidden image location for that one as well.

I actually got to make a project for today. It is a digi card that I think I will be sending out to a couple of close friends, as it's just too funny in my mind. Elena and Kenny were so very generous to let the Smeaed Ink Design Team work with some of their images, and the one I chose was Capt. Locke. I will definitely be using her again, as it's just the perfect image to send to my husband on the ship, but for now I am using her as a Halloween costume-clad cutie.

We've all heard that Halloween is just an excuse for women to run around skimpily clad, and I thought I'd play up on this thought for my card. I used, as I said before, Capt. Locke from Kenny K as my main image. My background papers and embellishments all came from My Memories, and I just have to say be sure to visit my blog on the 31st for more exciting info about that!

I love how the image looks like the bats are swooping around her and producing wind, or at least in my mind it looks that way. I can't wait to send this one out :)

So, I hope you like it! Have fun hopping today, and I'll see you all tomorrow!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 25

Well, it's almost over, a little under a week left. Can you believe it? I can't; I still have not finished all that I have to do before Halloween, and I haven't even been participating as a Wicked Blogger! Well, I guess what gets done will get done. Hope you all are enjoying yourselves and all of the amazing projects this year!

Today you have one final chance to win an awesome prize from Crafty Chaos Designs! Once again, Crafty Chaos is offering up 2 items of your choice from the shop.

Email us the location of the Crafty Chaos hidden image as well as the Rick St Dennis hidden image to be entered for today's prizes! And have fun hopping the Wicked Bloggers today!