Haunted Design House

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

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 (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.) , please tag the title using HDH047 . 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 ...

... I TOTALLY freakin' forgot to share some of my favorite carved pumpkins! I'll admit it, these are those fake hobby store pumpkins & the patterns are from those carving booklets that are aplenty around October.    BUT I DID carve them myself... does that count?  I just couldn't bear having to take the many hours of carving a real pumpkin so intricately only to watch him rot away (although I REALLY do like how they look rotten!!). The top one is a haunted house (hard to tell in this pic), spider next, and the bottom one was made with stencil shapes from Martha Stewart. This one is really big and has three faces all "welded" together:  a screaming ghoul, a skelly/reeper, & Dracula on the right.  I had one of those blinking lights in the damn thing, so this was the best picture I could get... the three faces wrap over half-way around the pumpkin. I just LOVE pumpkins... really I do.

Well it took me until tonight, but I did my own challenge!  And check it... two posts in the same day !  I'll wait a moment while you haul you fanny back into your chair... ... ... ... :) Soooooooo back to the wacked jacked card for this evening.  I apologize right now for the beyond crappy photos.  Obviously if the sun isn't shining & I have to shoot them under my OTT light, ALL IS SUCKY .  I even played with the color balance in PhotoShop... of which I know just enough to be dangerous. BUT I can tell you that in real life, this is pretty cool... IF I do say so myself.  Do ya' think I got enough jacko's??  I have a couple more, but me thinks this should do :) Me likey the dimension to this bad boy... I used foam tape & pop dots to vary the heights of the jacko's.  I also used two different orange cardstocks & white... not diggin' the white... made the orange WAY too freakin' bright {hey... that rhymed! :)} Stamp companie...

Hey all you challenge fans!  Here's one for you:  the Simply Betty Stamps blog is hosting a sketch challenge that will run through July 29th (11:59pm Eastern time).  That's right... about three weeks, so there is PLENTY of time for you to try this baby out: And guess what the prize is for winning this challenge?  One lucky winner will get to be a Guest Designer for Simply Betty Stamps in August !   Guest Designer means FREE images to play with... helloooo...  TOTALLY worth trying out the sketch, no?! As soon as I saw the sketch, I knew I wanted to use Max & Li-Li !  Doesn't Max look like he wants to pet Li-Li?  Surely he wouldn't bite... well... maybe.  Since I printed these digi's prior to sizing them properly, I needed to figure out a way to make it work.  Hellooooooo forced perspective :)  You are my friend.  Doesn't it look like Max is standing in the background with Li-Li up front?  Simply by using a tr...

Are you guys jones'ing for an actual card on this freakin' blog?!!  Now that a lot of the housekeeping has been done, how about a little fun?! I am super excited to tell you all that I am one of the newest members of the Simply Betty Stamps design team!  Yes, Lynx TOTALLY caught the new badge in my sidebar... clever girl :) The SBS blog will be hosting monthly challenges AND there is going to be a new release on July 15th, so you might want to go follow to be updated!  In fact, Betty has a fun way to win all SIX of the new releases going on RIGHT NOW! Yes, I know... SBS are a bit cute... BUT if you will notice there is a subtle appearance of skulls, bats & spiders!  Love it.  I call it creepy-cute. Stamps:  London , sentiment (unknown source) Paper:  black & premium white cs (TAC), green & amber cardstocks (Bazzill) Ink:  Tuxedo Memento Other:   Michael's $1 ribbon (I know!  effing fabulous, right?), pearls (Mich...

Ok, so the general consensus on the whole design team thing is this: 1.  Macabre Mondays must stay... which we knew already :) I had no intention of NOT having MM... but thanks for confirming that! 2.  keep it small... no need to have too many cooks in the kitchen 3.  use and abuse ( in a good way ) the Gruesome Twosomes & Masters of the Macabre 4.  have a list on the sidebar of upcoming challenges to give more time 5.  keep it casual... no dungeon time necessary if a deadline is missed :) Sooooooooo.  All that being said, I'm going to start listing upcoming challenges in my sidebar.  Not today, but soon :)  And we all know that I am not a formal kinda gal, so no issues there.  In this case, I agree... small is good... I mean a small group :) I do like the idea of past GT's & MM's making up the team.  Crazy part is that we've got 43 weeks of GT's & 9 or 10 MM's!  So that is where we'll start.  I went through to s...