Macabre Monday HDH143 Movie Madness

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

HDH143
"Movie Madness"

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

that takes it's inspiration from a favorite bit of celluloid.
All types of films can be twisted into a darker interpretation.
You don't have to be a fan of scary or suggestive movies to play along.
Just keep in mind that we are going for creepy, scary, dark, gothic, or
Halloweenie feel.

 We are sponsored this week by

Tracey has some wonderful images by some really talented artists

available in her shop. She has a very diverse selection of images to choose from.

Spesch has generously offered up 3 free images of choice to each of the

chosen ones (Gruesome Twosome) from this week's challenge.

The Minions are using Spesch images in their projects this week as well. 

Now it's time to see what films the Minions have decided to use as their muse.

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

will be revealing her movie choice on Wednesday with Glo.

Check back for some brilliant mid-week inspiration.

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

  

The Wizard of Oz

Imp of Insanity Ike:

Lassie come home.

The Freak of the Formidable Fiona:

Dark Shadows

The Contagion of Corrosion Croms:


Alice in Wonderland

Check back on Wednesday for Creepy Glowbugg's, Donna's,
and guest DT Nancy's Movie Madness creations.
Nothing like a little mid-week inspiration to get your
mojo flowin'.

Music Mayhem mid-week inspiration

It's that time of week again when the Mistress lets us

out of our cages to wreak a little havoc on hump day!

We are showing off our projects for this week's

Macabre Monday Music Mayhem

challenge.

Mine is kind of a stretch, but I really wanted to use this image

from Delicious Doodles. Her name is Steampunk Sally,

but for my purposes her new name is ...

"Whole Lotta Neon Rosie" inspired by

AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie". 

I had all these new neon glitters that were just screaming to

be played with, and then this image has been just daring me

to give it some life. I even used some of my fluorescent Copics.

I now know why I need fluorescent orange and yellow.

And now for something completely opposite in both

song choice and color palette.

Andrea is joining me today and she has used

Smashing Pumpkin's "Ugly" as her inspiration.

So, now that you have seen how easy it is, pick a song

and join us this week for our Music Mayhem challenge.

Last week's chosen Gruesome Twosome for the

Butchered Blueprint challenge

are

Lisa

and

Mark

Absolutely stunning work this week you two!

Brilliant (mis)use of the provided sketch by everyone who played

along with us last week.  We really enjoy perusing every one's

submissions. It keeps getting harder and harder to choose

just two of the most gruesome from all of the wonderfully

wicked projects we receive. Keep 'em comin' !!

It gives the Minions something new to squabble about every

Sunday night. 

Macabre Monday HDH142 Music Mayhem

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

HDH142
"Music Mayhem"

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

that uses a song or song title as your muse.
Now this one should be an easy one since everyone loves music of some sort.
The Mistress plays music in the dungeon to get us all to settle down at dawn
before we retire for the day.  Music soothes the savage beasties.


Let's see what musical mastering the Minions have chosen
for your viewing pleasure this week.
(You can click on each Minion's name to be taken to their
personal blogs with more details and pics of their killer projects!)

Guest DT Nancy:

The Eagles "Witchy Woman"

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:
is being an over achiever this week with TWO projects


Rihanna's "S&M".

Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People".

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Will be joining me on Wednesday, so check back then

for some mid week inspiration. 

Imp of Insanity Ike:


David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs"
"This aint rock n' roll. This is genocide!!"

The Freak of the Formidable Fiona:

Alice Cooper's "Black Widow"

The Contagion of Corrosion Croms:

Meatloaf's "Bat out of Hell"

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg:

will post on Wretched Wednesday, so check back!

Mid week inspiration and a guest DT!

Well Wednesday came and went, and I totally spaced

the Wretched Wednesday posting.

I am such a weak ticket sometimes. 

Anyhoo, this week's challenge is to use the provided sketch.

Sometimes, the hardest part of card making is the layout.

This should make it easier for you.

Feel free to flip it anyway that works for your project,

but please follow it enough that we can find the sketch design

in you work.

I'd like to introduce you to this month's guest DT.

Nancy from Another MD Crabbie.

I first fell in love with Nancy's highly distressed, detailed, and dimensional style

 when I won her awesome Betelgeuse card quite some time ago.  

 

Cool, right?

Nancy will be joining in on the challenges with us for the rest of the month.

Her creations are quite the treat.

Here is my Butchered Blueprint card.

Like Nancy, I also flipped the sketch and used it more to my liking.

I also branched out into another color palette that I don't usually use.

I realize I use lime green quite a bit, but blue is not one of my "go to"

colors.

I used a cool sentiment from Ginger's House, 

 and coupled it with Smeared Ink's Candy is Dandy bear.

I pierced his little heart with a pink stick pin.

Hey, it was in the sketch! It looks like it may hurt a little though.

There is still plenty of time for you to whip something creative

together and join us in our sketch challenge.

Last but not least are the chosen winners from last week's

Vile Vintage challenge.

Congratulations to

Jane

  

and

Carol

Drop by their blogs to see their complete projects.

Fabulous work this week ladies!!

Thank you to everyone who played along last week.  

  

Macabre Monday HDH141 Butchered Blueprint

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

HDH141
"Butchered Blueprint"

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

that uses the following sketch.



You can follow the sketch completely, or you may take some
artistic license. Either way, the sketch should be obvious and easy to find.

Let's see what the Minions have butchered
for your viewing pleasure this week.
(You can click on each Minion's name to be taken to their
personal blogs with more details and pics of their killer projects!)

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

  

Temptress of Terror Teri:






Imp of Insanity Ike:

The Freak of the Formidable Fiona:

The Contagion of Corrosion Croms:

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg:

will post on Wretched Wednesday, so check back!

Vile Vintage Mid-week inspiration

Well, it seems like it's becoming my modus operandi

to be late with my Wednesday posts.

Keeping with that tradition, here is my

Vile Vintage Ephemera shadowbox.

I have a hoarded supply of 8X8 shadow boxes that I picked up at a

ridiculously low price last season. It didn't occur to me to use one for

this project until late, Tuesday evening. I tore my original project apart,

and started anew around midnight.

Hence my tardiness.  

Creepy ass ventriloquist dummy and his "Papa".

I mounted the photo and aged the whole thing to appear

distressed and forgotten.

I finally got another opportunity to use one of those

cool baby doll eyes from Pork Chop Show on Etsy. 

Some people find the notion of Nuns and/or Catholicism

to be vile or unpalatable. I lightly sanded the face off the

nun to make her appear as a demon might when being photographed.

Then I added bloody fingerprints to give it some more drama. 

I UTEE'd more bits of strange ephemera, and added a handmade tooth.

I think that covers Vile and Vintage Creepy Glowbugg style.

Now it's Croms' turn!

So elegant and seductively vile.

It's not easy for some of the Minions to create vileness in their work.

Others of us were born to be vile!

The challenge runs until Sunday at 5PM CST. 

Please join us!

Last week's

StRaNgE bReW challenge

Gruesome Twosome

winners are 

Cgra

This image makes my shriveled, black heart melt.

Classy and simple recipe card.

and

Mark

You had me at skull.

Wonderful techniques on a brilliant 3D display.

Congratulations to both of you!

Please contact The Mistress (her addy is in the sidebar)

to lay claim to your 2 digis of choice from our sponsor

Strange Skin

It is also time to crown the

Master of the Macabre for June.

Congratulations to

Mark  

Please contact The Mistress to claim your well earned prize.

Thank you to everyone who played along with us.

Keepin' it creepy, one challenge at a time.

 

HDH140 - Vile Vintage

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

HDH140
"Vile Vintage"

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

take something vile and make it appear vintage, or maybe use something vintage that would be considered vile!

Now it's time to see how the Minions have done in the old vile department.

Sultana of the Sinister Lynx:

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

  

Temptress of Terror Teri:

Imp of Insanity Ike:

The Freak of the Formidable Fiona:

The Contagion of Corrosion Croms:

will be joining Creepy Glowbugg's post on Wednesday's post, so keep tuned.