SMUDGY ANTICS and MACABRE MONDAY

Well its Monday again and i have 2 new wickedly macabre challenges to share with you.... the 1st one this week is SMUDGY ANTICS ......

The theme for this week's challenge is "Wicked With Wings".

We are curious to see your take on this challenge. What does "Wicked With Wings" mean to you? Are you afraid of flying stinging insects? Do demons haunt you in your sleep? Have you ever seen a fae? Is a bird your familiar?

My project took a fair bit of time....i know it doesnt look much...and its small....only 4''x4'' square..... but there was quite a bit of work involved. The base is a 4''x4'' wooden frame that i painted green, then when dry i distress painted with black. The scary skull is a digi image from SMEARED INK's ANATOMY101 collection printed out 6 times and fussy cut into layers.....hard to explain but i have a tutorial in the making and it'll be on the SMEARED AND SMUDGED forum later this week. I used the wings from QUOTE THE RAVEN rubber set also from SMEARED INK and stamped them out 4x....fussy cut into layers and stuck to the by now dimentional skull.... i then dipped it in my melting pot..... and spooned the liquid liquid embossing power over to make sure it was in all the nooks and crannies.

It really looks so much better in real life and its hard to believe it is just paper....and i think it looks really wicked.

I really do hope you'll come and join us this week

I shall enter this into the following challenges.......

http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.com/ MASCULINE/CLEAN LINES.

http://forevernightchallenges.blogspot.com/ A LITTLE SPOOKY/ABAC

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ ANYTHING GOES

http://www.papercreationsink.com/ SHOW US YOUR STYLE

Now onto my next piece....and as it is MONDAY it has to be MACABRE MONDAY our new challenge for you is......

"Garden of Good and Evil"

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.com/

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece

that illustrates the battle between good and evil that is fought
nightly in the garden of your imagination!
Show us the inhabitants of your garden,
be they gnomes, plant life, fauna, fae, or something else entirely!

My piece for this is another canvas....but using the wrong side ...... i distress painted it with a lawn green.... and painted a piece of scrap packaging with 3 different green paints i had laying around. I stamped ivy leaves onto the painted card and fussy cut every single darned leaf! Then touched up the colours to give them depth. The skeleton in my garden is a stamp from THIRD COAST.... stamped out 3x so i out decoupage up the skull and roses.

The fence and dappy looking skeletal sheep are from SMEARED INK's KILLER BOO PEEP rubber set as is the scary looking spider. I stamped them onto quite thick card,fussy cut them and built up my garden....''the garden of forever''
I forgot to mention...i used promarkers to colour all the images...the leaves were over coloured with soft touch pencils. I hope you'll have time to show us your gardens this week...we love to come and nosy around!

I shall enter this piece into the following challenges.....

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/ ANOTHER DIMENTION

http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/ IN THE GARDEN

http://justsomelinesblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-challenge-fairy-talesnursery-rhymes.html FAIRYTALES OR NURSERY RHYMES..... little boo peeps lost sheep!

http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com/ SPRING

Thank you for visiting me today....... i might be back soon than you think! love lynx