Smudgy Antics DT Project and S&S AJ Jan Challenge

For today's Smudgy Antics DT inspiration I have used Smeared Ink stamps from the Rubber Club Past Offerings sets:

Quoth The Raven 

and

Morte

I will also be entering this art journal page into the Smeared and Smudged January Art Journal Challenge - Skulls.  You can find this challenge HERE. 

Dirt Covered Deets

Page was started with brush and Black Gesso.  Let dry.

Used skull stamp from Morte on left side and stamped with Versa Mark ink.  Crushed Curry Embossing Powder over stamped images and then heat set.

Raven, from Quoth The Raven set, was inked with Silver Encore ink and randomly stamped all over page.

Heart, also from Quoth The Raven set, was inked with Crushed Curry ink and randomly stamped all over page.

Then used a small brush with White Gesso to make eyes, nose, teeth, and light outline of skull.  Let dry.

Journaling pen to outline skull and features.  Then wrote a bit of "The Premature Burial" by Edgar Allan Poe.

"The unendurable oppression of the lungs - the stifling fumes from the damp earth - the clinging to the death garments - the rigid embrace of the narrow house - the blackness of the absolute Night - the silence like a sea that overwhelms the unseen but palable presence of the Conqueror Worm - these things, with the thoughts of the air and grass above..."

Day 23 - 31 Days

DAY 23 OF 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 

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Scavenger hunt rules and guidelines can be found HERE for 31 Days of Halloween.

 

You may have just arrived from the ghoulish Wicked Blogger Kapree and are now here at Shoni / Crafty Inknik.  The next frightful blog is Altered Pages.

 

I have decided to make some Spell Books.  I am still working on the covers so you will see those and more pages this next week, maybe even one finished book...kinda.  You know how it goes when you need to add more pages, or accumulate more stamps that need to go in.  Yes, another book that will never be quite "finished".

 

Now that I have made a couple, I am hooked.  Watch out after Halloween sales, I am  ready!!

Okay, on with the post.  I am showing two sets of pages from the altered phone book.  

 

Section 13 - The Deets

Pages were found on GOOGLE, saved, and printed out on full sheets of copy paper.

Cut to measure phone book.

Pages are slightly thicker because when I Gesso-ed the outside, did pages as well and many stuck together.  So pulled apart the width that I liked.

Printed pages were Tombow-ed to the book pages.

Maya Red Mist Spritz in centers.

Smeared Ink Rubber Club stamps used and all from Rubber Club Past Offerings.

Morte (June 2013)

Haunted Places #1 (Sept 2013)

Jack (May 2014)

Raven is from SU! polymer stamp set, Paper Pumpkin October 2014 Kit.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Day 16 - 31 Days, LOC #49, and S&SOctO!TH!

Wicked Blogger's are at it again for Day 16 of 31 Days of Halloween.  Can't believe it is already half over.  Thanks everyone for sticking it out with us.  

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Scavenger hunt rules and guidelines can be found HERE for 31 Days of Halloween.

The project I have for you today will also be entered into Left Of Center Creative Challenges and Smeared and Smudged challenges.
LOC - #49 - Alter Something
Oh! The Horror! - Sleepy Hollow (insp. by movie/poster) 

I was watching Sleepy Hollow (1999) last night and inspiration struck.  I love Burton's use of the gray/black color scheme in this movie.  Then, of course, all the heads that disappear.  I thought about adding bits of red, but for once held myself back, and happy I did.

I have altered a dry erase/magnet board to turn it into only a magnet board.  If any headless person(s) are looking for some skellie heads this Halloween, come on over, I've got a few!

BEFORE

AFTER

Dig, Dig, Dig, for the Deets

Started my altering by using brush and Black Gesso over entire board, which measures 13" x 13"...It was meant to be!

Once board was dry, I found an old cardboard skellie head stencil that I had made awhile ago.
I did have to cut out the bottom to create the teeth.  Use the extra piece for a little handle which was taped down.
 
Found my long lost glow in the dark paint, called GloAway (cute name!) and with brush put it onto stencil.
Pushed onto board 9x in different directions.  Let dry.

Next, stamping commenced!  Used set created by Rick St. Dennis for Smeared Ink Rubber Club called Morte (June 2013).
Skellie background stamp used as border and stamped with Silver Encore Ink.
Two heads w/ bone image was stamped randomly with Black Archival Ink.

Found 2 magnet clips and glued hand and foot to each.  Pieces are from stash.

Had a bracelet with skelli heads which I took apart.  Heads were adhered with large glue dot to magnet circles.
Thought it would be killer to have the skellie eyes glow in the dark, so put a dab of the GloAway in all the eyes.

Day 7 - 31 Days

DAY 7 - 31 DAY OF HALLOWEEN 2014 

You may have just arrived from Wicked Blogger Kapree and are now here at Shoni / Crafty Inknik.  The next creative blog is Altered Pages.

Don't forget that you can win daily prizes by going through the Wicked Bloggers (on <----- left side) and find a different hidden image each day on different blogs.  Click HERE to find about clues and how to enter.


Found a creep-licious tute on GOOGLE while looking for fun ideas for 31 Days.  This is great because you can reused old jars and only requires laminate paper, water (or not), and food coloring.


Of course there must be something stamped for our projects and had to get the hands a bit messy.  But when making preserved heads, that's bound to happen. 

Can full of Pickled Details

Started by washing jars.  Used both glass and plastic.

Googled "face map" and found two I liked.  Printed onto copy paper.  

Trimmed to height of each jar and then used laminate sheets on both sides.

Put into jars, adjusted bottoms to fold under and added doll hair to glass jar.

Filled with water and green food coloring.

Lids were both gone over with Black Gesso.  Lid on glass with doily I got impatient and so got black Gesso all over doily.  An added bonus I say!

Plastic lid has Copper Inka Gold Rub on it.


Glass Jar Lables

Back label is White Clay (SU!) stamped with stamp from Smeared Ink set called Morte (June 2013).

Gone over with to different inks.

Black Sharpie for words.

Top label is a doily stamped with stamp from Open Sea (SU!) and ink.

Eye sticker from stash in center. 

Plastic Jar Labels

Back labels are stickers, die letter, and gelli plate made paper stamped with stamp from Open Sea (SU!).

Words written with fine tip black Sharpie.

Top label is gelli plate made paper (with acrylic paints) and same stamp as above.

1 3/4" circle punch used.

Rotary stamp  with word "done" used with black ink.

Red Sharpie for check mark.

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

Smeared Ink Design Team January Blog Hop

Black Dragon 

Fiona 

Shell 

Leigh 

Kapree 

Shoni - You Are HERE at Crafty Inknik 

Ike 

Rocio - So Sorry but not able to participate this month

Hello and hope you are having a great time on the first Smeared Ink Design Team Blog Hop for 2014.  Be sure to check back the last Monday of every month because we will be getting crafty just for you. 

You may have just arrived from Kapree's fab blog, and are now here at Shoni aka Crafty Inknik.   Up next is Ike and her wonderful project.

Smeared Ink has so many wonderfully fun images and for this January DT Blog Hop we had to choose one of our favorite images.  This was very hard, but I kept thinking about one image.  It was the image I used on my first DT project back in October when I officially became a Smeared Ink DT member.  This rubber stamp is from the set Morte (June 2013 drawn by Mr. Rick St. Dennis) and is from the Smeared Ink Rubber Club.

The Details are in the Frame

Two things inspired this wall hang.  One was the Junk Funk January Challenge over at the Smeared and Smudged Forum.  The challenge is Packaging.  It can be packaging from Christmas or general packaging you have got ready to go in the recycling bin.  I have a box that did contain a Christmas gift and so decided to use and alter it.

The second inspiration was coffee filters.  I wanted to try something different and something that I have not played with for a while.  Usually I used ink and dye the filters, but saw some great looking frames that inspired me to create mine.

The bottom part of the box was covered with dryer sheets and Black Gesso.  It was then opened to lay flat.  I had folded and twisted a whole bunch of filters to look like little fans.  Each one was then hot glued with a glue gun to make a frame.  I did two layers for the frame.

Grosgrain Black Striped Ribbon (retired SU!) was then hot glued to cover the twisted ends of the coffee filters.

Stamp from Morte, Smeared Ink Rubber Club past offering set, was ink with Versa Mark ink.  I stamped image in the center on the Gesso-ed dryer sheet.  Silver Embossing Powder over image and then heat set with heat gun.  I did use a Versa Mark marker to make the cracks around face go a bit further towards the ribbon.  Repeat with Silver EP and heat gun.

Frame was spritzed with Silver Smooch Spritz all around to give a moldy appearance.

Embellies are from stash and hot glued on.

You know I had to use Crystal Effects somewhere (!!) and did use on eyes of main image and each of skull sockets on frame.

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

31 DOH - Day 13

Day #13 of the 31 Days of Halloween event, held by Smeared Ink and the Smeared and Smudged Forum.  To start from the beginning, see daily winners, and for more info check out Terra's Blog. 

You are now here at Shoni aka Crafty Inknik's and should have just left Roni's blog.  Jenn is next on the Wicked Blogger list, that is on your left if you just joined us. 

To answer a question from yesterday's post - Susan, I spritzed the back of the card stock with water to make more pliable.  So when I stuck it on the mask it was easier to form to the mask.  I think it is finally dry today!

Today I have and ATC.  It uses on the stamps from the Smeared Ink Rubber Club set Morte, drawn by Rick St. Dennis.  The dark side, fun, and lucky 13 is what this month is about. 

Sinful Deets
I placed the background die cut piece over Very Vanilla card stock and spritzed with Glimmer Mist Alaskan Salmon and Dylusions Cut Grass Ink Spray.
Took off die cut and used part of it for the background.  Adhered it to Basic Black backing.
Image stamped on with Black Staze On ink, colored in with markers, and then fussy cut and adhered.
"Welcome Baby" is stamped in Black Staze On and is from a retired Stampin' Up! set called Something to Celebrate.
I wrote the top saying with a black Sharpie.
Hard to see, but the cross and die have Gold marker on them.
I used clear micro beads and Crystal Effects over the main skull.
All materials are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.