SKELLIE-FEST altered container for Lost Coast Designs!

Happy Monday the 13th!
Today is my turn to share some Lost Coast Designs DT inspiration over on our Lost Coaster's Review DT blog.  My post is a mini tutorial on how I made my Skull Appreciation Day skellie altered container which was also my Day 1 project for our 2nd annual SKELLIE-FEST event over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  Today is the finale but you've still got chance to win our $20 spending spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!  Just enter your skeleton themed projects in the linky party by midnight PST!  You can use any company stamps but you can double your chances if you use Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda stamps, click HERE for all the details!

 I used my fave two Lost Coast Designs skellie stamps on this project:
Skeleton and Roses, Skull Flourish plus the Long Swirl flourish stamp was used to create a subtle background.  For more info on how I created my container please pop over to Lost Coaster's Review for my tutorial.

I found this unfinished wooden container in the craft section at Target and just loved the triangular sides.  The skull feet are from a Halloween decoration, they finished it off nicely don't you think.  I love how it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by today to see my project and don't forget to enter your skeleton themed projects in our SKELLIE-FEST event by midnight PST tonight!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Rick St Dennis EDT * Dark Attic Challenges *

Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop: "Tea Addiction Too"!

Howzit!

Happy Skull Appreciation Day!  If you've been hopping with us then you arrived here from the clawesome IKE, if not then the blog roll is below so you can join the fun too!  I'm sharing two projects for S.A.D today, this one and a 2nd over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity which is your next stop on the hop!

Today is also Day 1 of Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's 2nd annual SKELLIE-FEST and you're all invited to enter your Skull projects in our linky party for the chance to win a awesome shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

Tea Addication Too

My S.A.D project today is the 2nd in a mini series I'm working on called "Tea Addication" for the Rick St Dennis Elite DT.  I do love a good cup of tea and Alice in Wonderland and Skulls, combine them all and this is what you get, heheheheh ;0)  Click on all the photos for a closer look.

I couldn't resist showing off my new Alice, she's a Pullip doll called Sepia Alice from the Romantic AIW line.

I performed digi magic in Photoshop CS6 and merged two RSD images, "What's Left After" and "Mad Tea Party" and printed out onto Neenah solar white cardstock.   I used Copics, Prismacolor pencils and a white gel pen to colour the image and Derwent Chalk pencils blended with a Dove Blender Pen on the background.  I also applied Tea Dye and Black Soot Distress inks to the background and added more shading around the image with a Prismacolour pencil as well.  I layered the design onto blue cardstock, then onto black cardstock and decorated the two corners with a Sizzix accent die cut from black cardstock.  I couldn't resist adding some dimensional shimmer and applied Viva le Pearl transparent magic white to the spiderweb.
 

Here's my 1st "Tea Addiction" project

Now hop on to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity to see my next project, here's a sneaky peek...FYI the Portal post will be up at 8am PST so please hop back if you're in a different time zone...and then join us every day through to June 13 for tons of skull and skellie goodness!

SNEAK PEEK - LCPtoC Day 1 of SKELLIE-FEST

Hop along with us using the blog roll below!

Terra
Black Dragon
Jorgey
Susan S
Julia
Alex
Alison
Ike
Leigh - You Are Here!
Lost Coast Portal To Creativity​

Katie

Deadly Little Witch​

Susan R​

Dream In Darkness

Thank you for stopping by and happy hopping!

Challenges entered
Dark n Daring #2

Dream in Darkness

Create and Inspire #47

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Rick St Dennis EDT * Dark Attic Challenges *

Day of the Dead Zentangled Skull - Smeared Ink DT project for Smudgy Antics!

Happy Sunday to you all!
I went to the Original Rubber Stamp convention held in Carson, Long Beach yesterday and had a blast shopping and checking out all the new stuff and came home with quite a stash of goodies.  I can't wait to play with it all :0)

 We are now midway through our November challenge over at Smudgy Antics where it is always Anything Goes with an optional twist and this month is Metal Madness.  You can be inspired by the twist or just do whatever you want as long as your projects are on the dark side of stamping!

My midway inspiration for you is a Zentangled Day of the Dead skull.  I used Smeared Ink digi called Skull and Roses and I tangled flowers all over it.  Autumn has arrived in SoCal so and I was inspired to use a palette of yellows, oranges and peachy-reds on this one.

I printed the Skull and Roses digi out on Neenah solar white, tangled to my hearts content with black micron pens and coloured everything with Copics.   I used Derwent brown pastel pencil and a Dove Blender pen on the background and after punching the corners with a Marvy punch I applied Pumice Stone Distress Ink to the edges.  I used my Perfect Paper Layers tools to cut the mats out of black and orange cardstocks and everything was layered and adhered with Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive.

I hope I've inspired you to come and play with us over at Smudgy Antics, pop on over and see what fab eye candy my fellow teamies have to share too!
See you there ;0)

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark * Altered Eclectic Challenges *