The Circus calls.

Everyone loves a good old-fashioned circus, full of death-defying acts, wild animals, and... clowns!!!  Whizz through some tags with me that are to be bound into a book now I've found my Zutter AND bought a new camera!!!

 The cover tag is a size larger than the rest.

 The Trapeze artists wires are still free-floating - with microbeads glued to them for grip haha.

 Love the Sticks & bones stencil, and what has it got in its pocketsses, my presshuss???

I have so many stamps that can be used for a circus, more tags need to be done, so I've not bound these yet!  So far, Scrapberry's (thanks to Sari), Lost Coast Designs, Viva las Vegas stamps, Smeared Ink, Carabelle,  Silver Crow Creations, Stencil Girl, Andy Skinner, Wonder Strumpet and Graphics 45 have all contributed.

If Life's been making you jump through hoops, or you've stayed off-beat this month, share it with us here.

Day 15 31 Days of Halloween~Tombstones

Welcome to Day 15 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

I am thinking there are some wicked things from CT Anne today.....

ATCs,  shaped as tombstones, cut from mat board.  The left one was painted black, then both were coated with sand texture paste, and when dry, washed with interference paints and Lindy Stamp Gang moonshadows.

I drizzled a thick frame around the round face with Liquid Pearls, colour onyx pearl.  While it was still wet, lightly teased and pressed into it, some "spiderweb", then added a portion of Ancient text border stamp below.
Lost Coast Designs stamp catalogue to the rescue for both ATCs: a Mini Ancient was stamped on a Graphics 45 "Rare Oddities" paper - placed so she had feet!  She's domino-sized too.  One of the "3 small doll faces" was also stamped on the same paper for the lighter ATC.  The teeth are from a set sized to be placed over a kid's own teeth.  A supermarket chain is having a Disney dominoes promotion right now.  My daughter wants very specific dominoes, I want all her daughters' leftovers as my DH does the grocery shopping at a different chain!

The legs fitting between the teeth dictated the final placing of the domino.  A strip of fluffy yarn below the teeth, and flowersoft(!!!) round the sides of the domino hide and texturize the whiteness. 

All the stamps came from http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/

I hope if I'm not cremated and ashes dispersed in the wind, that my grave will be this colourful!!!

Scary Fairy Blog Hop with Smeared Ink!

Today we are playing along with Smeared and Smudged with the First Annual Scary Fairy Blog Hop!!

Here is the blog roll for you to follow, you can start anywhere you like or follow from the top!

Black Dragon
Dream In Darkness
Teresa
Harp
Leigh
Lost Coast Portal To Creativity
Katie
Susan
Kat

Mirror Mirror on the wall, Who's the Fairyest of All?

CT Granne:

Using digital stamps by Smeared Ink and Delicious Darkness and skeleton leaves for wings:

CT Anne:

A fairy tale...

It was a dark & stormy night. The Dead Fairy wondered...

Mirror Mirror on the wall, Who's the Fairyest of All?

Startled by sudden light, the Dead Fairy turned... to see…

The Dread Paparazzi preying like wolves and vultures, with their

 steampunk and drone cameras 

(stamps from viva las vegas and silver crow creations again)

.... the Dread Paparazzi!!!  

"It triggered a flashback to the last time they had 

caught her out without her makeup!" 

The door slammed shut....

Clear plastic box about the size of an ATC, altered. Skeleton was set into a bit of green clay to stay upright. A sunglasses lens had a thick layer of glitter glued round the edge and an oval mirror set into it. The white eyelash yarn made good net curtains.

Materials:

Dead Fairy kit, lamp, spectacle sunglass lens etc from www.silvercrowcreations.com

Graphic 45 paper

Toadstool house stamp from Third Coast RS stamped on acetate and coloured with alcohol inks.

CT Nan

My dead scary fairy!

 She now resides in her new home after being caught in my garden killing my beautiful gardenias!  She lives with her pet tarantula, yes he had to come too!, named Tary!  There is black magic dust looks a lot like glitter but it is the dust she sprinkles on flowers to kill them.  Here she is relaxing on the computer!  And do not worry, please, I give her a fresh new flower each day to feed and drink on and then kill for her amusement!

Also, she does not stay locked away all the time! I let her out and because she insists on having Tary with her, they have free reign over a room in my house I switch it up.  Why one room? I am terrified of Tary!! He is very protective of my dead fairy!

Here she is out of her home!  Her wings are made from sugar skulls stamped and fussy cut and you can find these skulls in a set of 6 different skulls at Lost Coast Designs.  She is courtesy of a friend also using the Dead Fairy Kit for SilverCrow Creations with some minor adjustments to clothing color and wings.

For more details to the story check out my personal blog Deep into the Darkness Peering.



CT kim

Digital Hybrid makes my make this day. I used the "Honey" image by Smeared Ink as well as the sentiment and a digi paper. Honey is colored with Sharpies, Bics and my new two Copics :)

The background elements have more elements by Marta van Eck at Mischief Circus Midnight Reverie and Magic Light. There are also some digital papers blended that I made, too.

"I'm watching you"

Thanks for hopping by, all of us at Dream in Darkness thank you all!