Simply Betty Stamps challenge - a card for Mom

My bad.  This was supposed to be posted yesterday. :)

Over at the Simply Betty Stamps challenge blog, we are doing a super easy challenge!  So you should be able to play along... just create a card or project for Mom.  See, I said it was easy.

Here's mine:

Yeah, I'm sure my mama will give me a smile over this one ;)  VERY fitting, no?  I used my new uber-awesome iron gate punches from MS... just  a bit around the sentiment.  I LOVE those things!

 

Digi/stamp:  SGKW Birthday Sally

Rubber stamp:  Trendy Greetings (TAC)

Paper:  DCWV, Caboodles White & set D cardstocks, OLD paper from stash

Other:  VersaFine Onyx ink, Copic markers, MS punches, Micron pen

So, since Mom's Day is tomorrow, do you all have your cards done?  If not, whip one up and link it up over at Simply Betty Stamps Challenges!!!

HDH Stalkers Blog Candy WINNER!!!!

Since you've been oh-so-patient this week... I decided I should probably go ahead and let you know the winner today...

...the winner of this bit of awesomeness is...

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(don't you hate waiting?)

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Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

20

Timestamp: 2011-05-07 03:24:12 UTC

 ... Soooooo if you scroll down our list o' comments, we get:

Starla B. said...
Mmmmm.....candy.... I'm a pretty recent follower, just found you guys a week or two ago, but I'm loving it!! I know I'll be a faithful follower for years to come! =D

4/30/11 10:27 AM

Congratulations, Starla B!  Please email me your mailing address & I'll get those goodies boxed up and mailed off next week!!  My email address is in the sidebar.

Thanks for everyone's comments!  And don't forget that this week is a

Freaker's Free For All challenge

and you've got until Sunday at 5pm central time (US) to linky up your creations!!  

HDH STALKERS BLOG CANDY ALERT!!!

**This post will remain at the top until May 6th... for newer posts, please scroll down**

But before we get to the candy, please read:

The NOT-so-Masterful Mistress of the Macabre here.  I have been so damn busy with work and other responsibilities that I have neglected necessary blog housekeeping duties & announcing quite a few of the last Masters of the Macabre.  So I guess it's about time for me to dig through my big box of scraps and reward you guys... and you'd BETTER like it... just sayin'.  >':)

Stay tuned for that announcement later this week.

Ok, now on to the reason why you clicked over here...

mmmm.... BLOG CANDY

Haunted Design House has officially hit 400 Stalkers!  YEAY!  Who knew that there were so many fan-freakishly-tastic people out there ;)  So to celebrate, I am offering up this bit of fiendishly fun goodies:

Items include:
orange rub-on letters, pleather card-keeper handbag, blank mini-album, three sheets of GrungeBoard, Halloween fabric brads, two wood mounted stamps, one cling mounted stamp, 4-pk lime green card blanks w/ envelopes, a sampler of my coveted GlowSkullz, a mini-cauldron full of fibers & trims, a dozen Martha Stewart mini-cupcake papers (fun to flatten & use as embellies), 8x8 pad of Metropolis paper from The Angel Company, orange Scrapper's Floss, handful of orange blossoms, square tin w/ paper flowers, a few candy corn shaped playing cards, chipboard album, pink skully patches, more ribbons, brads, a ton of SU! eyelets in assorted colors, 2 spider bouncy balls (because one isn't enough), magnet letters that spell "dream", and a round tin full of bits & bobbs and whatevah.

Yeah.  I tried to make up for my uber-slacker status as of late.

Now, what hoops must you jump through to possibly receive such awesomeness???  Easy:

Step 1:  MUST be a follower of this blog (duh... that's the whole point to this tasty goodness)

Step 2:  Leave a comment on this post... any comment... sucking up is not required (though enjoyed) & will not sway the randomness of selecting a winner ;)

Step 3:  Totally optional, but if you choose to post about this blog candy on your blog, please come back and leave another comment for an extra chance to win.

We will leave this open for commenting until next Friday, May 6th at 6pm central-standard time (US).  And MAYBE we'll announce the winner the following day :)

Wicked Wednesday HDH087 Freaker's Free for All!!!

This week's challenge is one of my favorites,

Freaker's Free for all!

What this means at HDH is whatever bizarre, unsavory, unnerving,

bit of strangeness you can muster, just might win you a title!

If you have a project that doesn't really fit any other challenge blog

criteria, we want you!!

That being said, I have a couple of (finally) finished

projects to share with you.

I have added more gourds to my garden.

I love the "Fairy Tale" punkins and always

make a mummy or Jack Skellington every year

out of their sickly white flesh.

More happy Jacks awaiting a new home.

New listings are going up today/tomorrow on Etsy. 

The sTeaMpUnKinS are all fired up and ready to

start chugging along towards Autumn.

And finally, my lovely cherubs.

I am so stoked with how these turned out! I know they are

a bit offensive when my husband (is that thumping I hear?)

is not a fan! Yeah! Mission accomplished!!

Aww! Isn't he just an angel?

So, I'm thinking lapel pins for the smaller ones and this

big guy gets a couple of magnets so he can oversee

the happenings in the kitchen.

Bring out yer dead, your decomposed, your unmentionables!

Just play along with us this week at Haunted Design House!!  

 

Masters of the Macabre, Gruesome Twosomes & more prize winners...

Finally, right?!  Well let's get right to it shall we?

First off, prize winners for the HDH083 Magically Witchy (sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps), HDH085 Gothic Pinups (sponsored by Tiddly Inks) & HDH086 Alone in the Dark (sponsored by Delicious Doodles) challenges:

Magically Witchy:  Lady B.

Gothic Pinups:  Sarah W.

Alone in the Dark:  Lynsey

Ladies, please send me an email so that I can forward it on to the companies above so you can get your goodies!!  My email address link is in the sidebar.

Now, the ever-so sought after Gruesome Twosome titles:

HDH077 - Dr. Death:  Alison & Sarah C.

HDH078 - My Beloved Monster:  Ike & Aisling

HDH079 - Body Bags & Toe Tags:  Alex & Ike

HDH080 - Alas, Poor Yorick:  Lady B. & cgra

HDH081 - Dastardly Divas:  Chloe & Twisted Witch

HDH082 - Hacked to Bits:  Ike & Chloe

HDH083 - Magically Witch:  Lady B. & Ike

HDH084 - Zombie Apocalypse:  IvaRai, Lady B. & Sarah C.

                         (I just couldn't whittle it down to two)

HDH085 - Gothic Pinups:  Sarah W. & Michelle

HDH086 - Alone in the Dark: Karina & Fiona G.

Grab the badge and display it with pride, ladies!!!

And now, the coveted Master of the Macabre titles go to:

January 2011:  Crystal

February 2011:  Ike

March 2011:  Chloe

April 2011:  Lady B

Grab the badge and display it with pride, oh masterful ones!  AND don't forget to email me with your postal mailing addresses so that I can get a little prize pack out to you!!  My email link is in the sidebar.

And now that we're caught up, maybe we'll be a little more prompt at announcing winners, GT's & MM's... but then, maybe not  >;)

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 :)

HDH087 - Freaker's Free-for-All

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 HDH087.

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:

"Freaker's Free-for-All"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based project without any rules!  That's right, anything goes as long as it is in done with a flair for the macabre :)

So let's see what the Minions have created without restraint:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Another fan-freaking-tastic art doll... far beyond creepy.  LOVE IT, Lynx!

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Ok, so Donna DID use restraints :)  Dig the image and the sentiment is PERFECT!

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

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

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

LOL!  LOVE the sentiment!  And the deep red & black colors look so rich.

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Another two-fer from Andrea!  Overachiever.  ;)  I am especially giggly about the family tree.

Temptress of Terror Teri:

Elegant and fantastic!  Teri is creating an unbelievable mythical creatures book... so ornate.  LOVE it!

And now, of course, it's your turn. Show us your dark & eerie creations with a Gothic twist.  And this week is soooooo easy... it really shouldn't be called a "challenge" at all ;)

HDH086 - Alone in the Dark - by Barb

Haven't you LOVED all of the Minions' work this week?!!  And are you loving the Delicious Doodles digi's?!  Fantastic!  And now... a little sumpin' sumpin' from me:

please click to enlarge photos... they look a little better

I used Free Spirit for this one.  LOVE her!  And of course I can't photograph anything red and have it turn out right, so you'll have to trust me when I say this looks waaaaaaaaaaaay better in person.

I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder, MS graveyard & grass punches, and the EK Success bracket punch.  The sentiment is one from Stamp Insanity.

You've only got a little over a day to enter this week's challenge... and it's SUCH an easy one!  Don't you want some deliciously dark digi's from Delicious Doodles?

Fiendishly Fun Friday - Snow-bo

Macabre Monday on a Thursday

Just popping in between Zombie posts

and showing you what I did for this week's

Macabre Monday - "Alone in the Dark" challenge.

This week is sponsored by our very own Minion,

Teri from Delicious Doodles!

The very first image I ever purchased from Teri was

The Grotesque Gargoyle.

It was fun to color him in, although I did have

a bit of a time with the shading since I chose

to follow along with the dot technique for most of it.

I like the effect it lends to the gargoyle and it's not 

my normal way of shading so I like the new look to

my coloring.  

I ended up fussy cutting this Guardian of the Graveyard,

and sticking him in the foreground of a very dark scene

that I found online.

Please join us this week for our

"Alone in the Dark" challenge

using black or an eerily dark background (c'mon, how easy is that?!)

sponsored by  Delicious Doodles!!

You have until 10:00PM CST Sunday to play.

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?