The Stamp Review Crew: Gorgeous Grunge Edition

Welcome to another Stamp Crew Review Blog Hop!  We share our take on a selected stamp set every first and third Monday.  This round we are looking at the "crime scene" set, Gorgeous Grunge.  This set is perfect for adding the little touch to any background.

Gorgeous Grunge (#130517)

This is the first stop from the top, but if you are hopping around in a circle, you have just come from Nancy's beautiful blog.  For my stop, my initial thought for this set was paint splatter.  This set is great for getting the splatter look without the mess.  I was off to find an image in My Digital Studio that would work.  There is a paint palette in the School Days II download, but I went with a paint bucket from A Year Celebrated 2014 download.

I opened the embellishment in MDS, exported as a jpeg, and imported into the e-cutter.  Once I traced the image, I used the offset function to create a margin around it.  Print and cut, and I'm done.  This card uses Mojo Monday sketch #332.

Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge, Loving Thoughts; Paper: Whisper White, Corrugated Cardboard; Ink Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green, Pacific Point, Real Red, Black Stazon; Accessories: Rhinstone jewels, Chalk Talk framelits, Big Shot, e-cutter; MDS Elements: A Year Celebrated 2014.

I thought the smaller splatter image could also pass for an outer space background.  With that in mind, the focus for this card is an alien.

Here I actually stamped the splatter image with white acrylic paint to get it to show up brightly against the black background.  This card uses Mix-Ability #34 Paint X2, use any two types of ink/paint for your project, and the design was inspired by a card by Chen Zax.  The sketchy gel pen outline isn't normally my style, so it was so fun to break out of the mold a bit.

Stamps: Blast Off, Gorgeous Grunge; Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Basic Black, Whisper White, Whisper White Core'dinations, Sweet Sorbet DSP, Window sheet; Ink: Wild Wasabi, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Tangerine Tango, Cherry Cobbler, Silver Encore, Crushed Curry marker, Cajun Craze marker; Accessories: Crushed Curry chevron ribbon, Clear embossing powder, White gel pen, Shaker Frames, Craft knife, Sponges, Tasteful Trim die, Big Shot, White acrylic paint, Sewing machine, Thread, Stapler.

Speaking of crime scenes, someone had to do it.  I created this card for a twisted humor swap at our local shoebox swap.

I used a crime scene chalk outline off the internet to create and mask my outline.  Of course, the outline was drawn with the chalk marker - heehee.  It is hard to recreate the thin, plastic effect of the police tape, but luckily I found some humorous tape which was meant to protect your lunch in the work refrigerator (or mark the spot of your missing stapler).  I embossed the splatter image for a nice, shiny effect.  In this sample, I managed to use nearly all the stamps in the set.  Yay me!

Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge, Seriously Paper Pumpkin kit; Paper: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla; Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Versamark; Accessories: Clear embossing powder, Chalk marker.

Make sure you check out the next stop to see what lovelies Cindy at Stamps, Paper and Ink put together with the set. Thanks for stopping by!

 

The complete hop list:

1. Heidi Baks  runningwscissorsstamper.blogspot.com
2. Cindy Beach stampspaperandink.typepad.com/
3. Beth Beard   mylittlecraftblog.com/
4. Adriana Benitez  escape2stamp.com
5. Tanya Boser   tinkerin-in-ink.blogspot.com
6. Debra Burgin  heartfeltinkspiration.com/
7. Jill Coleman  jillstamps.com/
8. Deb Currier  artfeltimpressions.blogspot.com/
9. Mike Funke    stampin-style.typepad.com/
10. Shana Gaff   stressfreestamping.blogspot.com
11. Holly Krautkremer  rubberredneck.typepad.com
12. Mary Rindal   maryrindal.com
13. Martha Stewart  seasonsofstamping.com/
14. Dawn Tidd   tiddbitsfromdawn.typepad.com
15. Lisa Young   addinkandstamp.blogspot.com/ 
16. Kerry Willard Bray  kerrywillardbray.com
17. Paula Wright  paulastamps.blogspot.com/
18. Rita Wright  ritascreations.blogspot.com/
19. Betty Traciak kittystamps.blogspot.com
20. Nancy Smith iguanastamp.wordpress.com