Scattered minds

1 May is always the start of the Duck Shooting season.  The guys (and girls and kids) are out before dawn in their maimais, ready to take pot shots.  This year it is delayed at least a week. Damn that virus!!!  Being in Lockdown yet working fulltime (from home) also leaves me as scattered as the autumnal leaves gracing our yards.  So how about some little bits and pieces of art:

THE VIRUS ITSELF,

as depicted in so many news pieces:

 I was browsing through a drawer of MDF pieces for something else.  These hollow-centered drip-like not-cogs struck me as being perfect to represent the virus shape we see in all the news pieces, along with some blobs of flowersoft.  People are trapped in their bubble (ie glued behind a large glass cabochon, which fit over the centre hole).  The company making the mdf cutouts (Things to Alter) is no longer in existence.

Stuck in our Corona-virus bubble, almost 5 weeks Level 4 lockdown, now part-way through 2 (+?) weeks at level 3, hairdressers still are not allowed to open.  Now,

Every Day Is  A Bad Hair Day

Mercy!  Please!!!

I thought I knew who created Zombie Chicken stamp, but can't trace it.  ATC card, stencilled, and again can't identify the covid-shape little stamp either :(  Never mind, I need those scissors!!!

The final piece uses an MDF winged skull shape from Paper Whimsy

It's amazing the bubbly texture you can get from using a heat gun on Jacquard Lumiere paints.
Don't you think Asylum Anne has bubble-prisons on her mind?

We have a reward for the "best" dark piece you share with us on the right.  When entries reach #40, we will be choosing our favourite between numbers 21-40.
So keep expressing your darkest dreams with us all - they deserve to be aired!

Revenge of the Pandas

Day 25 of Covid-19 Level 4 Lockdown, and it feels as if all the Zoos in the world have turned the tables on us.  We are the ones caged, locked up, no longer free to roam (except one by one to a supermarket).

Another 8x8 fat page, stamping on a "scrapbooking" sheet of paper that depicts the sandy shores at waves' edge that we can no longer wander along:

Border stamps from Seth Apter
Gates from the late lamented Third Coast (Third Stone)
Giraffe & Lion by Rubber Dance
AUD tiger and elephant by Lost Coast Designs
small heads, triply-stamped "Kiss my Butt" and otter (?) from viva las vegas stamps
Bat-owl from Stampendous
Did you notice?  No Pandas were caught on this page, but the Serengeti is well represented.
Keep sharing your darkness with us on the right.

What the ...

We had such a nice sunny

spring going on... and now

it's been snowing AND shining

for two days, you never know what's

the weather is like when you look outside.

So

 says pretty much what I'm feeling, LOL

And what's up with you?

What kind of art are you creating?

Let us see and link there ---->>>>

Hello old Friend

Gecko Galz started to have daily challenges

at their blog last month. Every day is a new theme

and if you enter the daily challenge, you'll

get a sheet of great pictures to play with

Today's theme was "Dark Dreams" 

and I entered the challenge twice

with this ATC

Both images and sentiment is from GG.

and also with this card

where I used the images I got from today's freebie sheet.

Let us see what you have been creating,

I believe there is some happy mail coming

to someone from other side of the world when our

froggy has got 40 links there --->>>>

Tumbleweeds

As the Covid-19 gets blown around a deserted world, like tumbleweeds in the desert, scientists still ponder the origin, and notice the positive side effects.

I had a lightly patterned piece of paper I didn't like, with a daisy  or sunflower in one corner.
There are bats from Smeared Ink (in recess), vivalasvegas stamps are responsible for the 3-skull bat, the cowboy-fence scene, the cowboy leading a horse (subtly altered text).  Bats were easy, I have many many batty stamps.  But not one pangolin.  So I took liberties and used Butter Side Down's Hylaeosaurus and Lost Coast Designs AUD mouse.  Both of them have scaly torsos, and a sort-of ant-eaterish snout.
And don't Seth Apter's spotlight stamps from Impression Obsession make marvellous virus-like shapes as a border.
This is an 8"x8" fat page, but as I've no idea how I will end up binding them, there is an extra half-inch at the left that will disappear into the binding process.  Over the past month I have been creating a few covid-19 related fat pages and posted in facebook - click along from here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2805376092884498&set=a.2732369566851818&type=3&theater

And if your dark side is coming out in your art, share it on the right, with a 1 in 20 chance of a prize.
Stay healthy everyone.

Hippitty Hoppitty

Hippity Hoppity, 

this is a time for a bunnies and chicks.

So I made a few ATC's on the

spring theme but with the DiD twist

Inked ans stamped packgrounds,

Octopode Factory digistamp, colored with Copics,

sentiment from VLV .

So Hippitty Hoppitty get out of ...

Be well and stay safe.

Winner(s), winner(s)

So, it's early spring time and sun has

been seen again in these Northern parts of Earth.

Time to do some spring cleaning
(=dig in to my box of scraps)
and enjoy the bright colors

See? Bright indeed, lol.

Stamp is from Blank Page Muse,

colored with Copics.

And now of we go to a fun winning part:

Sadly Paula has not contacted us yet,

so here'e a shout out PAULAAAAAA!

Your entry number 95 

has won 

this awesome skeleton stamp from CT member Anne

So Paula, please contact

us : dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com

and tell where to send this great stamp.

AND we have full 20 entries for this year

and that means we have a NEW winner

and that's is

*

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Sari K, entry number 10

this totally dark, cool and beautiful

Art Journal spread

and she has won this cool die

Sari K. please contact us:

dreamindarknessblog (at) gmail dot com

to get your die.