Smudgefest day 7 Finale

Evening all. I hope you are all sitting comfortably.

It's day 7 of the week long Smeared and Smudged Smudgefest being held over at Smudgy Antics this week. A week when each person has but one day to create a project and link it back to the blog after being told that day's challenge.

Today it's The Final Challenge. 

An image was supplied free just for today on the Smudgy Antics blog and a project was to be made using the specified image.

Another fat book page from me - 6 out of 7 days isn't bad.

I weaved different papers to form my BG then over stamped with some TH Hallowe'en stamps.

The image was printed out 5 times and decoupaged up. My melting pot has been "tidied away" and so second best option taken. Triple layered heat embossing with ordinary clear powder.

A little pumpkin from my stash and this toffee apple with a hint of devilment is ready for his audience.

I am entering this fatbook page into the Smeared and Smudged Day 7 challenge

at Smudgy Antics 

Smudgefest Day 6 - Sketchy Saturday

Evening all. I hope you are all sitting comfortably.

It's day 6 of the week long Smeared and Smudged Smudgefest being held over at Smudgy Antics this week. A week when each person has but one day to create a project and link it back to the blog after being told that day's challenge.

Today it's

Sketchy Saturday

What's a week long challenge extravaganza without a sketch challenge? Nothing, I tell ya! So, here it is...please use the sketch below as inspiration for your project. It does not have to be exact, but we must be able to tell that you got your idea from the sketch.

Well that's the brief. From me - another fatbook page. I will get this filled with this week's extravaganza.

The BP is from my bit box. The paper is from Delicious Doodles as a downloadable digi paper. One of many, this one is the Swirly Hearts.  Thank goodness for bit boxes. My pc is "not well" The hard drive is dead and I'm working on the bare minimum here and haven't got my normal programs installed on this temp machine. A scrap of (I think) MME for the image to rest on. That is, in fact, two images - masked one on top of each other. Both from the Morte Rubber set from Smeared Ink. Stamped in latte ink and coloured with promarkers and golden highlights with metallic markers.
The Cross and chain., lace and metal lacy corner in stash. The filigree corner started out as a bright silver colour but my inky fingers tell a tale of the alcohol inks used to colour it.
That's about it.
Back to this errant pc of mine to try and find the programs I need to install.

I am entering this fat book page into the challenge at
Smudgy Antics - Day 6 of the Smudgefest - Sketchy Saturday

Smudgefest - Day 5 - Flowing Friday

Evening all. I hope you are all sitting comfortably.

It's day 5 of the week long Smeared and Smudged Smudgefest being held over at Smudgy Antics this week. A week when each person has but one day to create a project and link it back to the blog after being told that day's challenge.

Today it's

FLOWING FRIDAY

Create a project using a flowing medium. Some examples could be watercolor, liquid ink, liquid glues, thinned out acrylics, etc.... use your imagination and let the juices flow!

Another fatbook page has emerged from my crafty area for today's challenge. Even if I don't have a full weeks worth - I can insert pics of the other day's projects. (eg yesterday's ATC)

I used water colours and inks to colour my image.

This is the water Nymph from the Smeared Ink Nymph rubber set in my collection. The link is to the digi as the rubber is now unavailable. I stamped her using green stazon, inkeeping with my colour scheme.
Coloured, as I said with water colours and then dipped in watered down distress ink. Finally spritzed it with water and let it run.
The background is the secondary paint transfer from when I was creating my BG on Wednesday with my gelli plate.

image dry, I secured some fibres to the base and overlaid with the image. The shells are from stash. A touch of glitter.
Done.

I am entering this into the Smudgefest challenge at Smudgy Antics for today.

Smudgefest day 4 - Twisted Thursday

Evening all. I hope you are all sitting comfortably.
It's day 4 of the week long Smeared and Smudged Smudgefest being held over at Smudgy Antics this week. A week when each person has but one day to create a project and link it back to the blog after being told that day's challenge.

Thursday's Twisted Challenge

Make an ATC with a "twist". You can interpret "twist" anyway 

My Twist - it's not just an ATC - it twists and turns and can be a source of much amusement. I made a "Jacob's Ladder" - ATC sized from the top. A Chunky ATC from the side and room for more embellishment/photos/ whatever.

The front/top cover features a stamp from the Smeared Ink "Urban Decay" set, Heat embossed and trimmed to fit.

side view

showing the folds held together with three lenths of ribbon and, 'scuse the inky mitts, hanging 

I am entering this into the Twisted Thursday Smudgefest challenge at Smudgy Antics

I'd also like to enter this into the challenge at
Crafty Ribbons - Anything goes with ribbon

Smudgefest - Day 3

Evening all. I hope you are all sitting comfortably.
It's day 3 of the week long Smeared and Smudged Smudgefest being held over at Smudgy Antics this week. A week when each person has but one day to create a project and link it back to the blog after being told that day's challenge.

Today the Challenge : WICKED WEDNESDAY

"It's a colour challenge! Use these wicked colours to create your project for today."

Well here they look like Burnt Umber, Mint Green, Lime Green, Bottle Green and Powder Blue. Later in the day the names of the colours were described as Brown, Seafoam, Lime Green, Black, Sky Blue. So I was quite close. There was black ink used so I hope that covers it.

I made yet another fatbook page. This way I can have all projects for the week gathered in one place.
The image - so many to choose from! My son chose the Smeared Ink Grumpies.  I had no problem with that.
I stamped the images on the required coloured card and fussy cut them out. Made a base paper using my gelli plate. Then started the gluing process. Oh and a die cut fence with an arch - trimmed to size.

The words are just written by me
























I am entering this fatbook page into the challenge at
Smudgy Antics - Smudgefest day 3 - Colour challenge

Smudgefest day 2 - Terrifying Tuesday

Evening all. I hope you are all sitting comfortably.
It's day 2 of the week long Smeared and Smudged Smudgefest being held over at Smudgy Antics this week. A week when each person has but one day to create a project and link it back to the blog after being told that day's challenge.
Today the Challenge:

TERRIFYING TUESDAY

Create a project that showcases your favourite scary Smeared Ink image. Go ahead, pull out all the stops and give us the willies!


Which stamp to choose? Had to think hard. In the end I went for one of the Zombies from the "Build a Zombie" rubber set. To add that extra bit(e) I had him trying to get in the window depicted in another of the stamps available. This one is from the Morte set (as drawn by Rick St Dennis and exclusive to Smeared Ink Rubber Club)
Another Fat book page for my collection

I stamped the window image onto acetate as well so that I could add the glass at the windows

The images were coloured with promarkers before all the fussy cutting was done.

Talking of fussy cutting - Smudgy Antics regular challenge is still open with the challenge theme of fussy cutting - if you're joining in the Smudgefest - why not combine the two challenges?

I am entering this fat book page into the challenge at
Smudgy Antics Smudgefest Day 2 - Terrifying Tuesday

Smudgefest - day 1

For the third year running, Smeared and Smudged are hosting a week-long smudgefest - a chance to create quick projects - 24hrs is the maximum and enter into the draw to win a MASSIVE $200 prize from Smeared Ink. The daily challenges, together with more info are being posted on the Smudgy Antics blog so if anyone is looking to enter the normal 2 weekly challenge ( fussy-cut projects) a bit of scrolling will need to be done.
Today's Manic Monday challenge is titled "Bi-Polar" - all about opposites - and a fabulous example has been created by Black Kitten.

My entry features Mr Poe from the Smeared Ink "Quoth the Raven" rubber set as the main image. I also used the raven image from Rick St Dennis for my base paper. The elements on my fatbook page are all taken from the "Tic-Tac-Poe" grid from the challenge at Quoth The Raven challenge blog.

First up - the base paper. The RSD raven image was manipulated in a graphics program so that it, and it's mirror image were tiled before printing. Love the way the raven images form a heart shape like this.
Then the Smeared Ink Mr Poe was stamped on both black and white card, fussy cut out and cut, roughly, in half. The full image then re-constructed using one piece from each colour. The white ink on the black started to go grey, being absorbed into the black I think, so I painted over with acrylic paint and added some texture in the process.

Little flowers were each covered with black and white glitter and attached to Mr Poe's head. Doesn't he look sweet.

Some black and white tulle was stitched together and pleated. The join being covered by stitching on some black satin ribbon. There's another opposite The male EAP has been dressed as a girl, lol.
Some black and white lace and a couple of feathers before our leading character, and that's all the elements of that grid covered.

I am entering this fatbook page into the challenges at
Smudgy Antics Smudgefest - Day One - Bi-Polar
Quoth the Raven - Tic-Tac-Poe
Left Of Centre - LOC anything goes