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This week's Macabre Monday challenge is Garden of Good and Evil . I wanted to make a dimensional project out of clay, but wasn't sure which direction I should go with it. I have been looking for a frog to zombify for months. I was inspired by something I read on the Frog Queen's blog, and thought how cool she would think I was if I made a  zombie frog . Problem was, I never could find an acceptable ceramic frog specimen for this project. So, I decided to just make the damned thing myself!  Here is my silly clay version of a zombie frog .  I'm not sure it translates well, but he is eating a frog hand. That's his tongue wrapped around it. I decided to make a garden background for my amphibian of the living dead . I used the awesome graveyard scene from  Delicious Doodles , and colored it with the BV range of Copics. I added some Tim Holtz  trees, and some MS border punches, and then mounted it onto black card stock.  I used vellum...

*Please see the sidebar for HDH Macabre Monday Rules* ( Note: entries not following the guidelines are not eligible for prizes or badges ) Ok, macabre fans ... your challenge this week: HDH121 " Garden of Good and Evil " You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that illustrates the battle between good and evil that is fought nightly in the garden of your imagination! Show us the inhabitants of your garden, be they gnomes, plant life, fauna, fae, or something else entirely! Check out what the Macabre Minions have created for your viewing pleasure: Sultana of the Sinister Lynx : Creepy Cricut Cween Donna : Agent of the Abominable Andrea : Our Devious Digital Demoness Susan is still MIA... send her a little healing vibe, would ya'? Temptress of Terror Teri : Imp of Insanity Ike : Cadaverous Concoctor of Chao s Creepy Glowbugg : will post on Wretched Wednesday, so tune in!