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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Grumpie Get Well

For today's card, I used a Grumpie from the Lil Love Grumpies digi set to send a Get Well greeting to a grumpie from the Lil Grumpies Occasions set. The front panel was printed wallet size on gray cardstock, colored with colored pencils, cut and mounted to fluorescent yellow cardstock, torn to deckle edge and mounted on black cardstock.

The middle panel was stamped on yellow, blue, and orange cardstock with Palette Hybrid ink in noir black. The blue was cut out and mounted, then the orange fish was cut out and mounted on that. Highlights were added with colored pencil and the base was torn to a deckle edge, then mounted on the black cardstock. The black cardstock is 5" by 11" and folded trifold. The third panel has a yellow block and says "Get Well Soon". Enjoy!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Love (sorta) Grumpie Style--Time to get your Grump ON!

I apologize for the late post today. I changed my mind last night regarding my project because I HAD to tell you about the HUGE sale at Smeared Ink http://www.SmearedInk.com ! It ends on THIS Fri, June 24, so go now! All of the Grumpie sets are 50% off--that's right--until Friday, all of the Grumpies sets are 50% off (Lil Grumpies, Occasions Lil Grumpies, and Creepy Lil Grumpies unmounted and the Love Grumpies digi set I used today).

For deets on this one, please see my blog at http://www.whatspeaks2myheart.wordpress.com. (I'm still not sure why they are red, white & blue!) I've also linked there to a few other projects I've made with the Occasions Lil Grumpies and there are other fabulous examples here in the gallery at Smeared and Smudged.

ENJOY!

Thursday, May 12, 2011

May Member Blog Hop and a little encouragement, carnival style

Today is my post day for the Smeared Ink design team and the May Member Blog hop at Smeared & Smudged Ink. For the blog hop, the challenge was to use a technique you've always wanted to try & haven't yet OR to use a technique you haven't in a while. I had something a little different in mind but am having some allergy aggravation for a few days so I had to make a few changes.

I am using the Smeared Ink unmounted rubber stamps Carnival set for sentiments & the image. He's colored in with colored pencils & cut out to "pop up" on the interior of the card. I'm not sure why, but I wanted to do an "encouragement" card today, mixing handwritten text (Prismacolor marker in Cocoa bean, fine tip end) with the stamped sentis (Palette Hybrid Ink in Noir Black).

The first displayed photo shows an idea of the dimension this technique provides. Be sure to visit each of the bloggers who are sharing projects with you today & leave them some love!!

Kelli http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Lady Brayton http://www.ladybrayton71.blogspot.com
Meredith http://www.papercanteen.com
Black Dragon http://www.lynsblogger.blogspot.com
Jane http://www.jcocraft.blogspot.com
Judi http://www.creatingartwithheart.blogspot.com
Jennifer http://www.insanedaze.blogspot.com
Sugar http://www.sugscardsnmore.blogspot.com
Kapree http://www.kc-consultant.blogspot.com
Dianne http://www.dkspinner.blogspot.com
Paula http://www.whatspeaks2myheart.wordpress.com (that's me)

Be sure to leave them some love!! Thanks for stopping by! Paula

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Jack says "Thanks!"

Hoping this post finds everyone well! We've found ourselves "relaxing" in the path of several tornado producing storms, but truthfully they travelled on up toward our home as they passed by. The destruction occurred north of us here in TN and we're thinking of those folks & those in Alabama and Mississippi who seemed to bear the brunt of the damage.

Today I am using the Smeared Ink unmounted rubber stamp set with Jack. I started with a base from Halcraft naturals card bases & stamped Jack & the sentiments on another color of it. I grabbed various patterned papers & stamped him on them, then started cutting & piecing together until he was feeling dapper. The body of the box & it's flap are pieced as well as the star & crank. Jack's shirt, collar & hat are also pieced. He's trimmed & lifted from the surface with popdots for dimension. The sentiments are a combination of four from the set. Hope you enjoy him!

Be sure to check back each day for something fab from the design team. Watch Monday, May 9, 2011 for a Smeared Ink New digi Release blog hop for some brand new crafty creations from the design team!! There's still time to enter the April challenges--just a little so get your crafty hat on and make something! And its almost May so time for a whole new round of challenges.

Special thanks to Tiddly Inks for sponsoring challenges in April and providing the amazing Frankenhottie digi for the team to work with!

Happy Crafting! Paula

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

April Member Blog Hop and My no stress DT Debut!

I am so absolutely excited to be part of the new design team at Smeared Ink! When we received our assignments to post to the DT blog here, I thought, "That's Fabulous! Thursdays tend to be my crafty days :)!" Then I realized my very first DT member post was going to occur on April Member Blog Hop day AND I couldn't remember what project I had in mind when I signed up for it. But hey! That's how I operate most of the time and so...knowing this project is NOTHING like I first had in mind, here ya go!

The challenge was to use a stamped image somewhere and to use METAL. I decided to add another layer of difficulty and celebrate Earth Day by trying to reuse, repurpose, and recycle as much as I absolutely could in my project. You can find out more about the hows and why at my blog post at http://www.whatspeaks2myheart.wordpress.com/ because I don't want to load you down with details here when you have a BLOG HOP to check out! The METAL in my project is window screening shaped into a basket (and I have the holey fingers to prove it--two words of advice USE GLOVES!) and the handle is plastic coated twisty tie from toy packaging. The image and sentiment I used are from the Lil Grumpies Occasions found here http://www.smearedink.com/ .

And IF you are starting here, be sure to check out the entire blog roll for awesome METAL projects!

Thanks for having a look and I hope you enjoy!

-Paula

*Every month a new Anything Goes challenge will be posted.

*To participate, you must make a NEW project that features at least 1 STAMPED or DIGI IMAGE... FROM SMEARED INK ,add it to the post using the Inlinkz linky. Any other supplies and images may be used. Your link MUST take us directly to your project on a PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE blog or website, or it will be disqualified - so please make sure you're linking to your actual post. It must be linked by midnight Pacific Time on the scheduled end date, which will be three days before the end of the month. You must use a new project; back-linking is NOT allowed.

*Your project can be anything (card, scrapbook page, mixed media, altered or 3-D item, etc) as long as it is handmade and stamped somewhere with at least 1 rubber or digital stamp....from SMEARED INK . We have taken into consideration our digital artist fans and will be allowing all-digi projects. Please note that while collage sheet images can be used in your project, the collage image does NOT count as a stamped image. You still need to use a rubber or digital stamp somewhere on your project. Feel free to think outside the box and have fun with your project! We are all about looking at things differently and look forward to the variety of projects and mediums we are sure to see.

*You can only enter the challenge and qualify for a prize if you are, or become, a follower of the Smudgy Antics blog. Also, you must mention Smudgy Antics in your blog post and provide a link to our blog. This helps others to find us so they may play along as well.

*Multiple projects are allowed as long as each project follows the rules. Each project must be linked individually into the Inlinkz linky tool and must link to it's own individual blog post in order to be considered as separate entries. (Multiple projects in one blog post will be considered as 1 entry).

*The winner will be chosen by RANDOM DRAW and will be revealed on the last day of the month. The winner will get BOTH the prize and a winner's blog button to display on their blog. A TOP 3 will be voted for by the DT and shall get a WINNERS BLOG BUTTON... Only the best projects will win TOP 3 so bring your A-game!

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