Smudgy Antics DT Post & ASID#16

Ahhh, the beginning of a new month.  So much to get caught up on, get done, and prep for! 

Today is my day over at Smudgy Antics for the Smeared Ink Design Team to get you an inspirational project.  As you may know, I am a huge American Horror Story Fanatic.  So I have another project that is has been inspired from the show and from the wonderfully drawn image by Rick St. Dennis for Smeared Ink called Pickled Punkz.  On my page I have also used the stamp set Carnies, but of course!

I am also going to enter this into the current Challenge #16, over at A Step In The Dark Or Not blog.  

FLASH

NO FLASH

Eye Catching Details

Pickled Punkz was printed onto Whisper White card stock and colored in with Copics and Blendabilities.
Eye was gone over with Crystal Effects.
Image was fussy cut and adhered to page.

Page is watercolor paper.

I used inks, watercolor crayons, and water to make first layer of background.
Sponges, inks, and 3 templates (circles, stars, and stripes) used randomly on page.

Soft Suede ink was used to stamp all words from the Carnies stamp set.
Black Journaling Pen for the hand written quote at the top.

Gold Smooch Spritz over entire page, before image was placed.

Extra eyes were hand drawn, colored, Crystal Effect on each, and fussy cut.  Each is adhered with a small bit of dimension adhesive. 
Movement lines are hand drawn with Black Journaling Pen.

Kickstart Your Art - Day 4 and AJEDJan Challenge

Ummmm, yea!  I finally caught up and have my Day 4 art journal page ready to roll for the Kickstart Your Art week long challenge.

Today is Doodle Day for this Day 4 challenge.  I do not doodle so I apologize in advance for my meager attempt.  Again I have used  my new homemade art journal book "Winter is Here." book for this page.  Trying to get at least one journal, for the most part completed.

My main skellie image is by the talented Mr. Rick St. Dennis.  See his Zibbit shop HERE for more fab images.

Since this does have a skull, I am also going to get my page into the Art Journal Every Day January Challenge.  Skulls must be used on your page.  Find our Smeared and Smudged group on Facebook!

Page was inspired by the book series Game of Thrones.  

Watch these Deets!

Base of page was made with all sorts of blues in acrylic paints, lined stencil, and sponge.

Image was pritned onto Whisper White card stock.  Colored in with Copics, fussy cut and adhered to dried base page.


Used a small hand stamp from Smeared Ink called Prints.

Words written are:
"It was the children who carved the faces on the weirwoods to keep watch"
and
"Winter is here" 

Sharpies and journaling pen also used.

Kickstart Your Art Day 3 and Smudgy Antics DT Project

These pages are so fun and so glad to be a part of Kickstart Your Art this year.  I am also up today for the Smudgy Antics Design Team project and have decided to combine today's post with KYA Day 3, since I have only used Smeared Ink stamps. 

The challenge for Day 3 is Collage.  Definition: a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing. A combination or collection of various things.
Log into Facebook and look for the Smeared and Smudge group and join in all the challenges and see some wonderful inspiration from members and the Design Team.

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to get your Anything Goes projects in for January at Smudgy Antics!  

Click HERE to enter.

Yup, think I can do this and VERY happy with how my page turned out.  One of my favorite colors is blue and had these papers out, so all the scraps and what not from that project I was able to use on this.  Woohoo!

My lass is from a Smeared Ink digital stamp set called Broken and Bleeding.  When I colored her in she originally had black eye centers, eyebrows, and lips.  But once she was on the page...had to find my Smooch Pealizied Accents and change that to a deep blue.  Hard to see in the pic because of the flash.

Layerin' Up the Details

Page was from my new homemade art journal that had not yet been base painted.

All designer papers, die cuts, punched pieces, ribbons, wahsi tape, doilies, printed vellum, and embellies from stash.
The Jewel Rhinestones were colored over with a black Sharpie.
Skellie on flower is from a winnings I received from the wonderful Creepy Glowbugg.  I use her fab embellies sparingly, but this page was calling out for it!

Image from Broken and Bleeding was printed onto Very Vanilla card stock.  Colored in with Blendabilities and markers.  Fussy cut, then adhered to page.

Day 2 Kickstart Your Art

Seems to be the saved by the 24 hour bell once again.  Here is my art journal page for Day 2 of the new Kickstart Your Art week long challenge.  For Day 2 you must use lyrics from a song or poem.

I have chosen one of my favorite songs, "Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells (1968).  

Hard to see but used a Smeared Ink rubber stamp from the Rubber Club Past Offerings stamp set called Lost Dreams.  Wanted to make it psychedelic a bit to represent that era of the song.

Da-da-da-da-da Deets

Lyrics were altered in Word and AR CHRISTY front was used.
Printed out onto some designer paper from stash.
Cut out and then adhered.

Page started with stencil and Dylusion Ink Sprays.
Added lyric squares.
Stamped image with red ink and colored in with markers and a fine tip black Sharpie to help define her face a little more.
Paint brush for red around lyrics and on edges.
Top of laundry cap to help make designs in the green acrylic paint.
Water spritzed over to help blend all the colors.

Sorry that the red looks pink in this pic!

S&S Kickstart Your Art Day1 and LOC #62

Okay so officially it's almost Day 2 of the new Kickstart Your Art week long challenge, but you have 24 hours to get your art journal page in and I am down to the nitty gritty this morning.

Day 1 KYA challenge is Layers.  I have got plenty on this page and was very happy with the way it has turned out.

Left of Center also has their Challenge #62 - Layer it Up which this page will be entered into.

Have both digital and rubber stamps on this page along with layers of papers and paints.  

Full On Toxic Details

Ladies are from the Smeared Ink Digital set called Toxic Ballerinas.  Image was printed out onto Very Vanilla card stock.  Colored in with markers.  Crystal Effects over eyes.  They were fussy cut and then adhered to another piece of Very Vanilla card stock that I had already used acrylic paints on.

Layer below ballerinas was placed onto gelli plate, then gone over with reds and paint brush.  Wanted to bring out the veins on each of the ballerinas.
Washi tape was also placed along center before ballerinas were adhered.
Tore along all edges and adhered this layer to my journal page.

Base layer of page is what I made for my Winter is Here project...found HERE.
Used a variety of blue acrylic inks, spray inks, stencils, sponges, and various nick-nacks to make patterns.  Other colors of acrylic inks were added to enhance the pages I was working on.
 

Once each layer was adhered down, I used the back ground stamps Heads (Daniel Torrente) and French Filigree (retired SU!) with inks randomly on page.

Smudgy Antics DT Project and S&S AJ Jan Challenge

For today's Smudgy Antics DT inspiration I have used Smeared Ink stamps from the Rubber Club Past Offerings sets:

Quoth The Raven 

and

Morte

I will also be entering this art journal page into the Smeared and Smudged January Art Journal Challenge - Skulls.  You can find this challenge HERE. 

Dirt Covered Deets

Page was started with brush and Black Gesso.  Let dry.

Used skull stamp from Morte on left side and stamped with Versa Mark ink.  Crushed Curry Embossing Powder over stamped images and then heat set.

Raven, from Quoth The Raven set, was inked with Silver Encore ink and randomly stamped all over page.

Heart, also from Quoth The Raven set, was inked with Crushed Curry ink and randomly stamped all over page.

Then used a small brush with White Gesso to make eyes, nose, teeth, and light outline of skull.  Let dry.

Journaling pen to outline skull and features.  Then wrote a bit of "The Premature Burial" by Edgar Allan Poe.

"The unendurable oppression of the lungs - the stifling fumes from the damp earth - the clinging to the death garments - the rigid embrace of the narrow house - the blackness of the absolute Night - the silence like a sea that overwhelms the unseen but palable presence of the Conqueror Worm - these things, with the thoughts of the air and grass above..."

Ike's World Challenges Week 2, HDH Jan Challenge, PYG Jan Challenge

I apologize for this post not posting on the correct day.  For some reason it was ready to post for February.  Ho hum, yep, the mind is truly going.

Get over to Ike's World Challenges!  Such wonderful projects by the DT from Week 1 and Week 2.  This Challenge #29 Something Old / Something New is waiting just for you.  Get those projects in by Monday the 19th and win...

 

I will be using two of Ike's images, VAMP and NEW SHOES, which can be found at Ike's Art.  One of them is also this #29 Challenge FREEBIE!!
When I saw NEW SHOES, the first thing that popped into my head was little girl who was sad that she got her new shoes dirty...with blood!  You know me, always on the dark side.  
Then I knew she reminded me of Claudia from 'Interview with a Vampire', and so my art journal page was born.
She and her shoes are something new, and the vampire who created her is something old.

I will also be entering this page into the January Challenges:
Haunted Design House January Challenge, "What's New Pussycat?" 
Punk You Girl January Challenge "Anything Goes"

Cleaning Up the Deets

Sponge with Dylusions and Maya Mist sprays used to make background on page.

Vamp and New Shoes images were printed onto Whisper White card stock.
Each was colored in with inks, Aqua Painter, and markers.

Vamp was sponge around cut edges.
New Shoes was fussy cut.
Each was adhered onto page, then sponges around to highlight.

Saying was altered with a font in word, printed onto copy paper, cut, and adhered to page.
"A little child she was but also a fierce killer now capable of the ruthless persuit of blood, with a child's demanding."

Smudgy Antics SIDT Project

Hello and wow, where in the heck did November go??
Lots of changes going on at Smeared Ink!  Updated and new Smeared Ink, the Smudgy Antics Anything Goes Monthly Challenge blog is back up and running, find out about Creepmas and more at Smeared and Smudged: More Smeared Ink blog, and get over to the Smeared and Smudged Facebook Page!

Very exciting that inspiration will be happening once a day by each of the Smeared Ink Design Team members.  I have done an Art Journal Page for you today using the Smeared Ink rubber set called Voodoo.  You can find this set and many more in the Unmounted Rubber Stamps section.

This page was inspired by this past season of American Horror Story - Coven.  If you know me, I LOVE this series and am well into this seasons...which rocks as well.  Quotes are from different episodes from the altered version of Papa Legba.

Day 26 - 31 Days

You may have just arrived from the develish Wicked Blogger Kapree and are now here at Shoni/Crafty Inknik.  The next freek-a-fying blog is Altered Pages.

It is Day 26 of 31 Days of Halloween and I have for you today an Art Journal Page.  TY for those of you who look/lurk/stalk everyday.  I so love the comments and so appreciate your dedication to what these days have to offer.  Once again I am in a rush and only wish for more time....

Here is my Day 26 offering to those that can not celebrate this wonder-terror-enhanced time of year.  My heart and soul to those that are blue this All Hallows Eve:

Day 12-31 Days and AJ S&S Challenge

Day 12 of 31 Days of Halloween

Wicked Blogger's are listed on left side 

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You may have just arrived from Day 12 from the Wicked Blogger Kapree and are now here at Shoni/Crafty Inknik.  The next fabulous blog is Altered Pages.

Woo hoo, new Art Journal Challenge over at the Smeared and Smudged Forum.  This month: Anything Goes.  So, had to join!  My Day of the Dead AJ page for today:

Viva La Deets:

Page was made with home made gelli plate, wall paper tape, texture tools, and acrylic paints.
When dry, pulled off tape.  

Center image is made with a stencil from The Crafters Workshop (.com).  Sponged in with Black Archival Ink.

Sugar skull stamp is from Inkadinkado set called Petite Skeketons.  Stamp was inked with a purple ink and randomly stamped around main image.

Leaves are stamped with Meadow Moss ink and are from set called Summer Silhouettes.
Silver marker doodles randomly all over page.

Saying was written in marker.  Gone over again with Silver Marker.
Saying:
Al diablo la muerte, mientras la vida nos dure. 
To hell with death while we're still alive.

All materials used are current Stampin' Up! (SU!) unless otherwise noted.

Day 1-31DH

It's FINALLY HERE!  Yep it's October which means that Smeared Ink's & Smeared and Smudged Annual 31 Days Of Halloween has begun.  

You will see so many wonderful creative projects done by this years Wicked Bloggers.  The 2014 Blog Roll is listed on the left side and you can play along with us this month as well.  HERE for more info. 

Welcome those of you who are Horrifying Hoppers and Sinister Lurkers!  
A huge THANK YOU to all the Sponsors who are so wonderful and are offering some awesome prizes all this month.

Daily prizes can be found and you can find out how to enter by clicking HERE which will give you all the rules and info.  Have some FREAKY FUN and please leave comments for all those bloggers who love this month as much as I.

You may have just arrived from Wicked Blogger Kapree and are now here at Shoni/Crafty Inknik.  The next fabulous blog is Altered Pages.


Today I am featuring a fun guy with an art journal page, who is just about as excited as I am for October.

FLASH

NO FLASH 

Hellion Details

Image is from Dilly Beans titled 272-Little Devil. 

Printed out onto Whisper White card stock and colored in with Blendabilities.

Fussy cut and adhered to page with dimensionals.

Crystal Effects on eyes and teeth.

AJ page has Black Gesso smushed on paint brush and scrap paper.

Words written with art journal pen.

All materials used are current Stampin' Up! (SU!) unless otherwise noted.

S&S Oh! The Horror! Sept Challenge

My goal was to get all the Smeared and Smudged Monthly Challenges done this month and as of today I am 2 away!  

I have created an Art Journal page for the Oh! The Horror! September Challenge.  This month's feature is a movie called THE MAID.  Check out the Smeared and Smudge Forum to find out more about it!  

I did watch the movie and was inspired by the bits of ash, butterflies, ghosts, and the movie poster.

Shhhhh....Secrets and Details

Base of page was leftover inks from gelli plate.
Heads from Daniel Torrente are stamped all over the background with Black Memento ink.
Butterflies from set Papillion Potpourri, also stamped randomly on page with same ink.  Some of these were colored in with markers.
Black Sharpie used randomly on butterflies.

Image is from Ike's Art called Vamp.  
Image was colored in with Blendabilites, Aqua Painter and inks.
Gold Acrylic Paint on eye, and lots of it to give dimension.
Edges were torn and images was then adhered to page.

Went over entire page with Gold Acrylic paint and paintbrush.

The 'ash' was created by spraying white tissue paper with homemade black spritz (black ink and alcohol) and Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz.
It was cut up into small pieces and adhered to page.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! (SU!) unless otherwise noted.

Day 7 of Smudgefest 2014

Hello!  Last day for Smudgefest and it has been a fest indeed.  Congrats to all the winners this week and a quick post today since we are headed out early this morning.

I have an art journal page featuring today's Challenge - SYNONYMOUS SUNDAY.
I will re-edit this post by Tuesday with full details.

Smudgefest 2014 Day 5

Today got down and dirty with an art journal page for Day 5 of Smudgefest.

If you have missed out on the haps see Day 1 for the deets and be sure to check out each day for tons of inspiration.

Day 5 Challenge is Flight of Fancy.  Incorporate wings somewhere in your project.

Flash

No Flash

Flyin' Away w/ the Details

Used brush and White Gesso on blank page.  Let dry.
Distress inks w/ water and brush.
Circle stencils with Dylusion Ink Sprays.

Smeared Ink stamps are from a Rubber Club Past Offering called The Keepers (April 2014).
Stamped with black Momento ink.
Images are colored in with Blenabilities and markers.

Smooch Pearlized Inks to give sheen, which can be seen in the Flash pic.
Silver Dazzling Details on wings to give texture and depth.

Smudgefest 2014 Day 1 & QTR #35

 

It is Day 1 for Smudgefest and the challenge for today is:

Mixed Media Monday -

You must use at least 3 different kinds of mediums in your project

 and

at least 1 Smeared Ink image to be entered into the grand prize drawing

I have an art journal page for today's entry.

I am also going to enter this page at Quoth The Raven, Nevermore.

QTR's current Quest #35 is Anything Poes.

As you probably guess, this page uses the Smeared Ink stamp set Quoth the Raven (Feb 2013).

I was also inspired by an Art Journal Everyday tutorial from the wonderful Julia Vasquez.  The technique is #27 Making Marks. 

Once my marks were finished, it reminded me of a wall.

So I wrote some quotes from The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe.

Filling in the Deets

Mediums Used:

Black Gesso

White Gesso

Blendabilities (alcohol markers)

StazOn

Distress Inks - Holtz

markers

Stamps:

Quoth the Raven (Feb 2013) a Smeared Ink Rubber Club Past Offerings

Summer Silhouettes (SU!)

Journaling pen for words.

All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Oh! The Horror! July 2014 AJpage

On a roll today and was able to get another challenge done over at the Smeared and Smudged Forum.

Oh! The Horror! Challenge this month is based off the 2012 movie Sinister.  Ekk...the boogie man.

I was inspired and so created an Art Journal Page using Black Gesso.

Shhhhh.....or he'll hear the Deets

I started by applying Black Gesso to page in the form of the image from the movie.
Sprayed with water and then smushed the two pages together.  Will think on it some more and hope to get another entry in this month using the second page.

I added some color with inks and Aqua Painter.
Frame around page is with a stamp from the NYMPHS (Feb 2014) from the Rubber Club Past Offerings over at Smeared Ink.
A balloon stamp from Little Buddy Birthday (SU!) was used in lower left corner to make nooses.
Last is a background stamped called Netting (SU!) over entire page.

Black journaling pen to help define features and draw longer noose ends.
Spritzed water over page and smushed again with other page.
 All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Smeared Ink Weekly DT Project and ASiD #5

Hope everyone had a wonderful fourth of July!  We were busy camping all week and now I finally get to play with some new wonderful purchases that have arrived while I was gone.  Woo hooo!

For this post I have created an Art Journal Page using Smeared Ink stamps an oldie but goodie technique that involves Clorox Bleach.

A Step In The Dark now has Challenge #5 - Dark Fantasy or Anything Goes up and ready.  Please see the fab inspiration done by their DT this round....WOW!

Sure...these are the Deets....
My Smeared Ink stamps are from the set called FRINGE (May 2014 #2).  You can get this rockin' set in the Rubber Club Past Offerings.  Join the Smeared Ink Rubber Club and receive a unique set each month.

Page was created by using Dylusion Spray inks, two colors.
Once dry, a Dyan Reaveley stencil was placed on the darker side.  With paint brush and bleach, I used a stencil as a guide to take away the darker color.
Again, once the bleach was dry, I used ink that kinda matched my lighter color and colored in with an Aqua Painter.
Placed stencil back over finished leaves and used a black journaling pen to help define shapes.

White Gel pen and black journaling pen to make vines/swirls, and highlights on leaves.

Stamps were inked with Versa Mark Ink and stamped onto dry page.
Black Embossing Powder over stamped images and heat set with gun.

Paint brush and Clorox Bleach once more over embossed images.
Re-painted images with inks.

Orange and leaves more vibrant in real life. 
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Delicious Doodle Challenge #93

Just making the cut today!  Delicious Doodles The Challenges blog has a great challenge that will be ending in about 30 minutes.  So I better type fast!  The challenges are weekly and by the time I usually get my project done, I have missed the deadline...soooo trying to get one in this week!

I have created an Art Journal page for #93 Challenge - Make a Scene.  This page is inspired be the Hispanic story Llorona (images below).  Scene is by the river among the Aspen trees.

Where Are....Oh, Here Are The Deets!

Main image is from Smeared Ink new Rubber Club stamp set which will be aviliable in July, called Llorona.
She is on Whisper White card stock.  Colored in with markers and Smooch Pearlized Accents.

Background

Blue is ink on a pair of a toy wings.  Spritzed a bit with water.
Used distressed ink (green) on tree template, spritzed with water, then pressed onto page.
Distress ink and inks for ground and water.

Hand stamps from a Past Rubber Club Offering by Smeared Ink, called Prints (Mar 2013).

Doodling on each side and saying is done with black journaling pen.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Smeared Ink Weekly DT Project

This week I have made an Art Journal Page using Smeared Ink stamps from the Rubber Club Past Offerings and the wonderful Prompt #25 Acrylics by Susan Salyer from the Smeared and Smudged Forum.

"Faster, faster ever faster
and yet faster now they race,
winding, whirling, ever swirling
in the frenzy of their pace
and they shimmer in the moonlight
as they spin themselves through space."

Tune Full of Deets

Stamps are from the Smeared Ink Rubber Club sets Danse Macabre (Jan 2014 #1) and Jack (May 2014 #1).

Background is from the AJED Prompt #25.  I used blues, brown, and gold acrylic paints.  White Gesso as my base.
Stars stencil and blue and white acrylic paint for sky.
Black StazOn ink with stars stamp.
Gold Encore Ink for music swirls.

Skeletons inked and stamped with Night of Navy ink pad.  Main Skellie inked and stamped with Versa Mark Ink then heat embossed with Black Embossing Powder.

The full version of the poem can be found HERE.  Poem is called The Dance of the Thirteen Skeletons from Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep by Jack Prelutsky.

Journaling pen for doodles around edges and black Sharpie for words.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Weekly SI DT Project and HDH#190

Yes, summer is here and how the time flies!  Allergies are killing me and the kids are always around...humm...no wonder my crafting time has been cut in half.  At least I got to play a little bit and so created my Weekly Smeared Ink Design Team Project for the week.  I have for you an Art Journal page that has sets from the Rubber Club Past Offerings of the Smeared Ink Rubber Club and the main image is Daemon Horse 4.

I have also used the Haunted Design House Challenge #190 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble - Recipe of Black, Purple, Green, Metal and a Flourish that also inspired this page.  Check out the DT for some inspiration and get crafty!

Out of this World Deets

Daemon Horse 4 is printed onto copy paper.  Colored in with markers and Blendabilities (new SU! alcohol markers) and fussy cut.

Moon is cut from scrap paper and sponged with Perfect Plum ink.  Ink then on stamp from set Urban Decay (Apr 2013) and stamped over moon.

Stars are punched from green metal sheet and adhered onto page.

Frame is a black journaling pen that was hand drawn.

Flourishes and lady in lower right corner are from the Smeared Ink set called Nymphs (Feb 2014), stamped in Momento Black Ink.

Background is Black Gesso watered down and dripped onto page with paint brush.

Poem is written with plum marker and author is unknown.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.