Christmas Tagging - Naughty, or Nice? and Sue Tells All!

We would like to thank each of you for playing with us this 8 months and for the support you have given us!  And we want to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year's!  What better way to end Creepmas than with CT Anne's holiday tag?  None, so here it is!

Are we talking Cemetary Graffitti here?

Well! We all know Santa is a jolly know-it-all, that implies wisdom. Owls are "known" for wisdom, so does that make Santa an Owl? Stampendous provided the Tombstone Owl image,then glitter pens and Lindys Stamp Gang sprays were washed on. The printer got a workout with the "sentiment", and the bat (it wouldn't be Creepmas without a bat!) is a QuikKutz die.

I can never leave the backside of a tag blank.  A recently-deleted Rick St Dennis image! Full of glitter pens, Lindys Stamp Gang sprays, and the eyeballs built up with 3 layers of sepia glossy accents. Not the easiest to photograph - why don't I THINK before pulling the glitz out! The wee sprays of mistletoe are from viva las vegas stamps

                          

                         

 Love them bones!

We can't wait to see how Sue's tale of Kevin ends so here we go!

It was the day before Creepmas Eve. All was fairly peaceful.. No unwanted visitors, no Creepmas movies. The Demon couch was out on the front porch just in case Nan tried to plump up the cushions.. Leigh had a go and got a nasty nip. Kevin was helping Fifi clear up the kitchen when he heard the strangest sounds. A loud scuffle and banging and shout-singing. Deborah opened the front door and... carol singers! They were trying to drag the couch off the porch or at least to pull some boots out from under a cushion. It turns out that Polly had wanted a rest and had sat down when really she should have been singing with gusto. The couch had still been feeling a bit peckish and had nibbled her bum. She had obviously tasted quite nice because the next thing she knew was that she had become tangled in the springs and bones. Dan thought he should at least make a bit of money through the loss of one of his singers and started rattling his tin but all he ended up getting was a full card of forged Morrison's stamps (Without an M) (These really are getting forged...we know 'cos ours were checked yesterday) By the time the rest of the ladies gathered at the bottom of the stairs Dan and his group had elbowed their way into the hall and refused to leave.

Donna had found a spell left over from Halloween and, after a quick chat with Val, it was decided to have a go at building a portal. Donna and Fiona read through the instructions and started measuring up the downstairs loo. Val was handing round eggnog with squash for those who arrived on broomsticks. When Donna and Fiona slipped back into the hall the portal puddle opened. Now all that was needed was to simply wait until the copious amounts of eggnog and juice did their job and the requests to use the 'powder room'.... the two witches queued  outside whilst Gary went in. The door creaked open again.. the loo was empty. oh well.. Petra, who was so skinny that Kevin had seen more meat on a Butcher's pencil went on in whilst Cathy went back to see if the snakes needed 'to go'. She collected them and the rats and went back to the empty room. She stepped inside and locked the door. Once again the door opened and in went Kitty. Now there were more singers in the loo than were in the living room. When the door opened after the final 'visitor' Kevin took a photo of the full portal and placed a notice on the door just to remind him not to enter till the spell wore off...



Thanks to our Creative Guest Sue for a brilliant story to get us this far to through Creepmas! We hope you all remember this month's challenge runs until the very last day of  the month and year! even though we will be partying at the house and might not notice you dropping your entries off!  And don't forget to come see us on January 1st...we have heard whispers in the fog of some awesomeness to come!

Happy Holidays from the Dream in Darkness Creative Team to you and yours!!

Of Snowmen and Seasons and Sue's Chapter 11

CT Anne here filled with Creepmas Spirit and the house is strangely quiet!  But will worry about that tomorrow....I was inspired by the pictures, but too busy to take Derryn Mentock's "Merry Men of Christmas" online class currently on.  I shared the link, and it became a springboard for some friends to make & swap our own.  So I started "conventional", and the snowmen evolved from these, hung amongst a crop of a traditional Christmas food - fresh cherries. Yummmm, they're sure happy to be in the shade with such sweet treats in their grasp:

 Then I got bolder: Under the raspberries, this snowman is wielding a bat in one arm, and a cat in the other

And in the glow of sunset they all gather for a bbq

Perhaps these snowmen are more worthy of turning up in this blog:

They decided it was a nice evening to go surfing at the beach

 I think this chappy needs to apply sunscreen first, blood just doesn't cover it!  Though I'm sure he'll deny it's blood - merely fresh raspberry juice!

The Laughing Buddha is a familiar "face" - why does he laugh?  Well wouldn't you with two dancing girls hanging onto your... I turned a shot glass upside down, glued fluff around the base, carved a flat spot on the polystyrene ball to take the buddha bead, then overpainted all with white gesso... strings of silver sequins dangle down, sprays of crinkle wire go up.  Mirror mosaic squares round the base.  And it's quite a sparkly piece.  The jar to the right turned out a bit of a challenge as the skull didn't really fit the opening, and instead of polystyrene, had a hollow harder plastic with glitter all over.

The jar I attached this skull into can balance on its side:

Not scary, but a bit of a worry all the same - a Steampunk Snowman.  What will the salt water do to all his Metallica?

 This was a salt/pepper shaker, with the sprinkler top discarded, and glitter glue added up the spiralling indents  A tinsel pipe cleaner is a neat scarf.

All very odd and believable, but did you notice Evil Froggie hanging out with one?

In fact he's swinging off this chappy's rhinestone scarf.  Should Nan be afraid?  I gouged eyes and mouth out of the polystyrene ball, painted the hollows black then interference green in the eye sockets, interference orange in the mouth.  The rest of the ball is Jacquard Lumiere silver over a coat of Golden's Clear Granular gel.

So, what do you think of my growing collection of weirdos gathering round my Christmas trees?  Bet they would stress Applejack Sue's Kevin, no end.

Supplies:

Golden have a fantastic product, Pearl Mica Flake.  Instant brilliant glitter WITH dimension.  Little dabs for snow build-up, coating balls for snowman heads - there's not one character here without it.

A lot of the baubles & trinkets come from Silver Crow Creations - wee tree, mushrooms, the green coca cola bottle, cat & bat were cocktail toothpicks once, ballerinas, ming pine tree, crinkle wire, spider...

These snowmen are great stash-busters with scraps of lace, ribbon, fluff, die cuts, etc - just have fun, and work through to your dark side with them.!

And who else to pair with these snowmen?  Why Sue's tale of Kevin and a whole house full!

It certainly had been an eventful week. Deborah managed to get connected to Kevin's Bloodbook  page and posted the message about a deadly Tinselitus outbreak in the area and the quarantine  orders. Hopefully it would prevent any more guests just turning up. Nan went through to the kitchen taking care not to squelch any of the finger rolls. Squiddy and Deborah collected Reg's eyeball ready for the afternoon game of cricket. Kevin was preparing lunch with Val's help. Those crunchy bone sandwiches which really tasted just like peanutbutter and tombstone crackers and knees. There was the problem that Fifi had used the same knife that she had used to scrape the zombie kid's flakes of skin off the floor. Now they didn't know if they were looking at finely sliced cheddar or bits of the kids..There was a slithery sloopy sort of noise coming from the fireplace. A sucking sound rather like the sound wellies make when they walk through sewers. Something rather nasty was dripping onto the fire grate. Slow and stinky...  and Ploop! It landed on the hearth. Just because it had a Santa hat didn't make it Santa and certainly didn't make it a welcome newcommer. It slythered over to the coffee table and took a mincepie IN EACH HAND!!! Enough!!

The ladies worked together. Fiona started to charm the creature by juggling party hats then threw the biggest mincepie, distracting him as Deborah ran to the toilet and collected the Reindeer loo rolls. She tied one end to a table and dipped and jumped as she wrapped the roll around some of the tentacles. Val was hitting him with the empty sherry bottles (making sure that they were empty first...) Nan and Leigh managed to position the couch as Susan leapt onto the creatures back, riding him straight up and over.. she jumped off just in time as the couch opened it's cushions and SNAP!! A bit of a chew, a rather loud burp and unfortunately a quite nasty, smelly..... you know what..... and all was quiet.     

**credits: https://www.zibbet.com/rick1949/i-am-too-santa-digi-stamp
https://www.zibbet.com/rick1949/creepy-mantle-si-creepmas-digi-stamp
Background Alchemist for Mischief Circus
Mincepies from Christmas Bundle for Mischief Circus**

And we thought we had house problems with that Frog!  Oh dear me!  And why is the house so quiet I wonder?  Granne was here two days ago, Nan was last here days ago, and Kim?  If you are writing Santa please ask him to return our missing team members!  Kim was hitting the nog hard and ....... ?  Entries please as we are much too worried to hassle you about them!

Someone's been sleeping in MY spoon!

And it's still there!

With hand curved comfortably over a full tummy. (Probably still full of Thanksgiving Turkey as well as Christmas cake)

If you're wondering, those are black mica flakes and very tiny gold beads masquerading as... food?

And his headdress is made from peacock and chook feathers.

Asleep in the spoon, is this a weird being?

The tiki is light green Opals (utee) melted in a silicon mold from Krafty Lady in Australia, 

The black mica flakes and flower stamens came from Silver Crow Creations

And yes, that IS the bowl of a spoon he's nestled into.

I took part in a spoon-doll swap last month.  This fellow I sent off, and below is the one I received.  On a fine day in the sun, she's a slightly vague oldish ... Goldilocks?  Surely not!!!  At night... well let's just say I wouldn't be surprised if in fact it was Little Red Riding Hood's Grandma... after the wolf took her over?  "Oooh Grandma, what huge wings you've grown"... "All the better to use up that leftover resin, my dear"

Freaky Creepmas, my friends, CT Anne!

Another chapter of Sue's story!  How many of you are enjoying this story?  Wow!  That is a lot of "Yeahs"!!!  So here we go! 

Another flamin' knock at the bloomin' door. Kevin really just couldn't be bothered to open it so just yelled COME IN! The door swung open and there stood a chap with candles on his head.......    Terry felt immediately at home. No-one ever actually invited him to parties but he was always made welcome at Birthday parties... but just 8year old's Birthday parties. It didn't really make a difference that he hadn't actually been invited to this one. He had read about it on Bloodbook and thought it would be nice to catch up on all the news after Nan's rescue of the lake fishes. Suddenly there was the biggest... CRASH! The zombie kids had broken Fifi's water bowl. The tree had toppled over and was crushing the presents which finally burst their boxes and lay there.. no longer moving. Reg (The tree) had a fixed snarl where his mouth should be and a glazed eyeball hanging out. His reign of terror was over and Nan and Donna dragged him through the mayhem of what once was the kitchen and out the back door. They managed to get him as far as the outside loo and bundled him under a bush to be dealt with after Creepmas. They then nipped round to the front of the house and let themselves in. Sharon was shouting in the kitchen and the remaining fingers were walking all by themselves over the blood splattered kitchen floor. Val was trying to keep Lucy away from the sherry which didn't make much difference as Lucy had already done the rounds of the living room slurping up any drinks that had been left just lying around. Squiddy managed to climb in through the kitchen window (after Sharon had locked the back door) and hit the ground running.. she scooped up fingers as she crouched, taking the corner of the dining room like she was on wheels.

https://www.zibbet.com/rick1949/mr-shadows-digi-stamp

Background Mischief Circus

Come join the fun at Dream in Darkness for the Creepmas season with your entries!

We are waiting for you.......

Guess Who???

CT Nan here with some unexpected news for us at the house and Sue and Kevin!  We opened the door to this:

Yep, it is Joe, Reg the Christmas biting trees, 2nd cousin,  He is well over 8 feet tall at least that was the longest measuring stick he had so who knows? and loooooves Creepmas so much Rick St. Dennis, when doing his portrait for him, named him "Is It Creepmas Yet?"!  He is looking for Kevin's place but for know is bunking with the Frog and that is not going over well at all!  Reg makes sure he is always accompanied by Bubba and Ping, the skulls, on all his travels and of course his best bud, Norville. So that is 4 guests and an evil Frog in one room or basement.  The noises are horrid and we have secretly locked the door and nailed boards across it until we can get rid of the poor dear!

Sue has another thrilling chapter ready for us ( we are not sure how she will take this news! eek!) but here we go with Sue!

There was a knock on the door, then another and another. Kevin wondered what would happen if he didn't open it. He is a polite Elf so he and Fifi flung open the door and there... three children. Something wasn't quite right. They weren't singing or handing over cookies. They just grunted 'appy Creepmas' and shuffled in wafting a bit of a strange aroma and a trail of skin flakes as they passed by Kevin. Fifi's whiskers twitched as she started hoovering up the flakes without a hoover if you know what I mean. Urgh!

Kevin knew that it wouldn't be a good idea to have the kids in the kitchen with Sharon as last time they met they freaked her out by following her everywhere she went... whispering mummy.. mummy.. mummmmyyyy.... so Leigh helped Kevin shoo them up to the attic playroom where it wouldn't show if anything dropped off them. Anyway a ghost cat lived up there and would sound the alarm if the kids started to go downstairs before Kevin was able to get rid of Sharon.

There was a Tap tap de tap tap.. tap tap on the door. Someone obviously thought they had come to a speak-easy and there was a code knock to be completed. Kevin stomped down the stairs passing another sherry to Lucy as he passed the living room. Best keep her sozzled, she was quieter that way.

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Don't forget we are having a challenge still even though we are having this huge party so get your entries in for some RSD digital images for the winner!   And make sure to visit his super store at Zibbet, just follow the link on his name above and look at the awesome huge variety of digital images available!  Last challenge of the year and first ever last challenge of the year for us! so come help us ring out the old loudly and creepily and considerably oddly! 

Jump through HERE to enter!

Time for some Creepmas with Rick St. Dennis

Merry Creepmas, all you fabulous peeps!  

We are celebrating a bunch of things this go round: we have back to sponsor us the awesome Rick St. Dennis (AWESOME SALE!!! going on now run do not walk!) who has well over a thousand digis at his Zibbet Super Store! with his wonderful abundant Creepmas digis and we have made it to the end of the year in one piece!  

And then there is Creepmas, itself, to celebrate and we will be doing so up until December 23rd  so keep visiting  us for all the fun!  Plus, we will be having a contest to see who can leave a comment on our blog every other day (that will be odd days) until the 23rd of this month.  Then all names will be put in good old random org. and one winner will receive some lovely rubber stamps!  

Plussssss, yes there is more! We have a very special Guest Creative that has agreed to provide some wonderful warm Creepmas storytime every odd day to December 23rd! You may already know and love dear Applejack Sue from 31 Days of Halloween! Whooo hoo, Sue is back with a Creepmas tale to share, you can find the fist chapter below. Please do hop over to her blog to visit too, share the love :)

Now enough chatter, here are the team's holiday spirit at its best :)  To start us off CT Anne has given us only this much today!  "All through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a .... mouse??? EEEEEK!!! It's a RATTTT!!!!!!!!"

"Caustic Rattflynger" part of some beauties on this....teased you enough? Muwahahaha!

For the rest of the Creepmas show come back on the 3rd and make sure to comment on every odd day through the 23rd!

CT Granne has a two-parter for you, too!  Here are the first teases ;)

 From this to.......

 "Christmas Early Thaw" digi from Rick, he must have seen some angry thawing snowmen!  EEK!

 

"Godarkly Crumbcake" yummily frightful!

 Don't miss tomorrow for the other many sides to this awesome piece!

 CT Nan has a heartbreaking tale "The Troubles of Mrs. Claus".  It seems she has "caught" a bug..and it is progressing quiet rapidly doing a great deal of damage to the poor dear plus she has always had the FaLaLaLa Choir to sing Santa off for his ride but her head is splitting (literally)!  So to say she is not happy is an under statement....we will see how she fairs.

Using "Mrs. Claus Zombie" and "2012 Fah Lah La This Carolers"

CT Kim is getting the party started!

"Creepmas Nerd BeNder"

So to recap the important stuff:  comment every other day (odd days) through the 23rd and you will be entered to win this rubber stamp kindly donated by CT Anne:

 AND if you comment on every post ( that means even an even day's post lol!) we make through the 23rd we will throw your name in twice!  Next, the really, really important one....show us your Creepmas makes or any makes that fit our weird, oddities, dark, etc. rules and keep that blasted frog happy!  Now I am off to put the rats and bones on the tree as we are decorating so see you tomorrow for CT Granne's  finale of her tale!

Drumroll please......our special Guest Creative, Sue!!

Chapter 1 

Kevin had survived Halloween. Fifi had finally dried her fur and of course it had gone frizzy. Betty who lived in Kevin's pocket had come off worse. She died the day Kevin was rescued from the lake. One of the ghouls was a part time taxidermist and he treated and stuffed Betty and arranged her in an almost natural position and stitched her into Kevin's front pocket. Kevin was feeling festive. He strung Creepmas lights outside his house underneath the bats. The bats were quite annoyed at this but stayed where they were after Kevin had tied their legs to the wires which held the lights in place. In fact.. the waving of their wings lent a somewhat cozy look to the place. It was agreed amongst the animals of the lake that a party should be held at Kevin's Pit.. of course no-one thought to ask Kevin if he minded. Kevin had just settled down to watch Dragons Den.. one contestant had just been barbequed and another was waiting to see if he had answered correctly when there was a loud knock on the door...

Image credits Snakes and Rats, Autumn Window and Skulls and door by Rick St Dennis, MFA. Background various elements by Mischief Circus and Scrapper's Delights.

Please come back on the 3rd for more of this Creepmas Tale.

Creepmas Froggy offerings can be linked below.

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