NEW from SMEARED INK

Happy to announce my first set of rubber stamps from SMEARED INK-you can find them HERE





My set titled MORTE is offered by the Smeared Ink Rubber club as a featured monthly offering and these designs are ONLY available as rubber and from SIS for now-maybe digis sometime in the future.


Hope you enjoyed seeing preview of my new venture?

Smeared Ink Blog Hop for May

HOWDY all you Bog Hoppers-it's the MAY members blog Hop and here we all are-I am kinda in the midlands here and from me you will visit MONIQUE one of my EDT ladies...


For this hop I have a new image for you called MOON GODDESS-she will be available at the end of my post as a BLOG SPECIAL via Pay Pal buy it NOW button-safe and secure...but first to inspire you here's a gallery of inspirations from my EDT:


JULIA




Miranda





ALetha



JEN






Lady B






Monique





and finally MY versions-heres the Black and white SAMPLE:





My coloured version done with promarkers and prismacolour pencils:





and finaly my image done as a project:





You can purchase the MOON GODDESS digi here today only for the special price of 3.00usd-Just use the Pay Pal Button below

Hope your having fun? Keep hopping now over to Monique's place -its a long HOP from Southern California to the Netherlands so you might want to take A RUNNING START?

BLOG LIST IS BELOW

Black Dragon
Laura
Kristy
Kapree
Hazel
Kay
Rick
Monique
Rocio
Jane
Shell
Lady Brayton
Fiona
Ike


If your are looking for the winners of the Craft Challenge Birthday hop special digi set, you can find them here and on Sparkle and Glitter blog here

CRAFTS Blog Hop WINNER

bcookiebaker@yahoo.com - Bonnie
She got the entire set of 5 Birthday digis-2 versions of unbirthday and the dragon and the Lil witch image

Congrads!!!!!

The special is still available on the blog hop post below but ends SUNDAY-after that the images will be available singly in my ETSY shoppe

CRAFTS Challenge Birthday Blog Hop

Congrads to CRAFT Challenge Blog on their anniversary and hope you are enjoying the blog hop---


I did this project for the hop:





I also drew 2 additional images used by MONIQUE and HAZEL from my EDT you can find them on SPARKLE AND GLITTER our EDT blog.


I am offering a special on the purchase price of the digis I did for the blog hop-you will find that at the end of this blog post and also over at SNG.


I also have a special prize for blog hoppers on my blog-I will pick a random "hopper" who comments on my post-that person will win the 3 birthday digis OR if you have already purchased the digi pack you will recv your choice of any three single digis from my ETSY shop.so be sure and leave a comment and a way to contact you via email.





BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE DIGI SPECIAL AFTER THE HOP ROUTE LIST


And now for our Blog Hop route:

CRAFT Challenge Blog (you are here at the start of the hop)

Aunty Sue

Carol

Divya (GDT)

Evie

Hazel (from Rick St Dennis MFA) 

Jeanette

Jo

Judy (GDT)

Lyndsay (from LEJ Designs)

Nikki

Rachel (GDT)

Rick St Dennis (yes the man himself!) (you are here)

Saskia

Sharon

Sheryl

Sylvia

Trimgym's Digistamps and Images

Wenche (GDT)

CRAFT Challenge Blog (you are here at the end of the hop)

If you would like to purchase the 3 NEW digis used for the CRAFTS blog hop we have a BUY IT NOW blog special powered by our safe and secure PAYPAL button below.


You get 3 images-the Birthday dragon with and withour the print layers, the birthday Witch and The UNBirthday Mad Hatter with and without the print layer-so 5 digis in all-retail value about 13.50usd for on;y $7.50!!!

This is a limited time offer before the images are added to the ETSY shop individually and at full price so grab it while you can-Birthday images are great all year...

Welcome to a new EDT member -JEN

I had featured JEN Leeflang awhile back on Sparkle and Glitter doing a GDT spot using the Kaualani image which got a great response.



I am happy to report that JEN has joined our EDT on the SPARKLE AND GLITTER team (one of TWO new members on the EDT stay tuned for more about the other lady).


I aked her to do a project using another new image SPANGLES and I especially asked her to make it very glitzy-see what you think of her project...





I am just LOVING this Over the Top construction and let me show you a couple more shots before I tell you about it:\




Here's one that shows the dimension:





Have you ever seen embellies like those? No? Well that because she MADE them...


Here's what Jen says about the embellishments:
Feathers, sequins, beads, and lots of bling! and (LOL!) the round embellishment is made up of two pairs of false eyelashes – pink feather eyelashes and pink lurex eyelashes - bought at the Chinese Wholesaler. If you think it’s too OTT.... Usually I let the image speak to me to tell me what needs to be done, and in this case, Spangles would just not shut up! LOL!!!


Jen, I think many designers will tell you my images are very noisy (and pushy) sometimes...when it comes to costumes I always say too much is never enough...eyelashes???? WOW!!!


Jen SEWS her embellies on and sent a shot to show what's going on BACKSTAGE:





I know, we need a tutorial or six...


I think you'll agree Jen is a great addition to my EDT...her's a snippet from her BIO:



“My name is Jen Leeflang. I’m married to Pete, and mother of Nicholas (23), Blayne (20) and Kellan (18). I am a little ‘craft crazy’!


I majored in High School Art and Art History, and have always dabbled in one craft or another for as long as I can remember. In 2007 I gave up my formal job as a PRO and Fundraiser for a school to be a stay at home mum while I homeschooled our two younger sons.
Since December 2012, I am a freelance agent for an importer of paper crafts products, design digi stamps for a South African based online digi store, and also design, make, and bead costumes for bellydancers.


You can read more HERE.


SPANGLES is now available in my ETSY shoppe-you can find her HERE.


Welcome JEN and I hoe you have a great time on our team.

THE MIST for HDH HDH166 - Stephen King Knightmare

Stephen King-one of my all time favorite authors is the theme of this weeks MACBRE MONDAY challenge at Haunted Design House.

I love IT, The Stand, Needful Things and many of his other works, both novels and short stories.

My absolute Favorite is THE MIST (a novella also published as a movie treatment novel, an audo book/play and a motion picture.

I was so exited when it was going to be a film but reminded myself that SK vehicles do not translate well to motion pictures (or TV for that matter).


Something so scary about death in nightmarish forms coming-not from the dark and not from the light but from a dull white mist that smells a little like petroleum and is probably rushing in from another dimension thanks to the U S Army and their experiments.

Man eating tentacles, Giant spider creatures, HUGE things that wander around covered with giant bugs all only shadows, outlines, things not clearly seen till they reach out and grab you and pull you screaming into the mist.

This is my drawing based on Stephen King's "THE MIST"-the challenge aks for a work inspired by STPHEN KING:



And this is the project I made using the drawing-I wanted to keep it free of colour except for spattered blood red like his world of the mist- as the mist comes in the colour fades.



Hope you enjoy my image you can find it HERE in my ETSY shoppe.

I would like to enter it in Haunted Design House Monday Madness Challenge SYEPHEN KING.

GDT project-CHANA HARRIS

I've worked with Chana quite a bit because I sponsor challenge blogs that she's involved with.


The first time I saw her work I was really impressed by how she combined colours and textures in a very sophisticated way.


I'm sure many of you have noticed that there are wonderful projects that immediately catch your eye but then there are those special few that literally take ones breath away.



This picture shows the first shot of Chana's work which caught my attention-I love how she coordinated the projects with colour and texture but you can still clearly see my digi image in the set up.


I asked Chana to share a little bit about herself and here is what she shared with me:
I am a very novice card maker from Decatur, GA. I will try almost any paper craft at least once, but my true loves are cards and personal stationery. I enjoy working on Design Teams, but recently cut my teams from nine down to 3. I want to take more classes (and actually complete them) and spend more time just creating without time and content constraints. I don't know that I have a particular style, but I do think I present a very clear design point of view in most of my projects. I love earth tones and many of my creations stay in the blue, green and brown color families.

I think we can all agree that Chana's work certainly doesn't look like a novice.


Everyone knows what I look for in good projects: Colour, Composition, Texture and attention to detail; I think Chana gets high marks in all these areas.


When I invite a designer to d a GDT for me on one of our blogs part of the fun is sending them an unpublished Image that they can help me roll out.


I asked Chana to do HATTIE my newest hat lady and here is the project she sent me:




I love the easy way all these elements flow together and have a casual, unstudied feel almost as if they were dropped on a desk blotter.

Watch at the end of this post for a link to where yo can get a digi special featuring Hattie.


As I said I sponsor often at Chana's blog 613 Avenue Create - Chana had this to say about her challenge blogs:

I own my a challenge blog, along with my Partner Kathi Silvia. We have a talented team of designers and have had a wonderfully positive response to our challenges. We previously operated a challenge blog that featured the work of Artist Robert Jackson; when that ended, we kept the team together and launched 613 Avenue Create. I love working with Rick's images and am just thrilled to have him as a sponsor and past GDT on our blog. I am working on two other projects with Rick St. Dennis images and hope to have them posted on my blog and YouTube Channel by the second week in May. I wanted to use them for this GDT, but I broke my camera and need to replace it. I want to take time to shop for a good one, because photography can help or hurt a project. I would love to have you visit my personal blog: Card-d-ology (http://redoralee.blogspot.com) and, of course, enter a project into one of the weekly challenges at 613 Avenue Create (http://avenue613.blogspot.com)

I am sponsoring this weeks challenge and the DT has done a great collection of inspiration pieces-drop over there and take a look-you'll find 613 Avenue Create HERE.

"Hattie" will be available here for a limited time at a discounted price-If you like Hat lady digis, please check Moniques post April 24, 2013 at SPARKLE AND GLITTER on Mothers day gifty for a BIG hat lady special online ONLY:





Blog Exclusive $2.50 for a limited time only!! Usr the handy, SAFE and secure buy it button from PayPal-Thanks!