Haunted Design House

Since the Mistress chooses not to manage her time properly... a little Wicked Wednesday in-lieu-of  Macabre Monday ;) HDH #177:  Dimensional Hallowe'en Please see all details & link up your own creation   HERE .  This challenge is being sponsored by: Without fu rther ado... The Masterful Mistress of the Macabre  Barb Be sure to pop by my blog, as well as ALL of the Minions' blogs ( see links at right ) for more details & photos.  And don't forget to get your creep on with us... you've still got until  Sunday at 5pm (CST)  to join in on the fun and possibly win some Tando Creative goodness! Also a little reminder of the ongoing Countdown to Halloween blog with links to 192 participants in all that is Halloween!

*Please see the sidebar for HDH Macabre Monday Rules* First up... how about finding out who the HDH101 Kreepy Kids Gruesome Twosome is: Alison for her vampified/zombified cutie, and Chloe for her wonderfully Witching Hour saga.  Congrats!  Grab your badge and wear it with pride, ladies! Ok, macabre fans ... your challenge this week: "Carnival of Curiosities" You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece of the creepy circus or carnival oeuvre . Come one, come all!! Bring out your freaks, your fortune tellers, terrifying clowns, and your most curious of curios. Now let's see what the MAGNIFICENT Macabre Minions have in store for you: Sultana of the Sinister Lynx : Creepy Cricut Cween Donna : Agent of the Abominable Andrea :   Devious Digital Demoness Susan : Temptress of Terror Teri :  Chaotic Creepy Glowbugg : will post on Wretched Wednesday, so tune in! Now let's see what little curiosities YOU have in store for U...

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'...

Teri, don't read any further, you won't like it :P Today's FFF post is about La Isla de la Munecas, or the Island of the Dolls. It sounds like it should be full of pretty pink lace and plastic tea sets, doesn't it? Well, it's actually a macabre tourist attraction to the south of Mexico City, festooned with thousands of decomposing and mutilated dolls on display. The area is filled with canals and waterways, and in amongst these is a small uninhabited island. Don Julian Santana moved to this island in the 1950's, hoping to find peace and refuge from the modern world. However, he came to believe that the island was haunted by the ghost of a young girl who had drowned in one of the canals in the 1920's. Reports vary, but the dolls are either for the little girl's ghost to play with, or to ward off other evil spirits that roamed the area and which were scaring the little girl. Either way, the hermit would fish out old dolls he found in the canals and place t...

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 ...

My bad.  This was supposed to be posted yesterday. :) Over at the Simply Betty Stamps challenge blog , we are doing a super easy challenge!  So you should be able to play along... just create a card or project for Mom.  See, I said it was easy. Here's mine: Yeah, I'm sure my mama will give me a smile over this one ;)  VERY fitting, no?  I used my new uber-awesome iron gate punches from MS... just  a bit around the sentiment.  I LOVE those things!   Digi/stamp:  SGKW Birthday Sally Rubber stamp:  Trendy Greetings (TAC) Paper:  DCWV, Caboodles White & set D cardstocks , OLD paper from stash Other:  VersaFine Onyx ink, Copic markers, MS punches, Micron pen So, since Mom's Day is tomorrow, do you all have your cards done?  If not, whip one up and link it up over at Simply Betty Stamps Challenges !!!

Yep, it's CCC Donna's birthday today.  We don't know how old she is, because she said that a lady never tells... hmmmmm... I don't see no ladies around here... but we'll just go with it :) I made you a card, Donna, and I'm hoping it will get to you by tomorrow or the next day.  So this might spoil it, but you'll just have to suck it up! Great sentiment, right?  PERFECT for Donna, me thinks... especially since she IS so FABULOUS.  That's right, Donna, I said it... in that non-hoity-toity kind of way ;) The image is from Stampotique, the sentiment is from Missy B's, the edge punch is EK Success, the ribbon is from Michael's dollar bin (oh yes... yes it is... and it is delightful), and the AWESOME silver background is some wallpaper that Creepy Glowbugg sent to me.  LOVE IT! I know I'm stretching it a bit, but this card uses the SDC#29 sketch over at the Stampotique challenge blog .  I used Daniel Torrente's Prom Queen for the 1st 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. 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 HDH072 . 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...

Fellow SBS DT member, Suzi , has organized a fun blog hop to round out the year! All you have to do to join in, is create a  post on your blog entitled 'My Top Ten Cards of 2010'.  Then link that post to Suzi's post , using the inlinkz tool at the bottom of her post... please visit that post to see details about prizes along the hop!     Sooooooooo, here are my faves for the year: Images by:  Simply Betty Stamps (vampire), The Angel Company (foliage & sentiment) Images by:  Kenny K (girl), The Angel Company (sentiment & background) Image by Stamp It Crazy Image by Delicious Doodles Images by:  Simply Betty Stamps (vampires), Stampers Anonymous (sentiment) Images by:  Tiddly Inks (house & fairy), Viva Las Vegas Stamps (sentiment) Images by:  Stamp It Crazy (fairy), Stampers Anonymous (tree), The Angel Company (foliage & sentiment) Images by:  Simply Betty Stamps (boy), unknown sentiment   Image by:...