Lily and the Lotus and Day 3 of Smeared and Smudged Inks 31 Days of Halloween

welcome to Day 3 of http://smeared and smudged.com 31 Days of Halloween!
This is a journal page I made using Smeared Inks Column 1 Digi single from Septem Liberalis.

The beautiful skull die embellishment is from my friend Kristy..you will see her name on the side bar in this hop.
The roses are from Alpha Stamps card stock called The Lovely Garden
The stencil I used is from Stencil Girl
The sentiment cuts are from the same Alpha stamps card sheet The Lovely Garden
and the little skully dude is also from Alpha stamps.
The back ground has been watercolored and has many layers of other images.
I hope you like it
susan s

Lilyandthe Lotus Day Two 31 Days of Halloween Blog hop

A smile , pencil and water color page today.. unfortunately I am still cleaning and organizing...I wanted to be finished by now...well we all know that story  A New Dance is what i named it because my life is making major transitions right now aimed for very positive results. so I am now shooting for Trick or Treat Day Halloween! maybe I will be finished by then lol....there is always Turkey day after that
Thew second piece is a image from sweetpeastamps.com
The artist is Connie Fong and her name is Pricilla

Have a happy hop today
hugs and love
susan
http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/page/31-days-of-halloween-5

LilyandtheLotus and Smeared Inks 31 days of Halloweem,Teresa Shermans Delicious Doodles Steampunk Sally in journal

Be True to your self...that is something we all must do.Be true to ourselves. Welcome to the 31 Days of Halloween with Smeared Ink. I am Allywhitecat (susan s.) and I wanted to show you my many layered journal page :)....
so sit down a pour your self a warm bowl of milk and join me....please...
I began making journals when I was a small girl after my Grandmother passed away...a few months after my close friend Roxanne and her mother were burned alive in a house fire...Halloween story??? sadly no.She was a beautiful little girl always pulling her knee socks up as we ran across the school yard. Friday we said good bye as school let out I did not know it was forever.
I played the piano and made journals for years and now I am 54 my piano is in storage temporarily..ahhh but I still journal
We have a lovely sponsor at smearedandsmudgedink.com
Teresa Sherman a very talented artist I also represent her often in Sweet Pea Stamps. Her talent knows no bounds.
I purchased this digi 2 or 3 years ago and in cleaning out my files this past month I found it and said ahhh sweet. Steam punk Sally was the title of my file.
The paper was from one of my son's past girl friends Gothic nice ravens and grunge and stating Be true to yourself.
so
here we go...

If you are not into journals  I would love for you to leave a comment no need to exasperate your self through this..toodles  and have a wonderful hop

as you can see the page ,has been divided part the lovely grunge and misc pictures from Graphic 45 and my coffee can of stash

I colored Delicious Doodles Steam Punk Sally.
I used a wonderful stencil from stencil girl on the left to begin folding in more darkness and gesseo where I wanted to watercolor.
Gesso is wonderful it held her in place like glue..but I also cover my final piece and will tell you about that in a moment.

water color the gesso area, I am using cheep ones right now but they have been wonderful as a learning tool, first like a crayon  skribble the color on than use a paint brush and water to blend it into gesso and paper.

now it is marking light from dark time

I added Tim Holts tissue paper under the purple areas and began adding papers that blended with the theme adding coats of Gesso in

between to create more and more layers..keep stenciling and your dark and light zones build

I have painted some gear die cuts from Tim Holtz die collection and added Tim Holtz fired brick stain in many of the white gesso areas

Tim Holtz

cut some letters that say "BE TRUE TO YOURSELF"Glued on the dies using glossy accents
and

Waited for it to dry and added a few statements with white gel pen...than went and had a Mexican food dinner with my son ..omg good:)

so here she is

your thoughts questions and comments are always welcome.
Allywhitecat

Lily and the Lotus and Smudgy Antics new challenge.

Smudgy Antics has a new challenge :) BrokenHeart.
What can one say when the heart is broken..Please join us with your broken Heart ..see you there athttp://smudgyantics.blogspot.com

susan s. 

LilyandThe Lotus and Smeared Inks "Smudgy Antics" new challenge"Embellishment"

Hi and welcome to my blog. There is a new challenge at Smudgy Antics embellishments ..
I had began a fat book but ran out of time this crazy week so I shall save that treasure for another challenge.....now what to chose..as I looked through my books of images trying to decide on what to do my eyes kept coming back to my favorite sugar skull.
I was born in New Mexico and grew up there and when I was eleven my folks moved to West Texas. In both places sugar skulls were a part of the heritage of the area. I have seen so many beautiful sugar skulls in my life time and yet no matter how hard I try I could never replicate the gorgeous ones I have seen around Santa fe New mexico and Albuquerque New Mexico.
Here is my sugar skull. You can get this awesome image from the smeared Ink store click http://smearedink.com
Hope to see you at the challenge.http://smudgyantics.blogspot.com
hugs
susan s

Lily and The Lotus and Smudgy Antics new challenge

Welcome to another challenge withhttp://smudgyantics.blogspot.com
Can you make a act of course you can so..using a smeared ink image make a act.Have fun and good luck.

My first is from the Smeared Ink store As Death, the last two are from my new red rubber stamp sets yes it is a cemetery ..how fun especially with Halloween right around the corner right?
you can find them through the red rubber club at Smeared ink or here is the link http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/smeared-ink-rubber-club
Have a great challenge
hugs
susan s

Lily and the Lotus and Smudgy Antics Challenge

Welcome. This is my DT piece for http://smudgyantics.blogspot.com
The challenge is Burnt.
The theme I chose is Edgar Allen Poe. The stamps are from http://smearedandsmudged.com..
they are red rubber and check out their digis while you are there you know the 31 days of Halloween are upon us.The Red Rubber Club would love a new member to share their passion for good Gothic darkness.
Hope to see you enter the challenge.
I used Tim Holtz picture dies,film strip and Distress stain vintage photo. I burnt the edges and used dictionary papers from the 1920's.
I hope you like this..thanks for stopping in.
susan s

Lilyand the Lotus and Wendy Vecchi art parts,Stencil Girl stencils and POE by Rick St. Dennis

Welcome.
This is a tag I made for a friend. I used Dyans inks and Tim Holts stains and a wonderful new stencil from Stencil Girl along with one of my favorite art parts from Wendy Vecchi studio 490 art parts.
This is the stencil I purchased

This is a Michelle Ward design from greenpepperpress.com
which is Michelle Ward store and blog well worth the visit.marjiekemperdesigns.com
can give you many details about the wonderful stencils "Stencil Girl ".
The image came from Rick Saint Denis http://sparkleandglitterwithrick.blogspot.com/
that is Ricks blog challenge board and you can find a button there on the right hand side to his Etsy store.
Hope you like it.
I will enter this in to
everythingwendyvecchi@yahoogroups.com challenge.
Thanks for looking and comments are welcome :).
susan s

Lilyand the Lotus and Smeared Ink / Rick St. Dennis

Happy Thursday everyone, I hope your week has been good. This is a Rick St. Dennis image from the new red rubber stamps I am sharing with you first. The Smeared Ink red rubber stamp club is waiting for you to join if you haven't yet..http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/smeared-ink-rubber-club
Personally I am a stamp nut so in my opinion you can never  never have enough stamps.

.This was colored with prisma pencils and embellished with spider ribbon .
tools
Distress stain vintage photo
dcwv  The Timeless Stack pack paper
glossy accents by Ranger Ink and 
spider ribbon.
and prisma pencils

 The next picture I want to share with you in one of Rick St. Dennis's releases called voodoo.

http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/smeared-ink-rubber-club 
Tools images from Rick St. Dennis
Prisma pencils
distress stain vintage photo
mod podge non glossy/matt finish
and Ranger ink Glossy Accents
Kristy lees embellishments
and string

the link above will take you to past and present sheets of red rubber stamps for sale.
the link to the store is http://www.smearedink.com/.
Please remember to join us at  http://smudgyantics.blogspot.com/
for our fussy cutting Challenge..this one is mine...

The post after this one will give you more details.
wishing everyone a happy weekend. Stay Safe.
susan s

lilyandthelotus and smeared ink new challenge fussy cuts

Welcome to my blog.
What is a fussy cut I asked??? It is a image cut out..simply put.
Idea
I began thinking of my beginning days when I played in Tim Holtz inks..I flipped through old issues of Somerset magazines..than I looked through my images..Finally for me inspiration paid a visit and I sparked a idea on a idea that had been unformed so to speak for quite a while.
I love the columns and the butterfly..and I thought of my friends Birthday even though sadly it is mailed late. Terra owns and runs Smeared Ink with her sister Tori and they are really awesome people. The columns matched her she is foundation to Smeared Ink and the broken Column is a group of people despite the advertises in our lives we have strong friendships and a passion to support one another through thick or thin.Hence the butterfly..for through Smeared Ink I think we all rebirth our art many times over.
Inks

My favorites
Tim Holtz Distress
weather wood blue
and the dictionary slices were stained in
Tumbled glass
Image
Butterfly I Specimen Jar Digi Set
Column I Digi set from Septem Liberalis Digi set
Thanks for stopping in and hope to see your challenge piece at http://smudgyantics.blogspot.com
hugs
susan s

Lilyandthe lotus and Smeared ink Throwdown Challenge

Happy Friday to all of you. I will  keep this short and to the point this is my act block  for http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/page/design-team-throwdown
This is from the Calaveras set at Smeared Ink.com

Chunky wood ACT.. I live in West Texas and have many friends who love the Day of the Dead choosing the bride and Groom from Smeared ink store allowed me a gift to wrap and put under the Christmas Tree ..or a Halloween Treat for one of them :)
I am also entering this in http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.com/2013/07/hdh172-macabre-monday-get-yer-chunk-on.html

Have a wonderful weekend.

hugs
susan s

Smeared ink and lily and the lotus.blogspot.com

This is a wonderful little image from the smeared ink store I chose for the new challenge at Smudgy Antics his name is Calypso you can purchase him here http://www.smearedink.com/digistamps/?sort=featured&page=9
at the smeared Ink store.
He was my first digital stamp lol and I still love the little guy. He is a great addition to grave yards etc you can have fun with him. I have used him on act's and post cards and so much more.
I hope you come and play with us at http://smudgyantics.blogspot.com/
the theme is In The Wild ..
Looking forward to seeing you there.
hugs
susan s