One Hot Bi-atch

Ok, so even though I'm not following my own challenge, I figured you MIGHT want to see SOMETHING creative from me... I know... it's been awhile :)  I'm not getting into here, but if I start not making sense, let's just say it's the NyQuil hangover talkin', ok?  :)

Soooooooo, I've had this card done for awhile and have been waiting to see if a challenge would come up where I could use it.  But alas.  No.

This is Molly from Stamp It Crazy (page down a little).  She comes as a rubber stamp or as a digi!  And I have to say that I think this is the best I've done at coloring skin.  It looks even better in person!  I love this image... she DEFINITELY looks like a bad-ass.

I can't remember all of the colors I used, but I do know that her skin was done with Copics E11, E13, E15 and I think her hair used YR23, YR24 & E09.  I know... super simple card, but I like it.  The green & image panels are popped up for dimension.

What do you think?

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My Top 10 Cards of 2010 Blog Hop

Fellow SBS DT member, Suzi, has organized a fun blog hop to round out the year!

All you have to do to join in, is create a  post on your blog entitled

'My Top Ten Cards of 2010'.  Then link that post to Suzi's post, using the inlinkz tool at the bottom of her post... please visit that post to see details about prizes along the hop!

 

 

Sooooooooo, here are my faves for the year:

Images by:  Simply Betty Stamps (vampire),

The Angel Company (foliage & sentiment)

Images by:  Kenny K (girl), The Angel Company (sentiment & background)

Image by Stamp It Crazy

Image by Delicious Doodles

Images by:  Simply Betty Stamps (vampires), Stampers Anonymous (sentiment)

Images by:  Tiddly Inks (house & fairy), Viva Las Vegas Stamps (sentiment)

Images by:  Stamp It Crazy (fairy), Stampers Anonymous (tree),

The Angel Company (foliage & sentiment)

Images by:  Simply Betty Stamps (boy), unknown sentiment

 

Image by:  Tidldy Inks (witch), The Angel Company (Boo!)

 

And my absolute most favorite for the year has to be this one...

I think it's the hand drawn knife that's the clincher:

Images by:  B-line Designs (boy w/ wagon), Kraftin' Kimmie (dolls),

The Angel Company (fleur), Bombshell (skull), and unknown sentiment

What do you think?

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Master of the Macabre & Gruesome Twosomes (x 3)

Miss me?  Are you wondering if you are one of the big winners from the last few challenges?  Are you wishing I would get my act together and be on time?  Yeah, me too :)

If you are one of the winners, be sure to grab the Gruesome Twosome badge and link back here... display it with pride, my pretties :)

So, without further ado:

HDH052 - Stamp It Crazy Gruesome Twosome:  Croms for her fantastic scene she created, and Nancy for her beyond awesome dimensional card.  Fabulous work, girls!  And each of you are going to get a package of several pre-selected rubber images worth approximately $24 from Stamp It Crazy!

HDH052 random draw prize winner, whom will receive one pre-selected Stamp It Crazy rubber image is:  Carol H!

Please email me your mailing addresses so that I can get your prize packs out!


HDH053 - Pink on the Brink Gruesome Twosome:  Nicole for her back to school card, and to Crystal for her tribute to a legendary film :)  Great job, ladies!!! 
Please send me your email addresses so that I can forward them to Kellie from Tickled Pink Stamps!


HDH054 - Creepy Cute Gruesome Twosome:  Kapree (KC) for her delightfully demented twist to a harmless image, and Katie for her far too cute kitty.  Kapree, you will receive a $10 gift certificate & Katie gets a $5 gift certificate to use at the Tiddly Inks store!  Please send me your email addresses so that I can forward them to Christy from Tiddly Inks!

And now for an announcement that is actually on time :)

The Gruesome Twosome list from which I will draw a name for Master of the Macabre for August 2010 (from HDH050-HDH053 challenges): 

1.  Andrea
2.  Sarah E.
3.  Jennifer
4.  Croms
5.  Croms
6.  Nancy
7.  Nicole
8.  Crystal

{drum roll}

The August 2010 Master of Macabre  is:   

Sarah E.!!!

Grab your Master of the Macabre badge and please email me with your mailing address so I can send out your winnings :)

Thanks so much for everyone's participation... because we all really need a little bit of dark to balance out the cute & cuddly in our lives :)  Keep the Eerie Inspiration comin', guys!!

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HDH052 - Graveyard step card

Freakin' finally, right?  I stayed up late last night finishing this little baby off.  I've seen step cards around for awhile now, and just never tried one out... this HDH052 challenge gave me the perfect reason to do one :)  I mean, sometimes it's tough to get three or more images on one card unless you have just a little bit more room to work with :)

Have I told you lately that I LOVE my MS grass border punch?!  I think that is clear on this little graveyard scene!

I stamped the iron gate on a transparency and then glued it at the bottom & covered it with another grass strip to conceal it.  Works well me thinks!

I'm not sure you can tell, but there are a bunch of little stars in the night sky that I made with a glitter pen.

How do you like the kitty hiding behind the grass?  That would be a "whoopsie-turned-wonderful".  I took a marker to color the white around his whiskers green, so that it would blend a bit.  UGH!  Do NOT do that.  So I covered it all with the bunch of grass... genius me thinks :)

Don't you love the orange bubbly wondermous oozing from the cauldron in the background?!  Me too :)  And the gravestone border punch from MS... love love LOVE.  Love even more when I add a little Stickles to them :)

Stamps:  Skull Gate, Girl w/ Skull, Creepy Tree, Silhouette Cats - PET 32 & 33 (all Stamp It Crazy), 

Delightfully Spooky (TAC sentiment), witch/cauldron silhouette (unknown)

Paper:  Bazzill & Neenah white & TAC black cardstocks

Ink:  StazOn black, Memento Tuxedo, VersaFine Onyx,

Raw Sienna, Orangerie, Noir & Violete Palettes

Other:  MS border punches, orange & Concord Distress Stickles, clear Stardust glitter pen, Copic markers

What do you think?

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HDH052 - Stamp It Crazy!

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.
3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.), please tag the title using HDH052.
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 and will receive a little giftie from me... this could be stamp sets, handmade items, papers, halloweenie embellishments... you just never know.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE CHALLENGES!

Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:

Stamp It Crazy!

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween page, project or card using a minimum of three stamped images (or digi's). Yep, Barb over at Stamp It Crazy is sponsoring this very important challenge this week... this week marks our 52nd challenge... a whole YEAR has gone by already, can you believe it?!!! You don't HAVE to use images from Stamp It Crazy on your entry this week, but you'll get "bonus" points ;) Be sure to read the blurb at the bottom of this post for all the ways to win free schtuff!

I'll have my challenge card for you later this week, BUT some of the other Macabre Minions have some wonderful eye candy-corn for you today!!! Check it:


Macabre Mistress Lynx:

I'm seein' AT LEAST four different stamped images here... a truly fabulous rubber-stamped scene done only how our awesome Lynx can!


Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

LOL... LOVE the sentiment... Donna, you clever little witch, you! Wonderful Halloweenie colors & fantastic coloring :)


Digital Demon-ess Susan:

Another fun one by Susan... great sentiment, and don't you love 'em da kitties?! Diggin' the harlot-styled witch in red, too!


Chaotic Creepy Glowbugg:

Oh how I LOVE purple!  Fabulously colored Asian Goth girl with gates, Creepy Glo!

Be sure to go check out the Minions' blogs for more details on these awesome cards. AND if you pay attention and gather up the little snippets that each of the Minions and I leave on our blog posts, you will be entered in a random drawing for a little sumpin' sumpin' from Stamp It Crazy! How? Well, after visiting Lynx, Donna, Susan, & Creepy Glo, email me at: barbi007@kc.rr.com with our random facts about us that we posted. Mine? Well, my Totally Random Fact: my pet name for my hubby is Poot. Now doesn't that make you smile? :)

Bonus! Since it the Anniversary challenge, both of the Gruesome Twosome for the week will get several wondermous rubber stamps from Stamp It Crazy!

Now... are you up for the challenge?!

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