A Vampire's Guide

Exciting News!

I don't know if I told you
but I am a
 Member
of the
Design Team
 at 
Moonlight Journey!
When I decided write this post, 
 I immediately knew that
 their awesome collage sheet
VAMPIRE NIGHTS
 would be perfect for  my version of the


 HBO SERIES
TRUE BLOOD

A Vampire's Guide to
 Surviving a Werewolf Attack! 

NOW...

Ya'll know I am all about

 TRUE BLOOD,

Right? 

Well, I am a bit down because

the last episode is coming up on

 Septembert 12th and then

no more series until next year!!
Sad! Sad! Sad!

I still have more books in the

Sokkie Stackhouse series to read

 so maybe I'll be able to

hold out until next June!!

So...to all  

TRUE BLOOD

 fans out there...

  I thought I would share 
MY CREATION
of one of the 

POST MORTEMS

 with you!

*Small note:
The art is mine,
the images are from
Moonlight Journey,
and  the quotes are from the

True Blood Series 3, Episode 9!!

Gotta give credit where credit is due!!

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A Vampire's Guide To

 Surviving A

WereWolf Attack!!

With Were attacks on the rise,

you have to be prepared to defend yourself !

Here are 6 easy guide lines to remember

when confronted with a Werewolf attack!

1.  Always Stay Dehydrated

Feeding before facing off against a

pack of Werewolves can be the difference

 between a bad night and a true death!

A Full Vampire is a Strong Vampire!

2. USE COMMON SENSE

Werewolves are dirty, loud, and stupid!

You should be able to hear

and smell them coming a mile away!

The nose never lies!

3.  NEVER SHOW FEAR

Your emotions must stay in check!

They can smell fear and

use it to their advantage!

We are Superior!

Act Like it!

4.  DIVIDE AND CONQUER

Spot out the Alpha and take him out!

With no leader, the others will be disorganized!

5.  SPEED IS YOUR FRIEND

YOU'RE FAST!!

Faster than you probably even know! 

Strike Quickly!!

They'll never know what hit them!!

6.  WHEN IN DOUBT...

CUT AND RUN!!!

You are the

fastest creature

 on the planet

 for crying out loud!!!

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If you really liked the

"very cool and  spooky"

Vampire Images

 I used for my altered art,

then go to the

Moonlight Journey badge 

located on  my side bar

and click to see all

thier really amazing

 NEW Halloween collage sheets!

And have a great time making

Happy Halloween 

" Spooky Art"!

Thank you for visiting

my very Spooky Blog!

Come back by again to see

the altered art of

Dark Rosaleen!

 It's a lot of frightful fun, 

  with ghostly terrible treats, 

and haunted horrible sights

of  that special night we call

Halloween!  

SMEARED AND SMUDGED 3rd ANNUAL BLOG HOP!!

We're Blog Hopping Again!

Visit Smeared and Smudged

We've got a really Cool Theme:

It's all about Hiding something in your Art Work !!

   I am really looking forward to participating

in this Smeared and Smudged Blog Hop!
 It's a great way to meet new members,
a chance to check out their blog sites,
and  see all of the  projects they have created!  

The artists in this group are extremely talented

and always come up with so many amazing ideas!

You can't help but be inspired as you go

from blog to blog to see what's next! 

 The added plus is getting to see 

 new stamp collections or techniques

 that maybe you haven't seen before! 

I love  those really neat details

that gives any altered art piece 

 that extra OOOMph!!!


I decided to make my project

  with a Steampunk theme!

 http://brassgoggles.co.uk./blog/about

A really cool site dedicated to all things Steampunk!

 The whole Steampunk /Weird Science/Vintage Style

has it's own special appeal that takes 

any mixed-media project to a

 whole new level of how to alter art!  

I love those rusty, grungy, metal embellishments!

Image courtesy of Wikipedia

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyle-cassidy-steampunk.jpg

And have you seen the brass goggles
that people are wearing?

I don't think I'll go buy a pair for myself

but I love how they look on everyone else!! 

                                                    

                               Image courtesy of Wikipedia                               

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheMenThatWillNotBeBlamedForNothing.jpg

Steampunk has really hit  the

fashion world  and taken it by storm!

The perfect Steampunk "Look"

Love the jacket!

Too Cool!!

Love the striped tights!!

Look at the back!!

This one is my favorite!!

Images and clothes can be found on this web site:

http://www.steampunkthreads.com/

Victorian and vintage clothes  have become

 more popular since the mechanical/fantasy

style concentrates mainly on  the 

great  jewelry accessories that look

so awesome with the clothes!

Music has even taken on the theme!

“They say you can’t please everybody… sounds like a challenge to me!”

- Captain John Sprocket

Picture and quote from:

http://brassgoggles.co.uk./blog/category/steampunk-imagesphotos/page/3

 Steampunk is so unique,
so different with all of it's quirky appeal, 

but still keeps that vintage style that I love so much!

Of course it comes from an era when man began

to see the impossible become possible! 

IMAGINE...
suddenly, their world was filled with so many

new inventions tht created a lifestlye that

was completely  different from anything

they had ever seen before!

 It must have been a very exciting time

to be alive and see men flying airplanes

and  driving motor cars  for the first time! 

Talking on the telephone must have

seemed so unreal at the time!

Imagine sending your voice out into

the airand someone hears you

and sends their voice back!

 Those days were filled with

such wonder and excitement!

What a   crazy/cool time to live in!

By now, I guess you're asking yourself the question,

"So enough about Steampunk!

Where is the art  project she worked on?"

You Found It!!

It's here,

HIDDEN 

at the bottom of my post!!

                                            

Did you find the hidden part?

***The Vintage Steampunk Image is courtesy of

Moonlight Journey's Collage Sheets!***

I have to do a little bit of bragging,

(hope you don't mind) 

because I  just became a

new member of their Design Team!

I have been using their collage sheets for almost a

year now and couldn't be more pleased with the quality

and the technical creativity that goes into every sheet! 

I'm so excited  now to have the chance to use

those same sheets to create designs for their team! 

It's gonna be a lot of fun!

If you'd like to visit the site to look at

the collage sheets or to see the

Design Team's Art Work,

please use the link below!

They are in the Halloween mode right now so

the sheets  they are creating  are definitely

what everyone will need to get an early jump 

on their Spooky Halloween  Art Projects!

They have the best Gothic sheets on the web!

In order to keep a Halloween blog year round,

 I knew I would have to find a site that

would have everything I needed to keep my

blog looking it's "gruesome-gothic" best!! 

Here is the link:

http://www.moonlightjourney.com/ 

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Thanks so much for dropping by to visit!

 If you feel inspired to get

Smeared and Smudged,  

grab some ink, paper, rubber stamps,

and old metal gears, get prepared to get grungy,

 and  make some Steampunk Art today!

HEY  VISITORS!!

You're welcome to hop over
to the Smeared and Smudged

blog links listed below and say "Hello"! 

I'm sure they would love to have

 you look at their art work!

I think you'll find some really cool

and interesting projects that might

inspire you to get out your inks

and do some smudging too!  

Hey, you might  like their art so much

you' ll want to join our group too! 

MEMBER LIST

http://moresmearedink.blogspot.com/ /Terra

http://www.ndustrial-lemon.blogspot.com/ Tori

http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/ Kelli

http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/ Alison

http://www.papercanteen.com/ Meredith

http://www.blogger.com/”http://etsysdarkside.ning.com/ Jean

http://www.scrappy-arts-n-thoughts.blogspot.com/ Danielle

http://www.ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/ ladybrayton

http://shelleyscreations.blogspot.com/ Shelly

http://1darkrosaleen.blogspot.com/ Kymberly

http://keelyy.blogspot.com/ Keely

http://cromscubbyhole.blogspot.com/ Helen

http://www.kc-consultant.blogspot.com/ Kapree

http://sugscardsnmore.blogspot.com/ Sugar

http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/ Jane

http://agraywolfesramblings.blogspot.com/ Alex

Have a great Blog Hoppin' Day!

Smeared and Smudged 2nd Annual Blog Hop!!!

SMEARED AND SMUDGED

2ND   ANNUAL

BLOG  HOP!!

Visit Smeared and Smudged

I Must Confess!!

I have something I need to tell all of my

blogging friends out there in web world! 

 I have been dreading this post

for days  and have put it off so many times

 but  now just seems the right time to do this! 

I am sorry but I am going to have to

stop blogging and making altered art! 

There's just not enough time in the day

to get everything done and I just don't

 feel the creative flow anymore!

I don't know what's wrong with me .

 I just don't want to do this anymore. 

Maybe I need to get a different hobby,

one that doesn't eat up all of my extra time!

 Either way, I am just burnt out on

 all of this blogging and art stuff. 

There is paper scraps and scissors

 and paint smeared everywhere!

IT'S A MESS ALL OF THE TIME!

There's junk all over my house and the

kids are getting into my supplies and

tearing them up and my husband

complains all of the time about the mess!

My altered art mess ends up getting strung

from one end of the house to the other!

I' ve just got to quit and that's that !

 I guess this is my last ever post

and I am ever going to write !

Oh, this is so sad but it has to be done!

 I am deleting all of my accounts today!

So goodbye my dear and faithful friends!

I will never forget your kindness toward

me and all of the wonderful art

 that you have shared with me! 

Good bye dear friends!!

Goodbye!

I will never forget you !

 I will treasure you for always!

Goodbye!

NOT!!!

You have just beeen punked !

April Fools!!!!

Did I have you going? 

 YOU know I  could never ever quit

 my blogging or creating my spooky

altered art and my vintage art! 

NO WAY!!

If I was in a body cast,

hanging upside down with a blind fold on,

 I would figure out someway to

keep doin' my art thang !! 

Like the body needs food...

once you start to creat art,

you open the door to your soul! 

As the body needs bread and drink...

a soul yearns to express the deep

neverending depth of what life is,

and through that life is art.

Art feeds the soul!

O.K.  People

Let's Party!

Smeared and Smudged is just the
greatest group of people around !
Our art is an expression of our feelings ,
our imagination, and our creativity!
If you ever want to be inspired daily
 by a group of wonderful people,
then go over and visit
Smeared and Smudged
and talk to our host, Terra!  
Come aad join in on all of the tutorials
and fun sub-groups that she offers!!

It's not a Halloween-- 
--365 days a year--
 kind of Art Group!

There are sub-groups for 
 journaling, altering books,
sketch challenges, a fairy group,
a ATC Swap Group,
and a Twisted Tutorial group,
 whose main focus is on finding
and learning new techniques to
use in their art projects!

It's a group that inspires you to dig deep within
your inner self to find the light and dark sides,
to discover WHO you really are!

 It's exhilerating to allow yourself the  
freedom  to completely give yourself over
to your creative instincts and to express 
the "real" you-- through your art work!

It's a discovery of the possibilities.
 Maybe you may have never had the 
 courage to completely let go
and truly express yourself when
you've created art before!
Maybe you were playing it too safe!
It's in the impossibilites that all
things can become possible!

 Trust me, once you really know who
your are and what you want, 
  the imagaination flows 
and the spirt soars!

If you love Rubber Stamping ,
then this is also the group for you!
Terra has her own line of stamps that she designs 
that are really out of this world awesome!

Just go to the web site on the Terra's
 blog button and you will see for yourself
all of the cool stamps she has in her store! 



Now to show you a few projects that I have created:


Since it is April Fool's Day,
 I am going to mix it up some,
give you a view of my altered art work 
 from the past , present, and future!!

"Flight"

This is the  poem that I wrote that

goes with the theme of  this art piece!

O, Woman,
Stand Straight!
Stand Tall!
 Go Forth!
Even though
ye be
filled with woes!

O, Warriar!
Be Brave!
Be True!
The Battle is Fierce,
Where the Heart beats
Strong within thy Soul!




O Woman,
Go Forth!
Good Courage to Thee!
Release Thy Fate!
Take Flight And Soar!

"TIME"

That's an image of "grown-up me" holding "baby me"!

KNITTING WITCHES KNITTING UP A SPELL!

 

How many knitting witches are in this art piece?

"Time Traveler"

If you are visiting my blog today

and you are not a Member

of "Smeared and Smudged",

go ahead and click through all

 of the links that I have posted below! 

 YOU will find some very amazing art

at every blog site you stop to visit! 

These special people are very

 talented and creative!  I know you will

enjoy visitng their blog sites

and seeing their work! 

 If you are visitng me and you are a

Member of "Smeared and Smudged",  

thank you for coming over to visit me

and looking at all of my spooky art work!

I also want to thank you for you kindness, 

 your warm friendship, and your inspiring art

that really g old art juices flowing!

  Big hugs to everyone! 

Have a great day!

Now Let's Go Blog Hop!!!!

Alison-

http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/

Kelli-

 http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/

Meredith-

http://www.papercanteen.com/

Michelle-

http://mylifemydreamsmyscrapping.blogspot.com/

Kathi-

http://kathstales.blogspot.com/

Kim-

http://offthewallcraftiness.blogspot.com/

Lisa-

http://www.ldfdesign.blogspot.com/

Jean-

http://deepblackartbyartdoll.blogspot.com/

Danielle-

 http://www.scrappy-arts-n-thoughts.blogspot.com/

Alex-

http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/

Monica-

http://giddygreetings.com/

Sarah-

http://sarahscrazycreations.blogspot.com/

Erica-

 http://www.inkedupandreadytoplay.com/

Black Dragon-

http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/

Steph-

 http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/

Lady Brayton-

http://ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/

Barb-

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.com/

Terra-

 http://www.moresmearedink.blogspot.com/

DragonDreams TAG IT ON Challenge

The Theme this week for

 TAG IT ON

 is

"Willow Pattern Story"

Here is my entry:

 I loved this challenge and the story was so sweet. 

 I  would like to make a mini-book about this theme! 

I will post the story as soon as I turn my entry in

so that you can read it and understand

what our theme was all about!

The Willow Pattern Story

The Willow Pattern represents
a beautiful love story....


....In ancient China a powerful nobleman lived
in a palace with his beautiful daughter.
The Palace was surrounded by gardens
with fruit trees & a lovely willow.
But the daughter fell in love with her father's
humble clerk, against her father's wishes.
The clerk was dismissed & they were forbidden to
see each other.  A zig-zag fence was built around
 the gardens so that the poor clerk could not enter.
However the two lovers fled & escaped
across a bridge, with her father chasing them.
The lovers traveled to a distant land but the
 nobleman sent his men to kill them.
When the Gods saw what was happening,
they transformed the couple
 into a pair of lovebirds....

Thanks for looking at my art work

and have a pleasent evening!

Here is the link back to DragonsDream TIO Challenge:
http://dragon-dragonsdream.blogspot.com/

***Credits***
The teal background on the tag
 is from Gary's free images at :
http://artefacts-antiqueimages.blogspot.com/

The Japanese images are from Julia's free images at:
http://cemerony-share.blogspot.com/

Macabre Monday Challenge

The Theme for

 Macabre Monday Challenge

 is

"Oh You Devil" 

Here is My Entry:

"Oh YOU...  Sweet Little Gothic Devil"

 Thank you for looking at my

 "Spooky"Entry

and have a really "Spooky" evening!

Darkness Inspiration Challenge

The Theme for this Challenge is

"Scary Clowns"!

I made this a 3-dimensional piece of art! 

I'm afraid my pictures do not

 do this project much justice!

The front of the piece has a canopy
that stretches out about two inches
from the images on the inside of the image!

Maybe a better view of the canopy!

CLOSE  UP!

"Little Anne" just had to have her

picture taken with the clowns!

I wanted to build a small

stage to attach to the

 bottom of the  piece to

support it's edges

 and give viewers a better

 look at the unique features

of the clown images

 but...

 I simply ran out of time!!!

  Oh well, another day, perhaps?

I couldn't leave out this beauty! 

Dulcamara's Fierce Feline!
Mr. Pied Piper

Thank you for looking at my entry
 and please have a great day!

Hello to all Smeared and Smudged Members!

We are having  our 1st Annual Blog Hop!!

Visit Smeared and Smudged

Isn't this so much fun!

I am having a great day today!

Thank you for stopping by

and visiting my blog !

I hope you like my art work and

I am looking forward to visiting your blogs

to see all the great pieces of art you've created!

A "Special Thank You"

goes out to Terra, our Host,
for organizing this super event !

I am so glad that I joined this group!

YOU guys made me feel

so welcome and comfortable!

I am looking forward to all of the

art tutorials and challenges that

we will be doing in the future!

Have a great day!

***VISITORS***

I am so glad that you

stopped by today to visit my blog

because you will get the chance to

learn about this fanastic

new group I just joined!

If you especially love

creating art with stamps,

then this is the group for you!!

We create Alternative art,

Gothic art, and Vintage art

but with one condition...

a stamped image must be

placed somewhere on the project!

Here is my PROJECT that I created

just for this "SPECIAL BLOG HOP"

for everyone to see!

I first found out about this group

from one of my dear friends,

Lyn at Blackdragon's Crafts!

I knew I didn't want to miss out on

all of the fun and immediately posted to join!

There are so many interesting sub-groups to join

to spark our imagination with new ideas

for creating mixed media and altered art!

There are also challenges and contests to enter,

which is my all time favorite thing to do!

 I love art challenges!

Especially their challenges--very cool!!

They also offer classess and tutorials

on the latest art trends and ink /stamp/ projects.

What I liked the most about the group

was the warm welcome from the other members

and the willingness to share ideas and knowledge

about techniques that some of us newbies

may not know about or had much experience with!

If you want to begin a journey on the

Path of Fulfillment as a successful artist,

 you join in with the others that

are going down the same path.

Your life will become enriched by the

 encouragment and inspiration you

 will receive from your fellow artists!

As they begin share their

 different perspectives

and feelings about their own art,

you will feel the urge to delve deeply

 in your own soul to explore your talent

and examine your own true convictions

 about what makes your art

 such a big part of who you are!

Go back to when you felt that first

  "LITTLE NUDGE" to pick up a paint brush,

 paint, ink, glue, scissors, paper, etc.,
to create what you soon learned

that you couldn't live without!

That's why joining a group is so important!!

Everyone has one thing in common

--it's huge--

We love to create

&

We create what we love!

No Holds Barred!

Here is a list of the MEMBERS of

Smeared and Smudged

that are participating in the Blog Hop!

Meredith http://www.papercanteen.com/

Kathi http://kathstales.blogspot.com/

Kim http://www.offthewallcraftiness.blogspot.com/

Alex http://paperandstring.blogspot.com/

Kelli http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/

Monica http://www.giddygreetings.com/

Alison http://www.alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/

Amberlee http://supermomscrappin.blogspot.com/

Steph http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/

Michelle http://mylifemydreamsmyscrapping.blogspot.com/

Kas http://www.artloveschaos.blogspot.com/

Keely http://www.keelyy.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://ldfdesign.blogspot.com/

Lyn http://lynsblogger.blgospot.com

Lynda http://cre8tiveme.blogspot.com/

Sarah http://www.sarahscrazycreations.blogspot.com/

Jean http://daretobedifferentchallenges.blogspot.com/

Terra http://moresmearedink.blogspot.com/

Just click on the blog address

and go visit these talented ladies

to see all of their wonderful

art work and their amazing blog sites!!

***NOTICE***

If you'd like to join our

"happy art smearing ink smudging "group,

just click the Smeared And Smudged blog button

at the top of the post and it will take

you to the home group where you can sign up !