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Last week's GT for the Grimm's Grimmest challenge are Christine Garner Gorgeous easel card!!  and CROMS TWO Grimm tales retold in one amazing Domino book! You really have to see all the pictures to fully appreciate the hard work and creativity that went into this project. Bravo Ladies!!! Grab your badge and start warming up for next week's Monday's Macabre challenge! Our generous sponsor last week was  Ike's Art!! The award of the Alice in Wonderland digis goes to.... Cgra Such a wonderful creation made out of one of the most disturbing Grimm tales, "The Goose Girl " . Poor Falada. Brilliant work! Congratulations!!  Please contact Ike here to claim your prize.  

That's right everyone... I'm baaaaaack :)  The "real" jobs have been keeping me hoppin' for so long, that I almost forgot how to find this damn blog!  I'm working this weekend, too, so if I was gonna play, it had to be today.  So, without further ado: HDH126 - Grimm's Grimmest Ike's images that I used for this challenge are f'ing awesome.  "Red" is looking a bit... ummm... yeah, YOU know what I'm sayin'.  >`:)  Let's just say the hubby is diggin' this card. I'm not happy with how the wolf turned out.  When I was almost done with it, my damn marker dumped a HUGE drop right in the middle of it.  Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!  So I kept going over it to try and blend it out, so it looks all blah now.  Dammit.  Good thing "Red" is the focus I guess. I also used an old Rusty Pickle patterned paper that I've been hoarding (LOVE it).  The sentiment stamp is from StampInsanity. You've...

Running a bit behind this week. Better late than never. This week's challenge is to find inspiration in one of the Brother's Grimm fairy tales. There are well over 200 tales of strangeness, murder, intrigue, and superstition to choose from. Disney apparently took his signature move from the original stories of killing off the mothers in the first paragraph, as told by the Grimms. Then the evil step mother and her unattractive and ill behaved offspring arrive to ruin the life of the sweet, and innocent maiden. Three drops of blood also seem to be a theme in more than one of the Grimm stories, although I only recall the specific in Snow White.  I went with an oldy, but a goody (aren't they all?), Hansel and Gretel That old witch has no idea what she's in for!   I used Bowtie and Karin from Stampotique to represent those kooky kids in the story.  I colored them up in bright, candy colors and Stickled the begeezus out of the old shack to make it pretty to the ki...

*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: HDH126 " Grimm's Grimmest " You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween -based art piece based or inspired by one of  the t ales of the Brother's Grimm . There are well over 200 tales to choose from and you may be surprised by how brutal and horrific the original tales were actually written. For example, did you know that in the original version of Cinderella, (translated from the original "Aschenputtle") in order for the wicked step sisters to get their feet to fit into the slipper that one hacked off their toes and the other her heel? It would seem that most of the tales ended with some sort of bloodshed and death. Quite a long cry from the watered down versions we were raised on from Disney and Scholastic books. Oh! And let's not forget that...