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*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: HDH122 "Which Witch Are YOU?" You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that represents YOU at your witchy best. Maybe you like to think of yourself as the wicked step mother type witch, or maybe one of the old crones who live by herself deep in the woods. If you'd rather not represent yourself that way, you can just choose your favorite witch of all time as use her as your muse.  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 : Temptress of Terror Teri :   Imp of Insanity Ike :   Cadaverous Concoctor of Chao s Creepy Glowbugg : will post last week's GTs on Wretched Wednesday, but is having another time out this we...

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's bit of fun from SBS... and today is Release Day , so be sure to pop by the SBS blog for details on how to purchase these Sweet Gothic Kids Halloween stamps and digis at a discount!  There are a total of six images, and you'll only see three on this blog, so hop over to SBS & see what the DT has cooked up for you. Now, today I've got two more images to show you... first up,  Witchy Wednesday :  What's a witch without an attitude, right?  Although her pet kitteh is sportin' a little 'tude of his own ;)   The sentiment stamp is from Pickled Pear Designs, Basic Grey Eerie paper, May Arts burlap ribbon, TH tattered flower die, and of course Copic Markers. Next up, Vampiress Tilly : A cheeky little vamp all in red... blood red, that is.  And check out the awesome little gravestone button!  Creepy Glowbugg sent me a few of these glittery little gems awhile back and I HAD to use one.  I added a little Ma...

Super quick post this morning!  I wanted to let you all know about Simply Betty Stamps ' latest release this week.  I'm only showing off one of the six, so be sure to pop over to The Burtonesque Dolls blog all week long to see Harry, Ron and a few other HP characters! Hermoine is all about attitude... well to ME anyway :)  So I altered a fabulous little sentiment for this one ;) Don't worry... the inside reads:  "Fan-freakin'-tastic is the 1st."  :)  Yep... what were YOU thinking my favorite 'f' word was?  Uh huh... I know. I gave my Copics a break for this one and got out my Lyra Aquacolor crayons and a Dove Blender... super quick and easy.  It took longer to cut her out than it did to color I think. I also got a fabby new spiderweb edge punch... because you can never have too many :) Stamps:  Hermoine (SBS), Fabulous You (TAC) Paper:  Bazzil & Neenah cardstocks Ink:  Noir Palette Other:  EK Success edge punch, Mi...

**If you are looking for the Simply Betty Stamps Summer Zombie post, please scroll to next post!**   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 HDH086 . 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 to...

I confess, I've had this AWESOME image colored up for a couple of weeks now... thankfully, otherwise I would not have been able to play along this week!  The image is "The Key" from Stitchy Bear Stamps . As you can see, I had a little fun with my MS grass border punch :)  As well as an EK Success one.  The background paper is from Rusty Pickle's Thriller collection... LOVE IT.  I'm so sad that I only bought one sheet of this.  It had three other 6x6 patterns that you'll see eventually, but this one is my fave. You'll notice that I added a hat to Stitchy's image... after all, the challenge is "Magically Witchy" :)  I did save it as a jpeg, so if anyone wants it, just email me and I'll send it to you.  Or wait until later tonight and I'll edit this post and add it here.  I slit the hat so that it slid right on her head.  Genius, me thinks. Well, off to get some work done... and don't forget that you have until Sunday night to...

Creepy G here with another Hump Day offering. This week's Macabre Monday challenge is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps There is $10 worth of digital goodness up for grabs this week. The challenge is simple. Make something magically witchy. I used some of the killer Zodiac Tiny Tickets for my card. These come in a set of 12, so you have one for every month which makes it easy for birthdays and those friends who like the whole astrology thing. I used each month's birthstone to figure the color of each ticket. After coloring each one with Copics, I fussy cut each ticket and aged it a bit with distress inks. I am planning on making a set of these to keep on hand for each month just in case I forget some one's special day. I have another Stitchy project using the "Dem Bones" silhouettes, but my battery croaked before I could get any photos. I'll post them tomorrow. Please join us this week for our Macabre Monday challenge and  d...

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 HDH081 . 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...

Two great companies, one awesome hop :)  Christy & Betty just happen to be BIG Halloween fans, so guess what...  Yep, Tiddly Inks & Simply Betty Stamps decided to do a little swap hop... the TI DT worked with Simply Betty images, and the SBS gals got to play with Tiddly Inks images.  Should be fun! What's even better is that this hop will involve you , too!  Yes, you can do a little Trick or Treating with us and maybe score some gift vouchers to Tiddly Inks or Simply Betty Stamps!  How?  Simply go check out Christy's blog for all of the details... she's the one that is gonna kick this hop off :)  And if you've arrived from Angela's blog , you are on the right track! Now, here's the little twist to this hop, we were to create a Trick (a favorite technique) or a Treat (just a project to share) .  Well, I'm usually a trickster, but I decided to just go for the treat this time :)   I worked with TI's Betty Belfrey ... isn't she ...

It's a Two-fer today!  Yep, I got a chance to color up a few images on Sunday & decided to make them into cards tonight.  I was just going to post my HDH062 Smeared & Smudged card for Smeared Ink , but I HAD to play along with the Stamp Insanity SISC32 pink challenge this week, too, so sit back and enjoy :)    First up, Smeared Ink's Wicked Witch .  LOVE her.  Very vintagey image... which is sooooo not me, but she was too fabulous to pass up!  I'm not loving the colors I used for the ruffled business around her neck, but I like the rest of it... especially how the sky & ground turned out :) Digi:   Wicked Witch (Smeared Ink);   Rubber Stamp:   So Splattered (retired TAC) Paper:   Bazzil & Caboodle white cs ;   Other:  Nesties, Scor-Bug , black lace, Noir Palette ink;   Copics:   BV02, BV04, BV08, BV20, BV23, V93, V95, V99, YG11, YG13, YG17, YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97, YR15, YR18, YR23 Next ...

Yes... it's only Monday and I'm here to share my challenge card. {GASP!} I KNOW!  Un-freakin'-believable :)  I didn't wait 'til the last minute for once... oh great, I probably just jinxed myself! ANYhooo, here is my simple, yet not-so-sinister card: Digi:   Sassy Witch Mina ( Simply Betty Stamps ) Rubber Stamp:   webs ( Stampers Anonymous ), sentiment ( unknown ) Paper:   Basic Grey dp, Neenah white cs, Bazzill cs Ink:  VersaFine Onyx, Charcoal Palette Other:  Copic markers, Stardust glitter pen, misc. ribbon Don't you LOVE that attitude?!  I wish I would have had a "wicked bitch" sentiment in my arsenal... that would be SOOOOO perfect, me thinks! :) Well, I'm off to bed... after working all day at the evil office and then teaching a class at the scrapbook store, I'm pretty tired.  I get to do it all again tomorrow, except at least the class will be at my place!!!  Can't wait to see ya' girls!

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. 3. If you upload to any online galleries (S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH059 . 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. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twoso me (my top two favorite creations) from all the players. At the end of every month these will be compiled and a Master of Macabre will be selected and will receive a little giftie from me... this could be stamp sets, handmade items, papers, halloweenie embellishments... yo...