Macabre Monday HDH081 - Dastardly Divas

HDH Macabre Monday Rules:
1. Create a dark and macabre SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy is fine, but creepy is better :)
2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. Please make sure that your blog post / upload has been made AFTER the challenge date... we wanna see fresh stuff, not those from a few weeks ago!!
3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.), please tag the title using HDH081.
4. Weekly giveaways! Some weeks will be loaded with loot, others not-so-much... but the thrill is in the win, right?! Some prizes shall be by random drawing, others hand picked... and I'm not telling you ahead of time :)
5. We'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twosome (our top two favorite creations) from all the players. At the end of every month these will be compiled and a Master of Macabre will be selected and will receive a little giftie from Barb... this could be stamp sets, handmade items, papers, halloweenie embellishments... you just never know.
Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:

"Dastardly Divas!"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based project that includes a diva.
We want to see women who still look fabulous even when performing acts so vile and vicious that Dracula himself would blush. Lipgloss and bloodlust, it's a winning combination!
We also have the PERFECT sponsor for this challenge! Barbara Jensen is an artist who creates digi stamps, clip art, tubes and other exquisite goodies to play with. The winner of this challenge will be chosen by Barbara herself, and you'll get to choose any THREE of her digi stamps as your prize! You can see her digi stamps and clip art HERE and she also has a store where she sells personal use tubes and sig tags for those of you who like to work digitally, see those HERE. Just don't blame us if you have to buy several of them before the challenge even closes, because there are some seriously kick-ass divas in the store!

And now... check out what the Macabre Minions have been up to... strangely enough, all our hubbies were paying rather more attention than normal to this week's creations, I can't think why! :P

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

Check back on Wednesday to see Glo's luscious creation ;)

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

Temptress of Terror Teri:

And now it's your turn! Let loose your inner diva and join in the fun :D

Random Comment Winner

I nearly forgot to randomly choose a winner for

a free item from the

Creepy Glowbugg Etsy shoppe!

Congratulations go to #7 comment 

Julie from Aisling's Hobby blog!

There is still time to enter this week's

Macabre Monday challenge.

C'mon, it's so easy! Skulls! Who  doesn't have

a spare or two lying around?!

Slap something "Skully" on a card and link it up

here! 

A big THANKS and Alas, Poor Yorick... ala Barb

Thanks so much to everyone for their wonderful birthday wishes!  And even though I commented on the Minions blogs, I want to thank them here, too... you guys are awesome!  Not just because of the fantabulousness that has been retrieved from my mailbox as of late (which IS pretty effing awesome by the way), but for all the inspiration you guys give me and to all of our readers here at HDH!

So here is my warm-fuzzy moment:
You are the dank to my dungeon, the ooze to my swamp, and the screams to my banshees :)
Love ya' ghouls!

And now, back to our regularly scheduled post:

After seeing what the Macabre Minions created for this week's challenge, I don't know if I should even post my puny little card... wasn't Creepy Glowbugg's mask effing awesome?! And what about Lynx's skully goodness?  I'd like to put in my request for my very own glow-in-the-dark eyeball please :) Thanks.

Well. Here it is. My no-layer card! Yep... that's right. Only the kraft card base & ink, baby:

Stamps: skulls (Artful Illusions), sentiment (Smeared Ink), splotches (something from JoAnn's... cling mount)

Paper: kraft cardstock

Ink: Moulin Rouge, Burnt Umber & Noir Palettes, VersaMark

Other: Copic markers

Still a couple more days to play along with this week's Macabre Monday Challenge #HDH080!! $20 voucher to Creepy Glowbugg's Etsy store is up for grabs!!!

On this day...

... our Masterful Mistress was born.

Happiest of Birthday wishes to you Barb!!

Yup, yup, yup! Today is Barb's birthday!!!

And not just any birthday either.

Shhh.... she's fifty. I mean forty!!!!

Either way it's gonna hurt.

On behalf of all of the Minions,

I'd like to wish you a simply glorious day

filled with good friends, good family, and a little YOU time.

I cannot leave without one last dig.

"Sag! You're it!"

Thrashed Out Thursday

Well it looks like Wicked Wednesday has now

turned into Thrashed out Thursday.

I am whoooped!!! Too much fun playing with clay this

week, and I am pretty happy with most of the results.

Here is my offering for Macabre Monday's

"Alas, poor Yorick" challenge of using skulls.

This is really only one skull, but I had to get the idea out of my head

and into a three dimensional project.

So, I took one of those cheapy paper mache masks

from Mike's and painted it white and then painted

glow in the dark paint over that. Then for the moment of 

no return, I had to cut the hole in the skull.

Since it's paper it cut like buttah, with a little sawing motion.

I added some pearled paints in silver and blue

to add some shadow to the face. I then painted the cracks 

for a little more interest. I'm thinking I may go back

and add some detail to the teeth so they show up a bit. 

I made three evil fingers and one blinded eyeball out

of polymer clay that glows in the dark.

After adding the paint for the shading and detail to the fingers,

 it covered too much of the gid clay, but the finger nails and that eyeball 

are quite luminescent.

Another of my loves in life is glow in the dark

schtuff. 

Well, I hope you like my version of "Poor Yorick".

There are a few more days to enter this challenge

which has literally no competition this week.

I'm thinking it's all you Allison! 

Wicked Wednesday WIP

I am running a tad behind for my WW post,

so here are some WIP photos to prove I am working on

something....

Fingers and one, blind, glow in the dark eyeball

Here is my mess on the kitchen counter.

I am almost finished with my Macabre Monday offering

for the "Alas, poor Yorick" challenge.

Don't forget, you can win a free item of your

choice from my Etsy shoppe just by stopping by and leaving

a comment as to your favorite item in the shoppe.

Leave your comment here.  

I will return later today with my awesome creation!



Macabre Monday HDH080 - "Alas, poor Yorick"

HDH Macabre Monday Rules:
1. Create a dark and macabre SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy is fine, but creepy is better :)
2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. Please make sure that your blog post / upload has been made AFTER the challenge date... we wanna see fresh stuff, not those from a few weeks ago!!
3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.), please tag the title using HDH080.
4. Weekly giveaways! Some weeks will be loaded with loot, others not-so-much... but the thrill is in the win, right?! Some prizes shall be by random drawing, others hand picked... and I'm not telling you ahead of time :)
5. We'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twosome (our top two favorite creations) from all the players. At the end of every month these will be compiled and a Master of Macabre will be selected and will receive a little giftie from Barb... this could be stamp sets, handmade items, papers, halloweenie embellishments... you just never know.

Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:

"Alas, poor Yorick!"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based skullified project in a suitably macabre fashion.
Skulls, skulls, and more skulls!
Images, papers, embellishments, fragments!
Use 'em if you've got 'em!

We also have a sponsor this week. It's me, Creepy G.
I am offering up a $20 gift certificate to my Etsy shoppe,
where I have been busy stocking the shelves with lots of
handmade creepy goodness.

I am also offering up a bous giveaway.

All you have to do is visit my Etsy shoppe, pick a favorite item,

come back here to HDH and leave a comment with your

pick of creepy goodness. I will randomly choose a winner

on Saturday, the 19th to win the item of their choice.

And now... check out what the Macabre Minions have been up to...

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Ooooh, Mommy like! Mommy like alot!!!

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Brilliant use of a gorgeous decanter of Vodka-

that was filtered over diamonds. Fancy schmancy huh?

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

will be posting on Wednesdays, so check back later this week!!

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Andrea has created quite a mysterious little

gem here. Drop by her blog for the details.

Temptress of Terror Teri:

Ah, a girl and her skulls.  I really like the accent of the red

with the black tones on this one. 

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

I don't know why Susan decided not to use any skulls

on her project, but it is lovely just the same. LOL!

Now, how about you, my little pretties?? Are you up for the challenge this week?

Just for the fun of it...

This card has been done for a while and I just never posted it:

Daniel Torrente's "Kitty" & "Eric" from Stampotique.  This card has no foof... not much of anything really.  A little Scor-Bug action and some Copics... that's it.

Doesn't Eric's shirt remind you of Captain Kirk's from Star Trek? :)  And I can't believe I colored his skin so close to the background color... it looks like I used lavender cardstock on him, right?

Here kitty kitty kitty... he looks a little worse-for-wear doesn't he? 

Just a bit of Sunday fun.  Hope your weekend was a good one!

A Celebratory Romp...

... sounds kinda dirty, doesn't it?  ;)  MUCH more fun than just a mere birthday bloghop, no?  Me & a couple of the Minions are doing a little Fiendishly Festive Friday Frolic to honor the Devious Digital Demoness' birthday today, Susan!  Susan does SO much for HDH, from writing up the challenge posts, to finding WONDERFUL little gems for Fiendishly Fun Fridays, to cracking us up with comments and suggestions.  We love ya' baby!

I know this little card isn't much, and of course you won't be receiving it in the mail today, but you will eventually!  I had hoped to create some bit of awesomeness like Creepy Glowbugg, but time once again slipped away from me... and she has all of that natural talent an all :P

All of the stamps are from The Angel Company, Palette inks, EK Success edger punch, Cricut diecut fence & of course... Stickles.  Susan loves purple and sparkly things, so there you go :)

Happy Birthday, Susan!  I hope today  is as awesome as you are!  

Now, if you'd like to see what some of the others have made for Susan:

Creepy Glowbugg - Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos

Donna - Creepy Cricut Cween

Andrea - Agent of the Abominable

SBS Challenge: Let's Celebrate!

Yep, it's Friday, so it's time for another Simply Betty Stamps Challenge!

Our challenge is using any SBS image: anything Birthday of course!  Three lucky winners will be chosen to receive TWO Sweet Gothic Kids Rubber Stamps (the link is for the digi listing, but you can see the images!).  For exact details and the challenge linky, please go to the
SBS Challenge blog.

Now, my project today is actually a gift bag hang tag... and it's a biggie :)  Probably about 9" tall me thinks.  BUT I was trying to use up scraps without having to cut much... I'm lazy like that sometimes ;)  What is nice is that this also qualifies for my HDH MACABRE MONDAY Body Bags & Toe Tags challenge for this week!  Yeah, I KNOW... I got to play along after all :)

This is Alex... my favorite of the SGK Birthday images... I can't wait for you to see the Easter ones.
O.M.G. Becky... they are sooooo cute!  But you'll just have to way a week or so for those

{insert sinister laugh here}

Digi (and now rubber!):  Sweet Gothic World Kids - Birthday Alex
Rubber stamps (The Angel Company):  Background Soup, Great Greetings
Paper:  Caboodle white, DCWV purple & grey cardstocks
Ink:  Palette Noir
Other:  Bat Nesties, black ribbon, Tim Holtz & Cuttlebug embossing folders,
GlowSkullz, Copic markers

And come back a little later this morning around 8 or 9am... there is more fun to be had ;)

Wicked Wednesday!!!!

This edition of Wicked Wednesday is a bit

tardy as it is "Zombie Week" on the Chiller channel

and I am easily distracted by the undead.

For this week's Macabre Monday challenge of

"Toe Tags and Body Bags",

we are to design a tag or a bag with a creepy

twist.

I went with tags.

I had fun decoupaging this one with various

images, stamps, mulberry papers, and a charm.

This was a digital tag that I embossed and cracked.

I also added a handmade coffin charm and some fibers.

Here is a good picture of the iridescent embossing

and the cracked glass effect.

Drop by my blog for more info on these tags

and a heads up regarding the next

Macabre Monday challenge.

Now get busy and make some

unorthodox tags and bags!!!!

You have until this Sunday at 10PM CST.

  

  

Macabre Monday HDH079 - Body Bags & Toe Tags

HDH Macabre Monday Rules:
1. Create a dark and macabre SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy is fine, but creepy is better :)
2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. Please make sure that your blog post / upload has been made AFTER the challenge date... we wanna see fresh stuff, not those from a few weeks ago!!
3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.), please tag the title using HDH079.
4. Weekly giveaways! Some weeks will be loaded with loot, others not-so-much... but the thrill is in the win, right?! Some prizes shall be by random drawing, others hand picked... and I'm not telling you ahead of time :)
5. We'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twosome (our top two favorite creations) from all the players. At the end of every month these will be compiled and a Master of Macabre will be selected and will receive a little giftie from Barb... this could be stamp sets, handmade items, papers, halloweenie embellishments... you just never know.

Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:

Body Bags & Toe Tags

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based bag or tag project in a suitably macabre fashion.

And now... check out what the Macabre Minions have been up to...

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

will be posting on Wednesdays, so check back later this week!!

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Temptress of Terror Teri:

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

Now, how about you, my little pretties?? Are you up for the challenge this week?

Fiendishly Fun Friday - Mariel Clayton

Mariel Clayton is an artist and photographer who delights in showing us Barbie's serial-killer alter-ego. I love, love, love this work, for the full range click her name :)!

Blood-thirsty Thursday, HDH078 - My Beloved Monster and other blogsite updates...

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've cleaned up the sidebar a bit and created some handy pages that can be accessed by the tabs under the blog header:

• Halloween/Goth stamp companies:  this tab has been there for awhile now.  And if you know of some that need to be added, please email me (see sidebar for link).
• HDH badges:  here you can find badges for Gruesome Twosomes, Master of the Macabre, as well as one plain ol' "I love Macabre Mondays".  Grab 'em if you need 'em.
• Creepy Cool blogs:  I really need to update this list!  Again, if you know of some AWESOME Halloween blogs, let me know!
• Our Sponsors:  this is a new one!  The sponsors kept getting pushed down the way, so I felt they needed a page all to themselves!  Thanks for helping out with some of the prizes!  If you would like to sponsor an upcoming challenge, please contact me :)
• Dt's, stores & other cool stuff:  these are all of the other badges and links for Design Teams I'm on, guest DT spots, challenge blog links, stores I like and/or work for, etc.

I was rushing around last night, trying to button up some DT things & blog stuff, and had a couple of spare minutes to throw this card together!  Yeay!  I ACTUALLY GOT TO PLAY ALONG WITH A CHALLENGE ON MY OWN BLOG!  Oh, sorry... I guess I was screaming :)

Here is my little monstie.  Isn't he cute?  I know he's from Stampotique, but I don't know his name as a buddy of mine sent me a stamped image quite a while ago!  The sentiments are both retired from TAC, and the uber-awesome batty fence is a MS border punch.

I've actually had this cutie colored up for a couple of months now.  Yeah.  I know.  How bad does THAT suck?  It took me longer to cut him out than to color him :)  I think he could be zombie-ish... but not as zombie-ish as Creepy G's card from yesterday... effing fantastic!

I must say that I love my Macabre Minions.  They have totally taken over so many of the duties here while I'm working... thanks guys!  Without you there wouldn't be an HDH challenge :)

Wicked Wednesday!!!!

Welcome! Creepy G here for my very first installment of

 "Wicked Wednesday"!

The "Old Masterful One" has allowed me to post

my Macabre Monday DT offerings on Wednesdays, to spice

things up a bit and give you yet another reason to visit

our little slice of hell here on a hump day!

 

This week's challenge is "My Beloved Monster".

 

My first card was a bit on the sweet side

(you can check it out here if you dare!),

so I made another card, more fitting for the challenge

and more "Haunted Design House-friendly".

 

It's no secret that my most beloved of the monsters

is the ZOMBIE!

I loves me some undead!

I went for my new "mottled zombie" coloring technique

and am quite pleased with how the Frankenstein-like image

turned out. I found it on Google images, but I'm not sure of 

it's talented artist.

I mounted "her" (see fleshy mound above her left arm)

on black card stock and then onto some red mulberry paper.

I used a photo of an iron fence for the background paper

and that's all she wrote!

Please join us this week for our Macabre Monday challenge.

We have lots of great sponsors lined up in the coming weeks,

including a challenge sponsored by yours truly.  

Stay tuned, and you can't win if you don't play!

  

 

 

 



SBS Veronica & Gang Blog Hop

Betty from Simply Betty Stamps has been cracking the whip, and her new artists are cranking out some fun stuff!  Today, I'll be showing you a couple of new images from the Veronica & Gang line.  If you've arrived from Angela's blog, you are on the right track... if not, please head over to the Simply Betty Stamps Challenge blog for details on how you can get your mitts on some of these images... possibly for free!

Now, for today's bit of crafty-goodness:

This is Mary Jane, and she is my FAVORITE of this line.  VERY cute, but me thinks you could vamp her out a bit :)  The sentiment is from StampInsanity.

How do you like the GlowSkullz garter embellishment?!  Me LOVES it :)  My girl and Macabre Minion, Creepy Glowbugg hooked me up with some of these sah-weet skully buttons in white... thanks, man!  She makes several colors... you can purchase some HERE.  And check out her Etsy store HERE!

There's a lot of pop-dot action on this baby... even the white panel is popped up.

Now, since I was pressed for time, I decided to just use this same card design for Zoe:

Pink, black & white... good ol' standard color combo, no?  A couple of Maya Road stick pins and an awesome gray/black button finishes it off nicely.  The sentiment is a retired one from The Angel Company...

I like to imagine that Zoe is doing a little internet Dom bih-ness in her spare time...  

IF you know what I'm sayin'.  >;)

There I go... makin' up stories again.

Well, if you made it through this far... thanks!

And now on to some more Veronica & Gang fun at

Betty Boo's blog!

And don't forget... if you get lost along the hop,

just go back to the SBS Challenge blog for the full hop list :)