3.19.2013

VAMPLETS! Help make this happen!

I'm a big fan of Gayle Middleton and her awesome work. Let's help her kickstart her Vamplets! These little gothic beauties are right up our alley! You can pledge as little as $1 to help her meet her goal! Come on! :)


Follow this link to pledge and to get all the deets on what you can get for pledging! :)

3.14.2013

March member blog hop for Smeared and Smudged!

It's that time again! Time for the Smeared and Smudged member blog hop. The theme this time around is......END OF THE RAINBOW!!

Now, if you know anything about our members, cute rainbows are not what you will see today! So be prepared! I actually tamed my imagination down a bit. I went colorful and made a step card ( I think that's what they're called). First time for me, so definitely could use some practice!

I printed the sky image, rainbow and pot of gold from the interwebs (courtesy of google). Then I cut them out and distressed them with TH black soot. I heat embossed some gold into the pot so that the gold was a little more believable. For the background image...I embossed a few different splatters from the Smeared Ink Inky Dreams rubber set. Looks like my rainbow threw-up on the sky! I also heat embosses some of my Heart wings on black card stock and cut them out so they look like birds. I used pop dots to raise them up. I colored my Smeared Ink Ghouly Witch with copics and then cut her out.....and then the grass is just cut from some green paper from my stash. The final touch was spraying it all down with some gold glitter....it doesn't photograph well, so I'm not sure if you can see it. This didn't come out quite as I had pictured it in my head, but that's how it goes sometimes! I hope you like it!












Now off you go! Go check out all the other amazing projects by our forum members. Be sure to leave them some love and tell them how much you like their creations!

3.11.2013

Altered Doll/Bottle

Here is a little something I created for the GDT Challenge on Smudgy Antics. Mark Gould is our GDT and he is an excellent artist. I hope you have a chance to visit the forum to check it out and hopefully play along! 

Here are the pieces I gathered to create my altered doll.


The first thing I did was paint the stomach with black gesso and some molding paste to give it some texture. Then I cover everything in crackle because that takes a while to dry. After it was done drying I  started painting! I used a few different colors of acrylics. The botton layer is blue then I dry brushed the green and brown. 


 

Once I had all the pieces painted and dried I began to assemble him. His heart is heat embossed from a Smeared Ink stamp from the Candy Is Dandy set. Hope you like him! (sorry, lots of pics to follow)




  


 







3.06.2013

Bloody Valentine Box update

Just thought I'd share the final pics of my bloody valentine altered cigar box....I added an image to the inside and it seemed to complete it pretty well :)





2.12.2013

Bloody Valentine Blog Hop - 2013 - Day 3

Today is the last day of our Bloody Valentine Blog hop. I'm really sad to see it end!! The inspiration has been wonderful and even tho i didn't go as "bloody" as I have in the past, I still really enjoyed myself!

For my last offering I made a choker. I used a heart from Smeared Ink's Heart Wings rubber set and stamped into clay...baked, painted, and assembled...here is the final product...hope you like it!






Now - Off you go! Hop on over to Shell's blog to see her wonderful creation!



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Bloody Valentine Blog Hop - 2013 - Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of the BLOODY VALENTINE HOP! My offering for today is an altered cigar box. I started this a loooong time ago and just couldn't get it to where I wanted it to be...but alas, I have run out of time! I wanted to add some more red to this, but I couldn't find any red paint! LOL. Oh well... This altered box was created using gesso, moulding paste, bits of jewelry, keys, a wood burning tool, acrylic paint, spray inks, distress inks.....etc, etc, etc. I have yet to fill it with something wonderfully creepy...I'll be sure to share when I do!














Now - Off you go! Hop on over to Shell's blog to see her wonderful creation!



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2.11.2013

Bloody Valentine Blog Hop - 2013 -DAY 1

Here we go again! What would Smeared and Smudged be without an event to celebrate Valentines Day - OUR WAY! Instead of a February member blog hop we will have a three day long BLOODY VALENTINE HOP! Our hop will be on February 11, 12, and 13.

Our bloggers are creating one project per day - so you will be entertained!
I'm first on the list and I hope you have a chance to visit all of the other hoppers on the blog roll (you will find the blog roll at the end of my post).

For Day 1, I offer you an ATC...."My Heart Beat"....I will also enter this ATC into the new challenge over at Smudgy Antics - Beating Heart ATC.




I heat embossed my inky splatter (from Smeared Ink's Inky Dreams), Atomical Heart (from Smeared Ink's Candy is Dandy), and letters (sent to my from Ike) with red embossing powder (to look like blood)...and then I used my white picket fence distress marker to color inside the lines. I trimmed a piece of clear plastic (from a perfume package) and embossed it with my Vintag Big Kick.... Then, the rest was glue and dots. Hope you like it! I will also be swapping this with one of the other entrants at Smudgy Antics. :)

Now - Off you go! Hop on over to Shell's blog to see her wonderful creation!



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