Wicked Wednesday - HDH095 - From the Bone Pile

Happy Hump Day!

Creepy Glowbugg here, with my  Macabre Monday

submission.

This week is "From the Bone Pile",

which loosely translated, means

use your scraps!

I have so many scraps I should chase a ball and wag my tail!

Really, I have  5 drawers of color separated scraps, plus a few

photo boxes full of Hallowe'en and neutral scraps.

Don't even get me started on my ribbon scraps.

Anyhoo, I always need little note cards to add in with

my Etsy orders, and I usually just make one on the spot

which just slows this little turtle's operation to a crawl.

I decided to make the most of this challenge and kill two

zombies with one bullet.

I always punch out more shapes than I need when using

my Spellbinders so I have a couple of SU stamp cases full of

pre-punched die cuts.

I had fun using the white embossing on the pumpkin,

and then just sponging the color on with a dauber for

effect. I used a scrap of killer digi paper from

Crafty Chaos Designs,

with spiders and flies and bloody

finger prints on it. Perfect!

I used a push pin to pull the orange Stickles

out from the spider's body to her legs.

Nice. 

These are for my "less glittery" customers.

More masculine and less shiny. 

I kept everything really simple as these are just

giveaway cards and I didn't want to spend too much

time on them without them looking that way.

Note cards for Etsy orders - check!

Macabre Monday "From the Bone Pile" - check!

There is still plenty of time to play along with us

for this week's challenge.

This week's sponsor is 

Scrap Your Scraps, who are offering a $15 voucher for their online store.

They have Copics and some incredible deals right now.

Really awesome deal on a Glue Glider Pro and refills!

Just sayin'.  

SBS Jude & the Rockers Preview Days 2 & 3...

Yep... I'm behind a day already.  I've been out of town since Wednesday, but it was for a couple of awesome events.  The first was for the Intermediate Copic Certification class in Wichita, Kansas and the second was the annual seminar for The Angel Company, for which I am an instructor & demonstrator.  Needless to say I'm a wee bit fried.  BUT it was a fabulous time!

So now, to catch up with the Simply Betty Stamps Jude & the Rockers release previews!  Monday was supposed to be Ariel:

Sassy, huh?  Don't you love the glasses & the eyebrow piercing?!  Adorable me thinks.

And Tuesday's preview:  Brittany!  She just so happens to be my absolute favorite of the entire line... which was hard to choose, since they are all freakin' adorable.

That hair... ACK!  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her.  And she's not the least bit creepy (dammit!)... am I losing my mind?!

Coloring this little cutie was a blast... so much so, that I am teaching a class with Brittany, Ariel and one more future preview image at The Scrapbook Page in August :)  Can't wait!

Since I'm behind, I will not be able to get Wednesday's preview card completed, so hopefully Thursday will have another 2-for-1 post ;)  Don't forget to pop into Simply Betty Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created... they are fab!

HDH095 - From the bone pile!

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 HDH095.

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.

6. In your post, please explain how your entry meets the challenge requirements... if you don't follow the challenge requirements, your entry will not be considered for GT status or prizes. Also please link back to the HDH challenge so others may find us & play along!

Ok, macabre fans... your challenge this week:

From The Bone Pile

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece

using only scraps from your stash.

Let's see what you've got buried in your paper graveyard!

And we have a sponsor for you this week! Scrap Your Scraps is an online crafting store selling all kinds of goodies, including the ever-popular Copic pens! The prize this week is a $15 voucher to spend on whatever your freaky little heart desires.

Now let's see what the Minions have in store for you:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

will be posting a little sumpin' sumpin' on Wednesday, so check back!

So now it's your turn! Let's see what you can create using scraps and leftover bits and remnants! If the linky tool isn't visible by the time your project is finished, please leave a comment with the url of your post title and we'll come visit. Several of us are away on trips or holidays at the moment (or so they say, I figure they're just hiding from the sun :P) so the linky tool will be added when Barb gets back from her electric shock therapy, I mean break.

SBS Jude & the Rockers Preview Day 1...

This new Jude & the Rockers line from Simply Betty Stamps will be available only in Clear Stamp form. Their official release is Friday, July 1st along with a re-launch of SBS's weekly challenges over at Simply Betty Challenges! One week will be dedicated to card makers and the other week to scrapbookers, altered art lovers, and everything else! I do hope you will join us for the fun!

So, on to today's preview... Jude!

How kickin' is he?! So cute... and I just love that hair :) I used a little May Arts webbie trim and the clip is from We R. The paper is from the Old School line of paper from a company that I can't remember :) It's one of the big ones, though.

Anyway, this little guy was a blast to color with his slouchy pants and that spiked 'do... he DOES rock :)

Be sure to pop over to the Simply Betty Stamps main blog to see what the rest of the DT did with this cutie...

and then tune in every day this week for a new image preview!

HDH093 Gruesome Twosome, plus one

Yes, you are in the right place.

I'm stepping up my responsibilities here in the

dungeon, and hoping to stay on the Mistress's "good side".

The Gruesome Twosome from the HDH093

Kuriously Korroded with Kenny K challenge are

Lucie

and

Nancy

Feel free to grab your badge and fly your freak flag high!

  

Since Elena at Kenny K was so generous, we have

another prize for one randomly chosen winner.

Congrats to

Kapree!!! 

Congratulations ladies. Please email Barb (link in the sidebar)

and she will arrange for you to receive your free digis from

our generous sponsor, Kenny K Downloads.  

Thank you to everyone who played along with us last week.

Please remember, you need to provide a direct link to your

project post, not just your blog, and you should also provide a

link to our challenge somewhere in your post so others can join in

on the fun too!

There is still plenty of time to cook up something creepy for

our current, Menacing Mermaids challenge.

You have until Sunday at 10 PM CST. 

Fiendishly Fun Friday - pumpkin carving extraordinaire!

I recently came across the wondrous creations of Roy Villafane, all carved from pumpkins and gourds. Impressive, no? And no, they're not preserved in any way, just like yours, these decay and rot after a week or so! :o

Better late than never HDH094

I'm a day late for my Wicked Wednesday

installment of this week's Macabre Monday challenge.

"I want to see Menacing Mermaids!", shrieked the

Masterful Mistress. And the Minions made it so.

I remember a few years back, I took my son to see 

a Peter Pan movie. They had Mermaids in that movie.

Some of the scariest freaking Mermaids ever! My son still

talks about those, "nasty fish chicks".  

I had the recent pleasure of doing business with

Teresa, from Crafts and Me.

She is an awesome lady, and a stellar business owner.

There was a hold up with her stamp manufacturer for the

new Jasmine Becket Griffith images, and as a thank you

for my patience, she gifted me some digital images from her shop.

I chose the "Columbine" image with this week's challenge in mind.

I think she's a bit on the menacing side. Did ya check out her ears?! 

This gorgeous image was a bit challenging to color, but I am happy

with how she turned out.

I used some Sweet Pea webbed ribbon I got on clearance at

Hambo Stamps. All of their May Arts ribbons are 50% off!!

I also used my new Spellbinders Fleur de Lis rectangles

and some crazy ass, Dee Gruenig paper I've had forever!

Feel free to join us, if you dare!

Enter your most Menacing Mermaid

here by Sunday the 26th.

HDH094 - Menacing Mermaids

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 HDH094.

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.

6. In your post, please explain how your entry meets the challenge requirements... if you don't follow the challenge requirements, your entry will not be considered for GT status or prizes. Also please link back to the HDH challenge so others may find us & play along!

Ok, macabre fans... your challenge this week:

Menacing Mermaids

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece

using mermaids as your main focus.

Let's see those terrifying temptresses from the formidable & foul fathoms!

Now let's see what the Minions have in store for you:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Gorgeous work, Lynx... as usual! Simply beautiful.

Devious Digital Demon-ess Susan:

This is fantabulous! LOVE that image... can't wait to read the backstory to this "caged" lovely!

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Underwater wonder! Great work, Andrea!!

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

I have no words... seriously... "awesome" just isn't enough!

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg

will be posting a little sumpin' sumpin' on Wednesday, so check back!

Now it's your turn... show us something from the dark, dank depths!!

HDH093 Macabre Mistress style...

I got to play!!!!  I am totally psyched... I just LOVE getting crafty, and these Kenny K images definitely add the fun ;)

I was lucky enough to work with Miss Fortune... a sexy little bi-atch, no?

And check this awesome clearance aisle find... its a faceted glass gem that has been wrapped in mesh and set into a metal housing.  L.O.V.E. it.  Thank you, JoAnn's, for the frugal find :)  I've got these in this pink/purple, light green, light grey & black (with silver mesh)... jealous?  ;)

I'm not overly thrilled with her hair, but the rest of her turned out great, me thinks.  I've got her sitting atop some self-adhesive velvet skully trim from We R.  I cut the little bat out and stuck it on the inside.  

The paper is from my stash, and it has been crumpled, sanded & torn... pretty much mangled :)  I also distressed the edges of all of the cardstocks & crumpled up the flower.  I used a Tim Holtz edge die & popped on a few gems to finish it off.

What do you think? 

You've still got a little bit to enter the HDH093 Kuriously Korroded challenge to win some Kenny K images for yourself!

Gruesome Twosomes and other various awesome people...

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

The prize winner for the HDH088 Mark of the Beast (sponsored by Crafty Chaos Designs) will get to choose SIX items from the Crafty Chaos Designs store!  And the random drawn winner is:

  Cuddly Bunny!

 

Regarding HDH090 Necro Neckware, I am still waiting to hear back from Kasket Kustoms for the selected winner of the challenge.  If I don't hear from her in a week, I'll choose a winner and send you a prize pack i.l.o. the stated challenge prize.

Prize winners for the HDH091 E.M.O. (sponsored by Simply Betty Stamps).  Betty is offering up THREE Emo rubber stamps to each of the Gruesome Twosome!!   Winners will be able to choose from the following EMO lines:  Everyday, Valentines, Back 2 School, and Halloween.  And the winners are:
I Don't Do Straight & Wendy!

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:

HDH087 - Freaker's Free For All:  Sammibug & Crystal

HDH088 - Mark of the Beast:  Chriss & Anita Marie

HDH089 - Dali Delusions:  Kim B. & Ike

HDH090 - Necro Neckware:  Gina & Ike

HDH091 - E.M.O.:  I Don't Do Straight & Wendy

HDH092 - Pleasure & Pain:  Jenn & Dawn

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

And now, the coveted Master of the Macabre title for May goes to:

Sammibug!

Grab the badge and display it with pride, oh masterful one!  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.

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 :)

SBS Burton 'Weenies Final Preview & Release Day!

It's finally here!  The Release Day  for the new line of Simply Betty Stamps images... The Burton 'Weenies.  You'll have a chance to win these great images as clear stamps... just hop over to The Burtonesque Dolls blog for all of the details!

My absolute FAVORITE of this line is... Pipper:

Those ringlets, that facial expression... and of course... PINK!  Love love LOVE her!  

The sentiment is a perfect pairing... from a TAC set called Great Greetings.  And yet another 6x6 paper pad from Echo Park... Be Mine.  And look... the ever-present Barbi-dots (that's for you, Patti J!).

This whole line of images this week was so fun to color, and fit right in with the ever-so-awesome HDH stalkers, me thinks!  You can get this new line today... and even maybe win one... just pop by TBD blog for all of the details, and to see the DT's fab work!

What do you think?  Too pink for HDH?

SBS Burton 'Weenies Preview Day 5... Harley

Day 5 of previews for a new line of Simply Betty Stamps images... The Burton 'Weenies.  You'll have a chance to win these great images as clear stamps... just hop over to The Burtonesque Dolls blog for all of the details!

Today's you get a double whammy... Jack Jack & Harley:

This duo of doom was just begging to be Halloweenied-out.  I dug out my old Basic Grey Eerie 6x6 paper pad and found this loverly orange skully paper... LOVE!

I die-cut the image panel with a Nestie label die & then free-hand cut the black mat... holy shee-ite that took awhile to get just right :P  The sentiment is from a retired TAC sentiment set.  I even used up a scrap of ribbon and finished it all off with a little black twine.  Their hair looks awesome in person, but you can't really tell in these photos.  Trust me >:)

Tomorrow is the final day with my FAVORITE image and card of the entire line... and don't forget to pop by TBD blog for all of the details, and to see the DT's work!

What do you think?

SBS Burton 'Weenies Preview Day 4... Raven

Day four of previews for a new line of Simply Betty Stamps images... The Burton 'Weenies.  You'll have a chance to win these great images as clear stamps... just hop over to The Burtonesque Dolls blog for all of the details!

Today's image is the probably the edgiest one of the bunch... Raven:

 Yeah, me thinks I wouldn't want to piss her off too much ;)  You can't see it very well, but I used the MS Drippy Goo punch again in the lower left... a lovely black ribbon rose & I got the Copic airbrush out again.  This time I used the brush tip instead of the chisel tip to get a bigger & bolder splatter effect.

Check out those piercings... uh, ouch?  I passed out when I got my tattoo years ago and am freakishly weird about needles, so I can't even imagine getting pierced like they do now.  See, I've told you before that I am a princess ;)

"If you can't say something nice...then at least have the decency to be vague."  LOVE it.  It's from a TAC sentiment set called Laugh Lines. There are quite a few little gems in there :)

Tomorrow is another preview, and then Friday is the final preview and release day, so be sure to check back... and don't forget to pop by TBD blog for all of the details, and to see the DT's work!

What do you think?

SBS Burton 'Weenies Preview Day 3... Ellenore

Yep, the third day of previews for a new line of Simply Betty Stamps images... The Burton 'Weenies.  You'll have a chance to win these great images as clear stamps... just hop over to The Burtonesque Dolls blog for all of the details!

Today's cutie is the sweetest one of the bunch... Ellenore:

I chose to do pretty much a 180 from yesterday's wickedly dark tone... that's just how I roll.  Kinda like how I get distracted easily... "OH... something SHINY"!  Well, it would probably sound more like:  "OH... something creepy"!

Where was I?  Oh right... back to Ellenore :)  I picked up a new My Mind's Eye 6x6 paper pad... Happy Go Lucky... yeah, even the name of the paper is cute.  Ellenore saves the day by lovingly choking her dolly... that's where the sentiment comes in to play ;)

A little MS Drippy Goo punch action at the bottom of the Cricut-cut violet heart panel rounds it all out.

Don't forget to pop by TBD blog for all of the details, and to see the DT's work!

What do you think?  Creepy enough, or just too cute for HDH?