Haunted Design House

Just a few more weeks and the Minions will be back!  Until then, here is a little sumpin' sumpin' from the Mistress: All of the stamps used here are/were from The Angel Company.  I cut up a large collage stamp that had a vintage chick on it with a totally f'd up face... the border and the sentiment was pretty cool, so viola!  I even did a little heat embossing on this baby. I paper-pieced the chair fabric for a little POP o' color... regal purple... mmmmmmm... this makes me think of True Blood's former King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington for some reason.   (image borrowed from Google Images) Though Russell was not a looker (helloooooo Eric... I miss you), he definitely had that royal air about him.  Not to mention his style of furnishings: (image borrowed from Google Images) Anyway... back to the grind... I need to work on my class samples, but I'm probably just going to veg in front of the tv.  Gotta work at the Evil Job tomorrow... dam...

I have been trying all week long to make something uber creative and awesome for the final challenge of October here at Haunted Design House. The challenge is "Heinously Haunted Houses". I live in a house that I have decorated and staged to give the appearance of hauntedness all year long. I prefer, "Apothecary Chic". Just your everyday mantle decor. The framed print is one of my newest acquisitions. It is a signed and numbered print from the brilliant artist, Leontine Greenberg . It is a painting of a Skeksis from The Dark Crystal . Mmmmmm? Hmmmm? I adore this piece! I did try to create some really cool houses from wood, but they turned to crap in my hands.  I think my mojo has left the building. So I returned to a project I was working on earlier this year, but never got around to actually finishing.  A nice little "Welcome" plaque for your foyer or front door. This is a completely handmade plaque. The coffin shape is cut from MDF board, and th...

Remember these cards? I had several people inquire about the stamp that I had used... it was retired.  Guess what?  You can now buy the whole set of 6 stamps as digital images for only $3.75!  No, I'm not getting paid to do this, but I thought y'all would like to know... I'm nice like that ;) They are at Digi Design House ( no, I am not affiliated ) right HERE . If you DO pop over there to purchase, please drop me an email.  I had asked them to re-release this set, so I'm curious to see how popular it will be!

Day 5 of previews for a new line of Simply Betty Stamps images... The Burton 'Weenies.  You'll have a chance to win these great images as clear stamps... just hop over to The Burtonesque Dolls blog for all of the details! Today's you get a double whammy... Jack Jack & Harley : This duo of doom was just begging to be Halloweenied-out.  I dug out my old Basic Grey Eerie 6x6 paper pad and found this loverly orange skully paper... LOVE! I die-cut the image panel with a Nestie label die & then free-hand cut the black mat... holy shee-ite that took awhile to get just right :P  The sentiment is from a retired TAC sentiment set.  I even used up a scrap of ribbon and finished it all off with a little black twine.  Their hair looks awesome in person, but you can't really tell in these photos.  Trust me >:) Tomorrow is the final day with my FAVORITE image and card of the entire line... and don't forget to pop by TBD blog for all of the details, ...

Day four of previews for a new line of Simply Betty Stamps images... The Burton 'Weenies.  You'll have a chance to win these great images as clear stamps... just hop over to The Burtonesque Dolls blog for all of the details! Today's image is the probably the edgiest one of the bunch... Raven :  Yeah, me thinks I wouldn't want to piss her off too much ;)  You can't see it very well, but I used the MS Drippy Goo punch again in the lower left... a lovely black ribbon rose & I got the Copic airbrush out again.  This time I used the brush tip instead of the chisel tip to get a bigger & bolder splatter effect. Check out those piercings... uh, ouch?  I passed out when I got my tattoo years ago and am freakishly weird about needles, so I can't even imagine getting pierced like they do now.  See, I've told you before that I am a princess ;) "If you can't say something nice...then at least have the decency to be vague."  LOVE it.  It'...

... if you like more mainstream and cutesy rubber stamps, there are some FANTASTIC specials going on from The Angel Company (I'm a demo, in case y'all didn't know).   The Discontinued List is out... with some  AMAZING savings on our Final Farewells: order now through May 1st:  45% off May 2nd thru May 15th:  40% off May 16th thru May 30th:  35% off May 31st thru June 24th:  30% off To see the list and order online, just visit my e-commerce store HERE April promotions, click HERE Eyelets to Go promotion, click HERE Spring Fling promotion, click HERE (photos of products can be seen on TAC's website HERE ) Blast From the Past promotion, click HERE April Stamp of the Month, click HERE I'm sending in an order on Friday, so anyone that is local, I'd be happy to add  your order!  And any out-of-towners are more than welcome to order directly off of my online store.  Sorry... TAC doesn't ship outside the US & PR, but I can order it and s...

... sounds kinda dirty, doesn't it?  ;)  MUCH more fun than just a mere birthday bloghop, no?  Me & a couple of the Minions are doing a little Fiendishly Festive Friday Frolic to honor the Devious Digital Demoness ' birthday today, Susan !  Susan does SO much for HDH, from writing up the challenge posts, to finding WONDERFUL little gems for Fiendishly Fun Fridays, to cracking us up with comments and suggestions.  We love ya' baby! I know this little card isn't much, and of course you won't be receiving it in the mail today, but you will eventually!  I had hoped to create some bit of awesomeness like Creepy Glowbugg, but time once again slipped away from me... and she has all of that natural talent an all :P All of the stamps are from The Angel Company , Palette inks, EK Success edger punch, Cricut diecut fence & of course... Stickles.  Susan loves purple and sparkly things, so there you go :) Happy Birthday, Susan!  I hope today ...

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 HDH074 . 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 Master...

Yep.  It's true.  So if this bothers you, please ignore it and go to your next item in your Reader :) The Angel Company is having an AWESOME paper sale for all of you scrapbookers & cardmakers!! Here's a link to my online store so that you can see what they look like... and you can order directly online :)  Just click the link and look at the side bar... then click on each collection to view them all!   CLICK ME For you local people (Kansas City to Wellsville areas), just EMAIL ME and I'll send the order in with others to save a little shipping cost!  And I'm sorry to say that The Angel Company does not ship outside of the US or PR :(

Ok my little pretties, until I get my Delicious Doodles card made up tonight, please hop on over to my "normal" blog for a couple delightfully eerie-elegant projects :)

... at least it's something to look at for a bit :) CLICK HERE

...no, I haven't done my challenge card yet.  I KNOW!  I am such a slacker... but, to make it up to you I will show you this little ditty. Cute, no?  This was a submission to TAC for publication consideration, but they used my other one instead... yeay!  I'll show that one to you sometime as well. Stamps:  Spookilicious Paper:  Penelope, white UltraSmooth & black cardstocks Ink:  Palette Noir Other:  paper piercer, mineral oil w/ Prismacolors, Black Scrapper's Floss Who says you have to use the whole image of a stamp, right?  Kinda looks like a window... or maybe it's like the opening credits of the Brady Bunch: Here's the story of a wicked witchy, Who was boiling up one very goofy skelly. He was green and white, like no other, The bow tie looks 'nelly'. Here's the story, of a scared black kitty, Who was busy with two jack-o's of his own. They were orange, and kinda silly, Yet they were all alone... I know... it's h...

;) Seriously, I just wanted to share one of the new Halloweenie stamp sets available from TAC. I was lucky enough to be asked to submit samples for their latest publication: Inspiration Avenue, and this is one that made it in!! Yep... CUTE! I stamped & colored the witchie, masked her off and sponged the moon, grass & sky. I paper pieced her little skirt and then added some shadows to her & the sentiment with a q-tip. Got out the ol' sewing machine and stitched a couple of edges of patterned paper after distressing them. Add some sheer ribbon & a glittery plastic spider and... voila! Stamps: Spooky Girls , Happy Haunting Paper: Penelope SWIC , White UltraSmooth & Penelope cardstocks Ink: Landscape, Violette, Starry Night & Noir Palettes , Purple Hydrangea Versamagic (I think!) Other: Penelope Ribbon , PrismaColor pencils w/ mineral oil, glittery spider I'll be sharing a few more cute ones over the next several posts, so I hope that's ...

You knew this one was comin', right? He's freakin' cute, Yo! :) As soon as I saw this little dude in the new TAC catalogue, I wanted to give him a spider yo-yo... that's just how I roll :) I saw the Mojo Monday #94 sketch and really liked it, so I started grabbing trims and halloweenie cardstocks and started layering. No patterned paper! Stamps: Victorian Elements , Spunky Sprite Boys , Happy Haunting , Punk Princess (retired) Paper: Basic Black & Olive cardstocks, Premium White, Bazzill Mono-Yellow Oranges , Mulberry Meadow cardstock (purpl e - retired) Ink: Burnt Umber & Noir Palettes , Moonlight White Brilliance , VersaMark Other: Pop dots, Prismacolors w/ mineral oil, foam tape, distresser, misc. trims, Creative Cafe button, orange blingy It kinda looks a little busy, but I really wanted to use my new brocade stamp on a creepy card :) I stamped the boy on the white panel and then colored it in with a black marker... this gives a great shadow aro...