CT Kim~Zombie Street Journal~Rick St Dennis MFA, "Zombie Tangle"

Hi Happy Haunted Wednesday!


Today I humbly present for your consideration my version of Zombie Spring!

This fabulous Zombie is drawn by the amazing Rick St Dennis. It is called, "Zombie Tangle" and you are most welcome to visit a most haunting zombie collection HERE. This is an image I won during 31 Days of Halloween last year. 31 Days of Halloween is amazing: A month full of Halloween awesomeness hosted by the lovely ladies at Smeared Ink.....more on that event later....promise!

This is what may happen near the Financial Center after the Zombie Apocalypse. Hey even Zombies are allowed to have bright colors, hahhahaha.

Enjoy your moment and don't think about the snap of the twig you hear behind you......or that scratch on the window in the middle of the night......

~kim
from TangledBlueRose.blogspot.com

Introducing CT Anne with Smaug's Lair... the Mysteries of Middle Earth

We begin this week with our next introduction with a fantastic project from Anne.. Welcome Anne to the Creative Team!  Anne does not blog but shares some fabulous work on Facebook. Her fantastic creations are such a pleasure to share. 

Here is a first a peek at this amazing work:

It is wonderful to use Anne's own words in a description with some very interesting info about Down Under!  

Anne: "Stick a skeleton on it and that makes it creepy? Especially when it's bashing its way out through some sheets of mica. I live Down Under, in the Land of Middle Earth, so we have Sauron's eye overlooking the skellie, and also a peek into Smaug's lair. Is that starting to creep you out a bit? Well how about the naive hobbit taking a bath at the entrance to the dragon's lair! 

"This started life as a book, the pages were removed, and layers of foam board with shims inserted to give dimensionality and to separate the layers."

"Another angle for the book-caves.  Doubtless  some of you will recognize a couple of Spellbinder's nesting dies on the left side.  The Crackle texture is taught by Michael deMeng in various on-line classes.  And did you notice the eye is shut? (told you to look!)  It's a "lenticular winkie" that changes depending on the angle you look from - and I them and bath tubs (the hobbit) from SilverCrow Creations.  I did an on-line class run by Michael deMeng Assemblage Art called "Punk Fiction-Altering Books from the Inside and Out".

"The front cover shows Bilbo about to enter Moria.  Ephemera comes from all sorts of places. New Zealand did a series of commemorative stamps, and this picture is from the brochure.  I'm guessing it's only creepy because we know what happened next....."

And that is not only a description of this fabulous project but I had to go back and Google some history and legends I was so curious!  Thanks to Anne for sharing this with us today!!  I am sure that this has inspired you as it has all of us to start thinking in "creep"!  A book, an awesome card by Granne, a canvas, and ....I won't spoil the surprise but wait until you see what Kim has for you on Wednesday!!  

We are decorating for the party on May 1st so grab your finest creep or two or three or four....no limit on how many times you may enter! and meet us here for the fun!  

Like that eye in Anne's book, we are watching to see who is getting ready.....you never know when our eyes are shut....or OPEN!!   Bwaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaa!

Wow! CT Nan~ Getting Ready for Kick Off of Dream in Darkness Challenge May 1st!!

We have made it here, all you dark siders!  The challenge start date is May 1st and will always be "Anything Goes"!  We accept mixed media, stamping, digis, altered art, and 100% digital art and anything in between that we have missed....just remember "No Cute":)

We will be showing you some of our dark side on the days leading up to the challenge start so keep checking in to see what our fabulous Creative Team comes up with!  We are going to do a separate post to introduce them to you as we want to show them lots of love because they are fabulous!


I am jumping in first, I'm Nan and here is my canvas (excuse the lighting the shine on the canvas didn't cooperate)!

We are being sponsored for our first challenge by the wonderful Rick St. Dennis so in honor of that I am showing you a canvas I made with his image "Zombie Love" from my stash.

I colored the image with Chameleon pens, fussy cut, glued, and edged with a dark red pen to hide the white lines around the image.

I used cardstock layered, stencils, spring caps, a bead circle, and home made gesso to layer it up.  I doodled with a gold jelly pen on their romantic headstone and a black marker around and about here and there.  Looks like true love to me!

Thanks for having a look and get those wheels turning so you can enter the first ever challenge at Dream in Darkness coming to haunt you May 1st!

Get the rusty gears grinding and turning... you can use any image, stamps, or no image or stamps, mixed media, altered art, 100% digital....just make it dark, please!  This is not for cute cards even though we love them, but this is for all of us with that urge to create something different and few places exist for us out there.

Happy Crafting from the Dream in Darkness Creative Team!!