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

FREAKIE FRANKIE

Hello Peeps,
Here is a piece I did today to enter a couple of Challenges :-)
I got this rather excellent FRANKIE from SMEARED & SMUDGED FORUM  where he is the FREAKIE FREEBIE for this month :-) If you pop over to the Forum you can snag one for yourself and play along in The Challenger - Freakie Freebie. 

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I've been busy, busy, BUSY, today making some stuff for a surprise appearance tomorrow and I am also shooting off to Kos tomorrow evening for a couple  of days, so really whizzing them out at this end :-D !!!

Images I used:

Smeared Ink :  Frankie, Specimen Jar,  Background Papers - Creepy Tree and Slasher.

Challenges I am entering:

Smeared & Smudged Forum, The Challenger - Freakie Freebie

Smudgy Antics - Colour Challenge   ** Winner **

OOOOOOPS !!! MAYBE NOT - AN UPDATE :-D

Me again,
Now I must admit I made a bit of a faux pas this time with my creation for HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE.... with my rush trip to the UK I came back in a bit of a tizz and was hurrying to catch up with stuff and I made a creation for HDH but I got the title and sponsor completely wrong !!!!  Such is life eh ?!!
Anyhoo - I can use this for a Challenge or two, so it won't go to waste. :-)


***** BREAKING NEWS..... over at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE, my baby here has got a special Post all to itself and the Minions are challenging you to go into the Comments section and write a story about what this picture says to you !!!! It's AWESOME and some of the stories are just brilliant.
Please pop over and have a look HERE 

I used a lovely gothic frame from Tando Creative, and the images are 'Mad Scientist' and 'Hearse' from SMEARED INK, 'Singing Zombie' from Rick St Dennis and 'Wolf 1' from me at IKEsART. I dragged out my Copics and Promarkers for these babies :-)

I hope you will pop over to Haunted Design House HDH and play along with their Macabre Monday HDH 178 Challenge - Zombies & Creeps :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Musically Challenged #11 - Bark At The Moon 

All Crafts Challenge - Anything BUT a Card 

Heart2Heart Challenges - You Better Shape Up

GETTING IN THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN

Well Hello Peeps,
I am sort of getting in the spirit of Halloween, but we don't DO that here in Greece until February - Carnival Week !!!
I got a great FREE digis from over at JAY's DARK PLACE  to play with this week. Jay has started a new Challenge and I'm pretty sure that this is Challenge #2 :-)
This week Jay is offering this cool Skellie.....

I coloured him up in PSE9 and used a new Digi Scrapbook kit I got from DEE's DELIGHTS and it's called "Halloween Mini Kit".

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Right ho - so there you are. Now Jay is new to Blogland and I don't think many people have discovered her Dark Place yet, so why not pop over and have a looksee and say "Hello".  :-)

See you later Peeps - I'm off to enter this puppy in the Challenge now :-D xxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Jay's Dark Place Challenge #2
C is for Challenge #8 - Halloween
Crafty Boots Challenges - Halloween
Creative Creations Challenge #21 - Halloween
Make My Monday Challenges - Halloween
Parade Your Crafts #6 - Halloween
Digi Makeover Challenge #111 - Photo Inspiration

QUOTH THE RAVEN - MIDWAY REMINDER

Hey Peeps,
Just popping in to give you the 'Heads-Up' that we are half way through QUEST 25 POEticisms (or POEtic expressions) over at QUOTH THE RAVEN  so that gives you until 6th NOVEMBER to come over and play along.
I have made an extra piece using my digi and she's called "Plotting".... she looks a bit of a scheming girl doesn't she ???
I coloured her with Copics and used up some digital scraps from my Halloween box for the rest.

Hopefully - once Halloween is out of the way - we can get our Followers CANDY sorted out. Everyone is soooo busy right now and I am still awaiting a parcel of goodies to put in the Candy :-(

Anyhoo - we would love it if you would come over and play at QUOTH THE RAVEN with your POEtic sayings :-D

Hugz xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Daring Cardmakers - Digital Dare

LOC Challenge #16 - Orange + Black

Patties Creations Challenge #78 - Orange + Black

Punk You Girl Challenge #5 - Halloween

Your Next Stamp Oct Challenge - Colour Inspiration 

TRIBUTE TO H.R. GIGER

Hello Peeps,
Over at SMEARED & SMUDGED FORUM they have one of my favourite artists featured in the "OH !! - THE HORROR" CHALLENGE this month and I nearly missed seeing it !!!!
This Challenge can be found in the Group called 'THE CHALLENGER' where they have all sorts of cool Challenges going on, Junk Funk, Freaky Freebie, Sketches and others :-D

So - I drew a special digi this afternoon as my tribute to the great man and I have set it against a digital background to represent the film 'Alien' as Giger was commissioned to design the ALIEN used in the film. If you ever get a chance to visit Gruyere in Switzerland, you could visit the Giger Museum and also see the fantastic 'Bar'...... scary but sooooooo great :-D

Here's my piece...

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 I coloured her with Promarkers

Challenges I am entering:

The Challenger at Smeared & Smudged Forum - Oh, The Horror - H.R.GIGER

WOYWW228 .... A PARCEL OF GOODIES

Hello Peeps,
Donkey Mail came today and bought me a parcel of fabulous goodies from KRISTY and her MuM  JOYCE in Florida :-)
I got some ATCs, 2 fabulous cards and look at the stunningly gorgeous Bag that Joyce made :-D :-D Isn't that just awesome ?!!! Thank you so much my Friends :-) xxxxxxxx

Kristy is a STAMPIN' UP  representative and she makes fabulous cards with SU goodies and you can visit her HERE for products :-)

I am showing you these for WOYWW 228... sorry I didn't get to do the last couple due to my flying visit to UK. Father's funeral went very well and the weather was kind to us. See the lovely Sympathy card Kristy made for me on the left side :-)

Thanks for visiting :-)

FOUND SOMETHING NEW :-D

Hey Guys,
I have found a new Challenge site called JAY's DARK PLACE and there is a new Challenge there with a FREEBIE. It's a new Challenge opened by Jay Reid who also draws Digis and has an Etsy Shop HERE. There will be a new Challenge with a FREEBIE every Monday and the Winner gets a free image of their choice from Jay :-D This week's digi is "Cracked Doll Face"...

Well, I snagged me one of these puppies coz I was hit by a creative brainstorm and new exactly what I wanted to do... and it came out just perfect :-) !!!

I got some burlap recently from a dear friend (thank you Vee xxx) and cut out a flower shape by hand. The digi I coloured and printed 6 times and then paper sculpted the face into 3D layers and curved it with a ball tool to give the face some shape. I layered up with silicone and then dipped the whole thing in my Melting Pot. I used some old guitar strings for some zany extras and made myself a coooool brooch :-D !!! What do you think ?....

It would be just FAB for Halloween..... if they did it here in Greece... which we don't :-( !!! LoL

I added some sort of dribbled blood to mine but I am sure this would work well with some flowers of stuff to be pretty pretty 'poor dolly' sort of thing eh ?!!

Well - there you go... why not pop over and play ? We all love freebies right ??!!!! :-D

See Ya xxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Jay's Dark Place Freebie Challenge 14Oct

Craft My Life - Anything but a Card

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

IKEsWORLD CHALLENGE #3

Hello Peeps,
Well here I am with some deets about Challenge #3 over at my IKE'sWORLD CHALLENGES Blog.
This time we are running an Anything Goes challenge, and I bought some bits back from UK for an extra prize :-)
Remember - you only qualify for the Prize and Top 3 if you use an IKEsART image. :-) 
I've also splashed out this time and gone for the Blue Froggy Linky that shows picture thumbnails........... that is waaaaaaay easier to see people's creations isn't it ? !!.
Anyway - I am playing along again this time too, so here is what I am showing ...

Now, I've added a little 'bra' to her coz last time I used this image there were complaints about nudity !!!!

She is my image of "Black Widow"  which is an exclusive by me available at Smeared Ink.

I hope you will come over and play along with us at IKE'sWORLD CHALLENGES #3 - Anything Goes.

NEW ......... MIXED MEDIA UNIVERSITY :-D

Hi everyone,
I have popped in to tell you that I am thrilled to have been chosen as a member of the new MIXED MEDIA UNIVERSITY DT over at Smeared & Smudged :-)

DESIGN TEAM

Terra

Black Dragon

Shell

IKE

Little Black Kitten

We will be working with a variety of media, both typical paper crafting supplies and the not-so-typical. :-)

This Group will feature step-by-step Workshops that introduce fun ways to include different mediums into your rubber stamping work.

The Group is an interactive class group. We will be featuring bi-weekly themed classes which are intended to expand your technique and material knowledge so that you can take what you learn and incorporate it into your projects.

Some of the classes will be video and some picture Tuts. I shall be doing Video Tuts (if I can just clear a few last bugs out of my system) !!

I am very excited about this new venture and I hope you will come over to have a look. There are already some Tuts published there, and the new schedule starts later this month, so why not drop in and have a browse ?  :-D

Catch you all later xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx