Dragon Tales

It's not only a great new set release from Smeared Ink, Dragon Love, it's also the theme of the challenge over at Smudgy Antics this week.
The other DT members have some great examples to show you of the other images but this is the one I chose to use this time.....Skull Keeper.

I altered a CD tub. The top that normally sits on top of the spindle to keep the blank CDs safe, turned upside down.
The paper used is from Susan's Crafty Chaos. Still waiting for her to rejoin the crafting community, I do miss her work.

I cut various sized circles, well my cricut did the hard work ;) and tiered them up. There is a circle under the big one that fits in the case to stop the lid sliding off. One of my skull beads and a couple of small spacers to form a knob. I needed some where to store my collection of skull beads after all.

Skull Keeper itself was coloured with pencils and blended with baby oil.The skulls it's protecting were coloured with promarkers. A graphite pencil used to form a back ground.

The wings were layered up so that they stood proud of the container and looked more "wing like".

Go look at the other examples created with the talent of the other DT members and come back and share your Dragon Tales. Please.

I'd like to enter this into the challenge at
Simply Create Too- Anything Goes
Critter Sketch Challenge - Use a Digi

Hiding in the Corners

It's Monday, it has to be Macabre - over at Haunted Design House it is ;P

 This week we are being sponsored by 

 with a $10 store credit up for grabs

I got to play with Alexandria and Alice.

The main images are coloured with promarkers and popped up on the card.

The background scene and the two little cauldrons in the bottom corners were created using stamps from DeStempelwinkel and Aly's Inky Fingers. Stamped using distress and memento inks.

Glossy accents helped "lift" the cauldrons. The BP is from Susan's Crafty Chaos, who will hopefully be back with us soon. The sentiment is computer generated by me.
The top corners are also adorned, of course.

some little bat sequins with just a touch of bling for the bodies, lol

Some charms in the top right

OK folks, your turn!! Come show us your adorned corners. For more fabulous inspiration - go visit the other minions. We have an even newer newbie than me in the dungeon, please don't forget him. Yes, we have a male minion as well now. Well worth a peek!
See you soon
I'd like to enter this card into the challenges over at
Craft a Scene - The Great Outdoors
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. challenge - Add a Charm

True Blood!

A tribute to that TV series True Blood is the theme over at Haunted Design House this week. Now, if like me, you've never seen the programme, this might seem daunting. I used good old Google to find out more before I made my piece. I warn you now - the red is really a deep blood red. in some places it takes on an orange hue -  totally blaming the light here.
This is my twisted easel card I made.

I had to box it to keep some of the light away.
The main image and the tag inside is from the Eternal Matrimony paper set from Jem's Designs. They do have some glorious gothic images. This image seems just right for this theme. The BP is plain red paper that I stamped the script from the Andy Skinner range, gothic stamp set, at Personal Impressions. Then over stamped with Smeared Ink's Blood spatter rubber stamp and heat embossed in red. The cross is a digi from Smeared Ink's Glam Vamps' Accessories. This was printed onto red 4 times and cut out layered up with pinflair with a ring pin between the layers and dipped in UTEE. This was then able to be decorated with some beads and attached with a brad to the card. Some red and black heart lace from stash. Then there's that favourite punch - the MS drippy goo one

The grey paper is from Crafty Chaos. The layout for the inside is from the Smeared and Smudged Very Sketchy challenge for June. I added some die cut leaves - white painted lightly with silver and the roses are a TH pine cone die cut. Rolled tightly and some glossy accent dripped on and when dry coloured this with promarker. There is some gathered black tulle under it all.

See what I mean about that orange :( but you get a better look at the inside here. Some little red tear drop gems finished this card off.

Your turn folks. Get those fangs out, show some of the scarlet and show us truebie or not truebie.

Drop Dead Gorgeous with Smeared Ink New Releases

That's our theme over at Smudgy Antics this week and for the new images about to hit the Smeared Ink Shop. I think you have to agree - these Ladies are

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

I hope you're sitting comfortably - this is quite a long post!!
This is also part of a blog hop within the DT 
Please go to Tori's Blog for the start

New Release Blog Hop

Black Dragon

Lady Brayton

Helen

Fiona
and our GDT
MaryKay

I gave you a preview last week with Luna - and in case you missed it

Then we have Tiamat

and the card I made with her following the sketch at Eat Sleep Stamp

Next up - Medusa 

and the card I made with this beauty

Last, but by no means least, we have Bakeneko

and the card I made with her using the sketch over at My Time Made Easy

I did warn you they are an awesome set of ladies!! There's another but you'll have to nip on over to the other Design team blogs to see her. The list is over there at the beginning of this post.

The nitty gritty deets

ALL the images were coloured with water colour pencils but blended with baby oil. I wanted there to be something else that linked the girls apart from being in the same set.

Other details on Luna can be viewed here on my previous post.

ALL the patterned BP are from Crafty Chaos Designs

Tiamat was matted onto copper paper then torn TH kraft coredinations. Some wire was shaped and attached then a layer of burlap then onto to patterned BP.

Medusa - well, I masked her off with card instead of my usual thin paper. I wanted a void between the background stamp and the image. Background stamp on a set from Personal Impressions stamped in adirondack latte. Edge was ink distressed with wild honey DI, matted onto purple card. Three swirls using dark but multi coloured stones in the bottom left hand corner and two hand made organza flowers with another hand made embellie made using short lengths of serpentine chain. Some jade green lace to highlight the green in the cobras' hoods. The purple corner die cuts are made using a sizzlits die.

Bakeneko Backed onto more copper paper. Some torn kraft coredinations above then the three panels below are patterned BP then dry embossed red/pink coredinations - sanded and a small piece of white hammered card that I tapped straight onto the wild honey DI pad. all this on some old gold card with a pale pink/chocolate ribbon. The leaves are a sizzlit die cut as well cut from the same old gold card.

I hope you are still with me
There's more!!
Yet another set being released this week is the Milagro set.
I made a tag with just one of the images - FLAME

I coloured this little beauty with promarkers as I wanted a stronger and more vibrant image.

The church image behind is from the Smeared Ink Holy City rubber set. Stamped in white onto a black base. The bush was coloured using pencils. I used PVA glue on a couple of stamps and rubbed foil leaf over to get that flaming sunset look. The image mounted onto copper and red after being fussy cut out. The ties in yellow, red and black to co-ordinate with the dominant colours of the tag.

WOW that's all the pics and deets. I think.

A few challenges I'd like to enter into

with Medusa

Craft Your Passion - Loads of Texture

with Bakeneko
My Time Made Easy - Their Sketch
Creative Mondays - Anything Goes

with Tiamat
Eat, Sleep Stamp - Their Sketch
Just Keep on Crafting - Anything goes

Shot Through The Heart

Yet another Valentine card - with a difference. Maybe you won't want to send this to your nearest and dearest? Or maybe you would?



This card co-incides with a few new images released by Smeared Ink this week - Bloody Valentine. I got to play with a few :-) having been elevated to that exalted position of Design Team Member. See the new badge over there on the right? Woo Hoo!!!
Anyway,
I followed this month's sketch over at the Smeared and Smudged forum, following the theme set by Haunted Design House - Shot through the heart. The sentiment came from the song by Bon Jovi.

The images are "Holding Heart" and part of the "Hanging Heart"





Both images were coloured with promarkers







The blood on the holding heart was covered with glossy accents. the entire hanging heart was dipped in UTEE.
The sentiment was written by hand on the "sketchy banners".
The backing paper is from Crafty Chaos .
Lace, chain and other cs from stash

I am entering this card into the challenges over at
Haunted Design House - Shot Through The Heart
Smeared and Smudged Sketch challenge - Their Sketch

10th day of S&S 12 days of Christmas

What a busy week ahead, those last minute preparations looming. Todays offering is an ATC. It is a reminder that up until 80 years ago, Santa looked very different. The modern day Santa, with his red suit and rotund figure, was invented by Coca Cola as an advertising ploy. Don't believe me - look it up.
So this ATC was to mark this anniversary.


It's the last scrap of the acetate sheet. Honest. (For now, hehehe hohoho)
The script with written on by hand then heat embossed on.
The image is from Stamp It Crazy last year. Coloured with promarkers then loads of DI to give it that old grungy look.

The scrap of purple with the skull is from Crafty Chaos. The gravestone is a rubber stamp, origin unknown, cut from more of the coredinations used as the base card.
As before, the list of fellow bloggers is over there on the right, please don't forget to got visit them as well.
See you wednesday for another project. Thanks for visiting

9th Day of S&S 12 days

Three quarters done and only a week to go before it's a case of "if it's not bought/made - it's too late". For our month long blog hop over at the Smeared and Smudged forum it's "Smeared Ink Day".
My project today is a card.
I used the sketchy from the forums card sketch challenge and Watchful Eye digi from Smeared Ink.


The dark green coredinations was sanded as a base. The skully paper is from Crafty Chaos.
The sentiment is computer generated. The raffia and plain papers from stash.
The image was printed a few times, coloured with promarkers and decoupaged up. I played with some UTEE, melting pot is going to be under the tree so this was just the granuals melted with a heat gun.



The links to my fellow artists are over there on the right.

I will be entering this card into the challenge at
Smeared and Smudged Very Sketchy Challenge -their sketch

3rd Day of 12 Days of Christmas with Smeared and Smudged

Edit: Blogger was auto'd but didn't :(

Hi folks, yep, already day 3. Today I have combined a project made for another forum as DT member there - Stampin'Dymonz' Scrap Shack.
This weeks fancy card is a Snow Globe Card
I've used one of the new Delicious Doodles images - The Penguin Family.


Bit of a glare - sorry - acetate isn't kind to a flash but I've tried to reduce it a bit. The base was made using a paper from Crafty Chaos Designs.
The image was touched with just a little bit of coloured pencil in yellow. All the rest of the work has been done by Teri. A bit of icicle stickles to highlight the sun hitting the snow. More stickles on the front, rubbed in so that the paper glistened softly. Afew snowflake peeloffs.

Inside


I stamped and heat embossed a little rhyme about penguins. I mixed silver and blue embossing powders with a little bit of silver glitter to give a slightly distressed look and sparkle all in one.
That's about it for me. There're loads of awesome creations being made and posted by my fellow artists. Please go look. The list is over on my side bar.
The next day is wednesday ... hope to see you here

continuation of meander mini - chains that bind

Loathsome Lotharios is the challenge over at Haunted Design House this week. The idea of continuing last week's 3" meander mini album with subsequent challenge entries appealed to me. Thankyou Susan.
So using some of the dark images from Tellen's Place Designs, we have a little tableau of some adoring females under the spell of Creeth.

The papers are from Crafty Chaos and Moonlight Journey.
Behind the page with CreethNSumi is written "Nothing is more binding than LOVE, Nor as BLINDING"


and Shera standing behind having shaken those chains




















I am entering this into the challenges over at
Haunted Design House #94 - Loathsome Lotharios
Tellen's Place Designs - Anything Goes (with a TPD image)

Xtremely Xhaustive

Make a something with something that goes ooooonnnnnn and oooooonnnnnn.
The original idea was from Barb over at Haunted Design House with a little mini book kit that was in a blog win last year. This is the full sized version of the meander mini. A full 12" sheet of CS made into a 3" square mini.


Trust me to start something on saturday and have to go to work on sunday. These pics are as far as I got before time dictated I should blog it.






Cover is from papers at Crafty Chaos.
Chain, eyelets, charms all from stash. The 2mm pearls from Pizzaz Aplenty.

The little roses are homemade from ribbon.















Inside this, some more chain and two images masked and stamped. I know the elf lady is Third Coast but unsure on the man behind the screen. These were both coloured with promarkers.

Inside back cover is a couple of images from Delicious Doodles, coloured with DIs


The spiders' web paper will be continued to the other pages as this is yet another thing in nature that is "very, very long". Plus it will fit in with my theme of "binding chains"

I am entering this incomplete (for the moment) item into the challenge over at
Haunted Design House #96 - Xtremely Xhaustive

Beyond The Door

I made a little video featuring the mini book made for the opening day of the Dark Arts Forum over at Stampin' Dymonz Scrap Shack, but after waiting over 6hrs for it to upload to blogger I'm going to post the pics here instead.
All the images are from Tellen's Place Designs, coloured using distress inks. The backgrounds of the ATC sized pictures are from Moonlight Journey. Additional papers from my scrap box are from Crafty Chaos and The Angel Company.
The pages are made from toilet tissue inners, painted black.
Various ribbons from stash. Hand made lace flower.































I am entering this into a couple of challenges
Haunted Design House #95 - From the Bone Pile - Use your Scraps
Shopping Our Stash - Use scraps/recycle - did both