October 20~ 31 Days of Halloween Wicked Blogger Challenge Day 20~APCC Week 7 Lost Souls Madness

Monday!

Day 20 of 31 for the ongoing 31 Days of Halloween Challenge! Love it!!!

Wow this is winding down or revving up? What do you think??

Please visit Terra's blog for the details of the challenge and the daily Scavenger Hunt clue for this fabulous Smeared and Smudged event. WE have some awesome sponsors and you can see them at Terra's blog.

This is also my altered playing card for week 7 in Claudine's 26 week ongoing play along for altering an entire deck of playing cards. You can see this week's inspiration HERE and to join us go to this PAGE.

I made a pair of cards today. I added some creep I think or maybe it is just haunting, not really gruesome. The inspiration prompt was a nautical theme. My stash is small and very non-nautical, mostly grungy, darkness. 

Really straightforward this time. The standard sized playing cards were covered in gesso awhile ago. The Madness card has some tape embedded to add texture.

I masked the plain gesso before inking with Distress Inks. Also did some stamping. Then I removed the tape mask and stamped the angsty lady and skull.

This one is fun. Take a piece of plastic, shrink plastic, plastic from a package, any thin one will do. I have a stash of the thin sheet that come with the cling stamps so that is what I used. Emboss it using a folder. Claudine used a bubble folder which is awesome for the underwater theme. I used the Tim Holtz bubble wrap one. I love the shadows you can see on the card from the embossed layer. The line above the card is a shadow, I cut the plastic flush to the card.

I stamped the lady 3 times only inking once. 

Thanks so for all your awesome time and comments!

~hugs~

~kim

I am also linking to Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge:Anything Goes

~Imagination Destination~Sunday June 29~Challenge Trio!

Hello and Happy Sunday!

It has been a hot and creative fun weekend! I bring you what I had loads of fun playin' with this week. I am working on a trio of challenges! This tag truly meets the challenge of "I ought to use this more" at Simon Says Stamp, Monday Challenge. I created with a couple of challenges in mind. One, the Compendium of Curiosities V. 3, Challenge 5, Distress Watercoloring Part 1, an odd numbered challenge sponsored by Inspiration Emporium with a generous $50 gift certificate. And of course, the huge source of inspiration of Tim Holtz, 12 Tags of 2014 June, monthly project.

Both challenges feature the use of stamps, YAY! and Distress Ink, extra YAY! They are so fun and my new addiction! I have never tried watercoloring in any form so this was scary and fun at the same time. Honestly did not think I could do it. Tim offers a wonderful tut at his website HERE how to do his watercolor backgrounds, give it a try it is AMAZING:) ....as he advises, be patient. The distress water coloring technique for the stamps is found in Tim's book Compendium of Curiosities Vol 3, so make sure to check it out. I can't wait to play more with these fun techniques:)

So here is my project tag, I hope you like it:)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               


                                                                              Where will your imagination take you? The hands of the clock are off, there is no time limit....dream away....

I dipped and swipped the manila tag into distess paint to give it color. I used the harlequin stencil, my current favorite, for the monoprinting technique. I used heavy mixed media paper for the print and also for the stamping. I used Distress Ink markers and ink pads for all the inky-ness.

Thank you for looking at my inky tag for June, I hope you enjoyed your visit!

I am linking to the following challenges:

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Twenty Fourteen, June

Linda Ledbetter's Compendium of Curiosities V 3, Challenge 5 Distress Watercoloring Part 1 sponsored by Inspiration Emporium with a $50 gift certificate and a special goody pack from the kind Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi, THANK YOU:)

And I really will use these more, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, "I ought to use this more!"