Haunted Design House

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 ...