Elfin Rumors

Today is the the ninth day of Smeared and Smudged's 2014 12 Days of Creepmas Blog Hop!  This is also a Smeared Ink day, in which we have been challenged to use Smeared Ink images.  I'm excited to be here, along with all the other great artists that you can see in the blogroll to the right.  Start at the top with Terra or just jump in anywhere and follow along.  If you've arrived here from Keren's blog, you'll want to continue on to the lovely Leigh after stopping here.

We guarantee to give you an alternative view of the holidays!

Today I have a piece of altered art which I have entitled Elfin Rumors.  This is an "art" plaque which I acquired at my local Goodwill.  It started out looking like this:

And it now looks like this:

Now, I know that on these Smeared Ink days we have been challenged to use only SI stamps, but I have a really hard time using just one brand of stamps.  For me, part of the fun and challenge of making a piece is to pull stamps and images from all sorts of sources and then make them work together somehow.  I know that probably disqualifies me from the Smeared Ink Day, but that's OK!

The details:

1. Santa face--from Old-Fashioned Christmas Illustrations CD-ROM and book, by Dover Publications
2. Elves on candy cane horses--from Create with TLC
3. Mrs. Claus and small sentiments--from Femdom rubber stamp set from Smeared Ink
4. Spectrum Noir colored pencils
5. KimberlyGeneral’s,  Loew Cornell, and Prismacolor watercolor pencils
6. Faber Castell Gelatos
7. Background collaged from paper scraps, tissue paper, acrylic paints, chalk pastels