HDH083 - Magically Witchy, Macabre Mistress style...

I confess, I've had this AWESOME image colored up for a couple of weeks now... thankfully, otherwise I would not have been able to play along this week!  The image is "The Key" from Stitchy Bear Stamps.

As you can see, I had a little fun with my MS grass border punch :)  As well as an EK Success one.  The background paper is from Rusty Pickle's Thriller collection... LOVE IT.  I'm so sad that I only bought one sheet of this.  It had three other 6x6 patterns that you'll see eventually, but this one is my fave.

You'll notice that I added a hat to Stitchy's image... after all, the challenge is "Magically Witchy" :)  I did save it as a jpeg, so if anyone wants it, just email me and I'll send it to you.  Or wait until later tonight and I'll edit this post and add it here.  I slit the hat so that it slid right on her head.  Genius, me thinks.

Well, off to get some work done... and don't forget that you have until Sunday night to enter this week's challenge!!  Who wouldn't want to win some Stitchy Bear Stamps digi-goodness?

**edited to add witch hat jpeg:

yeah... looks kinda rough, but it's all in the coloring, baby ;)

Fiendishly Fun Friday - Kittiwat Unarrom

Thanks to Sarah Cooper for bringing this bit o' macabre to the Minnions' attention. Kittiwat Unarrom is the creative genius behind Thailand's Body Bakery, where you can buy his totally edible and gruesomely realistic bread sculptures. Seriously, they're made from bread, not torture victims :P







Now all you have to decide is whether you want your morning toast to be a crust piece or a brain piece :P

Third Degree Burn Thursday

I am back today with a couple more cards I made using

images from this week's Macabre Monday sponsor,

Stitchy Bear Stamps. 

This card is spotlighting one of the silhouette images from

the "Dem Bones" digi pack. There are three images in this set.  

This key is my destash for this card. It is an awesome

wood cut out from Pork Chop Show on Etsy.

I've got some really creepy baby doll eye cut outs from him

also, I just haven't been able to fit them into a project yet. 

I also finally used my Tim Holtz Poison embossing folder! 

I just went over the raised bits with some silver dye ink to make

the embossing pop.

I used another of the Dem Bones images for

a masculine, yet fancy, card.

Yes, I know the ribbon is crooked. I fixed it,

but didn't bother to retake the pictures.

The weird bat brad is the destash here.

Please join us this week for our

"Magically Witchy" challenge,

and maybe you'll win $10 in digis from Stitchy Bear!

Good Luck!!!

Oh, and no specific reason for today's post title.

I just thought it was eye catching and a bit silly.

  

Wicked Wednesday - HDH083 Magically Witchy

Creepy G here with another Hump Day offering.

This week's Macabre Monday challenge is sponsored by

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

There is $10 worth of digital goodness up for grabs

this week.

The challenge is simple.

Make something magically witchy.

I used some of the killer Zodiac Tiny Tickets for my card.

These come in a set of 12, so you have one for every month

which makes it easy for birthdays and those friends who like

the whole astrology thing.

I used each month's birthstone to figure the color

of each ticket. After coloring each one with Copics,

I fussy cut each ticket and aged it a bit with distress inks.

I am planning on making a set of these to keep on hand

for each month just in case I forget some one's special day.

I have another Stitchy project using the "Dem Bones" silhouettes,

but my battery croaked before I could get any photos. I'll post them tomorrow.

Please join us this week for our Macabre Monday challenge and 

drop by Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps and check out all the

amazing images you could choose from if you are this week's 

winner!   

   

Macabre Monday HDH083 - Magically Witchy

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:

"Magically Witchy!"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based project That features witches, witchcraft, magic or the occult. Incantations, familiars, potion ingredients, all are welcome this week.

We also have a fabulous sponsor this week, Stitchy from Stitchy Bear Stamps!

Stitchy owns and runs the Stitchy Bear Stamps store, and the One Stitch At A Time challenge blog, and while I'm sure you've all seen lots of her cute images as you've travelled through blogland, you may not have been aware that there is a darker side to Stitchy too. Soooo many images that are suitable for your darker or more adult work. The winner this week will receive a $10 voucher to spend in the store, where you can even get PERSONALIZED Halloween stamps! Yup, you read that right, you can have Stitchy create your very own stamp that says EXACTLY what you want it to say! Check it out HERE!


And now, for your viewing pleasure, here are the Minions' magically macabre makes for the challenge. Don't forget to check back throughout the week for more eye candy featuring Stitchy Bear stamps!

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Temptress of Terror Teri:

And now it's over to you, our dark acolytes. Show us your MAGICAL creations! If the linky isn't here when you've created your piece, just leave a link in the comments and we'll come find you :D

Fiendishly Fun Friday - demon skin rug

Isn't this magnificent? It was made by missmonster, and you can see lots more of her work on DeviantArt by clicking her name or her online shop. The face/ears/claws/teeth are all hand sculpted and hand painted and the fur is airbrushed.

We have a winner!

Barbara Jensen recently sponsored our Dastardly Divas challenge, and she's also picked her favourite card as the winner, so big congrats to Chloe, who made this fabulous card for her friend:





Huge congrats Chloe, we loved your creation, and you've won yourself three Barbara Jensen digi stamps! And thanks to everyone who played along, all the entries were amazing!

Weak Ticket Wednesday

Welcome to Weak Ticket Wednesday!

I am your hostess with the mostess

Creepy Glowbugg.

This week's Macabre Monday challenge is

Hacked to Bits.

Now I thought long and hard about this for a while,

and kinda just figured it would come to me as I needed

it to, but it didn't. 

I DO like my card, and technically it DOES fit the challenge...

Well, Hello Freddy!!!

I guess I could say that the hacking and the shredding is

implied, given it is Freddy we're talking about here.

How bleepin' cute is this though?

Looks like another possible tattoo design to me.

Join us for this week's "Hacked to Bits" challenge.

You have until Sunday night at 10:00 PM CST. 

Macabre Monday HDH082 - Hacked to Bits

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:

"Hacked to Bits!"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based project that includes or shows some kind of hacking or slashing. Think of Edward Scissorhands on PCP and you get the general idea.

And now, for viewing pleasure, here are the Macabre Minions' takes on the challenge. There will be more gloriously gruesome creations later this week from the Minions, but for now we'll share with you these three:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

I LOVE Donna's creation this week, and I've double-dared her to enter it into the Mother's Day challenges that are around at the minute, but I think she's a little wary, so please pop along to her blog and encourage her. Can you imagine the impact this will have amongst all the more tradtional vase-of-pink-flowers-and-Best-Mum-in-the-World cards?

Temptress of Terror Teri:

Another fabulous piece of macabre art from Teri. I'm going to be singing that rhyme all day now!

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

And my piece, meh, but don't forget the other Minions will be here later in the week, so keep a look out :)

And now we want to see your "hacked" creations. Get slice-y with a blade of some description, either literally or figuratively and come join in the fun. The linky tool will be added shortly, but if it isn't here when you've finished creation just leave a link in the comments and we'll find you :D

Fiendishly Fun Friday, HDH081 - Dastardly Diva, Macabre Mistress style...

Woo Hoo, baby... I was able to play along again this week!  And though my card doesn't exude a lot of dastardliness, the image is still smokin' hot :)

Yowsa!  If I batted for the same team, I think I'd be turned on right about now...

I had a lot of fun coloring up this awesome image from Barbara Jensen:  Poison Ivy.  The look in her eyes is enough to call this one a dastardly diva!  Since she was earthy feeling, I used some paper from DCWV's green stack & got all flowery with fabric & stick pin flowers.  The ribbon is some random awesomeness I came across at Michaels last year.  Sentiment is from TAC's Joy, Found.

I could not capture the coloring of Ivy as good as it is in person, so you'll have to trust me ':)  These are the Copic colors I used for her skin:  E11, E01, E00, E000, R02 (cheeks)

Hair:  E07, YR18, YR15, YR12

Ivy:  can't remember... oopsie!

Well kids... you still have a few days left to enter your Dastardly Divas for the HDH081 challenge!!  Be sure to enter for a chance to win some fabulousness from Barbara Jensen's shop!

Oh!  And this also qualifies for Crafts and Me "anything goes" challenge!  I've been eyeing their shop from across the pond for awhile now... they have some awesome rubber stamp lines!

Fiendishly Fun Friday: Pushin Daisies

I stumbled across this fabulously fun online shop, Pushin Daisies,  while surfing the net awhile back.  It was started by a licensed funeral director... so it's GOT to be good, right?

There are so many awesome finds, that I can't show them all here... you'll just have to go check them out yourself!  But here are few choice gems:

Yard art just got more fun :)

How's this for a wedding cake topper?!

Nothing says chocolate like a skeleton in a coffin, right?

Me thinks these ice trays are a MUST!

And a whole page of skull items... especially love the skull grapes :)

And the poison casket ring really gives me the warm fuzzies.

Giftie giving just got easier :)

SBS Sweet Gothic Kids Easter - Preview Day 5

Here is my other Preview card this week... SGK Easter Tilly!  She's really pushin' my cuteness threshold, but you HAVE to love the little bitty spiders on her umbrella, right?!  :)

And to push that fantabulously adorable button again, check out the sentiment... sshhhhh, don't spread this around, but it kinda makes me smile...

:)

See?

 It's a retired stamp from The Angel Company.

I KNOW... right?  I found this awesome paper in my stash, but I can't remember who makes it... maybe I'll come back and edit this when I figure it out... but then, maybe not :)  Looks like a windy, dark sky to me.

Pop by the Simply Betty Stamps Challenge blog to see the rest of the DT's creations, and definitely on Friday... RELEASE DAY!

And no, I haven't forgotten about my HDH081 Macabre Monday challenge card... you'll be getting an EYEFUL soon ;)... stay tuned!

Wicked Wednesday and some winners!!

Welcome to another exciting installment of

Wicked Wednesday!

First off, I'd like to congratulate our winners from
last week's "Alas, poor Yorick" challenge.
Katt was our Master of the Macabre with her awesome
Day of the Dead Kenny K  girl. Awesome job Katt!
And, I'd also like to offer up a single item of their choice
to each of the Gruesome Twosome,
Lady B for her brilliant 3-D steampunk skull and
CGRA with her insane skull moth.
Please contact me with your choice of prize from the
Creepy Glowbugg Etsy Shoppe.

This week's Macabre Monday challenge is

Dastardly Divas.

What that means is we want to see your femme fatales,

your homicidal hotties, and your buxom bad asses!!

This week's challenge is being sponsored by

Barbara Jensen Designs.

She has quite an assortment of digital goodies from

digi images to tubes and clip art in her online store.

Barbara was generous enough to let the DT play with this

gorgeous Poison Ivy image from her digital image line.


For some reason when I first saw this image I immediately
envisioned her as some sort of alien Amazon woman.
Hence the violet skin and the blue hair.

I added some new (to me) Sizzix leaves and a new
fleur from Wild Orchids that I colored slightly to match.


I felt this fleur was a bit more exotic  and unique than the normal
roses or flat, petaled fleurs I usually use.

This week's sponsor, Barbara Jensen has offered up three
digital images of your choice as this week's prize.
You can't win if you don't play!

SBS Sweet Gothic Kids Easter Preview Day 2

***Note:  If you are looking for this week's Macabre Monday challenge, please scroll down to the next post... it's a fun one!***

Simply Betty Stamps has got another fun release this week... if you like Gothic-cute, this is for you!  Remember the Sweet Gothic Kids? Well they are back and ready for Easter... perfect for those Easter cards, crafts, and baskets!  The best part is that they will be available in both Digi and Rubber Friday March 25th!  In the meantime the SBS DT will be showing off all of the SG Kids, so be sure to check the SBS Challenge Blog every day this week!

Well, you know me... I had to go all Halloweenie on this release, too ;)  This is Judy, and she is my FAVE of the release!  Sweet, sassy, and lookin' a bit like a Playboy Bunny, no?

She was VERY fun to color, and can I say that I LOVE my colorless blender Copic marker?!  L.O.V.E.  It's so easy to get those eye highlights to look fabulously shiny :)

And my new favorite Copic hair color... YR24, YR23, YR21

I've been using that for blonde hair for awhile, but I'm liking it more and more.

SBS Digi/Rubber Stamp:  SGK Easter Judy

Rubber Stamp:  sentiment (Stamp It Crazy)

Paper:  Heebie Jeebies line from ??, Neenah & Bazzill cardstocks

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo, Burnt Umber Palette

Other:  Copic markers, misc. ribbon, AC stick pin

I'll be back later this week with another SGK Easter preview and my HDH081 Macabre Monday challenge card, so please check back!