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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Design Team Throwdown #8 Entry- Old and Grey

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! I'm so excited to be posting the Smeared Ink Team entry for the 8th Design Team Throwdown Challenge. In case you didn't know yet, the Design Team Challenge has moved from the Smeared and Smudged Forum to its own BLOG. Hopefully this will make it easier for more Design Teams to join in the fun!

Voting for this challenge begins Wednesday, August 28th, so please be sure to swing by the new blog and cast your vote for your fave team projects after you check out all the amazingness presented by the participants. Of course, we'd LOVE if you choose us, but we encourage you to vote for the projects (team) that you think are the best :)

This time around the theme was brought to us by our Challenge #7 Champs, Quoth The Raven. They challenged us to make something "Old and Grey", and they left it up to us to interpret that how we wanted. I'm excited that I got to play again on the Smeared Ink Team, and you'll see my project last (it's heavy on the pictures once again). Here are the entries for the Smeared Ink Team:

#1 Our first entry comes to you from Shell.

She created an awesomely beautiful piece featuring Smeared Ink's Man digi stamp from the Specimen Jar set. Be sure to visit her BLOG to get all of the details on her amazing work.

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#2 Our second entry is from Lady Brayton.

She rocked out a vintage pinball machine using various Smeared Ink rubber, including images from Morte and As Death, both available exclusively as past club offerings through our Smeared Ink Rubber Club. For more information and an video on LB's wicked pinball machine, please visit her BLOG.

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(backing)

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#3 Our final entry is from Terra (me)

For my "Old and Grey" project I though I would make an art doll. It's made from scratch and the face features one of the three new Smeared Ink digi singles from our artist Alexandria S. The image is called Within and is available in our shop today, along with Beyond and Behind.

Here's my doll, she's about 14" tall. More detail pics are included below my description.

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I started by molding my doll body and head from air dry ceramic clay. I molded just the basic form, added pins to the head, and let it dry for about a day and a half. Then I came back with an x-acto knife and carved out my torso "hole" and bones. Needless to say, it took a while. You'll see in some close-up pics that the bones are actually 3-D and protrude from the hole. Then I let my body dry completely.

While it was drying, I worked on my base. I used an old candle holder, a wooden dowel, and plaster. I poured the plaster into the middle of the holder and inserted the dowel, then let that set up. Then it got a coat (or several) of paint. I forgot to mention, while the clay was drying I had to keep putting it over the dowel to make sure it still fit, and on the last day I left it to dry on the stand because the clay actually shrinks almost 10% when it dries. I didn't want it to not fit over the dowel, so if you try something like this please remember that tip.

Anyways, then I got to work with my paint on the body and head. It took a few coats, then a few more, to get the cracked and aged look I wanted. While that dried, I worked on the wings which are made of tissue paper and wire with paint and seed bead embellishments. Then I sewed, distressed, and burned the layers of the skirt; under the skirt I attached a swirled wire "petticoat". Then I added my face to the head, which is a tissue paper transfer of my digi image.

To finish off, I made the arms, which are wire and little salvage-metal pieces (they look like tiny washers) that I've had for a long time. I also attached my heart shaped wish box to her chest, added the bead embellishments and chain to the skirt, and finished by adding her hair and attaching her wings.

Whew! That was a mouthful. Okay, now I'll let the pictures show what I've been blabbering about. These pictures were taken outside so you can see a truer color.

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I know there are alot of pictures and information, but I was trying to show and tell all the details :)

Overall I'm pretty happy with it, and I think I may eventually make her some sisters. For now, she's a permanent fixture in our living room, at least until after Halloween and then we'll see where she goes.

I hope you've enjoyed my project, and the projects of my teamies! Be sure to swing by all the blogs for details, and please come over to the Design Team Throwdown blog and vote on the 28th. Thanks for visiting!

Friday, July 26, 2013

Design Team Throwdown #7- Chunky ATC

Design Team Throwdown #7- Smeared Ink Entry

Hello once again! Thanks for visiting today to check out the Smeared Ink team entry for the seventh DT Throwdown Challenge on Smeared and Smudged! If you don't know what the Throwdown is, please come by and visit the S&S Forum. We have the best of the best Design Teams playing against each other in a friendly and fierce monthly competition. We'd love to have your DT join in as well, and if you are not on a DT, we'd love to have you come and voice your opinion by voting for the winner!

Voting for this challenge begins Sunday, July 28th, so please be sure to swing by and cast your vote for your fave team projects after you check out all the eye candy presented by the participants. Of course, we'd LOVE it if you choose us to win, but we encourage you to vote for the projects (team) that you think are the best :)

So, without further adeu, here are the Smeared Ink entries for this round! The theme for this challenge was chosen by the challenge six champs, Haunted Design House. The theme is Chunky ATC. Check out our team's entries! Don't forget, you can click on any picture to see it closer.

#1 Our first entry comes to you from Kristy. She created an awesome wood block chunky ATC featuring Smeared Ink's Edgar Allen Poe rubber stamp from the Quoth the Raven set.

Visit Kristy's blog to get all of the details!

#2 Our second entry is from Susan. She created this beautiful Day of the Dead themed chunky ATC featuring the bride and groom from Smeared Ink's Calaveras set.

To view all the details on Susan's project, please visit her blog.

#3 The third and final project for Smeared Ink's entry is from Tori. She created a textured ATC featuring images from Smeared Ink's Morte rubber set.

To get all the details on Tori's project, please visit her blog.

I hope you've enjoyed taking a look at our projects. Please visit our entrants blogs to see all the deets and let them know what you think! Good luck to all of the teams playing in the Throwdown this month, and PLEASE COME VOTE for your favorite team! Voting will be open Sunday July 28 through Tuesday July 30 at midnight.

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Design Team Throwdown #6- Danse Macabre

Hello everyone, thanks for visiting today and checking out the Smeared Ink Design Team's entries for the 6th Design Team Throwdown. If you don't know what the throwdown is, please visit Smeared and Smudged here and get all of the details. Basically, each month different Design Teams compete against each other by making fab projects, there is a round of voting to choose the winning team, and then the winners choose the next month's challenge. It's a super blast and the Smeared Ink DT has really enjoyed participating with all of the awesomely talented DT members from all teams!

This month our Challenge 5 winners, Airless Chambers DT, chose the theme of "DANSE MACABRE". All participants were to interpret the theme how they wanted to and show how they view the universality of death, or "Dance of Death".

Without further ado, here are the Smeared Ink DT entries.

#1 Our first entry comes to you from Susan:

Susan rocked out a mask of death using the skull front from Smeared Ink's Anatomy 101 set. To check out all of the details on Susan's project, please visit her blog here.

#2 Our second entry is from Helen:

Helen created a whimsically wicked mobile using images from Smeared Ink's Venice digi set, Danse Macabre digi set, and the Dead Dancer singles. To read more details, please visit Helen's blog here.

#3 Our third entry was done by Terra (me! ):

For my Danse Macabre project, I altered a yoga mat using images from Smeared Ink's Anatomy 101 digi set, Old King Cole from the Framed Rhymes set, and the Falling and Pointing Dead Dancers singles.

(my daughter posed so you can see how big it is, she's as tall as me)

I have to say this is one of the most frustrating projects I have ever made, even though the end result looks pretty simple. I have NO IDEA what possessed me to alter my yoga mat, other than I was just tired of looking at the plain, boring thing. It ended up taking way longer than I had anticipated, and I am definitely the reason the Smeared Ink team post went up last minute. Well, at least I can say I finished :)

I started by altering the King Cole image by inserting the Anatomy 101 skull as the face and changing the word to say "Danse". Then I printed out my new pimp daddy death image (Cole + Skull) and the two dead dancers, but I had to super-size them to fit on more than one paper. Cole took four pages (he's big), while each dancer took two. That in itself was an issue because my printer gave me problems and didn't size them right the first few times, but finally I got it right.

Then I took my images and did image transfers using modge poge onto my mat. I've never done this type of transfer successfully before on anything other than paper or canvas, so it was a learning process. Unfortunately, my placement of "Pimp Daddy Death" was not dead center at the top of the mat, but oh well. After completing the transfer, letting it dry, etc etc, and removing the back layer of paper, I was able to faintly see my image lines. Then the painting started. It took FOREVER to paint just the three images, and I even left out some of the image lines as I saw fit. I had originally transferred on all 5 of the Danse Macabre skeleton images as well (Smeared Ink), but before painting I scraped and peeled them off because I didn't like how they looked.

After I finished with my three main images, I decided to spray paint my mat edges with red and black, and then paint on my roses and swirls. It was a combo of freehand and a rose stencil. I've never used a stencil before, another first for this project, but I think it still came out decent. The roses have between two and four layers of paint. Finally, to finish off the mat and prevent the paint from peeling off during use, I applied a clear varnish over the whole thing.

If you're wondering if I'll actually use the mat, the answer to that is HELL YES, after all that work I better get some use out of it, lol. I hope you've enjoyed reading about my project, and please visit the other members of the SI team on their blogs to hear all about their creative processes and let us all know what you think.

Good luck to all of the teams playing in the Throwdown this time around.

PLEASE COME VOTE for your favorite THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY! Voting will end Sat midnight.

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Monday, May 27, 2013

Design Team Throwdown #5- Tooth and Claw

Design Team Throwdown #5- Smeared Ink Entry

Hello once again! Thanks for visiting today to check out the Smeared Ink team entry for the fifth DT Throwdown Challenge on Smeared and Smudged! If you don't know what the Throwdown is, please come by and visit the S&S Forum. We have the best of the best Design Teams playing against each other in a friendly and fierce bi-weekly competition. We'd love to have your DT join in as well, and if you are not on a DT, we'd love to have you come and voice your opinion by voting for the winner!

Voting for this challenge begins tomorrow, so please be sure to swing by and cast your vote for your fave team projects after you check out all the eye candy presented by the participants. Of course, we'd LOVE it if you choose us to win, but we encourage you to vote for the projects (team) that you think are the best :)

So, without further adeu, here are the Smeared Ink entries for this round! The theme for this challenge was chosen by the week four champs, Quoth The Raven Challenge Blog. The theme is Tooth and Claw. Check out our team's entries! Don't forget, you can click on any picture to see it closer.

#1 Our first entry comes to you from Leigh. She created an awesome Dragon Wind Chime featuring Smeared Ink's Dragon Love single digi from the Dragon Love set. Be sure to check out the video of this baby in action.

Visit Leigh's blog to get all of the details on her wind chime.

#2 Our second entry is from Kapree. She created a stellar altered bottle featuring a stamp from Smeared Ink's Creature Feature set.

To view all the details on Kapree's project, please visit her blog.

#3 The third and final project for Smeared Ink's entry is from Kristy. She created a really cool textured canvas featuring Smeared Ink's Tiamat single digi from our Women of Power set.

To get all the details on Kristy's project, please visit her blog.

I hope you've enjoyed taking a look at our projects. Please visit our entrants blogs to see all the deets and let them know what you think! Good luck to all of the teams playing in the Throwdown this week, and PLEASE COME VOTE for your favorite team! Voting will be open Tuesday May 28 through Thursday May 30 a midnight.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

DT Throwdown #4

Dt Throwdown #4- Smeared Ink Entry

Hello everyone! Thanks for visiting today to check out the Smeared Ink team entry for the fourth DT Throwdown Challenge on Smeared and Smudged! If you don't know what the throwdown is, please come by and visit the S&S Forum. We have the best of the best Design Teams playing against each other in a friendly and fierce bi-weekly competition. We'd love to have your DT join in as well, and if you are not on a DT, we'd love to have you come and voice your opinion by voting for the winner!

So, without further adeu, here are the Smeared Ink entries for this round!

The theme for this challenge was chosen by the week three champs, HDH. The theme is leather and/or lace. Check out our team's entries! Don't forget, you can click on any picture to see it closer.

#1 Our first entry comes to you from Susan S.

Visit Susan's blog to get all of the details on her journal.

#2 Our second entry, for your viewing pleasure, is from Kapree, who is the newest member of our Smeared Ink DT! We're so happy to welcome Kapree back to our Design Team!

To view all the details on Kapree's project, please visit her Blog here.

#3 The third and final project for Smeared Ink's entry is from Anna.

To get all the details on Anna's project, please visit her Blog here.

I hope you've enjoyed taking a look at our projects. Please visit our entrants blogs to see all the deets and let them know what you think!

Good luck to all of the teams playing in the Throwdown this week, and PLEASE COME VOTE for your favorite THURSDAY or FRIDAY!

Vote Here

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

DT Throwdown #3 - Smeared Ink Entry

Dt Throwdown #3- Smeared Ink Entry

Hello everyone! Thanks for visiting today to check out the Smeared Ink team entry for the second DT Throwdown Challenge on Smeared and Smudged! If you don't know what the throwdown is, please come by and visit the S&S Forum. We have the best of the best Design Teams playing against each other in a friendly and fierce bi-weekly competition. We'd love to have your DT join in as well, and if you are not on a DT, we'd love to have you come and voice your opinion by voting for the winner!

So, without further adeu, here are the Smeared Ink entries for this round!

The theme for this challenge was Mini Book. We chose the theme this week because we won last weeks challenge. The book specifics are that it must have at least 5 pages and be smaller than 4". Don't forget, you can click on any picture to see it closer.