Haunted Design House

* 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 th...

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 HDH090 . 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...

Just popping in between Zombie posts and showing you what I did for this week's Macabre Monday - "Alone in the Dark" challenge. This week is sponsored by our very own Minion, Teri from Delicious Doodles ! The very first image I ever purchased from Teri was The Grotesque Gargoyle . It was fun to color him in, although I did have a bit of a time with the shading since I chose to follow along with the dot technique for most of it. I like the effect it lends to the gargoyle and it's not  my normal way of shading so I like the new look to my coloring.   I ended up fussy cutting this Guardian of the Graveyard , and sticking him in the foreground of a very dark scene that I found online. Please join us this week for our "Alone in the Dark" challenge using black or an eerily dark background (c'mon, how easy is that?!) sponsored by  Delicious Doodles !! You have until 10:00PM CST Sunday to play.