Don't Step in the Blood Splatter!

Greetings! Alison here. ‘Tis yet another Friday (hooray for the weekend!) so I am here with a new Smeared Ink creation. I just got the Inky Dreams stamp set, so I decided to start my card for this week with the big background. Then…a Glam Vamp. I know. You are shocked. I can’t help it! I like that digi set a lot! I also added a few sentiments from other sets as well. Let’s take a look.


I stamped the splatter on a cream cardstock. I liked it against the clean white card. Thought it was kinda funny to have such a messy image over a pristine white card. Just me? Then I colored up Rachel. Looking at it now, I could have printed her out bigger, but I tend to just print a massive amount of images at once, and then put them all together later. But, the sentiments (also on white) fill up the space nicely.

I put her in black and grey because I really wanted the red blood to be the only color. Well, that and her eyes and lips which are also red.

Here you can see how shiny the splatter is. I embossed it with a nice, rich red from Ranger. It looks like it’s coagulating! The sentiments are from the Love Grumpies, Heart Wings, and Death Cab. I hope you have enjoyed my offering for today. Have an inspiring day!

Freddy's Coming For You

Hi everyone! First, I'd like to tell you about our new schedule for our DT blog. Since our new term has started we have rotated days and added in a some new things, so I thought it would be easier to follow along if you knew what the plan is. Each DT member will be posting every other week, and here is what the rotation looks like:

Mondays: Weekly Gallery Challenges posted
Tuesdays: Kelli or Tori
Wednesdays: Sugar or Black Dragon
Thursdays: Kapree or Paula
Fridays: Alison or Terra (me!)
Saturdays: Lady Brayton or Dianne

Sundays will be used occasionally to relay news or upcoming features. So now that you have the low-down on what's going on, you can catch your fave posts! Also, before I move on to my project for today, I just want to remind you that the deadline for this week's Gallery Challenge is tonight at midnight, and the theme is REALLY simple- anything goes! Just link up to a project that uses only Smeared Ink stamps, and you could win! You can find all the info by scrolling down to Monday's post.

Ok, now on to my project. I am sharing a scrapbook page with you today that is themed all around Freddy Krueger. A couple of Halloweens ago, my oldest daughter participated in a horror movie-themed haunted house, and she got the Freddy room! Can you say fun?! We both love this classic horror flick, so I decided to capture her experience on a layout.

I made the background paper by starting with white cardstock and then stamping with our Smeared Ink Inky Dreams set in acrylic paint. Then I aged the cardstock with distress ink.

Here is a closeup of the pic. I used some burning techniques that Meredith taught in our Mixed Media group on the S&S forum. The Elm Street sign is also a pic from the haunted house.

The side border was made with pictures as well; this was a poster that was hanging and I just printed three times and trimmed it out. Then I added in my hot glue dripping blood. My fave! In case you haven't seen me do this before, I use hot glue and then paint with nail polish.

After distressing my chipboard letters, I wrote out a Freddy Krueger rhyme. You know that one that every kid sang to scare the crap out of their friends..."One, Two, Freddy's coming after you....". It's still creepy!!!!!!

My tag was aged as well and inserted into a library book pocket that was painted that same bright red color.

So I hope this has given you some ideas on ways you can incorporate stamps into your scrapbooking. I know I am loving this new experience, since I am not a scrapbooker. Or at least I wasn't until now :)

See you all next time!