Skull Appreciation Day 2013

Happy Skull Appreciation Day! This year, Smeared Ink and the Smeared and Smudged Forum are bringing you another inspiration-filled hop featured our members' beloved cranial art. We're excited to be hosting again, and we know you will be inspired, awed, and downright smitten with all of the skully goodness that you will see along the hop route today.

 If you're a little hazy on the details of Skull Appreciation Day, we invite you to visit the Skull-A-Day Blog where it all began. This is our third year celebrating in our own way, and we hope to have participants in our hop event for many years to come. Today our bloggers were asked to create a project that features a skull, and nothing more. It can be any project their heart desires, and this is the one event we hold each year where the item does not necessarily need to be stamped. We hope this gives our bloggers some great range and creativity when it comes to showcasing their ideas.

During the hop you may also find a giveaway or two. Be sure to read the instructions and description on each blog in order to enter, and above all, have fun! In fact, I have a giveaway for you right now! Here is a sneak peak digi stamp from one of our upcoming Halloween release sets. 

It's called "Woodcut Skull" and will not be available until July. For today, we are giving away 5 of these babies. All you have to do is leave a comment here and tell me about your favorite skull project from today's hop. I'll randomly draw the winners tomorrow and post them here on this blog. That's it!

Now it's time for the good stuff. Sit back, relax, and enjoy your time hopping through our 2013 Skull Appreciation Day Hop Blog Roll. Then come back and tell me all about it!

Terra (you are here now)
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

Join us for Skull Appreciation Day 2013!

Do you love creating amazing projects that showcase skully goodness? Wanna get some traffic to your blog and share your obsession? Join Smeared Ink and the Smeared and Smudged Forum on June 4th for one wild blog hop event! We will be celebrating Skull Appreciation Day 2013 by featuring handmade projects that spotlight the much-loved cranium. We will also be giving away lots of freebies during the hop! 

 How can you participate, you ask? Well, there are a couple of ways to get in on the action. To spread the word, grab our button here and post it to your blog, Facebook page, or website and share the info. Then come hop through the amazing projects on the 4th starting HERE. 

 To join in, simply make a homemade project or craft that features a skull and sign up to be included in our hop list. This is open to any crafter or artist who would like to feature a handmade skull-themed project, it does not necessarily have to use a stamp. 

You can sign up by visiting the forum HERE.  All participants will receive this awesome free Smeared Ink Skull Appreciation digi image to add to their collection, drawn by Alexandria S. 

After you sign up, the hop list will be posted in the event thread on the forum. The deadline for signing up as a participant is Friday May 31, 2012. We will post the hop list of participants on Sunday June 2, 2012. Then just share your project on the 4th along with the list of participating blogs! 

During the hop we will also be giving away freebies, so that is even more incentive to participate or hop along. 

 If you or someone you know would like to sponsor the hop with your own freebie giveaway featuring a skull (and get advertising on our forum, blogs, and other hop information posts like facebook shares), please contact us 
at smearedinkstamps@gmail.com. When you sponsor, we will add your website/button to all of our hop advertising. 
 Thanks for joining us in this event and spreading the word, and we look forward to a fun skull-filled blog hop on the 4th! 
 


*for more information on Skull Appreciation Day, please visit Skull-A-Day.