Haunted Design House

*Please see the sidebar for HDH Macabre Monday Rules* ( Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges ) Ok, macabre fans ... your challenge this week: HDH118 " Shot through the Heart " You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that includes a heart and a hole somewhere on the project .  Big or small, background or main focus... let's get lost in HDH-land! Check out what the Macabre Minions have created to feast your eyes upon: Sultana of the Sinister Lynx : Creepy Cricut Cween Donna : Agent of the Abominable Andrea :  Our Devious Digital Demoness Susan will be back when she is feeling better, hopefully soon! x Temptress of Terror Teri : Imp of Insanity Ike : Cadaverous Concoctor of Chao s Creepy Glowbugg : will post on Wretched Wednesday, so check back!

Okay, first things first. We have two sets of Gruesome Twosome titles to name today. First up are the GTs for the Metal Mania challenge . Congratulations to Dawn   and Lisa Fabulously metallic projects ladies.  Which brings us to the highly coveted, Stampotique sponsored , Chic Freak challenge GTs . Willy and Evil Edna  and finally, the winner of the $30 gift certificate, Susan Please contact Barb (email addy is in the sidebar) to claim your prize. Congratulations to all the winners! Please grab your badge and display it with deviant pride!! A huge thank you to everyone that played in the recent challenges! So much eye candy to salivate over! And finally, I have my Get Lost! project for this week's Macabre Monday challenge. As soon as I saw this Voodoo Lady image from Kraftin' Kimmie , I knew she would be mine. Yes, she would be mine...  I took an Old World map I found on Google and chopped it in half and distressed it.  I used both ...

*Please see the sidebar for HDH Macabre Monday Rules* ( Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges ) Ok, macabre fans ... your challenge this week: HDH117 " Get Lost " You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that includes a map .  Big or small, background or main focus... let's get lost in HDH-land! Check out what the Macabre Minions have created for your viewing pleasure: Sultana of the Sinister Lynx : Creepy Cricut Cween Donna : Agent of the Abominable Andrea :   I'm intrigued already... Our Devious Digital Demoness Susan is still out with a few broken bones... send her a little healing vibe, would ya'? Temptress of Terror Teri : Imp of Insanity Ike : Cadaverous Concoctor of Chao s Creepy Glowbugg : will post on Wretched Wednesday, so tune in! So, are you up for this challenge?!  Time to get lost this week :)

Can you believe I actually am playing along this week?!!  I swear it's been for-FREAKIN-evah since I've had the chance to create something for this blog :)  But there was no way I was gonna miss out on a week sponsored by Stampotique! First off, I wanna show off my Stampotique collection.  I have my Daniel Torrente blocks displayed so that I can see them from my desk: JOY!  I've also got a little cube stamp w/ four Torrente images, but you can't see it here.  You may be asking yourself: "uh, Barb... I haven't seen you use all of these before... WTF?"  Yes, it's true, dammit.  The cube, fence, door & head background have yet to see ink :( And here are my latest additions, courtesy of Stampotique (thanks SO much!)... " Olivia " & " Glimmering Hope ": I tried to go all simple-dark-elegant-chic for Olivia... Toner Grey & Red Copics on kraft cardstock, MME paper, my favorite trim by May Art...

It is Wretched Wednesday!! Are you ready to get your freak on?! Now I can remember the very first time I set my eyes upon a Daniel Torrente image. I can distinctly recall thinking happily, that someone had finally tapped into the alternative, unique, not so cute, slightly creepy, vein of rubber stamps. Stampotique is still one of my very favorite stamp companies to this day, with Daniel's images at the top of my must have list. This week's sponsor for Macabre Monday is none other than Stampotique Originals . The challenge is Chic Freaks . I started off with the awesome and versatile Bat Like Wings stamp and my favorite little bat buddy, Batboy . I altered him a bit by chopping off his usual party hat and adding those killer wings. I used some die cuts and  cool word art from Ginger's House . Top it all off with some rhinestones, and voila! He's chic and a freak!! But I'm not done yet! This is my new favorite image called simply, 3 Smiles . I decide...

*Please see the sidebar for HDH Macabre Monday Rules* ( Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges ) Ok, macabre fans ... your challenge this week: HDH116 " Chic Freaks " You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that includes a chic freak or a freakishly chic theme. Get your freak on... in a chic way. Wasn't there a song from the 70's, "Le Freak" by Chic?  Yes... yes there was.  HERE is the proof.  Sorry, tangent... something shiny.  This song has absolutely nothing to do with this challenge.  You were just given a glimpse into the mind of The Mistress... scarier than any horror movie, huh? ANYWAY... Our awesome HDH stalkers are in for a treat this week, because we are being sponsored by: http://www.stampotique.com/ Home of the awesomeness that IS Daniel Torrente 's art stamps!  Now don't get us wrong, there are some other fantastic stamps at Stampotique, but there is a...

We had a fabulous amount of superbly gothic entries for this challenge it was hard to break it down to just two but without further ado, the gruesome twosome for the Got Goth challenge are: I don't do straight and Crom's Cubby Hole Congratulations to both of you.  Grab the GT badge and display it for all to see you have a darker side.

I do realize today is Thursday, and it's almost over. Life really gets in the way and throws a temper tantrum sometimes. This is one of those times. This week's Haunted Design House challenge is Metal Mania !! Use metal or something metal-like on your project. I went literal and used metal embellishments for this one. I finally used the bat Nesties that I just had to have well over a year ago. I die cut some cool black leather-like paper and then layered a smaller bat cut from metal mesh on top. I used staples to adhere the mesh and then covered them with my main image. I layered up a few die cut tags and then stamped the sentiment using a Paper Make-Up stamp. I also destashed this weird metal bat-like brad. It works, I guess. I used this great Jasmine Becket-Griffith image called, Bat Wings . I also managed to add Stickles to almost everything to make it all sparkly. Sparkles make me happy. You still have plenty of time (until Sunday at 5PM CST) to get something me...

*Please see the sidebar for HDH Macabre Monday Rules* ( Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges ) Well, wasn't that a nice way to kick off the New Year? It was great to see all the usual suspects and some fresh meat as well. We had quite a few entries for our "Got Goth?" challenge and CreepyG will announce the Gruesome Twosome on Wretched Wednesday's post. ... Okay Macabre fans,.... your challenge this week is: HDH115 " Metal Mania" Giger's "Birth Machine" You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that uses, includes, or depicts  metal in some way.  You can go very literal with metal embellishments or metallic papers. Or you can use the Metal music genre for your muse, or maybe some industrial H.R. Giger type stuff. Make it dark if you dare!! We like things a bit more on the spooky side here in 'da house!   Check out what the Macabre Minions  have ...