SoSS #9 Guest Designer and SI Weekly DT Project

The new challenge is up for those crafty ladies of the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers today.  The #9 Challenge is R is for Ribbon.  Use some ribbon on your project.  I am obsessed with ribbon and thankful for this opportunity to Guest Design for this challenge.  I have tried to use the ribbon in a new and fun way.

My images are also all Smeared Ink and so will be using this project for my Smeared Ink Design Team Project.  The main image is from the Venice Digi Set.

Below will be all the details on how I created the ribbon frame and made this wall hang.

Thanks again to the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and be sure to get your ribbon projects in!

Punching out the Deets

Main mask image was from Venice Digi Set.  Printed onto Very Vanilla card stock, colored in with Blendabilities, and fussy cut.
I used Silver Dazzling Details for bells, face, and highlights on front.
Crystal Effects over entire image.

BASE
My base is a card board box that held CapriSun's. 
I used a nail to punch holes around each side.  Then did one more inner row.
For the metallic look, I had some Kyron Mirror Spray Paint which I then covered my base.
Red StazOn ink and En Francias background stamp (retired) were stamped to help frame the main image a bit more.
Rhinestone jewels were also added for some glitz.

FRAME
I used the color of ribbons that I used in image.
Each ribbon was cut to around 4".
I started using a lollypop end to get the ribbon through the punched holes, but the stick ended up bending.  I then found a plastic large sewing needle that was a lot easier to push the ribbon through.
There are at lease 3 different ribbons for each color, besides the black and gray in the corners.  All ribbon is retired SU!.
Some ribbon ends were trimmed.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

You can click on pics to enlarge.

SI May 2014 Member Hop & Aurora Wings #2

SMEARED INK

Member Blog Hop

May 2014

BLOG HOP ROLL

Black Dragon 

Susan R 

Susan S 

Erin 

Shoni aka Crafty Inknik - YOU ARE HERE

Ike 

Rebecca

Titbelsoeur

If you have already been at Erin's blog, and those before, you may already know that the challenge for this May Member Blog Hop is WATER.  We get to interpret this any way we would like.  If this is your first stop, Ike is up next and the Blog Roll is listed above.

Members of the Smeared and Smudged Forum have a chance each month to show off their mad skills.  I am so happy to have 7 other fellow members join me this month.  Please leave some love because I know each one of them have worked very hard in a short amount of time. 

I am also entering this wall hang into the Aurora Wings Challenge Blog.  The theme for Challenge #2 is Monochromatic.

For this project, I had no idea what I wanted to do.  I was looking for tutorials using paper towels and somehow found this wonderful picture of a fish that was made from toilet paper rolls.  It looked a lot like Quilling, just on a bigger scale (hehe...).  So I decided to try it out with card stock.  Below you will find more pictures on the beginnings of my fish.  I am so happy to share this with you and very pleased at how it all turned out.  Enjoy!

Gut Full of Deets

FISH

8 different card stocks were used.  I cut up into 3/4" x 8 1/2" and 3/4" x 12" from all different blue toned card stocks.

Used a Bone folder/pencil/paintbrush end to help curl the strips.

Sticky Strip to help hold it all together.  Mini Glue dots to help the swirls stay in place. 

Once the fish was completely done, I flipped it over and used Crystal Effects over as many edges as I could.  Then flipped it back and adhered to my finished background.

THE SEA aka background

Background is made from two pieces of cardboard backing that comes in the SU! Designer Paper packages.  They measure 12" x 12".  Used a piece of packing tape to hold them together.

I really wanted these bubbles to stand out.  I stamped bubbles with the darkest blue I had, Night of Navy, then used Clear Embossing Powder and heat set on the stamped images.  Each bubble was colored in with Pool Party and Marina Mist markers to help add depth and pop a bit from the rest of the background.

Ink layers, Pistachio Pudding, Pool Party, and Marina Mist were then brayered on.

Homemade spritz with re-inker and alcohol randomly over entire background.

Different colors of blues inked onto two sizes of bubble wrap to make background textures.

Crumb Cake ink and a background stamped called Netting for more texture.

Other stamps used:

Smushallaum and Octopet are by Daniel Torrente from Stampotique

Rising Bubbles and Leafy Sea Dragon from Designs By Ryn

Stamp from set Dedicated to Art (Dec 2013) from the Smeared Ink Rubber Club

Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz on entire background.

Tore the right and lefts sides.  Inked and sponged torn edges and all sides with Night of Navy ink.

Crystal Effects over embossed bubbles and randomly around fish.
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.

Ike's World Challenges - DT Project for Challenge #9

I hope you have Ike's World Challenges on your blog list.  There are some fab challenges, wonderful inspiration from our Design Team AND Ike is offering a FREE image for you to design with!  Join in the challenges and win a great prize, you just have to use an image from Ike's Art or the free one to be able to claim the prize.  Check it out.

For my Ike's World Challenges Design Team project, I have made a door/wall hang.  Challenge #9 is Anything Goes.  I used the image Shelf Kat, which was the free image for a previous challenge.

My son love cats.  He got a book called I Could Pee on This - And other Poems by Cats, by Francesco Marciuliano, for Christmas.  We sat one afternoon and read some, and LOVED them.  We have 3 cats and have always had a cat.  So, reading these poems, by cats, was hilarious.  So the book title and the poem inspired this project.

 

Soiled Details

 

I printed out Shelf Kat 4 times.

Fussy cut and with each layer, I cut off a piece of Kat.  This is to add dimension and got this technique from Ike herself.

Each layer of Shelf Kat was colored in with inks and an Aqua Painter.

I adhered layers with dimensions.

Crystal Effects on the eyes, nose, and inside ears.

Marker for the Poem, hand written.

Aqua Painter to make the sploches on background.

Gold Smooch Shimmer Spritz on background as well.

Card stock layers for base are Early Espresso, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, then Whisper White (what Shelf Kat is on).

Crushed Curry Chevron Ribbon, Gold Bakers Twine, and an orange Bakers Twine (from scraps) for hand and ribbon.

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