Holy City Box

It’s Friday! This has been quite a busy week. Fun…but busy. And because of all the busy, my project is not quite finished. I need to embellish it a bit more. I’m hoping I can do it today…But we’ll see. For now, it looks pretty cool. Just not complete.


I used a plain wooden box and painted it green, then crackle painted it, and Distress Inked it. And the top has, as you can see, an image from Smeared Ink’s Holy City. The box was purchased for this very image.

I colored the image with my colored pencils and Mod Podged it to the top. I just love this image. I plan on adding some things to the top. I’m not exactly sure what yet…I need to look through my stash to see what I can find. But I definitely need some more texture. Some lumpy, bumpy goodness.

Here’s a close up of the crackling. I purposely did not apply an even layer of it. I really wanted the green to show through. I’ll be sure to post photos when the box is done. But what do you think of it so far??? Have an inspiring day!

It Can't rain all the time

today's project I had so much fun making...I think it took me almost all week I just had a blast! I made it for the Oh The Horror challenge in the forum...the movie is my fave...The Crow...


I think I'm going to try to make a frame or something for it to hang in my craft room...I got the background paper idea from the Ink Stains blog I did take some pictures of how I did it that I will share with you later, but it is allot of papers and I think all of them are from Lisa's Scrapfactory Etsy store....The flowers I glimmer misted black glued a lil jewel in the middle.... I then used my symbology of angels stamp and gave him a bunch of black hair and makeup to match the crow...he is a little buff but it works...and the background stamps are from quoth the raven..oh and the little crows are from Holy City! thanks for taking a lookie look, see ya around the forum!

Breaking Out Some Old Favorites

Greetings fellow Smeared and Smudgers! I am so happy it's Friday! I could practically smell the weekend. Today, my offering uses 2 of my favorite Smeared Ink sets: Chicks Dig Guns and Holy City. I love mixing sets together. This is what I came up woth this time around.

I colored Tori (yes! That is actually Tori!) in with colored pencils, and I added a touch of color to the cemetery using chalk.

I also inked and smudged the heck out of eveything else, 'cause that's how I roll! Can I just say that I want to be a stamp? Like, have a stamp image of me... How rad would that be? Hint, hint Terra and Tori! ;)

The bullet holes were the final touch. I thought about using brads or eyelets, but the "holes" are much better here. I hope you enjoyed my card for today. Thanks for stopping by! Have an inspiring day!

Holy City Bracelt

Today being my Smeared Ink Day I have a few things to share with you, first off is this really cool Shrinky dink bracelet I made.

I'm not sure where I got the original idea but I love it! I used the Holy City stamps and stamped them on the plastic then painted the back with white acrylic paint punched my holes and shrunk...I just love the way it turned out!!

for my other creations check out my blog

have an inky day! thanks for stopping by

Smeared Ink Sunday with Kapree

I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend!
Kapree here with my Smeared Ink Sunday creation


I altered this little box using my Holy City Stamp set, I took the image and modge podged it on my box then stamped soul mates on a flower and glimmer misted one flower red and the other black, then I had to make something to go inside it so I made some Shrinky dink rings

I used the birds from Holy City, the heart from Chicks Dig Guns, and the skull from Bo Peep. I found the ring tutorial here
my inspiration to make a box came from Jane our guest DT Febuary Challenge which is to create or alter a box to hold a valentine gift or card.


Thanks for stopping by! be sure to check back tomorrow to see what Meredith has in store for you!