Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Delicious Doodles Blog Hop- It Does a Body Good

Howdy everyone! Yes, that's my Texas showing through, ugh. Today the Smeared and Smudged Design Team has a treat for you- a blog hop featuring images from Delicious Doodles! You may or may not know that Delicious Doodles is one of our fabulous sponsors over on the S&S Forum this month, and Teri has so graciously let our DT work with some of her awesome digi images.

After you take a gander at all the delicious inspiration we have to offer you today (delicious, get it?) swing on by the forum and participate in some of our monthly challenges where you can have your chance to win awesome prizes from Teri at Delicious Doodles, and Madness Paper who just happens to be Lisa from our own DT!

For my project today I started off with the Love's Faded Memory image, which is a cool vampy skull (see the fangs?) with a rose. I colored with my new prisma markers, and I have to say that it is getting fun working with markers. I know, I know, that's so last year, but I've never used them before so rather than bombarding you with techniques, I decided to just practice my coloring.
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The base of my project is a milk carton. There is a store here called Creation Station, and they sell surplus and recycled stuff that they get from manufacturers, companies, etc. Basically they keep alot of stuff out of landfills and the bonus is YOU as the customer get really neat goodies for a great price to use in your creative endeavors, whatever they may be. Anyways, the last time I was there I picked up a whole bunch of these clean, empty, unfolded milk cartons, like the ones you'd find in grade school.



I covered my carton with deco paper, assembled with red line tape, and then inked it up. I added my colored image, some pink brads as closures, and then wrote "Love" on the top. Pretty simple really, but I think it's a cool little Valentine candy holder. Plus I got to practice my mad coloring skills, ha ha! I know the skull doesn't look like much coloring went into it, but believe me, it has layers! ;)

So, I hope you get some inspiration from my project and all the others featured today. Have fun hopping and thanks for stopping by!

Teri

Tori

Alison

Kelli

Black Dragon

Lady Brayton

Meredith

Kapree

Lisa

Alex

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Smeared and Smudged Member Blog Hop

Hi all, today the S&S forum is hosting it's member blog hop, where all of our members can show off a project if they want! The theme today is "New"; try something that is new to you in your project.

Well, for me, I actually have nothing to show you. I know, that sucks! While I was making my project last night, I spilled my soda all over it and ruined it. Yesterday was not a good day for me, you know, one of those ones where everything goes wrong? And I was so upset and frustrated that I just said f-it and didn't restart the card. But, don't fret too much, I will try to get a remake up before the end of the day today.

In the meantime, hop on down the list and see all the new stuff the other S&S members have to offer! We've got a super long list of participants this time around, and I know each blog will be full of inspiration!!! Swing by later if you get the chance :)

Tori

Helen

Jane

Black Dragon

Steph

Meredith

Alison

Teri

Kristie

Paula

Monica

Diane

Shelley

Diane

Lady Brayton

Kapree

Lisa



Monday, January 17, 2011

Smeared Ink Digi Release TODAY!

Hello everyone! I know, it's been forever since I posted, but I'm slowly getting over the holiday chaos and getting things back to normal. Today, we are having a fabulous digi image release over at Smeared Ink, and to honor that, our DT is having a hop featuring some awesome projects! I know, my post is pretty late, but I've been without internet since yesterday and wasn't able to get it up before now. Urghh! But, better late than never, heh?

The digi's will be uploaded into the shop in just a bit, so please visit later on. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the wonderful eye candy that our DT has for you!

For my project, I used song lyrics as inspiration. It's kinda dark, but I just couldn't get this song out of my head to create anything else, so I went with it. The song is about an abusive relationship (perfect for Valentine's Day! tee hee, just kidding). And before anyone asks, no this project does not reflect any relatonships I have been in, but I do have some close friends who have gone through abusive relationships.

Anyways, I used images from our new Heart Wings and Femdom sets. It is not really a card, more of an art piece I guess that I may later add into a journal.



I colored with my new art markers, which I am very new at, so please be gentle on the comments. It's very different than using prisma pencils, so I'll have to get used to the blending. But, I'm not totally disappointed with the results.



The background hearts and wings came from Heart Wings and the bending beauty came from Femdom. I tried to keep her coloring very mute to portray the feelings of being stuck in that type of relationship.



I added crystal glaze to the heart on the bottom, and also popped up the wings. I hope you enjoy looking at my project, and be sure to hop on through the rest of the DT to see lots of cool inspiration for our new digi's! Then head on over to the Smeared Ink shop and pick your faves. Thanks for joining us today!

Terra

Tori

Alison

Black Dragon

Lady Brayton

Meredith

Kapree

Lisa

Alex