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.

31 DOH - Day 13

Day #13 of the 31 Days of Halloween event, held by Smeared Ink and the Smeared and Smudged Forum.  To start from the beginning, see daily winners, and for more info check out Terra's Blog. 

You are now here at Shoni aka Crafty Inknik's and should have just left Roni's blog.  Jenn is next on the Wicked Blogger list, that is on your left if you just joined us. 

To answer a question from yesterday's post - Susan, I spritzed the back of the card stock with water to make more pliable.  So when I stuck it on the mask it was easier to form to the mask.  I think it is finally dry today!

Today I have and ATC.  It uses on the stamps from the Smeared Ink Rubber Club set Morte, drawn by Rick St. Dennis.  The dark side, fun, and lucky 13 is what this month is about. 

Sinful Deets
I placed the background die cut piece over Very Vanilla card stock and spritzed with Glimmer Mist Alaskan Salmon and Dylusions Cut Grass Ink Spray.
Took off die cut and used part of it for the background.  Adhered it to Basic Black backing.
Image stamped on with Black Staze On ink, colored in with markers, and then fussy cut and adhered.
"Welcome Baby" is stamped in Black Staze On and is from a retired Stampin' Up! set called Something to Celebrate.
I wrote the top saying with a black Sharpie.
Hard to see, but the cross and die have Gold marker on them.
I used clear micro beads and Crystal Effects over the main skull.
All materials are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop June 4th

Do you love creating amazing projects that showcase skully goodness? Wanna get some traffic to your blog and share your obsession? Join us on June 4th for one wild blog hop event! We will be celebrating Skull Appreciation Day 2013 by featuring handmade projects that spotlight the much-loved cranium. We will also be giving away lots of freebies during the hop!

To join in, simply make a homemade project or craft that features a skull and sign up to be included in our hop list. This is open to any crafter or artist who would like to feature a handmade skull-themed project, it does not necessarily have to use a stamp. 

Click HERE to join the Smeared Ink Forum and get signed up and find out more information.

 All participants will receive this awesome free Smeared Ink Skull Appreciation digi image to add to their collection, drawn by Alexandria S. (to claim your freebie, please email us at smearedinkstamps@gmail.com after you sign up)

He Watches

Haunted Design House had started a new challenge, HDH164, Bare Bones.  This is a great one because you must be clean and simple.  That is pretty hard for some us, no embellishments or layers.  Please go check out some of the projects that are posted, they are a help in getting you in that frame of mind.

 DETAILS

I cut out a skull head shape from cardboard.  Then the eyes and nose.

I placed my Whisper White card on some paper and set the cut skull in the center of card front.

I made a mixture of Early Espresso re-inker, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, and alcohol.  Spritzed the card front until front was completely covered. 

The cut cardboard skull was then removed and I stamped my saying with Summer Starfruit ink then Black Staze On.

Stamp is from Smeared Ink set As Death.
All other supplies are Stampin' Up!

Whaddya Think?

When I first joined Smeared and Smudged I immediately checked out the challenges.  The project that I am posting today is for a Junk Funk challenge where you recycle something in your home.  This month it is newspaper.
Now you can do a lot with newspaper and my initial go to was paper mache.  But the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do something different, out of the box.
My inspiration for this project was the face coming out of the wallpaper, only with newspaper.  I scrunched and spritzed and glued for an outcome that I never knew I could create.  All I did was try, and so should you.
I am also going to join in the Left of Center Creative Challenge this round.
I thought it would be fun to make the picture look like it was the "morning" paper.
So, Whaddya Think?

THE DEETS:
I started with scrunching up about 1/4 of one newspaper page.
Then scrunched up and spritzed with water 1/2 of a page.  This 1/2 page went over the smaller balled up one to help form the bulk of the head.
I glued the top 1/2 down, with Tombow, on all sides to another piece of newspaper as the base.
I then formed the head by pulling and scrunching to make the mouth and eyes.
Once I had the basic form of the face, I tore off more pieces of newspaper to go around the sides to help with the look of the face coming out of the newspaper base.
I made sure to dry after any water or spritzing just in case of molding.

I spritzed with a mixture of alcohol, re-inker, and water.  I used Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake re-inkers (SU!).

I stamped the flame images (The Great Outdoors stamp set - SU!).  Then colored in with markers and punched out.  I set in eye sockets and covered with Crystal Effects.

Once the eyes were dry I went randomly over raised areas and around base with an Acrylic Paint Dabber, Espresso.  Then used a sponge as well with the same paint.

I wanted to Steampunk this up a bit, so I Versa Marked a small 3" x 3" piece of newspaper.  Then used Pewter Embossing Powder to emboss.  I impressed the cogs (on head and side) with the stamps from a set called Clockworks (SU!).  Cut them out and tore strips to add faux metal to project.
Raided my husbands tool box and found some washers, screws, and other metal objects which were glued down.

I spitzed again with Tattered Angels Chalkboard called Alaskan Salmon and Gold Smooch Spritz (SU!) to finish off the coloring on the project.

I found some headlines in our local paper and adhered them with Crystal Effects.

Since I wanted to make the head look like it was out of the paper itself, I glued newspaper base to 1/2 of a piece of newspaper.  Once dry, I again glued the bigger base to the left side of our local paper.  I used Crystal Effects to adhere all the edges of each base down.

(SU!) - Stampin' Up!