Happy Birthday to the Creepy Cricut Cween, Donna!!

Yep, it's CCC Donna's birthday today.  We don't know how old she is, because she said that a lady never tells... hmmmmm... I don't see no ladies around here... but we'll just go with it :)

I made you a card, Donna, and I'm hoping it will get to you by tomorrow or the next day.  So this might spoil it, but you'll just have to suck it up!

Great sentiment, right?  PERFECT for Donna, me thinks... especially since she IS so FABULOUS.  That's right, Donna, I said it... in that non-hoity-toity kind of way ;)

The image is from Stampotique, the sentiment is from Missy B's, the edge punch is EK Success, the ribbon is from Michael's dollar bin (oh yes... yes it is... and it is delightful), and the AWESOME silver background is some wallpaper that Creepy Glowbugg sent to me.  LOVE IT!

I know I'm stretching it a bit, but this card uses the SDC#29 sketch over at the Stampotique challenge blog.  I used Daniel Torrente's Prom Queen for the 1st rectangle, and I rotated the 2nd rectangle for the sentiment... is that allowed?!  The ribbon & punched edge serve as the horizontal element in the sketch.

There you have it.  Happy Birthday, Donna!  I hope it was the best one yet :)

SBS Summer Zombie Previews - Betty

DISCLAIMER:  This is one bright-ass card.  I'm just sayin'.

It is so sunshiney, that my skin is starting to blister just looking at it :)  

I have crawled so far out of my box, that I may never find my way back... the one saving grace is that the card has a zombie on it.  :)  Otherwise you might have thought some sweet & cheery people went all willy-nilly with the HDH blog and had the Minions and I tucked away in the dungeon, right?

Sorry... tangent... on to the Summer Zombie Betty preview!

I know, right?  I must say that the iced brain cream cone is pretty awesome.

I went with the bright green, Frankenstein-esque skin tone for this one.  And that is one brassy bleach job she had done... just sayin'.

Wanna see some more Summer Zombie Betty?  Pop on over to the Simply Betty Stamps Blog for photos and links.  And don't forget that there will be two more Summer Zombies to go & Friday is Release Day, where you'll be able to get your mitts on these zombies yourself!

Not HDH related, but...

... if you like more mainstream and cutesy rubber stamps, there are some FANTASTIC specials going on from The Angel Company (I'm a demo, in case y'all didn't know).  

The Discontinued List is out... with some  AMAZING savings on our Final Farewells:

order now through May 1st:  45% off

May 2nd thru May 15th:  40% off

May 16th thru May 30th:  35% off

May 31st thru June 24th:  30% off

To see the list and order online, just visit my e-commerce store HERE

April promotions, click HERE

Eyelets to Go promotion, click HERE

Spring Fling promotion, click HERE (photos of products can be seen on TAC's website HERE)

Blast From the Past promotion, click HERE

April Stamp of the Month, click HERE

I'm sending in an order on Friday, so anyone that is local, I'd be happy to add  your order!  And any out-of-towners are more than welcome to order directly off of my online store.  Sorry... TAC doesn't ship outside the US & PR, but I can order it and ship it myself if there are any takers across the pond :)

Sorry for the pictureless post today, but I just wanted to get the word out about the great deals going on!!

Thanks for letting me pimp myself out a bit today :)

HDH086 - Alone in the Dark

**If you are looking for the Simply Betty Stamps Summer Zombie post, please scroll to next post!**
 
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 HDH086.

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, macabre fans... your challenge this week:

"Alone in the Dark"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based project using a black or eerily dark background for your main image.

We like THIS side of Teri's Delicious Doodles :)

We're sponsored by The Temptress of Terror herself, Teri of Delicious Doodles! Teri has some mainstream images, but our HDH hearts swoon for those dark & Gothic beauties that she wows us with week after week! I'll come back to edit this post with the exact amount of the prize, but just know that it will DEFINITELY be worth playing along this week!! :)

So let's see what the Minions have created to represent the deliciously dark Delicious Doodles:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Fantastic black/white project! And although Lynx didn't use a Delicious Doodles image, we still love her :)


Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Grim Reaper... fab-u-lous! Another bit of b/w beautimousness!

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

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

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

Gorgeous work, Susan!!! Love all of the layers and details, and the colors are fab.

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Double the fun! Both of these digital works are truly awesome!

Temptress of Terror Teri:

Beyond beautiful work as usual! And me thinks there will be a new image in the DD store soon... she looks great, Teri!

And now, of course, it's your turn. Show us your dark & eerie creations with a Gothic twist for a chance for some Delicious Doodles images!! If the linky tool isn't up by the time you've finished creating, please leave a comment with your url and we'll come find you :)

Zombie Apocalypse Winner

Well as all of your entries totally rocked this challenge we kind macabre type people have decided that everyone deserved to win the digis so if you could email smudgetastic36@yahoo.co.uk with the subject zombie apocalypse you will be emailed your digis.

SBS Summer Zombie Preview Day 2 - Rio

Yep, Day 2... I missed the first day, so be sure to run over to the Simply Betty Stamps Blog for yesterday's Summer Zombie Lola!  We will be showcasing a new Summer Zombie everyday from today until Friday... which is their official release for both digi and clear stamps!

More news... once all the stamps are made into either rubber or clear form the SBS digis will be retired.  Betty will begin the retiring process in the next few weeks so make sure you grab the Emos before they go as they will be some of the first ones to be retired from digi form.  Again, for all the details regarding this, please read yesterday's post on the SBS blog.

Now, on to today's Summer Zombieness:  Summer Zombie Rio!

I know I've been doing super simple cards lately... but the images are so large that there just isn't room to foof up too much ;)  I DID manage to squeeze in one of Creepy Glowbugg's GlowSkullz... right on top of an old Heidi Swapp flower & some awesome web trim from May Arts.

Does the sentiment make sense?  Nothin' like zombified rotting fleshing baking in the sun, right?  ;)  And the perfect garnish for a fleshy margarita... a nice slice of brain... mmmm.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT's Summer Zombie luvin' at the main SBS blog!

Zombie Invasion Challenge over at Simply Betty Stamps!

Yes, you read that correctly... another challenge with sooooooooo many of our HDH Macabre Monday participants in mind ;)  Wanna win some zombie rubbah for FREE?!!!!  Of course you do... just head over to 

Simply Betty Stamps Challenge blog 

for all the deets and then linky-up your project!

Here' my offering for this challenge:

Zombie Lola... don't you LOVE the look on her face?!  Well, the look on what's left of her face anyway ;)

A little BV20's for dead skin

R85 & R83 for the fleshy parts

BG49, BG15, BG13, BG11, BG10 for the outfit

Toner greys for black

and a few bright YG's for the hair

And the "meat-atarian" sentiment?  LOVE it :)  It's a new one from a fellow SBS DT'er, Cheri!  She has a bunch of great ones at her Graphicat site... you should check them out :)

HDH085 Gothic Pinup - ala The Macabre Mistress

Quick post today since I'm supposed to be working :P

"Why no, BossMan... I'm not blogging... I'm doing research."

ANYway, back to this week's fun challenge sponsored by Tiddly Inks... Whoo hoo... thanks so much, Christy!  I chose to work with Heartbroke Happy... kinda sad... or is she?  I'm thinking she is more like an inflicter of heartache instead... right?!

The sheer skirt was fun to work with, and I tried out some new Copic colors... BG99, BG95, BG93... I'm diggin' them.  And I vamped her out a bit with C00 & BV20's skin tones :)

AND do you see the little skully?!  I used a fun red/white camo GlowSkull from our very own Creepy Glowbugg!  I placed him atop a snippet of black lace on top of a swirled ribbon flower that I created from grosgrain... me likey.

You've still got about 3 more days to play along for a chance at a $10 gift voucher to Tiddly Inks!!!  Check out all the details on this week's Macabre Monday post!

What do you think?

Fiendishly Fun Friday - web-shrouded trees

After the floods in Pakistan last year, millions of spiders took to living in trees to escape the waters. Because in some areas, the waters have taken so long to recede, it has left trees blanketed with spiderwebs, to the point that they look shrouded for burial.






One unexpected side-effect is a reduction in the number of malaria-sufferers in regions where this phenomenom has occurred. It's thought that mosquitoes are getting caught in the webs. So the next time your friends or family moan about your creepier tendencies, point out that they may have unexpected health benefits, you just never know. And yes, I know this post isn't as laugh-filled as you usually get on Fridays, but I just thought that the pictures of these trees were astounding.

Wicked Wednesday - HDH085 Gothic Pin-up

This week's Wicked Wednesday

offering is for the Gothic Pin-up challenge

sponsored by Tiddly Inks. 

I chose to create with "Wicked Fun".

I guess that I am pretty predictable since Donna

said she figured I'd pick this one.

What can I say? I'm a sucker for a chick with horns! 

I decided to go with a non-traditional fire color scheme,

and chose purples instead of reds.

Besides, Donna kinda beat me to it this week with her fiery red

card on Monday and the naughty underwear sentiment.

I used a Tiddly Inks freebie sentiment from their

Paper Craft Planet group from a while back.

Please join us this week and maybe you will be the

lucky weiner of a $10 gift certificate to the

Tiddly Inks digi store.

Macabre Monday HDH085 - Gothic Pin-Ups

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 HDH085.

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, macabre fans... your challenge this week:

"Gothic Pin-Ups"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based sultry pin-up project in a suitably macabre fashion.
We're sponsored by the ever-lovely Tiddly Inks, who have a great new line of digis called Gothic Pin Ups, so it seemed like a match made in heaven. Or so the story goes, obviously the Minions can't get in there :P The prize this week is a $10 voucher to spend in the Tiddly Inks store, and with so much gothic lusciousness to choose from you'll be spoiled for choice. And yes, there's also lots of cute stuff there, for those of you with totally weird and freaky tastes ;o
So let's see what the Minions have created to represent Gothic Pin-Ups:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Lynx has been awfully quiet since she created that zombie doll last week, I think maybe it got her!

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna used the Blow Me Away image to create this HOT piece:

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

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

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan kept things simple with Tainted:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea worked with Flora and brings us this deliciously gothic offering:

Temptress of Terror Teri has used one of her own images to create this spookily elegant card:

And now, of course, it's your turn. Show us your sultry and sexy pin-up creations with a darkly gothic twist. If the linky tool isn't up by the time you've finished creating, please leave a comment with your url and we'll come find you :)

Simply Betty Stamps **FREEBIE** alert!

 Betty is giving away a free digi from an upcoming line of Emos!  Just CLICK HERE to be sent over to the Simply Betty Stamps Facebook Fan page for details!  Scroll down to the April 14th post :)

Fiendishly Funny Friday

If you aren't familiar with the cartooning brilliance

of Dave Lowe, you are missing out.

He is also a masterful prop builder and yard haunter! 



Wicked Wednesday - Zombie Apocalypse in pictures

So my Macabre Monday project did not go as planned.

I am working on another "something", but wanted to 

bring you some Kitty Zombie Lovin' to keep you 

satisfied until I complete, said project. 

This concludes my Wicked Wednesday offering.

Hopefully, I'll be back tomorrow with a real,

CreepyG original zombie creation.

I will try not to crumble under the pressure to create something

truly amazing. I'll try, but I kinda think that was my downfall

the first time around. 



Macabre Monday HDH084 - Zombie Apocalypse

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 HDH084.

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, macabre fans... your challenge this week:

"Zombie Apocalypse"

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

They are coming to get you... well you might be redeemed if you come up with a suitably macabre zombie creation.

Now for the minions who have been definitly redeemed:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

I don't know about you but I see an onslaught of nightmares but what could better make an appearance than this superior zombie doll!

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

As usual Donna has a winning sentiment and a supreme card.

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

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

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

Good plan I have been putting it to action for years.

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Zombies, zombies everywhere!!

Temptress of Terror Teri:

 

 

This week Teri has drawn a zombie image but unfortunately was unable to do her usual magic and make us all jealous with her entry but if you pop along to her blog you might just catch a glimpse of this beauty coloured.

The prize this week for the winner will be the three zombie digis below:

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

The linky tool site isn't working right now!  So if in the meantime you could leave a link in the comment window or just wait for the linky if you so desire.