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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Grandmaster Altered Pencil Holder!

Howzit Everyone!
It's my turn today to share some DT inspiration over on our Smudgy Antics challenge blog.

I've had this very versatile Tombow 'store display' marker holder in my studio for many years. I'm calling it a pencil holder for want of a better word but I use it daily for various purposes like to stand projects in while they dry or carry some coloured pencils or markers to my desk. I've been wanting to do 'something' to pretty it up and I finally did it, haha! It's also the perfect compliment to my 2015 daily planner I altered earlier this year!

this is what it looked like with sides all open

I used all of the stunning chess piece Smeared Ink digis called Grandmaster and the chess board background I previously designed to create the panels for each side in Photoshop CS6 before printing them out. Each panel was trimmed and run through my Xyron to add permanent adhesive and then layered onto black cardstock and trimmed again. I applied Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Inks with a foam ink applicator tool and adhered each panel to the plastic holder with permanent adhesive tape. I added the harlequin diamond washi tape to all the corner edges and the top edges and the measuring tape to the bottom edges to neaten and complete the overall look. I'm very pleased with how my "new" handy gadget turned out!

There's approximately 8 days left to play in Smudgy Antics current 'always anything goes' challenge so I hope I've inspired you to come and join us!

http://dominoartblog.blogspot.com/p/15-days-of-terror.html

Something wicked is coming to DominoART starting May 1st! Join me for 15 Days of Terror over on my DominoART blog where we celebrate Half-O-Ween in May! I feature altered game art created by my TERROR-ific Players every 2nd day all May long and I'd love to feature YOUR scary altered game art so sign up now!

http://dominoartblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/bday-celebrations-dominoarts-next-top.html

PLUS, we're celebrating DominoART's 13th Birthday with an altered game art doll contest that I've been hosting since 2002, the search for DominoART's Next Top Mascot, the Dominique Doll contest.

Click on the event banners for details on all the fun events going on!

Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Grandmaster Daily Planner - DT inspiration at Smudgy Antics!

Happy February Everyone!
YAY, I've re-joined the fabulous Smeared Ink design team and here's my project for my 1st DT post on their Smudgy Antics challenge blog where we now inspire you every day. Smudgy Antics challenges are always "Anything Goes" so stop by and check us out if you haven't already done so!

Grandmaster Daily Planner

You all know me, I LOVE game related imagery so I just HAD to use Smeared Ink's new digis called Grandmaster to alter the cover of my 2015 daily planner.

The spread!

I designed the chessboard in Photoshop CS6 and skewed the perspective and then added the various Grandmaster imagery and altered the perspective on each one to fit the warped view of my chessboard. The finished design was printed out onto white cardstock, adhered to the daily planner covered with double-sided tape. The edges were distressed and Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Inks applied to all the edges including the spine. A touch of white gel pen detail was added to the Knight, which you can't see very well in the pix, but it's there and I added the year "2015" to the cover in metallic gold peel off stickers in various fonts to add to the quirkiness. I just love my new daily planner!

The planner with the plastic protective sleeve on!

My favourite chess piece has always been the Knight so of course I HAD to feature it on the cover.

The back cover!

The King and Queen are glorious images too so they took center stage on the back cover!
I hope I've inspired you to come and play in our monthly Smudgy Antics challenges, see you there soon ;0)

Also, you don't want to miss our upcoming annual Bloody Valentine Blog Hop on Feb 11, 12 and 13! It's always a wicked cool event with lots of amazing creations on view and you can read all about it here at More Smeared Ink! Sign up deadline is Feb 9 so don't miss it!