Smudgy Antics Catch Up! A Day Late Valentine

Sunday was my day to post my project for the Smudgy Antics challenge blog.  Now we had Friday the 13th, then Saturday - Valentine's Day, so what better way to end the weekend with 'a day late valentine'.

I have made a card that features a lovely little friend from the Smeared Ink digital set called Monster Hearts.

Hat's Off the these Deets

Heart friend was printed onto Whisper White card stock.
Colored in with Blendabilities and markers.
Veins hand drawn in.
Silver marker on eye piece and chain.
Crystal Effects on all eyes and drips on both fangs.
Fussy cut and adhered to card front.

Card base is Whisper White card stock with layers of Basic Black and Smoky Slate card stocks.
Words are from a Smeared Ink Past Rubber Club stamp set called Creepy Li'l Grumpies.  Stamped on with Ranger Archival Ink.

Weekly Smeared Ink DT Project and Junk Funk March Challenge

For this week I have chosen to combine my Weekly Smeared Ink Design Team Project, in which I have only used Smeared Ink stamps, with a monthly challenge on the Smeared and Smudged Forum.

I have altered a tin can to make what I like to call my "Eye Can Can".  

The Junk Funk Challenge is to use lids, any kind of lids.

My lids are bottle caps.

Eye Catching Deets

Eyes are from a digital stamp from the set Monster Hearts found in the Smeared Ink shop.

I cropped the image to get only the eyes, then printed.

Each is colored in with markers and punched out with 1 1/4", 1", 1/2" circle punches.

Clear stones were purchased at Walmart and hot glued on.

Finished eyes were placed in bottle caps and Crystal Effects over each.

Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks used on base of tin can.

Large Pearl Jewels for white eyes.  

On the smallest caps, I hand drew eyes with black Sharpie.  

Black Sharpie also used for eye centers on Pearl Jewels.

I did use hot glue in some open areas to help give texture.

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

Smeared Ink Weekly DT Project & Chromatic Craze Challenge #7

What I made for this weeks Smeared Ink Design Team project was a home made puzzle.
I also used this round's of Chromatic Craze colors Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Buckaroo Blue (retired), and Mellow Moss (retired) to color in my wonderful Smeared Ink heart image from the new set Monster Hearts.
Once again, I apologize for the Flash photo, may have to take another picture tomorrow in real light to see the colors a bit better.

This project will be also up over at the Smeared and Smudged Forum.  Please head over there to see more wonderful weekly inspiration from my fellow Smeared Ink Teammates.

Chromatic Craze Challenge #7 has great colors this round and please also stop to see the design teams wonderful creations and to enter your project.


Cut Up Details

Heart from Monster Hearts digital set was printed onto copy paper.
I cut around image and glued to cardboard box.

Cut out heart with a cardboard edge.
Inks and Aqua Painter to color in image.
 Black Sharpie to color in eye to make a bit darker.

Once dry, inked entire image with Versa Mark ink.
Clear Embossing powder over all areas.  Heat set with heat gun.

Cut out the pieces/shapes of the puzzle.
Sanded edges of all cut pieces.
Used Crystal Effects on all edges.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Smeared and Smudged Bloody Valentine 2014 Blog Hop - Day 1

SMEARED AND SMUDGED

Presents

BLOODY VALENTINE 2014 BLOG HOP

February 11th - 13th

 Blog Hop Roll

Shell 

Sue The Nanny

Susan

Julia 

Black Dragon 

Kristy 

Maureen 

Fiona 

Leigh 

DominoART 

Airless Chambers 

Quoth The Raven  

Ike's World Challenges 

Wendy 

Shoni aka Crafty Inknik - YOU ARE HERE

Ike 

Left Of Center Creative Challenges 

Lisa 

Violent Kitty 

Lady Brayton 

Samara 

Rebecca

What better way than to celebrate this special day of love Smeared and Smudged style!  Bloody, bloody, and more bloody.  I for one am very excited to see what everyone on the Blog Hop Roll has created.  

To find out more information on the event see Terra's Blog.  She is one of the hard working ladies behind the scenes. 

You should have just seen Wendy's dripping ornament and next up is Ike, who is seriously stepping up her game with multiple entries.  Have fun, get inspired, and get crafty!

I also have an entry with Ike's World Challenges on this blog hop as well.  So I will have the details for each below.  

Pinned & Bloody is what my little project is about:

Ike's World Challenges Entry - Claws of Love:

Pinned & Bloody Deets

I printed a heart from Smeared Ink's digital stamp set Monster Hearts onto Avery Fabric Transfers.

Images was colored in with Copic markers.  

Trimmed and then ironed onto Stampin' Up! fabric (Candy Cane Lane set - retired).

Fabric was trimmed and sewed. 

Heart was then stuffed with dryer sheets and the fluffy layer used for sewing.

I used Paint Splats from Quick Kutz to make my blood puddles as my base.

Claws of Love

Kitty is from Ike's Art.  Image is called Bauble Cat. 

Images is printed, colored with inks and Aqua Painter, fussy cut, Versa Mark inked, and heat set with Clear Embossing Powder.

Paint Splats from Quick Kutz once again used as blood puddles under kitty.

Background

Negatives from cut Paint Splats were placed randomly on insert from designer paper pack and sponged in with Cherry Cobbler ink.

Ribbon is Real Red Stitched Grosgrain.

Eyes are fussy cut from Face On image found at Ike's Art.

Markers for eye centers and around eyes to help pop them out a bit.  Crystal Effects over each eye center.

Marker to make hearts randomly on background and to highlight eyes and words in poem.

Poem is from I Could Pee On This by Francesco Marciuliano, hand written with black Sharpie.

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

Weekly Smeared Ink DT Project

This have been one week of getting crafty!  Hope you all have been trying to some creativity in your week.

Smeared Ink has resurrected the Design Team Monthly Hop, for the 2014 year, which I am so happy to be a part of.  Click HERE for the first one.  We will be having this DT Monthly Hop the last Monday of each month.  So please check us out and the wonderful projects that we hope will inspire you.

Smeared Ink came out with a new set called Monster Hearts.  I love these hearts and had to play around.  So my Weekly Smeared Ink DT project today features one of these hearts, which I can always carry with me.

Iron On Details

When I saw Monster Hearts, I had to try to make one on a bag.

I printed image out onto Avery (3302) Fabric Transfers.  Now it says that you need an ink jet printer, but since I have never done this...what the hell, lets just try it.  AND it worked!  I have a Canon MG3222 printer, nothing special.

Again, never having tried this, I decided to use Copic's to color in my image.
Once done I used my iron to adhere colored image to the fabric.

I am not the best at figuring out measurements for sewing.  I guess-ta-mate a lot.  I set the cut image and made a reasonable sized rectangle w/ the fabrics.  I did add in the 1/4" seams that would be needed when I did finally sew it all together.  Outside fabric is from stash, and red lining is from Essentials set from Stampin' Up! (retired).

I hand stitched the lines around mouth, two on the right eye, X's around main image, and buttons on left eye with embroidery thread.

I did line inside with the stuff to make the sides a little stronger and the fluffy material also.  So sorry for you who do sew, that I do not know the names of these. 

Yes, there is Crystal Effects on the center of mouth and center of right eye.  Had to try and it did lose a little of the dimension but made those area shiny w/ a cool texture.

Buttons are SU! (retired).
Zipper used was 7".
Bag ended up measuring 6 3/4" x 6 1/2".
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

So glad I tried this and now will have to make more.  Get out of your comfort zone and go try something new this week! 

Smeared and Smudged Forum - Freaky Freebie January Challenge

Already into week one of the New Year and got a FREE fun new image to play with over that the Smeared and Smudged Forum.  This is a free forum, a wonderful creative community and lots of fun month long challenges!

My project for the Freaky Freebie January Challenge is using the Smeared Ink image PHLEM from the MONSTER HEARTS set.

I have made 3, 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" set of cards with a belly band to hold them and the envelopes.

Eyeful of Deets

PHLEM from the MONSTER HEARTS set is printed out onto copy paper 4 times. 
Each is colored in with marker, inks, and an Aqua Painter.

Cards
Basic Black card stock for base measuring 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".  Cut printed images and adhered to card front.
Used fine tip Black Sharpie to write "I love You" on lower right corner for each card.
Same Sharpie to make stitching around each printed image.
Crystal Effects on left eye and drool.

Belly Band
Extra piece of left over Black Card stock from 8 1/2" x11" piece that I cut up for the 3 cards.
Scored and adhered.
Basic Black Chevron ribbon around band.
Tore a White Tea Lace Paper Doily in half as a base.
Used an old bag from stash for the black netting.
Unraveled a small piece of Cherry Cobbler Sweater Trim Ribbon for the red bits.
Adhered netting and ribbon bits to doily base.
Fussy cut last colored heart and adhered it all to belly band with Sticky Strip.
Used Ranger Black Accents on large eye and pupil of small left eye.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.