Daring adventure or nothing?

 Hello my darkling's

Hope your all ok and coping with the uncertainty of this horrid virus? But then life has always been uncertain it's just how we cope with it isn't it? A quote I saw the other day sum's it up it read " Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heart breaking, soul healing, amazing, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful." - LR Knost. 

So on that note I retreat to my bubble which is my craft room/summerhouse to enjoy some freedom from worry and life in general it truly is a lovely bubble to be in! I wanted to create something that would use my new Dashing crow stamp from aall and create but also incorporate life is a daring adventure saying from another aall and create set with the hot air balloon but as usual I didn't want to use the balloon, no, I used just the quote and used the magnifying glass with flowers. I used most of my aall and create stamps and bubble stencil truth be told I went crazy creating but is that ever a bad thing?

This was the end result and I used more colours than I intended to as I was trying to stick to about 3 ended up using 5 but I am happy with the end result. I also had to use a skull. (After all I am the Queen of Halloween, according to my daughter Katie). I cut out the middle of the magnifying glass and placed acetate behind and then my dashing crow along with a starry background paper. I also did the same with the smaller magnifying glass.

So that is it from me today and my rambling's take care and stay safe 

Moldy aka Nikki 💀

 

Pirate's treasure

 Hellooo darkling's 

Thank you for joining me today and what a treat I think I have for you too! 

We are talking pirate treasure today and wow has this really taken a lot of time to do so many stage's and also life get's in the way too but I have managed to bring this wonderful skull-tastic project to life.

I had seen so many treasure chest's and skull project's and I wanted to have a go as all the one's I had seen seemed to be just basic and I really wanted to go the whole hog and really make it stand out, hopefully, it does! 

So I really had to put my thinking cap on and figure out what I truly wanted it to look like. I had bought a wooden "treasure" box and I had lot's of mould's so I had to make lot's of coin's, shell's, trimming's for the lid and it took a while for me to collect everything I needed as I kept changing my mind!

Compass, octopus, more shell's, more coin's and the skull was the last thing on the list so I set to work with everything lot's of gesso, glue, art stone's, gilding wax, texture paste, and some netting too it all came together finally after being in my head for month's. Halloween really is the best time of year as it mean's there is far more available to buy in the shop's for not only my crafting needs but also my house decoration!

Anywho thanks for listening to my rambling's and look after yourselves and stay safe.

Love and hugs Moldy xx 💀