NDUSTRIAL LEMON

6.14.2011

June Member Blog Hop on Smeared and Smudged!

Thanks for joining us today for our June Member Blog Hop! We got some talented people joining in to show you some awesome projects! If you haven't visited us on Smeared and Smudged yet, please check us out...it's an awesome network of alternative artists and stampers that have come together to share ideas, support, and to showcase their art! We have great monthly challenges with great prizes from all kinds of different sponsors....IT'S JUST A CLICK AWAY! Come join us for some fun!!

OK, so, on to the hop. Want to know what our theme is? Since the weather is getting so nice and we'll be spending so much more time outdoors, we were asked to use a natural element in our projects! There has to be some sort of natural element that we found outside included in our projects. It can be a stick, a rock, a pressed flower, a leaf, a bone, etc. This is right up my alley since I live in the country and find cool stuff all the time!

Here is my offering:

The natural element is the feather that I found....I colored it black with my stamp ink and added some silver. The stamp I used is RIP Birdy - this is the freebie digi you can get this month by playing along in one of our challenges on the forum!! Keep in mind that the only way to get our freebie digis is to play along with a challenge - they're not available to order through our shop.

I also created this card towith our Guest Designer Challenge from Susan (Susan's Crafty Chaos) in mind. Her challenge was to make it MONO! This is the first time I've ever tried to make a card without more than one color, so I hope it works (silver doesn't count as a separate color, right? - it's gray, which is just a tone of black, right? - oh well, LOL).

I also entered it into the Macabre Monday HDH093 Challenge - Kuriously Korroded with Kenny K. "Create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that is distressed in some way. Ripped, smudged, torn, sanded, acid-eaten, burned, mangled... you get the idea." I used a lot of distressing with my black ink and also ripped around the edges...so it counts! :) I love when I get to play at Macabre Monday!

Here's the rest of the hop participants! Be sure to leave everyone some love!!

Tori <---Me!
Paula

Sugar

Kapree

Lady Brayton

Black Dragon

Heather

Laura

Ike

Jane

Jennifer

6.08.2011

WINNER!

OK, here we go...the winner of the Scentsy Prize is.....

DONNA!!!!

Congratulations! Go to my website and pick out your DIY warmer, DIY theme pack, and three scents of wax! Email me and let me know what you're choices are!!

6.04.2011

1st Annual Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop with Smeared and Smudged!

Thanks for joining us for our first ever Smeared and Smudged Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop! Our friends over at Skull A Day started a campaign to get today, June 4th, officially recognized as National Skull Appreciation Day – what a fabulous idea!!! We are BIG fans of the cranial cavity over at Smeared and Smudged so we decided to join in on the celebration by offering up some fabulous art from our various members!! We really hope you enjoy the ride – there are 37 blogs on our hop today so have a great time and be sure to check back at Terra's blog for ways to win some fabulous prizes from our sponsors!! Also, some of our blog hop participant (including me) are giving away prizes...so pay attention and win some cool stuff!!

In honor of Skull Appreciation Day I created several projects. I was up all night last night working my cranium to make these craniums look cool!!! Ha ha. Anyhoo, here are my offerings:

First, a couple of cards to warm you up. These cards were made using Smeared Ink stamps. We gave away some freebies for the blog hop participants and I wanted to color them up and give them some character.

For my main project, I started another journal...yep, ANOTHER journal! LOL. I have a weird obsessions with zombie apocalypse...and since we're so close to 2012, I figured this would be fitting. I used the side-facing skull from Smeared Ink's Anatomy 101 digi set. The rest was created with gesso, tissue paper, distress inks, paint markers and a little bit of Mod Podge. I titled my journal "How I Killed the Infected"....the journal will consist of anatomy lessons on how a zombie "works"....and the most affective ways to kill them. I'm really excited about it!!

Front Cover

Front cover view with spine

Alternate view

Skull detail

Bloody handprint detail

Now - FOR A GIVE-AWAY!

Among the many things I have my hands in....I have a Scentsy business. I'm going to give away a DIY Warmer, Theme Pack and three bars of wax – YOUR CHOICE OF SCENTS!! To qualify, become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment. It's that easy! On Wednesday, I will choose a winner using a random number generator! GOOD LUCK!! You can check out the theme packs and more details about Scentsy here in case you aren't familiar with it :)

Alrighy then! Now continue on to see all the other wonderful projects! Have fun!

Tori <----me!

6.03.2011

Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop List for Tomorrow

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.moresmearedink.blogspot.com">Terra</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ndustrial-lemon.blogspot.com/">Tori</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/"></a><a href="http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/">Alison</a><br />
<a href="http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/">Kelli</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/">Jane</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://paperandstring.blogspot.com/">Alex</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://creatingartwithheart.blogspot.com/">Judi</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kathstales.blogspot.com/">Kathi</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/">Steph</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ldfdesign.blogspot.com/">Lisa</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://freddietoledo.blogspot.com/">Feddie</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://stampdetails.blogspot.com/">Heather</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_794344028"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/">Kapree</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://piecesoffatesusan.blogspot.com/">Susan</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dkspinner.blogspot.com/">Dianne</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: 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style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://trishliciousandco.blogspot.com">Trisha</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dawn-timetocreate.blogspot.com/">Dawn</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/">Lady Brayton</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://donnamundinger-popsicletoes.blogspot.com/">Donna</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/">Black Dragon</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://scrappingbeauty.blogspot.com/">Paulette</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" 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5.24.2011

Do you believe?

Hello everyone! Tori here to bring you a fun little project I made last night using Smeared Ink's Faes unmounted rubber stamp set. I really, really love these little guys....and if you like them, you better hurry up and get them because they're being retired! They are available for ONLY $16 on our website (go to SHOP and then SPECIALS) but only while supplies lasts!

So, last week I tried a new technique using gesso and my NEW BEST FRIEND - the heat gun. I really liked the results I got from it, so I wanted to play with it some more (that's what she said, tee-hee). This time, I started with a box that i had left over from some Christmas chocolates that one of my work vendors had sent to me...it's a cute little box and I probably have 5 of them laying around waiting to be used. I took the box apart so I could lay it flat and then i applied a thick layer of gesso to it. Then, I heated it up with my heat guy to create the wonderful texture you see below. It's so awesome!

After that, I painted my box with purple and green acrylic paint and left it to dry. Then, I went and chose two of my favorite faes and colored them with my prisma color markers, white ink gel pen and some glitter glue - set aside to dry. By this time, my box was all dry and ready to play with me, so I punched some holes around the edges so I could thread some silver twine to hold the box together. I really liked the look of the silver with the purple and green so I used some around the top and also tied little bows on each side. Last, I adhered my faes to the box along with the sentiment "Believe"... and VIOLA! I hope you like it, thanks for stopping by!! :)

I'll be entering in the following challenge(s):

Pattie's Creations - Anything but a Card

Polka Doodles - Anything but a Card

A Spoonfull of Sugar - Things with wings

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Sparkle and Shine!

Terrifically Thrilling Thursdays - Anything Goes

Paper Play Challenges - Sparkle Galore

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

5.18.2011

Simply Betty and Smeared and Smudged!

Today the Smeared Ink design team and Simply Betty's team have come together to showcase some of the fabulous new Zombies! Simply Betty is one of our challenge sponsors this month over on the Smeared and Smudged forum. Come and play along for a chance to win some fabulous prizes!!

I was given this opportunity to work with a lovely dead beach babe!! I really loved coloring her and was inspired to create an apocalyptic fantasy vacation scene. I used acrylic paint washes for my background and made some beat-up buildings...using a dark gray color scheme to give it a gloomy "dead" look. I drew in some wandering zombies to add some depth to my landscape. After all the coloring, I decided to try something new. I used my Gesso to create some neat texture for the sludgy water waves and then painted them with more acrylics (sea foam, green and a touch of black). The final touch was putting it all on black cardstock, cutting the hole for my beach beauty to peak out thru, and adding the sentiment "you deserve a vacation".

Enjoy!

Front

Inside

Also, be sure to hop along and see all the other gals and their wonderful creations!

Tori (YOU ARE HERE)

5.10.2011

Pamper Yourself!

Good morning! Today I have a card I made for my mother for Mother's Day. It's a fairly simple card but I thought appropriate. I used the "pampered" li'l grumpie from the Occasions Li'l Grumpies set, stamped her in a lilac ink and colored her with my prisma color markers. I used a little bit of Tim Holtz distress ink around my edges and layered some maroon and cream colored card stock. I used the senti "pamper yourself, damn it.", also from the Occasions Li'l Grumpies set, added a bit of ribbon and a couple of brads to complete the look. I hope you like it!