Freaky Freebie Sept & ASiD #9 Challenges

It's the beginning of September and so many wonderful new fun challenges out in cyber world going on right now.  This card will be entered into two challenges today.  Images is called Woodcut Skull and is this month's Freaky Freebie offered over at the Smeared and Smudged Forum.

Card is also going to be entered into the current A Step In The Dark challenge which ends today.  Challenge #9 - Anything Goes and or Steampunk.  So if you have a project that fits this challenge...get it in quick!
Please do check out the Design Teams beautiful inspiration for this challenge.

FLASH

NO FLASH

SIDE VIEW

 
Eyeballin' the Deets

Freebie image was printed out onto Whisper White card stock in 3 different sizes.
Used Exacto knife to cut out left eye.
Fussy cut the skull that was slightly smaller.
Colored in all three printed images with Blendabilites.
Adhered smallest printed image in the left eye.
Crystal Effects on teeth, and eyes.
Large eyeball is fussy cut and raised with dimensional.

Went over all dots on printed image with Silver marker.
Silver Dazzling Details used on flowers.

Background was made with stamp from Smeared Ink called Candy Is Dandy (July 2014), which can be seen in the Rubber Club Past Offerings.
Randomly used Silver marker to make dots on background.
Sponged with ink on all edges.

Foil placed in Square Lattice Embossing Folder (retired SU!) and then adhered to card base.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Smeared Ink DT Monthly Blog Hop & ASiD #8

SMEARED INK DESIGN TEAM

BLOG ROLL

Black Dragon
Shell

Shoni - Crafty Inknik (YOU ARE HERE) 

Creepy Glowbugg

Elenor 
Rebecca

This month the Smeared Ink Design Team had the theme VINTAGE.

Please be sure to stop by each blog and share your thoughts.  

We have some wonderful projects for you today and to get you all in the crafting mood! 

To see more fab work by our team please check out the free Smeared and Smudged Forum.  We would love to see you there.

I have created a vintage box with a great little topper that I have altered from one of my kids old toys.  I believe that this was from a Happy Meal from McDonalds. 

The Smeared Ink sets I have used are:

Circus Procession Digital Set

Jack (May 2014) - Rubber Club Past Offerings

Carnies (Dec 2013) - Rubber Club Past Offerings

This project will also be entered into A Step In The Dark blog challenge:

 Challenge #8 - Anything Goes 

CLOSE UP OF TOP

SIDE 1 

BACK

SIDE 2

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry for the Deets

Digital stamps from Cirus were resized and printed out onto Very Vanilla card stock.

Mixture of inks, water, and alcohol inks to add aging to images, randomly on box, tickets, ribbon, cloths pin, bakers twine, watch trinket, and doily.

Images were fussy cut, sponged with inks around edges and then adhered to finish box.

Box

Box was made with WeR Memory Keepers Gift Box Punch Board.  It measures 4" x 4" x 4".

Paper is from Me & My Big Ideas.

Gold Encore ink for stamped stars.

Cajun Craze ink for words.

All edges are sponged with ink.

Alcohol ink for random sploches.

Gold Smooch Spritz on all sides and top.

Topper Body

Found a great tutorial on Split Coast Stampers using foil papers to make chipboard or 3D items vintage.  It called for foil paper already w/ the sticky stuff on the back, which I did not have.  I used average foil from my kitchen and sticky strip.

Toy was covered with sticky strip and cut up foil pieces.

Black Gesso over entire covered toy.  Let dry.

Holtz Alocohol inks (Butterscotch & Latte) and Blending Solution with sponge over entire toy.  This helped take off some of the Gesso and color the foil.

Added some Lava Red Inka Gold Metallic Rub for a bit more color.

Head is a digital stamp resized and printed twice and fussy cut.

Adhered together, sponged around edges, used alcohol inks to give a bit of color, and then Crystal Effects.

Extras

Collar is Chantilly Crochet Trim Ribbon (retired).

Metal button is a brad from stash.

Cloths pin has washi tape and was inked and sponged.

Tickets are from stash and inked up and distressed.

Safety pin is from stash.

Cherry Cobbler Bakers Twine which was inked.

Metal Clock from Tea Time Trinkets (retired) was also inked.

Doily 

Sewing pattern for layer on top of Doily.   

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

Smudgefest 2014 Day 4

It is Day 4 of the 2014 Smudgefest.

Toil & Trouble - Use three of the listed ingredients on your project.

I have chosen Black, Ribbon, and Foil

This is a topper for a storage case.

Picture of lid in the sunlight

Topping off the Details

Main image is a Smeared Ink Rubber Club set.  This stamp is from the set Morbidly Adorable Tarot (Jan 2014) and can be seen in the Rubber Club Past Offerings.

I inked the stamp with Versa Mark Ink.  

Stamped onto foil, found in my kitchen drawer.

Used Pearl Ex colors and paint brush to color in image.

Used Crystal Effects over entire image.

Once dry, I inked up stamp again with Archival Black Ink.

Re-stamped over first image on top of dried Crystal Effects.

Used Butterscotch Alcohol Ink and Blendabilities (alcohol markers) to go over areas in image to help stand out a bit.

Adhered finished foil piece to Basic Black card stock.

Adhered ribbon (from Michael's) to back.

Once done adhered finished piece to top of lid.

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

My Wailing Tree

Junk Funk Challenge at Smear and Smudged this month is - Foil.  I just recently did a project with foil and wanted to create a 3D project to really show off all those cool textures that you get with foil.

THE DEETS

 

TREE
 I started scrunching the foil to the form that I wanted the tree to be.

Then added more foil at the bottom to make a thick trunk. 

I also kept this part of the tree pretty lose so that when I did add the faces at the bottom it would be easier to press them into the trunk.



I had to use folded squares to first form the face with a stylus, then I used Crystal Effects to help hold the faces in place once they were pressed into the trunk.  There are 9 faces around trunk.

Once the faces were in place and dry, I used a blue Sharpie to color in the eyes and mouth.

I finished twisting and forming the tree, then spritzed with Mulberry Red Maya Mist, and a concoction of acrylic paint (Burnt Umber) and alcohol.  The spirtzing really helped in showing all the grooves and cracks in the tree.

I added Crystal Effects to the faces to help define them a little more.

BANSHEE
My wailing beauty is from Rick St. Dennis, click HERE for link to her.

I printed out and did a mirror image as well because I wanted the project to be able to be seen from all sides.

She was colored in with Copic's, set with Crystal Effects, fussy cut, glued together, and places in the tree.




The last two photos are of two other angles so that you can see all limbs, faces, and her.

As I am writing this, the designer paper in the back really does not fit this.  Sorry!  It needs a good graveyard scene.

  

HDH 163 - A Divine Comedy

Haunted Design House Challenge 163 is Dante's work, A Divine Comedy.  Phew there is a lot of inspiration in this.  I went from idea to idea to freakin' out a little because nothing was working.  I made the mistake of looking at all the great ideas and finished projects from the other posts and decided to let the concept sink in a little.  Be sure to check out "the others" projects and what a fantastic job they all did.

I started on a couple of projects that I will eventually finish, but not in time, because my printer decided to take a dump on me and die.  May have to use it for parts...So I decided to go another way.

Smeared Ink has a Design Team Throwdown going on right now (awesome!!)  and the winners from last round, Haunted Design House, got to choose the theme for this round, Faux anything.  With this in mind I created my little wall hang using foil.

My project features Minos, a judgie character who sits outside of the 2nd Circle of Hell.  His tail curls around his body indicating which level/circle of Hell that the soul will go to.
I found a wonderful sketch from the artist Caleb Gresham which I used for my main image.  In this, Minos's tail is made from snakes.

 

CENTER IMAGE DEETS:

I had printed out Caleb's sketch and laid it over a piece of foil.  I used a stylus to trace over the sketch lines to make the imprint on the foil.

Once finished I colored in with markers (SU!), and Sharpie's.  When finished with main image, I used Crystal Effects to seal in colors and add a little dimension.

I used a skull stamp from Inkadinkado (Creepy Creatures Cling) to make it look like Minos was sitting on a bunch of skulls.  Then colored in with Sharpie's and Burnt Umber Acrylic Paint.

I used the stylus to add texture to the backgound around Minos and to write in the name.

FRAME DEETS:

For the frame I cut out a 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" from card board for the base.

Scruched up foil, flattened, and used brayer to make the backgound texture.

I glued Pleated Satin Ribbon (SU!) to the card board base for the snake skin texture.

Glue the foil to frame.  Use brayer over top of covered frame so that the ribbon shows up.

I added acrylic paints (Dark Pine from Deco Art Americana and Burnt Umber from Fold Flrt) to help bring out the textures.

Last I used Basic Black re-inker (SU!) and the Aqua Painter around all edges of frame.