MACABRE MONDAY AT HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE

Good morning Peeps,
Welcome to Macabre Monday over at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE where we are on Week 2 of our theme "ROTTEN ROMANCE" which is sponsored by DELICIOUS DOODLES.

I have used Teri's new boy - 'Grotesque Cupid' put together with a poor little shot cupid from the Graphics Fairy (I think). The background paper is called 'Slasher Black' from SMEARED INK. My background card was cut with a Martha Stewart Heart Punch. Sentiment I made myself using the 'Blood' Font.

I hope you will come over and see us at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE and have a look at what my Minion Teamies have made for you and maybe even be brave enough to play along with us :-D 

Challenges I am entering:

HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE MACABRE MONDAY HDH 180 - FRESH BLOOD TEAM B

Hello Folks and welcome to week to of MACABRE MONDAY HDH 180 over at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE with  week 2 of our Challenge theme 'FRESH BLOOD'.

I have done another couple of pages in my converted camera instruction book, that I am turning into a sort of Journal :-)

I found a bit of scrapbooking paper and stuck that onto one side. I didn't have a big enough piece for the left side, so I tore it up into pieces and stuck them on randomly on that side. Then I swiped it with a coat of Gesso to tone the left side down a bit.

I printed the image onto a background I had made using a 'Brush' from Studio Suzy Q Scraps from her 'North Pole Rub-Ons' set.  This was one of her freebies from July last year. I altered the colour to a dark blood colour.

I then coloured another copy of the image in PSE and then print and cut it out and stuck it onto the original background. Now, I can't remember where this image comes from, so if anyone klnows, then maybe they can let me know ?

I typed out my words using a font called 'A Lolitta Scorned' and then cut up the words. The phrase is by Calvin Trillin and it just made me giggle.  :-D

For those who are not Jewish... 'SCHMALTZ'  is clarified chicken fat we use in cooking instead of butter or lard since butter is a dairy product and that can't be eaten with meat, and lard comes from pork - which we don't eat. We also use the word as meaning 'overly sentimental' or  slushy lovey dovey.... I'm sure you know what I mean. :-D

OK - so there it is.! I hope you will pop over and see what my fellow Minions have made for you to see and also play along with us at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE

Byeee for now xx

MACABRE MONDAY AT HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE

Hello Monday Peeps and welcome to MACABRE MONDAY  with HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE HDH 179 - SAMHAIN SUNSET.... using the colours of Autumn.
This time we are sponsored by AURORA WINGS and I was given this gorgeous image to play with. She is called 'Ribbons'. I have coloured her with Copics. The backing paper is a Freebie from DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES - 'Spellbound Geometric'... where the lovely Lisa often gives away freebies or prizes in mini quizzes :-)

I hope you will come over and play with us and look at what delights my fellow Minions have to show you :-)

Praying that this goes up OK on Autopost :-) :-) xxx

WELL !!!! Would you believe ... Autopost didn't bloomin' work !!!! Sorry it's late Guys :-( xxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Victorine Stamps Challenge #71 - Autumn Colours

Digi Darla Challenge #87 - Photo Inspiration

MACABRE MONDAY HDH 176 - WHO ARE YOU ?

Hello Monday Peeps and welcome to Macabre Monday HDH 176 at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE.
This time our theme is "Who Are You Supposed To Be ?", and here's what it says....
Isn't there that one costume you always remember
fondly from your childhood? Or maybe that one character 
you've always wished you had the guts 
(or the money, or the body)
to portray at this year's costume party?

 Our sponsor is I Brake For Stamps. We chose to work with Halloween images designed by Rick St Dennis.

Well - I don't have a favourite dressing up thing from my youth coz we didn't do that,  but I always fancied being the Batty Catty Lady when I grew up, so here is my piece using 'BATTY BETTY' . She was coloured using Promarkers and set upon a background by Crafty Chaos. The lace, twine, button and brass bat are from my stash.

I hope you will pop over and see what my fellow Minions have to show you and maybe play along with us. :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Punk You Girl - Red & Black

HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE - MACABRE MONDAY 173 - HORRORSCOPES

Hello Creepy Peeps,
Welcome to Macabre Monday HDH173 at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE - This time we are doing  ZODIAC .....HORRORSCOPES and our Sponsor is DELICIOUS DOODLES. Now Teri has been beavering away drawing  up some cozzzzzmic new images to use for this Challenge.
I have chosen to use CAPRICORN (soon to be released) - not for any particular reason other than I LUV the image :-) Teri has been doing 'normal' Zodiac images too for the faint of heart :-D  LoL

Click on Pic to enlarge.

My background is from DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES and I printed it twice over itself in two different colours to get the effect I wanted :-D. The I used the off-cut from a die cut as my frame. I inked over this using the 'stencil' type bits left after I die cut some flowers. I inked in black and green. I printed the image out 5 times and 'fussy cut' it and layered up with 3D foamies so he really pops out at you.  Capricorn traits and symbol from the Web

I hope you will come over to HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE and see what delights we have to offer you and to play along with us. See you later :-D

Challenges I am entering:

Seems a little Sketchy Challenge #45 - Delicious Doodles

Smudgy Antics - Fussy Cutting

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

Hey - creepy me is back !!!! :-D
This is a piece I did for HDH162 Macabre Monday over at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE. The Theme is 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' and this is now Week 2 of the Challenge.

The main image is one of my Digis exclusive to SMEARED INK and she's called "Madame Death - The Soul Collector". I have set her against a backdrop by Tempus Fugit at the Digital Scrap Cafe.

Click on Pic to enlarge.... if you dare !!!

I don't often get round to colouring up my own digis, but I certainly had fun with this girl :-D I had to colour up her hair this morning, and I couldn't decide what colour to go for until I went over to Lisa's Blog.... DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES, where she had put up a picture inspiration. Well - it certainly inspired me with the hair :-D Thanks Lisa x

Challenges I am entering:

HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE HDH159

Hello again,
Well, today is Macabre Monday over at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE, the Challenge is called 'Famous Last Words'.
Create a piece using a famous last line from a book, film, poem or use a deathbed utterance or confession. 
I decided to use the purported last utterance of CHOPIN.

Frédéric François Chopin  1810 – 1849 was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is widely considered one of the greatest Romantic composers. Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; he composed many of his mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20, shortly before the 1830 Uprising.

Following the Russian suppression of the Uprising, he settled in Paris as part of Poland's Great Emigration. During the remaining 19 years of his life, Chopin gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon; he supported himself by selling his compositions and teaching piano. After some romantic dalliances with Polish women, including an abortive engagement, from 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French writer Amantine Dupin, aka George Sand. For most of his life Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris in 1849 at age 39.

FOR THE SQUEAMISH.................LOOK AWAY NOW !!!............................................

I used a piece of sheet music by Chopin and then stamped over it with one of my new 'Inky Dreams' rubber stamps from SMEARED INK. I used Versamark embossing stamp with red powder, and melted with my heat gun. I printed out and coloured 'Open Torso' - from the Gross Anatomy Set also by Smeared Ink, then I coloured him a little with pencils. I found a little portrait of Chopin on the Web and the quote, which I printed out in Dymo.

Challenges I am entering:

Haunted Design House HDH159 - Famous Last Words

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - What Are You Known For ?  (My love of Horror/Gothic/Gore and quirky mind set) Tee Hee 

HDH 147 WHO ARE YOU CALLIN' A SUCCUBUS ?

Hello and welcome to another Macabre Monday with HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE.

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece

that depicts a Succubus in one form or another.
Just what is a Succubus you may ask?
In folklore traced back to medieval legend, a succubus (plural succubi) is a female demon or supernatural being appearing in dreams, who takes the form of a human woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual intercourse. The male counterpart is the incubus. Religious traditions hold that repeated intercourse with a succubus may result in the deterioration of health or even death.
In modern fictional representations, a succubus may or may not appear in dreams and is often depicted as a highly attractive seductress or enchantress; whereas, in the past, succubi were generally depicted as frightening and demonic.
Now ya know!

We are sponsored this week by

                                                         

Kenny K has generously offered up 2 digis of choice to each

of the chosen Gruesome Twosome.

For my project this week, I chose 'DEVASTASIA'  - I thought she looked like a right little Minx, so I put her with some body parts (all male of course LoL) from the Anatomy 101 Set from Smeared Ink.

I coloured her up and the body bits and then cut them out and stuck them onto a background graveyard from Tempus Fugit. Doesn't she just look the picture of innocence ??? Bwaahahahahaha !

Images:
Devastasia - Kenny K
Anatomy 101 Body Parts - Smeared Ink
Background - Tempus Fugit

So I hope you will come over to Haunted Design House and see what my fellow Minions have to show you, and maybe join in with our Challenge. You can get some really fabbo images from Smeared Ink to join us with (some I actually drew myself and they would be just right for this - Succubus Set at Smeared Ink)

Challenges I am entering:

Mema's Crafts August Challenge - Anything Goes with a Twist of Red

HAPPY MONDAY WITH SMUDGY ANTICS AND HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE

Good Morning,
Today I am lucky with the Internet... again... LoL Better not get too used to it :-D My offering for today is a 2 for 1.... at SMUDGY ANTICS this week we are doing "Pretty Creepy" and over at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE, our theme is HDH138 'Eerie Elegance' ... so I offer you this -

This is another digital piece as I am still unable to do a lot of "cutting + sticking", but it's definitely improving so I can't complain.
It is so good to get back into Blogland and the crafting world this week :-D
My Daughter had her new baby on Friday - Ryan - weighing in at 8lbs - both are safe and well  and his Daddy is very proud and Big Bruv thinks he's cute:-D
Not much change here in Greece - at least I've had water for the last 3 days :-)
Well - catch you later xxxxxxx


Recipe:
Background from Haunted Hollow by Kim Cameron
All other images from the 'Glam Vamps' set by Smeared Ink