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.
3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.), please tag the title using HDH038.
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. I'll be selecting a weekly Gruesome Twosome (my top two favorite creations) from all the players. At the end of every month these will be compiled and a Master of Macabre will be selected. He/she will be asked to be a guest blogger for the following month, if they so wish, and receive a little giftie from me... this could be stamp sets, handmade items, papers, halloweenie embellishments... you just never know.
Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:
Voodoo Witchery
You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween page, project or card using images and/or sentiments of the voodoo persuasion. Witch doctors, medicine men, deep south voodoo... or in my case: a magical Rasta Voodoo Elfwitch :) Check it:
I was going to color the skin of this fairy green, as is my usual tendency with fairies, but I had already stamped her on green cardstock. So in order to create shadows and depth, I used a couple of violet-based colors... they created this beautiful plum-cocoa skin color!
You can barely see her pointy ears amongst her dreads, but they are there! I used the Copic blender to remove color from her eye area... looks like green eyeshadow, no? The moon is made from kraft packing paper (like grocery sacks) and sponged with ink.
Dig the awesome shape of this card front!! It's one of Tim Holtz's open edge dies. Me likey A LOT! I added a copper orange piece to the back of the card so the funky edge would really show.
Stamps: Elfwood w/ Dredlocks (Stamp It Crazy), sentiment (Viva Las Vegas)
Paper: black (TAC), green & orange (Bazzill) cardstocks, and kraft packing paper
Ink: Memento Tuxedo, Burnt Sienna & Orangerie Palettes
Other: white gel pen, EK Success edger punch, Tim Holtz die, ribbon (HL)
Copics: 0, V95, V99, YR04, YR18, YR23, YR24, RV13, G85
Did I mention that this awesome image is up for grabs this week? Yep! Barb over at Stamp It Crazy, being the awesome person that she is, has offered up this rubber stamp!! Thanks, Barb!!
So, let's see some voodoo magic, mon! Are juju up for the challenge?!! ;)
I was going to color the skin of this fairy green, as is my usual tendency with fairies, but I had already stamped her on green cardstock. So in order to create shadows and depth, I used a couple of violet-based colors... they created this beautiful plum-cocoa skin color!
You can barely see her pointy ears amongst her dreads, but they are there! I used the Copic blender to remove color from her eye area... looks like green eyeshadow, no? The moon is made from kraft packing paper (like grocery sacks) and sponged with ink.
Dig the awesome shape of this card front!! It's one of Tim Holtz's open edge dies. Me likey A LOT! I added a copper orange piece to the back of the card so the funky edge would really show.
Stamps: Elfwood w/ Dredlocks (Stamp It Crazy), sentiment (Viva Las Vegas)
Paper: black (TAC), green & orange (Bazzill) cardstocks, and kraft packing paper
Ink: Memento Tuxedo, Burnt Sienna & Orangerie Palettes
Other: white gel pen, EK Success edger punch, Tim Holtz die, ribbon (HL)
Copics: 0, V95, V99, YR04, YR18, YR23, YR24, RV13, G85
Did I mention that this awesome image is up for grabs this week? Yep! Barb over at Stamp It Crazy, being the awesome person that she is, has offered up this rubber stamp!! Thanks, Barb!!
So, let's see some voodoo magic, mon! Are juju up for the challenge?!! ;)