Blood at the Opera and the music on...

What happens when you hit that Top D note?

Escaping the Asylum at the start of winter was so imperative, Anne was even willing to suffer a 10-hour then 13-hour flight to attend 2 days of Andy Skinner workshops at Lets Be Creative in Rogate - about an hour's drive south of Heathrow airport.  Except I was driving from the Fens, and the GPS decided to take me back into London instead of taking the M25 - adding 2 hours to that drive.  So my own singing could have been a little sour by the time I got there.  But Lovely Brigitte had organised a "billet" with, would you believe it, another kiwi!!!  Thank you Lois for the comfy bed, good company, I hope you still have some pineapple lumps left :) 

Below is the class we did on day 2, with plenty of Andy's new product, lava paste, in use.  I didn't dare stay to the end of the class in case of holdups somewhere along the motorways, but as it turns out the baggage queue at Heathrow was "short-staffed"  - would you believe once we barged through the queue to get our boarding passes, we then spent almost 4 hours in the queue trying to hand over our baggage, with barely time to get some nibbles before the boarding call came.

Such a sweet image, but of course once I got home to finish it off, there had to be blood and destruction - wine-glass-shattering music can have that effect, even if they are plastic, from Silver Crow Creations

So why on earth didn't I grab another flight across the channel to visit Sari while I was "in the area"???

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Ohh, why indeed!!!??? That would have been totally, absolutely brilliant!

Anne would have been very welcome to my humble hut.

So Anne made a Opera art piece, and the culture off arts

continues with music:

Sentiment from Visible Image stamp set and the skull

from La Scraposphére's range.

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So what has the summer heat made you create?

Let us see!

Looks like froggy there----->

needs just few more links and these

goodies are of to someone among entries 21-40.

... 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

When all those Bete Noirs hit at once.

You can only run to Darkness to share your Dreams...
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No matter how fast you run, you can't out-run your nightmares

Inside the box canvas, and with the hingeable chicken-wire threatening to let more beasties out to terrify you...  The laser-cut Bete Noir face on the outside has a threat on the inside too.  The skull heads are lenticular winkies - their look changes as you see them from different angles

Because the canvas was set onto (dice) feet, it can be turned around... But you'll have to pop in later this month to see more.

Silver Crow Creations have all the different sized people, skeleton, lenticular skulls, spider web dresden, ants, laser-cut Bete Noir, and "nevermore" stamp.  You'll have to google for the body parts dice - I got some many years ago from I can't track where!  There's a tiny Teesha Moore stamp in there.  The "Brain empties" is actually part of a much longer phrase from Mad Rat.

If this has touched a nerve, add your creArted response to this month's challenge

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Ohh, wow, Anne did hit the nerve alright, fabulous pieces: 

total eye candy, don't you think?

So it's Granne here making her very first MOO's ever.

Ok, so I "cheated" a bit, I stapled two moo's together, 

so I got more space to stamp on....

anyways, such a tiny thingys these moo's 

- will be doing more, LOL

~and CT Kim will be back soon~ maybe..... :P I might get lost looking up moo's....

Don't let the Frogster get ahold of them thar super wonderlicious moos!

An InLinkz Link-up

Night out with Rubber Dance and chippies

From Anne's amazing "Blue light District",

it's time to move on to a Party District

and have a night of the nights...

GROO - OOVY!!!!

Silhouette is a chippie and all the colors are from DI ink pads.

Stamps from our fabulous sponsor, RUBBER DANCE:

background here and sentiment here.

Same background stamp combined with inks, melted crayon, 

chippie, glossy and sentiment from Visible Image.

Join the party and link your alternative, dark, weird, digital, hybrid, mixed media - anything but cute makes HERE

for a change to win some brilliant rubber from our magnificent sponsor

who is - by the way - giving free shipping to DiD players 

all over world ( code to use is: DiD6716 )

YEAH, BABY, YEAH!

Day 17 31 Days of Halloween~EyeFly Postcard

Welcome to Day 17 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 :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

"EyeFly" Postcard sized canvas, mixed media.

The background is layered with various acrylic paints, DecoArt Media Misters and some stamping using the Chicken Wire stamp by Unity and some splats by Visible Image. I love the eye creature by Viva Las Vegas Stamps! Such an odd stamp to have a great play with, it is heat embossed in black to help it POP!

Happy Hoppin'!

~CT kim

Day 16 31 Days of Halloween~Skull Moon ATC

Welcome to Day 16 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 :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

My ATC for today, Lost Coast Designs Crow, wicked ATC Skull Lace stamp by Smeared Ink and some Visible Image clear embossed on the background.

Happy Hauntings!

~CT kim

Day 4 31 Days of Halloween~Hell's Garden Postcard Canvas

Welcome to Day 4 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 :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

"Hell's Garden" postcard sized canvas.

Today I used ink splat stamps by Visible Image and an awesome skull butterfly by Carmen's Veranda

The winged are colored using Distress Ink.

The ink splats are clear embossed over a Distress Ink background.

Have a fantastic day hoppin'!

~kim

Day 2 31 Days of Halloween~Crazy Bat Art Tag

Welcome to Day 2 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 :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

This is my tag. It is colored with Distress Inks. The wicked Bat is a stamp by Stampendous, the fence is Viva Las Vegas Stamps, Spooky is Hampton Arts and the dead tree is Visible Image. I heat embossed the bat, sentiment and fence with Ranger Super Fine EP, black.

Carry on with the creepy hop and leave some comment love along the way!

See you tomorrow!
~kim