12 Days of Christmas- Day 5: Winter Wonderland

Welcome back, today is Day 5 of 12 Days of Creepmas sponsored by the Smeared and Smudged Forum. If this is your first visit, please go to this post for all of the info about the hop and prizes.

Congrats to those of you who have stuck with it so far this month as either a Jolly Blogger or Merry Hopper, we know it can be busy and overwhelming and we're happy that you've chosen to spend part of December hopping along with us!

First things first, let's announce the winners from Day 4. By random number, the winners of a Smeared Ink $15 digi bundle are:

Jolly Blogger: Lisa

Merry Hopper: Wendy

Congrats ladies! Please email me at smearedinkstamps@gmail.com to claim.

Now on to my project for the day. It's another digital card, but hey-ho at least I got to do something.

On The Fifth Day of Creepmas, My True Love Gave To Me:

An Icy Skull Decked Out to the Coldest Degree

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For this card I used Skull and Roses from Smeared Ink, as well as some of our new decorative papers that are available in the shop today in both 12x12 and 8 1/2x11 sizes. The paper pack is called "Icy" and features some cool winter textures. This project will also be a component in a larger project later on. I hope you like it!

Now it's time for you to hop through and see the fab projects presented by our Jolly Bloggers today. The blog roll is in my sidebar. Hope you enjoy, and we'll see you on Dec 11!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 13- Magical Cat

Hello everyone, welcome back! I am a little under the weather so my project for today is digital and pretty simple. But first, I have sponsor info! Today our very own Black Dragon is sponsoring again with her fabulous handmade jewelry, and we have the Rick St Dennis digi set up for grabs! To enter, find the hidden images and email us to let us know where they are.

So now on to my project. This was a collaboration of sorts between me and my kindergartener. I used our Hallo Kitty digi single stamp, and I'll give you a little bit of the back story behind the image. There is a cat that has been hanging around outside of our house, and she seems to love us very much. I believe she is an indoor cat that just got out one day or someone jus let loose because thwey didn't want her. She is a long hair and I believe she is part Persian because she has that flat nose. She is orange and black with a little white on her belly. Well, lately it's been getting really cold here and I am thinking about letting her into the house and "adopting" her. She doesn't belong to anyone in the surrounding neighborhoods, and doesn't seem to want to go anywhere else. So, I made a vet appt for her today to go get her checked out and possibly get her groomed as she has alot of matting on her. Oh yeah, she is also declawed which is why I think she was a pet.

Anyways, she was the inspiration behind the Hallo Kitty image cause she's so scruffy looking right now. So my daughter wanted to make a card that we can print out and give to her class this year, and she helped me pick the colors and design it. Here it is:

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and here is a very bad pic of Ruyke the cat:


Isn't she gorgeous? I can't wait to get her all brushed and cleaned up so we can add her to our family.

So, I am off to go rest and hopefully get rid of this funk before it gets worse, but have fun hopping today! Will see you tomorrow with a better project.

31 Days of Halloween: Day 12- Scary Shadow

Hi everyone, welcome back! Today brings us to Day 12 of 31 Days, and isn't the time just flying by? I have a couple of things to talk about, but first let's introduce you to our sponsor for today!

Viva Las Vegas Stamps is located in fabulous Las Vegas, and they have thousands of stamps to choose from ! Be sure to visit their site to view all the fun! VLVS has generously donated a pound of rubber to the winner today, so be sure to look for their hidden image, as well as the Rick St Dennis hidden image. Email us when you find them to be entered.

Ok, so I had a couple of comment questions about some of my 31 Days projects so far that I want to address...

I will be making a tutorial on how to make the pattern paper flowers from Day 2 and I will post it sometime this month on the S&S Forum tutorial page. When I do, I will let you all know.

Also, the question came up several times asking how I stamped on the curved glass of the Raven Pedestals from Day 10. The secret is to ink up your stamp and then lay it face up on your table (my stamps are unmounted). Then take the glass, ornament, curved surface, etc, and slowly starting from one edge of the stamp, roll it over the stamp. The cool thing about doing this on clear items is that you can see exactly which part of it has stamped and which hasn't, so you can adjust pressure accordingly. If you'd like a tutorial on this as well for a visual, I can do it, but it really is very simple and only takes a little practice before you get the hang of it.

The blood splatter on my Day 7 Glam Vamps project was done digitally, I just used different PSE brushes to obtain the effect.

I think those were all the questions I have come across so far. Now to share my project for today. It is digital once again, and features our Shadow Grumpie image from Creepy Li'l Grumpies.

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It's pretty self explanatory. I started out with a wall background and used PSE to grunge it up a bit more than it was and skew it. I made the floor as well and skewed that to fit. I then placed my Grumpie on top, colored him up, and added my word. The final step was to add my back layer, and voila! All done! I think I may have this one printed to send to family and friends this year, I really adore the way it came out. And I just love how he's so mesmerized by that flame, he doesn't even notice his shadow is coming to eat him! Bwahahahahaha!!

Now that you've seen my piece, hop on through the Wicked Blogs and have fun getting your inspiration on for the day! Also, don't forget our new Smudgy Antics challenge has been posted, and the theme this week is Black Birds. You have until Sat at midnight to enter! Hope to see you over there :)

31 Days of Halloween: Day 8- Cyclops Bite

Happy Saturday everyone! It's Day 8, and unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) I must make my post quick and to the point. Me and the kids are preparing for a competition today and must get our butts in gear!

Before I get to my project, we have another fabulous sponsor for you again today!

"Sideshow Stamps is a hand crafted rubber stamp company owned and operated by the artists! Celebrating 11 years in business this year!! We are geared toward the art of the unique and strange, yet exotic and beautiful, and hopefully, somewhere in the midst of it all, is that exact stamp you've been looking for. Perfect for scrapbooking that trip to the circus, making a hep invitation to your next beatnik bash, decorating a photo album of your latest retro road trip, creeping out your mail carrier with a monster stamped envelope, or creating a work of art like none other!"

Today Sideshow Stamps is donating to one lucky winner their Vampire wood mounted stamp! Isn't he creepy cool?!?To win this guy, simply email us and let us know what you would use him on! We will draw for the winner tomorrow. Also, don't forget about your chance to win the Rick St Dennis digi set. Email us and tell us your favorite image from the set to be entered. (If you need a refresher on the set, scroll down).

Now, on to my project! As I mentioned, we are on our way to competition and last night we had a performance as well, so I didn't get a whole bunch of time to craft. I opted for another digital project to share with you today.

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It features our Cyclops image from Smeared Ink's Heebie Jeebie digi set, as well as one of the sayings from our Zombie Pinups digi set. In my mind Cyclops is a child of the 80's with his bright colors, but who doesn't want to wear a pink jumpsuit I ask? I mean really...

Despite the fact that you need sunglasses to look directly at my project, I think it turned out rather swell. What do you think?

Hope you enjoy your hop today and all the inspiration the Wicked Bloggers have to offer you! I'll be back tomorrow with, hopefully, another awesome project to share! Have fun!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 7- Into The Earth

It's day 7, I can't believe it! Already a week closer to Halloween; so much to do and so little time! Today on 31 Days it's Smeared Ink day! Meaning we are your sponsors for the day, and will be every Friday. This also means that Wicked Bloggers get the chance to earn an extra grand-prize entry if they used only Smeared Ink images on their project!

We've had tons of new releases lately, and we'd love to introduce you to our latest. Be sure to swing by our shop to see our two newest digi singles from our Steampunk-themed Riders set. They are available now!


For our prize we are offering up one of our favorite digi sets, Glam Vamps! In order to win it, just look for our hidden image on one of the Wicked Blogs, them email us and let us know where it is. We'll draw for the winner tomorrow.


Also, don't forget to look for the Rick St Dennis hidden image for today!

For my project I decided to use, what else, Glam Vamps. This is Clarice, and she was just a little bit hungry.


This is an all digital project and features, like I said, Clarice and the flourish from Glam Vamps digi set and a saying from our As Death rubber set. I added wings to her just to make it fun, and I always love the combination of this blue color with red. I have to say I am getting alot more comfortable coloring digitally as well- I'm glad we allowed all digi projects this year! What a fun medium!

So, enjoy the rest of the Wicked Bloggers today, and be sure to swing by the shop to see what's new! Have fun!

September Bombshell Hop

Yes, you read that right! It's been oh so long since I've had the time to play with my Bombshells, but I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to join in with the other lovely ladies on the Bombshell Forum and celebrate my favorite holiday!

Alison, the Blog Hop Captain, set out this challenge for September:
"Many of our major holidays are just around the corner. I think we all know what my favorite holiday is...but what's yours? My challenge to you is to make a Bombshell project for your favorite holiday. Bonus points if you make a decoration!!! Use any holiday you want and create something that's going to make us want to celebrate!!! "

Well, I think we can all guess what MY favorite holiday is...and if you can't, well, you just haven't been paying attention or this is your first visit to my little corner of blog land :) I just had to make a project for Halloween!!!!! And seeing that 31 Days of Halloween starts in just three days, I was super excited to make a warm-up project to share. BTW, if you don't know what 31 Days is, please click the link for info or come back and visit on the 1st, it's going to be a fabulously creepy-fun month long blog hop with tons of inspiration and amazing prizes!! You can see the list of Wicked Bloggers in my sidebar, and it is HUGE! Come check out how you can win some awesome prizes from some really great sponsors! (hint: Bombshell is one of them!)

Now that that's out of my system, I'll move back to the hop at hand...I'm just so excited.
For my holiday project I had to work with one of the new costumes from the Halloween Dress Up Set for Bombshell Angel. Once again, I did some digital work, but this time I combined digital with hands-on. I created an artwork piece that will later be added into another project during 31 Days (shhhh, kinda a sneak peek). Not quite a decoration yet, but it will be. Here she is, my wicked little witch, complete with black cat familiar.

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Bombshell Angel is colored digitally, and the background image and flowers are from Itkupilli. I used black canvas cardstock, and some white crackle paint on two different layers. Then I added ink shading all around and finally some fun little letters for my sentiment, ribbon, and hardware. After taking the pic, I went in digitally and added even more shading and texture and my spider webs. Other than the pic being a little blurry, I think it came out wonderful! It was fun to color the angel up in some bright Halloweenie colors, and I kinda made her look like me with her red hair and all (yes, it's red again!)

So, what do you think? I hope it gives you some inspiration, and gets you in the mood for Halloween! Now you get to hop on through to the other participant blogs and see which holiday inspired their creations. Don't forget to stop by the Bombshell Forum to get your fix and sign up for the blog hop next month. And if you're interested in joining in some fun conversation about our 31 Days of Halloween event, swing by the Smeared and Smudged Forum too. Have a great hop!

Bombshell Blog

Alison

Alex

Terra (<---yep, that's me)

Kathi

Kelli

Jennie

Glittery Katie

Sparkly Mary

Mary G

Alaine

Zetti Challenge

Hello everyone! I'd like to invite you to come on over to our DT Challenge Blog, Smudgy Antics, and join in our Weekly Challenge! Each week we post a new one, and for this week the theme is Zetti. In case you don't know what it is or haven't heard of it, here's a little descrip:

A style based on the work of Teesha Moore, Zetti is a blend of the ordinary and the fantastic. Blend collage, drawing, painting, stamping, etc, to make one whimsical concoction of elements based in reality and fantasy. Elements can include contrasting textures and patterns, bright colors, black and white patterns (especially stripes), faces and bodies that are mis-matched, animal parts, added body parts/clothes/wings, fantastic hats and crowns, quirky, odd, whimsical combinations of characters, lyrics, poems, handwriting and text. Use any of these, or all of them, but be sure to put your own artistic spin on it!

I actually got the chance to make a sample for this week's challenge, and I must say I am pretty in love with it. It is once again digital as I am having alot of fun with digi work lately. Here it is:

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I used three different Smeared Ink images for my main character. The body is Vivadondra from our Goth Fairies digi set, the head is Candy Creature from our Candy is Dandy set, and the wings are from our retired Praise Angel from Symbology of Angels. The two latter sets will be available in our shop as digis later this week!

I colored everything digitally and placed pieces and parts, and then added hand drawn elements and stripes. I think it's a pretty good first attempt at the Zetti style, and still fits well with my darker side.

I hope you enjoyed taking alook, and if you get the chance, swing by Smudgy Antics to give this super fun style a try!

New Halloween Hop and Release from Smeared Ink

Hi everyone! I hope your week is going wonderfully so far. Today we'd like to share with you that Smeared Ink is releasing some more Halloween images! To celebrate, of course we have to have a new release blog hop!

Our fabulous design team will be showcasing samples today to inspire and intrigue you. We hope you will visit all the blogs to see some great art, and when you are done swing by our shop to pick up your favorite new images.

Before I share my project, here's a look at the newest Digi sets and singles. These are all available in our shop now, and later today you will be able to get the individual images from the sets as singles as well. The great part is ALL of our digis are now instantly available when you make your purchase! If you haven't used the new site yet to download digis, you will love it!

Smell My Feet

Build A Graveyard

Babies of the Damned

Inner Workings

Zombie Headshot

Heavy Metal

Goth Fairies

Hallo Kitty

Elvis Grumpie

So for my projects today, I once again tried some digital work (cause I'm starting to love it!)
I used the Zipped Heart from Inner Workings on my first project. Then I used the Wire Corset image from Heavy Metal and the I Adore You Saying from Smitten in my second project.

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I really love the versatility of these images, as they are not all necessarily Halloween themed. I have so many ideas that I can't wait to share with you! In the meantime, please hop on through the blog roll and be sure to leave lots of comments! Thanks for visiting and we hope you enjoy the new images!

Terra (you are here!)

Tori

Black Dragon

Lady Brayton

Kapree

Sugar

Paula

Ike

Freddie

Celina

Jane

Monique

Heather

Our Guest Designer Sara