IKE'S WORLD CHALLENGES - Challenge #3, Anything Goes and Musically Challenged Challenge

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That is heading is correct!  Anything Goes for Challenge #3 here at Ike's World Challenges.  The Design Team members have used one of Ike's wonderful images from her shop to create our projects for this challenge.  There are such a variety and each DT has done a fabulous job.  Please check out each, get inspired, get to Ike's Shop, and create something!

I have used Wolf 3 to make my 12" x 12"  scrapbook page today.  Two things inspired this page.  One, my son is starting Boy Scouts and is in the Wolf pack.  Two, Musically Challenged blog has Bark at the Moon by Ozzy, Challenge #11.  "...create something inspired by the song, the name, the video, a character, a feeling you get from the video...anything! good luck!"

I wanted to create a pack of strong and confident wolves walking in the moonlight and mist.  Eventually I will add my sons' pic and the rest of his fellow pack members to the page.  For the song, main 'wolf' has a hard time accepting what he has become.  In the end he walks away and I believe, knowing that he is now accepting that part of him.  So again the strong and confident wolves that know who they are.  BTW, Team Jacob!!

Howl It Out Deets
I printed out Wolf 3 image onto copy paper and fussy cut.
Inks and Aqua Painter to color in each.  Then used Log Cabin Smooch Spritz to help add some texture.  Went over once more with markers and Aqua Painter to give a bit more detail and depth.  Added a bit of yellow to backs for light from the moon.
Small Pearl Jewels for eyes.

Background is on Whisper White 12" x 12" card stock.
Cut out moon from scrap paper and places into corner.
Used Brayer and 3 blues to ink background.
Removed moon scrap and added ink to make yellow.
Used scrap paper and Basic Gray ink with sponge to make clouds.
Ink up a template from The Crafters Workshop called Branches with Early Espresso ink.
Placed on page and used Brayer to press ink from template on page.
Aqua Painter and light blue ink to mix in brayered lines and give mist look.
Whole page was spritzed with Gold Smooch Spritz.
All materials are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Smeared Ink Forum - Sketchy Scrapbook June

Been a little obsessed with that American Horror Story Season 2, Asylum.  All those creepy images, a great story, aliens, a mad doctor, the list goes on!  Though you know by now my favorite part...Bloody Face.





The sketch to the left is the Scrapbook Sketch for this month's challenge over at the Smeared Ink Forum.  Join and play along.

I have also challenged myself this month to have a "Mask" in each of the challenges I enter at the Forum this month.  It was hard!  But I did get great use of those stamps that have not been used for awhile.

I rotated my page and deets below.

 

The SKINny

Page measures 12" x 12" and is on Whisper White card stock (cs).  I was making some ice tea this morning and was about to throw away the tea bags when inspiration struck.  Ran back to my desk grabbed some cs and used tea bags to make background.

I added Masking Tape in corners then sponged with ink.

Hands and finger smears were stamped with my Smeared Ink Rubber Club set, Prints.  

Hard to see but grid lines also stamped in each tape corner, over strip under picture, and around edges of the Cajun Craze cs under picture.  Stamp from Stampin' Up! called Off the Grid. 

For the strip under picture, I used the red bag that onions come in from the grocery store.  Laid it on my cs, then sponged Soft Suede ink and got the cool pattern.

Used Cajun Craze Ink for sploches and smears on hands/finger smears.  Sponged ink on all sides of cs.

For my saying, I dyed some White Bakers Twine.  Formed words and used Crystal Effects to hold words together.  When dried, I place on page.

Stitching on left side of photo is Natural Hemp Twine. Picture is of my son who love running around the house w/ that mask on.  Hummm....hope it just means he likes scaring his older brothers!

All product is Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.  Please click on pics for larger images.

Guest Designer Smeared and Smudged Forum - Bloody Face

This is the first project I made for my Guest Design Challenge - Masks over at the Smeared and Smudged Forum.  Get your game on and join us!  I am going to start with how I made the mask.

 

I used a technique called Faux Leather.  I wanted to make the mask look as skin like and leathery as possible.

Start with small pieces of masking tape.  I made the shape of a head, left areas for eyes and mouth open.

I used Whisper White card stock as my base.

I did add some extra layers on the nose for a little dimension.

When finished with my masking tape base, I applied inks with a sponge and then with my fingers. 





Next was to add the shine.  I Versa Marked the entire face.

Clear Embossing Powder was applied to the mask.  Heat gun to melt the powder and give the mask a nice texture.


Once embossed, I cut out the mask.  Cut out the eyes, mouth, and made small holes where the nose would be.


I used a new Stampin' Up! product called Simply White Pressed Clay for the teeth.  I molded with my hands and placed on edge of cut area of mouth. 

Clay took a day to dry.  Once dry I used inks to color in teeth.

I really liked how the Crystal Effects, ink, and tissue paper look like bloody skin, so I used it again around the teeth and eyes.






Once the Crystal Effects was dried, I cut a slit at the top of mask and used Linen Thread and a needle to sew cut slit.

Then added red ink to thread and holes.


 I stamped eyes with a stamp from Lost Coast Designs.  Stamp is from a set called Keys Set 1200.  Ink used was Black Staze On.

I printed images from Google that had to do with the history of Bloody Face.  Cut and used masking tape to adhere to 12" x 12" Crumb Cake card stock.

For the name, I mixed Rookwood Red and True Red Acrylic Inks and wrote the name with my finger.

Spritzed Silver Foil Smooch Spritz over entire page.

When page was dry, I adhered mask with Sticky Strip.

Please click on images to enlarge.

Guest Designer Challenge

I am so grateful to the wonderful group over at the Smeared Ink Forum for inviting me to Guest Design a June Challenge.  This is a free forum full of challenges, contests, and many creative designers.  Please check out the site and I hope to see you as a fellow member.

I have decided to use the theme of "Masks" for my June Challenge.  This is any kind of creative project/s that have anything to do with masks.  I will show 2 projects today and 2 more projects on the 15th to keep your creative minds going.  I have also decided to challenge myself this month by having a mask somewhere on all my projects that I will submit to the Smeared Ink Forum this month.

I can not wait for this month to get started.  Thank You again Smeared Ink for the invite.   I hope to bring you some great projects this month.  So here we go....


 I have two projects to get you inspired today.  The first is a 12" x 12" scrapbook page that was inspired by the TV show on FX called American Horror Story Asylum.  This was Season 2, and one of the main plots was a ghost story about Bloody Face who haunted the run down local asylum.  Bloody Face wears a mask of human skin when he kills his victims.  Creeeeeepy.....

  

My second project is a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card that uses a rubber stamp.  You never know when a gas mask stamp may be needed!

 

Check back in because I will post the details for each project tomorrow.

Get over to the Smeared and Smudged Forum and join this awesome community.

 

 

Class Of 2026

Getting some projects done for the Smeared Ink Forum challenges.  This challenge is called Junk Funk where you use a common material in the house to make a creative something.  This month's challenge was to use Index Cards. 

I ended up making a 12" x 12" scrapbook page for my son, who had his pre-school graduation last week.

Congrats Class Of 2026!

 

DETAILS

I made the page out of the Index cards, then trimmed to 12" x 12".

I used a wheel, called Measuring Stick, with Cherry Cobbler ink on Index Cards for the frame. 

Background inside of frame is a stamp from Stampotique Originals by Daniel Torrente called Heads.  Black Staze On is the ink.

I cut out the saying from the little flyer that was on an invitation to the graduation and used some Washi take to hold pictures and saying in place.

All inks and accessories are from Stampin' Up!

April Smeared and Smudged Member Blog Hop

APRIL BLOG HOP 
I have joined this months Smeared and Smudged member blog hop, Dirty Vintage  The rules are to use vintage style images, make it dirty by grunging it up, distressing it, or making it just plain DIRTY!.  I am excited to see what everyone else has created and will be hopping around myself. 
Blog Hop links are below, and should be up by 9:00am, so go get dirty today.

My husband and I will be celebrating 10 years of marriage next year.  Hubby is not quite as gruesome, or as old, as Vlad in my 12" x 12" scrapbook page.  But, I hope that he has that intense and insane look 50 years from now!

I do have to make a quick apology to Mr. Rick St. Dennis in that I had to free hand re-draw his wonderful lines, after adding the texture to face and hands.  So that is why Vlad looks a bit off and not quite like the original.

 

Here are the bloggers that are in April's Blog Hop:
SHELL
 BLACK DRAGON
KAPREE
MADELEINE BOUQUET
SUSAN
HAZEL 
KAY
MONIQUE
WENDY
ANNA
FIONA

THE DEETS:
12" x 12" Page
The two designer papers I used are Stampin' Up!.  The base is from a pack called Sent With Love and the floral is from Tea For Two.
I used a large background stamp for flowers on the bottom of page called Pleasant Poppies.  The key image is from the stamp set Established Elegance.  Spot mark stamp from the set of French Foliage.  Saying on floral designer from the stamp set Blooming With Kindness.  All stamp sets are Stampin' Up! and are current.
I spritzed base with Riding Hood Red re-inker (SU!) mixed with water, Maya Mist called Mulberry Red Mist, and randomly sponged with Soft Suede ink (SU!).
I drew in the journal lines with Stampin' Dazzle Gold Marker.
The 10's are die cut (SU!), crinkled and sponged on Vellum card stock (SU!).
Used Smooch Vanilla Spritz over entire page to finish.


Vlad
I printed off a digital stamp from Rick St. Dennis, Vlad, onto an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of card stock.
For the facial and hand skin, I mixed Gesso and Stampin' Up! re-inkers to get my color.  Then added a texture from MuddPuddles.net called Marine, to make skin look warty.  I lucked out when I went to put Crystal Effects over texture that it turned the lovely color that it did.  I then used markers to shade and outline.

Eyes and mouth are highlighted with Crystal Effects.

I shaded the shirt, but wanted to give it a more "old" look.  I traced arms with black Sharpie onto Vellum card stock, then cut out and used Crystal Effects to glue to arms on printout.  Liked the look and did the same with ruffled front of shirt.

Vest and pants are colored in with inks, blender pen, and Aqua Painter (all SU!).  I used the Gold Marker for the pendent, clasps, and stitching.

Stems & Flowers
Stems are Basic Grey card stock spritzed with Old Olive re-inker and Vanilla Smooch Spritz mixture.

Flowers are punched from XL Fancy Flower punch (SU!) and newspaper.  I then spritzed the punched flowers with Riding Hood Red re-inker (SU!) mixed with water, Maya Mist called Mulberry Red Mist, and Pink Pirouette Smooch.

Your Advice,

Woo Hoo, new month, new challenges!  Get over to the Smeared and Smudged forum to play along.
Eeeek, Spring Break is this week here and I am going to lose some creative time.  I hope to get to some challenges that I have my eye on so there my be a lot of posts today.

The Rock N Rolla Challenge for April is Nirvana's song Heart Shaped Box.  There were a lot of ideas that went through my head.  The images that stuck with me were the muscles and tendons, poppies and butterflies, and the little girl in white.  Then of course the lyrics had to be in there somewhere also.

I am really happy with my 12" x 12" page.  Hope it has some inspiration in there for you.
Have a great week and go create!

THE DEETS
First, all products used to make this page are from Stampin' Up!

CHEST
I really wanted to use the image of the muscles and tendons of the upper body.  But how to make???  Stampin' Up! has Filter Paper pieces that I decided to use.  I cut it into strips and ran it though the Big Shot in the Embossing Folder Woodgrain.  Then used the Pink Pirouette ink pad directly onto filter paper.  Highlighted the embossed ridges with Riding Hood Red ink.

I hand drew the body first onto Very Vanilla.  Then used the Aqua Painter and Calypso Coral ink to help with the definition of the muscles.

I tore up the filter paper into strips and adhered them to my base with Snail, tape runner.

Once all the strips were down, I used the Riding Hood Red Marker to help define the muscles once more.  Trimmed and adhere to my 12" x 12" Designer Paper.

HEART
I made this mosaic heart stamp with left over pieces of rubber.
It was Versa Marked then stamped onto Whisper White card stock.
I used Iridescent Ice and Basic Black Embossing Powder with heat gun.
I applied ink directly from pads to embossed heart 
(Tempting Turquoise and Bravo Burgundy)

HAT
The filter paper comes in 12" x 6" strips and 6" circles.
I folded sides of one circle and adhered to a triangle from Whisper White card stock.
I used the large background stamp Pleasant Poppies which were embossed with Basic Black Embossing Powder.  I colored in flowers with Riding Hood Red Marker.

Edges of page were sponged and stamped with Basic Black ink and mosaic heart stamp.

Fluffy

Smudgy Antics has a new challenge going on where you can not use color pencils OR markers, yet still be colorful.  Markers is a hard one since I use those the most.  I can not wait to see what everyone has or will come up with.  These are some extremely talented people and it is so worth to check it out.

Re-train the brain to think "no markers" and I remembered a fun technique that uses table salt.
This techniques calls for somewhat detailed image with lots of open space.  Those Lil' Grumpies from Smeared Ink were screaming to be used, at least one of them was.
Fluffy made the most noise.  I wanted color and for Fluffy to be a star in this 12" x 12" scrapbook page.

I printed out Fluffy in a 5" x 7" image on Whisper White card stock from Stampin' Up! (SU!).
I then used Tombow glue in all the large open areas.  Pour table salt onto all areas with glue.  Let dry.  Be sure to let dry because if you add the ink too soon salt will melt and may fall off.
Tap off excess salt to ready for coloring.

I used re-inkers (So Saffron, Cajun Craze, and Basic Black from Stampin' Up!) and the Aqua Painter to color in salt.

  I went around open areas again with Tombow, added salt, and let dry.  Once dry I went in with darker colors to help define Fluffy.

I did the eyes last (top left photo) because I wanted to keep them as white as possible.

The second photo on the left is when Fluffy is finished and you can see the salt crystals better.  Also, when the image finished drying the ink bled into a cool rainbow around Fluffy.  This is what gave me the "star" idea.

I spritzed finished image with Gold Smooch Spritz.
Adhere Fluffy to center of a sponged star that I cut out of Designer Paper from a set called Fan Fair (SU!).

All Designer Paper is from the package Fan Fair that is the base for the 12" x 12" page.

Sponged around edges of page with Gold Encore ink and Cajun Craze ink (SU!).

Spritzed once more with Vanilla Shimmer Smooch and added Rhinestone Jewels (SU!).

Name was from a stamp set called Lovely Letters (SU!) that I colored with watercolor crayons.  I then stamped onto watercolor paper.  Paper was scruched and sponged around edges with Early Espresso ink (SU!).