DAY ONE - KICKSTART YOUR ART CHALLENGE & SMEARED INK DT BLOG HOP!

IT'S TIME! Today is the first day of our KICKSTART YOUR ART CHALLENGE! 

(For info on our Smeared Ink DT Blog Hop, please read on...)

The Smeared and Smudged Art Journal Every Day DT are so excited to be hosting our very first week-long journal challenge extravaganza! The challenge is easy peasy...each morning at 9am PST, for seven days, we will post a journal prompt or technique. To play along, you will have 24 hours to make and link a journal page for that day's challenge using the criteria for that day. The daily winner will be announced the next morning along with the new journal challenge. Daily prizes will vary from gift certificates to coupons to free digis.

The fun thing about it is, at the end of the seven days we will be drawing for a grand prize! In order to qualify, participants must have linked entries in all seven journal challenges. 

What is the GRAND PRIZE you ask?
The Grand Prize winner will receive

3 Smeared Ink Rubber Sets of their choice from our "past offering rubber sets"!

We want to encourage and inspire you to experiment with new techniques and ideas! Our new Art Journal Every Day Group on the Smeared and Smudged forum is the perfect place for you to get that inspiration, so we invite you join in all the fun even after this challenge is over.

In case you are wondering what an Art Journal is, here is a basic description for you found on the web:

Artist's journals are illustrated diaries and journals on any theme.

An art journal can be a record of your daily thoughts, a travel journal, an exercise or diet diary, a dream journal, a place where you jot down your goals or to-do lists, or... well, almost any record that you'd like to keep in a book or notebook.

They become "art journals" when you add any kind of illustration or embellishment to the pages. 

{This info was taken from http://www.artistsjournals.com/instruction.htm}

Basically - your art journal is anything and everything that you want it to be. 

So these challenges and/or prompts are a start to something amazingly yours! 

OK, now on to the challenge details!

Here are the official rules:

*Each morning from January 27th through February 2nd, a new challenge will be posted at 9am PST. It will contain that day's technique or prompt and prize information.

*To participate, you must make an Art Journal page that fits the technique or prompt and add it to that day's post using the Inlinkz linky tool. You only have 24 hours to link up. Your link must go straight to the post on your blog containing your project, not your blog home page.

*The daily winner will be chosen by random number and revealed later the next day in a separate post (not the daily challenge post).

*At the end of the week, all participants who submitted entries for all seven days will be entered for the Grand Prize Drawing from Smeared Ink. The winner will be chosen by random number and announced on Monday, February 3rd.

 

So, are you ready to play? Welcome to Day 1 of KICKSTART YOUR ART!!

Today's Challenge: 

3 PRIMARY COLOR DRIPS

Today's Sample:

Sample by TITBELSOEUR

IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOME STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS 
PLEASE VISIT HER TUTORIAL HERE.

You can also visit her BLOG to leave her some love.

Today's Prize: 

We hope you have fun with this one, and we can't wait to see what your minds come up with! Remember, be sure to link up in time to qualify for the daily (and grand) prize. Then check back tomorrow for the new journal challenge!

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TODAY IS ALSO OUR SMEARED INK DT BLOG HOP! 

So if you need some added inspiration to go with your art journaling, you've come to the right place! We've decided to re-instate our Smeared Ink Design Team monthly blog hops. Our very talented Smeared Ink DT will be creating fabulous projects to awe and inspire you and we hope you will enjoy hopping along with us!

Today, our teamies will be sharing their favorite Smeared Ink stamp with you.
The blog roll is below, please visit and leave some love for these fab ladies and their amazing talent!
Enjoy your hopping!

Black Dragon
Fiona
Shell
Leigh
Kapree
Shoni
Ike
Rocio