Saturday, June 4, 2011

Smeared Ink Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop


Welcome to the Smeared Ink Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop! If you've arrived from the uber talented Lady Brayton's Blog, you're on the right track. If not, you may wish to click HERE to find out all about Skull Appreciation Day and the fabulous prizes up for grabs for those who participate in the hop. The Smeared Ink Smeared and Smudged Forum is a fabulously supportive and fun community of artists, specializing in alternative, vintage, and Gothic rubber stamping. Normally for an event like this I'd be using some of my fabulous Smeared Ink stamps, but all types of crafting are welcome in this hop, so I decided to do what I do best and create a shaped card using Cricut Design Studio and my Cricut Expression. I've used the skull border feature from Wall Decor and More welded the shadows along with a flourish from Cindy Loo (to balance the bottom of the card) to create the shaped card base. Then I cut the regular layer 3 separate times in white to create the dimension. The flourishes and skulls are all connected so I colored only the flourishes with Copics and glued that layer to the card base. I added some stickles to the orange flourish and adhesive gems to all for some bling.

The next 2 layers were cut apart manually so I could pop the skulls with foam. The second and fourth skulls have 3 layers while the first and third have two for added depth. To give a bit of shadowing, I outlined the cuts with Copics before running them through my Xyron, right side down and glittering them with fine crystal glitter. They are obviously thrilled as all get out to have a day dedicated all to THEM, don'tcha think?! Now hop on to the amazing Black Dragon's blog to see what skully goodness she has created. I promise you'll be glad you did. And if at any time you get lost along the way, you can click HERE for the full hop list. So hop along, and enjoy!

46 comments:

  1. Donna that is freaky and very very cool. x

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  2. WOW - totally AWESOME Donna. Fab piece of work. TFS
    Hugz
    Ike xx

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  3. Love your layered designs.....super skully!!!

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  4. I love it Donna! Very dramatic.

    PS The skull image I used was from this Inkadinkadoo set Gem Stone Halloween

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  5. I totally love this Donna, I want it!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!

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  6. Hiya Chickie! Remember me? I have a teething baby and I almost forgot how to blog.
    These skulls look like they are laughing! Your cards are awesome! I still don't know how you do this.

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  7. Wow, you did a wonderful project

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  8. Very cool! I love the skulls and the dimension you created with the foam! I wish I could see the glitter. Sigh.

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  9. Donna, this is so wonderful, you are a genius with your Cricut! :D

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  10. Holy smokes, girl! This is way too cool! Those glittered skulls rock! Clicking on the image gives a much better view of the glitter. Diggin' the deep red and purple...makes those suckers POP!

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  11. Wow. Now that is something I would keep out in my house all year! It's awesome! Love all of the fabulosu glitter...and the layers...yum! Amazing job, as always Donna!!!

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  12. Beautifully done. Much work in this project. The layering is fantastic.

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  13. This is AWESOME, Donna! You never cease to amaze me with what you can do on a Cricut :) LOVE this card, and I'm sure you still have my address, right?! ;)

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  14. WOW! This is amazing! Love this, what a great card!!!

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  15. A fantastic shaped skull card great project
    luv Jane xxx

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  16. This is totally fabulous! You really must make some of these with shrink plastic and make awesome charms! I would totally wear one! BTW...should you decide to do this, you can ship me a sample to test out! Seriously, though....fantastic work! I need to learn to do stuff like this with my cricut!!!

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  17. Fab card, I really don't use my cricut enough, you've made me want to go and dig it out to play. Love how you have welded the skulls with the flourish.

    Frith x

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  18. HOLY CRICUT BATMAN!! I love this card, and I do not have a cricut, but have seen it in action a few times.

    I LOVE how you pieced this together and made the skulls 3D.

    Happy Hopping :)

    inky hugs,
    Susan

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  19. Totally cool! Love that the skulls are glittered!

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  20. Crazy cool!! I love the skulls and the flourish. It's perfect. Happy Skull Day.

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  21. Ohhhhh, I LOVEEEY it!! All the swirls and glitter....yumm!

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  22. Hi Ms. Donna! I've missed so much lately! They took away Blogger at work, so I don't get to go blurfin' too much any more! Your work is awesome girlie and I still am in awe every time I visit! You are wonderful girlie! HUGS! :)

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  23. You always manage to make freaky look stunning. Love all the layering and the splash of color you threw in there. Awesome!

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  24. Loads of lovely layers hun! Awesome job!

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  25. wow! love how it dimemonisal, i want to hold it!

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  26. that is REALLY cool! I love the shape and colors and layers, well, let's just say the entire thing! ;)

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  27. You never cease to amaze me Donna... This is so awesome- and u r right not having the Internet is a PITA trying to use my iPhone is killing my eyes - maybe I will go try to pick up my scrap area so I can try to create something...Or al least pick it up so I don't have to look at the mess. Hugs

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  28. Incredible creation Donna! Love your line of skulls that appear to be mocking us with maniac laughter!

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  29. Totally awesome, totally you! You rock shaped and pop-dotted cards!

    :D

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  30. Who knew a cricut could produce something so wonderfully eerie! I love it!

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  31. Totally AWESOME Donna. You have outdone yourself on this one. Love all the layers!

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  32. Your amazing talent with the cricut make me want one even more. this is gorgeous

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  33. What a totally fabulous card - love all the layers!

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  34. Wow this is so cool! Love all the layers.

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  35. this is wicked cool! I love purple and orange together...I and I want this on my wall! the 3-d effect is totally awesome!

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  36. Donna ...no wonder you are the CRICUT CWEEN... this is amazing... i have always said i have not need of a cricut but now i'm not so sure.
    You are one amazing crafter... and i adore what you create...i really should tell you more often just how great i think you are!
    Sorry ...mushy moment! much love lynx

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  37. You are the Cricut Queen Donna! I love this card & all the dimensionality of it. That, and the bling & coloring - Wow! Way cool

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  38. I love it!!! You ARE the Cricut Queen! I want one so bad!! This is just amazing. I love the dimensionality of it and the colors & glitter are great!

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Thanks for making my day!