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: HDH122 "Which Witch Are YOU?" You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that represents YOU at your witchy best. Maybe you like to think of yourself as the wicked step mother type witch, or maybe one of the old crones who live by herself deep in the woods. If you'd rather not represent yourself that way, you can just choose your favorite witch of all time as use her as your muse.  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 : Temptress of Terror Teri :   Imp of Insanity Ike :   Cadaverous Concoctor of Chao s Creepy Glowbugg : will post last week's GTs on Wretched Wednesday, but is having another time out this we...

Betcha thought I forgot all about naming the Gruesome Twosome from last week huh? Well, I did. But now the winners get a post all to themselves.   The chosen two for last week's Love Lies Bleeding challenge are:   Mary K Such a gorgeously hand drawn image. (If you watched Ink Master last night, then you know how hard it is to draw a proportioned hand.)   And,   Crom's Cubby Hole Neat little ATC sized "meander" book of verses from " Annabel Lee"  , and wonderful images of Poe and his love.   So beautifully tragic and haunting. Thank you ladies, for your stunning submissions.  Take your badge and love it and squeeze it and call it George. Thank you to everyone who took the time to play along with our challenging challenge last week. We really appreciate the time you give to the projects you submit to us. They are all classy bits of art in their own right, which makes it increasingly hard to choose the winners each week....

This week's Macabre Monday challenge is Garden of Good and Evil . I wanted to make a dimensional project out of clay, but wasn't sure which direction I should go with it. I have been looking for a frog to zombify for months. I was inspired by something I read on the Frog Queen's blog, and thought how cool she would think I was if I made a  zombie frog . Problem was, I never could find an acceptable ceramic frog specimen for this project. So, I decided to just make the damned thing myself!  Here is my silly clay version of a zombie frog .  I'm not sure it translates well, but he is eating a frog hand. That's his tongue wrapped around it. I decided to make a garden background for my amphibian of the living dead . I used the awesome graveyard scene from  Delicious Doodles , and colored it with the BV range of Copics. I added some Tim Holtz  trees, and some MS border punches, and then mounted it onto black card stock.  I used vellum...

*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: HDH121 " Garden of Good and Evil " You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that illustrates the battle between good and evil that is fought nightly in the garden of your imagination! Show us the inhabitants of your garden, be they gnomes, plant life, fauna, fae, or something else entirely! 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 : Our Devious Digital Demoness Susan is still MIA... 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!

Welcome to this week's installment of Wretched Wednesday !! First up are the Gruesome Twosome for last week's Freaker's Free for All challenge.  Simple, yet very effective creepy work by Carol . This revamped porch light shade (inspired by the mighty Cthulhu, of Lovecraftian lore) from Pensive Pumpkin is AWESOME!! Thank you to everyone for playing along last week. There were so many insanely creative projects to peruse and gain inspiration from. Now I would like to announce the Master of the Macabre for the month of January.... Fiona/I Don't Do Straight Fiona, please contact Barb via her email in the sidebar to claim your MoM prize. Congratulations to all of the winners!! Please grab your stinking badges and display them with pride! And finally, I give you my submission for the Love Lies Bleeding challenge. I chose to use this awesome image of Sid and Nancy to represent my version of love gone wrong. Really wrong. Nancy : If I asked you to kill me, wou...

*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: HDH120 " Love Lies Bleeding " You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece with depict LOVE in it's deadliest form - blood, angst, turmoil. Now it is time to see some inspiration from 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 is still under the weather but we have our fingers crossed she is on the way to recovery. Temptress of Terror Teri With another gorgeous new image that will be available in her shop .  Imp of Insanity Ike :

We won't be having a wretched Wednesday post this week. Glo is having a much needed time out. Remember it isn't too late to get your entries in for this weeks challenge. The winners of the Shot Through the Heart challenge are: Jenn  Borjeson and I don't do Straight it was a really hard decision as there were so many brilliant entries so we had to wangle it down to just two so congratulations for getting your creep on again ladies. 

*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: HDH119 " Freaker's Free-for-All " You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece with  no restrictions . That's right... the Mistress has been slacking, so everyone gets to benefit with a laid-back, no-holes-barred, do-WTF-ever-you-want challenge! 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! Temptress of Terror Teri is running a bit late, but check back later for something fantastic as usual! EDIT:- Here I am, please don't sack me!!   Imp of Insanity Ike : Cadaverous Concoctor of Chao s Creepy Glowbugg : will post on Wret...

First off, I'd like to thank everyone for playing along with last week's challenge. It's nice to be challenged to think outside of our usual boxes sometimes isn't it? This week's chosen Gruesome Twosome for the Get Lost! challenge are: Jane   Gorgeously aged with a group favorite, mythical beast. And... Sue Really unique and beautiful, and ... bloody . Please grab your badge and fly that freak flag high!! Here is my submission for this week's Shot Through the Heart challenge. I am on a Dilly Beans kick lately. I am loving this Sugar Skull . The images are so fun and easy to color, plus they lend themselves to so many occasions. I used a couple of Spellbinder hearts and cut the middle out of one to represent the hole in the challenge. I popped the skull out of the hole using dimensional dots. I added some die cut flourishes, corner accents and a glittered chip board love and a heart to try and balance it all out. Please join us for t...