SMEARED & SMUDGED WITH SMEARED INK - 1st PIECE FOR 2014

Hello Peeps,
Here I am today with my 1st 2014 piece for the SMEARED INK Design Team. I have digi images that I draw exclusively for Smeared Ink too, so why not pop over to the Shop for a browse at the great images there  :-)  There is also The Rubber Club where you can get fabbo exclusive sheets of images :-D 

Now you know already that Smudgy Antics Blog has closed , so now everything is happening in the SMEARED & SMUDGED FORUM and we have many Challenges, Workshops, Tutorials and all sorts of fun stuff going on over there, so why not pop over and join us.

My piece is for the Anything Goes theme and I have used images from the 'Specimen Jar' set and also 'Skeleton Dancer' single image.

I made a grungy backing from some old cardboard and tore it to expose the inside corrugation. I stuck on some Masking Tape to give texture (as per SHELL's Tutorial - CLASS #11 - at the MIXED MEDIA UNIVERSITY, where I am one of her Teamies  :-D    I've never done this before but I love the effect I achieved with the cardboard and tape. :-)

I painted the whole thing then with Gesso. Then I distressed it with inks and added some glitter. The wings are from my 'snippets' box and the rose from my stash. I daubed some ink on my rose too, to tone it down as it was far too pink !!! I then made a Stick Pin with a skully charm. I made a ticket with the skeleton image and with the main image, I altered the colour/hue of the Digi in Photoshop to fit it with my scheme.

I hope you will pop over to the FORUM and have a snoop round.

See you later xoxoxox

Challenges I am entering:

Anyone For Anya - Corrugated Cardboard
Challenges for Everybody #37 - Anything Goes
Glitter & Sparkle Challenge #66 - Anything Goes
That Craft Place - Use a Charm Challenge 
Open Minded Crafting Challenge #1 - New Toys or Techniques (grunge is new for me  LoL)