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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Fiendishly Fun Friday - Creepy Glowbugg

Check out a bit o' fun at Creepy Glowbugg's blog!  More Hello Kitty, but more macabre :)

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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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HDH048 - Wayward Words

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 HDH048.
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.

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

Wayward Words

 You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween page, project or card using text/words as the MAIN focus.  Poetry, prose, riddle, rhyme, text, quotes or statements... as long as it's got a wicked or creepy edge, it works!

Check it!  Did I surprise you?!  I'm posting my challenge card on time!  And not only that... I've got some treats in store for you.  A few of the Macabre Minions will be strutting their stuff today... so be sure to scroll down and check them out!  I'm planning on introducing HDH's Sisterhood of the Sinister this week along with their bio's so please stay tuned!  If you can't wait that long, check their blog links in the sidebar :)

But first, we'll talk about this quick (in theory) and easy card I made.  I've had this fabulous quote stamp forever and have only used it a few times!  Mostly for backgrounds... not today!  Such beautiful words need to be up front!

Stamps:  quote (unknown), skull background (Mrs. O'Leary's)
Paper:  Bazill & black (TAC) cardstocks
Ink:  Onyx VersaFine, VersaMark, Noir Palette
Other:  Transcendence EP, Tim Holtz edge die, Scor-Bug, black rose trim (Am. Crafts), ribbon (Michaels), misc. gems


And now... for some additional eye candy-corn:

 Susan (Digital Demon)

Donna (Creepy Cricut Cween)

The rest of the Macabre Minions are busy {insert cracking whip sound here} and will be dazzling you soon!  Please pop by Susan's & Donna's blogs for additional info about their work shown here!

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In keeping with this week's challenge...

Ok, so this isn't a teenager, but maybe it's a teenage cat?  Look at that face... talk about attitude... well, maybe it's orneriness instead?  At any rate, I thought I'd share a card that has nothing on it :)  I still like it for a clean & simple look... and really, it's all about the stamp images anyway, right? 

Stamps:  PET32 cat (StampItCrazy), sentiment from an old GWP stamp from TAC
Paper:  Premium white cardstock (TAC)
Ink:  VersaFine Majestic Purple (super freakin' old, but super juicey... it actually turned a different color!)
Other:  clear Stardust glitter gel pen

Happy Hump Day!  There is still plenty of time to play along with this week's challenge!

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