#74 Left of Center Challenges~ATC or Tag~Smeared Ink

Happy Friday!

Hope your week has been awesome! If not so awesome or even if it was you can make some time to play, right?

                                          Left of Center, click  HERE

This week at Left of Center we are up to Challenge #74, the theme is make an ATC or Tag! Our fabulous sponsor is Smeared Ink. The ladies there have assembled an amazing collection of digital stamps and some super detailed red rubber, too!

                                  Please visit the shop, HERE.


I was given the beautiful digital stamp, "Within" drawn by the artist Alexandria Serrano, to play with for this Inspiration piece.

Click each image to see them bigger :)

I love making ATCs and art tags so it was kinda hard to make a decision which to do....


I made a pair of ATCs :)

 I printed the image and then cut it in half. She is colored with Bic Markers and ball point pens. The words are Tim Holtz.


Thanks so much for looking today! I hope you can make time this week to play along at Left of Center Creative Challenges. The theme is ATC or Tag. Your choice of subject matter is all up to you, we welcome all makes cute, creepy, alternate, play in a medium or genre you have never done before! We cannot wait to see what you create! Link to the Challenge HERE


Happy Weekend!
~hugs~

~kim

There are so many absolutely fabulous Challenge blogs that many people work very hard at creating and maintaining. I really hope you can all come along and support them, too. These are a few I am playing with this week :)

I am also sharing this with and linking to the wonderful Smudgy Antics Challenge Blog for all things Smeared Ink, always Anything Goes.

There is a wonderful weekly ATC Challenge at Wicked Wednesday. This week is Challenge #154 and the theme is Groovy Chicks. I am linking and sharing my ATC pair with this fabulous challenge as well.

Day 5~Kickstart Your Art~Use An Organic Medium~Smeared and Smudged January 2015 Challenge

Day 5 of Kickstart Your Art!

I am playing along with the 7 day challenge from Smeared and Smudged, Kickstart Your Art. The Challenge is to make an art journal page a day for seven days. One each day following the daily prompt.

Today's prompt is Use An Organic Medium! You can join the Facebook Group to check it all out, HERE

Definitely challenging....coffee, tea...what to use?

I won't say fail.......

Well, I will say my page did not end up being as finished as I had hoped. But, there are no failures in crafting or creating. It is a play and a chance to try something new. 

Click each image to make it bigger, so many things to see, not hiding!

I started with a base of cheap white acrylic paint to brighten the darker paper base. On top of that I added some paper I had stamped with Distress Paint using the base of a celery bunch. LOVE the rosettes it makes :)

I edged the torn paper sections with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink. I attached these pieces using gloss medium. The background was too bright so I painted over parts lightly with Antique Linen Distress Paint.

Now the fun. 

I bought this Liquitex Blended Fibers Texture Gel awhile ago on clearance for super cheap. No clue what to do with it....soooooo I pulled out my sugar skull stencil. I wanted to try to apply the gel on top of the stencil then use spices and herbs for the obvious organic matter to create the image.


Did not go as well as I had hoped, the stencil was too intricate. The ground stuff was not fine enough.
Enough of the oregano stuck to leave the edges. The face was yuk!


I stenciled with the same gel onto a clean sheet of paper. Leaving stencil in place I sprinkled Mrs. Dash(Fiesta Lime)herb seasoning on top.  I pulled away the stencil. A bit better, some stuck.


The finer parts of the stencil were still blank, though the gel was there.  I let it dry. 

Then brewed some extra strong Cranberry Pomegranate Green Tea. The extra white paper had to go! I liked this tea because of the deep red color. I wanted to add that color to the new image.

Well for whatever reason it went bluish, LOL.  But it made a really cool resist!

I trimmed and attached. Way to much explaining! 

Definitely something I will come back to, after all for me, the art journal is a place to play and experiment.

I could not waste the tea I brewed so I soaked some sheet of deli wrap paper too. Adding to my paper stash!

Thanks so much for staying with me here!

Hope you did not get too lost and confused along this page!

Please let me know what you think, I almost did not publish this at all...

Have a super day!
~kim

Day 1~Kickstart Your Art~Smeared and Smudged Challenge

Happy Monday!

As this day winds down here I finally finished my art journal page! I am playing along with the 7 day challenge from Smeared and Smudged, Kickstart Your Art. The Challenge is to make an art journal page a day for seven days. One each day following the daily prompt.

Today's prompt is Lots of Layers! You can join the Facebook Group to check it all out, HERE


Here we go! I hope you have fun and play along this week!

Click each photo to make it grow up :)

I made my journal. Each page is just about 8.5 inches by 10.5 inches. It is made from paper grocery bags: cheap simple wonderful substrate.

Layers.....the base was covered with homemade gesso. While the gesso was wet I applied the skulls image on the right, it is a Halloween napkin. I just pressed it into the gesso.  I helped it dry with my embossing gun, it is wet and cold here today so I was too impatient to let it air dry. 

Next I applied Distress Paints in several colors, sprayed with water. The held it up to let all the paint run. I really liked as the paint hit the napkin it soaked in an made a nice effect.

On top of the Distress Paint is sprayed some ink spray and splattered some more paint on it.

Added some hearts paper tape under the Teri Sherman/Smeared Ink Skull with bow digital stamp.

I did some random stamping with paint. I made the sentiment page with one of my favorite Tim Holtz stamps and used Distress Inks, Black Soot and Vintage Photo on the edges.

In case you are interested this is the backside of the page, there is minimal bleed-through. I think the gesso helps stop that. I love the wrinkly texture. After I cut up the bags I got them wet. Then after they air dried I ironed them. The idea for this journal came from this wonderful blog HERE by Judy Wise.

My journal is naked, it has no covers. I will get to it....... :)

Now, as it says, "Live the live you've imagined"

Go play and get inky and painty.

This was a super fun day! LOVE this play:)

~hugs~

~kim

Also sharing with Smudgy Antics: Anything Goes.

Dead of Winter Smeared & Smudged Member Blog Hop~January 2015

Welcome to my stop along the Dead of Winter Blog Hop!

This fun hop is organized by the fantastic ladies at Smeared Ink! I have the blog roll posted on the left side bar and again at the bottom in case you get lost along the way.

I love blog hops! It is such a fun way to discover new blogs and find amazing and super talented artists. The Smeared Ink hops guarantee to show you an alternate view and maybe make you shiver....

This is Winter Chill. I used a digital stamp from Smeared Ink, Creepers-Misk. The snowflake overlay is a freebie by Jill Wellington, HERE.

Please click the images to make them bigger :)

I printed out Misk then colored him with my Bic Mark It pens.  Then I scanned the image and played in Photoshop Elements.

This is the full print that I made the "snap shot" from.

Keep warm and enjoy the Hop!

~kim

January Monthly Member Blog Hop

Black Dragon
Teresa

Shell

Kristy

Jane

Nan

Fiona

Erin

Shoni

Kim

Sarah

Ike

Rachel

Susan R.

Tit Belsoeur 

Sara 

Dianne

I am also sharing this play with:

The Smeared Ink Challenge Blog at Smudgy Antics, January Anything Goes

Day 12 of 12 Days of Creepmas Smeared and Smudged Smeared Ink Day

Welcome to Christmas Eve's Eve!

This is the last day of the 12 Days of Creepmas 2014, organized, hosted and sponsored by the incredible ladies at Smeared and Smudged! You can see all the details HERE at Terra's blog. Then please do hop over and check out the Smeared Ink shop, it is packed with must-haves!

The Jolly Blogger Hop roll is there to the right if you get lost along the way.

This twelfth day is also a Smeared Ink day in which we bloggers are challenged to use Smeared Ink images, rubber or digital.

And, here we go!

I found a small real life "tree" at the dollar store the other day. It is an evergreen, I think it is a Juniper, it smells wonderful. The cutting looks like a small Christmas tree. So of course, what could I possibly decorate it with???  Grumpie ornaments!

Excuse the harsh flash picture, I wanted a brighter photo of the cutie Grumpies :)

Lastly, a simple sentiment card!

The Steampunk Reindeer is also Smeared Ink like the Grumpie. I colored the reindeer then scanned him into the PC. I added the text digitally. The blue background I layered from photos my son took of the Grumpie tree, playing with long exposures.

I hope this made you smile! I had a blast with Creepmas though it seemed a bit more crazy that 31 Days of Halloween. Just the Season I suppose!

Season's Creepings, may all your dark art shine on into 2015 and beyond!

I thank you truly for all your awesome visits and kind words along the way and sharing your precious time to follow all of the bloggers on this amazing journey!

~great hugs~

~kim

Day 11~Creepmas 2014~Smeared and Smudged~Bahh HumBugg

Welcome to Day 11 of the 12 Days of Creepmas organized by the wonderfully creepy Smeared and Smudged!

If you have been following along or even if you just discovered us, follow the hop roll on the side there. All the fabulous artists are guaranteed to present some wonderfully creepy art that will present an alternate holiday spin!

You can see all the details at Terra's blog HERE, and maybe even visit the fabulous shop, Smeared Ink, to indulge your darker side :)  Leave some comment love along the hop and you just might win a holiday treat, pop over and see the rules and cool stuff on Terra's blog.


Today I colored a wicked image by Rick St. Dennis, Creepmas Tree Monster. You can see it HERE at his Zibbet shop.

"The Spirit of Bahhh Humbugg", subtitled "Don't look for the guy in the red suit. I ate him!"

I colored this wicked tree then scanned it. I layered the image in Photoshop Elements onto a background I made with free use images from Pixabay.

Bahhh Humbugg

Happy Creepmas!

~kim

Bring on the Grumpies, get ready for the last day, Day 12 of Creepmas 2014, on December 23, 2014

LOC Challenge #59~Delicious Doodles & Smeared Ink~Winter Fairy~12 Days of Creepmas

Welcome to a most welcomed Friday!

So happy the weekend is almost here, how about you?

Today brings the newest Left Of Center Challenge #59, you can see all the inspiration from the DT HERE.  This is a longer joint challenge that covers two weeks. Our sponsors are Delicious Doodles and Smeared Ink.

Today also brings Day 10 of Smeared and Smudged, 12 Days of Creepmas. You can see all the details at Terra's blog, HERE. The Jolly Hopper blog roll is there to the right side of this page in case you get lost along the way.


Really hoping you make a bit of time for yourself and craft something wonderful to share!

For my project I used a beautiful image provided by Smeared Ink, Wistful Fairy~French Fairies.

I made the setting Winter and moody, hope you like it!

To keep the darker feel, I used gray markers and Black Soot Distress Ink.  To add the winter sparkle I used foil on her wings and the mystical tree on each side of her.

I used a Perfect Medium bullet point pen to draw onto the paper, then applied Ranger Sticky embossing powder. This powder is lots of fun, and the foil technique is the one I learned and used HERE on my tag for Tim Holtz' 12 Tags of 2014 Challenge.

I took several photos, rotating the canvas to show the sparkle:)

Please click the pictures if you'd like to see them bigger!

Thanks so much for looking and I hope you can find some time to Hop along 12 Days of Creepmas, I am sure you will not be disappointed. Also link up your projects with us at Left of Center, we would love to see what you make, maybe your can win something too!

Have a great day!

~kim

I am sharing this at Smudgy Antics:Anything Goes using a Smeared Ink stamp, rubber or digi.

Emerging~Day 9 12 Days Of Creepmas 2014~Smeared Ink Day

Wicked Wednesday!


Day 9 of 12 Days of Creepmas! The end is closer and closer and I am stilllllll not ready......

If you have been following along you know this is the fun creepy alternative take on 12 Days of Christmas. If you follow along on the Jolly Blogger Hop on the sidebar, I am 100% sure you will see the season a tad differently!

See all the creepy holiday wonderfulness along this Hop organized by Smeared and Smudged. You can find the specific details HERE at Terra's Blog. The Jolly Blogger Hop list is there on the side.

Today is also a Smeared Ink day, where Jolly Bloggers are challenged to use a Smeared Ink stamp, rubber or digi.


And in the truest spirit of this day, a creepy, not really, skull ornament! I used the Emerging digital stamp from Smeared Ink, that was given to the Wicked Bloggers from 31 Days of Halloween 2014, thanks so much!!

Please click the photos to see a bigger version:)

I printed the image on Core'dinations card stock. It is colored with Distress Ink Vintage Photo and a water brush.

The green foliage I used Bic Mark It pens.

The substrate is chipboard. I die cut it with the Tim Holtz mini cabinet card die. I inked it with Distress Ink Barn Door. Then I used the Holtz Harlequin stencil and black embossing powder, I love the diamonds :)

I edged the cabinet card with Distress Ink Black Soot. The black lace hanger is nylon hem tape from the sewing department at Wal-Mart. I like to save pennies where I can so I can buy the good stuff like dies and stencils :)

Happy Hopping, enjoy the trip it is fantastic!

~hugs~

~kim

Day 8~Mindful~12 Days of Creepmas~Smeared and Smudged~

Monday Monday

Day 8 of 12 Days of Creepmas! The end is near.....

If you have been following along you know this is the fun creepy alternative take on 12 Days of Christmas. If you follow along on the Jolly Blogger Hop on the sidebar, I am 100% sure you will see the season a tad differently!

See all the creepy holiday wonderfulness along this Hop organized by Smeared and Smudged. You can find the specific details HERE at Terra's Blog. The Jolly Blogger Hop list is there on the side.

I made an ornament for this day. Hope you like it!

Please click the photos to see a bigger version:)

Witching Hour and ever Mindful the days of the Year are ticking by....

2014 is soon to be history...

I just really wanted to play with some paperclay and stamping ever since I saw Black Dragon's masterpieces of stamped clay art! You can see a recent example HERE.

I used my (only) skull stamp inked with Archival Ink and pressed it into the paperclay. I pressed firmly down to get the ink to show in all the wonderful details in this stamp. This stamp is the same one I used HERE. It is Inkadinkado Nevermore.

I inked the edges with a water brush and Distress Ink Antique Linen and Vintage Photo.  I discovered that you should not get paperclay too wet with anything, it gets mushy, d'uh! But if you go easy and let the inks dry in between layers it is much better. But it is so hard to wait I know.....

The pocket watch die cut was painted in Black Soot and embossed with Ranger Verdigris powder. I inked the edges on both sides with Archival Ink Jet Black. Then for some shine I added UTEE all around the edges.

Thank you kindly for all your wonderful comments and words of support!

Happy Creepmas!

~kim

Day 7~Santa's Lost Elf~12 Days of Creepmas~Smeared and Smudged

Welcome Saturday!

At least I hope it is Saturday and Day 7 of 12 Days of Creepmas!.......anyways....

See all the creepy holiday wonderfulness along this Hop organized by Smeared and Smudged. You can find the specific details HERE at Terra's Blog. The Jolly Blogger Hop list is there on the side.

Many of the spooky digital images you see along the Hop can be found HERE in the Smeared Ink shop.

I made a hybrid piece for today. I am having fun making digital backgrounds right now. I promise I will get back to inky painty papery goodness soon!

I used the Smeared Ink Steampunk Christmas Elf and Calaveras Candles. I resized, printed and hand colored them.

When Santa is very busy as he is at this time of year, he tends to lose an Elf or two. This one is clearly up to no good. I think he is making Creepmas toys, what do you think? Or he could be doing crazy mad scientist experiments.....that is more likely now that I think about it!

Let me know what you  think, I truly love reading your comments, makes my day!

~hugs~

~kim

Day 6~12 Days of Creepmas~Smeared and Smudged

Wicked Wednesday!

Day 6 of 12 Days of Creepmas 2014

It is Day 6 for the 2014 12 Days of Creepmas presented by Smeared and Smudged.For details and rules and such, written more coherently than I can do at the moment, please hop over to our dear hostess Terra's blog HERE.


Warning! Only a small amount of physical inkyness occurred during the production of this hybrid page!

My favorite grumpie is looking a bit scared and does not want to share his Smeared Ink Candy Cane!

Happy Creepmas!

~kim

Seasons Creepings~Creepmas 2014~Day 5~Smeared and Smudged

Happy Tuesday!

It is Day 5 for the 2014 12 Days of Creepmas presented by Smeared and Smudged. For details and rules and such, written more eloquently than I can do, please hop over to our dear hostess Terra's blog HERE.

Today's project features digtal stamps by Rick St. Dennis, Creepmas Girl and Smeared Ink, Steampunk Christmas.

I printed all images onto Core'dinations card stock with an inkjet printer. My markers are Sharpies, Bic Mark It and Infinity.

I used Tim Holtz stencils and embossing ink for the harlequin diamonds and dot patterns and black embossing powder. The red is Distress Ink.

The Christmas trees is torn from an ad in a magazine :) The sentiment I created in Photoshop Elements.

Have a Creepy Tuesday!

~kim

Silent Night~Creepmas 2014~Day 4~Smeared and Smudged Smeared Ink

Welcome Sunday!

It is Day 4 for the 2014 12 Days of Creepmas presented by Smeared and Smudged. Today is also a Smeared Ink day, meaning Jolly Bloggers are asked to use stamps, rubber or digi by Smeared Ink. For details written more eloquently than I can do, please hop over to our dear hostess Terra's blog HERE.

I am also sharing this with Smudgy Antics Anything Goes Challenge this month. See the creepyness HERE.

For my Silent Night canvas I used Smeared Ink's, The Bah Humbug Tree, the Calaveras Altar Candle and a background paper by Delicious Darkness.

I printed the stamp onto white Core'dinations card stock using my inkjet printer. The sentiment I created inside Photoshop Elements. 

The images were colored with Sharpie Markers, Bic Mark Its and Infinity Permanent Markers. I really like these economical markers and there is no smearing or bleeding for me using this cardstock.

The edges of the print was toned with Black Soot Distress Ink. I used Black Soot and Antique Linen on the sentiment tag. The splatters are Distress Ink and Paint.

The cardboard substrate started as a spraying base scrap. I am very messy with spray inks, they get everywhere lol. This one I liked how the layers came up on it so I used it as my substrate.

Thanks so much for looking! When you can hop over to Smeared Ink to see all the wonderful new additions to the available stamps, so creepy good!

Don't forget, use a Smeared Ink stamp and link your creation to Smudgy Antics  Anything Goes Challenge this month!

~Sweet Dreams~

~kim

Creepmas Gifts~Day 3 12 Days of Creepmas~Smeared and Smudged

Happy Freaky Friday!

Welcome to Day 3 of Smeared and Smudged 12 Days of Creepmas! Each odd day of this month until the 23rd, Jolly Bloggers will bring a new round of creepyness for your Holiday Season. The Jolly Blog Roll is to the right on the sidebar in case you get lost. You can see more details at Terra's blog HERE.

I have a simple creepy card today. Will you wait patiently for your Creepmas offerings?

The skele and skull is a  Delicious Darkness digital stamp, Cranium Caresses. Stamps are available for sale there until December 31, 2014. Many of them are now for sale at Smeared Ink. I am not sure if this image is at Smeared Ink. The background is a Smeared Ink Digital Paper. I added color with Distress Inks and a water brush.

Boo!

Be careful what you ask Santa for this year....you may have to wait a .....v    e    r    y   long time.

~kim

Creepmas Joy~Smeared Ink Day~12 Days of Creepmas AND Unruly PaperArts Link Party

Wonderful Wednesday!

Welcome to Day 2 of 12 Days of Creepmas! You can see all the fun details of this Hop HERE, at Terra's Blog:)

This is Day 3 of UnrulyPaperArts, UPA, 12 Days of Christmas Link Party, join the fun HERE.

For this day of Creepmas, the added challenge is to use Smeared Ink stamps, rubber or digi.

I love tags, ATCs and Altered Playing Cards(APC), so I think this year my Christmas tree is going to have lots of new decorations! And some really awesome gift tags:)

All images on the tag are digital and printed on my inkjet printer. I used Sharpies and Bic Mark Its to color. The tree topper is my favorite Smeared Ink, a Grumpie, love them! The steampunky kitty and gifts are part of the Steampunk Christmas digi set. The background is also a Smeared Ink digital paper in the set Icy.

The sentiment is Tim Holtz alpa stickers, still wanting a real Dymo tape label maker:)
I edged the tag with Distress Ink Faded Jeans and Black Soot.

Have fun on both Hops today! The Creepmas Hop list is at the top on the right in case you are lost.

The Unruly PaperArts Hop Link Party is HERE

I am also sharing at Smudgy Antics, which is back with a new Anything Goes Challenge, the only requirement is to use at least one Smeared Ink stamp, rubber or digi somewhere. 

I do hope you pop over to all these wonderful places to play! Share some comment love along the way :)

~kim

Creepmas Greetings~12 Days of Creepmas~12/1/2014~Rick St Dennis

Welcome to Creepmas!

I hope you enjoy your visit, if you are looking for Mixed Media Mojo's December Inspiration or Unruly PaperArts 12 Days of Christmas, you can scroll down or click HERE :)

I plan on  having lots of Holiday projects to share....let's see if I can....... :)

12 Days of Creepmas is sponsored by Smeared and Smudged, Smeared Ink shop and hosted by the lovely Terra, you can see the Hop details at Terra's blog HERE.

The Jolly Blogger Hop Roll is posted there on the right with the supremely creepy flowered Ms Skele. She will stay there all month 'cuz she is awesome.

Closing out October with the 31 Days of Halloween was a blast! For that challenge it required a new project each day. Creepmas is just 12 days, do-able right? at least I hope so if the Fates are kindly :)
Creepmas 2014 will post on the odd days this month culminating on December 23rd. I hope you have fun on the Hop and have a safe and fun Holiday Season!

Onwards!

I have used the Creepmas Greetings Snowman digital stamp by Rick Saint Dennis. It is printed with a Smeared Ink background. I hand colored with Sharpies and Bic Mark It pens. I added some embossed snowflakes and assorted washi tape to frame my mini poster:)

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you are ready for a haunting and creepy Holiday Season.

For your Blog Hop Roll, scroll back up and look to the right.

Have a spectacularly creepy Monday!

~kim

Smeared N Smudged Member Blog Hop~Transparency

Happy Thursday
Today I am participating in the Smeared and Smudged Forum Member Blog Hop! The theme or prompt for this month is Transparency.

For this Hop you can jump in anywhere, but if you want to follow the list, it is right here for you.


Black Dragon
Evil Edna
Jessica
Karen
LeslieRahye
Nanette
Kim
Sarah N
Keren
Susan
Sarah S

I took the prompt literally:) I decided I wanted to stamp on clear material. 

I just wanted to make layers using some of my favorite stamps. I picked out the images and used Staz-On black ink for the stamping. I did let the pages sit and dry for awhile.

I used tissue tape to attach the pages,  it is more forgiving as I was figuring out how to arrange everything:) ...and if I wanna take it apart again, it is easy....

I like how the layers change as each 'page' is turned.

I used an embossing folder to make the clock faces page. After embossing it, I ran the Staz-On ink pad over the ridges on the clocks to bring out the details. It came out nice and had some cool streaks of ink too.

The last colored page, I used alcohol inks. After I taped the pages together, I mounted them on a manila folder card that I colored with Distress Ink. The inside of this spell book is empty, still a work in progress. 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a moment to leave a quick comment saying, Hi:) 

It is a bit quiet since October is over now.

Have fun hopping!

~hugs~

~kim

And here is the Hop list again so you don't have to scroll back up:) 

Black Dragon
Evil Edna
Jessica
Karen
LeslieRahye
Nanette
Kim
Sarah N
Keren
Susan
Sarah S