Skully Angel

I had completely finished this skully angel for DominoArt's challenge when I read the theme again and as I realized the theme was "Ghosts"....not anything skully about it!  But he looked so sad and left behind sitting on my work table I decided to let him "shine" here today.  He is a versatile little skull angel stamp from Lost Coast Designs that I use with and without the wings, this time doing both but using both?  I stamped him in embossing ink on my domino and used black embossing powder, then heated him up..not perfect but he is a skull after all.  Then I cut out a canned drink that had a cool design but decided to just emboss his wings on the plain side, well, I really embossed the whole stamp on the plain side so I would know just where to sit the domino.  And add the pull tab from the can for a necklace loop and that was it! 

I will be entering him in the following challenges:
Forever Dark 2

Challenge #16 "Ghosts" at DominoArt this Month

Summer is over...yes, we must admit it but DominoArt's challenges are back!  Gotta take the bad with the good and it is good to play at DominoArt again!  This time I decided on puzzles pieces after making what I thought was a totally cool skull domino pendant before reading the challenge theme again.  They all tell me to read carefully, those that know me know me sooo well :)  

 

 I took a 24 piece puzzle for larger pieces and connected 3 together.  Black geeso and an embossed ghost, the word spooky and 2 hanging tiny spiders.

 

 The ghost was embossed with what I thought was white embossing powder but I think it must have been clear but he is there!  Then I stamped Perfect Medium all over the piece and dusted with purple.

Then a chain with some baubles for the necklace after drilling two holes in the top notches of the puzzle pieces with my handy dandy drill!

Head on over to DominoArt and make them see ghosts!

 

Flying Monkeys Oh My!

I absolutely love this stamp!  From Carmen's Veranda "Flying Monkey" is so much fun!  And of course, the "Flying Monkeys Background" stamp is equally fantastic!  I made this postcard sized on some paper I made with shimmer sprays and added some Distress markers to color him up.

This is my post for today on the Lost Coaster's Review Design Team  Blog and it is also up on the Lost Coast Facebook page.  Please like us and visit the Reviewers Blog every other day for some inspiration by some awesome teamies

I added the word "Believe" from the word stamp "Doodle Words" from Lost Coast Designs because you really have to believe in flying monkeys for it to be fun!  Hope to see you at our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity for all our challenge and event news!  Some fabulous events coming up but shhh! I didn't leak it!

Remember, our challenge this month is "One Layer or Single Layer" so come play and get a chance at some fabulous rubber from Lost Coast Designs!

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

Carmen's Veranda

Lost Coast Designs

Had Your Fortune Told Lately?

 I really love this stamp from Lost Coast Designs called "Fortune Teller".  I also loved, loved a paper pad I borrowed from my aunt called "Once Upon a Time"; it had so many awesome, yes, magical papers in it that I now owe my aunt a new pad!  But I did happen upon a small piece that had actually been scored already, I assume wrongly, but it screamed for the Fortune Teller to live there!  I added a "Henna Hand (Birds)" and the sun from the "Sun and Moon" also Lost Coast Designs and popped on a glass bobble to the sun's face and backed with a floral paper from that pad and it was done!  I did think of coloring in some of the elements but these stamps are so fabulous as stamped I decided to leave it as it was.  I did add some homemade enamel dots to the bottom :)

Don't forget to check out our September Challenge "One Layer" and the Portal to Creativity because we have tons of fab things right around the corner!  Also, please like our pages at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda where a brand new challenge has been announced!  Links to all right below!

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

Carmen's Veranda

Lost Coast Designs 

Pirate Time at Dream in Darkness Challenge!

It is Talk Like a Pirate Day on the 19th of this month, so of course we decided to take it seriously all month long at Dream in Darkness!  Here is my synopsis of Blackbeard's life of pillaging, having piratey fun, and ultimately his head hanging from the ship of the captain who killed him.  Oh well, fun and consequences!

This all started from the half skull in the middle, a gelatin mold from the dollar store with air dry clay layered in fairly thinly.  Anton the Zombie Pirate by Rick St. Dennis gave it that hearty pirate look i was going for.

 Then as luck would have it we went miniature golfing at a Pirate course so I got some awesome pics of some piratey things to add!

 Mischief Circus' s Enna's Creations Blackbeard's Adventures kit added the fab foggy sea, boat, and wonderful parrot!

We have a fabulous challenge for your dark and creepy makes so please hop over to our challenge blog and enter your creep!

Dream in Darkness Challenge Blog September "Anything Goes" 

 Also entering in Forever Dark 2 Challenge 4

A Murder of Crows Canvas

This canvas came from an Andy Skinner video and a fabulous rubber stamp, aptly named "A Murder of Crows" from Lost Coast Designs.  The canvas has many, many layers, some good, others that had to be covered up and started over!  The focal point was to be the stamp with the addition of two border stamps: "Skulls" and "Birds" again from Lost Coast Designs but I had never tried to stamp on a canvas with 15 layers on it before. Alas, it just would not work out stamping on the canvas, at least not for me!  So intent on completing this as planned, I stamped the image on tissue paper and with matte medium attached it over the partially stamped image.  Loved that it showed up the colors and the stamp!  Then the problem of covering up the tissue paper....many things tried but finally some Rusty Hinge Distress Ink dabbed on with a sponge gave me a look I could live with and I liked the look so much I used it on all the stamped images on the canvas that I had not redone with tissue paper because the look I had gotten went with my idea.  So after days of drying and crying here is "A Murder of Crows".

There is still time to enter the Lost Coast Designs Challenge #15 Circles it ends the 25th so hurry and join us!  And don't risk missing any of the upcoming news at our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog, lots coming up you won't want to miss!  

 Links to Lost Coast Designs Sites:

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

Carmen's Veranda

Lost Coast Designs

Ike's World Challenge #44 "Fashion"

I am using a fab freebie image from Ike's Art "Fashionista" for this fortnight's challenge along with a scenic background found in the Greece bundle, and another freebie called "Hello Kitteh".  Colored up everything with Prisma colored pencils and used strips of cardboard to make the two very different fashionistas pop off the background.  I also used watercolors around the awesome Greek scene.  Also used an arrow from Dragons Lair Designs for the sentiment.

Lovely and original! My kind of gals!

Looking forward to seeing you at Ike's World Challenge!  Remember each challenge has an awesome freebie like these two fantastic models so come by and stay and play!

Happy Crafting!

Smudge Fest Day 7

Super Hero Sunday! Here is a Love Grumpy but at night he is......Anti-Love Hero!!  He stalks the night shooting arrows into the hearts of new lovers breaking the magic of love and making chaos to all he touches!

 

 Thanks for a fun week More Smeared Ink!

Day 6 of Smudge Fest 2015

"Stencil Saturday" theme for today.  Steampunk angel wings from the Artist's Cellar on mixed media background ATC stamped with Smeared Ink stamp for the ATC set, do not know the name!!??  Edged with distress inks!

Last day tomorrow so get ready to get inky and something else?  Smeared and Smudged: More Smeared Ink

Day 5 at Smudge Fest "Use Fibers"

Ok, loving this create without putting a lot of thinking behind it or as I often do, agonizing over it!  Moving fast is fun and the theme just makes stamps I want to use pop in my head :)

Join in the fun at More Smeared Ink's Smudge Fest 2015!

 

Happy Crafting!

 

Poe's Grand Opening of His Theater

I saw this idea in a magazine and so wanted to make one!  Of course I did not have the specified materials needed so as always I feel back on my old friend, cardboard for boxes hoarded!  I made it with some new releases from the British Museum elements of architecture.  The original one I was inspired by had a drawer on the bottom to hold different props for different scenes and I intended on doing a drawer but the ruler was having a bad night and would not play right so we have no drawer.  It does have an area for the back drop you are using and then a divider for additional back drops.  

So when I saw the challenge for Quoth the Raven with so many things to pick to use, I had already made my little Poe puppet (yes it is impossible to make a brooding Poe puppet! After many tries I gave it up.)  The first backdrop was a graveyard scene from the museum releases and added the fabulous Ike's "Poe's Death Bed" when I saw the challenge theme.  Poe and the clay moon with a really weird face made from a Barbie doll mold I attempted, unexpected result!  They hang from a silver thin cord from a cardboard strip across the top, two strips for depth and layering.  Black lace, purple flowers, Poe written in foil tape for faux metal, purple air dry clay skull guarding the stage, and red on the awesome image from Ike's Art.  

 Taken without flash so some elements would show better

  

                      With the flash

 

Closer look inside the stage

 Side view of the innards of the theater :)

I have ideas swimming in my head for my little theater oh I mean Master Poe's theater.  He has agreed to share the stage with others just no poets, writers of any kind!  So of course I have agreed.  Take a look at the new challenge up at Quoth the Raven with special guest designer Susan, a totally awesome, lovely person, and while you are there pick 3 any 3 and pleaseth thy Master...sorry, really cannot pull off that language thing!

Happy crafting!

May I enter this at the following challenges:

Altered Eclectics

Quoth the Raven, Nevermore

Forever Dark 2 

Day 4 at Smudge Fest Get Trashy

My kind of theme: get trashed, torn, worn, distressed, if only you could see what I salvage from the trash can!  I had the perfect paper for this project...new but tears if you look at it.  My son bought it for me at a Hong Kong market in New Orleans that we went to and it is used for burning on altars I think, not sure no English on the package but got over a hundred sheets for 99 cents a bargain or what?  You have to have a backing paper for it as it cannot stand alone so from my trash stash came a junk mail advert so inked it with distress inks black and red then stamped images on paper lying on top of the inks..some seeped through.  Then four fab stamps from Smeared Ink in black and red and a handwritten word, taped carefully to junk mail backing and distressed inked it all over edges and front wrinkles. Ta Da! Trash talk make for today!

 Happy another piece of trash didn't make it to the dump!

Go here for the rules and daily themes to work with and a daily winner is chosen!

Smeared and Smudged:More Smeared Ink Smudge Fest 2015 

 

Day 3 at Smudge Fest at Smeared Ink

Challenge was get wet and messy! I went with watercolor paints and a fab rubber stamp by SI from the "Morte" set a flaming skull,  love him! Opened up a dollar store watercolor set and got a little messy.

So go to More Smeared and Smudged's page here and find the daily challenge through the 9th of this month.  Smudge Fest 2015! 

Happy Crafting!