"Autumn's Pencil" Smeared Ink exclusive Rubber Stamps by Leigh Snaith-Brunton!

Hello Everyone!

I'm excited to introduce you to a set of rubber stamps I designed exclusively for Smeared Ink called "Autumn's Pencil"!

Autumn's Pencil rubber stamp set by Leigh Snaith-Brunton - a Smeared Ink exclusive

 The Zentangle-Halloween-Autumn inspired themed set includes 11 images made with deeply etched red rubber and is exclusively available at Smeared Ink. There's Egyptian-styled Vampire cats, a Raven, Pumpkins, a Witch's Hat, a large background plus a narrow border stamp too! Look closely at all the details coz there's dripping blood, eyeballs and human teeth mixed in there too, oh my, Bwahahahahahaha!

My stamps are perfect for your Halloween and Fall projects as well as being quite versatile for cards and altered projects all year long too. You can add depth and dimension with pencil shading in true Zentangle style as well as colour them for any theme and any occasion! The possibilities are endless!

Autumn's Pencil was September's Rubber Club featured set and now it's available to everyone to order in November as well as all the Rubber Club's past sets! So you no longer need to be a member of the SI Rubber Club to buy their stamps but you get cool discounts if you do join the club ;0)

Here's a peek at two projects I've made using my stamps which will be posted here in two parts, Friday and Saturday, and is also my featured Day 10 project tomorrow for DominoART's 31 Days of Halloween scarefest and blog hop with Smeared and Smudged!

Annabelle Lee, my Bleeding Edge goth doll is modeling

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

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

Dark Etchings - Series 1 + Week 2 ATC challenge with Smudgy Antics!

Howzit Friends!
I've been having fun this last week playing with a technique that I call faux etching coz it reminds me of the print etchings I did when I was a Fine Art student.  So first up I'm sharing the ATC I made for week 2 of Smudgy Antics "ATC" challenge!

Faux etching is so much fun and really simple to do.  All you need for the this ATC is a piece of heavy weight cardstock measuring 2.5" x 3.5" which is the standard size for an ATC which FYI stands for Artist Trading Card for those unfamiliar with the format.  Stamp the architectural image from May's Smeared Ink exclusive Rubber Club set called Holy City with Black Soot Distress Ink.  Then simply apply water to the image with a Japanese water brush pen that has the built in water reservoir or use a traditional paint brush with water to achieve the same result.  The water picks up the stamped ink and it's similar to watercolouring and you can make areas even darker by picking up more ink from the ink pad...I created the sky by painting the ink on with the brush.  Once I was happy with the sky I stamped the flying bird which is also from the Holy City set.  I then edged the ATC with a metallic silver paint pen and adhered it to black cardstock and used my Perfect Layers tool to cut the 1/16" black border.  I've got more Dark Etchings to share this week featuring Smeared Ink's September Rubber Club exclusive sets Haunted Places 1 and 2 so stay tuned!!

 

Thank you for visiting with me today and I hope you'll come and play in our Smudgy Antics challenges!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Blockheads Paper Arts * Third Coast Rubber Stamps * Lost Coast Designs * Smeared Ink * About Art Accents