12 Days of Christmas Day 7: Barbed Wire Christmas Tree

Welcome to day 7 of Smeared & Smudged 12 Days of Christmas sponsored by Smeared Ink. Check out the blog roll of participating artists in the right sidebar. We'll be posting every other day until the "Big" day.

Today is 2 for Tuesday- It is a Smeared Ink Day for the 12 days of Christmas AND my card is for the Smudgy Antics challenge for this week. This week's challenge is create art based on a poem, film or book. I opted for a film I saw as a kid. I do not remember the name of the film but part of involved some kids who hung out/ lived? in a junkyard. It was Christmas time and the kids decorated a Christmas tree with stuff from the junkyard- I remember tin cans. It is kind of a fuzzy memory but it inspired my tree.

The tree features images from "Urban Decay" from Smeared Ink. The ornaments are circular hardware images from the same plate. The tree was stamped with a woodgrain image from the same plate, then I colored on top of it with a brown Copic marker. I lost some of the detail so I stamped it again with sepia colored Versafine ink. The outer border was stamped with still another image from the same plate. (Can you tell I REALLY like that plate?)

Randy & Milly here: This morning we got a look at a typical lunch that Heather makes for her offspring: PB&J on white bread, Granny Smith apple cut in half and cored, bottled water and low fat blueberry cereal bar.

Milly- I'm shocked! Everything in there should be organic- including the water. Children should not eat apple skin and that isn't even an organic apple. I'm shocked.

Randy-I think her lunch looks pretty good. She could use more protein but I see what she puts away at dinner so I'm not worried.

Milly- Oh Randy! You think cranberry sauce is a fruit! What do you know about nutrition?

Randy- At least I'm not a cannibal! Milly, I saw you eating BEAR CLAWS at Tim Horton's!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!