Alice in Wonderland Madness

Today is the March Smeared and Smudged Member Blog Hop, and our theme for this month is "Alice in Wonderland Madness!"

I made two coordinating ATC's.

Images are from The Octopode Factory, colored with alcohol markers (I use three different brands--they all play well together!), and placed on pieces of a masterboard that I made some time ago.  It was collaged, sanded, sprayed, etc.--I'm sorry I can't remember exactly what I did to it!

Cards and lettering are edged with Prima Marketing chalk ink edgers.

Just Alice:

Just the Cheshire Cat:

Thanks for visiting my blog today, and please do leave me a comment--I love them!  If you're following the blog hop, the blog roll is on the right-hand sidebar; I know there will be some great stuff today from our Smeared and Smudged members!

Kickstart Your Art Days 5 & 6: Tea Time's Delicious!

Today is the sixth day of a Smeared and Smudged Forum challenge, Kickstart Your Art!, an Art Journal Every Day challenge.  We are given a prompt every morning and then have 24 hours to produce a journal page.

Yesterday's prompt was to use an organic medium.  I chose tea, mostly because all the coffee was gone by the time I started my page!

 I started with a wash of very strong tea, letting it run down the page.  I let that dry, then followed with two more successively darker washes of acrylic paint thinned with the tea, again letting it run down the page.

After yesterday's overblown piece, I tried to keep this simple, finishing with a stamp from A Day for Daisies and the hand-lettered word "Simplicity."

Today's prompt was to use a magazine or book page.

Since we always have cooking mags lying around, I cannibalized one of those, then added some collage elements and scribble-painting with a Gelato.  I finished with the stamps of the hand with chopsticks holding a shrimp, for an all-around foodie page; then added the word "Delicious!"  The shrimp doesn't exactly go with the bit dessert pic in the top left, but oh, well!

Kickstart Your Art Days 3 & 4: Fly Doodle

Today is the fourth day of a Smeared and Smudged Forum challenge, Kickstart Your Art!, an Art Journal Every Day challenge.  We are given a prompt every morning and then have 24 hours to produce a journal page.

Yesterday I didn't make it to the blogging stage of producing a journal page, so here is yesterday's page.  The prompt was to "Make a Collage."

This is a natural for me--I love making collages-gluing down bits and bobs of papers and tissue and then stamping and drawing over them.

Today's prompt was to "Doodle."  You would think that this would be simple, but I had a certain "look" in my head, and I just kept working and working at this page until it was OVERworked.  I like parts of it, but as a whole I think I probably should have stopped messing with it two or three stages ago.

Ah, well.  There's always tomorrow to try again.

Kickstart Your Art: Day 2 "The Journey"

Today is the second day of a Smeared and Smudged Forum challenge, Kickstart Your Art!, an Art Journal Every Day challenge.  We are given a prompt every morning and then have 24 hours to produce a journal page.

Today's prompt was to use a song or poem to inspire our page.  I have chosen Mary Oliver's poem, "The Journey," one of my favorite poems.

I didn't have enough room to letter the whole poem, so I am quoting the first and last parts here.

The details:

1. Acrylic paints in the background
2. Tree stamp from this plate by I Brake for Stamps
3. Tree colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers
4. Clearsnap Colorbox Chalk Inks
5. Hand-lettered with calligraphy pens