Haunted Design House

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.  I am officially putting my foot down... I decided to create something that is not for a challenge, DT assignment, or any other "need to do" type thing. Oh how refreshing :) I mean, I'm not saying that I don't love the DT thing or the challenge thing... it's just sometimes good to create something for no reason at all. The sentiment is from Stamp Insanity and the digi is one of the Punky Teen Halloweenies from Simply Betty Stamps.  And I believe the paper is BoBunny? Now, off to bed... I've gotta work tomorrow, then Monday, then teach a class Monday night.  Thank goodness I'm over my cold finally!  I hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready for a new challenge on Monday... in fact, this card kinda leads up to that challenge a bit :)

Since I'm STILL in a fog from this freakin' cold, I'll let you check out all the details for this challenge over at the Simply Betty Stamps Challenge blog :) Pic is a bit out of focus... sorry.  The paper is Velvet Descent from Crafty Chaos Designs and the funky rhinestones are from JoAnn's.   I thought the folded flower was very fitting for a little fairy :) And obviously, Stickles is my friend.   Be sure to check out the challenge over at SBC !  

If you are one of the winners, be sure to grab the Gruesome Twosome badge and link back here... display it with pride, my pretties :) HDH07i - Bizarre Birthday Gruesome Twosome:   Crystal for her wonderful depiction of Audrey II, and Teri for her lusciously dark Poe creation; And the prize winner is Benedicte for her sultry Medusa card. :) HDH072 - Hell Hath No Fury Gruesome Twosome:   Catherine for her totally inspirational Book of Grudges, and Miranda for her kreepy Kraftin' Kimmie kreation (lol, sorry, got carried away there :P); And the prize winner is Teri for her fabulously eerie voodoo easel card. :) Benedicte and Teri, please email Barb your mailing address, so she can get your goodies out to you!  Barb's email address is in the sidebar. And just a note to let you all know that our Mistress of the Macabre, Barb, is feeling a little snowed under at the minute. She's getting up to date on prizes that need to be sent out, but if you've emailed her...

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 HDH073 . 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...

Ok, so even though I'm not following my own challenge, I figured you MIGHT want to see SOMETHING creative from me... I know... it's been awhile :)  I'm not getting into here, but if I start not making sense, let's just say it's the NyQuil hangover talkin', ok?  :) Soooooooo, I've had this card done for awhile and have been waiting to see if a challenge would come up where I could use it.  But alas.  No. This is Molly from Stamp It Crazy (page down a little).  She comes as a rubber stamp or as a digi!  And I have to say that I think this is the best I've done at coloring skin.  It looks even better in person!  I love this image... she DEFINITELY looks like a bad-ass. I can't remember all of the colors I used, but I do know that her skin was done with Copics E11, E13, E15 and I think her hair used YR23, YR24 & E09.  I know... super simple card, but I like it.  The green & image panels are popped up for dimension. What do you...

I spotted these after seeing Croms mention a book called "A Zombie Ate My Cupcake!" by Lily Vanilli. Of course I had to investigate and I found these WONDERFULLY gruesome Bleeding Heart Cakes! Thanks Helen! :D Want to send your Valentine something sweet that they won't forget in a hurry? I think you've found your answer :P They're made with a red velvet sponge, cream cheese frosting and blackcurrant & cherry 'blood'. Is your mouth watering? You can see all the details, and a music video that features the cakes, HERE . And if you live near London, you can buy other sweet goodies made by this artist in Harrod's Food Hall. Lily Vanilli is her name, and I just LOVE LOVE LOVE her work :D