SMEARED INK MONTHLY DT HOP and DE-STEMPELWINKEL.

Here we are again at the end of another month.

Our design team hop this month has a 'MONOCHROME' theme.

Black Dragon

Shell

Kapree

Shoni

Creepy Glowbugg

Rebecca

I have gone for the basic black and white with shades of grey.

I used white and off-white card and black card... the shades af grey are from an 8b pencil.

The image is one from the new LLONA rubber stamp plate, available through the rubber club.

Please visit everyone one on the blog roll...these ladies are amazingly talented.

 Today is also my day to post on the DE-STEMPELWINKEL designers blog.

I have done another page in my little critters book.

This one was my girls idea as they finished school for the summer last thursday.

The had great fun stamping the fire works all over this page.

Thanks for taking time to visit.... BDx

DE-STEMPELWINKEL BLACK CAT BOOK PART 2

Well, as promised last week, here is the second half of the altered board book,

that I have made for my turn on the 

DE-STEMPELWINKEL designers blog.

If you scroll down the page, the first half of this project is just a couple of posts previous to this one.

All of the images depict black cats.... doing all the things that magical

black cats do.

I used distress inks to colour all the images as well as to distress the page edges.

These little books are such fun to alter,also because of their small size a full book can be altered in just a few hours.

All supplies used come from DE-STEMPELWINKEL...except the board book. which is recycled from my girls throw-aways.
Thanks for stopping by BDx

SMEARED INK DT POST

I hope you have had a smashing weekend.

I have a project to show you thats rather different for me....

bright colours and lots of roses.

I have used the new rubber stamps from SMEARED INK...

LLORONA.

I have made up a collage using all 6 images..

coloured everything with promarkers....

and pencils.... I added roses that i cut from a SMEARED INK digi image.

You can get these lovely rubber stamps from the RUBBER CLUB.

Thanks for stopping by....BDx

I'd like to enter is challenge....

FUSSY AND FANCY....ALL ABOUT GIRLS

DE-STEMPELWINKEL

Good Morning,

its this old dragons turn again to post on the DE-STEMPELWINKEL designers blog.

As you may know,I have a love of altering little board books... 

this one is Black cats.

 Here is the cover...

 ...and the first 4 pages...

I coloured all the stamped images with distress inks,

and inked the edges of the pages for a misty, ethereal look.

I used a bright yellow hightlighter pen to pick out some of the details....

 ..... I'll show you the rest of the pages and the back next week.

All the supplies used are from DE-STEMPELWINKEL.

Thank you for stopping by today.

BDx
I'd like to enter the following challenges...
2 CREATIVE CHICKS...MINI ALBUM/BOOK
ANIMAL FRIENDS CHALLENGE...DOG OR CAT
RHEDDS CREATIVE SPIRIT...ANYTHING ALTERED GOES.

HDH - MACABRE MONDAY- NEW CHALLENGE.

For our new challenge, we are going a bit SciFi.

Not our usual genre of choice, but after a moment of

brainstorming, we found that we do enjoy a good

space odyssey in the dungeon every once in a while.

Alien Abduction/Invasion 

If silver flying saucers and gray men aren't to your liking,

consider the films listed at
MACABRE MONDAY
or what about the classic SFI writers?
Or TV series.. STAR TREK being a favourite of mine.... SAD I know.
After seeing the other two inspiration pieces from my minion teamies this week,
I decided to go for the more humorous.... and ....I may say easier to make.

I made a card, using papers from my stash.

Inside is a paper doll.... HG WELLS... in a Star trek uniform....yay!

Plus a costume to dress him in.

The doll and clothes are free samples from DOVER.

This is something very different for me...... silly...simple...and quite humorous...
hope you'll come and join us this fortnight.
Thanks for stopping by BDx

I'd like to enter the following challenges...
CORROSIVE...YOUNG AT HEART
WE DO DOOBADOO....SPOTTY AND DOTTY
DIGITALLY SWEET... BOYS AT PLAY
C.R.A.F.T CHALLENGE...INSPIRED BY A BOOK
THE PINK ELEPHANT ...INTERACTIVE CARDS

JULY'S SMEARED AND SMUDGED MEMBERS HOP

Well its been a while since i blogged for various reasons,

but i'm here now so lets get on with it!

We members of the SMEARED AND SMUDGED FORUM have a blog hop every month,

(the forum is FREE to join)

this months theme is STEAMY.

It is also my day to post on the DE-STEMPELWINKEL designers blog,

so I have combined the two with this time consumming project.

Below is the full blog roll... you can hop in any order you like....

please visit everyone as i'm sure you'll love what these lasses have created.

Black Dragon

Sandy

Jane

Susan

Barbara

Stefanie

Erin

Teresa

I saw a programme a few weeks ago about the 'Antikythera mechanism',

I loved the look of the corroded metal so i tried to replicate it on this altered clock.

I used clay, rolled out thinly and stamped into it.

Once the clay sheets were baked I adhered them to the clock.

I added flakes of dry clay and filler to the edges to give the appearance of the outer casing being corroded away.

Once everything was totally dry i painted the entire clock with black paint.

Then dry brushed with dark brown and mid brown paint.

I stamped the centre of the clock face with a watch mechanism stamp, 

for added interest.

To give it a real rusty corroded appearance i used ORIGINAL RUST,

rubbed all over it....twice.

Below you can see the rusty detail.... i think it looks pretty authentic.

All the stamps come from DE-STEMPELWINKEL. 

Happy hopping.... off you go to see what SANDY has instore for you. 

Thanks for stopping by. BDx

I'd like to enter the following challenges...
RHEDDS CREATIVE SPIRIT... ANYTHING GOES.
SANDEE AND AMELIE STEAMPUNK CHALLENGE.... INVENTIONS/INVENTORS