31 Days of Halloween with Smeared and Smudged - Day Twenty-Eight

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from Pam Hornschu:

I'm finishing up this month long Halloween celebration by going out in a box...a Cosmo Cricket Blackboard Photo Box, that is. No photos in this one, just some fun Halloween cards from this past month. Each have been designed to fit this box so that a spooky portion of the design shows through the window.

I paste-embossed in Matte Black the Dreamweaver Stone Wall over the box and lid, breaking it up a bit as I went, and smearing extra paste around the edges. When dry, I brushed on some Metallic F/X powders and white ink to highlight the stones. I also paste-embossed the Romantic Rose so that it trailed up the sides of the stone wall. When dry, I ink-stenciled color from the Tsukineko Splendor pad.

A stamped and cut out set of headstones from the Stampendous Tomb Elements was adhered with 3D foam tape.

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness! 

The winners on our blog for days 17-23 are:

Comment winner day seventeen: xfilekc

Comment winner day eighteen: craftings

Comment winner day nineteen: Donna Mundinger

Comment winner day twenty: Janis

Comment winner day twenty-one: Miriam Prantner

Comment winner day twenty-two: Teresa

Comment winner day twenty-three: Sarah Bales Strom

Please email lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com with your address, and the stencil of our choice will be on its way to you!

31 Days of Halloween with Smeared and Smudged - Day Twenty-seven

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from Jamie Martin:

1.  Sponge a white panel with blue and purple Brilliance.  Stencil LJ816 Spider web from Dreamweaver Stencils over this with black Brilliance. 

2.Cut an oval out of the center and layer onto a black panel that has a smaller over cut and tie with ribbon from May Arts.  Set aside.

3.  Stamp Tombstone Owl from Stampendous on a white panel with VersaMark ink and emboss with black embossing poweder.

4.  Watercolor image with Distress Inks in Stormy Sky, Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint, Wild Honey and Walnut Stain.

5.  Layer pieces and mount to a purple card.

6.  Use Dual Alphabet Cutting Dies from Dreamweaver Stencils to spell BOO from glitter paper, layer onto purple paper and glue to card.

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness! 

The winners on our blog for days 17-23 are:

Comment winner day seventeen: xfilekc

Comment winner day eighteen: craftings

Comment winner day nineteen: Donna Mundinger

Comment winner day twenty: Janis

Comment winner day twenty-one: Miriam Prantner

Comment winner day twenty-two: Teresa

Comment winner day twenty-three: Sarah Bales Strom

Please email lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com with your address, and the stencil of our choice will be on its way to you!

31 Days of Halloween with Smeared and Smudged - Day Twenty-six

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from Alison.

I started off with the Bats stencil and used the Double Glitter technique. I wrote about this on my personal blog a couple of days ago. This is a fun, beautiful technique that I love to do.

I also inked up the Damask stencil, as it works so well with creepy Halloween projects. On top of the Damask portion, I added an acetate frame. Look at all of that glitter!

I made this card in about 15 minutes, though it looks like it may have taken a lot longer. I hope you'll try the Double Glitter technique!

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness!

31 Days of Halloween with Smeared and Smudged - Day Twenty-Five

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from Pam Hornschu:

Today's card features the large Tapestry/Damask stencil machine-embossed on Core'dinations cardstock, and sanded to reveal the gray core as the base. The large focal panel is the Mirror Mirror image from Stampendous, stamped in black on white cardstock, and ink and edge distressed. The center of the mirror is the witch profile, but just to channel my inner Disney Haunted Mansion leanings, I embossed in white the Dreamweaver Cameo on Core'dinations vellum, framed in black, and popped up over the top. If you look carefully, you'll see the pretty cameo profile, with the witch silhouette underneath. Bwahahahahaha. To add to the ambiance, the Dreamweaver Bats and the Raven were cut from paper stamped in black using the Stampendous Ornate Border. More ink-distressing, and red rhinestones, a strip of May Arts Chevron ribbon, and the card had the eerie feel that I was aiming for.

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness!

The winners on our blog for the past week are:
Comment winner day seventeen: xfilekc
Comment winner day eighteen: craftings
Comment winner day nineteen: Donna Mundinger
Comment winner day twenty: Janis
Comment winner day twenty-one: Miriam Prantner
Comment winner day twenty-two: Teresa
Comment winner day twenty-three: Sarah Bales Strom


Please email lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com with your address, and the stencil of our choice will be on its way to you!

31 Days of Halloween with Smeared and Smudged - Day Twenty-four

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from Lea Kimmel. By the way, there is an interesting back-story on her blog post today. I highly recommend checking it out HERE.

Here's what I used to create this card:

Dreamweaver Stencils© LX 7014 Daisy Background

Stampendous® Skull Roses

Impression Obsession® Remember

Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White Cover Stock

Black Cardstock

ColorBox® Fluid Chalk Ink in Primary Pastels

Copic® Markers - YR02, 04; Y11, 15, 18, 38; YG61, 63, 67; BV11; C6; R24, 27, 29, 39, 85; E40

Sponge Daubers

Miscellaneous Flowers and Pearls

Scotch™ Removable Magic™ Tape

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon® Adhesives

Here's what I did to create this card:

Tape stencil onto white cardstock

Using sponge daubers, add ink randomly around stencil, as some colors will overlap, be mindful of how the colors will mix, you don't want them to be muddy

When complete, remove stencil and trim paper to desired size, set aside

Stamp image onto white cardstock and color

Stamp sentiment below image as shown

Trim stamped image close to edges and trim a mat for image from black cardstock, adhere together

Create card base from black cardstock

Adhere stenciled design to card base

Adhere stamped and matted image to card

Adhere flowers and pearls as shown

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness!  

Happy HallowThanksMas - Week Four

Pam here for Lynell while she's off gallivanting around the States with her our Stentangle Guru (and her hubby), Wayne. If you've been in the state of Washington this past week, you may have had the opportunity to have taken classes with both of them at "Art 'n Soul".

I'm posting a card using the Great Pumpkin stencil design, which I simply machine-embossed on black cardstock, and swiped with white pigment ink. However, as with any of the "open" design stencils that we carry, there are an amazing variety of ways to use this pumpkin...paper-piecing with fun scraps of designer paper, Zentangling (or STEN-tangling as we refer to it), pasting, crackling, double-glitter, etc. I just wanted it simple...and spooky.

The background is the Damask stencil, inked through with white pigment ink again. The pumpkin panel was matted in orange and adhered over a strip of May Arts Chevron ribbon, and some sentiment stickers finished off this card.

As a bonus chance to win the stencil of OUR choice, leave a comment with what YOU would do with our wonderful pumpkin, and a winner will be announced on next Thursday's post!

Once you've left a comment here, be sure to visit our "B" team for more inspiration using our Happy HallowThanksMas challenge this month. Then, return and link your own creations to the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of this post for a chance to win the stencil of your choice at the end of the month!

Dream It Up!

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Kristi Parker Van Doren

 

An InLinkz Link-up 

31 Days of Halloween with Smeared and Smudged - Day Twenty-Three

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from Laura Drahozal:

For this card, Laura was inspired by the Disney classic Snow White.  First, she masked out the inside of the LL3017 Cameo Stencil with removable tape and pasted the frame with Metallic Gold Embossing Paste.  While that dried, she used a drip stamp on some red card stock and embossed it with Stampendous Green Tinsel Embossing Powder.  Then, she positioned the LL562 Large Apple Stencil over the top, traced it, and cut it out.  She enhanced the apple shape with pigment ink.  She also used the stencil to trace and cut out the brown stem.  The background (reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland) was created by running the LJ 915 Opto Checkerboard Stencil through her die cut machine with the Rubber Embossing Mat.  She used the Core'dinations chalkboard effect card stock and sanded it.  The mirror was made by stamping with Stayzon on the back of scrap metal.  She used Black Glossy Embossing Paste with the Apple Stencil (the leaf masked out) on the background and put the apple pieces on it while it was still wet.  The sentiment is stamped. 

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness!