Haunted Design House

Where does the time go?  We haven't announced Masters of the Macabre for August, September or October!  So, without further ado... And now, the coveted Master of the Macabre title for August goes to: Carol ! The coveted Master of the Macabre title for September goes to: Fiona ! The coveted Master of the Macabre title for October goes to: Jenn B ! Grab the badge and display it with pride, oh masterful ones!  AND don't forget to email me with your postal mailing address so that I can get a little prize pack out to you!!  My email link is in the sidebar. Congratulations to all of our winners... and to ALL of our participants!  YOU are the ones that make the world a little less cute & cuddly , one creeptastic project at a time :)

Yep.  It's true.  So if this bothers you, please ignore it and go to your next item in your Reader :) The Angel Company is having an AWESOME paper sale for all of you scrapbookers & cardmakers!! Here's a link to my online store so that you can see what they look like... and you can order directly online :)  Just click the link and look at the side bar... then click on each collection to view them all!   CLICK ME For you local people (Kansas City to Wellsville areas), just EMAIL ME and I'll send the order in with others to save a little shipping cost!  And I'm sorry to say that The Angel Company does not ship outside of the US or PR :(

Check it.  This is a just-for-fun card I finished the other day.  Not for classes, not for DT, not for Christmas... just for the hell of it.  Ahhhh.  Cardmaking for the sheer joy... can ya' feel it?! And since I suck at the whole photo-taking thing, I thought I would show you the difference from my scanner vs. camera.  Let's just say that in real life, the image color is actually in-between these two representations.   {photo shot with camera} Awhile back, Kenny K had a contest to name his newest digi line, Krash Kittenz ... and one of my names was selected!  Yeay!  This is Maggie Mayhem ... VERY fitting name me thinks :)   {scanner version}  I'm trying out the Latina-esque / sun-kissed skin tone with Copics E11, E13 & E15.  The jacket & shoes:  N1, N4, N7.  Reds:  R59, R29, R24.  Hair:  E21, E25, E29. {photo shot with camera} The trim is some pleather belt-ish stuff I found at JoAnn's...

  Why wait till Black Friday when you get only one day of sales right? Let's get the SALE party started... Simply Betty Stamps style! Digis @ $2.75 ALL EMOS! Steampunk Gang  All Victorian Beauties  All Punky Teens  All Jude and his Shenanigan Crew Spooky Hallow All Papers @ .40¢ Rubber only $4.00!! Emo Halloweenies Everyday Emos Sorry Christmas Emos still out of stock! Well what are you waiting for!?  Get going before all the paper & rubber stamps are gone!  This sale will end at Midnight on Saturday Nov. 27th.  Hope you all grab yourselves some goodies!  It will be the last sale of the year!

Did you think that I had forgotten?  Huh?  Did ya'?  Well, let's start off with the winners of the car charger USB drives from  Seminole Casino Coconut Creek ! Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 3 5 2 Timestamp: 2010-10-10 19:34:42 UTC   Barb , Jen , & Sammibug :  please send me your mailing addresses and I will forward them on to Mike at SCCC & he'll get those mailed out to you!  Congratulations! Yes, Barb... send me an email with your address even though I already have it ;) And now, for the Little Hop of Horrors Halloween Blog Hop winner! Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 227 Timestamp: 2010-10-10 19:49:40 UTC Jaye Jaye said... What an awesome card! I love the way you created a scene! 10/3/10 12:10 PM Jaye Jaye , please send me your mailing address & I'll send out a little Halloweenie sumpin' sumpin' to you!  Congratulations! A HUGE thanks to everyone who visited all of us on t...

Welcome to the Little Hop of Horrors Halloween Blog Hop... If you've arrived here from Nicole's blog , then you are on the right track!  Nicole has assembled quite the not so little gathering of goul-friends for a fiendishly fun hop, with the opportunity to win some awesome loot to boot!  Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of this post for a few details :) Now, it's not a secret that I AM a Halloween fan (uh, hello.... what's the name of this blog again?).  This time of year is my favorite:  cool autumn air, crunchy Fall leaves, pumpkins, and creepiness... what's not to love?!  Well, to start things off, I've created this no-frills, but frighteningly fun Halloween card using a couple of new digi's from Simply Betty Stamps that will be available starting tomorrow... sorry blood-suckers, not today :) This is Damien & Spiderella.  I like to imagine Damien is a newly turned vampire whom by chance of fate comes upon Spiderella... a veteran vamp who'...

Ok.  I am totally jealous of those who live in Florida... well, at least for the month of October :)  The Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is having a ton of events, my favorite being held on October 16th:   A meet & greet with a couple of the True Blood cast members!  The main focus for me would be Joe Manganiellio who plays "Alcide" ... yum!   SCCC will also be having a pumpkin carving contest , costume contests , AND... are you ready for this... a meet & greet with Linda Blair !  Yep, the horror flick queen herself.  Check out dates & more events below (click on photo to enlarge): Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is hosting a prize giveaway on Haunted Design House!   Though it's not Halloweenie, these little babies will come in handy... SCCC is providing three car charger USB drives ! Pretty sweet, right?  So, wanna know how you can possibly get your mitts on one of these?  All you have to do is become an HDH f...

Did you think I had forgotten about the past few challenge winners?!  What's even worse:  I haven't mailed out any prize packs since the before the Wacko Jacko's challenge!  But, I've got three packs put together now and Macabre Minion, Creepy Glowbugg has graciously offered up some loot too, so we should be caught up soon!  Thanks Creepy Glo! HDH049 - Appalling Arachnids Gruesome Twosome:   Sarah Elliott for her black widows, and Teri for her beyond awesome skully spider.  Fabulous work, girls!  Grab the Gruesome Twosome badge from my sidebar and link back here, please!!! HDH049 prize winner , whom will receive a little sumpin' sumpin' from me (or CreepyGlo) is:  Nancy !  Please email me your mailing address so that I can get your prize pack out! HDH050 - Foul Flutterings Gruesome Twosome:   Sarah Elliott for her angels from Hell, and to Andrea for her batty painting :)  Great job, ...

Teri over at Delicious Doodles will be celebrating her 1st birthday on August 17th... Well, 1st birthday for her shop anyway ;) To celebrate, she will be having a week of freebies from August 15th-21st!  Now don't let the cute little kitty image on her badge fool you... she has some delightfully creepy digi's like her newest Grotesque Gargoyle , Skull Spider , and my personal favorite:  The Bat-erfly :) Be sure to check her out... and bonus:  Teri will be sponsoring an upcoming challenge soon, so keep an eye out on the MM challenge bar to the right!

Well, most of you with kids are gearing up for Back to School:  shopping for clothes, supplies, and whatnot.  So Betty has decided that the parents deserve a little shopping fun too! Not only a little shopping fun, but some cool deals too... online & indoors beats this heatwave hands down! Right now at Simply Betty Stamps : My Little Shoe Box papers, stickers, and overlays are 50% off! BoBunny papers, stickers, and embellishments are 40% off! All Rubber is 30% off! All Digis are 25% off! How's that for a sweet Back to School mom has done all the shopping reward!? So hurry on over the Sale ends Thursday night at 11:59 PM (California time)!! Have fun shopping! See you all soon for winners of the first SBS Challenge (a new one starts on the 5th!), a New Release Blog Hop August 6th , and lots more fun!

Did you think I had forgotten about the past few challenge winners?!  I know... I'm awful.  Maybe I can delegate this job to one of the Macabre Minions ?!!!!  LOL! HDH046 - Wacko Jacko's Gruesome Twosome:   Andrea for her fabulously gruesome rubber rat & innards-filled jacko (even tho it is from last year... it's just too good), and to Alison for a fabulous shaker card!  Great job, ladies!!!  Grab your GT badges from the sidebar and linky back here! HDH046 prize winner , whom will receive a little sumpin' sumpin' from me  is:  Alison !  Please email me your mailing address so that I can get your prize pack out! And of course the wonderful work of our Macabre Minions : MMistress Lynx, Donna & Susan ... you guys are awesome! HDH047 - Freaker's Free for All Gruesome Twosome:   Lady Brayton for her fantastic scrapbook page, and Andrea for her phenomenal plague mask.  Fabulous work, ...

.introduce you to The Sisterhood of the Sinister ... Haunted Design House's very own Macabre Minions ! {trumpets sounding: doot doot doot doooooot} wait a sec... ... ... {maybe it should be shrieking screams instead?} ':) At any rate, here they are! Lynx {Sultana of the Sinister & Macabre Mistress} I'm also known as Blackdragon because I ALWAYS wear black and adore dragons.  I love darker art, but not the gorey stuff.  I have a warped sense of humour, and love to have inky fingers.  I am known to have an artistic flair and create detailed scenic pieces that tell a story. I am one busy mum of three hailing from the UK.  When I've got a free moment between the kids & oldies, I am busy creating work for the five other design teams of which I am part and I am hoping to open an Etsy shop very soon!  I was very proud when Barb made me one of the two Macabre Mistresses, along with the wonderful Oz. The Oz {Sovereign Monarch of Mayhem &...

... at Simply Betty Stamps !  It ends tonight at 11:59pm Pacific time!!

In celebration of the official start of summer, Simply Betty Stamps is having a sale!!! From now through June 29th: Buy all six My Kids Emo World rubber stamps for $45... that's like getting one FREE!!!  Use Code 6EMOS45 Buy all six DT Diva Digis for $15... that's like getting one FREE!!! Use Code 6DTDD15   Buy all six My Kids Emo World rubber stamps AND all six DT Diva Digis for $50!!!! That's a discount of more than 30%!!!!!!! EMODTCOMBO

I just received my package from Barb over at Stamp It Crazy for donating to the Oz drive (see THIS post)! *** O...M...G... Becky... look at this pile of stamps...   ... it is so big : And these photos really do not show it well enough.  I don't know that I'll ever be able to use them all, but I'm gonna try :)  That priority mail envie was stuffed!  AND it had a wonderful little note attached telling me to SNAP OUT OF IT AND GET TO CREATING!   :)  I love my support people! You, too, can get a whopper of a stamp package... be sure to check it out at the link above!  Thanks Barb at Stamp It Crazy... you are freakin' awesome!! *** I just totally dated myself with this play on lyrics... can YOU name that song?!  :)

If you haven't gone over to Stamp It Crazy 's blog and become a follower, please get it in gear and do it!!!  For every 50 followers she gets, she will give away 50 rubber stamps !!   Yes, you read that correctly.  She needs 24 more before she'll draw a winner this time, and then another 50 and she'll do it again!

Once again, I'm behind in announcing winners... my bad! And I think I've said this before, but I seriously believe that Lynx & Oz should just be their own Gruesome Twosome every week.  I'm always gravitating to their work, so from here on out, you two shall be the weekly GT Mistresses .  Don't worry... you'll still be in the prize drawings ;) HDH032 - Somber Shakespeare Gruesome Twosome:   Renee for her dark lady w/ Yorrick, and to Linda in PA , for her withered Cleopatra.  Great job, ladies!!!  Grab your GT badges from the sidebar and linky back here! HDH032 prize winner , whom will receive the awesome Stamp It Crazy Girl with Skull image I used for my challenge card is:  Sarah !  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 ! HDH033 - Freaker's Free for All Gruesome Twosome:   Dragon for her beautifully dark collage ...

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!

... to draw a winner for Stamp It Crazy's Moon Fairie stamp from HDH020?!  Seriously, who's turn was it to babysit me... you guys are slippin' ;) {drum roll} Doot doot doot doooooo ........... Melisa !  Winner!  Winner! Chicken Dinner!  Melisa, please email me your address so that I may forward it to Barb at Stamp It Crazy, and she'll send you out that unmounted image.  Thanks again, Barb , for sponsoring! Yes, it was all very scientific... I wrote the participants' names on slips of paper and drew from a jar.  I am soooooo high tech here :) .

I posted a little lovely on my other blog ... more black with a shot of red love card.  In case you're up for it :) But what I really wanted to tell you guys, is about the card challenge over at Stamp It Crazy 's new blog!  Barb is giving away a $25 gift certificate for her store... go HERE for details!  The challenge isn't dark or halloweenie, but I'm sure you Pepsi lovers (blech!) will have no problems!