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How in hell did we get to August already? Thank you all VERY much for your entries in our last musically-inspired challenge. As always, you did an amazing job, and we'll be choosing our favourites and drooling over all the awesome creations. The winners will be announced in the next post in two weeks' time. For this month, the theme is " Fur and Feathers, Tooth and Claw " and you are free to interpret that in any way your twisted mind desires. We have a few inspiration pieces for you just now, but check back later in the month and we'll have even more for you. Devilishly Deviant Donna Fang-tasmagorical Fiona Spreader of Sickness Susan Remember to keep it dark and creepy, not cute and girly, and link up your pieces below. The rules are on the sidebar, but keeping it macabre is the important one. Have fun! An InLinkz Link-up

This month's challenge is all about music and songs.  Pick a tune and get inspired. Use the lyrics, or the music, or even the video if you're so inclined. Remember to keep it dark and creepy.  Laila , who was a Gruesome Twosome again was inspired by the Iron Maiden song, " Holy Smoke". Thanks Laila, for another awesome piece of inspiration!     Ike - Imp of Insanity inspired by "Hey You" by Pink Floyd Teri -Temptress of Terror inspired by "Is God Dead?" by Black Sabbath Mo - Maniacal Mother of Mayhem inspired by "Can I Play with Madness?" by Iron Maiden (image used with permission from silverwingsltd ) The Gruesome Twosome for the June Bug challenge are  An English Lady  and Ellapu .  please grab your winners badge and show it of to the rest of the world, and you are both invited to play in the Dungeon, you can contact Mofor details  here You can find the lin...

Can you believe we're already in July? Time flies when you spend it being creepy and macabre! This month's challenge is all about music and songs. Pick a tune and get inspired. Use the lyrics, or the music, or even the video if you're so inclined. Remember to keep it dark and creepy - if the only tune you know is "Sunshine & Lollipops", you better create something from the viewpoint of a diabetic vampire :P Please let us know which tune you've chosen and how it inspired your creation. Here are some inspiration pieces, created by the Minions and last month's winners.  Teresa Inspired by Misfits' Dig Up Her Bones Fangtasmagorical Fiona Inspired by Rob Zombie's Living Dead Girl Contagion of Corrosion Croms Inspired by Pantera's Cemetery Gates Spreader of Sickness Susan Inspired by REM's Losing My Religion Creepy Glowbugg Inspired by Blood Pig by Otep   Devilishly Deviant Donna Ispired by ...

We're back with our secon post for the June challenge, and this month's theme is "June-bugs, gems and gewgaws"    so we'd like you to feature insects/bugs (moths, spiders and creep-crawlies are also ok), OR gems and jewels, OR gewgaws in your creations this month. (A gewgaw is something showy and flamboyant that has little or no intrinsic value but serves a decorative purpose.) And remember to keep it creepy, dark or macabre - we don't want cute and sparkly butterflies here! Thank you all very much for the wonderful entries to our May challenge, you all have given the Minions a hard time deciding, but after a long fight  debate we are proud to announce our Gruesome  Twosomes for the May challenge #5 Teresa Morgan and # 18 Laila aka Koneko Ladies if you wanna have a play again in the Dungeon, contact me here and grab your winnersbadge to wear on your blogs For this months inspiration we had two guests coming over to play with us, and they...

We're back with our June challenge, and this month's theme is "June-bugs, gems and gewgaws"    so we'd like you to feature insects/bugs (moths, spiders and creep-crawlies are also ok), OR gems and jewels, OR gewgaws in your creations this month. (A gewgaw is something showy and flamboyant that has little or no intrinsic value but serves a decorative purpose.) And remember to keep it creepy, dark or macabre - we don't want cute and sparkly butterflies here! Thank you all very much for the wonderful entries to our May challenge, and don't forget to check back mid-month to find out who won. Here's your inspiration from the Minions for this month. Contagion of Corrosion Croms Fang-tasmagorical Fiona Spreader of Sickness Susan Creepy Glowbugg We'd love you to play along with us - you have a whole month and can enter up to three projects. If it's your first time playing here, check out the rules in t...

We're halfway through our challenge for May so we're here with some more inspiration for you. The theme is May We Have A Quick Word , and we'd like you to create something that either has a word or text on it somewhere, OR create something quick (less than a day from start to finish. Just remember to keep it dark and macabre and sinister. We don't want any of that cutesy mainstream schtuff here, thank you very much! We've had some fabulous entries already, please scroll down to the next post to add your creations to the linky tool. Imp of Insanity Ike Cadaverous Concocter of Chaos Creepy Glowbugg Maniacal Mother of Mayhem Mo Spreader of Sickness Susan And, we have to announce the winners from our Going Green April challenge. There were, as always, some amazing entries and we thank you all for playing along with us. The Gruesome Twosome this time are Laila Carol Congratulations ladies, here is a badge for your blogs, wea...

It's time for a new Monthly Macabre challenge here at the Haunted Design House! Please remember, this challenge is for your darker, gothic, macabre pieces, NOT your sweet and clean and suitable-for-your-pastor's-mother pieces. We understand that in a world of diversity and depth, there has to be some cute, sweet stuff out there, but we simply don't want to see it here. The Minions, despite all appearances to the contrary, are delicate creatures, and insipidly clean and sweet creations turn our perverted little stomachs. So, with that said, our challenge for May is  May we have a quick word?   This month we'd like you to either use some text somewhere on your creation OR make it a quick make - less than a day from start to finish. The Minions' two favourite creations will get to display the May Macabre Masterpiece badge, and at the end of the year the person with the most badges will receive a glorious prize from the Minions. And, each month, the ba...