Give yourself over: skulls

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Smeared and Smudged Skull Appriciation Hop

YAY its finally here! Skull Appreciation day hop with Smeared and Smudged!!!

You should have come here from Heather's blog...but if you stumbled upon my blog and want to join in from the beginning, please start here. there are many prizes to be won.....if you want more info on skull appreciation day I have a button on my sidebar.

I'm going to try to keep this short and sweet-ish

I made two peices using the same skull stamp (from the Quoth The Raven Smeared Ink stamp set) both are bits of a cd I cut up and painted with acrylic paints

first one I stamped my skull and used a bunch of UTEE and then added some lightly painted feathers..I think this is going to be a pin...maybe a necklace...maybe a magnet...donno yet

and second is a necklace that I used shrinkydinks added some beads and there I go...necklace!

thanks for taking a look...now off you go to see Susan's blog...or go back to the beginning...whichever...but have fun and leave lots of love! have a skull-tastic day!

Kapree <-----you are here!

Thursday, May 19, 2011

beginings of a skull adventure

Happy Thursday everyone!
Due to all the fuss about the Skull Appreciation Day coming up (June 4) I was looking threw my stamps for what I have for skulls and found so many Smeared Ink ones that would work! So I busted out my As Death stamp set to play around a bit and begin my skull adventure...and here is what I came up with...it really got me in the skully mood....like I needed it ;)

For my background paper I painted it purple then smeared a black ink pad all over it. I colored my image with colored pencils then used some paint thinner to blend my colors (new technique I found) I stamped and cut out my favorite quote for this set, and lastly I made some super cool paper buttons (using parts of another as death stamp) another technique I picked up today...this one came from Creepy Glowbugg's blog.
and here is a close up of the buttons...I just love em!