Pink X-mas

I bought some cheep brushes

from Lidl and the package was really yummy

I just had to recycle it:

Ladies are from VLV, sentiment from Dylusions.

Colored with Inktensse.

Very merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2020!!

Midnight

Lazy Saturday crafting

... using stuff that's on my desk

hmmm, does that mean I'm cleaning house? LOL

Word is in Finnish and means "midnight".

Embossed image, colored with Copics.

I wish your December is going well,

and you'll find time to get creative 

and link your art there --->>>

Only scary in a thunderstorm

What could be more ordinary than a duck paddling in the pond that is Asylum Anne's studio extension.  Steampunked with this great stamp from Chocolate Baroque.
Over the years and throughout the year, Tafta Fibre Forum hold week-long retreats at various places in Australia, and I've been wanting to go for 20+ years.  Got to one in Lismore a few years back, this September-October  it was off to Geelong for 5 days with Jen Crossley.  One of the Tafta traditions is for people to donate a piece of art 15cm x 15cm, and the other attendees to buy for $15.  The funds raised provide scholarships for others to attend these forums.  This is my offering:

What was scary was the builder taking part of the house roof off to blend in the Studio roof on the last fine day before a forecast of thundery squally rainy week!  As you know, a duck looks pretty relaxed on the water, no-one can see the feet paddling away at a great rate.  But a flash of lightning reveals the sweat dripping off this duck!

The heat-embossed stencil over the multi-colour painted background is from Artist Cellar.  The embossing powders are from both Seth Apter and Andy Skinner's ranges.  The sizzix die cut multiple cogs from a range of fabrics.  Note panne velvet curls under itself.
As for the sweat, that is 6+ layers of embossing powder - Seth's Antique beeswax is translucent, and builds up as though you were doing encaustic waxing.

You know we're always encouraging you to share your dark, offbeat makes with all our Dear Readers - just look right!

Uuuups!

What happened here?

Using Inktense pencils, Stampotique stamps and TH sentiment.

And speaking of TH,

would you like to have change to win

this awesome die:

 If you would like to, link up there -->>>

when the froggy gives us number 100

is time to send a present, :)

New Winner

Well, hello, I have this  Scrooge here to tell we have a new winner

And the lucky winner among entries 61-80 is

.

.

drum roll

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.

.

Ionabunny with striking entry nro 63

Congratulations!

Please email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com 

Post might take a time since Finnish post is on strike...

The prize is this artsy stamp from AALL & Create :

AND even more happy news, IF we hit the 100 entries

for our froggy link by the end of this year,

someone will be getting this fab die:

Ooh la la and re-picked WINNER

I thought I'd stop by and share a little artsy ATC

With a twist

What makes me sad, that after 3 months and several

shout outs the winner of these goodies 

 

has not contacted us, 

so it's time for a new winner from entries 21-40. 

And I'm happy to tell a new winner

she is

entry number #35 Sari K

so please Sari

kindly email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com

and give us your address.

Was 1 November lost in the Halloween overkill?

Not surprising really, considering everyone has been so heavily focussed on their pumpkins, tricks and treats.  Meantime Asylum Anne is suffering from all the pink timbers her builders keep bringing on site.  So when some stamps arrived in the mail, and the same stamp company wanted a pink theme just before Halloween, she crumbled, fell apart, succumbed to extreme suffering and went on to miss their deadline.  Playing with new stamps can make for sketchy pieces, and heat embossing sometimes reveals that a stamp should not have a coloured embossing powder treatment, that pink ink and clear ep might have been better:

Have I even GOT a pink inkpad???

Of course this is how we are more used to seeing that stamp.

Then there's "same stamp different sentiments":

and one can't help wondering the lengths one will go to to justify pinkness...

And finally, a pink gargoyle and a flying pig?

All those stamps came from Lost Coast Designs.  So I hope you'll forgive the pinkness and awfulness, but someone's suffering from "pinkeye"!

Just hope your efforts down the right-hand column are a more properly weird/scary composition!

YOUR dark/creepy/weird entry on the right in the numbers 61-80 could be chosen for this fabulous Gesturing Skeleton Doll - freezingly inked in ice-blue -  from Mad Rat  The head and torso alone is 9cm high!  You won't be getting the Pierrot doll, just left him showing for the heck of it.

Black Cat and the Winner!!!!

Gecko Galz has awesome freebies on their blog

and I just had to print some 

Yey!

We have reached the magical link number : 60

and that means we have a new winner

and the winning artist is

drum roll

.....

SENNA with Unique entry nro 50

Congratulations!
Please email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com 

The prize is this awesome:

We had our (entries 21-40) winners post HERE,

still have not heard from Drea,

kindly email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com 

by the end of this month or we will be announcing a new

winner for these goodies:

 

Paranoid

This years Halloween decoration piece.

Wooden sticks, gesso, paints, paste, wax. Calico Craft Parts

-pieces and Gecko Galz images

Images embossed twice to get some texture.

Let us see your Halloween makes!

Froggy link Link is there ---->>>>

Frank's fav month

This must be Frank's fav time of year,

since he's wearing his party hat and seems 

very happy.

ATC using VLV stamps, :)

It looks like we are very close for a happy mail

60 links in there is almost full ->>

These fabulous items will be 

moving to someone's house soooooon!!

So let us see your art!

P.S. Drea, you are the last winner

kindly email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com 

to arrange sending you your prize!

1 October

Evil Froggie is in charge!!!
He showed Asylum Anne his concept drawing for her new Studio-Asylum:

Personally we think he just browsed her stamp collection, and found it in her Blank Page Muse collection.  And his "selfie" references Worth1000.com

We haven't seen the builders for 3.5 days, but the frogs are ecstatic - they think they're getting a custom Convention centre!!!

Meanwhile Anne's been "enhancing EF's sketch - ATC size - and bringing the Rocky Horror Show - "Open the door Janet, Dammit" into the 23rd millennium "Beam her up Scottie"!

From a slightly different angle, you may get a better sense of the people being 3-D "dolls" from Silver Crow Creations

And now it's Eyes Right to see what has been shared by others, or to link your own offbeat creation.

HEHEHE

Here's something I made yesterday,

just for coloring fun.

Pair of ATC's using VLV stamps, watercolors and DI's.

We had our (entries 21-40) winners post HERE,

still have not heard from Drea,

kindly email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com 

to arrange sending you your prize!

....

More goodies coming when there is 60 links in there ->>

These fabulous items will be 

moving to someone's house :)

Beasty Time

Hi there, thought I'd share few ATC's I

made mostly combining digital elements 

from Gecko Galz.

Just added some color with markers and

little metal details.

....

We had our (entries 21-40) winners post HERE,

so Drea,

kindly email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com 

to arrange sending you your prize!

....

More goodies coming when there is 60 links in there ->>

These fabulous items will be 

moving to someone's house :)

So let us see your art!

Mad Hatter

'Tis the first day of Spring, and wonderland beckons -post steampunk, and into electronic-punk?  Or cyber-punk?

Bobble-head seems a bit of a greaser.   What does Alice think about him?

Nope, neither look very impressed with each other.
Hatters went mad from poisoning, but this one should have had a long and productive life ahead of him:

But it's time to put some colour to him.  He has retained his lead-free status, but  zombifaction attacked.  His crepuscular disease has erupted out of a jar of Andy Skinner's lava paste.

It's even worse on his back, and it looks like he also had Alice's bug growing under his necktie.:

All in all, he suffered in life, and resurrection has been no kinder to him. Wonder what his wig was made from.... it and his hat seem to have survived best.

May the rest of us live long and prosper!

Meantime, we're still providing a forum for you to post your dark, weird creArtions.  WITH the incentive (?) of a prize every 20 entries.  Look right.

Alice to the power of 2

In the previous post, I introduced you to a Zombie Alice.  Since then, she has tried the Magic Potion.
Through the wonders of modern technology, we can show how she was and is now:

Definitely shrunk, more zombied than ever, and no longer able to stand unsupported.

Frankly, I'm surprised Lewis Caroll could keep writing past this point!

We are still playing no the dark side, are you?  Share your dark or weird creArtions on the right - Evil Froggie has bribes rewards after each 20 entries...