CELEBRATING OCTOBER ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

WOW!!!

1st Year Anniversary of My Soul's Dark Imagination Challenge Blog!!

Can you believe it??? 

One Whole Year of Spooky Challenges!!!  

Didn't we have fun? I know I did!!

I want to send out a very special thanks to all my artist friends who posted their spooky art and participated in the Themes and Challenges this past year!!  Speaking of spooky art, I have to brag on you guys!!!! 

All of you took each theme, used your dark imagination and unique creativity, pushed the envelope, and came up with some really fantastic art!!! Thank you for sticking it out with me through the times I was present and absent and still you came back for the challenges and made each week so special for me!! Week after week, I could not wait to see what you would create and every week you never failed to disappoint!! You made our first year great with your talent, your tenacity, and your awesome creativity!!Thank you for scaring me with spooky fun all year!!

To kick off the October month-long Celebration of My Soul's Dark Imagination 1st Year Anniversary...

I would like to announce that we have a New Sponsor...

Conjurer of Dreams!!!

Click on the link to visit Kim's Challenge Blog:

Conjurer of Dreams

And there will be Prizes!!!

  What kind of celebration would this be without prizes!! 

Kim Rayko, Owner of Conjurer of Dreams, has kindly designed an amazing Set of 4 Images for us to use for one of our October Themes... Vampires!!  

This challenge lasts for two weeks!! I will be presenting you with two Vampire Images this week and then two Vampire Images for next week to double your chances to win the prize!! After the two weeks are up, I will pick a Winner of the 2 Week Challenge to receive a $10 Voucher to go shopping at the fantastic Conjurer of Dreams Etsy Shop!!

 

Click on the link to go visit:

Conjurer of Dreams Etsy Shop

Kim has a fabulous array of AI Image Sets, Digital Junk Journal Sets, PNG Clip Art, and Digital Art Kits in her shop! All of her designs are absolutely stunning!! Go check out her shop to see what I mean when I say stunning! 

Thank you, Kim, for Sponsoring our 1st year Anniversary and for creating these amazing Vampire Images for us to use for our Challenge! 

Thank you, Kim Rayko!!

Now let's Party!!!!

Your Challenge this week is to pick from the 2 Conjurer Of Dreams Images I have posted and create some Vampire art for a chance to win!! Have fun this week creating your spooky art!! I cannot wait to see what you do with these Vampire Images!! 

I have also posted an Itinerary of the rest of the Anniversary Celebrations we will be involved in for the whole month of October!!! Look for 1st Anniversary Page where I have listed the Free Image Pages! You will want to read it so you will know what exciting things I have planned for you this month! We have a Mystery Guest for the 3rd Week Challenge and a Fun Halloween Blog Hop on the 4th Week Challenge with more prizes to win!! Look forward to some decadent, dark fun this whole month!!

Here are the two Vampire Images for you to choose from for this week's challenge!

Here is my Vampire Creation as an example and inspiration!

Good luck to all who enter their art in the Vampire Challenge this week! May your dark creativity chill me to the bone and completely take my breathe away!!

DEVILED EGGS

I am sorry for posting this so late, but I cannot shake this flu!  

I hope each of you had a wonderful Easter Holiday!  I hope your Easter Baskets were overflowing with chocolate, and your day was spent with your family, hiding eggs with your children and grandchildren, and gathering around the table for your Easter Feast! 

The Holiday Dinner menu usually begins with a Brown Sugar Glazed Ham, Potato Salad, Green Beans, and Deviled Eggs. Wow, I am getting hungry as I type this!!! I have an interesting recipe to share with you while we are on the topic of food! One year for Easter, I fixed Pickled Deviled Eggs! They were delicious! They looked so pretty displayed with the rest of the meal. Everyone really loved them! 

Here is the recipe if anyone wants to try them for their next Easter Dinner or just for fun! I boil my eggs until they are hard-boiled. I let them cool and peel them, I put them in a jar of pickled beet juice and then in the Frig for a day or two, depending on the color they get from the beet juice. They usually turn a beautiful pink color that I adore! I remove them from the jar and make the deviled eggs as I usually would. Very easy and very pretty.

Our Theme this week is not very pretty, but just as fun! We are going to create Deviled Eggs with a little Devil in them! Think red, horns, fires, etc.!!!! And I dare you to serve these eggs for dinner!! I really can't wait to see what you will come up with for your version of Deviled Eggs! I have posted a page of images to help you get inspired to make your eggs devil-style!

Here is my version of Deviled Eggs!!

Digital art created from images from Pixabay

BAD GIRL

 OK.......MY BAD!!! 

First of all. I posted Deviled Eggs for the next Theme, but I intended to post that theme later this month. And also once again, late in posting the Theme for this week!!

 I have a good excuse!!  I have the flu so I am not feeling well, in fact, really "monstrously" awful from the murky crud that lingers and will not go away! I think when I get better this would be a great theme for the challenge blog...

The Creeping Crud!!!!  

So on with the Theme for this Week...

When I was a little girl, I had very long, curly hair and was a good little girl for the most part but at times, as children will be, I was very mischievous, prone to loud temper tantrums, and so very stubborn! So, when I was unruly and misbehaving, my mother would recite this little poem to me to remind me that I must be a good little girl and be on my best behavior because bad little girls were naughty and not very pleasant to be around! We would end up laughing at the end of the poem and I am sure she recited the poem to distract me from whatever made me misbehave and lighten my mood so that once again, I would return back to the good little girl I was!

Here is the Poem...

"There once was a little girl, 

who had a little curl,

right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good, 

she was very good

but when she was bad, 

she was Horrid"!!!!!

Now it is your turn to create your Bad Girl! 

The artwork you have been creating for the Challenge Blog Themes are really amazing and so I have no doubt this week's artwork will be the same! 

Keep using your wonderful imagination to its fullest, as it is truly a precious treasure to see what others do not see, and then with colors and images, interpret what you envision onto your canvas!

I have posted a Page of images for you to use in your artwork! 

Now let's be BAD GIRLS!!! 

 Here is my 

Bad Girls Artwork!!!

Digital art created from images from Pixabay, Gecko Galz Steampunk ATC Collection Set, Art Nouveau Digital Collage Set, Itkupilli's Digital Kits, Bones, Alice In Wonderland Stage, Dirty Cards Murky Sheets, Open Stage Sheets, Chez Simone Tresors Digital Kits Vintage Journal Pages, Haunted Houses Journal Pages, Honeycomb Designs Digital Kit Ethereal Images, Facebook Group Free AI Images, MBWM Crow Co Art Dolls, Art House Whimsey Digital Kit Grunge Papers, and Miriam's 

Digital Kit Scrap

DARK ROMEO AND JULIET

 

We all know the story. Two ill-fated lovers. A blood feud between two families. A sad tale of passion, violence, and death. With our Dark Romeo and Juliet Theme in mind, create your own version of their love and death in your artwork for the challenge this week. 

Go see the Dark Romeo and Juliet Page I created of Free Images and you will find a whole set of images that are from the Gecko Galz Challenge Blog. You may use them in your artwork for the challenge. I love these Rennaissance Images and thought they were perfect for our theme this week. A Big Thank you goes out to the Gecko Galz for allowing me to use these images!!

Here is my Tale of Woe, 

A story of Juliet and her Romeo

***Sorry I was late posting the Challenge but I

have been working a lot of long hours this past week and this week.***

Digital art created from Gecko Galz Free Images, Gecko Galz Illuminating ATC Sheet and Beautiful Darkness Collage Sheet, Pixabay, and Miriam's Digital Kit Scraps