Paint Nite

I went to Paint Nite a while back with a few of my friends.  Had a blast and my painting turned out better that I thought it would.

We already have plans to take another class, we just have to agree on what to paint.

Monday Mash-Up

Welcome to Smudgefest 2012!  The wonderful team over at Smudgy Antics is holding their second annual week long challenge extravaganza!  The challenge today is Monday Mash-Up and we were given a list of items and had to use a minimum of 3 from the list. I've created this art journal page using the following items from the list:  paint (purple background), deco paper (green flags), newspaper (letters) also metal (in the form of metallic pens).

I've been missing my mojo this summer and thought the Smudgefest would be the perfect reason to get off my duff and get creative.  Plus I've been neglecting my art journal :(  So I got out my supplies and got messy, I forgot how fun that could be.
First I painted the lighter purple on the page then flicked the darker purple paint onto the page using an old toothbrush.  The deco paper is something that I've had in my stash for quite a while.  It's a bright green and had little tuffs of grass on it.  I think it was from an old springtime paper set.  I cut it into the flags and glued down the side.  Then I hunted thru the newspaper for letters for my title.  Both the stamps I used are from Smeared Ink, the chain link and Poe both from the Quoth the Raven set.  I used a metallic sharpie to add the dots to the flags and to outline the letters.
Make sure to come back tomorrow to see what I create next and visit Smudgy Antics to join in the fun!

Smeared and Smudged July blog hop

Hello my friends, it's time again for the monthly blog hop over at S&S. The challenge this month was to alter something. It had to be a 3 dimensional object and the only other rule was that it has to have a stamp somewhere on it. So for my project I decided to alter a flower pot.

My first step was to paint the pot and saucer with white paint. While that was drying I stamped the skull (from the Quoth the Raven set) onto white tissue paper with a jet black stazon ink and cut out. Then I used Mod Podge to glue the stamped tissue onto the flower pot. Next I painted pink all over but it looked blah, so I added black stripes to the top rim. Still didn't look right so painted the entire rim black and the saucer black to balance it out. Looked much better but I felt it was missing something so I stamped some circles with a pencil eraser and paint. I think it turned out pretty cute. Wasn't exactly the shade of pink I wanted but it's growing on me.

I think I might add some sparkle later and then apply sealer to help protect it. Super fun to do, I'm going to have to make some more of these :)

Thanks for stopping by, please make sure to visit the other blogs on the hop and dont forget to leave everyone a little bit of love.

Terra- http://www.moresmearedink.blogspot.com
Alex- http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Black Dragon- http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/
Kapree- http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/
Jane- http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/
Steph- http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/
Heather- http://stampdetails.blogspot.com/
Madeleine- http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Helen- http://cromscubbyhole.blogspot.com/
Ike- http://suzy-ikesworld.blogspot.com/
Fiona- http://idontdostraight.blogspot.com
Lady Brayton- http://www.ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/

Smeared and Smudged Blog Hop

Welcome to the Smeared & Smudged April Blog Hop. This month our theme is metal, there has to be metal somewhere on our project (brads and eyelets DO NOT count)! No special rules except to follow the S & S rule of there needs to be a stamp somewhere!!! Which is easy enough especially when Smeared Ink has such awesome stamps to choose from. For my project I repurposed a used fed ex envelope to cut out my tag shape, then I applied 2 coats of gesso to get the texture I wanted. I painted the entire tag with turquoise paint. After it was dry I used a dry brush to add metallic bronze paint. While all the paint was drying I stamped this gorgeous image from the Smeared Ink Nymph set. I stamped her in cocoa ink on an off white CS and then stamped her dress also in cocoa ink on B&T paper. I also added some of the metallic paint to her wings but it's difficult to see that here. I very carefully cut them out and attached the dress to the nymph and then to the tag.

On the left side of the tag is my first actual peice of metal. It's a rusted up piece that I found on one of my walks around the warehouse where my son's karate class is. I wrapped some bronze wire around the metal and attached to my tag. I also found the rusted up washer that I used at the top of the tag around the hole for my ribbon. Cool right? I also used the cross-hatch stamp from the Quoth the Raven set (also from Smeared Ink).

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to stop at all the other blogs along the hop. Don't forget to leave some love (we all love comments).

Terra http://moresmearedink.blogspot.com/
Kelli http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/
Lady Brayton http://www.ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/
Black Dragon http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/
Alison http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Kapree http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/
Alex http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Sugar http://sugscardsnmore.blogspot.com/
Jane http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/
Kymberly http://1darkrosaleen.blogspot.com/
Monica http://giddygreetings.com/
Paula http://www.whatspeaks2myheart.wordpress.com/
Tori http://ndustrial-lemon.blogspot.com/
Lisa http://www.ldfdesign.blogspot.com/
Tiffany http://bkfastattiffanys.blogspot.com/
Dianne http://dkspinner.blogspot.com/
Steph http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/ <--you are here
Judi http://creatingartwithheart.blogspot.com/




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