7th day of S & S 12 days of Christmas

oops late again
This should have gone live about an hour ago. Oh well

My project today is some table napkins that will be part of the table settings on the big day.
There are two stamps used on these. Both from the occassions Grumpies set from Smeared Ink.



I used an flat sheet that was hardly used as we use fitted sheets nowadays. I find it hard to throw something like that out so has been lounging in the bottom of the linen closet for at least two years. I cut off a large strip and then cut that into 4. Hemmed all 4 sides before stamping the images with stazon.
Heat set then coloured with fabric dyes. Heat set again.
There we have it. Quick(ish) and simple once the cutting and hemming was done.
















The blog roll is over on my side bar for you to go look at everyone else's creations for today.

day 6 of Smeared and Smudged 12 days of Christmas

I would be more organised if the internet would behave itself. Or rather the weather. That isn't about to happen any time soon so will have to work around it.
Anyway.... we've reached the half-way mark with day 6. woo - hoo.
Today's project is something that will find it's way into all the stockings of those big and not so big kids.
Snowman Soup!!

I've made up a few so far but have a few more to do.

I've used a discontinued Stampotique snowman, Coloured the image, scanned it and then made into a .png image so that I could add the text and print out loads all at once. Cut out then added just a touch of icicle stickles for that bit of shine.
All packed in a mug then sealed in a sandwich bag. Really simple and loved by my lot.
contents of the cup are
Couple sachets instant hot chocolate
little mini marsh mallows
candy cane

Now don't forget the other bloggers - list over there on the right
See you on tues
Take care

X-travagant Xmas and day 5 of 12 days of Christmas

A dual post
It's challenge day over at Delicious Doodles. It's all about Christmas this week. The challenge is to go overboard on the Christmas embellies etc and that's just about what happened here. I'm not normally one to use a lot of fru-fru on my cards. So this one is quite extravagant for me.



I used 3 of the images from Delicious Doodles shop - The Pine Cone Corner, The Ivy Corner, and the Merry Christmas Sentiment.
All coloured in using promarkers, the c.s. distressed with bundled sage DI and various elements layered up for depth. The holly leaves were given a coat of glossy accents. MS pine branch punch used on some old gold thin card for the edges on the top part of this twisted easel card.


Some old papermania chrimbo paper used on the base with some pleated satin ribbon. The sentiment was cut out with a die cutter and layered onto the square and some white and gold glitter added.
My new TH pine cone die came in handy for this didn't it!





So let's see those cards over at Delicious Doodles Challenges .... pretty please.

As I mentioned right at the beginning - This is a dual post. So while you're hopping along with the Smeared and Smudged 12 Days of Christmas - have a look over at Delicious Doodles as well and go see the beautiful DT creations there.

I am entering this into the challenge over at
Joanna Sheen's Challenges - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

4th Day of 12 days of Christmas with Smeared and Smudged

here's hoping blogger will autopost this ok this time.

My 4th day project is also an entry into this weeks Smudgy Antics Challenge. This week the task is to create something along the "Steampunk on the Darkside" theme.
My project is a "Christmas tree". It has a gothic fairy, Seriba, from the range from Smeared Ink sitting on top.

I used a papermache cone that a friend had previously given me and covered in dark green coredinations that I had lightly crumpled and sanded.
The cogs are TH die cuts, heat embossed with metallic powders. I stapled on some small boiled sweets to the cogs and then stuck to the tree base with strong glue dots.

The comes Seriba. I coloured her with my pencils then scanned and printed out several images - reversing half of them. The wings are made from a drinks can that I embossed with some TH gears. The opposite aspects so the tree can be viewed from all sides without seeing plain card.
Hence the "inside" of both sides also have the relevant side of the image stuck to it.


As you can see from her feet here.

I am entering this into the challenge at
Smudgy Antics - Steampunk on the Darkside
Paper Makeup Stamps - Cut out your digi - I did, several times
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges - Something Sweet
Flutter By Wednesday - Open

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

2nd day of Christmas with Smeared and Smudged

So to day two of the blog hop organised by the folks over at the Smeared and Smudged forum.
This is also the day when the DT showcase some of the fantastic new digi stamp releases for Christmas. As I'm GDT for December, I get to play as well. Yayyy.
I was sent Drinking Buddy Elfette and a couple of the gifts; Skull Wrapped present and Spider Wrapped present to use. I made a card.
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The images were coloured with promarkers and then ink distressed and grunged with DI.
The sentiments are computer generated by me. The main BP are from Crafty Chaos. The other, I think, is from papermania. All mounted onto a Kraft card base which was also well and truely distressed. The cord from stash.
The blog roll is on my sidebar incase you get lost. Don't forget to go visit all the other awesome creations made by the rest of those talented people over at the forum.

The First Day of Christmas with Smeared and Smudged

The first of the 12 days that the folks over at the Smeared and Smudged forum have organised. For full details please go to the forum.
My project is also the challenge that I am setting as GDT for December.
A Yule Log



I used all natural elements gathered from my garden and surrounding area, log,holly,ivy, evergreen branches. There are 3 logs wired together. Some holes drilled in to house the candles.
Then some stamped images were coloured with promarkers.
I chose the images stamped for me by a friend from Smeared Ink. These depict the four "elements" of Water, Earth, Fire and Air.








































Air and water have been coated in UTEE. All images are held in place with wire, coiled to hold the pics and secured to the log

Please see the blog hop list over on my side bar to visit all the other awesome pieces created by my fellow artists.

Day 2 is on sat 3rd dec so please pop back for more.