Happy Summer

Summertime sometimes requires a little inspiration to get crafting-so many other fun outside things to do...

Here's MEET ME IN ST LOUIS from Jen - I love the colours and the wonderful floral she did.
Jen's shading is all her own and so unique-full of depth and subtle tones.

NATALIYA sent me her lovely version of WALTZ and I thought these colours went so well with Jen's project...cool and feminine. Here is the finished project Nat did with WALTZ:

Nataliya is another designer who does things her own way and shades beautifully.

Here's PIA a new Randi Dandi you can find over at I BRAKE FOR STAMPS-this very summery card is by JEN also.


Be sure and stop by IBFS and start watching for HALLOWEEN designs-there will be a LOT of new Halloween in the RANDI DANDI STYLE around the beginning of JUNE 2013.


Don't forget to get your entries in for the FREEBIE CHALLENGES at Airless Chambers and Sparkle and Glitter-still time to enter to win some free images...

It's official RANDI DANDI images are now available in their new home on I BRAKE FOR STAMPS-Della will be selling the line-digis for now but if response is good rubber may follow so wander on over and take a peek.


I BRAKE FOR STAMPS was for a number of years my exclusive rubber stamp provider and now is the exclusive home of the RANDI DANDI line.





IBFS is opening with SEVEN new previously unreleased images, all your old favorites including the ALICE IN WONDERLAND set and I will be providing new images to DELLA and IBFS on a regular basis.


If you would like to see a particular RANDI DANDI image available in RUBBER be sure to let them know!





Thanks to DELLA for doing such a great job putting together the new RANDI DANDI shoppe and thanks to my EDT for providing many coloured samples for her Gallery pages.


I BRAKE FOR STAMPS continues to sell Rick's Teddy Bear stamps exclusively and some other misc designs including MERMAIDS - find them HERE.

SNS Skull A Bration Blog Hop

YAY...it's that time again...I just LOVE the Smeared and Smudged SKULL A BRATION blog hop and this year I feel particularly involved.





As many of you know I am now a designer for the Smeared Ink Rubber Club and my first set (which just happens to be skulls) premiers this month.





Interesting story: I had asked that as many of my EDT ladies as possible participate in the blog hop this year and offered to draw special images by request.


I got many interesting ideas from my gang and I tend to draw my best work when I am inspired.


I did what I thought were particularly good designs for LADY B, HELEN, SUZI and HAZEL and in between was doing general designs so I would be ready for the hop with fresh merchandise in my shoppe.





It happened that during all this I also was asked to submit my designs to Smeared Ink so I used some of the designs I had just completed plus some images drawn especially for SI.


In all I believe the sheet ended up with 10 designs including the special request designs for my EDT-I couldn't tell them what was going on because we had a specific announcement date for the collection...lots of suspense there for awhile.


In the end it was really fun because it made my design team a big part of my excitement and the whole release process---I also think it's fun for them to know that they were the inspirations for those particular designs.


Lady B Excavation


Hazel Autumn Window


Suzi Common Grave


Helen Spellography - Helen was also the inspiration for HEXOLOGY still in my ETSY shoppe


Miranda Yet another nap -Not in rubber but she did ask for the image






In honor of the blog hop my first Saturday freebie on AIRLESS CHAMBERS was also a SKULL related image with a little bit of VooDoo thrown in; If you haven't grabbed that one you might want to scoop him up as you HOP by.





We do a challenge each month using the FREEBIE images where you can win a choice of up to 3 images from my ETSY shoppe for first prize. All winners are juried no random number picks.


I have a whole SKULLS section on my ETSY shoppe with my brand new designs; There are also TWO special skull collections at great discount prices available...that would be HERE.





You will be hopping on to Airless Chambers from here so don't forget to grab the freebie after you admire all the fabulous SKULL projects from my EDT...if you aren't a follower of Airless Chambers you might want to add it to your list-we have a free image the first Saturday of each month on BOTH of my EDT blogs (Airless Chambers, Sparkle and Glitter).


The Airless Chambers image is always a little edgy and dark and Sparkle and Glitter is more middle of the road (I don't do much "CUTE") AND if that's not enough freebies for you you might want to be added to my Fan Club Mailing list-I send out a newsletter once a month with exclusive offers, discount codes, etc. and always a fan club freebie surprise attached.





To join the mailing list you must snd an email to rickstdennis@yahoo.com with your email address in the body of the email and a request to be added to the list-we do it this way because of spamming laws and it is the ONLY way you can be added.


Well my SKULL is aching from trying to remember all I wanted to share with you but I think I covered it all-have a super time on the hop route-you'll find the list below.


I just can't resist the urge so here is a special FREE digi image only available here and today ONLY!!





This crazy dude in his SKULL T shirt was featured on my Klub Kidz digi sheet and has come out of the archives to point the way to the next blog stop...he's yours for FREE Today Only.
Just click on the image to get the larger version the right click and use the save picture option to save him to your hard drive.


Thanks for visiting and watch for my SKULL images on your journey...I can only give away so many freebies because I have wonderful supportive customers so please support my ETSY shoppe.

Terra

Tori

Laura

Kapree

Kristy

Sandy

Jacki

Rick St Dennis

Airless Chambers

Wendy

Julia

Susan

Lady Brayton

Black Dragon

Kay

Miko

Creepy Glowbug

Aletha

Ike

Miranda

Hazel

Monique

Shoni

Suzi

Leigh S-B Designs

DominoART

Alison

Donna M

Donna W

Jane

De Stempelwinkel

Evil Edna

Jenn

Steph

Anna

Bombshell Stamps

Helen

Shell

Movie Magic Monthly Blog

Fiona

Serena

Little Black Kitten

Maureen

Karen

Milo

Teri

Saturday Freebies

There are free images today and Tomorrow-Saturday June 1 and 2 on Airless Chambers and Sparkle and Glitter.


On Airless Chambers it's this cute Voodoo Guy, here are a couple samples from the EDT ladies:


HAZEL





GLORIA





Suzi





And on Sparkle and Glitter we have Desdemona -the heroine of Othello:


SUZI





HELEN





NATALIYA





Don't forget there is a challenge on both blogs with free digis as prizes-Three images for first place, 2 for second and one for third and all images are voted on by the EDT ladies-I break any ties so no random number picks-we had been allowing email entries but had problems last challenge with entries going missing so you must have a blog to enter---but hey, blogs are free and its worth having one just for challenges-very easy to set up with Blogger so why not get in on the fun.


Lots of new images in my Etsy shoppe-we were so excited because our Airless Chambers throw down Team (Helen, Miranda and Monique) won this months challenge over at Smeared and Smudged.


We got to choose the theme for the next throw down which is DANSE MACABRE and the team will be Miranda, Monique and Suzi so be sure and watch for that one-I am drawing some pretty interesting images and the gang has some great projects planned.


Hope you've signed up for my first rubber set from SNS? I will have an announcement soon about more rubber coming from another direction as well.


I can't believe it's JUNE already-with so much going on there is always something NEW just around the corner---almost time for the SKULL A BRATION blog hop at SNS---can't wait!

Midnight Tree - New Digi Image - Hangman's Handiwork at HDH

I caught the thme at HDH at the last minute so did up an image that has been haunting me and it came out pretty much as I saw it in my head.


You can see the Monday Madness challenges at Haunted Design House HERE.


Here is my finished digital projectdone in CS5 with some help from digital decoupage eleents from ITKUPILLI.





Here is just the image coloured with a background:





Finally, here is the new digi which cam be found in my ETSY shoppe under the CRYPT section.
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I would like to enter this project in the Haunted Design House Monday madness Challenge #HDH168-Thanks.
HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE

NEW EDT member Julia

Julia has actually been with us a couple of weeks but we just got her intro project sorted so welcome Julia...


I'm sure many of you are familiar with Julia you can see more of her work on her blog (CLICK HERE).


Here is Julia's bio from her blog:


CLICK HERE


Here work is often bright and bold and filled with new and interesting ideas.








ARABELLA is a new image-great to use for practicing shading those fabric folds...
You can get it here for a limited time for the reduced price of $3.00usd.
Please use the handy PAYPAL safe and secure BUY IT NOW button below...

We are very glad to have Julia with us and look forward to many wonderful projects from here in the future.

GDT-Mark Gould

I am so happy to present Mark Gould to you as a guest design Team feature-I think it's important for we few blokes of the crafty family to hang together-as I have oft described it a tiny drop of testosterone in a sea of estrogen.

Luckily both Mark and I seem to work well with the ladies-all of you know how much I treasure my EDT ladies and all they do for me and Mark is stalwart over at Haunted Design House-a great place to check out for their Monday challenges-I drop in and play there when I can because the themes are always interesting and the quality of the work produced for the challenges is often jaw dropping-many friends , fans and EDT members from my team are also actively engaged at HDH.

Here is a wee candid shot of Mark followed by a short introduction written by the man himself:





Hi, For those of you who don't know me, I'm Mark, I'm 35 and from the Uk.I work for myself as a landscape/contract gardener and Have been crafting for about 18 months and in that time have become a bit of a craft'o holic.I am loving most forms of crafting and trying new things, mixed media is a big love as is altered art and I love making ATC's and tags, the only thing I really do not like making are cards.


Style wise I will try most things (not too cute) shabby and vintage and of course dark and gothic always put a smile on my face,the darker the better really, I think it goes back to an adolescence of listening to music from people like Alice Cooper and watching films like The Crow.


With that in mind it was great fun working with Rick's images. There just is nothing quite like it out there at the moment. Out of the two images that were sent to me I think 'Monster' came out looking the best, I was able to use my favourite shades of green and with the details rick adds to his drawings it really helps accent the shading and give more depth to the finish.Its also naturally the right dimensions for tags, I did not need to manipulate it at all, always a result in my book.


Entity was a challenge, I love the image and looking back I might try different colour combos next time, I'm not to sure I carried the red of as well as it could have been. The amount of detail is amazing and yet it does not over complicate how you add colour and even fussy cutting was not as bad as I thought it might have been.


Id like to say thanks to Rick for the opportunity, I was nervous as I could be as his DT do wonders with the pro markers,copics and coloured pencils but hopefully I have done them some sort of justice. And Id like to say thanks to you for reading this. x
Mark x


In my book, Mark had no need to feel nervous about his colouring as both these images were so well done and certainly convey the feeling I had intended for each-I am crazy about the textural frame that Mark use on ENTITY and (funny thing) I just love the way he coloured the whole Monster but especially the teeth-he really caught that olde Ivory sort of shading-well done you Mr Gould!!


ENTITY





MONSTER





You will be able to find these new digis in my ETSY shoppe.


You can find much more of MARK GOULD's creations on Haunted Design House, at Smeared and Smudged and especially on his BLOG-click HERE to visit.


Special thanks to Mark Gould for taking his time to do this Guest Design Team spot for me and I am so happy to share his work with all of you...have a great weekend...CHEERS!!