Haunted Design House

... three freaks in a basket!   You are humming that old nursery rhyme right now, aren't you?!  Come on... admit it... you are going to Google it as soon as you leave here ;)  Let me save you the trouble... from Wikipedia:  CLICK HERE Ok, back to the card... this is for another challenge from Stampotique Designers: SDC#4 - Easter.  I haven't received my latest order from Stampotique, so I only have four stamps on hand... I think 3 in a Round worked perfectly!  Please click on the photos to see them close-up. How wonderfully springy and Easter-y ... right?  ;)  I hope you can tell I was trying to create a basket handle with the ribbon.  And I went a little edger punch happy on this one.  And look... even some actual handwriting... un-freakin'-believeable. Stamps:   3 in a Round (Stampotique), rolling alpha (Provo Craft) Paper:   Bazzill & white cardstocks Ink:  Memento Tuxedo & Palette Noir Colorant...

HDH Macabre Monday Rules: 1 . Create a dark and macabre SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy is fine, but creepy is better :) 2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH032 . 4. Weekly giveaways!  Some weeks will be loaded with loot, others not-so-much ... but the thrill is in the win, right?!  Some prizes shall be by random drawing, others hand picked... and I'm not telling you ahead of time :) 5. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (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 wi...

HDH031 - Perilous Princess Gruesome Twosome:   Paula for her wickedly gruesome skeleton princess collage, and Barb for her beautifully colored fairy (plus the sentiment made me smile)!  Please grab the Gruesome Twosome badge from my sidebar and link back here!!! HDH031 prize winner , whom will receive a little surprise goodie pack is:  Barb !  Yep... this time YOU get a prize :) congrats!  I'll get that mailed off to you soon! Congratulations ladies!

I have had this fairy all colored up with no where to go!  I just haven't been feelin' the mojo flowin'... I'm thinkin' it's this dreary weather... ugh.  So, I tried to use a sketch... let me just say that I do not use sketches... they are hard for me to design with for some reason.  That being said, I am not happy with the card, just happy with colored image :)  So I'll include this on the Copic Creations Challenge No. 24 for blonde hair and faces/skin tones . Maybe you would have better luck with this sketch... it's over at the Smeared and Smudged forum, and it's the March Smeared and Smudged Very Sketchy Challenge .  And of course, this goes along with the princess theme here at HDH, except she's not sinister enough :) I really like how I made her sleeves look sheer and the two-toned wings. Stamps:  FY39 Elegant Fairy ( StampItCrazy ), Yield to the Princess (TAC) Paper:   white ultra smooth & black (TAC), DCWV blue, & B...

HDH Macabre Monday Rules: 1 . Create a dark and macabre SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy is fine, but creepy is better :) 2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH031 . 4. Weekly giveaways!  Some weeks will be loaded with loot, others not-so-much ... but the thrill is in the win, right?!  Some prizes shall be by random drawing, others hand picked... and I'm not telling you ahead of time :) 5. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (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 rece...

Wow... this post TOTALLY catches me up on winner announcements! Un-freakin'-believable! HDH030 - Hello Dolly! Gruesome Twosome:   TerryEO for her wicked cranky baby & bear, and Alex for her wonderful altered book project!  Please grab the Gruesome Twosome badge from my sidebar and link back here!!! HDH030 prize winner , whom will receive the awesome Stamp It Crazy Gothic Dolls image I used for my challenge card is:  Lynx ... by the way Lynx, can I just say that I LOVE YOUR ENTRY for this challenge?!  Please email me your mailing address so that I can forward that on to Barb at Stamp It Crazy... thanks so much for offering up the prize, Barb! !! Congratulations everyone!

Uh.... my bad... I totally forgot to mention the Master of the Macabre for February?  Sorry!  Linda, aka Oz has graciously offered up this oz-some prize package... thanks, Oz !!!  You are the best... how many times have I said that? ;) The Gruesome Twosome list from which I will draw a name for Master of the Macabre for February 2010 (from HDH024-HDH027 challenges): 1.  Oz 2.  Susan 3.  Barb 4.  Lynx 5.  Teri 6.  Jane 7.  Creepy Glowbugg 8.  Lynx {drum roll} The Master of Macabre for February 2010 is:  Susan !!!  Grab your Master of the Macabre badge from the sidebar, and please email me with your mailing address so I can forward it to Oz so that she can send out your winnings :) Thanks so much for everyone's participation!

and NOT in a good way :)  I'm WAY BEHIND in announcing winners for HDH028 & HDH029!  My bad!  So, without further ado... HDH028 - Teen Angst Gruesome Twosome:   Susan for her sweet & sinister tribute to the movie Heather's, and to Creepy Glowbugg , for her anguished bow-tie boy.  Great job, ladies!!!  I know you guys have GT badges already... you are so good :) HDH028 prize winner , whom will receive the awesome Stamp It Crazy bat-winged Goth girl image I used for my challenge card is:  Creepy Glowbugg !  Please email me your mailing address so that I can forward that on to Barb at Stamp It Crazy... thanks so much for offering up the prize, Barb! !! HDH029 - Oh You Devil! Gruesome Twosome:   Lynx for her fantastically creepy skull devil, and Tracey for turning a Sweet Pea stamp into a devilish image.  Tracey, grab the Gruesome Twosome badge from my sidebar and link back here, please!!! HDH029 prize winner , whom w...

I couldn't resist doing another card for the HDH030 Hello Dolly challenge :)  Especially since a blogging buddy of mine, Melisa , sent me a couple of stamped images... with a little nudge to Goth them out a bit ;)  This one is for you, Melisa!! I also wanted to participate in Copic Creations challenge No. 24 .  I just started following this challenge blog... they have some great tips!  I chose to do Skin Tones and a Brunette Hair technique ... and maybe this qualifies for the Feathering technique , too?! Stamps:  boy w/ wagon ( B-line Designs ), dolly ( Kraftin' Kimmie ), Aged Ornaments ( TAC ), skull ( Bombshell ), unknown sentiment Ink:   Moulin Rouge, Charcoal, & Noir Palettes , Memento Tuxedo Other:   Copic markers The boy image did NOT have the rusty knife in his hands originally (of course)... I drew that little twisted element myself  ;) Don't worry, Copic Creations people... I'm working on a not-so-twisted entry, too...

HDH Macabre Monday Rules: 1 . Create a dark and macabre SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy is fine, but creepy is better :) 2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH030 . 4. Weekly giveaways!  Some weeks will be loaded with loot, others not-so-much ... but the thrill is in the win, right?!  Some prizes shall be by random drawing, others hand picked... and I'm not telling you ahead of time :) 5. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (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...

 Can you believe I found a spare moment to just create for fun?!!  I KNOW!  I'm so happy :)  AND this little beauty counts for two different challenges... I feel so accomplished:  Stamp It Crazy's challenge is Gothic Green , and Stampotique's Designers Challenge is Spring Has Sprung!   The chartreuse green is looking a little yellow in the photos, so you'll just have to trust me when I say it's green ;) I just found Stampotique's Designers Challenge blog ... I'm in heaven :)  Even though I can barely keep up with my own challenges, I've got to find time to stick with this one!  I've been a fan of Daniel Torrente's images for awhile now... and if there is any way possible to keep adding to my stash, I'm gonna try :) Stamps:   Newt with Lunchbox (Stampotique), Trendy Greetings (TAC) Paper:   Mia's Cottage, Penelope & white UltraSmooth cardstocks (TAC) Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Other:   Copic markers , Diamond Stickles, C...

... I'm just sayin' :)  Well, THAT and if I weighed alot less than I do currently... although, if I were the Devil , I could probably make myself look ANY WAY I WANTED .  Maybe I'm more angelic than I thought... { ROFLMAO } . . . Sorry... my mind went wandering about... again :) This little beauty is another Stamp It Crazy image colored with Copic markers.  The shoe itself has a glazing of Crystal Lacquer which TOTALLY makes it look like patent leather ;)  Well... what would you wear if you were the Devil ?

HDH Macabre Monday Rules: 1 . Create a dark and macabre SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy is fine, but creepy is better :) 2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH029 . 4. Weekly giveaways!  Some weeks will be loaded with loot, others not-so-much ... but the thrill is in the win, right?!  Some prizes shall be by random drawing, others hand picked... and I'm not telling you ahead of time :) 5. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (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...

I'm offering up just a little sumpin' sumpin' over at my "normal" blog :)  Just go HERE for the deets!

Ok, so this isn't a teenager, but maybe it's a teenage cat?  Look at that face... talk about attitude... well, maybe it's orneriness instead?  At any rate, I thought I'd share a card that has nothing on it :)  I still like it for a clean & simple look... and really, it's all about the stamp images anyway, right?  Stamps:   PET32 cat (StampItCrazy), sentiment from an old GWP stamp from TAC Paper:   Premium white cardstock (TAC) Ink:   VersaFine Majestic Purple (super freakin' old, but super juicey... it actually turned a different color!) Other:   clear Stardust glitter gel pen Happy Hump Day!  There is still plenty of time to play along with this week's challenge!

HDH Macabre Monday Rules: 1 . Create a dark and macabre SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy is fine, but creepy is better :) 2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH028 . 4. Weekly giveaways!  Some weeks will be loaded with loot, others not-so-much ... but the thrill is in the win, right?!  Some prizes shall be by random drawing, others hand picked... and I'm not telling you ahead of time :) 5. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (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...