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!!!

You want a Valentine card as well???

OK, ok, rubber arm twisted.  Just because it's the last day of Leigh SB Design's My Dark Valentine hop.  You can have a card... AND an envelope!

A blank card made of kraft, sprinkled Paper Artsy Infusions and spritzed.  The card curled quickly, giving the 2-directional streaming

The inside I stamped the XXL Carabelle stamp, Steampunk Mechanique, and wrote a poem for it:

Valentine

When Cupid’s sharp arrow doth strike,

All thoughts of food are fled:

I am a sandwich short of a picnic,

A few noodles short of a chow mein!

In love and thus  blind.

No longer the brightest bulb in the box.

The lights are on, but I am not home:

Shipped but not delivered  - lost, so  lost for love.

Undelivered, Alack!  I am not the fastest ship in the fleet.

My heart  rends me a few keys short of a keyboard,

A few cogs short of the gear change

That would  bring together Toi et Moi

Cupid thou Nasty Cherub

I would change thine aim

But thou hast reft me of mine sanity,

Missing a few buttons on the remote,

A few keys short of a keyboard.

A few cogs short

In my heart.

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And the front of the card:

The Cheery Lynn die, Hearts #2  has 3 different colours of embossing powder. The cogs were diecut from a juice carton, alcohol ink-treated.
Stencilgirl S271 Angel Circle, L157 city scape, Club 05-2017
Carabelle stamp set :Textes:  Zoom sur 1 souvenir.  Sorry I can't find it on their website, nor the one I bought it from.

As for the envelope... I hope it's got enough postage - that 20cent one better not be prophetic.

That Mocking bird that took out Poe last month is back, aiming at the cat???

Maybe there's more to it than that - an winged easter bunny with an egg-bomb?

Some love-sick boy getting his come-uppance?

 Zoom out, we want to see the whole thing to make our own minds up:

Can you see the postie daring to deliver this to anyone's letterbox???

Stencil Girl's Mixed Media Mail stencil's words pop up in serendipitous places, to comment.  A Silver Crow Creations rubber stamp simulates an Addressee.  Digi stamps include Delicious Doodles for the postage stamps (Cranial Caress and Samhain), Bloobel the Sick Boy and Kitteh, Ike's "Greece" is the building-courtyard scene.  Smeared Ink's Winged Grumpy and our hostess, Leigh SB Designs have the Oddleigh Mocking Bird, the egg, and the quote.

An InLinkz Link-up

Look at this Beauty by CT Anne!

When I saw this I was totally amazed at the thought process and work behind it!  CT Anne took Teri's adult coloring page freebie from Teri's Delicious Doodles Facebook page and came up with what we all think is pure genius!  Here are her words to introduce this awesome make!

"Who would have thought it! Teri's Tropical Masquerade is a Troppo Haunt! Beware!!! She is ready to chop your head off if you open the door!"

This inspired me beyond words to think out of the box!  Please check out Delicious Doodles Challenge "White on White" and Teri's Etsy Store where a delicious adult coloring book "Go on, Be a Devil" is available now!

And watch out but do enter our house and quietly leave your entry...we mustn't wake up you know who! 

July's Winners and CT Anne Reveal All, Well Almost All

Thanks to all who entered out 3rd challenge at Dream in Darkness for July!  You are all winner's in our eyes and we certainly appreciate you entering our humble challenge!  And believe us the voting process is very hard for us!  Shouting and throwing things about the house do occur but before any blood is shed we have to come to a decision!  So here they are!

1st Place
#25 Laila aka Koneko

Congratulations!  Please email CT Nan at dreamindarknessblog@gmail.com

2nd Place
#22 Monique

Congrats!  Your awesome badge awaits you at the above email address!

3rd Place
#6 Donna Mundinger
 

Congrats to you!  Check out your badge at the same email above!

And now the Creative Team wants to share some of their stand out entries:

CT Anne

"Teresa's Brian/Brain was in the running - I liked that the central image, Zombie Brian, was surrounded by plenty of interesting secondary elements - damaged brains, grasping hands, the barbed wire. And need I mention the blood? No, I thought not."

CT Nan

"Crafty Rose's #15 is so awesome with so many fab elements of a tag! Love that she used Frankinella and of course, my man, Poe! All my faves in one tag, how fantastic is that?" 

CT Granne
"# 24 Crafty Debs Love the stright combination of red and black and really enjoyed the tutorial, Fabulous set!" 

CT Kim
 #9 Gina, I love the Poe doll! So wicked cool and fabulous tree! The vulture is so awesome! We all need a Poe doll with pet Vulture :)

Awesome work by all!  And now we begin our journey for August's winners!  So keep those entries coming!

CT Anne finally agreed to let us see the rest of her "eyes" teaser!  So we turn the post over to her!

 " Eyeball Wormetti from Teri Sherman - my springboard this month. So what to put with it? I already have her chess pieces, eyeball-less as they are, and so the chain of imagination takes off. Chess pieces need a chessboard to sit on. Raid the washi tape stash for some black-dominant tape and lay down on the journal page. The whitish streaks are tar gel drizzled over the image & page."

 

Poor Pawns, it's a tough life, everyone's after your balls, no matter what the Bishop says!

"The eyes, how can they offend thee? A Royal Command perhaps. More likely one could take offence at that worm of tar gel oozing over the text of my journal page, but who's telling this story? - another colour sequence for this platter of pasta"

The completed page looked a bit sparse with all those white squares, and Barbara Willis' doll face stamp was lurking on my table, so some judicious part-stamping in a lightly murky ink colour along with an anonymous spiral worm, and the odd ant from vlvstamps.com helps reduce the starkness.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/232785695/digital-stamp-set-creepy-alphas?ref=shop_home_active_1&ga_search_query=alphabet
https://www.etsy.com/listing/228257814/digital-stamp-eyeball-wormetti?ref=shop_home_active_1&ga_search_query=wormetti
https://www.etsy.com/listing/232816170/digital-stamp-set-skully-chess-pieces?ref=shop_home_active_1&ga_search_query=chess
and the doll face:
http://www.barbarawillisdesigns.com/item_35/Field-of-Dreams--Rubber-Face-Stamp.htm

 Now we are waiting for your plate of eyeballs, or worms, or whatever icky thingys you can come up with!  It's your turn now! Whew, we are tired from searching for our missing teamie so we leave the rest up to you!  But do watch you back will you? Buwhahahaha!