Day 24 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Hello there.  It's Day 24 of the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.  That means only 7 more days of projects.  Kinda sad I think.

Today's project is a 8x10 canvas featuring a stamp from Stitchy Bear.

I began by painting the whole thing with Making Memories acrylic paint in Peapod.  I then smeared some Mayco Flat Black acrylic paint strategically around the canvas.  I took my hot glue gun and randomly added some strings of glue.  I then added some creepy cloth while the glue was still hot.  Then, I tore a piece of patterned paper and adhered it with Modge Podge to the right side.  Then the fun started.  I just kept adding things until I got a look I liked.  I added some ribbon flowers, cachabons, gemstones, feathers, and a skeleton.  I cut off one of his arms and one of his legs and glued those in different spots on the canvas.  I did ink him a little with DI Vintage Photo because he was just too white.  The image  is a cute little zombie lady that I colored with Spectrum Noir pens and fussy cut, added some pop dots and stuck her on.

It didn't turn out exactly as I had planned, but it's ok, I guess.

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Thanks for stopping by today.  See y'all tomorrow.

Day 19 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 19 of the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.  I'm so glad y'all could join me.  

OK..Ladies..y'all have done it again.  I have been seeing so many art journal pages on this hop that I felt the need to try one myself.  I found a small 5x5 notebook hidden amidst all the junk in my scrap room and thought..huh..this might work. I took it apart  and made my first page. 

I realized after taking it apart that the pages were very thin.  It's just a regular notebook. So, I glued two pages together and added a piece of Black Recollections card stock to the back.   I think I need a different style of journal.  If  you ladies have any suggestions, please leave me a comment and let me know what I should get.

So, to start, I painted the whole page with Mayco's Softees Acrylic paint in Flat Black.  I only put one coat on it.  I then took a sponge brush and smeared some Mayco Softees Acrylic Orange Rust on some of the areas.   I then crumbled up a piece of copy paper and dipped it in Folk Art Pure Gold Metallic paint and daubed it all over the page. While that dried, I colored in this Sugar Skull from Opal Manor with Sakura Glitter pens and then fussy cut it out.  When the page was dry, I adhered the skull and used a White Gelly Pen to write my sentiment.

I'm not sure if this is what I should have done, but I did it .  Thanks for stopping by today.  I truly appreciate it.  Make sure to stop by all the blogs on the roll (posted to the right of this post) and make sure to stop by Terra's blog for the rules, sponsors and winners of the Scavenger Hunt.