New weekly challenge

ugh Mondays suck! I'm so tired today...couldn't sleep...I feel like I'm sleeping with a basketball (she is something like 14 inches long and just over 2lb)...I go to the Dr today...maybe he can suggest something....anywho...to help Mondays along the brilliant minds behind Smeared Ink have begun their weekly challenges on Smudgy Antics...starting on Mondays! you know me I love a good challenge!

last week we kicked of the challenges with a week full of them...called it Smudgefest...there were lots of prizes and fun all around! so today for day one of the regular challenges...they are challenging you to "Create a project that features splatter, drops, splodges, or blots." and you must use at least 1 Smeared Ink stamp on your project....

here is what I came up with.


I used the free digi I got from entering last month's challenges and glimmer misted my papers...I made some bigger drops with the blue by spraying inside my glimmer mist lid and shaking it out...pretty cool if you ask me...I really wanted to think outside the box with this challenge...my first reaction was blood...of course...but I really like how this turned out...but now I want to make a bloody card :) I also used a senti from the occasions grumpies and kinda made it an over the hill birthday card...lots of b-days in Aug for me...I also used another of my fave glow skulls...so much fun!
thanks for taking a look...now go see what the rest of the DT has created for you splatter droppy splodgie viewing pleasure!

Batty ATC holder

Welcome to the 5th and final day of Smeared Ink previews :( I have been enjoying everyone elses projects so much!!!

today I'm sharing with you, what I think may be my favorite image....

if you don't know by now I love LOVE bats! they are so cute to me! and this lil guy is freakin' adorable!
I made a lil ATC box with him to hold all the ATCs I've made and swapped...I'm not sure where I found the pattern...I had to alter it anyways :) my guy is tinted with colored pencils and has liquid glass eyes...This month at the Smeared and Smudged forum there is a challenge called the Junk Funk challenge and it is to recycle/use a brown lunch bag...so for my lil box I cut out some cardstock, then took my bag and crinkled it up, then flattened it out, then rubbed a brown crayon over it, then heated it (not really sure why I did this...just seeing what would happen...but it turned out cool) then I glued it to my cardstock (just elmer/pva glue) let it dry then assembled...the "ATC" came from a cuttlebug die, and the green paper is leftovers...I think thats it....thanks for stopping by...and joining me on this new release adventure!

Foul Fluttering bats

made a few new cards...this one I had so much fun with... I did allot of embossing :)... I got the sketch from priscillastyles and I used bats allover it for the Haunted design house's Foul Flutterings... the little bats are shrinkydink-ed