Macabre Monday HDH161 - Gruesome Guardians

*Please see the sidebar for HDH Macabre Monday Rules*

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

Our next challenge is :

Gruesome Guardians

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en based art piece

using gargoyles, gryphons, dragons, leprechauns, fairies, etc.


We are looking for the beasts and creatures that protect or guard 
the pots of gold, the doorways to other worlds, Excalibur, 
or anything of value in the underworld, or days of myth and yore.


Please be sure and let us know in your post, what your creature guards 
or protects.


Portraying Gruesome Guardians for week 1 
from the talented Minions:

Sultana of the Sinister Blackdragon:

Temptress of Terror Teri :

Teri has drawn up some cool new images which will be available in 
her shop soon here.

Menace of the Monstrous Mark:

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Brenda the Brownie guarding the gruesome cakes below:

The Freak of the Formidable 

Fiona:




Okay, we've shown you ours.
Now it's your turn to return the favor.
Bring out yer Guardians!!!!

Macabre Monday Poetry and Prose of Poe week 2

Well, here we are in our second week of our latest 

Macabre Monday challenge. 

Our challenge is: 

The Poetry and Prose of Poe: Romantic or Lunatic?

Poe's writings pretty much run the gamut of real horror, including questions of death, decomposition, premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.

How can you not be inspired?

And now for some Minion eye candy. 

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos

Creepy Glowbugg:

The Freak of the Formidable 

Fiona:

The Contagion of Corrosion

Croms:

Imp of Insanity Ike:

Come on and play along with us!
We have a prize for the chosen 
Gruesome Twosome.
Show us your Poe!!
And please make sure your project
contains some sort of obvious nod to Poe. 

WTF is up with Blogger and the freaking left justified crap?!
Gonna pull my hair out!!!

Gruesome Twosome times two!!

Okay, so now that the Minions are on a fortnightly schedule, they 

have started slacking off a bit. 

Just can't keep good help in the dungeon these days.

We would like to announce the Gruesome Twosome(s) 

from the last two challenges.

Congratulations to 

Shelley 

  

and

Suzanne

Congratulations ladies!

Wonderful "Freaker's Free for All" projects!!

And now for the Gruesome Twosome from our

"Famous Last Words" challenge....

Ellapu

  

and

Kapree

Congratulations to all of the winners and please grab your badge

and display it proudly. You've earned it!!

Thank you to everyone who played along with us in our new

fortnightly challenges. It warms our black hearts to see so much

uniquely dark and wonderful artwork birthed from our Macabre Monday

challenges.

We can't take over the crafting community without you!

Keep it Creepy!!! 

HDH160 - Poetry and Prose of Poe: Romantic or Lunatic?

*Please see the sidebar for HDH Macabre Monday Rules*

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

The next challenge is:

Poetry and Prose of Poe: Romantic or Lunatic?

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en based art piece

using Poe's writings to personify love or lunacy.
There are plenty of stories and poems to choose as your muse.
Mister Poe was an interesting man with lots of demons and maybe
a touch (or more) of madness. 
You can read more about him here.



And from the dungeon this week we have:

Sultana of the Sinister Blackdragon:

Inspired by "A Dream Within A Dream"

Temptress of Terror Teri :

"I have him labelled as a hopeless romantic, obsessed with death."

Menace of the Monstrous Mark:

Romance or lunacy, which will you choose?

Macabre Monday Famous Last Words week 2

It's week two of our new Macabre Monday challenge,

Famous Last Words.

Now these last words don't necessarily have to be from a 

famous movie or well known novel.

They can be death bed utterances or confessions of someone 

famous or infamous. How about the last line from a favorite play by Shakespeare? He's always good for a a memorable one liner.

Wanna see what the Minion's did?

The Contagion of Corrosion

Croms:

Great fairy tale ending

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Jud from Pet Sematary and Last Words "Darling" by Rachel

Imp of Insanity Ike:

Jack in American Werewolf in London

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos

Creepy Glowbugg:

The character, Robert Neville's final words and the final line from

"I Am Legend" by Robert Matheson. 

Hopefully we have inspired you to play along. 

Enter your Famous Last Words here .

HDH159 - Famous Last Words

Well we have made it to the second challenge of the year, without any casualties in the dungeon!
So far.

Next challenge is:

Famous Last Words

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en based art piece

using a famous last line from a favourite book, poem, or movie.
Go even one better, and use a death bed confession
 or last utterance. Ohhh, creepy, right?

And now for the inspiring eye candy you have all come to expect
from the wickedly talented Minions.

Sultana of the Sinister Blackdragon:

Many believe this to be Edgar's last words. Ever. 

Temptress of Terror Teri :

'The Silence of the Lambs' - Hannibal Lecter

Menace of the Monstrous Mark:




The Masque of the Red Death

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

Every good book ever written. Yup, someone had to do it.

Choose wisely and make it creepy or dark.

You have two weeks.

Now go forth and create greatness!!! 

And remember to drop in again next Monday for more inspiration projects,

and the announcement of the Gruesome Twosome from the 

Freaker's Free for All challenge. 

Macabre Monday - Freaker's Free for All week two

Welcome back for week #2 of the Macabre Monday challenge,

Freaker's Free for All.

This marks the second week to work on your project.

Any project, as long as it's dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en in nature.

We have some more inspiration pieces to help you along if need be.

The Contagion of Corrosion

Croms:

Gorgeous raven earrings with a matching box and embossed lid.

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Yikes! Resolutions!!! Good luck with that one, Donna.
Although, if cocktails are involved, I could be persuaded to help.

Sultana of the Sinister BLACKDRAGON:


She's baaaaack! With a stunning Poe creation! Ooooh! Leather!!!!

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos

Creepy Glowbugg:

Another attempt at an art journal page. It looked better in my head. 

Enter your Free for All projects here.

Feel free to grab the newly designed HDH badges for 

Macabre Monday challenges for your blog. 

Macabre Monday #158 Freaker's Free for All

We're baaaaaack!!!!!

Seems like ages ago that we closed down for the holidaze. 

It feels good to get the smell and feel of the ol' dungeon on us once again.

We really should make sure someone opens the door around here once in

a while though. Gets a might rank after a few months of being closed up.

But the stench and slime of rotted projects gone by, has started our dark mojo anew for 2013.

Okay folks, same rules as last year (but feel free to check them out in the sidebar,if you'd like), except we are making this 
a bi-monthly/fortnightly challenge.

Now you have two weeks to participate in our Macabre Monday challenges!!!

Consider it our little gift to you for 2013.

Today's challenge is an easy one,

Freaker's Free for All

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en based art piece

with no other limitations. 
Anything goes!!!!

Let's just try to stay away from the overtly cute. That is all we ask.
The Minions all suffer from acid reflux as it is, so any extra sugar
will turn our lovely dungeon into a vomitorium. 

Need some inspiration?

We have just the projects to get your dark juices flowin'.

(Keep in mind that only half of the Minions will show their wares
today, and then the other half will show off on next Monday, for the
reminder post.)

Temptress of Terror Teri :

Teri is using her gorgeous new image, "The Ivy Queen",

available in her shop, Delicious Doodles.

Menace of the Monstrous Mark:


Now how can you go wrong with a little Devil 
for the New Year?

Agent of the Abominable Andrea:

 Andrea has hit the nail on the head with this one!

Is it February, yet?

Okay, now it's your turn to go crazy and give life to whatever
bits of darkness you've had brewing since Christmas!!!

Brace yourself...

Keep your eyes peeled!!

Haunted Design House challenges will resume on January 7th, 2013. 

ATC Swap

Just a quick reminder that I need pics of the ATC's you have made so I can put them up in our ATC swap page, I need a picture and your details. I hope to post everyones pics  just before xmas. My Atc's are in the post. Let me know if anyone is having troubles.
Email me at   mglandscapes00@aol.com

Hope every one has enjoyed the swap.
Mark