Special Challenge Month at Dream in Darkness with Sin City Stamps!

What an awesome month this is going to be!  Our own CT Kim is the new owner of Sin City Stamps!!  And to celebrate we are all using Sin City Stamps for the whole month of March!  And that means there will be Sin City Stamps for a prize!  Here is my fun yet darkish make for this month!

This started out as one of my catch all sheets and was a fabulous blue shimmer and green and lots of white spaces.  I took some watercolors and made the light side lighter and the dark side a bit darker.  I wanted to show the ups and downs of Las Vegas with the dark and light sides.  I used every stamp in on the sheet Las Vegas Fun! and what fun it was stamping some on the actual journal page and some on white cardstock that I colored and fussy cut out.  I glued the winning hand and the big cash (which is glued on top of actual shredded money from SilverCrow Creations sent to me by CT Anne) and on the loosing side a small stack of cash and small amount of shreds of cash.  Lots of color play and embossing on Grumbacher modeling paste which turned out fabulously!

I hope you will visit Dream in Darkness Challenge Blog and enter your odd, weird, dark, steampunk, in any media form this month!  And please go to Sin City Stamps and check out all the fabulous stamps Kim has ready for you to order and have in hand to create!

We also have a Sin City Stamps Fan Club on Facebook that we would love to have you join!  We just had two wonderful weekends and gave a ton of stamps away!  Surprise giveaways will happen all the time so make sure you join!

So two things!  Enter at Dream in Darkness and visit and buy something from Sin City Stamps OH! and join our the Sin City Stamps Fan Group on Facebook!

Time for a Drink

It is time for the December challenge at Dream in Darkness where it is Halloween all the time and the theme is "Anything Goes".  Grumbacher Art is our sponsor again this month and we are having a blast playing with all the goodies they sent us to work with plus some for the winner of this month to play with also!  I used Grumbacher acrylic paints and gesso on a black canvas.  This canvas was inspired by the Art Sherpa on Youtube who does live, real time videos on beginning painting tutorials.  She was celebrating the reboot of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and I was sooooo in love with it!  So here is my humble attempt at some fabulous, lip biting lips!

I wonder how long it has been since this lovelie has fed?  She looks absolutely famished and must be looking at something totally divine to snack upon!  Here's hoping she finds that snack before running into you or me.....watch those dark alleys I would suggest!

Come bring us your weird, dark, odd, anything but CUTE we just can't have our Evil Froggy seeing cute which makes him see red then we have to deal with a petulant frog for a whole month!

See you at Dream in Darkness good luck on winning some Grumbacher!

Celebrating Summer at Dragons Lair Designs

Love the "Seaside Retreat" collection from Dragons Lair Designs Store!  So pretty and so many elements to use in mixed media projects, too!  This is another digital layout using another of my dad's pictures from Alabama.  The colors are so gorgeous; the sea breeze is blowing through my hair :)  This kit is perfect for saving all those fun summer memories of the kids while they swim and slip and slide through summer.  Busy moms can go completely digital and pop the pics right into the elements; then type up the details of the day.  Or you can print out all or some of the elements and go hybrid or traditional scrapbooking.  We have something for everyone to fit everyone's schedule!

• Dragons Lair Designs Store - A fantastic range of digital downloads
• Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog - Bookmark us and come back regularly for inspiration
• Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog - Challenges starting the 1st Friday of every month with different themes, please come along and take part
• Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group - Even more inspiration, challenges, freebies and fun activities
• Dragons Lair Designs Facebook Page - Please do pop over and "Like" our page
• Dragons Lair Designs Etsy Store  - Another location to get hold of our range of digital downloads
• Janette Padley's Creations on craftsUprint - Yet another location to get hold of our digital downloads
• Dragons Lair Designs Crafts Group - selling buttons and bits and bobs

We'd love to have you join us in our Fan Group and post up some pictures of any creations you make using any DLD items.

Check out our challenge blog and play along!

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A Beachy Christmas in July

My favorite theme is of course anything to do with the beach!  And the brand new Go Tag Thursday Challenge #3 is "Going Dotty" and the theme at the Rubber Dance Blog Challenge is a palette of beach colors for Christmas in July so color me dotty and happy :)  

My waves along the shore are some designer paper with dots! and some yummy Gelato shimmer.  The lucky duck, I mean, REINDEER DOLL who is wadding almost to the edge of her dress, oh my!, is    from Carmen's Veranda Stamps.  Some snowflake die cuts embossed and a die cut doilly with some seashells collected from my beach heaven combine for that Christmas/beach feeling.  The top stamp is from Dylusions and had a lot of fab dots which I boosted a bit.  The sentiment floating in the water is from Lost Coast Designs , a set called PARTY WORDS.

I hope you will check out the Go Tag Thursday challenge blog and also have a look see at the Rubber Dance Blog challenge (and pssst! Rubber Dance Stamps is sponsoring us at Dream in Darkness this month again!) ...so much fun making this I am still grinning!

Entering Go Tag Thursday #3 Going Dotty
              Rubber Dance Blog Challenge Christmas in July

Stitchy Bear and Dream in Darkness

Thanks to StitchyBear for sponsoring our challenge at Dream in Darkness this month!  I got the fabulous "Steampunk Profile" and had started using Nuance powders for the hair when life got in the way work was halted.  To express that life turmoil I looked at steampunk with new eyes and it seemed like all the cogs and wheels expressed the pain, stress, and junk we deal with everyday more days being worse than others.  So I went mixed media with it adding some metal bits and bobs with some jewelry pieces and added a different spin by using some Grumbacher paints sent to me to test out so I only know them as Mix 1, 2, and 3.  I used the blue tri-colored textured paint with a touch of gold from the same line.  I stamped some sentiments that represent things that stress us by Viva Las Vegas Stamps and the bottom sentiment seemed to say it all :)

Please visit us this month and leave us your odd make, dark make, your weirdness supreme! for us to visit your blog and be inspired by YOU!  Also let's keep Evil Froggy happy, thanks for all the entries in January...whew!  we were really, really scared of what that frog was going to do to us!  See ya this month to leave you some love :)

There was a little Mushy House....and the end for poor Poe!

Another fab sponsor of our challenge blog, Dream in Darkness, this month is A & T Digital Designs!  We got to work with 2 designs and I loved the little "Mushy House" and all the secrets it could hold!  I went all digital with this one....wanting to imply some of those hidden secrets with the fire image of a lady from Mischief Circus Holliewood Studios "Fire 1 " kit and  wee little fellow from the new releases from the British Library that are being released and copyright free.  The quote is from a digital sheet of quotes my daughter made by Aristotle and sells in her Zibbet shop on the side bar and her Etsy store NoelBees.

This melancholy fellow must be jolly indeed and dapper too by the way he dresses but he also has a dark side as another secret revealed....He killed Edgar Allan Poe!  Look in the upstairs window! It is my new stamp "Edgar Allan Poe" (teddy bear series) from Butterside Down Stamps.  The background is also from Mischief Circus the "Happy UnBirthday" kit.   Loved working with this image and have a dual sided project planned with it later this month.  Hope you will visit  A & T Digital Designs and have a look and drop by Dream in Darkness with some odd, quirky, weird, and yes, dark makes for us to look at this month and visit your blog to leave some love!  Stay tuned for some Lost Coast Designs cool stuff and the next Mushy House make...til then get inky and above all have fun!

Battle of the Snow! Bloobel Stamps Rock!

I was shown some exciting, new digital stamps that just made my heart sing for its weird wonderfulness!  That amazing place is Bloobel Stamps!  Then the icing on the cake was when they sponosored our challenge blog Dream in Darkness this month!  Talk about double great!  So I got to play with "Snow Thunk" love the names, too!  This poor fellow seems to me to be level headed and even tempered until that wet, slushy snowball made him "thunk" about it!  Now he is seeing blue and ready for revenge with that clenched fist!  

This is a canvas made by my dad for me and mom stretched some fabric over the frame and I had  the perfect size canvas!  I had it ready and gessosed when my new Nuance Powders available at Lost Coast Designs arrived so of course sprayed with water and sprinkled a cool blue powder on and it was magic.  Love those powders!  Some embossed snowflakes before the powders and then some gelatos silver metallic on them and glued him down with his arm bent a bit to make it a little 3D.  The last thing was some Photoshop magic text as the ones I tried to make for it just didn't make it pop at all.

Please visit Bloobel Stamps and have a look at their awesome unique stamps and start thinking about Valentine's Day and wicked hops coming up that these will work great in and they are adding new ones all the time.  And check out our challenge at Dream in Darkness where we want to see your odd, quirky, weirdness, and of course dark in any form and any theme!  How easy is that?  Till next time keep those fingers inky and busy :)

Skull Card

Lost Coast Designs has this wicked cool stamp of bodies that form a skull!  I love the quirkiness of it and it looks awesome!  I made a card...yes, a card...hard to do but did it.  I used Distress Inks and water splats for the background with some typewriter keys paper and then cut the individual letters to spell skull under the image...another "skull life" depiction!  The other will be debuting at Dream in Darkness Challenge Blog for the 31 Days of Halloween so keep an eye or three out for it!

How cool is that image?  Freaky awesome cool :)

Hope you are enjoying this time of celebrating we are doing for Halloween...look at it this way, it is prolonging Christmas shopping!