Sketchy ladies and the WINNER

Hi there!

I'm back from my holidays and of course wanted to do some

crafting ASAP. So I took what was on my table and made some ATC's

Using watercolor (and salt) background,

images from Gecko Galz and sentiment from TH.

AND now the happy news,

we have reached the 40 links and that means it's time

for a prize among 21-40 entries, YEY!!

And the fab prize is this cool set of stamps and dies:

 

       So with no further writing;

the winner is

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Drea with the entry #28

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

kindly email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com 

to arrange sending you your prize!

And what's coming next?

Among the entries 41-60 there will be some

lucky artist to receive this fab prize:

so link up there --->

your awesome art, we'll love to come and see

... but this mouth ...and the WINNER

I've been having a bit off a creative lock,

and I thought, why reach for the moon to break it,

so here's a simple ATC to get my fingers 

going again:

Using embossing powder, Visible image stamp

and Holtz sentiment, :=)

Yay!

I saw that it's time for a first winner of 2019!

That is awesome!!

The winner of this great stamp

is

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Vivian Foo, congratulations!!!

kindly email us at dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com 

to arrange sending you your prize!

And now, hmmm, what's up for our

next fab winner, when 40 entries are in our linky.

(found in the right side column of the blog)

This is what will be the price:

Stamps

AND dies to match

Cool, ehh? So do link your art

for us (and others) to see, :=D

Time for October's Winner!

Thanks again for all the participation last month; we all saw and appreciated and were inspired by all the fantastic projects entered! 

And now without delay the winner is

#40 Fright Night with a super freaky clown, eeek!
Leslie

Congratulations! 

Please email us your mailing info to  dreamindarknessblog@gmail.com
    with the information to receive your winnings!

CT Nan here with a delayed reveal of the outside of my book of potions and goodies all painted up with Grumbacher Max water mixables oil paints.  I stamped Tim Holtz's Halloween set with white ink that let some of the dark red paint seep through it in places.  A book binding from some Halloween paper and a vintage digital image from my Etsy store.  I added some Derwent water color pencils then went over them with a wet paint brush to the edges of the paper and the image.

 

 Please forgive the pink watermark, dear CT Anne! I have temporarily lost my white watermark...honest!  Please get those entries in for some fabulous Grumbacher Max water mixable oil paints and a secret happy!  The winner of November and December will receive winnings from Grumbacher, our fabulous sponsor this month!

Link Up with the Frogster HERE and share your wicked makes!

The Finale is Here!

Sob! It is a happy time as we have found CT Anne, Evil Froggie, and it is Halloween!!  But, alas, it also is the end of the 31 Days of Halloween for 2016!  How we shall miss seeing all the faboolous makes this wonderful event brings!  Just remember, at Dream in Darkness we are the home of Halloween ALL year long....it never really ends!  So dry your tears and start thinking how you can creep, weird, odd, plain old mess up Thanksgiving projects!  Here we go with our last makes for the event but never our last makes for Halloween!  NEVER!!

CT Anne says Hooray!!!!  She has corrupted her teamies over the pink issue, or worn them down, made them use up all the pink in their stash, got it all out of their system - see, Nan can barely produce a digital pink watermark MWAHAHAHAHA!!!

I don't know if I'm thick-skinned or thin-skinned, but I do know that I need something to protect my fabulously awesomely inventive brain from the Slings And Shafts of Life, and this is something like what you'd find twixt skin & brain... bone!

Even DH got a bit of a fright when he came home from work to be met by this apparition!  But he still likes it - bless him :)  And my dentist says there's nothing wrong with my teeth apart from a few aged fillings 

(as he hands me a bill for $583 for replacing just one!)

The papier mache skull is from Silver Crow Creations.  It sucks up and holds black gesso then paint much better than a plastic skull. They also have the centre headpiece "wings" which colour up well with alcohol inks, or rub n buff, or any paint really.  The jewellery came from 16kg  in a banana box I acquired very very cheaply some years back.  A lot of it was earrings, with many duplicates, so the stalk for pierced ears pokes through the paper mache to help hold the pices on while glue dries. The mdf cupcake stand is a Kaisercraft kit- got as far as priming it with black gesso.  The crochet veil/mantilla... can't remember where the pattern came from, but the handiwork is all moi

The painting techniques came from various online classes (and 2 books) 

from Michael deMeng including his currently-running Skullduggery class. 

I've edited the photo to exaggerate the colouring.

And the test tube... is for catching all the ideas that 

still keep dripping out of my brain moi-mwahahaha

CT Kim has this...

"FIN"...

or is it?

MDF Skull to Celebrate the Day of the Dead...layered up with more DecoArt treats!

CT Granne has modest offer of a card, using mainly DI's and Tim Holtz stamps and dies.

Well, there was a stencil, few other stamps and fabric tape together

with torned piece of paper involved also...

Happy Halloween!!

CT Nan is ending the 31 days with a beginning?  Yes, November and December will be sponsored by the awesome Grumbacher Art!  So she has a partial reveal of the inside of a book that has a lot of Grumbacher goodness on the outside so be sure to come back tomorrow for a peek at the front!  She will also be showing some more pics of the inside of the book as November moves through with a chill in the air and the smell of paint in the house!

The book includes products by Tim Holtz, images from Mischief Circus, and some of the vintage images I have in my Etsy Store "Odditiesdigitalstamps.  If you want to grab any of these images free, just run over to my blog and download them for free!  Happy Halloween!

Remember, two months of Grumbacher fabulous products and projects and the winners of November and December will win Grumbacher products!  So get those painty hands ready and those ideas churning for a chance to be a winner!