It's not over til the fat man eats your cookies!

Santa ATC

I love this Daisy D paper Santa, I cut out a Santa image and layered it  on a scrap of holly paper, add a scrap of red card stock stamped with " it's not over...." by Mrs. O'Leary's Rubber Stamps. Add a metal element from Stampin'Up , tie with a ribbon to pass as a faux belt buckle. Stamp "Santa" with your favorite alphabet set, emboss with copper. Add a couple of copper brads!

I've not been happy with any of  my photos, no sunshine ! Sorry :(  Thanks for your patience. ): I usually don't have this problem, I don't know if it's the color, or light or combination of the two. Sigh...

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Star Santa-12 Days of Christmas

It's Day Three of the Smeared Ink 12 Days of Christmas! I'm just stamping and coloring today, (and of course shooting photos with the iPhone and editing with assorted apps.

Star Santa is by Stampin'Up! It's one of my favorite Santa images. I colored it with prismacolor pencils. The original ( more or less) is below.





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Miracle Santa from Third Coast Rubber Stamps

Third Coast Rubber Stamps "Miracle Santa" CM-113-O, stamped and colored with prismacolor pencils. Martha Stewart snowflake punch and Magic from some scrapbooking paper. Photographed with the iPhone and edited with Cinema FX.

The 12 Days of Christmas with Smeared and Smudged. Be sure to check out the other fabulous artist/bloggers in  the blog roll on the right! Enjoy!

Next Smeared and Smudged post will be Monday, December 5.

12 Days of Christmas - Day #1 Merry & Bright

I love this stamp from Red Lead Paperworks ( a St.Louis area paper and crafts store). I've added the faux bottle cap to my ATC from some designer paper as well as other scraps and a swirly paper clip.

Of course I took the photo with my iPhone and edited it with the Picture Show App.

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God Meets Us In Unexpected Places

"God meets us in unexpected places at unexpected times. God of noise and of silence, surprise us." ( the Unfolding Journey)

Today we were suppose to put our Mary & Joseph in the quietest place in our house, and sit there for a few minutes in prayerful silence, what do we hear?

Mary and Joseph are sitting on a stack of puzzles at www.brostl.org, we started our toy distribution today. We will be giving out toys to over 4,000 children. It was quiet when M&J were here.

I confess I didn't sit silently in prayer, I was the only one and it was quiet, not sure what I heard, but I did feel anticipation about the day. How would it go. We received a phone call that a couple of major players for the day wouldn't be in due to illness. Yikes ! How would this play out! But God appeared in the form of a group of retired teachers and other volunteers who pulled together and took care of what was needed, and we had a delightful day.

God was there in that simple day of toy packing in the basement of the Presbytery and the 400 children we served today will have a brighter and more hopeful holiday.

"He said," Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by."
1Kings 19:11-13.

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The Advent Journey

Presbyterian Today has published a wonderful Advent Calendar for 2011


"The Unfolding Journey" by Taylor Lewis Guthrie Hartman and John Blair Hartmann III
First Week: Wonder & Wander



Readers are invited to use their Mary and;Joseph from their family Nativity set to "wonder and wander" with Mary and Jospeh and prepare and pray as we discover the ways we are called to live out Christ's message in our lives.

We place Mary and Joseph on our porch or in our yard and think about how they might feel as they start their journey.

Mary and Joseph are in a flower pot in my yard, in the rain, in the dark. It's cold. I think about frightening times on the highway in unfamiliar locations, in the pouring rain, at night, wondering where the next exit might be. What if the car breaks down, what if, what if. I try to remember God is with me and

God will help show me the way.

Make me to know your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths. Psalm 25: 4-5

Celebrate In Style

A simple card for any holiday or event. Featuring Third Coast Rubber Stamps. I love scottie dogs and here is Sir Didemus ( CO-116-H) in his top hat ready for a party!


I hope you will celebrate all of the upcoming holidays in style!

The Art of God

Stamp the Third Coast image in your art journal, of course you should prep your page with some acrylic paint.


Add text from a collection of cut out letters.


Take a few photos with your iPhone camera and process through several photo apps.


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Day 31 - I Believe in ALL paths to God.

No matter what religion you are, whether you're a Catholic, whether you're Voo Doo, or whether you're a

Presbyterian, or so and and so on....

We All Pray!

I believe in all paths to God.

The top two photos have had Photoshop Elements Brushes added here and there.

The bottom photos are unedited from the original photo.

A journal page, expressing my belief about religion. I believe in all paths to God. Your path may be different than mine, but it is how we relate to God, and who are we to tell the other they are wrong? We all pray.

I've enjoyed the 31 days of Halloween, it's been all about honoring each other and our gifts. Thank you for viewing and commenting on my posts. Be sure to check out the other Wicked Bloggers they are ALL awesome! May peace be with you.

Terra

Tori

Sara

Christy

Celina

Donna

Susan

Kapree

Lisa

Black Dragon

Lady Brayton

Jane

Alex

Monique

Jennifer

Alison

Sugar

Heather

Dragonfly Jane

Kelli

Dianne

Steph

Ike

Fiona

Kristy

Freddie

Sharon

Mary Ann

Day 30 - 'Tis now the very witching time of night.....

'Tis now the very witching time of night,

When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out

Contagion to this world.

~William Shakespeare

Inkadinkado and fun Halloween paper.
I took this photo on my front porch and the sun was flickering through the leaves, I like the effect!
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Remember my prize pack, way back at the beginning of the month! I had every intention of featuring my rat friends in some more of my photos! HA! I was lucky to get projects done, photographed and edited and posted. You all had some great name ideas. But a name came to me, thanks so much for your input.

Kit & Kaboodle
"Kit and Kaboodle," meaning "everything and all of everything," down to the last kitten. ( and rat?)

And the winner (in a relatively scientific selection process) is...

ldfdesigns

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Day 29 - What fate now holds for YOU?

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright

Of soft and golden hue

Pierce through the future’s veil and show

What fate now holds for you.

~Author Unknown

Mrs. O'Leary Rubber Stamps, designer paper, stampin' up - pumpkin pie, black embossing powder.

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Day 28 - Monsters

I can see every monster as they come in.

Truman Capote

The artist must bow to the monster of his/her own imagination.

Richard Wright

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving

Smeared Ink Grumpie edited via iPhone apps.

We're almost there!

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Day 27 - If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. ~American Quaker Saying

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. ~American Quaker Saying

Tags stamped with Inkadinkado minis from JoAnn's also Stampin' UP splatter stamp.

Edited with Cinema FX on iPhone 4

And some star flashes with paint brushes from Photo Shop elements.

The tag below is my favorite.

Be sure to check out the other Wicked Bloggers and thanks so much for the kind comments. Also, I am still working to give away my prize package. Thanks, so much for stopping by!

Day 26 - Anxiety

I'm experiencing anxiety as we approach the end of the 31 days! (LOL)

Well, sort of.

Will I get everything completed in time?

What about the other creative projects

and not so creative projects

coming down the path?

And what about those spiders and things that go bump in the night?

Anxiety is the essential condition

of  intellectual and artistic creation.

This was a journal page that I made with the 365 Journal Class at Creative Workshops with Pam Carriker. One of the suggestions she makes in the workshop and her book Art At The Speed of Life, is to take your own art work, copy/ scan or reproduce and use it in other projects.

Which is what I did here. It's so easy to scan and print, or scan, save to flash drive and take to Office Max and have them print. ( Not happy with my printer.....but that's another story....Office Max is close and on the way to everywhere.)

You'll notice the Martha Stewart stamps used, the spider web under Anxiety, bats in the upper right, and spiders in the lower left.  I have used assorted scrapbooking papers and elements that you may recognize.

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