The Masque of the Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death is one of my favorites by the master himself, Edgar Allen Poe. I had a little bit of time to create a digi project for the Quoth the Raven, Nevermore. Quest 9. I used Ikes Art image of Death and added Smeared Ink's EAP. The masquerade image was take from the internet and the rest was created in photoshop. :)

CONFESSIONS SMEARED IN INK! - May Member Blog Hop

Howdy folks! It's time for our Smeared and Smudged Member Blog hop! If you're not already a member at Smeared and Smudged but you enjoy the Alternative, Vintage, and Gothic Art Stamping, you should definitely stop by! We have a great community of like-minded artists/crafters as well as fun challenges and awesome tutorials. The best part about the forum is that you are among people that will appreciate your craft.

The theme for this month's member hop is CONFESSIONS SMEARED IN INK! With this month's Mother's Day celebration we thought it would be fun to have a few confessions from our members....They were asked to use their art to show us something they've never told their Mom about themselves...or about something they have done. This should be really fun!

So, I am not going to go into too much detail about my confession. All you need to know is that I was 19years old, possibly drunk and a a little lonely. It's not something I'm proud of so I was very reluctant to use it for today, but it's the only thing I could think of that I've kept from my mother. We are very close, so she pretty much knows *almost everything about me. If she reads this today....well, then she will definitely know everything about me! LOL. Because of the nature of my confession, I wanted to make it a little more gentle and pretty than most of my other projects. Those of you that know me know that I usually will go for the shock factor, but since this is so personal, I wanted to make it something beautiful. Anyhoooooooo, I will stop stalling now - here you go!

-images are Smeared Inks Dead Dancer and Guide Angel. Paper is digi from Itkupilli.

DON'T JUDGE ME!  ;)

Now, off you go! Be sure to leave some love for our members, they are putting themselves out there for you today!

CONFESSIONS SMEARED IN INK!!
Smeared and Smudged May Member Blog Hop
BLOG ROLL

Tori
Shell
Black Dragon
Susan S.
Jane
Kristy
Lady Brayton
Patti
Monique
Dianne
Ike


*I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Challenge #2 Anything Goes at Just Keep on Creating
Challenge #80 Anything Goes at Truly Scrumptious
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Whimsy Stamps
Anything Goes at My Heart Pieces
Distressing at Creative Craft Challenges 2
Purple and Blue at Everybody Art Challenge
Things with Wings at Oldie But A Goodie Challenge - My black card stock, markers, distress inks and the scissors that I used are all older than 6 months. Hope that's enough!
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp and Show

Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop with Smeared Ink- Join Us!

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

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. You can sign up on the Smeared and Smudged forum by leaving a comment with your name and blog address on the event's page....or if you're not a member of Smeared and Smudged you can leave a comment with your name and blog address on this post. If you're a member (or become a member) of the Smeared and Smudged forum and are a participant, you will receive a free Smeared Ink Skull Appreciation digi image to add to your collection.

After you sign up, be on the lookout for the hop list to be posted. The deadline for signing up as a participant is Thursday May 31, 2012. We will post the hop list of participants on Saturday morning, 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 Tori 
here. 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.


Sponsor list (more as they come)

Smeared Ink - Get $1.50 Off SKULL DIGI SINGLES from now until June 4th! Use coupon code: SKULLDAY2012

Coupon code applies to the following digis:
Anatomy 101 - skull front, Anatomy 101 - skull side, Boney Bunny Head, Calaveras - Bride, Calaveras - Groom, Calaveras - Sugar Skull 1, Calaveras - Sugar Skull 2, Calaveras - Sugar Skull 3, Calaveras - Sugar Skull 4, Deer Skull - Gothic Christmas, Flower King - Horizontal Border, Flower King - Skulls, Flower King - Vertical Border, Flying Skull Digi Single, Skeleton King - As Death, Skull - Quoth the Raven, Skull Bunny, Skull Cherry - Candy is Dandy, Skull Face Flower - Killer Bo Peep's Build a Garden, Skull Wrapped Present - Gothic Christmas, Watchful Eye, Winged Skull Shield Digi Single


Black Dragon



Ikesart


Smudgetastic



Rick St. Dennis


Kenny K


Wenchcraft

Nymphs released as Digis!

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that the NYMPHS have been released as digis! 

Now available in our store :)

The set includes 11 images including the sentiments and cover-ups.

Here are some closer looks at the NYMPHS...you can click on the images to get a zoomed in look. Each Nymph comes with a cover up.

Faes released as Digis!

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that the FAES have been released as digis! 

Now available in our store :)

The set includes 15 images including the sentiments and corner borders.

Here are some closer looks at the Faes...you can click on the images to get a zoomed in look.

NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP!

Happy Monday! We've got something to brighten up your day - a new release and blog hop!! We've worked really hard to get these new images out and our DT & GDT have created some beautiful and inspiration eye candy! Please take a gander and leave them some love :)

New sets:

Women of Power

 Milagros

We hope you love them! Now off you go to check out the DTs wonderful creations! :)

New Release Blog Hop

Black Dragon

Lady Brayton

Helen

Fiona
and our GDT
MaryKay

Coming soon - rubber to digi:

Faes

Nymphs

Li'l Grumpies

Occassional Grumpies

Creepy Li'l Grumpies

Bunnicula Inspired Hop

Hello Everyone! Today we will be sharing some creations inspired by the book Bunnicula! This was one of my favorite childhood books (series) and I hope that if you haven't had the opportunity to read it that maybe one day you will - and maybe even share it with your children. :)

Our challenge was to create something inspired by the vampire bunny (as long as you use a stamped image)! After our hop is over we will be swapping our creations - just an added bit of fun :)

If you like what you see and would like to join in some fun stuff in the future, head on over the the Smeared and Smudged forum....we have monthly challenges, monthly member hop and swaps....and lots of fun compradore!

On to my creation. I worked with one of Smeared Ink's new Vampire bunny digi images. I hope you like it and enjoy the hop!! You are sure to see some wonderful things!

In case you haven't read the book - the tag reads " Take good care of my baby" in Russian. It was on Bunnicula when the Monroe family found him in the theater. :)

Now - off you go!

BUNNICULA INSPIRED HOP N' SWAP!
Blog Roll
Tori
Black Dragon
Trisha
Sugar
Jane
MaryKay
Dianne