13th Day of the 31 Days of Halloween

Fun Smeared Ink Image with a Stampin'Up Sentiment, and a flowery edge from Bugawumps.
Stamped image is ATC sized photographed on paper from Best Creation Inc. Colored with Derwent Inktense colored pencil and blender pen and a dash of graphite pencil and thin black marker, and a smidge of inked edges.

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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.

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Day 21 What Are You Looking At

It's Smeared and Smudged Day on The 31 Days of Halloween

Cute little creature hiding out in a pumpkin. No doubt waiting for someone to scare!

Copic markers and assorted designer paper and some orange seam binding. ( Yes, orange!)

Witchcraft/Aircraft

My first attempt at scenic stamping for Third Coast. I am serving on Third Coast's current Design Team and am having a great time! I'm not totally sure these "go" together. It's whimsical, sometimes I want the "scene" to make sense. And I'm not sure what that means., "make sense". It's stamping "for Pete's sake".
Well anyway, I colored with the prismacolor pencils, and I am pretty pleased with the results. It's kind of fun.

Hills of Whimsy AP-045-I

Halloween Airplane AP-481-K

Pumpkin Patch Set-11 Stamps PR-034-V



Day 14 - "Said the spider to the fly"

It's Smeared Ink Day on the 31 Days of Halloween. I ordered a 'grab bag collection' and I'm loving all the new stamps. I hope you enjoy them, too. I made a "mask" of this character with the little dancing spider on his head, and a mask of the web. Cut them out, of course. Then stamp in your journal. Use the masks as needed to cover the character and/or web, to get some images in the background. I love using masks. I colored in the character with Crimson Red prismacolor pencil and black fine point copic markers, the same with the webs.I took a photo and embellished with PSE paint brushes. It's fun.

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Relax and Have Some Candy Corn

Journaling with candy corn is fun, I loved cutting out the candy corn images and glueing them to the skeletons. The angel image is a photo I took on vacation in one of the many US Civil War era cemeteries that my husband and I haunt while on the road.

Halloween is almost here

Goblins, Ghosts, Oh the fear!

Pumpkins, black cats and witches brew

and bobbing for apples, too.

 So jump for joy and sound the horn

Relax and have some Candy Corn
(Author unknown)

Trick or Treat

Simple card today, with a Dollar store prop! ( A little photoshop elements brush action, too!) The stamps are all the mini Inkadinkadoo Stamps. Itty Bitty Backgrounds splatter stamp from Stampin'UP! is also included. I think I use that on every card I make. Of course some ribon and a moon charm. ( Moon charm is causing the ribbon to sag, oh well.) Oh yes, the stmaped images at the top portion of the card are silver embossed . They almost look white with the editing.

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Smeared & Smudged

It's the 31 Days of Halloween at Smeared and Smudged and it's Smeared Ink day. It's optional to use a Smeared Ink rubber stamp in your project today. You can find the funky collection here http://www.smearedink.com/

I just got a stash of stamps from them this week! Time to play. So I doodled in my journal with some of the images and took a photo with my iPhone, uploaded to my computer and added some photoshop elements brush embellishments.



the top Photo is before the addition of the photoshop elements embellishments.

Usually I add background material to a page before working, but I wanted to get busy with the stamps to post in time for Friday. While the top page is ok, the white space is sometimes unappealing, and the addition of the 'brush' elements just adds interest to an otherwise ordinary page. I'm all about trying to make ordinary interesting.

Last but not least, a close up of the Smeared Ink image

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And my rat friends are still accepting name suggestions! They'd love to share this prize with you!