Smeared and Smudged's DT Throwdown Challenge #3: Mini Books

Are you ready for Round #3 of the
Design Team Throwdown Challenge going on at 

Smeared and Smudged's ning forum?!

Teri, Creepy Glowbugg, and myself (The Masterful Mistress) are competing as a team for the badge and bragging rights of the
DT Throwdown champions.

Top designers from some of the BEST alternative DTs are competing

against each other to see which DT reigns supreme.
We won the first challenge... I KNOW we can do it again!

This DT Throwdown Challenge is all about Mini Books!
Let us reveal what the Minions have been up to:

Temptress of Terror Teri
The Little Book of Gothic Horror

Please visit Teri's blog to learn about all of the fabulous details in this beautiful faux leather & copper mini book!


Masterful Mistress of the Macabre Barb
Mixed Media Dark Art Book 

Please visit Barb's blog to view each page up close and personal, and see what happens when she raids the Architectural samples closet in her office ;)


Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos 
Creepy Glowbugg
Ephemera Explosion Book

Please visit CreepyGlo's blog to see more of her ephemera
addiction, um, ... collection, and more details about every page
of this handmade mini book.

You must be a member of the S&S ning group to participate and/or vote on the entries.  Join now, and check out the stunningly wicked and fabulous entries, and cast your vote for your favorite team!!!

Voting actually starts on Thursday, but you can sample the eye candy now.  

Macabre Monday Bare Bones week 2

As we begin our second week of the Bare Bones/CAS (clean and simple) challenge, we have some fresh Minion inspiration and perspiration, for you.

Sultana Of The Sinister Black Dragon

Menace Of The Monstrous Mark

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna 

Imp of Insanity Ike

Cadaverous Concoctor of Chaos

Creepy Glowbugg

Keep it simple, no embellishments or multiple layers.

Master of Macabre and Gruesome Twosomes

Drum roll please....... The Master of Macabre is Shelley. 
Congratulations Shelley for substantially getting your creep on and you are the proud winner of  Teri's La Llorona image AND Lynx's Poe Piece.      We bow to you oh creepy one.  If you could email  with your address to claim your prizes please.   

 

The Gruesome Twosome for the Drop Dead Gorgeous Challenge are:

 

Carol with her amazing Zombie Head.

 

 

and

 

Crystal with her very cool Frankie Card.

 

 

 

The Gruesome Twosome of the Dante's Nine Circles challenge are:

 

Monique with her insanely brilliant card.

 

 

 

and

 

Fiona with her brilliant ATC.

 

 

Now you can display your badges with the knowledge that you guys have the ability to hone your dark side to wicked little pieces of art.

 

Thank you and remember to check out this week's challenge which is Bare Bones.

 

 

 

 

HDH164 - Bare Bones

*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 :

Bare Bones



So basically this challenge entails not using embellishments, so CAS (clean and simple).

Check back next Monday for some more creepy inspiration from more of the design team.

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna 

Temptress of Terror Teri

Contagion of Corrosion Croms

Freak Of The Formidable Fiona

Agent Of The Abominable Andrea

Masterful Mistress of the Macabre Barb

 

Wow we even had the Masterful Mistress play along this week.  Now you all have to come out and play in support or we will be badly beaten in the dungeons!

Show up and vote!!! Please?

Today is the first day of voting for the current 

Design Team Throw Down at the

Smeared and Smudged forum.

Andrea, Mark, and I have worked really hard to create

some visually stunning Faux Finishes for the Throw Down theme.

You can click on our names and see our creations up close and 

personal.

Andrea

Mark

Glo

Please drop by the S&S forum and cast your vote for your favorite

team's projects. You do have to be a member to vote, but sign up is

a snap, and you will be joining a forum full of tips, tricks, inspiration, 

and camaraderie for the alternative artist. 

No spam or weekly emails either!

Voting is only open today and tomorrow, so don't dally!! 

Macabre Monday Dante's 9 Circles of Hell

Welcome to the second week of the Macabre Monday 

Divine Comedy challenge.

Most of you are probably, at least vaguely familiar with the poem 

written back in the 14th century, by Dante.

It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided 

by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem Hell is depicted as 

nine circles of suffering located within earth. 

Allegorically, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the 

soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and 

rejection of sin.

For more info check out the wiki page here.

Here is how (some of ) the Minions interpreted the theme:

 Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

Gluttony

The Contagion of Corrosion Croms:

 

Circles 2-9 

She gets around.

Imp of Insanity Ike:

Lust

We hope you'll join in on the Hellish fun we are having this week.

There are plenty of sins to choose from, and lots of wickedness, too.

For example, did you know that the 8th Circle is Fraud, and sorcerers,

astrologers, fortune tellers and false prophets, were made to 

endlessly walk with their heads on backwards so they couldn't see what

was ahead of them? How's that for eternal damnation?

You have all week to come up with something infernal.

    

DT Throwdown Round 2

Here we are again with our Design Team Throwdown entry.

The voting has changed a bit, giving the teams more time to create, 

with the voting being open Thursday and Friday ONLY.

Now we are being judged together as a team, as opposed to
receiving individual votes.

For more info you can go here.

The theme is FAUX FINISHES.

Here are our entries:

Andrea

Gorgeous faux metal and rust technique on a chipboard box.

For more info, please drop by Andrea's personal blog.

Mark

Very masculine and gritty faux rust and patina techniques 

on a journal cover. 

Faux cracked glass technique.

Embossed diamond plate and riveted metal chipboard pieces.

For more info, please drop by Mark's personal blog.

Gloria

Paper Mache skull with bronze metallic paint and patina treatment. 

All paper and card stock gears and cogs and such, 

given a faux rust technique.

Stamped stylized steampunk gears onto tissue paper and adhered it 

over the bronze and patina. Next time, I think I'll apply it before 

the patina step.

Good shot of the bronze and patina, and a close up of the gears and 

stuff. For more info drop by my personal blog.

The Haunted Design House team won the first DT throw down, 

and we'd love to go two for two on this round as well.

We all worked really hard on our projects and we think it shows.

If you would like to see the entries from all of the teams

and cast your vote on Thursday or Friday, here is the link. 

You do have to be a Smeared and Smudged forum member

to participate and vote, but it's free and very worth signing up.

HDH 163 Dante, A Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy/ Dante's Inferno

Well This week It's Menace Of The Monstrous Mark here with this fortnights challenge, I have managed to slip the chains long enough to set the theme.

Now as you can see from the picture above the Theme is 'The Divine Comedy'

I'm sure most of you know at least the rough gist of the story, Dante battling through the different levels of hell or in the very least you might have played the computer game (me) I did try reading it once, Way heavy going.Ok so the challenge is not to read the Divine Comedy although you can, but to create something inspired by Dante's time down under. Here is a break down of the circles of Hell Dante passed through.

Now you can pick a circle of Hell that appeals to you or feel free to sum up Dante's time as a whole, or just a wild Hellish vision of your own. Go crazy and get inventive, We can not wait to see what you can come up with.

Remember to check back next Monday for more inspiration from our DT. Lets see what we have this week.

Temptress of Terror Teri

(The Gates of Hell)

Sultana Of The Sinister Black Dragon

(Limbo and Heresy)

Freak Of The Formidable Fiona

(gluttony)

Agent Of The Abominable Andrea

(treachery)

Menace Of The Monstrous Mark

Stop on by the DT's blogs, leave some love and find out more about what they have created for the challenge.

We can not wait to see what you come up with. 

Mark.

We dominated!!!

Just wanted to brag on the Minions for winning the very first

Smeared and Smudged DT Throwdown!!!! 

                                         

Thank you for your votes!!!

The new challenge begins tomorrow.

Now that the other teams have seen what we can do,

I have a feeling the competition is really gonna heat up!