SMUDGY ANTICS and MACABRE MONDAY

Another week has flown by..... we at SMUDGY ANTICS have a new challenge for you ..................This week's theme is "TOUCH ME".
Yep. It's all about textures this week! How creative can you get with your embossing powders, embossing folders, and embossing tools? Do you have feathers laying around or metal bits? Play with that or any other medium that creates texture! What? You have velvet ribbons or flowers in your stash? Put them to good use in this challenge! Let's see how creative you can get! Don't be afraid to get messy. Most of all, don't be afraid to play along! We have crafters of all levels here so join in the fun!

I have altered another clock..... i know...boring! This one is square..... i used texture paper on the outer frame...painted it and rubbed with over with metallic paste. The inner piece is a square of hardboard i covered with leather..... the images are from ANATOMY 101 from SMEARED INK.

The skull top left is another of the 3d ones i make using 6x fussy cut layers and my melting pot. I used large soft black feathers top left corner and bottom right..... bottom right also has a lace and silk hand made flower.....not easy to see in my photo..... but that black blob is it!

I hope you'll play along with us this week..... TEXTURE can be almost anything!

I shall enter this clock in the following challenges.......

http://www.creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.co.uk/ MONOCHROMATIC

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/ ANYTHING GOES LINKY PARTY.

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.co.uk/ TIME

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ MONOCHROMATIC

Now as its Monday it has to be macabre.... so of cause we at MACABRE MONDAY have a new challenge for you.......

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.co.uk/

HDH126
"Grimm's Grimmest"

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

based or inspired by one of the
tales of the Brother's Grimm.

There are well over 200 tales to choose from and you may be
surprised by how brutal and horrific the original tales
were actually written.
For example, did you know that in the original version of
Cinderella, (translated from the original "Aschenputtle")
in order for the wicked step sisters to get their feet to fit into the
slipper that one hacked off their toes and the other her heel?
It would seem that most of the tales ended with some sort of
bloodshed and death. Quite a long cry from the watered down
versions we were raised on from Disney and Scholastic books.

Oh! And let's not forget that this challenge is being

sponsored by none other than fellow Minion, Ike.

Ike is not only a masterful crafter of the darker side,
but she is also a wonderful artist who has quite the
selection of wonderful digital art available in her shop, Ike's Art.
She is offering up her Alice in Wonderland set of digis
as the prize for this week's challenge.
With that kind of incentive how can you not play along?

I took my inspiration form one of the over 200 hundred stories..... THE 7 RAVENS..... 7 brothers turned into 7 ravens by a wicked witch....who had to be saved by the one and only little sister.

I used the image of the original book cover from the internet..... altered it a bit by putting a SMEARED INK skull in the centre of the floral wreath..... and added 7 stamped ravens around it.

I did a little bit of decorating at the bottom with feathers , flowers, leaves and bits..... plus a ring tied with a ribbon, that the lass left so her brothers would know it was her who was trying to save them.
I hope you'll play along with us... you have so many stories to chose from..... you'll be spoilt for choice!

I'll enter the following challenges....

http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ SHABBY CHIC/VINTAGE.

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.co.uk/ THINGS ARE LOOKING GRIMM.

http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ FAIRYTALES
http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.co.uk/ ANYTHING GOES (both these pieces.)

Thanks for visiting ...i hope you'll get time to join in with one, if not both of these challenges this week.

Love lynx