Smeared and Smudged Halloween Blog Hop #4 Day One

Good Day, Everyone

A Happy Halloween Blog Hop To All.

Today is the launch of the fourth annual Halloween Blog Hop:

The 31 Days of Halloween

 hosted by

 Smeared and Smudged.

  To find out more about the 31 Days of Halloween

 click here.  

Even non-participants can win prizes! 

For all information please visit that link

or visit

 Terra, 

who is the first person 

on the Halloween Blog Hop Roll in my sidebar.

And will be publishing a host of information there about the blog hop all month long. 

If you are on the hop you should have come here from 
Christy and when you leave here you will be 
hopping to Lady Brayton.

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My first project is a combined entry for the blog hop

but also my entry for the challenge at

Haunted Design House:

Here is their challenge:

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Okay, macabre fans... your challenge this week:

HDH152
"Chain me up, Chain me down"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece

that has something to do with
chains, shackles, bondage.
Kinky!!
Let's see some inspirational examples from the Minions to get your mojo flowin'. 

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Here is my entry:

  

I have created a hybrid project which means it is part digital 

and part hand crafted. 

I have used a digital art image from

Ike's Art 

called 

Cat Girl

Can you believe this fab image was a freebie?

I love Ike's Art  and recently 

used one of her images in a challenge for 

Poisoned Peas Please.

I was lucky enough to win

and was delighted with my

prize of a very generous gift 

voucher to Ike's Art.

Doubly Lucky!

(Actually triply lucky because I am honoured to reveal

I have been invited to be Guest Designer for 

 Poisoned Peas Please 

for October!)

I hope you will join me at this wonderful and innovative

challenge blog when their October challenge 

goes live next week.
And you still have time to enter their current challenge
which is 

Steampunk

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I took Ike's Cat Girl into Craft Artist 2

and altered her a little by removing her sentiment, made her an outline, printed her then 

coloured her with promarker pens.

I used a metallic silver promarker to highlight

her buckles and zips and to alter her cat o'nine tails 

into a chain o' nine tails!! 

(well the theme is chains, after all!!)

The background I designed myself and I think

if nothing else it does show a lot of chains!
I added a cheeky message to finish. 

Here is a version with a spider in halloween orange 
for traditionalists.

Have a great day whatever your time zone and enjoy 

the blog hop.

love and peace,

Vee xx

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This next project is not part of the halloween hop but is

for the ATC challenge at

 Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge

 ATC =

 Artist Trading Card and is 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches

This digital art image is

Rapunzel

by

 Ike's Art 

She has been printed onto 

digital card and coloured with promarkers

I added pan pastels in blue 

and used the most famous words from

the tale to frame the image. 

I would like to put Rapunzel into the challenge below:

 DCC and Friends Challenges

Challenge #3 Character Crazy

 

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