HDH123 Macabre Monday - Terrible Twos

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(Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges)

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

HDH123
"Terrible Twos"

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

that uses the same image twice. Doesn't matter if it's a digi
or if it's stamped, or even hand drawn. Make it twice and make it
creepy or at least strange and unique.

We have a sponsor this week!
And not just any sponsor, we have the awesome


Megan is offering 3 digi images of your choice from
her shop.
She keeps adding new and unique images all the time!
She has something for everyone, especially those of us
who like the strange and unusual.

Check out what the Macabre Minions have created to inspire you
using Dilly Beans images. 

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Temptress of Terror Teri:
is suffering from the flu bug this week.
Get well soon Teri!

Imp of Insanity Ike:


 

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg:

will post on Wretched Wednesday.

Wretched Wednesday - Which Witch are YOU?

Totally spaced this week's post.

Sorry.

In lieu of an actual project, I am just

gonna show this awesome painting of 

one of the most wretched witches of all time...

Maleficent!!!!!

As far as nasty witches go, she's my gal!

Although, Winnie from Hocus Pocus

runs a close second...

Now for last week's chosen ones. 

 

Kristy Lee

 

 

and

 

Mary Kay

 

 

Congratulations ladies! Beautiful work last week.

 

We are looking forward to seeing what this week's challenge

brings out in all of you!

There are lots of witches to find your inspiration with.

C'mon, even the Fairy Godmother has her bad days.

 

Macabre Monday HDH122 Which Witch Are YOU?

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(Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges)

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

HDH122
"Which Witch Are YOU?"

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

that represents YOU at your witchy best. Maybe you like to think
of yourself as the wicked step mother type witch, or maybe one
of the old crones who live by herself deep in the woods.
If you'd rather not represent yourself that way, you can just
choose your favorite witch of all time as use her as your muse. 

Check out what the Macabre Minions have created for your viewing pleasure:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Temptress of Terror Teri:

 

Imp of Insanity Ike:


 

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg:

will post last week's GTs on Wretched Wednesday,

but is having another time out this week.

Love Lies Bleeding GTs

Betcha thought I forgot all about naming

the Gruesome Twosome from last week huh?

Well, I did.

But now the winners get a post all to themselves.

 

The chosen two for last week's

Love Lies Bleeding

challenge are:

 

Mary K

Such a gorgeously hand drawn image.

(If you watched Ink Master last night, then you know how hard

it is to draw a proportioned hand.)

 

And,

 

Crom's Cubby Hole

Neat little ATC sized "meander" book of verses

from "Annabel Lee" , and wonderful images

of Poe and his love.

 

So beautifully tragic and haunting.

Thank you ladies, for your stunning submissions. 

Take your badge and love it and squeeze it and call it George.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to play along

with our challenging challenge last week.

We really appreciate the time you give to the projects you submit

to us. They are all classy bits of art in their own right,

which makes it increasingly hard to choose the winners each week. 

Looking forward to seeing what you all create for the current

Garden of Good and Evil challenge this week!

 

Wretched Wednesday - Garden of Good and Evil

This week's Macabre Monday challenge is

Garden of Good and Evil.

I wanted to make a dimensional project out of clay,

but wasn't sure which direction I should go with it.

I have been looking for a frog to zombify for months.

I was inspired by something I read on the Frog Queen's blog,

and thought how cool she would think I was if I made a 

zombie frog.

Problem was, I never could find an acceptable ceramic frog

specimen for this project. So, I decided to just make the damned

thing myself! 

Here is my silly clay version of a zombie frog. 

I'm not sure it translates well, but he is eating

a frog hand. That's his tongue wrapped around it.

I decided to make a garden background for my

amphibian of the living dead.

I used the awesome graveyard scene from 

Delicious Doodles, and colored it with the

BV range of Copics. I added some Tim Holtz trees,

and some MS border punches, and then mounted it onto

black card stock. 

I used vellum and glimmer mists to make the full moon.

I UTEE'd the die cut trees and used some iridescent

embossing powders to make them appear moonlit.

I used a butt load of foam dots to give this piece lots

of dimension.

I had to add a nice washing of

brown paint to give the frog some character.

Plus my son insisted on blood. I tried to keep

it on the lighter side, but it's so much fun to

add the blood - it's hard to know when to stop!

So, .....

what's lurking in your garden??

Macabre Monday HDH121- Garden of Good and Evil

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(Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges)

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

HDH121
"Garden of Good and Evil"

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

that illustrates the battle between good and evil that is fought
nightly in the garden of your imagination!
Show us the inhabitants of your garden,
be they gnomes, plant life, fauna, fae, or something else entirely!

Check out what the Macabre Minions have created for your viewing pleasure:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Our Devious Digital Demoness Susan

is still MIA... send her a little healing vibe, would ya'?

Temptress of Terror Teri:

Imp of Insanity Ike:

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg:

will post on Wretched Wednesday, so tune in!

Wretched Wednesday - Love Lies Bleeding

Welcome to this week's installment of

Wretched Wednesday!!

First up are the Gruesome Twosome for last week's

Freaker's Free for All challenge. 

Simple, yet very effective creepy work by Carol.

This revamped porch light shade (inspired by the mighty Cthulhu,

of Lovecraftian lore) from Pensive Pumpkin is AWESOME!!

Thank you to everyone for playing along last week.

There were so many insanely creative projects to peruse and

gain inspiration from.

Now I would like to announce the Master of the Macabre

for the month of January....

Fiona/I Don't Do Straight
Fiona, please contact Barb via her email in the sidebar
to claim your MoM prize.

Congratulations to all of the winners!!

Please grab your stinking badges and display

them with pride!

And finally, I give you my submission for the

Love Lies Bleeding challenge.

I chose to use this awesome image of Sid and Nancy

to represent my version of love gone wrong.

Really wrong.

Nancy: If I asked you to kill me, would you?

Sid: I don't know. How would I do it? I couldn't live without ya.

Now that's true love.....

So where is everybody?

C'mon, get your thinking caps on and play with us!!

HDH120 - Love Lies Bleeding

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(Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges)

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

HDH120
"Love Lies Bleeding"

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

with depict LOVE in it's deadliest form - blood, angst, turmoil.

Now it is time to see some inspiration from the Macabre Minions have created to feast your eyes upon:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Our Devious Digital Demoness Susan

is still under the weather but we have our fingers crossed she is on the way to recovery.

Temptress of Terror Teri

With another gorgeous new image that will be available in her shop. 

Imp of Insanity Ike:

Shot Through the Heart - Gruesome Twosome

We won't be having a wretched Wednesday post this week. Glo is having a much needed time out.

Remember it isn't too late to get your entries in for this weeks challenge.

The winners of the Shot Through the Heart challenge are:

Jenn Borjeson

and

I don't do Straight

it was a really hard decision as there were so many brilliant entries so we had to wangle it down to just two so congratulations for getting your creep on again ladies.



HDH119 - Freaker's Free-for-All

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

HDH119
"Freaker's Free-for-All"

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

with no restrictions.
That's right... the Mistress has been slacking, so everyone gets to benefit with a laid-back, no-holes-barred, do-WTF-ever-you-want challenge!

Check out what the Macabre Minions have created to feast your eyes upon:

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Our Devious Digital Demoness Susan

will be back when she is feeling better, hopefully soon!

Temptress of Terror Teri
is running a bit late, but check back later for something fantastic as usual!
EDIT:- Here I am, please don't sack me!!
 

Imp of Insanity Ike:

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg:

will post on Wretched Wednesday, so check back!

And The Masterful Mistress of the Macabre
may or may not be back later this week with a little sumpin' sumpin'...  I've been working my boo-tay off and my only free time is reserved for sleep :)

But do YOU have time to play along this week?!  We hope so... with such an easy challenge, how can you NOT join us?

Wretched Wednesday - Shot through the Heart

First off, I'd like to thank everyone for playing

along with last week's challenge.

It's nice to be challenged to think outside of

our usual boxes sometimes isn't it?

This week's chosen Gruesome Twosome for the

Get Lost! challenge are:

Jane

 

Gorgeously aged with a group favorite, mythical beast.

And...

Sue

Really unique and beautiful, and ... bloody.

Please grab your badge and fly that freak flag high!!


Here is my submission for this week's
Shot Through the Heart challenge.

I am on a Dilly Beans kick lately. I am loving this Sugar Skull.

The images are so fun and easy to color, plus

they lend themselves to so many occasions.

I used a couple of Spellbinder hearts and cut the middle

out of one to represent the hole in the challenge.

I popped the skull out of the hole using dimensional dots.

I added some die cut flourishes, corner accents and

a glittered chip board love and a heart to try and

balance it all out.

Please join us for this week's challenge,

using at least one heart and

one hole on your creation.