Weekly DT Project and Anything Goes January Challenge

Monday.
Yup.
Did get some cards finished and one of them is for my Weekly Smeared Ink Design Team Project.  I have used one of my favorite Smeared Ink Rubber Club stamps for the card I am sharing today.  Smeared Ink has some great little characters in both digital and rubber form called Grumpies.

Since my card only contains Smeared Ink stamps, I am also going to show it off in the Smudgy Antics Anything Goes Challenge on the Smeared and Smudged Forum.  Check out the free Smeared and Smudged Forum for more Challenges, Mixed Media and Art Journal groups, and unique projects posted for you to be inspired by.

I have succeeded in making a home made gelli plate and now have tons of awesome background pieces.  Acrylic paints, along with a Brayer and brushes have made up the background for my card today.  More deets below...

FLASH

 

NO FLASH

Finding All The Deets

I stamped my ghost Grumpie from one of the past offering Smeared Ink Rubber Club stamp sets, Creepy Lil' Grumpies (August 2013 set #2) with Black Staze On.

Stamped images where then fussy cut out of one side of inked background.
Stamped images again on cut ink background that I used on the card.
Used marker to color in eyes of each cut Grumpie to help them pop a bit more.
Dimensional used to give more dimension to the cut Grumpies which were adhered to the card front.

Layered card stock onto card base, Midnight Muse card stock.
Wrote words with pen, cut and layered.
Used dimensionals to adhere to left side of card front.

Crystal Effects over words and eye centers of Grumpies.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Musically Challenged Challenge #16 and Stampotique Designers Challenge #130

It's a gelli of a day, no?  Well it is for me because of a wonderful lady who also a member on the Smeared and Smudged Forum posted what she found on how to make your own home made gelli plate.

I did make one and it was finished and set by 8:00pm last night.  Had to play of course and so made this card that will fit in 2 wonderful challenge blogs.  The first is called Musically Challenged.  Usually the challenge is based off of a video that is posted, but this Challenge #16 is A Song from A Movie that inspires you to create something.

The second is Stampotique Designers Challenge blog.  The Challenge #130 is Something New.  My NEW purchase was the ingredients I used to make my NEW fun tool the home made gelli plate.  Only rubber stamped images were used on this card.

After I finished playing with the gelli plate, I had several pieces of inked papers.  I love blue and decided to try to make something with the one sheet.  Then looking at my stamps, I thought, what have I not used in a while.  Well miss Smushallaum was looking right at me and then the Musically Challenged Challenge and the Stampotique Designers Challenge popped into my head.  There you go.

I made a card using the wonderful stamp Smushallaum by Daniel Torrente from Stampotique Orginals.  I was also inspired by one of the DT (design team) members on the Musically Challenged blog who also did The Little Mermaid, song Under The Sea.

No Flash used for 2nd picture

Songful o' Deets

Card base is Old Olive card stock with Smoky Slate ink on all edges to take some of the brightness out of the paper.

Everything else is on one piece of Whisper White card stock.

Background is all from my new homemade gelli plate.
Acrylic paints, Distress Spray, and reinkers (SU!) are all on the background in layers.

Stamps used are Smushallaum stamped in Black Staze On, and Heads stamped in White Staze On.  Both are Daniel Torrente stamps from Stampotique Originals.

Smushallaum is colored in with markers and Blender Pen.  Finished with Crystal Effects over entire stamped image.

Words are hand written with a pen.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Smeared and Smudged January Member Blog Hop

It's Blog Hop time!

The Smeared and Smudged Forum is hosting a

January Member Blog Hop.

 You should have arrived from Kapree and are now here at Shoni aka Crafty Inknik's blog.

Next up is Fiona.

The Blog Hop Member Roll will be posted following my project, 

then more details on my project and more pics.

This hop is all day long with wonderful projects

created just for this event.  

I thank you for hopping along with us and to all the 

wonderful talented people who made the hop possible.

I have altered a wooden clothes pin with a 

New Smeared Ink image from the set

Eyes In The Dark.

 

Blog Hop Roll

Tori 

Laura 

Sue The Nanny 

Kapree 

Shoni aka Crafty Inknik - YOU ARE HERE 

Fiona 

Shell

Molly The Fishmonger

Lisa 

Alison

Kristy 

Monique

Snoozin' on the Deets

Image from the Smeared Ink digital set Eyes In The Dark, was printed out 8 times.

This was Technique #7 - Fussy Cut Layering found in the Smeared and Smudged Forum in the new Mixed Media Group.

Each image was colored in with inks and Blender Pen.

Then each image was fussy cut and with each layer, a section of the image was cut off, this achieves the great dimension and layering.

I used dimensionals to adhere each layer.

Versa Marker Pen around cut layer edges.  Gold Embossing Powder over marked areas and a heat gun to set.

Once all put together, Crystal Effects was used over entire owl and set aside to dry.

I used the 1/2" Watercolor Wonder Designer Washi Tape from Stampin' Up! (2014 Occasions Catalog) to cover wooden clothes pin and the entire back of owl once it was dried.

Sticky Strip to adhere owl to cloths pin.

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

Weekly Smeared Ink Design Team Project and Quoth the Raven, Nevermore Quest #28

I have combined my Smeared Ink Weekly DT project with this month's Quest #28 from the wonderful all Edgar Allen Poe blog, Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.

Smeared Ink has some fabulous new digital papers out and I can not stop using the ones from the Poe Boy set.  Which of course goes soooo well with any of the Quoth the Raven, Nevermore quests.

I have only used stamps and images from Smeared Ink for my project.  Quest #28 is Anything Poes this month.  I made a calender holder, which I can keep always because I can just print out new months.  Love Excel!

Daily Poe Deets

Printed out one of the Poe Boy digital pages twice.
Fussy cut one and used as a mask over the other.
Stamped images with Smeared Ink Rubber Club set, a past offering, Quoth The Raven (February 2013).
Used Ranger Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint over entire front.

Adhered printed image to Whisper White card stock.
Calender holder base is Basic Black cs, scored and cut.

Printed out monthly calender on recycled paper, cut, stamped and stapled together.
Double sided to tape to adhere in holder.
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.

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.

A Top 3 Winner at Quoth The Raven, Nevermore Challenge Blog

Just a holla out to Quoth the Raven, Nevermore!

Had a great time with Quest #27.

Thanks for a top three spot.

HERE for details on my project.

Thanks again QTR!