Haunted Design House

Welcome to another Wretched Wednesday !! Up first are last week's chosen ones, the Gruesome Twosome for the Evil Empire challenge. Congratulations to Crom and Kristy Lee I know both of you ladies already have the badge so, thank you for playing and we look forward to seeing what creations you will come up with next. This week's challenge is all about quotes . I am a big fan of the written word and I really enjoy a good, thought provoking, or witty little quip worth repeating. In my head, that's a good quote. I have a couple of books of quotations and many notebooks of quotes that I have enjoyed and jotted down over the years. Mae West was always good for a smart citation. I chose just one of her many zings, and matched it with this great zombie chick from Simply Betty's PCP site . I decided to keep the colors bright and cheery to give it a springtime feel despite the bloody connotations. I had so much fun with this one, that I may just h...

 The chosen ones for the Gods and Monsters challenge are Fiona and Jenn B. Congrats ladies!! Grab your badge if you don't have one yet!! The winner of the $10 gift voucher to  The Charm Barn is   Jeanette!! Please email me here  to claim your prize! Thanks for playing along with us this month to celebrate Hallowe'en and all things spooky, creepy, wonderful!

As soon as I heard HDH was being sponsored this week by none other than the uber wicked, Kustom Kaskets , I knew exactly what I wanted to create for the challenge. The "Necro Neck wear" challenge is to create a piece of  original  artwork that may be chosen as a new design for Kustom Kaskets , and they will also make the winning design into a pendant for one lucky wiener!!! How cool, right?!  Earlier this week, I debuted a re purposed piece of religious sculpture that turned out quite awesome. My dear friend and  fellow team mate, Andrea, popped my Zombie Buddha into an ornate frame and I must admit, I would totally rock this piece!!!        I actually did come up with an original piece of art to submit for this challenge as well. I bought this adorable little 3" x 3" canvas and easel a while back and thought it was the perfect size for this challenge. I realize it may be a bit large for an ac...

When I first read the idea of a Salvador Dali inspired challenge I was very intrigued and immediately began  designing (in my head) my project. I opted for a mixed media kind of project, using various Dali images and quotes. I used an 8" x 10" stretched canvas, painted with metallic shades of teal, silver, purple, and black.   I knew this Dali image from The Octopode Factory would come in handy. I also found a use for some creepy doll eyes, and destashed a bunch of brads. The melting clock is another Octopode image. I used Glossy Accents to make the watch face shiny and dimensional. I added a photo of Dali and Walt Disney, a couple of cool quotes and some decoupaged mulberry paper.  I used more quotes around the outside of the canvas and sealed everything with polyurethane. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you were able to glean some inspiration for your own project. You have until Sunday at 10 PM CST to enter!   

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 to your post back here in the linky tool. Please make sure that your blog post / upload has been made AFTER the challenge date... we wanna see fresh stuff, not those from a few weeks ago!! 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH089 . 4. 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. We'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (our top two favorite creations) from all the players. At the end of every month these will ...

Welcome to Weak Ticket Wednesday! I am your hostess with the mostess Creepy Glowbugg. This week's Macabre Monday challenge is Hacked to Bits . Now I thought long and hard about this for a while, and kinda just figured it would come to me as I needed it to, but it didn't.  I DO like my card, and technically it DOES fit the challenge... Well, Hello Freddy!!! I guess I could say that the hacking and the shredding is implied, given it is Freddy we're talking about here. How bleepin' cute is this though? Looks like another possible tattoo design to me. Join us for this week's "Hacked to Bits" challenge. You have until Sunday night at 10:00 PM CST. 

Thanks so much to everyone for their wonderful birthday wishes!  And even though I commented on the Minions blogs, I want to thank them here, too... you guys are awesome!  Not just because of the fantabulousness that has been retrieved from my mailbox as of late (which IS pretty effing awesome by the way), but for all the inspiration you guys give me and to all of our readers here at HDH! So here is my warm-fuzzy moment: You are the dank to my dungeon, the ooze to my swamp, and the screams to my banshees :) Love ya' ghouls! And now, back to our regularly scheduled post: After seeing what the Macabre Minions created for this week's challenge, I don't know if I should even post my puny little card... wasn't Creepy Glowbugg's mask effing awesome?! And what about Lynx's skully goodness?  I'd like to put in my request for my very own glow-in-the-dark eyeball please :) Thanks. Well. Here it is. My no-layer card! Yep... that's right. Only the kraft car...

... our Masterful Mistress was born. Happiest of Birthday wishes to you Barb!! Yup, yup, yup! Today is Barb's birthday!!! And not just any birthday either. Shhh.... she's fifty. I mean forty!!!! Either way it's gonna hurt. On behalf of all of the Minions, I'd like to wish you a simply glorious day filled with good friends, good family, and a little YOU time. I cannot leave without one last dig. "Sag! You're it!"

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. Please make sure that your blog post / upload has been made AFTER the challenge date... we wanna see fresh stuff, not those from a few weeks ago!! 3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH080 . 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. We'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (our top two favorite creations) from all the players. At the end of every month these will be compiled and a M...

This edition of Wicked Wednesday is a bit tardy as it is "Zombie Week" on the Chiller channel and I am easily distracted by the undead. For this week's Macabre Monday challenge of "Toe Tags and Body Bags", we are to design a tag or a bag with a creepy twist. I went with tags. I had fun decoupaging this one with various images, stamps, mulberry papers, and a charm. This was a digital tag that I embossed and cracked. I also added a handmade coffin charm and some fibers. Here is a good picture of the iridescent embossing and the cracked glass effect. Drop by my blog for more info on these tags and a heads up regarding the next Macabre Monday challenge. Now get busy and make some unorthodox tags and bags !!!! You have until this Sunday at 10PM CST.      

Welcome! Creepy G here for my very first installment of   "Wicked Wednesday"! The "Old Masterful One" has allowed me to post my Macabre Monday DT offerings on Wednesdays, to spice things up a bit and give you yet another reason to visit our little slice of hell here on a hump day!   This week's challenge is "My Beloved Monster".   My first card was a bit on the sweet side (you can check it out here if you dare!), so I made another card, more fitting for the challenge and more "Haunted Design House-friendly".   It's no secret that my most beloved of the monsters is the ZOMBIE! I loves me some undead! I went for my new "mottled zombie" coloring technique and am quite pleased with how the Frankenstein-like image turned out. I found it on Google images, but I'm not sure of  it's talented artist. I mounted "her" (see fleshy mound above her left arm) on black card stock and then onto some red mulberry paper. ...