21st Century Pillow Book

Hello! Today I am sharing the latest Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge with you. Here’s the original sketch created by Dani: I really wanted to make this into a layout, so here’s what I came up with! Please click on the photos to see them bigger. I’m so loving how this turned out. First, this is one of my absolute favorite pictures of Rhiannon (Did you all hear Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks singing “Rhiannon” at the Grammy’s yesterday??? I was SO happy!!!). She looks so pretty here. Second, I really like how graphic the page came out. The soft pink behind the panels of black. And of course, I love the little bit of glitz too! The rhinestones are from Prima, and the title was written with one of my Sakura Stardust pens. It’s infused with glitter, so of course I love to use them! Now, please head on over to Twilight Tuesday to see what some of the other Design Team members came up with!

It’s time for Fandom Friday over at Twilight Tuesday ! This week Beth brings us a challenge about Vishous, one of my fave Brothers. I loved his book. I think he’s just awesome. Love his relationship with Butch, his brilliance, his curse, his Mommy! Woah! Didn’t see that coming when you read his book did ya??? Here’s what my Book Buddy Beth wrote on TTIC: Vishous is amazingly complex character – he is brilliant. A technical genius who speaks 16 languages. He is tortured. Life was never easy, largely unbearable, for him before the Brotherhood, and not simple since. He is a warrior, with a battler’s soul – no weakness in himself is ever acceptable. Much like Rhage, he is physically cursed, though his cross to bear isn’t managed by a soothing shellan like Hollywood’s is. And V is just plain hard-nosed and not at all warm and fuzzy. Then the unthinkable happens… Comment: V is a polarizing character – what is your opinion of him, and why? Craft: Create a project that captures some ...

Ok, after putting up so many posts this week, I’m in for a real quickie right now! I made this with one of my latest and greatest stamps from Sweet Pea , it’s the Black Rose Fairy. I also made her with the Haunted Design House’s latest Macabre Monday Challenge in mind… Darkside Bride. Doesn’t she look like a blushing bride waiting for her vampire husband to be??? Mixed media again here… Colored Pencils, Twinkle H2O’s and a dab of chalk. And this bride just HAD to get her Glitz on! Glitz Stickles in Tiara, of course! Ok, really, no more time to chat! Have a fang-tastic day!

Post No. 2 for today! If you would like to see my latest card for the Greeting Farm Relay, please click HERE . So Smeared and Smudged has a mess of different groups that you can participate in. Vamp Kamp, Oh the Horror, Perfect Pinups… I think it’s pretty self explanatory as to what kinda art you’ll see in each group! As a Design Team member ( yay!), each month we participate in one of these groups. This month I got Rock-N-Rolla, which is perfect for me ‘cause I’m such a metalhead! Although, I have to say, I had a tough time deciding what to do. Use a song title? Lyrics? Nah, lemme do a layout on my fave band Type O Negative! I have met them a couple of times at release parties, and I never got around to scrappin the pics. You HAVE to click on these pictures. There’s no way you can see what the heck is goin’ on with this mess if you don’t! Of course, I had to use green-their official color. I made an O Negative symbol at the bottom too. Sprayed the heck out of it with Black Gold Glim...

Howdy Partners! It is the 3rd day of the Relay with the Greeting Farm , and I am so happy that I’ve gotten to this point! I have put some of my other projects aside to get it done… but I am really trying to finish everything on my plate! Come and meet baby Toby! My friend Tori just had a baby girl. Her name is Charlotte (I know… Charlotte was from yesterday…but, she wasn’t exactly good for a baby car ya know?). So, I thought this little bear was perfect for her! I had this nice big “C” from which I thought was perfect. The patterned paper is from Imaginisce. I colored Toby in using my Spectracolor pencils. I sure am getting to use them a lot lately and it is fabulous! They had been neglected for so long, it feels great to have them out again! I was thinking of adding a couple of jewels or pearls to this card… to embellish it a bit further. But, I’m on the fence about it. I kinda like the simplicity of it. I mean, it’s a baby card… it shouldn’t be too overdone should it? Wha...

I know, I know! 2 posts in one day (and it’s not even 8AM for me yet!!!). If you’d like to see my Twilight Tuesday project (please take a peek!), then click HERE . This post is all about Day 2 of The Greeting Farm’s Relay. Today, I bring you Charlotte. She is super sassy! I was a bit wary of her at first… I knew what I wanted to do… but wasn’t sure if I could pull it off. I had never done such a dark complexion before, and I didn’t want to screw it up. I think she turned out just fine though! Here’s a closeup…of course, you can click on any of my images to see them bigger too! The stamp I used (which totally makes this card!) says “Oh Snap!” it’s from Bam Pop! and I love them! I thought that that sentiment was purr-fect for Charlotte! Ok! So I’m off to give the kiddies breakfast now!

Happy Tuesday! Today marks the second Twilight Tuesday Color Challenge , and I am so lovin’ this combination! But first, I have some exciting news! Some of the Smeared & Smudge Girls were making projects for the Haunted Design House blog. In fact, the fab woman that owns the blog is part of the S7S group! Well, last week, she issued a challenge about Fallen Angels. HERE you can see my contribution to the challenge. Well, I won! I am part of the Gruesome Twosome this week (which is awesome in and of itself!) but I also won the challenge so I’ll be getting this crazy cool stamp that I cannot wait to work with! Don’t worry, you will see my creations as soon as I have, well, created them! But on to this week’s Color Challenge! Hello! Happy Tuesday! Alison here with our Second Twilight Tuesday Color Challenge! This week, my colors were inspired by Bella. I chose Garnet because originally, that was her favorite gemstone (before she went & changed it to Topaz for Edward's ey...