Friday the 13th blog hop

Its time for another Smeared and Smudged member's blog hop!!! and I got to play this time...my lil one has been so good and has given me time to craft! so I made another art journal page...
the theme for this hop is Phobias "WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF? Step outside your comfort zones and share your phobias" ok so here it goes...now don't laugh...although I wouldn't blame you if you do its kinda silly....but I'm Lepidopterophobic...meaning I'm afraid of Butterflies...crazy huh? it started in middle school...and ever since then they have just freaked me out...I'm not alone...I once read that Nicole Kidman is afraid too (don't know if its true but I saw it somewhere) so here is my page...

this art journal is my musical one, every page is going to have a song lyric on it...so this one has "scared, scared, scared" from John Lennon's song Scared.
I painted my background with acrylics, then I used my lonely boy from Smeared ink and used the toilet paper form technique from the Mixed media university on Smeared and Smudged…then I painted him and glued him on my page. I then printed out a ton of butterflies that I received from the Octopode factory colored them all up added sparkles to some, and glued their bodies down so I could fold up their wings to give them dimension…then I wrote lepidopterophobia and scared scared scared in a white paint pen…and there I have my phobia page…I really like how it turned out…the blue paint is shimmery and the sparkle on the butterflies is kinda cool….

Please stop by the rest of the ladies on the hop to see their phobias (I think there are like 20 awesome huh?) then check out the forum if you like what you see and join us next month ….your next stop (if your going in order) is Lisa Hall

Blog Roll
Tori
Black Dragon
MaryKay
Tink
Jane
Kristy
Aletha
Monique
Susan Guzy
Madeleine Bouquet
Lady Brayton
Trisha
Shell
Ms. Ruin
Ike
Christine
Helen
Kapree <---you are here
Lisa Hall
Fiona

I would like to enter my Art Journal page in the following challenges:

The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge: anything goes

Smudgy Antics: anything goes

Forever Night: I think its wicked...and lonely boy is kinda wicked

~UPDATE~

this won top 3 at Smudgy Antics

I have wanted this badge for so long and now I finally have it!!! I'm so wearing this with pride!

Where's your head at?

I have started an art journal!
I think this is like the third I have started but hopefully this one I'll keep on doing...I have decided to make it a musical journal...and do a lyric from a song for each entry. I have started others but this is the first one I have finished...yay me! I'm not really into dance music but this music video was played allot back when it was popular...it was by Basment Jaxx

so here is my page...its kinda weird but it was fun to make :)

ok now what did I do...ha ha lets see...I'm using an old book so I used white guesso to kinda cover up the words, then I took a page out of a guarding magazine and glued it on there (the side I liked face down), after the glue dried I sprayed it with water and rubbed it until the top picture came off leaving the images I wanted (faded but I liked it) I then added some acrylic paint in yellow and green, then I modge podged over that, then I cut out my lyrics out of magazines and glued them down, then took some bubble paper and made purple sparkles, then I cut out my Stampotique images and colored them blinged them up then glued them on....and I think thats it...sorry if its confusing but I really like how it turned out...it makes me laugh!


ok now the reasons behind my madness.....

there is a spring time challenge at stampotique - idea - images, spring flowers, and spring colors

there is a challenge at the Octopode factory - bling it on - idea - sparkle everywhere (bowtie necklaces, dress buttons pants shoes, purple spots)

there is a challenge at the Haunted Design house - off with their heads - idea - song lyrics, and switching heads.

there is a group on the Smeared and Smudged Forum that is for Art journals...lots of inspiration there too...and prompt #5 is lyrics....score!

Prize winnings from Susan

ITS HERE!!!!
my prize winnings from Susan arrived today!!!
here is a pic of everything...but it doesn't do it justicethere are all sorts of trims and fuzzy things, a bunch of napkins (that I have so many ideas for) some scrapbook paper, a cozy, some lil beads and embellies, two books about sisters (so excited I love my sisters!) I got a rubber stamp and some clip art of cats, oh and there is a Christmas count down thing to make with lil pockets and die cuts...stay tuned that is going to become an album and scrapbook pages. oh so much stuff not to mention all the digital images I have already received, and I know I have more packages in the mail from other companies...I'll be sure to mention when I use this stuff so you can see it better. Ok I'm off to admire it one more time then put it away...maybe :)
thanks again Susan!!! you rock!

oh ya and this tea (sorry DH was looking at it when I took the pic) goes perfect with the cozy, and it smells amazing!!!

Neclace

ok.... if you follow me you may have noticed that I haven't been posting allot lately...this is due to lack of Mojo...well I think I have found it (yes my craft room is still a mess so that's not where it was...in fact my room is so messy I have moved to the kitchen...no worries I'm getting new organization stuff for my b-day so all should be back to normal-ish soon) I found it in anything but a card..... I have been watching allot of youtube channels and watching other amzing artest work with mixed media, canvases, art journals, clay, albums...and all sorts of stuff...and I'm really excited to start playing again...so hopefully all will work out and I'll have some fun trying new things....here is my first new creationIts a lil necklace using my prom Stampotique stamp, some paint, black stickles, liquid glass, and a bottle cap (junk funk challenge at Smeared and Smudged) it says "Happy Artist" on her forehead...I received a package from Art Chix and that is kinda their logo so I cut it up and made a necklace because I just loved the idea!!! the challenge at stampotique was to create wearable art. so there it is...I hope all my other thoughts turn out better than this but hey its a start :)

Stampotique is having a GDT call and I would love to enter I just love all their stamps and the work the current DT does!

Card for Emily

I saw on Dustin Pike's blog that there is a lil girl named Emily that has cancer and it just touched my heart, so I just had to make her a card! and here it is

the image was free from Dustin, and I'd like to thank him for bringing this to my attention! I will post my card on Monday! hopefully it will bring a smile to her face!

I hope you will join me in brightening up a lil girls day!
get well soon Emily!

I would like to enter this into Dustin's challenge "my life is a zoo" (use an animal)

Milli's thank you

I made a lil slideshow to thank all my blogging friends and family that have given Millie new clothes, slippers, and decor! I cannot thank you enough! some pics I just threw in there because she is so darn cute!