We create altered game art from dominoes to jigsaw pieces and beyond...If it's a Game we Alter it! Come & play in our monthly challenges and fun events throughout the year!

Friday, June 28, 2013

DominoART Challenge #5: Week 2 of Altered Game Boards!

Sponsored by Lost Coast Designs!
Howzit Dominoians!  Yippie it's Friday already and time for some DominoARTist design team inspiration for our current challenge
DominoART Challenge #5
Altered Game Boards



I challenge you to alter and create something wonderful with the actual game board that comes with board games like Scrabble and Monopoly and you're not restricted to using the cardboard versions either!  Some board games like Chess have wooden game boards and travel games have magnetic game boards.  You can alter any game board and use whatever imagery you want.  I would like to see at least one other game piece incorporated into your creations too!
This challenge will end July 17 at 7pm PST so you've got plenty of time to enter!

THE PRIZE!

DominoARTist Val S is sharing her gatefold card that she created with a mini game board!  So clever don't you think!  Stop by her blog for more info!


Supplies used:
White Card Stock 
Mini Checkers Game Board
Small Embellishments
Silver and Black Sharpie Markers
  Fuchsia Die Cut by Hobby Craft
Big and Juicy Ink by Ranger
Onyx Black Momento Ink
Spellbinder Die cut
Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive
Double-sided tape
 

Now it's your turn!  I can't WAIT to see your entries!!!
Submit your altered game art creations via the inlinkz collection below! 

 Have a fabulous weekend!

All of DominoART's Challenges have the following guidelines with a few simple rules!
  • New Challenges start on Fridays
  • Challenges will run for 3 weeks to give you plenty of time to play
  • One Winner and a Top 3 will be announced when the next challenge starts
  • Entries must follow the challenge theme
  • Entries must use the specified game pieces
  • You can enter a max of 5 pieces per challenge, in separate posts please
  • There is no limit to how many other challenges you can combine your entries with 
  • List the DominoART challenge with a link in your blog post
  • No back linking - your project must be posted on your blog on or after the challenge start date
  • Add your entry to the inlinkz collection below with a direct link to your post, not your blog home page!
  • Please leave a comment after you link up!
  • Don't have a blog?  Share via photo sharing sites and Facebook pages and include the challenge tag, eg: DART#1, then link up via the inlinkz collection below!  I must be able to see your project photos so make sure they're public!
Domino Hugs!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN



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Friday, June 21, 2013

DominoART Challenge #5: Altered Game Boards!

Hello Dominoians!
Woohoo! It's Friday and time for a brand new DominoART Challenge!  But first I'm excited to announce the winner of challenge #4 :D

A big THANK YOU to Blockheads Paper Arts for being such an awesome sponsor....Blockheads is having a site wide sale right now so dash on over and shop shop shop, there's lots of awesome deals up for grabs!

Thank you to everyone for playing in Challenge #4, I'm thrilled with the turn out and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all your fabulous entries!  Each and every one is worthy of winning but alas there can be only one!

The winner of Any Game Goes Challenge #4 is

#3 Paper Whims

Congratulations!  You have won a Blockheads Paper Arts QUARTER Sheet Rubber Stamp set of YOUR choice!  A fabulous prize indeed!  Please email me to claim your prize and display this snazzy winner's badge on your blog and don't forget to link it up to DominoART!  You have until the week before the next challenge to contact me!


I'm also excited to award the following entries, in no particular order, with
DominoART's Top 3 badge!

#1 Char

#6 Paper Whims



#10 Pat C

Congrats to you all!  Please display my Top 3 badge on your blogs and don't forget to link it up to DominoART!


 Now for the new challenge!

 DominoART Challenge #5
Altered Game Boards
Use any Game and Any Theme
Sponsored by

I challenge you to alter and create something wonderful with the actual game board that comes with board games like Scrabble and Monopoly and you're not restricted to using the cardboard versions either!  Some board games like Chess have wooden game boards and travel games have magnetic game boards.  You can alter any game board and use whatever imagery you want.  I would like to see at least one other game piece incorporated into your creations too!
This challenge will end July 17 at 7pm PST so you've got plenty of time to enter!

THE PRIZE!

To get you started here's one of my creations that I made a few years ago when Leigh's Altered World of Game Pieces was a feature @ The Stamper's Mall until they sadly closed their doors.

All A-board!
Altered Scrabble Game Board 
by Leigh Snaith-Brunton
The Sharpie Domino Queen
 
Supplies used:
 Scrabble game board
Scrabble tiles to spell out 'All A-Board'
By the Sea rubber stamps by Art By Moonlight
Shipboard Crossing stamp by Rubber Stampede
Cardstock
Unfinished wooden lighthouse, palm tree, anchor, seahorse and life ring - Michaels
Decorated wooden mini ship wheel and anchor - Michaels
3 tiny money envelopes - Office Depot
Book on how to make nautical knots
White rope for knots
Dymo Label maker and black tape
Fibers
Two tiny die cut tags
Two die cut drawer labels
4 gold brads
2 mini hinges


Gold Ultra Thick Embossing powder/enamel
Gold pigment ink pad
Ranger Distress Inks - Old Paper, Walnut Stain, Weathered Wood and Vintage Photo
Ancient Page coal black dye ink
Embossing Heat Tool
Assorted Nautical/Travel related Stickers by PSX
Opaque Paint markers - metallic silver, greens, yellow, brown, red, blue, white and black
Found beach objects:  piece of bamboo, dried palm leaf and shell
Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky glue
Photos and text torn from the Travel section of a newspaper
Recycled metal tab closure from a 6 x 9 envelope
Double-sided sticky tape
Matte varnish
Click on the photos to enlarge.
Now it's your turn!  I can't WAIT to see your entries!!!
Submit your altered game art creations via the inlinkz collection below! 

 Have a fabulous weekend!

All of DominoART's Challenges have the following guidelines with a few simple rules!
  • New Challenges start on Fridays
  • Challenges will run for 3 weeks to give you plenty of time to play
  • One Winner and a Top 3 will be announced when the next challenge starts
  • Entries must follow the challenge theme
  • Entries must use the specified game pieces
  • You can enter a max of 5 pieces per challenge, in separate posts please
  • There is no limit to how many other challenges you can combine your entries with 
  • List the DominoART challenge with a link in your blog post
  • No back linking - your project must be posted on your blog on or after the challenge start date
  • Add your entry to the inlinkz collection below with a direct link to your post, not your blog home page!
  • Please leave a comment after you link up!
  • Don't have a blog?  Share via photo sharing sites and Facebook pages and include the challenge tag, eg: DART#1, then link up via the inlinkz collection below!  I must be able to see your project photos so make sure they're public!
Domino Hugs!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN



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Friday, June 14, 2013

DominoART Challenge #4: Week 4 of Any Game Goes!

Welcome to Week 4 of
 DominoART Challenge #4 - Any Game Goes
Any Game and Any Theme!
Sponsored by Blockheads Paper Arts!

For Challenge #4 you have complete freedom to pull out all the stops and do whatever you want!  Alter any game and use whatever imagery you want.  You MUST use a real game piece of some kind in your creations for example:  jigsaw puzzles, dominoes, dice, playing cards, checkers, chess pieces, Monopoly money, Bingo cards, etc!  If its a game then you can alter it!

Oops, I made a mistake with the end date for this challenge...it will close June 19 instead of the 26th!

THE PRIZE!
 Blockheads Paper Arts is giving you a choice of any of their QUARTER Sheet Rubber Stamps sets!  A fabulous prize indeed!

I don't have a new project to share with you for this last week of challenge #4 because my precious kitty, Cassi, passed away on Saturday June 8 :0( She was my baby and I'm heart broken and miss her with every fiber of my being :0( So I'm sharing one of my past domino creations instead.


This is my Ancient Stone technique for dominoes! 
  I developed this faux finish for dominoes back in 2003 on my DominoART Yahoo Group while I was experimenting with ways to create a faux Scrimshaw technique for dominoes.  It's probably fair to say it's a semi-faux technique coz it does involve clay ;0)  It looks like it could be a hard one but it actually isn't and the worst part is waiting for it to dry so you might want to make a lot in one sitting for semi-instant gratification!  For more info you can see my original post on my Leigh S-B Designs blog!


Raven collage rubber stamp from the Quoth the Raven set by Smeared Ink
cream 15/16 inch x 1.75 inch Spinner domino
super-sized 1.5 x 2.5 inch white domino
white DAS Air Dry Clay
Ancient Page dye ink:  Coal Black, Chocolate and Sienna
Dremel or a Drill
Heat gun
brown suede cord
white craft glue
paper towel
toothpick
Krylon matte spray sealer or Artist's Workable Fixative
sunlight and patience ;0)

Now it's your turn!  I can't WAIT to see your entries!!!
Submit your altered game art creations via the inlinkz collection below! 

All of DominoART's Challenges will have the following guidelines with some simple rules!
  • New Challenges start on Fridays
  • Challenges will run for 3 weeks to give you plenty of time to play
  • One Winner and a Top 3 will be announced when the next challenge starts
  • Entries must follow the challenge theme
  • Entries must use the specified game pieces
  • You can enter a max of 5 pieces per challenge, in separate posts please
  • There is no limit to how many other challenges you can combine your entries with 
  • List the DominoART challenge with a link in your blog post
  • No back linking - your project must be posted on your blog on or after the challenge start date
  • Add your entry to the inlinkz collection below with a direct link to your post, not your blog home page!
  • Please leave a comment after you link up!
  • Don't have a blog?  Share via photo sharing sites and Facebook pages and include the challenge tag, eg: DART#1, then link up via the inlinkz collection below!  I must be able to see your project photos so make sure they're public!



    Domino Hugs!
    THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

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    Friday, June 7, 2013

    DominoART Challenge #4: Week 3 of Any Game Goes!

    Welcome to Week 3 of
     DominoART Challenge #4 - Any Game Goes
    Any Game and Any Theme!
    Sponsored by Blockheads Paper Arts!

    For Challenge #4 you have complete freedom to pull out all the stops and do whatever you want!  Alter any game and use whatever imagery you want.  You MUST use a real game piece of some kind in your creations for example:  jigsaw puzzles, dominoes, dice, playing cards, checkers, chess pieces, Monopoly money, Bingo cards, etc!  If its a game then you can alter it!
    This challenge will end June 26 at 7pm PST so you've got plenty of time to play and enter!

    THE PRIZE!
     Blockheads Paper Arts is giving you a choice of any of their QUARTER Sheet Rubber Stamps sets!  A fabulous prize indeed!

    My DominoARTists have made some fabulous creations for your inspiration so far, check out week 1 and week 2 if you missed them, and now it's my turn!  Today I'm sharing an Edgar Allan Poe themed box I made just with playing cards and dice for feet :0)  This one is also my Smeared Ink design team creation for Smudgy Antics Texture challenge...week 2 starts on Monday so you've got time to enter there too ;0)


    The playing cards I used have a gorgeous zebra pattern on the back of them and made the interior of my box look awesome too!  I used Smeared Ink's Urban Decay rubber stamps to stamp the textured backgrounds onto the playing cards with Royal Purple StazOn ink.  I then randomly applied clear embossing ink and silver embossing powder to the right hand sides of the playing cards.  After heating the EP I added another coat of EP to make the layer thicker and stamped images from Smeared Inks Quoth the Raven rubber set into the EP while it was still molten to achieve the wonderful debossed effect.  I pre-inked each image with Coal Black Ancient Page ink to make the debossed images pop and it also helps to act as release for the rubber.   I used 5 Spade playing cards, 4 for the walls and 1 each for the base and the lid.  The feet are silver metallic marble dice. 


    The base is stamped with the words "Confined Space" and the lid says "Open".  I also made faux screw heads from some grungeboard circles and one of the screw head stamps.  All of these are on included on the Urban Decay rubber sheet.  To give the screw heads a bit of dimension I applied Inkssenstials Matte Accents on either side of the black grooves which helps to make them look real.


    Now it's your turn!  I can't WAIT to see your entries!!!
    Submit your altered game art creations via the inlinkz collection below! 

    All of DominoART's Challenges will have the following guidelines with some simple rules!
    • New Challenges start on Fridays
    • Challenges will run for 3 weeks to give you plenty of time to play
    • One Winner and a Top 3 will be announced when the next challenge starts
    • Entries must follow the challenge theme
    • Entries must use the specified game pieces
    • You can enter a max of 5 pieces per challenge, in separate posts please
    • There is no limit to how many other challenges you can combine your entries with 
    • List the DominoART challenge with a link in your blog post
    • No back linking - your project must be posted on your blog on or after the challenge start date
    • Add your entry to the inlinkz collection below with a direct link to your post, not your blog home page!
    • Please leave a comment after you link up!
    • Don't have a blog?  Share via photo sharing sites and Facebook pages and include the challenge tag, eg: DART#1, then link up via the inlinkz collection below!  I must be able to see your project photos so make sure they're public!



      Domino Hugs!
      THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
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      Tuesday, June 4, 2013

      Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop with Smeared Ink!

      Welcome to DominoART :0)

      Today is the Skull Appreciation Day wild blog hop event hosted by Smeared Ink!  Thanks for stopping by whether you've just found DominoART by chance or you got here from my other blog, Leigh S-B Designs, during your hop!

      We're celebrating by featuring handmade projects that spotlight the much-loved cranium and Smeared Ink is giving away lots of freebies during the hop too so if you're just starting your hop or working your way down the list then the blog roll is below to help you on your way!

      Here's my second creation of the day and the final piece in my matching ensemble :0)

      Death's Door Domino Bracelet 


      Smeared Ink - Rick St Dennis image - Common Grave
      from the set called Morte which is June's exclusive Smeared Ink Rubber Club set so dash on over and join the club!
       

       The last 2 photos in the photo below shows the extension tear drop bead I added to demonstrate how you can make the bracelet slightly larger if you need to.


       The bracelet and earrings go with my Day 15 project for DominoART's 15 Days of Half-O-Ween event we had in May - Death's Door Trinket Box and Doublecross Necklace.  Click on the link or the photo if you'd like to see my post :0)  DominoART has lots of events going on all year long and challenges every month so I hope you'll come back and join the fun!  


      I will have more info on all my jewelry pieces and the trinket box up here by the end of the week!  Enjoy the rest of your hop :0)
       
      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 - YOU ARE HERE!
      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

      Domino Hugs!
      THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
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