September 1 - First Day of Spring

So let's have a sunny day, and a magical forest where flu turns to bronchitis, and the bronchial inmates warp these trees as an "art technique" called bonsai.

Looks quite pretty by day, but tonight... these trees are walkin' to a different part of town.

Alas, poor Asylum Anne has stepped into a different darkness, engendered by crazy installations incorporating white fluids, bodily fluids, scungy rags, strange smells and places of rectal torture!

Hopefully she will be back in her own home soon, and able to mess with more congenial supplies soon.

EEEEKKK! Poor Anne, I wish her speedy trip back home

and strength with all the green stuff - inside and outside 

the house...

It might be spring down under, but it certainly starts

feeling like Autumn here up north. 

No more light nights, now it's time for a moon lights

and dark and darker and darker...

I saw this saying somewhere in the web,

and it stayed in my head

Full Moon Mood

Clown stamps are from a happy mail far far away,

and all the rest of the stamps are from

The Blank Page Muse Stamps,

like this and these.

Little paint, inks, embossing and lots of Gansai Tampi 

shining colors.

This month I made a digital canvas to share.

The Lady in the Lake


So Happy Spring!! hehehe
From all of us, thanks so much for hopping over each month to check out what's going on in these odd brains  during these weird days we find ourselves in!

C'mon back and share some eye & mind candy with us won't you?  BECAUSE ANNE IS SCRAPING THE ASYLUM FOR SOMETHING SPECIAL TO PASS ON!
Linky is below:

An InLinkz Link-up

Ancestral DNA search

So, Asylum Anne has been indulging in some psych "research" looking into the past.  So far her closetted family tree has revealed these characters:

Anne has rarely managed to get an ATC details back stamped evenly on an ATC, so she is delighted that these ATC coin back stamps from Blank Page Muse as slrightly smaller, giving a chance to cut out with a ragged pair of scissors, ink the edges and still fit the coin's back.

Blank Page Muse for Coin backs, moon, witches

Vivalasvegas for devil, biker bear 

Yes yepp yup sorry so late but yeah...July 2018 Winner's Post! (Finally!!!!)

Stretch the ribbon across the finish line...it's a photo finish and by a whisker the 

Winner of the July 2018 Challenge is...

#5 Ionabunny with her creepy and oh so true De-Caff Cat!

Email me at dreamindarknessblog@gmail dot com with your info 

so I can mail out your winnings! Congrats!!

Engraving Art

I was visiting a craft store and I saw these 

Engraving Art thinkys there...

My kids has done these sometime, when they

were younger, but I never tried one.

So I thought why not, ;=D

So I bought one and scratched it a while:

and matted it with a golden cardstock

and made it a card, don't think this scratching will be my 

thing to do, but hey, now I know, LOL.

Let us see what you've been doing (not the cuties thought),

by linking your art HERE, for a change to win these fab

FinnStamper stamps.

August already? For pity's sake where on Earth did July go???!?!?!?!?

This morning in my garden I saw

No wonder I haven't seen any butterflies, these guys must

have EATEN all the colorful and lovely species...

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Meantime, Asylum Anne has been empathising with those stuck in darkness for days on end and created a "Commemorative Bottle" that, now monsoon is upon them, may well have floated out of the Tham Luang cave system with a sadder outcome..

Tar gel and alcohol inks drizzled inside, stamps from Rubber Dance fishy sets  on the outside.

The fragile mesh of life, and the glow-in-dark thread of the rescuers guide ropes.  People glued at intervals to the mesh right down to the bottom of the bottle, where a skull represents the Thai navy seal that died.
Outside embellished with paper, embossing powder, crackle medium, shells etc

 Text "Thai caving" around the top

 Safety helmets & bling for the rescuers bringing them back into lightness

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These FinnStamper clear stamps might be flying on 

your way if the you link your art down below,

it's anything goes - but not the cuties.

An InLinkz Link-up

Are you on the map??

What a wonderful, awesome, brilliant

happy mail I got from over seas..

Just HAD to get inking right away.

These ATCoins backs are absolutely perfect,

and these guys are very cool indeed (and they came

in two sizes).

so stamps are available at Blank Page Muse

and the background paper and sentiments 

are from Gecko Galz.

Wanna have these great red rubber stamps from Blank Page Muse? 

There's a change to WIN, 

and the way is link your art HERE

July 1 or Where did June go!!

Welcome to the latest New Month.  Congratulations to Granne for holding the fort while Kim tosses scorpions out of her suitcases, and Asylum Anne  ... sought asylum in work, and *shock* *horror!* OTHER crafts!!!

Well, Anne is back, and taking liberties yet again with a stamp company's blog challenge theme, "Let's Go To The Beach" over at Blank Page Muse.  Since it's midwinter for her, the idea of a beach might be a darn sight safer than trying to sail off the beach.  Don't Emerald Creek/Seth Apter's Baked Textures do Cthulhu proud! No wonder Anne is scrambling for a beach, any beach. He has her vessel firmly in his grip, and is dragging it down under the waves.

Already people have fallen and been trapped by seaweed and tentacles

The highly-textured flotsam is tyvek painted, pleated and heated.

All stamps from Blank Page Muse (formerly Sin City Stamps).

Steampunk Octopus frame from Creative Embellishments.

Tiny people from Silver Crow Creations.

Well thank you Anne for your kind words and WOW what a

fabulous beach piece you have created for our inspiration.

I felt like coloring and grabbed a big stamp

for that, and Inktense pens.

Bold sentiment is from Katzelkraft, stamped on vellum.


HelloHello

I am still cleaning up those scorpions...Asylum Anne denies anything to do with that... the dynamic duo above has certainly raised the bar super high! So (again) I am ducking out and hope to be back later with a treat to share...I try I really do!

But for this month how about some stamps for a treat for you??
Well you gotta play along to be in it to win it!

Link up whatever suits you this month you have a short 30-ish days to get your arty groove going, let's go! We do ask, please minimize the cute, however, a teeny bit o' pink may be tolerated in special circumstances!!

The prize this month to one fabulous arty soul...

A set of our newest at Blank Page Muse, stamps for the backside of your art coins!

A crazy hybrid Bird-Man

A gentle-winged-man

The only catch is you have to link up a new arty project below...

An InLinkz Link-up