"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 7 for Smeared & Smudged!

Howzit Everyone!
Here's my 7th Art Journal page for the week long KICKSTART YOUR ART - Art Journal Every Day challenge with Smeared and Smudged and my Smeared Ink DT piece for this upcoming week!  It's been an intense 7 days but I thoroughly enjoyed expressing myself with my mostly digital j-pages :0)  Thanks to the AJED team for the fun challenges each day!  I'm thrilled with my Alice in Wonderland themed Art Journal and plan to add more pages over time and end up with a nice thick AIW Journal!

Day 7 of KICKSTART YOUR ART

Today's Challenge: 

Easy Water Blotting Background

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 7

The challenge this time is to create an easy water blotting background.  I simply took a piece of white printer paper and hand splashed water at it with my fingers, then took a photo of it with my iPhone, applied an effect filter directly in the iPhone camera app and viola...a really stunning watery background for my j-page!

The thought of water made me think about Alice Through the Looking Glass so I picked this Smeared Ink image of Alice looking at us through the mirror!  It's actually a partial of the Queen of Hearts image I used on Day 2.  A lot of image manipulation, erasing, altering and overlaying took place to create the overall effect and I'm really pleased with it...I think this is my favourite one so far.

In case you missed it, yesterday we also had a Smeared Ink New Image Release blog hop, stop by and check out all the new Smeared Ink digi images and eye candy!

Have a great weekend everyone!
Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 6 for Smeared & Smudged!

Howzit Everyone!
Here's my 6th Art Journal page for the week long KICKSTART YOUR ART - Art Journal Every Day challenge with Smeared and Smudged!  Can't believe tomorrow is the last day already!

Day 6 of KICKSTART YOUR ART

Today's Challenge: 

TEXTURE 

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 6

Well the j-page I made yesterday would have been perfect for this challenge LOL!  So I played with the same texturizing filter but this time I picked various elements from the design to apply it to.  This involved a lot of cutting, pasting, erasing, overlaying and a whole ton of other effects.  I added a 'pattern texutre' to the Mad Hatter's clothing too.  I also incorporated the word TEXTURE...did you spot it?

Still keeping with my Alice theme I used Smeared Ink's Mad Hatter image this time and the background is one of their web digi papers, Caught in my Web, with additional texturing and image manipulation and the same "A" and "heart" images used for all my previous j-pages to keep the playing card theme going too!   I use Photoshop CS6 for all my digi artwork.

In case you missed it we're also having a Smeared Ink New Image Release blog hop today, stop by and check out all the eye candy!

Have a great weekend everyone!
Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 5 for Smeared & Smudged!

Howzit Everyone!
Here's my 5th Art Journal page for the week long KICKSTART YOUR ART - Art Journal Every Day challenge with Smeared and Smudged!

Day 5 of KICKSTART YOUR ART

Today's Challenge: 

SCRAP BACKGROUND

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 5

Ha ha, today's challenge didn't steer me away from my Alice In Wonderland theme ;0)
For my background I stitched together some scrap cardstock in various shades of pink and white and took a photo of it.  I was then able to combine it with my digi coloured image of Smeared Ink's Cheshire Cat and used the same "A" and "heart" images from my last 4 pages for continuity except this time I switched their positions.  I use Photoshop CS6 for all my digi artwork.
FYI, the heart is from Heart Wings which is now discontinued and is available as a rubber set only in the Smeared Ink Rubber Club!  Can't wait to see what Saturday's challenge will be :0)  Also stop by tomorrow for a fabulous collaborative Smeared Ink "New Release" blog hop with the SI DT and the AJED DT! 

Have a great weekend everyone!
Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 4 for Smeared & Smudged!

Howzit Everyone!
I'm still playing in the week long KICKSTART YOUR ART - Art Journal Every Day challenge and here's my j-page for Day 4!

Day 4 of KICKSTART YOUR ART
Today's Challenge:
Prompt: GROWTH
Use your imagination and interpret it however it suites you

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 4

I'm still going with my Alice in Wonderland theme...hahaha, so pleased with myself LOL ;0)
I used Smeared Ink's Alice digi image and the challenge prompt GROWTH is depicted in the enormous mushroom and scary plant life plus the fun warped text I added to her body to represent her growing small and large.  This time I printed the image out and coloured it with Copic markers then scanned it and completed my j-page in Photoshop.  I removed some areas of the image and grunged it up by adding in the black journaling lines and used the same "A" and "heart" images from my last 3 pages for continuity.  FYI, the heart is from Heart Wings digi set which is now discontinued and is available as a rubber set in the Smeared Ink Rubber Club!  Can't wait to see what ideas Friday will bring :0)

Thanks for taking this journey with me and leaving me your comments, I truly appreciate them :0)

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 3 for Smeared & Smudged!

Howzit Everyone!
Thank you for all the wonderful comments you've been leaving me over the last fews days!  I'm so glad you enjoyed our first Smeared Ink Design Team blog hop and my 2 art journal pages I've created so far in the KICKSTART YOUR ART - Art Journal Every Day challenge :0)

Now for Day 3 of KICKSTART YOUR ART!

"Alice of Hearts" - Art Journal Page 3

Today's Challenge: 

Easy Found Objects Background Technique

I wasn't sure if I'd get the time to play today and the minute I thought that I knew exactly what I wanted to create!  Don't you just love how inspiration can come just from a single thought!  I'm also pretty pleased with myself coz I still managed to stay within my own theme for my Art Journal titled "Alice of Hearts" ;0)

I like to gather unusual looking leaves and twigs and stuff so for my found object background I took a photo of 3 dried palm leaves on my terracotta tiled floor with my iPhone and then applied a texture filter to it in Photoshop CS6.

My original photo

To keep my AIW theme going I used Smeared Ink's White Rabbit digi image and coloured everything in Photoshop and used the same "A" and "heart" images from my last 2 pages.  The Heart Wings digi set is discontinued and is now only available as a rubber set in the Smeared Ink Rubber Club!  Now I wonder what tomorrow's challenge will be, stay tuned ;0)

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"Alice of Hearts" Art Journal Page 2 for Smeared & Smudged!

Howzit Everyone!

It's now Day 2 of KICKSTART YOUR ART!

The Smeared and Smudged Art Journal Every Day DT are so excited to be hosting their very first week-long journal challenge extravaganza! Each morning, for seven days, they will post a journal prompt or technique for challenge participants. 

For each challenge go here and all the deets click below:

http://moresmearedink.blogspot.com

 Tuesday's Challenge: 

PROMPT: HEARTS!
This should be easy! Use whatever supplies you want. Just include an image of a heart(s) and/or journaling about a heart(s). Easy Peasy!

 "Alice of Hearts" - Art Journal Page #2

Today's challenge inspired me to create this digital art journal page.  I've decided to stay with my Alice in Wonderland playing card theme and used Smeared Ink's Queen of Hearts digi image.  I removed all the roses and added the hearts - Heart Wings discontinued digi set which is now only available in the Smeared Ink Rubber Club!  I gave the Queen a dreamy quality and left the heart roses very stark and removed lots of the main image so that there's plenty of white areas to jot down my thoughts.

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"Alice of Hearts" - Art Journal Page for Smeared and Smudged Kickstart Your Art!

Howzit Everyone!
Today was a busy a day!  To start we had our first Smeared Ink Design Team Blog Hop, click on the pic of my creation below to go see it and take the hop ;0)

 Today is also Day 1 of KICKSTART YOUR ART with the Smeared and Smudged Art Journal Every Day DT! What better way to experiment with new techniques and ideas than creating your very own ART JOURNAL for 2014!

Monday's challenge is

3 PRIMARY COLOR DRIPS

 "Alice of Hearts" - Art Journal Page

 The challenge inspired me to create this digital art journal page with an Alice in Wonderland playing card theme.  The primary colours Red, Yellow and Blue definitely got me in the mood to make a Pop Art piece.  But it's supposed to be an art journal page right so of course I will be printing it out and making my own Journal to write in.  I left the images white and lightened the background so that there's still plenty of place to jot down my thoughts.

Smeared Ink images used:
Girl #4 from the Hidden digi set
Heart - Heart Wings discontinued digi set now only available in the Smeared Ink Rubber Club!
Drips - partial from the digi set Fallen
Background - "Checkered" digi paper from the Zombie Killa 12 x 12 paper pack

If you'd like to join the fun then here's the deets on how you can kickstart your art.

The Smeared and Smudged Art Journal Every Day DT are so excited to be hosting our very first week-long journal challenge extravaganza! Each morning, for seven days, we will post a journal prompt or technique for challenge participants. The participants will have until midnight to post their journal page for that day's challenge. The daily winner will be announced the next morning along with the new journal challenge. Daily prizes will vary from gift certificates to coupons to free digis.

The fun thing about it is, at the end of the seven days we will be drawing for a grand prize! In order to qualify, participants must have posted entries in all seven journal challenges.
We look forward to this week long fun fest, and we hope you can play along!!!
Join us Monday, January 27th at
http://moresmearedink.blogspot.com

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents