Lots and Lots... & 12 Layouts of Alice #6 and #7

Hello, all. Sorry this is going to be a real quick and short post, at least in words. I have quite a few layouts to share with you but personal problems are affecting my desire to be online. I hope time will fix all. Thank you for stopping by.

Ma Layout. This is a page about my grandmother for my heritage album. I used my August Scraps of Darkness Envy Kit. I used Flamingo Liquid Pearls to make the flourished, foam Thickers and some buttons from my stash. The papers, die cut, flowers, pin, and flower stems are from the kit. For the No Challenge Challenge at scrapbook.com.

My Boy Layout. This layout was created for the Round Robin Challenge at the Scraps of Darkness Forum. Everything but the Thickers, liquid pearls, ribbon, and lace are from my August S.O.D. Kit. The photos are of my son when he was a baby.

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Layout. This is a really simple layout of my husband and his best friend. Those faces and those poses reminded me of the Tweedles. I used a Sketchy Thursday Sketch for this.

Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas: Tag #6.

12 Layouts of Alice #6. Wanderland Layout. This layout is based on Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas Tag #6. The photo is of me when I was a child. I was in a mood when I created this and I wanted to portray the lost feeling I always had as a kid.

Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas #7.

12 Layouts of Alice #7. This layout is based on Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas Tag #7. The photos are of my roses in my front yard. The papers are from the DCWV Immortal Love Stack. The flowers were misted with Scarlet Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist.

Windblown Layout. This layout is for the Monochrome Challenge - Banana with the twist of scrapping a cold/winter photo. The photo is of my son in his car seat on a windy cold day in Wisconsin. His little nose was red. I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Mist in Yellow Rose of Texas, swiss dot Bazzill cardstock, Buttercup Liquid Pearls, Thickers, and some hand cut clouds inked with Mustard Seed Distress Ink.

Gothic Newborn Challenge - Smudgy Antics

Hello, all! Today, I bring you a creation for another Smudgy Antics Challenge! This week the challenge is to create a Gothic Baby Card; a baby card with a twist! lol. Below are the details of the challenge and my example for this week. I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Monday once again! Thanks to all of the participant for last week's Dead Divas challenge; we were thrilled with the amazing entries! It's so much fun to see all of your perspectives when it comes to these challenges, and once again (as is pretty common with Smeared Ink) we are going to push you out of your comfort zone this week. So, let's move right on to your rules:

*Each Monday morning a new challenge will be posted. It will contain that week's theme and prize information.

*To participate, you must make a project that fits the theme and add it to the post using the Inlinkz linky. It must be linked by midnight on the following Saturday, Pacific Time. This gives you six days to complete the challenge

*Your project can be anything (card, scrapbook page, altered or 3-d item, etc) as long as it is handmade and stamped somewhere with either a rubber or digital stamp. We have taken into consideration our digital artist fans and will be allowing all-digi projects. Feel free to think outside the box and have fun with your project! We are all about looking at things differently and look forward to the variety of projects and mediums we are sure to see.

*You must use AT LEAST 1 Smeared Ink image on your project. You are allowed to use anything else that you like.

*The weekly winner will be chosen by random number and revealed on Sunday morning. Prizes will vary and may range from a free digi to a coupon to a blog badge.

So let's get to it! Here's this week's info.

The Challenge:

GOTHIC NEWBORN

Yes, it dark. Yes, it's eerie. Yes, it's Gothic Newborn time! Keep it traditional or creep it up, it's up to you, just show us how you represent all those little bundles of joy with a Gothic flair!

My version of a Gothic Newborn Card:

Gothic Newborn Card - Front. I used some flourish corner stamps from Smeared Ink and some velvet paper and some white, gray, and black cardstock. I used my Cricut to cut out the baby buggy and the banner is a mixture of an Internet image and a font that I used to type the words. I also used some pearl embellishments, liquid pearls in silver, a Fiskars border punch, and Christmas Red Stickles.

Gothic Baby Card - Back. The corner flourishes are from Smeared Ink (Glam Vamp Collection) and the other flourishes are Autumn Leaves clear stamps. The rosary and the banner are images from the Internet. I colored the rosary with my Copic Markers.

Dead Divas

Hello, all! Today I have some fun projects to share with you from a couple of challenges over at the Smudgy Antics Blog and the Smeared and Smudged forum. The first project is a card I made for the current weekly challenge over at the Smudgy Antics Blog: Dead Divas.

Welcome back everyone, Happy Monday! Last week's challenge was amazing in the entries that you all produced, and we hope that this week you will continue to wow us. We'd like to encourage you to really show off your creativity and personality in all of these challenges; this is one spot where you can pull out all the stops. With that being said, we can't wait to see what you do with this one!

As with any other weekly challenge, there are rules (although ours are pretty easy to follow and won't change each week) and here's a recap:

*Each Monday morning a new challenge will be posted. It will contain that week's theme and prize information.

*To participate, you must make a project that fits the theme and add it to the post using the Inlinkz linky. It must be linked by midnight on the following Saturday, Pacific Time. This gives you six days to complete the challenge

*Your project can be anything (card, scrapbook page, altered or 3-d item, etc) as long as it is handmade and stamped somewhere with either a rubber or digital stamp. We have taken into consideration our digital artist fans and will be allowing all-digi projects. Feel free to think outside the box and have fun with your project! We are all about looking at things differently and look forward to the variety of projects and mediums we are sure to see.

*You must use AT LEAST 1 Smeared Ink image on your project. You are allowed to use anything else that you like.

*The weekly winner will be chosen by random number and revealed on Sunday morning. Prizes will vary and may range from a free digi to a coupon to a blog badge.

So let's get to it! Here's this week's info.

The Challenge:

DEAD DIVAS

As we said before, use your imagination on this one! You will see the great variety with our DT samples, and we've left it wide open for you to put your own twist on it.

This is my take on the challenge:

Drop Dead card. I used a digi stamp from Simply Betty Stamps and my Scraps of Darkness August Envy Kit to make this (Papers and flowers). I added foam Thickers covered in Distress Stickles in Peeled Paint. (For Grungy Monday #20 at Studio L3), some flourishes made out of purple Stickles, some punched out bats, and some pearl embellishments.

The Woods Layout. This page is for the Challenge Challenge over at the Smeared and Smudged forum and for my Darker Side Challenge over at scrapbook.com. The photo is of my younger daughter last Halloween wearing my red cloak. I used some flourish stamps from Smeared Ink printed on some bluish paper and the papers are from my DCWV Immortal Love stack. I added Thickers, Prima flowers, and Christmas Red Stickles.

For the Scraps of Darkness August Kit Reveal Post, scroll down.

~*~Scraps of Darkness August Reveal~*~

Hello, all! It's reveal day for August at Scraps of Darkness! This month's kit is called Envy and as you can see from the photo of the main kit below, there are two reasons for this: one, most of the papers are green (Green with Envy); and two, everyone is going to be envious of you if you have this kit! Lol! Full of Kaisercraft papers in gorgeous damasks and leaf patterns and lush greens, this kit is perfect for romantic, elegant, outdoorsy, and heritage pages! This kit sparked my creativity and I finished four pages in 2 days!

Scraps of Darkness August Kit - Envy.

Scraps of Darkness August Sketch by suepup (Charlotte).

Pa Layout. This is my page based on the August Scraps of Darkness Sketch. The photo is of my grandfather, who I called Pa. He was a soldier in WWII. I really loved the greens of this kit and some of the darker ones reminded me of the old Army green uniforms soldiers wore a long time ago. I wanted to create a page of my grandpa to go into my heritage album. I used some fern leaves from the kit, one Prima Parfait Collection flower in Wintergreen (colored with Lindy's Stamp Gang Mist in Ponderosa Pine Olive), Petaloo Canterbury Flowers in Lime, and some flourished made by me with Liquid Pearls in Bisque and some acrylic. I also used some Peeled Paint Crackle Paint and Distress Ink in Crushed Olive. I used one of Pink Paislee Mistables - Cut Tags colored with DI in Crushed Olive and some Versa Magic Ink in Hint of Pesto over some white foam Thickers alphas. (For the Heritage, Monochrome (Bottle Green), Paints and Mists, and Technique Challenges over at scrapbook.com).

Bad Girl Layout. This is our newest addition to our family, Princess Charlotte Augustine aka Lottie. She looks so sweet; like an angel in her sleep.... but she is such a Bad Girl! Lol. If she isn't chewing on something, she is running around terrorizing our other dog, Attila. I decided to scrap this photo showing her in her sweetest form and make the colors reflect that but wanted to add a contradictory title. I used plenty of flowers from the kit, along with some bling and flower stems also from the kit. I fussy cut some of the papers and made it as frilly and girly as I could. (For the Colour, Scrap Your Pet, and Lyrics Challenges at scrapbook.com).

Sketch from Sketchy Thursdays - Sketch 8.4.

Pout Layout. These are my two lovely daughters goofing off while we were waiting at a restaurant. I used the sketch from August 4th for this page and I wanted to go darker for this one. I used water distressing on the edges of the black paper and splattered it with Lindy's Stamp Gang Mist in Ghouly Gargoyle White and Witch's Potion Purple  along with some white and purple acrylic paint. I added some silver liquid pearls and some half circles of paper from a previous Scraps of Darkness kit. I added some Pink Paislee Mistables Fuzzy Vinyl Stickers misted with the same purple mist. The title letters are vinyl Thickers. (For the Monochrome {Plum} Challenge at scrapbook.com). 

Angel Layout. This is a photo of my niece, Tawney, when she was first born. I wanted to scrap her photo with a lot of delicate colors but still have some steampunk accents in here without losing the femininity of it all. I colored the chipboard and metal pieces with Pearl Adirondack paint then covered them with Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals. The frame and figure are stamps from Tiddly Inks. (For the  Escape Kitty Family & friends Challenge and my every own Steampunk Challenge at scrapbook.com).

Angel Close Up. Here is a close up of the flower cluster and Steampunker stamp from Tiddly Inks. I colored her with my Copic markers. The gears and clock are colored with Pearl Adirondack paint and Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals.  

Smudgy Antics New Weekly Challenge - Splat!

Hello, all! A little late in posting this but I had a lot of errands to run these past few days and I didn't get to set up a post until now. As I announced recently, I am one of the new members of the Smeared Ink DT and now that the Smudgy Antics Blog is hosting challenges every week, I will be sharing what I create for each challenge I participate in. Below is a description of the challenge. To enter please visit the Smudgy Antics Blog.

Hello everyone, Happy Monday! This is not usually a day that people get excited about...I mean, let's face it, it's the end of the weekend and we all have to go back to work or real life, and sometimes it just plain stinks. But, over in Smeared Ink world (yes, we have our own world, isn't it cool?) we decided to add a little pizazz to your otherwise manic Mondays with a new weekly challenge that will give you an outlet for your pent-up creativity! In other words, join us every Monday to see what the challenge is. Then you'll have all week to join in and participate.

So let's get things kicked off with our first challenge! Of course, we always have to have rules, and here they are:

*Each Monday morning a new challenge will be posted. It will contain that week's theme and prize information.

*To participate, you must make a project that fits the theme and add it to the post using the Inlinkz linky. It must be linked by midnight on the following Saturday, Pacific Time. This gives you six days to complete the challenge

*Your project can be anything (card, scrapbook page, altered or 3-d item, etc) as long as it is handmade and stamped somewhere with either a rubber or digital stamp. We have taken into consideration our digital artist fans and will be allowing all-digi projects. Feel free to think outside the box and have fun with your project! We are all about looking at things differently and look forward to the variety of projects and mediums we are sure to see.

*You must use AT LEAST 1 Smeared Ink image on your project. You are allowed to use anything else that you like.

*The weekly winner will be chosen by random number and revealed on Sunday morning. Prizes will vary and may range from a free digi to a coupon to a blog badge.

They look kinda familiar, eh? Smudgefest was our kickoff for what we hope will be a great time had by all! Shall we get started?

The Challenge:

SPLAT!

Create a project that features splatter, drops, splodges, or blots.

 

 

This is my creation featuring splatter, drops, splodges, or blots:

In Vino Veritas Layout. I used Smeared Ink's decanter and glass digi stamps from the Glam Vamp collection for this, printed them out on patterned paper from my DCWV Immortal Love stack. I made my own flourished with Liquid Pearls in Rouge and some acrylic. I stamped the title letters out and use some acrylic paint and some Scarlet Glimmer Mist for the background. The photo is of one of my favorite vintage ads and I used a saying that I have always loved: "In Vino Veritas" means In Wine There is Truth.

Smudgefest Day 5

Hello, all! Today is day 5 of Smudgefest over at Smudgy Antics the Smeared Ink Stamps Blog! I have not been able to participate until recently and then yesterday, my first try for Smudgefest, I forgot a vital part of the requirements: using Smeared Ink stamps.... Oh, cr@p. So today I am giving it another try. Below is the description of the challenge this month. For complete rules and to enter the challenges at Smudgefest, click here.

FLOWING FRIDAY

Create a project using a flowing medium. Some examples could be watercolor, liquid ink, liquid glues, thinned out acrylics, etc.... use your imagination and let the juices flow!

 

Here is my Smudgefest Day 5 project:

For this day's challenge with the twist of flowing medium, I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Mist in Ponderosa Pine Olive over some Halloween paper from My Mind's Eye. I used Liquid pearls and Distress Ink in Vintage Photo as well. When I saw this stamp from Smeared Ink's Glam Vamp digi stamp collection, I immediately noticed the skull beneath her boot and thought of Hamlet's speech to Yorick, the skull in the graveyard. Then I thought this vamp looked like she might have finished poor Yorick off! Lol!

Smudgefest Day 4 & Challenges

Hello, all! I don't think I mentioned this on the blog before, so in case I didn't.... I am a new DT member of the Smeared Ink Design Team for Smeared Ink Stamps and I am a new Punky Rebel (DT member) for Punky Scraps! This is so exciting for me and I can't wait to share all my projects for these two teams with you!

Today is day 4 of Smudgefest over at Smeared and Smudged and I barely had time to complete the challenge for today. Now, don't laugh... I've never made an ATC (which is part of the challenge) and I had a lot of difficulty working on such a small space! Lol! If you'd like to join in Smudgefest, just click on this link: Smudgy Antics.

*So very sorry about the mistake I made but I didn't read the rules for the challenge carefully enough and I did not use a Smeared Ink Stamp on my entry. I should have known better and promise to read everything more carefully! lol! Just letting all of you know, just in case you decide to enter the Smudgefest Challenges.

 
Here is the challenge as written on the Smudgy Antics Blog:

TWISTED THURSDAY

Make an ATC with a "twist". You can interpret "twist" any way you want to, this is just one interpretation. ATC size: 3 1/2" x 2 1/2"

Back To School ATC. Very simple (since I could not for the life of me figure out how to create on such a small space). The stamp is Back to School London from Simply Betty Stamps, which I colored using Copic markers. The paper is from the DCWV Immortal Love paper pack, the twisted thread is embroidery thread I had in my stash, and the letters were made with my Dymo.

The next project I want to share with you is for the Stalker Challenge over at Scraps of Darkness. The challenge reads:

This month, the challenge is to stalk the Internet, or your personal photo stash and find a photo that inspires you to scrap using an element that you have never used before.

The Rules:

1. Use 50 % Scraps Of Darkness Product

2. Scrap using the Clean & Simple Style-this was a huge challenge for me, because I tend to go corner to corner with embellies or paper product until every square inch is covered, lol!

3.Use a Handmade Embellishment (can contain a pre-packaged element for detail, but the basic "body" of the embellishment must be handmade) For Example: I made a corrugated flower that I painted and gunked up, then added a prepackaged center to, and I hand dyed prepackaged material to create the ribbon).

4. Be sure to use an element from the photo that inspired you!

5. Have lots of fun!!!

Gwen Layout. This is a photo of Gwen Stefani, who I think has wonderful style. I have used lace in layouts before but I have never used it to make a border, so I chose to use it like this here and mimicked the dress. I splattered black and white paint on paper from my July Scraps of Darkness kit, and used a Tim Holtz mask, gold ink, glitter ribbon, Thickers, and a top hat stamp.

This next project is for the ABC Challenge over at scrapbook.com. This month's letters are M for metal, N for notebook, O for Oval mats for pics, and P for Plum.

School Boy Layout. This is my son on his first day of school last year. I thought it would be fun to splatter a lot of different colors on the notebook paper I had. The mists are from Lindy's Stamp Gang: Yellow Rose of Texas, Hag's Wart Orange, Witch's Potion Purple, Ponderosa Pines Olive, and Hydrangea Blue. Then I used Tattered Angels' Glimmer Mist in Scarlett. I've had the school embellishments for a long time and don't know where they are from. The letters are Thickers and I used several border punches as well.

Cuckoo

Hello, all! I hope all of you are surviving this summer heat! I can't stand the heat; I prefer the cold and rainy to the hot and humid. I can't wait for school to start and fall to arrive! The temperatures will cool and the kids will be off to school! YAY! Lol! So to take my mind of the heat I spend a lot of time in my scraproom. This is the project I decided to work on and I am really happy with the results. You all know I love anything Wonderland and I had this Kaisercraft Beyond the Page Cuckoo clock sitting in my room for months! So this is what came out of that!

Kaisercraft Beyond the Page Cuckoo Clock.

Time for Tea Cuckoo Clock.

Time for Tea Cuckoo Clock close up 1. I used some green harlequin paper for some of the trim of the clock and printed out some Alice images from the Internet.

Time for Tea Cuckoo Clock close up 2. I added flowers from my stash to give the clock a more 3D look. I also added some fabric Thickers for the numerals on the clock face.

Time for Tea Cuckoo Clock close up 3. I used cutouts of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum to hang from the clock with some chain I had in my stash and some Tim Holtz jump rings.