Smeared Ink DT April Blog Hop

Yes, it is the last Monday of the month of April and we are at it again with the monthly 

Smeared Ink Design Team Blog Hop.  

BLOG ROLL

Black Dragon

Shell

Kapree

Shoni / Crafty Inknik - YOU ARE HERE

Creepy Glowbugg 

Lisa

Elenor 

Rebecca

Theme this month is DO YOUR OWN THING.

I have made a Tag book to show off Smeared Ink's rubber stamps.  Check out the Smeared Ink Rubber Club for more information on how to get your crafty hands on these wonderful sets.  There are 8 pages and each have pockets to hold tags.  In the folding of this, there are also 2 extra pockets that are in between pages.  A total of 10 tags have been completed for this project.

There are a lot of pictures for this project so I will not keep you reading long.  That will be saved for after the picts.  You all know how much I like the deets!  Enjoy and happy hopping.

Hello again!  

I wanted to keep the front and back pretty plain since there is so much going on in the inside.  I was going to try to stick to one stamp set, but as the theme was, Do Your Own Thing. So, I tried to use as many stamps from as many sets as I possibly could.  

I love to layer and had so much fun mixing and matching sets.

I am going to give the gist of the deets and then the supplies and stamp sets listed below.

Thanks again for hopping and hope this was some inspiration for you for the week.  Now, go get crafty!

Taggin' and Deetin'

BOOK

Book was scored and cut from one single sheet of 12" x 12" piece of Designer Paper from set Pick Your Poison (retired SU!).  Book measures 4" x 3 1/4".

Sticky Strips was used to help adhere pages and back binding.  Backing is also from the same DP set.

I used the Scallop Trim Edge Punch and adhered the ribbon before adding the backing onto the book.

Black dots were made using a black Sharpie.

Ribbon is:  1/8" Basic Black Taffeta Ribbon, Linen Thread, Black Hemp Twine, and Silver Baker's Twine.

Extra strips of DP, from same set, was also used to highlight pockets.

TAGS

Tags are all DP, from Pick Your Poison set.  Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede, and Crumb Cake are card stocks used.

Punches used are:  Scallop Trim Edge, Scallop Tag Topper, Curly Label, Corner Rounder, 1 1/16" Circle, and Horizontal Slot.

Ribbon is:  Silver Baker's Twine, Gold Baker's Twine, 1 /8" Basic Black and Early EspressoTaffeta, Crochet Trim, Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, 1/4" Early Espresso Grosgrain (retired), Basic Gray 1/4" Stitched, Linen Thread, and Burlap.

Accessories are:  Large Pearl Jewels, Silver and Gold Smooch Spritz, Sponges, Versa Mark ink, Black StazOn, SU! inks, heat gun, stapler, and Crystal Effects.

Embossing Powders:  Smoky Gray, Pewter, Cherry Cobbler, Tangerine Tango, and Clear.

Smeared Ink Rubber Club Past Offerings sets from the Smeared Ink Rubber Club:

As Death (Oct 2012)                                               

Femdom (Jan 2013)

Quoth The Raven (Feb 2013)

Prints (Mar 2013)

Urban Decay (April 2013)

Holy City (May 2013)

Morte (Jun 2013)

Holy City 2 (July 2013)

Voodoo (Aug 2013)

Creepy Lil' Grumpies (Aug set #2, 2013)

Haunted Places #1 (Sept 2013)

Haunted Places #2 (Sept 2013)

Inky Dreams (Oct 2013)

Chicks Dig Guns (Nov 2013)

Carnies (Dec 2013)

Dedicated to Art (Dec 2013)

Danse Macabre (Jan 2014)

Killer Bo Peep Build-A-Garden (March 2014)

Build A Zombie Alphabet (March 2014)

  

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

Smeared Ink Weekly DT Project and Left of Center Challenge #29

I knew I wanted to try something fun with the set Morbidly Adorable Tarot: Set 1 (Jan 2014), a Rubber Club Past Offering from the Smeared Ink Rubber Club.  This set has amazing art work done by the fab-o Misty Benson.  Her skellies and art work, WOW!

Left of Center Creative Challenges blog has an Anything Goes Dark Theme #29 so get those projects finished up and enter to win some fun prizes.  And you must see what inspiration the DT has come up with, KILLER!

For my Weekly Smeared Ink Design Team project I have created a kind of a Stained Glass Window Hang.  Not sure really what to call it so there you go.  Figured that my Smeared Ink image was pretty dark when you have skellies playing music in the rain! 

Here is a better picture of the frame:

Sheets of Deets

Main Image

I am a huge fan of Splitcoast Stampers and just amazed at all of the tutorials that they have collected over the years.  I have used a tutorial called Acetate & Tissue, by Beate Johns, that was one of the first tutorials I had ever done and one of my favorite techniques.

So for the main image you stamp your image with Black StazOn onto a piece of acetate.

Let image dry.  Turn over.

Place drops of re-inker, using whatever colors you would like for your image.

Squeeze Crystal Effects all over.  

I use my fingers, but you can use a gloves, to smear CE to cover and get colors over entire image.

At this point you can add glitter, which I did, but not too much or your tissue paper will not stick very well.

Place white tissue paper (this is not kleenex or toilet paper) over entire image.

Press down to adhere tissue paper to acetate.  Be sure to squeeze just a tad more CE over back or your fingers could dry out and tear tissue paper.

Let dry and trim off excess tissue paper around edges.

Frame

Cut 1 1/4" strips from heavy cardboard from stash.  Used Sticky Strip and made a frame.

Placed Cherry Cobbler ink all over frame.

Used Tombow glue over entire frame, then laid down straw material in strips all over frame.

Poured more glue to help hold down strips.

Used a heat gun to make the glue try quicker.

Mixed some black Gesso with water and used a paintbrush to cover frame and material.  Heat gun again to dry quicker.

Used Dylusions Spray Inks (Lemon Zest & After Midnight) and SU! Smooch Spritz (Pink Pirouette, Gold, and my own mixture with Vanilla Shimmer).

Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details to add small bits of glitter on frame.

Black Linen thread for hang.  

Black card stock for backing.

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