Haunted Design House

Ok, I'll admit it... this one is pretty creepy :)  I mean it must be... Poot (Eric) threatened to have me committed last night ;)  He kept muttering to the babies (four-legged with fur):  "mommy is psycho... " muhuwah ahhh ahh ahh ahhhhhhhhhh Talk about fabulous therapy.  I'm tellin' ya'... give me something to color & an edge distresser and I am happy :)  See? And have you tried Copics on kraft cardstock... it is so yummy.  You get a completely different shade of color, and it's all muted.  Fan-tab-u-lous-ness , I'm just sayin'.  It's great for darker cards, so you don't end up with a stark white image panel.  Me likey... a lot . Stamps:  Winter (Stampotique), sentiment (River City Rubberworks), skull (Bombshell) Paper:  basic brown, scarlet, kraft cardstocks (TAC), Bazzill green Ink:  Memento Tuxedo , Moulin Rouge & Burnt Umber Palettes Other:  EK Success edger punch, Scor-bug, Crystal Lacquer Copics:  0, YR04, YR18, R

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. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH036 . 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. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (my 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. He/she will be asked to be a guest blogger

... but I used an image from one of my FAVORITE creepy stamp sources, so that counts, right?  I do have plans to creep this one out eventually, but I thought I'd go a little sassy traditional for the first time ;) Is her dress not freakin' awesome?  These photos kind of wash out the color... she looks really freakin' pale!  She looks better IRL... I need to get my camera manual out:  I don't even know what all the buttons on my camera do ;) I thought the sentiment was fitting for the "come hither" look on her face and in her body language, right? Stamps:   Tina (Stamp It Crazy), Spunky Sprite Boys (TAC), Swirlies (TAC) Paper:  white ultrasmooth, black, & DCWV green cardstocks (TAC) Ink:  Memento Tuxedo , VersaMark Other:  Transcendence EP , ribbon (HL), misc. rhinestones, Scor-bug, silver glitter pen Copics:  0, E000, E11, E57, YR23, V01, V04, V06, V09 I guess I need to figure out what next week's challenge is going to be instead of jus

Ok, so I'm a little behind in the Stampotique Designers Challenge , but I DID do it :)  The challenge was to make a girly-girl project.  Soooooo... here's Sassy Perl:   I LOVE her.  Though the color palette isn't too terribly girly, I thought the big sheer bow & the flower helped :)  And how do you like the sentiment?  I KNOW!  How many times have I said this out loud?!  I picked it up at a stamp convention, so I can't remember the company.  Sorry. Stamps:   Perl (Stampotique), unknown sentiment Cardstock:   Bazzill, DCWV purple, & white Ultra Smooth (TAC) Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Other:  EK Success edger punches, Yellow Scrapper's Floss, Buttons & Blossoms (MM), ribbon (HL) Copics:  0, BG72, BG78, V93, V95, YR20, YR23, YR24, YR02, YR18, E53 Her hair & eyeshadow turned out pretty cool.  Crossing my fingers to get to play some more this weekend!

Check this out... I found it over at Mel's , and the originator of this Hop is HERE at Clips-n-Cuts .  Vicky was celebrating her 100th blog post and started this fun ongoing blog hop of papercrafters.  So join in the fun... it super easy:

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. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH035 . 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. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (my 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. He/she will be asked to be a guest blogger for the fo

... yeah, sweet... like me :)  {finger poised over lips to avoid hurling incident} LOL!  I know, kinda funny, right... me... sweet...  Well, at least I have Cheryl @ The InkTrap snowed :)  Thanks so much, Cheryl ... I'm soooo glad you stalk me ;)   Now I must pass this on to 10 others.  And let me just say that there are FAR MORE than 10 that deserve this award.  So, I have decided to number my favs that are either sweet people or that have sahweet talent {or both :)} and have fate select 10 (well, if you consider Random.org fate)  ;)  Except number one... I picked myself :)  1.    Laurie @ Soapbox Creations , my WOSFF ( web-o-sphere-friend-forever ) 2.  Alison @ 21st Century Pillowbook 3.  Angela @ Artistic Detours 4.  Michelle @ Creative Journey 5.  Mel @ Mel Stampz ( has the most awesome tutorials ever ! ) 6.  Oz @ WoodInk ( GT Mistress ) 7.  Alex @ Paper and String 8.  Melisa @ Art From My Heart 9.  Lynx @ BlackDragon's Crafts ( GT Mistress ) 10.  Suzanne @ Other L

If you haven't gone over to Stamp It Crazy 's blog and become a follower, please get it in gear and do it!!!  For every 50 followers she gets, she will give away 50 rubber stamps !!   Yes, you read that correctly.  She needs 24 more before she'll draw a winner this time, and then another 50 and she'll do it again!

Once again, I'm behind in announcing winners... my bad! And I think I've said this before, but I seriously believe that Lynx & Oz should just be their own Gruesome Twosome every week.  I'm always gravitating to their work, so from here on out, you two shall be the weekly GT Mistresses .  Don't worry... you'll still be in the prize drawings ;) HDH032 - Somber Shakespeare Gruesome Twosome:   Renee for her dark lady w/ Yorrick, and to Linda in PA , for her withered Cleopatra.  Great job, ladies!!!  Grab your GT badges from the sidebar and linky back here! HDH032 prize winner , whom will receive the awesome Stamp It Crazy Girl with Skull image I used for my challenge card is:  Sarah !  Please email me your mailing address so that I can forward that on to Barb at Stamp It Crazy... thanks so much for offering up the prize, Barb ! HDH033 - Freaker's Free for All Gruesome Twosome:   Dragon for her beautifully dark collage piece, and lach

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. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH034 . 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. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (my 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. He/she will be asked to be a guest blogger for the fo

... all of that rubber... sitting there... staring at me... mocking me... I cracked. Ta da!  It was so worth it... ya' know... not getting some of the non-fun stuff done that I really need to get done :)  Isn't she awesome?!  This is one of the Goddess stamps from Elementals from Smeared Ink ... me likey alot.  I almost started with regular skin tones and thought better of it... I'm so glad.  I think I'll have to buy refill ink for my Copic markers soon, but man I had fun. I added Crystal Lacquer on the water drop tattoos, eyes & lips... o-so-shiney :)  I seriously tried to get a decent photo, but I'm telling you right now the skin shading looks way better in person. One thing I might do next time is mask off the inked cheek area... I HAVE been know to perform stamp surgery before... cutting out elements or snipping them apart... but I'm thinking Terra might hex me if I did that :)  AND this is such a lover-ly stamp image... maybe I'd better stick

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. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH033 . 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. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (my 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. He/she will be asked to be a guest blogger for the following month,

Happy April Fool's Day!  Is that the proper greeting?  I guess I've never really thought about it :)  Well, at any rate, today will be hoppin'... Blog Hoppin' that is!  The Smeared and Smudged online community is having a blog hop that is sure to be full of surprises... I'm not telling about ALL of the surprises... you'll just have to find out for yourself { muhu whah ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhhhhhhhh } My project, however has no surprises... I was mojo-less for that part, so my sad little fairy must do.  I brayered & sponged directly on the card base for this one... the only additional layer is the fairy herself :)  She is so beautifully sad, don't you think? I colored her with Copics and probably should have gone a little more dark with her to fit into the rest of the scene, but I kind of like how she is this bright little thing standing out in the middle of a dark evening.  I used a three-color feathering technique for her gown... it looks really good i