Haunted Design House

*For the Simply Betty Stamps' Burton 'Weenies Previews, please scroll to previous post!* **Macabre Monday fans... please be sure to read the rules... we've added to them!** 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 HDH093 . 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...

This entire week, I will be showing a new line of Simply Betty Stamps images... and let's just say, they are creepy... yet a little cute.  But you should be used to that by now ;)  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! And now, on to the fun: You HDH stalkers know that I don't do red often, but I saw this paper and I just HAD to use it :) Don't you love her raggedy sleeves?  And the hair... awesome!  This is the first time I've tried out the whole Copic airbrushing thing.  I really like how splattery & grungy it turned out. Definitely check out what the whole TBD DT has done for this... you won't be disappointed!   Main Image:  Belladonna (SBS) Rubber stamps:  Bad to the Bone (TAC), skull (Artful Illusions) Paper:  Reminisce & Bazzill Other:   Copic markers, MS edge punch, misc. sheer ribbon, Nestabilities, eyelet, black t...

Yep... pimping myself out once again :)  I just can't help myself.  At least I won't be writing a lot for this post... I'll just load her up with pictures, cool?  I'm gonna use these as my Pleasure & Pain entry as well: Pleasures:   Copic coloring, pop dots (I'm addicted), GlowSkullz , rubber stamps Pains:   figuring costing, material spreadsheet & writing class instructions (ugh!!!!) I know... I'm stretching it, but I can because I am the Masterful Mistress of the Macabre .  :P Sorry I can't divulge the recipes for these... you've gotta attend the class to get them... sucka!  And the class is full AND it's next week.  BUT you can still take it if you bring your own Copics... just call The Scrapbook Page :)  I will say that the stamps are from Simply Betty Stamps {shhhhh}.

Courtesy of channelate.com Yes, it may be in bad taste, but this tickles me :P

This week's Wicked Wednesday is a two-fer. The Creepy Cricut Cween, Donna is joining me for this week's Macabre Monday challenge, " Pleasure and Pain ". Use something you love and something you hate .  We have really been pushing the whole "challenge" thing lately, and this week was no exception! Apparently, our dear Donna does not enjoy heat embossing (see tiny spider), but just loves dry embossing (see web). She also confessed to not being a big fan of the arachnids either, but I don't think that applies to Mr. Stripes. I am loving every bit of this card! Now I have been busy within my own self absorbed little world lately, so when I finally sat down to work on this week's Pleasure and Pain challenge it had me stumped! Usually, when I create, I make stuff that I would want to buy. Like I would be so happy to see metallic brain cabochons at a craft show. If I saw this strapping young lad for sale, I would drop the cash immediately! And ...

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 HDH092 . 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 compil...

It's finally here!  JUST in case you hadn't heard about this through the grave-vine, the awesome Skull-A-Day blog has declared June 4th to be forever-more Skull Appreciation Day :)  For the full deets on this, check out THIS POST at S.A.D. To help spread the word and share a little skulliness (that would be skull happiness) with the masses, Smeared Ink has organized a fabulous blog hop for us creative & crafty types ;)  AND there are a ton of prizes to be won along the way!  For the full details, list of sponsors & prizes, or if you get lost along the way, just pop over to Terra's blog !  Be prepared to see some fan-freakin'-tastic skull action throughout this hop... a myriad of artists and craftsman have created some terrific works! If you've arrived here from Dianne's blog , you are right on track. I'll warn you up front... this card is super simple and not nearly as cool as a lot of the other creations you'll see, but it uses my a...