Haunted Design House

Happy Hump Day! Creepy Glowbugg here, with my  Macabre Monday submission. This week is " From the Bone Pile ", which loosely translated, means use your scraps! I have so many scraps I should chase a ball and wag my tail! Really, I have  5 drawers of color separated scraps, plus a few photo boxes full of Hallowe'en and neutral scraps. Don't even get me started on my ribbon scraps. Anyhoo, I always need little note cards to add in with my Etsy orders, and I usually just make one on the spot which just slows this little turtle's operation to a crawl. I decided to make the most of this challenge and kill two zombies with one bullet. I always punch out more shapes than I need when using my Spellbinders so I have a couple of SU stamp cases full of pre-punched die cuts. I had fun using the white embossing on the pumpkin, and then just sponging the color on with a dauber for effect. I used a scrap of killer digi paper from Crafty Chaos Designs, with spiders and fl...

Yep... I'm behind a day already.  I've been out of town since Wednesday, but it was for a couple of awesome events.  The first was for the Intermediate Copic Certification class in Wichita, Kansas and the second was the annual seminar for The Angel Company, for which I am an instructor & demonstrator.  Needless to say I'm a wee bit fried.  BUT it was a fabulous time! So now, to catch up with the Simply Betty Stamps Jude & the Rockers release previews!  Monday was supposed to be Ariel : Sassy, huh?  Don't you love the glasses & the eyebrow piercing?!  Adorable me thinks. And Tuesday's preview:  Brittany !  She just so happens to be my absolute favorite of the entire line... which was hard to choose, since they are all freakin' adorable. That hair... ACK!  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her.  And she's not the least bit creepy (dammit!)... am I losing my mind?! Coloring this little cutie was a blast... so much so, that I am tea...

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 HDH095 . 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...

This new Jude & the Rockers line from Simply Betty Stamps will be available only in Clear Stamp form. Their official release is Friday, July 1st along with a re-launch of SBS's weekly challenges over at Simply Betty Challenges ! One week will be dedicated to card makers and the other week to scrapbookers, altered art lovers, and everything else! I do hope you will join us for the fun! So, on to today's preview... Jude ! How kickin' is he?! So cute... and I just love that hair :) I used a little May Arts webbie trim and the clip is from We R. The paper is from the Old School line of paper from a company that I can't remember :) It's one of the big ones, though. Anyway, this little guy was a blast to color with his slouchy pants and that spiked 'do... he DOES rock :) Be sure to pop over to the Simply Betty Stamps main blog to see what the rest of the DT did with this cutie... and then tune in every day this week for a new image preview!

Yes, you are in the right place. I'm stepping up my responsibilities here in the dungeon, and hoping to stay on the Mistress's "good side". The Gruesome Twosome from the HDH093 Kuriously Korroded with Kenny K  challenge are Lucie and Nancy Feel free to grab your badge and fly your freak flag high!     Since Elena at Kenny K was so generous, we have another prize for one randomly chosen winner. Congrats to Kapree !!!  Congratulations ladies. Please email Barb (link in the sidebar) and she will arrange for you to receive your free digis from our generous sponsor, Kenny K Downloads .   Thank you to everyone who played along with us last week. Please remember, you need to provide a direct link to your project post, not just your blog, and you should also provide a link to our challenge somewhere in your post so others can join in on the fun too! There is still plenty of time to cook up something creepy for our current, Menacing Merma...

I recently came across the wondrous creations of Roy Villafane , all carved from pumpkins and gourds. Impressive, no? And no, they're not preserved in any way, just like yours, these decay and rot after a week or so! :o

I'm a day late for my Wicked Wednesday installment of this week's Macabre Monday challenge. "I want to see Menacing Mermaids !", shrieked the Masterful Mistress . And the Minions made it so. I remember a few years back, I took my son to see  a Peter Pan movie. They had Mermaids in that movie. Some of the scariest freaking Mermaids ever! My son still talks about those, "nasty fish chicks".   I had the recent pleasure of doing business with Teresa , from Crafts and Me . She is an awesome lady, and a stellar business owner. There was a hold up with her stamp manufacturer for the new Jasmine Becket Griffith images, and as a thank you for my patience, she gifted me some digital images from her shop. I chose the " Columbine " image with this week's challenge in mind. I think she's a bit on the menacing side. Did ya check out her ears?!  This gorgeous image was a bit challenging to color, but I am happy with how she turned out. I used som...