Macabre Monday #009 - Eerie Inspiration: Haunted Home Decor

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Welcome to Haunted Design House's Macabre Monday challenge!

HDH Macabre Monday Rules:
1. Create a Halloweenie SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy Halloween is fine, but creepy is better :) However, no extra 'points' are given either way.
2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and linky back here.
3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, PW, PCP, SCS, etc.), please tag the title using HDH009.
4. I'll have monthly contest giveaways... tune in for additional details.
5. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twosome (my top two favorite creations) from all the players. At the end of every month these will be compiled and a Master of Macabre will be selected. He/she will be asked to be a guest blogger for the following month, if they so wish, and receive a little giftie from me... this could be stamp sets, handmade items, papers, halloweenie embellishments... you just never know.

Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:
Eerie Inspiration:  Haunted Home Decor


 For this week's challenge, you are to create a Halloween page, project or card using the photo below for inspiration.  This is one of my favorite Halloween decorative groupings at the house so far... I put up a backdrop to hide the refrigerator ;)
At least one of the elements shown in the photo must be present in your project... skull, owl, birdcage, bones, barbed wire, or raven!



For my card, I decided to make an almost direct copy of the scene, minus the raven jar & the barbed wire.  I colored with Prismacolors & mineral oil, and cut everything out.  I sliced the owl wing so it would rest over the top of the bone end, and created more dimension by popping up the birdcage.


Stamps (all TAC):  Birdcage, Fleur Birdies, Boo Bash & Punk Princess (both retired)
Paper:  White UltraSmooth, Black, & DCWV lime cardstocks
Ink:  Palette Noir
Other:  misc. sheer ribbon, Prismacolors w/ mineral oil, Scor-Pal & Scor-Bug


Gruesome Twosome for last week:  Jana for the awesome little hidden spider treat box, and Linda aka Oz for her raven's egg box.  Grab your GT badge in the sidebar ladies!

So, do you accept this week's challenge?
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Comments

Lisa T said…
Another cool card! Gotta get my Halloween mojo going...
10/12/09, 3:41 PM
Teresa Jenkins said…
Love your little scene... both real and recreated! Great job!
10/12/09, 3:58 PM
Anna said…
Barb, that card rocks!
10/12/09, 6:07 PM
Linda aka Oz said…
Ohh I love your collection of goodies to work with. I am excited to play again. Thank you so much for the honor of the Gruesome Twosome with Jana. Her little matchbox cuties were awesome.
Your card is every ghouls delight! Oz
10/12/09, 6:11 PM
Jana said…
I'll get to work on this weeks challenge, but in the meantime. THnak you so much for the honor of one being one of the Gruesome Twosome. I am thrilled to be in the company of Oz. Her egg is fantastic.
10/13/09, 1:04 PM
Beth said…
Thanks for all your great Halloween inspiration!
10/17/09, 1:51 AM
Chris said…
sorry my post is late, blogger refused to load my card.
I e-mailed it to you earler just in case I couldn't get it to post.
10/19/09, 12:46 AM
blackdragon said…
sorry i'm so late this week... i shall do better next week.
I shall email you my addy... sorry i havent done that yet either and thank you so much for making me your 1st 'master of the macabre', i'm chuffed to bits!!!! Thank you again hugs lynx
10/19/09, 1:16 AM
Anonymous said…
The skull in the bird cage is just too much!! rita w
10/28/09, 4:34 AM
Maureen said…
Amazing!
I included your birdcage in my blog post on 'Haunted House Halloween Decor' and linked back to you :)
http://www.releasemecreations.com/2011/10/haunted-house-decor-ideas.html
-Maureen
10/25/11, 5:54 PM
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