Smudgy Antics - Don't Be A Grump...

What a great turn out last month to get the Smudgy Antics blog back up and running.  So many fab projects and we hope to see you all again this month.

A new year and a new month for you to enter your wonderful projects into Smudgy Antics Anything Goes Challenge.  A Smeared Ink image, either digital or stamped must be used in your project, and link to our challenge are a sure way to win some great prizes.  Please read the Rules to make sure you are eligible.

Check out Smudgy Antics daily for inspiration from each of the Smeared Ink Design Team.  I have today for inspiration and have a set of four 3"x 3" cards using the digital set Li'l Grumpies and the rubber stamp set Grumpies Occasions.

FRONTS

BACKS

Grumpie Deets

Each 3" x 3" card background was with Acrylic paints and the homemade gelli plate.  Various tools and stencils used to make patterns.

Grumpies were printed onto Whisper White card stock and colored in with Blendabilities.  They also have Crystal Effects over main images, were fussy cut, and adhered onto card fronts.

Sayings are stamped in Black Archival Ink:

"you're old."

"get better. now."

"take a load off."

"relax."

Smeared Ink June 2014 Design Team Monthly Blog Hop

 

June 2014 Design Team

BLOG ROLL

Shell

Kapree

Shoni / Crafty Inknik - YOU ARE HERE

Creepy Glowbugg

Rebecca

 

Happy Monday and last day of June to all of you hoppers out there today.  Here at Smeared Ink we, the Design Team have such wonderful stamps and papers to work with it is hard to choose a project each month.  

 

You may have arrived from Kapree, and I hope you have left her some input on her wonderful project.  We all love to have feedback and so appreciate and welcome any comments.  Up next is Creepy Glowbugg, who always has such creative inspiration.

 

I have decided to work with the Lil' Grumpies set, which I immediately fell in love with the first time I saw them.  I believe they were also the first full set of digital images I purchased from Smeared Ink.  This week we in the states celebrate the 4th of July.  I have made a little table display, Grumpie Style.

Have a great week and be sure to "Party like a Grumpie."

 

 

The Nutty Deets

 

Lil' Grumpies are printed onto Whisper White card stock.

Each was colored in with Blendabilities and markers.

Fussy cut as best I could because I wanted to make sure I got all the hair strands.

Crystal Effects on each.

 

Pinwheels were from a Paper Pumpkin Kit (SU!).

Eyes from stash and adhered on with dimensionals and glue dots.

All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

 

Metal dish from stash.

Pistachios...yum!

 

 

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!).