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Saturday, February 1, 2014

New Release Day with Hop at Smeared Ink! (For Kick-Start Your Art, please scroll down!)

It's New Release Day at Smeared Ink! We've got two fabulous new digi sets for you available in our shop today, and we're so excited by them that we've decided to invite our Design Team members from our Smeared Ink, Mixed Media University, and Art Journal Every Day design teams to create projects for a fab New Release hop!

First, here is a preview of the new sets:

Octopus Pie

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Octopus Pie was drawn by artist Alexandria S, aka Little Black Kitten, and features Octopus Girl and her pet Octopus, complete with top hat and tentacle pie! You can find this set in our shop HERE as both a digital set and as single digi images.

Alex has created a journal page featuring the Octopus Girl Closeup from her new set:

"Several tentacles were lost in the making of this project"- Alex S. To see more details on her page, give her blog a visit later today.

The Keepers

The Keepers is a set of beautiful angels, keepers of lost love, with a Smeared Ink twist. The bleeding hearts and exposed bones are sure to get your creative juices flowing! You can find this set in our shop HERE as both a digital set and as single digi images.

I created an ATC with The Fifth Keeper, as well as a sentiment from the set.

When I see The Keepers, I picture them soft and pretty, so I chose to refrain from adding any blood and gore on this project. I'll probably try that next time. For now I stuck with soft pastels, used a tea-stained canvas background, and just layered my images and sentiment words. I hope you enjoy it.

Now, I hope you enjoy hopping through the blogs of our various Design Team members to check out more projects using these two fabby new sets. Please remember, posts will be live at 9am PST, so if you don't see a project yet, swing by a little later today.

Have fun checking out all the awesome inspiration!

New Release Blog Roll

Terra (you are here)
Fiona

Kapree
Shoni
Ike

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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!)

Our Guest Designer Sara

Friday, July 15, 2011

Halloween Release Hop from Smeared Ink

Thanks for joining me today; I'm super excited to be announcing the first of two Halloween releases from Smeared Ink! We have so many great designs for you this year that we just can't get them all out at the same time, so we're starting early. We have 11 fabulously fiendish digi sets for you to oogle today, and each member of our Design Team had created a special something to celebrate!

Not only will we be presenting projects for your enjoyment and inspiration today on our hop, but the Design Team had the option to work with several images if they wanted to and those that took extras will be posting projects daily for the next couple of days. So be sure to check back on the hop list each day over the next week, as some will be showcasing even more projects for you to enjoy!

Did I mention that we have ELEVEN sets this time around?!?!! You're sure to find something to get those creepy juices flowing, and we really hope they get you in the mood for the best holiday of the year (Halloween, of course!) and for our 31 Days of Halloween stamping event coming in October. Plus we have an exclusive sneak peek single from one of the sets we will be releasing in our second Halloween Release in September!

Here are the pics of all of the new release sets that you can find in our SHOP today. Don't forget you can click any of the pics in this post to see them larger.

A Little Bit Batty

Calaveras

Creepers

Flower King

Heebie Jeebie

Mistresses of The Dark

Owlets

Sea Skeletons

Zombie Classics

Zombie Pinups

Gross Anatomy

and our preview...

Blessed Be single

So, what do you think? I know I LOVE them all and can't wait to play with each and every image! But for now, I played with an image from the Sea Skeletons set. I made a scrapbook page using the June kit from Scraps of Darkness and also following their June sketch. It is very monochromatic except for the little pop of color on the photo, which match the colors of the actual artwork.

All of the embellishments and papers that you see on the page came from the kit except for the twigs, which I painted black and made into a frame to follow the sketch. Of course I had to add my own textures, so I painted on parts of the papers and roughed them up a bit. The corner images and the one in the middle are from the Sea Skeletons stamp set and I think they just added alot of fun to the layout. I personally thing those images are gorgeous just printed out, so I just colored them a light beige to match.

Here you can see a side view of the gorgeous embellies, including my twigs.

Hope you've enjoyed looking at my page and that it's given you some inspiration. I am still a beginner with the scrapbooking, so please be gentle with your comments ;)

I will be posting my next release project on Saturday evening, so be sure to swing back by here to check it out! Also, as I mentioned before please feel free to visit here each day to go down the hop list and check out what everyone has to offer. Here are the participants! Enjoy!

Terra ---->(me)

Monday, May 9, 2011

Smeared Ink New Release Hop

Hello everyone! Welcome to another New Release Hop for Smeared Ink. We are introducing two new digi sets today. Yay! and to celebrate our design team has gotten together to feature some of the fantastic images. Before I forget, let me also mention that we are having a special today only, if you buy any two of our digi sets, you get to choose a third digi set for free!! Just mention your freebie choice in the paypal comments when you check out. Woo Hoo! What could be better than free stuff!!!

So, now that I have your attention, I will show you the new sets. And let me tell you, I adore both of them! The first is a set of little stitched up dolls that are both creepy and cute. Think along the lines of a rag doll with button eyes and mohawks. Here's Stitchy Situation:

I just love these little guys,and you will see several projects today made with them. The next set is gorgeous artwork adapted from 19th century Austrian artist Franz Von Bayros and is called, or course, Von Bayros:

I was lucky enough to get to work with one of these beautiful images for today's hop, and here is my card:

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It's actually pretty straight-forward for me. I colored with Copics and cut out four layers of the image. The background is peacock feathers layered with stitched cardstock, and I added a die-cut and distressed label that has words from a candle sticker. It says "Exotic Collection" and I thought it fit well with the bold colors of the card.

I made the green embellishments from sculpey, and I also added some spots of glitter and crystal effects to the image, as well as Pearl-Ex powder around the edges of my image and label. Here is a close up of the layers on my image:

Although it looks black, the background cardstock in my card is actually navy blue. I went for something a little different this time with a bolder color pallette, I thought the image looked somewhat exotic and that it fit really well.

So, I hope you have enjoyed looking. Hop on through the DT blogs to see some awesome projects, and then head over to our Shop to get your very own new release digis, and don't forget your freebie set when you purchase two sets! Thanks for stopping by.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

New Release/End of Term Hop

Welcome back! As promised, I have a project to share with you today. Not only does today mark my return to creating (it's about time, I know!), but today the Smeared Ink Design Team is bringing you a hop to honor the end of our Design Team term. Booooo I say! I will dearly miss those not returning for another term. But, as one last hoopla, we have all gotten together to create stunning projects for you to peruse, and we've used NEW digi images that are available in the Smeared Ink shop today! Woo hoo!!

As if that weren't enough, we've challenged our DT to make a project that features not one, but three different Smeared Ink images. Some may think we're crazy, but we know these girls can rock it out!!!! So, grab your cup of coffee or herbal tea and get ready for some serious inspiration from these fabulous ladies! On to the projects!

For my project I made a trinket box, and I started with a tin can. Yes, you heard right. Just a regular old empty soup can. Just like this one...

I chose to work with the Mad Eyes from our new Anatomy 101 digi set, the Inky Heart from our Heartwings digi set, and the Forever saying from our new Death Cab digi set. When I finished, my trinket box looked like this. The colors in the photos are a little off because these were taken indoors, but you get the idea.

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**UPDATE- Here are some better pics so you can see the true colors**

I started by adding my hardware to the can with industrial strength glue. The feet are screws with a nut, and the top is a broken piece of wood with another screw and casing attached. When those were dry, I started with a paint treatment on the can. It was a very long process, I won't go into too much detail, but it included gesso, lots of color washes, and a heat gun.

I printed my eyes and heart onto a piece of old telephone book paper, then colored them slightly and aged them to match my can. I also tore strips of sheet music that I received from Madness Paper and aged it as well. I attached them to the can with modge podge, and then added more paint washes to get them to blend.

The hanging tag got the same treatment, as well as the Forever saying. The final touch was to color up my butcher's string and attach it to the tag to hang from the top. I also added to the string a paint treated key and some hardware.

So, what do you think? I love to hear opinions, so please feel free to leave a comment. I think it's a neat little trinket box to hold whatever. I hope it gives you some ideas for things you can do with all those old tin cans. Don't throw them away! And now that you've seen my project, it's time for you to hop through all of the other blogs and get even more inspiration. Then be sure to go check out the new digi sets at Smeared Ink. Have fun and thanks for stopping by!

Our Rockin' Smeared Ink Design Team

And our Awesome Guest Designers

Alex

Jane

Sugar

Monday, January 17, 2011

Smeared Ink Digi Release TODAY!

Hello everyone! I know, it's been forever since I posted, but I'm slowly getting over the holiday chaos and getting things back to normal. Today, we are having a fabulous digi image release over at Smeared Ink, and to honor that, our DT is having a hop featuring some awesome projects! I know, my post is pretty late, but I've been without internet since yesterday and wasn't able to get it up before now. Urghh! But, better late than never, heh?

The digi's will be uploaded into the shop in just a bit, so please visit later on. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the wonderful eye candy that our DT has for you!

For my project, I used song lyrics as inspiration. It's kinda dark, but I just couldn't get this song out of my head to create anything else, so I went with it. The song is about an abusive relationship (perfect for Valentine's Day! tee hee, just kidding). And before anyone asks, no this project does not reflect any relatonships I have been in, but I do have some close friends who have gone through abusive relationships.

Anyways, I used images from our new Heart Wings and Femdom sets. It is not really a card, more of an art piece I guess that I may later add into a journal.

I colored with my new art markers, which I am very new at, so please be gentle on the comments. It's very different than using prisma pencils, so I'll have to get used to the blending. But, I'm not totally disappointed with the results.

The background hearts and wings came from Heart Wings and the bending beauty came from Femdom. I tried to keep her coloring very mute to portray the feelings of being stuck in that type of relationship.

I added crystal glaze to the heart on the bottom, and also popped up the wings. I hope you enjoy looking at my project, and be sure to hop on through the rest of the DT to see lots of cool inspiration for our new digi's! Then head on over to the Smeared Ink shop and pick your faves. Thanks for joining us today!