Lily and the Lotus and Circle of Friends Nature Swap

Welcome to my blog.
Caroline has chosen Nature as our theme on tags.

I chose to use my stencil girl  and water colors for the nature with in.

Thanks for stopping in
susan s

My swap with Inky Froggies January ACT swap

well I had fun.with my friends at https://www.facebook.com/groups/466895520039994/
.and the returns are so awesome.
..I wanted to turn them into a attraction in my new home...so I made a small journal book

Here we go
the papers were printed from my purchase at Studio Manu the name of the paper are Never Forget.

This is the cover I added the little post card print of Paris from www.katrinaart.etsy.com
and my little muse from Stampers Anonymous.

My first ACT is on my Never Forget Me papers. This beautiful act is from my wonderful friend Ike. She is like a sister to me and this is a treasure forever now. Bad pun considering the name of the papers lol.

My second beautiful act is from Abby Miller . Placed in the Never Forget Me papers and I added a pink plastic flower and a suitcase tag . On the suitcase tag I used Tim Holtz Dabber mustard seed.

 
The next beautiful ACT came from our Host Kristy Lee, how beautiful is this page. I added the Tim Holtz ideology $4 and black and white dot ribbon.
I call Kristy my little sister..she is so precious to me.Thank you for this fabulous swap :)

This gorgeous ACT and envelope came from Joyce Ireland.This lady is so multi talented she is so amazing.
I added fibers on the envelope and across the top and bottom of the page..as well as green fabric lace on the adjoined paper side.simple beads were placed together and held in place by a Maya Road pin.

This gorgeous ACT is also from Joyce Ireland. "Brave New World" it says. Beautiful. also placed on the  Never Forget me papers.

This lovely ACT is from Crafting Vicky. I added a blue glass heart with a key winder from Tim Holtz ideologies to symbolize her sentiment "my Friend"

This cutie ACT is from Kapree. Look at the darling owl saying "whooo loves you"How precious is that!

This sweet ACT is from Rhonda miller with the cute bee,bike and balloon.

Thank you everyone for a fabulous swap
hugs
susan s

Stampers Anonymous February Jum,bo Tag Swap 2014

Hi there and welcome to my blog Lily and the Lotus.
 Here is a new stamped image to add to my gallery. Ted is fabulous and gave us a new stamp to play with.So the February 2014  swap theme..... is jumbo tags and Girls...so I  decided to add the beautiful Tim Holtz tissue paper Melange to the tag and used many shades of alcohol inks to enhance them. The little Fae and serendipity stamp are also from stampers Anonymous .
I still do not have the means meaning a vagabond to cut my dies :( but hope that will change next month.I have been saving for my own Birthday prezzie.)
 The fence is a Tim Holtz die and I ran out of it..so I used a border from Wendy Vecchi art parts...on one of the tags.
The keys are from Tim Holtz ideologies. well this was interesting...project.

I did this:

1.cut your jumbo tags using manilla folders
2. tear your tissue paper into pieces and ink with alcohol inks..blend sever colors using my color blender.
3. I used Mod Podge front and back of the dried inked tissue paper adhering it to the manilla folder cut tag.
4.I used cereal boxes to heighten my girl and sentiment.
 and I added one image to the base of the girl stamped in blended alcohol ink and stamped the stamp again in staz on jet black and fussy cut the girl.
5. fussy cut the Fae
I colored with markers
6. added some fabric trim with glossy accents so the stiffness would be seen and felt
7.the fence(houses) was first inked with alcohol inks and then I added crackle.
8. Tim Holtz ideology tape was run across the bottom of the die cut.
My fabrics came from flights of fancy
and the keys are ideology.
http://stampersanonymous.com/

enjoy.
susan

smeared Inks Day Three Bloody Valentine Blog Hop

I am running late posting today. I fell asleep deep and woke up so late..wow! I have been taking better care of myself this year and I think I am exhausted from caring for my mom.
Went out and had Chinese last night and that did it. so sleepy when we got home and slept until 4 am ...had coffee with son and talked..lol lol and fell asleep.
My offering today is a mixed media journal page of course. I cannot tell you about it until  my post soon at Smeared Ink....it's a secret.

enjoy and see you in Art Journal Every day
hugs
susan

Lily and the Lotus and Day Three smeared Ink Bloody Valentine Hop

Welcome to Lily and the Lotus Day Three Bloody Valentine Hop
"In Dark Moments you Must Inspire the Dance"

I hope you have had fun I always love viewing other people art. It is always inspiring and so often a learning experience.

I have had my share of Dark Moments and I am sure many of us have. When I saw this Ballerina by Tori at Smeared Ink it was so moving.

I hope you join us at out Art Journal Every Day group
http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/artjournaleveryday

Have a wonderful Day.
susan s

Freaking Blogger Burped and ate one weeks worth of post welcome to smeared and smudged HOP

I will make it short . I freaking hate blogger and this is why!wake up and what you posted for the past week and a half is gone.
Making coffee cussing at google the most retarded system there is in blogging!

here are my pic's from yesterday and today
They are from the smeared ink store. They are the new releases from The keeper series

The fifth keeper

The first Keeper

 On both of the tags The Keeper digi was used along with the red rubber set of hearts with wings.
On the second tag my newest red rubber set was used one with colomuns ..both sewts are awesome.

I will place links at the bottom of the post because I am hurring

on the first day I had posted other pieces I had recently made

Teri Shermans
1. Deadly Night Shade
2.Dark forest
3. Valentina
all colored with prisma pencils and watercolorsa

Ike Art
Bite Me

The Keepers were colored with prisma pencils and Tim Holts distress inks were used.
Petaloo ribbon and flowers.

Teri Shermans pieces were colored with prisma pencils and watercolors.

Ike piece colored with prisma pencils and water colors petaloo flowers and ribbons

Links

Smeared Ink Bloody Valentine Blog Hop
http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/events/bloody-valentine-blog-hop-2014 

Smeared inks store
http://www.smearedink.com/ 

smeare inks red rubber club
http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/smeared-ink-rubber-club 

Teri Shermans Delicious Doodles

http://deliciousdoodles.blogspot.com/ 

Ike Images/ world

http://suzy-ikesworld.blogspot.com/ 




Shell
Sue The Nanny
Susan
Julia
Black Dragon
Kristy
Maureen
Fiona
Leigh
DominoART
Airless Chambers
Quoth The Raven
Ike's World Challenges
Wendy
Shoni
Ike
Left Of Center Creative Challenges
Lisa
Violent Kitty
Lady Brayton
Samara
Rebecca

Lily and The Lotus Day Two Smeared and Smudged Bloody Valentine hop

When I am Dancing I am Rebuilding my Dreams

A simple journal page using the awesome ballerinas by Tori with Smeared ink.
This is the link to visit more artist on this hop
http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/events/bloody-valentine-blog-hop-2014

The link to the store to pick up your awesome Ballerina by Tori
http://www.smearedink.com/

Feel free to join us at out Art Journal Every Day we would love to have you
http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/artjournaleveryday

Happy Hopping
susan s

Lily and The Lotus and Smeared Inks Bloody Valentine Hop Day Two

Welcome to Day two with Lily and the Lotus and http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/events/bloody-valentine-blog-hop-2014

Day Two

Here is my offering today

The First Keeper from Smeared Inks Digital Store
http://www.smearedink.com/

The border is from http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/smeared-ink-rubber-club

Here is my second offering from Ikes Worldhttp://www.ikesart.com/#!__digital-art-stamps

This one is called Bite Me
I love Ikes beautiful images..and you will to so check her store out.

Happy Bloody Valentine Hop
susan




Shell
Sue The Nanny
Susan
Julia
Black Dragon
Kristy
Maureen
Fiona
Leigh
DominoART
Airless Chambers
Quoth The Raven
Ike's World Challenges
Wendy
Shoni
Ike
Left Of Center Creative Challenges
Lisa
Violent Kitty
Lady Brayton
Samara
Rebecca

Welcome to Lily and The Lotus and Smeared Ink's Bloody Valentine Hop 2014

It is such a pleasure to be with Smeared Ink this year for their Bloody Valentine Hop 2014....
Welcome

This is fun..so many wonderful friends have joined the hop and I cannot wait to see what everyone has made.

Well I have a confession to make first...I did not make a journal page..I made a tag. lol lol

Have fun stay safe and enjoy the hop
loads of hugs and love to all of you
Susan S

This image is a new digital image from the awesome Smeared Ink Store. It is called The Fifth Keeper.

You can find this image at http://www.smearedink.com/
My Fifth Keeper  from http://www.smearedink.com/ is colored ink inks with pain brush. The skin and feathers are inks and pencils.
The heart at the bottom and the sentiment Flutter are from http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/smeared-ink-rubber-club

Have fun ....
A few recently finished pieces

Valentina By Teri Sherman

Deadly Nightshade By Teri Sherman

Dark forest By Teri Sherman

Octopode Factory Alice catapiller

Ching Chow Kuik's Spring Moony Nite http://sweetpeastamps.com

Swaps Received

Stampers Anonymous January 2014

Thank you Cindi E. I love this and now I want the stamp :)

Thank you Georgia  I love this gorgeous tag

Thank you Linda L oh this is eye candy and it's mine :)
Thank you Sandy for hosting.you are the best

Drum roll please....Thank you Ted for the awesome stamp oh I am so excited to make February tags and more.


Blog Roll

Shell

Sue The Nanny

Susan

Julia

Black Dragon

Kristy

Maureen

Fiona

Leigh

DominoART

Airless Chambers

Ike's World @ Quoth The Raven

Ike's World Challenges

Wendy

Shoni

Ike

Left Of Center Creative Challenges

Lisa

Violent Kitty

Lady Brayton

Samara

Smeared Inks Art Journal Every Day Day Seven Blog Hop The Fabulous Aletha

Oh wow can you believe Day 7 with smeared Inks Art  Journal Every Day

I would love to hear how you have felt about all you have seen. If there is a technique or idea please leave a comment or talk to us on the forum here is a linkhttp://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/thevent

This is Aletha's Technique 7 Scrap paper Background
and Prompt 7 Resolutions

I made this in Aletha's scrap paper style

My resolution is to step forward in my art to grow and over come my fears of not being good enough and just expressing me

I hope you have had fun

susan

Lily and the Lotus and the New Musically Challenged Challenge

Welcome to my Blog Lily and The Lotus I am Susan s and I have a new Challenge for you...one I know you will love.

This Challenge involves music ...did you guess where yet..http://musicallychallengedchallenge.blogspot.com/ 

Okay...and a big announcement we have a new sponsor

 I am so proud to have Sweet Pea Stamps join us.

My song for this challenge is 

see you at the challenge.
Iwill be adding this to http://lauralcraft.weebly.com/1/post/2014/02/challenge-2-at-dragonfly-dreams.html
susan

Smeared Ink New Releases February Blog hop

Man am I running late but at least I think I am getting there,Has anyone heard of the hackers anonymous? they got into a place that had my bank info..so this am instead of blogging I am dealing with BS.

Well there are some awesome images Smeared and Smudged Inkhttp://smearedink.com has come out with and of course I had to throw them into a journal page. This is just two of the images I will be journaling more every tutorial I am offering at smeared ink. Hope you like this page.
hugs susan

Smeared and Smudged Ink Art Journal Every Day Design Team Blog Hop Day 6 With Titbelsoeur

Hi everyone how are your fabulous Journal pages coming? I have been a long time admire of my co team designer Tibelsoeur. Her blog post are just incredible and her art is fabulous.It is such a privileged to work with the fabulous ladies I work with on this team.

here we go....

Prompt 6 Sales
Technique 6 Make your own Art Journal structure with junk envelopes.
Here is mine

All this from junk envelopes :)

Thanks for looking.. have fun

Susan