Those Irish Snakes and Evolution

I offered you snakes, they've taken rather a devious route and still haven't got where I expected, but maybe next year... in fact the more I pulled out to use, the more got left out.
Ireland being an island, how did the snakes get to other lands?  Browsing through my stamp collection, it struck me... they had to be able to swim.  And I got side-tracked, as I wondered what St Francis, Patron Saint of Animals, would have said to St Patrick about his evicting them from their home.  I saw them on a cloud, harps set aside for The Debate.  The Muse insisted I deal with that first:

A super-thick chippie cloud, some stencils, Pebeo black mica mortar, snake-skin-looking papers die-cut, the Lamb of God refereeing.  St Francis was a line drawing image google found for me.

  Stampamania snake coiled at the bottom.  Like the wobbly eyes?

It occurred to me these guys were behind the Pearly Gates, and the right gate stamp had just come up from Artfull Crafts in Timaru (one of the few shops maintaining a street presence in NZ and a well-stocked online store just changing ownership this month).  And for pearliness, some bubble acetate to stamp on:

Typical of this whole project, great idea, didn't fit the cloud!  Ah well, it'll turn up somewhere some day.
But at last, The Muse let me get back to snakes, swimming away.

You'll never look at an octopus the same way again - all those snakes sharing a brain cavity, no wonder they're so smart - there are 8 brains co-operating in there!

Butter Side Down portuguese man o war, moray eel

Viva las vegas stamps: St Patrick

Chocolate Baroque August undersea, steampunk funky fish set

Stencil Girl Jly/2014 Lets Get Cellular, L186 Coral, Jan'17 Club

Teesha Moore for the tiny tentacled beings

Heartfelt Creations Festive Gate

Cheery Lynn Lucy the Lamb

The only theme this month is Anything Goes Except Cute!!  And we really mean it - sweet, cute is, as always, OUT

Keep sharing your weird, your dark, your off-beat, 

your non-PC with us every month, with the linky for thIs month HERE:

Wild Dreamers

I like silhouettes, beautiful and dramatic at

the same time ... Here's couple ATC's I made

using Gecko Galz papers and silhouette image

from Designs By Sheyla.

Colored with Copics, and for upper one I used some

Rub-Ons.

Now let us see what's you've been up to:

link HERE

February's Challenge Winner is in the box.

Welcome back! We have a double treat today! Yepp a bit late on announcing our February Winner but none the less here we are!

The winner is IKE for her wickedly dark playing card! Check it HERE

Drop us an email at dreamindarknessblog@gmail.com I think Asylum Anne has a non-looney treat in store for ya!

And part two of the treat! Better than Valentine candy for sure....welllll unless it's chocolate!

It has been confirmed, Asylum Anne is bonkers - she's hearing Voices!  Stencilgirl Voices to be precise.  The March Club stencils are out, and she has voiced her opinion of them:

Normally, Stencils are part of layering sequences when I use them, but these stencils fell so far out of the box, they ARE the box – with all the rigidity that implies. Once I have a “story”, a piece just takes off, and this 12x12 page was no exception.  The starkness of the stencil lines, the bleakness of the story, the straight lines of film strip down the sides, and all I needed were some illustrative stamps from SilverCrowCreations.com (alas their vulcaniser, Pete, has been unwell, their stamps are temporarily unavailable) Poor Leonardo Da Vinci bottom right, with staircases to the sky… Rigidity is scary!

These “Legal Eagle” crows have been waiting a few years to submit their evidence, as have some tags prepped with shaving cream background. In order to retain as much of that colour, the stencil was used with clear embossing powder on the right-facing xrow. The diagonal lines on the 6” stencil worked well, and the book stamp was stamped twice for each page, fussy cut, then extra-fussy cut and glued over the the bigger one to look like real pages. Because the tags’ theme was words, the other one had a background of stamped text before the stencil was overlayed – giving shades to the meaning of words generally. The crossword/scrabble stamp in full reads Feel Better, but implies other things when split as they are here. Again, all stamps from Silver Crow Creations

Well, I'm off to help St Paddy hunt down snakes... see you later!

March 1 - New Month New Playtime!

Valentines - think pink, hearts, red roses, glitter... 

Think of the Commercial Pressure to buy and send someone a Valentine.

With February 14 well out of the way, 

the rest of the year we can be more genuine in expressing our affections.  

So, Dear Reader, We Love You, 

and wish you will remain our friends in The Dark Side of our HeArts

Pink... wicked Little Grumpie Cupid.  Hearts yep.  

Red roses - one, anyway, between the skull's teeth.  

Glitter... black floral glitter!  

And I thought I'd better "up-value" the 20 cent stamp 

on the previous post's envelope.

"Sentiment" by Leigh SB Designs

Cranial Caress from Delicious Doodles

Spellbinder scalloped hearts dies.

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Well, well, speaking of a shadows,

I hope there is no one like this lurking:

Creepy, ehh? Clown from the Ike's Art and the background from the

Gecko Galz colored with Copics and black DI.

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The only theme this month is Anything Goes Except Cute!!

Keep sharing your weird, your dark, your off-beat, 

your non-PC with us every month, with the linky for thIs month HERE:

An InLinkz Link-up

And remember, St Patrick's Day (17th March) is all about the Snakes!  Eeek!!!