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Halloween Events in Florida...

Ok. I am totally jealous of those who live in Florida... well, at least for the month of October :) The Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is having a ton of events, my favorite being held on October 16th:

A meet & greet with a couple of the True Blood cast members! The main focus for me would be Joe Manganiellio who plays "Alcide"... yum!

SCCC will also be having a pumpkin carving contest, costume contests, AND... are you ready for this... a meet & greet with Linda Blair! Yep, the horror flick queen herself. Check out dates & more events below (click on photo to enlarge):

Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is hosting a prize giveaway on Haunted Design House! Though it's not Halloweenie, these little babies will come in handy... SCCC is providing three car charger USB drives!

Pretty sweet, right? So, wanna know how you can possibly get your mitts on one of these? All you have to do is become an HDH follower and leave your link below... and I will randomly draw three winners! It would be awesome if you would spread the word. And the Macabre Minions are eligible to enter, too... I don't want you to miss a chance at some goodies :)
**please note that this giveaway cannot be mailed outside of the USA or to PO boxes... sorry!

You will have until Wednesday, October 6th at 6pm central time to enter. You must check back after that time to see if you are the winner. If the chosen winners do not contact me within two days after the announcement, I'll draw again.

In keeping with recent FTC rule changes, I am to disclose that I was contacted directly by Seminole Casino Coconut Creek who asked for my participation in promoting these events. I am doing this without benefit to me, without payment or goods... unless Mike can get me an autographed photo from Joe Manganiellio :)

New Simply Betty Release - Halloweenie Emos Preview Day 1

**Note: Please scroll down to the next post for the latest HDH Macabre Monday challenge!

Yes, it is that time again! Time for a couple of days of teasers before SBS releases their Halloween Emos :) Wednesday the 15th will be here before you know it, and you'll be able to purchase some of these babies for yourself. Until then, how's about a taste?

This is Franken Millerstein & PumpkinHead London.

The names alone make me smile.

See?

I'll confess right now. This is my FAVORITE Emo release yet from SBS... for obvious reasons :) Creepy cuteness on overload. Seriously. I even gave Franken Millerstein a nose-ring... accessorizes nicely with his neck bolts, right?

And PumpkinHead London... LOL... LOVE HER! Those glowing eyes and that sinister grin... me likey a lot :)

Be sure to check the SBS blog & other DT's blogs for additional peeks!! On Wednesday, there will be a HUGE blog hop... I can't wait for you to see the rest of the Halloween Emos this week!

Bat House by Oz

Check out the awesomeness that is Macabre Mistress Oz! I LOVE this Bat House... no bird should venture too close, that's for sure :)

See below for the details for this fabulous project!

Not every neighborhood can afford a 2-story bat house, but then not most would not consider us "every" neighborhood! This little sweetly shingled bat house is ooze-ing with details. From the top of it's cresent moon weather vane to the bottom of it's iron grated platform.

The patterned paper is from Graphic 45. I stamped a woodgrain design on kraft cardstock for the shingles. The misc pumpkin buttons are all from my stash I had lurking around. I do so hope you ENJOY!

~ Linda aka Oz

Fantastic work as always, my friend!

Creepy here....

Greetings!

Creepy Glowbugg here with a card sample for this week's

Macabre Monday, "Freaker's Free-for-All" challenge.

This is the card I made in my head for last week's

"Wacko Jack-os" Macabre Monday.

As usual, I never actually made the card, until a week later.

I really wanted to try this technique with Stazon, acetate, Glossy Accents, and glitter.

This is the end result.

I love it! I am all about the sparkly colors!

I made a few pieces while I was on a roll, so you can expect to

see more of this technique very soon.

Can I just say that YouTube is a real fount of crafter info.

I found out how to make my own glimmer sprays and stamp cleaner,

not to mention a million new techniques to try.

Priceless knowledge.

Hope this inspires you to play along this week, and maybe even try

a new technique (I'm a poet and didn't know it!).

Thank you to Barb, the Mistress of the Macabre herself,

for inviting me and the other 'minions' to be a part of this unique and

perfectly putrid blog!

Hugs from the creepy chick!

Whoops! My bad...

... I TOTALLY freakin' forgot to share some of my favorite carved pumpkins!

I'll admit it, these are those fake hobby store pumpkins & the patterns are from those carving booklets that are aplenty around October.

BUT I DID carve them myself... does that count? I just couldn't bear having to take the many hours of carving a real pumpkin so intricately only to watch him rot away (although I REALLY do like how they look rotten!!).

The top one is a haunted house (hard to tell in this pic), spider next, and the bottom one was made with stencil shapes from Martha Stewart.

This one is really big and has three faces all "welded" together: a screaming ghoul, a skelly/reeper, & Dracula on the right. I had one of those blinking lights in the damn thing, so this was the best picture I could get... the three faces wrap over half-way around the pumpkin.

I just LOVE pumpkins... really I do.

HDH046 Wacko Jacko's... done!

Well it took me until tonight, but I did my own challenge! And check it... two posts in the same day! I'll wait a moment while you haul you fanny back into your chair...

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Soooooooo back to the wacked jacked card for this evening. I apologize right now for the beyond crappy photos. Obviously if the sun isn't shining & I have to shoot them under my OTT light, ALL IS SUCKY. I even played with the color balance in PhotoShop... of which I know just enough to be dangerous.

BUT I can tell you that in real life, this is pretty cool... IF I do say so myself. Do ya' think I got enough jacko's?? I have a couple more, but me thinks this should do :)

Me likey the dimension to this bad boy... I used foam tape & pop dots to vary the heights of the jacko's. I also used two different orange cardstocks & white... not diggin' the white... made the orange WAY too freakin' bright {hey... that rhymed! :)}

Stamp companies: The Angel Company (TAC), Stamp It Crazy, Missy B's, Judikins, & SU.

Paper: Rusty Pickle dp, Bazzill & TAC cardstocks

Ink: Memento Tuxedo

Other: MS border punches

Copics: E09, E35, E57, G14, G28, V99, YG05, YR04, YR07, YR18

Oh, by the way, to the first person that comments and says they want 'em, I've got 16 of these pumpkins stamped that I'll send out. The gi-freakin'-normous Judikins' one isn't in there, but the rest are. My favorite? It's a toss up between gi-fri Judikins' and the Stamp It Crazy one (extreme left)!

So..... have you done anything for this challenge yet? This is your friendly reminder...

don't make me get the flyin' monkeys!

HDH046 - Wacko Jacko's

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 HDH046.
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:

Wacko Jacko's

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween page, project or card using images of pumpkins and/or jack-o-lanterns. Sinister smiling, gutted, sliced, jacko's left to rot... this has GOT to be an easy one in which to participate, right?! AND you can earn a bonus entry into this week's prize drawing if you also share a photo of your favorite jack-o-lantern... it can be one that you created yourself or one that is over-the-top awesome that you've found elsewhere. Sound like fun? I KNOW!

Later today (Monday) I'll announce the Gruesome Twosomes for the past few challenges AND the June 2010 Master of the Macabre! AND I'll address the "poll" results from this past week very soon!

HDH025 - PumpkinRot Inspiration

Well, my little pretties... this is what I came up with for the HDH025 Eerie Inspiration challenge. I didn't use a lot of bells & whistles on this one... just ink & cardstock!

I added a bit o' drab color with some Copic markers, but the real kicker to this one is that the scene was created with three different stamps. Stamp It Crazy's wicked-cool skelly witch stamp (HAL35), the tree is from Stamp Oasis, and the haystack & grass is from an unknown stamp I bought at a convention. The sentiment is from TAC's Happy Haunting.

I also wanted to show what Terra is getting as a prize for the January 2010 Master of the Macabre honor. Sweet, right? Yep, Oz donated this bit o' goodness, too! Isn't she the best?! I know! Hey, Terra... you still need to send me your address, baby ;)

Macabre Monday #025 - Eerie Inspiration

HDH Macabre Monday Rules:
1. Create a Halloweenie 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 HDH025.
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:

Eerie Inspiration

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween page, project or card by drawing inspiration from the photo below! (please click to enlarge)

This sweet shot is from the 2009 Halloween haunt by PumpkinRot, who just so happens to be one of my favorites for all that is creepy. Rot's main website is HERE, and his blog is HERE. When you go to his main site, be sure to peruse through his work... it is fantastic!

I can't wait to see what y'all come up with this week!

I thought I'd share another little treat project today. How cute is this little row of pumpkins?! It's very basic and super easy to make, and I'll be selling a few of these at an upcoming craft fair. Sorry about the photos... it was cloudy when I snapped them.

I created a little accordian-folded divider so that the little guys wouldn't move around in the box. May I just say: the Scor-Pal makes crafty life so easy sometimes! I created a template, however it is not to scale... but it is so seriously easy you can just line it up on the SP and go to town:

This box feels nice and sturdy because I have an extra side piece that folds over... this also creates a nice finished top edge. I did trim a smidgen off of the outer piece that folds over and in so it would fit correctly. The acetate lid is created with the same box bottom template, except omit the two outer 1" x 5-1/4" sections. I just used a mini glue dot to secure each flap so that there would be minimal adhesive that would show. You could also use an eyelet if you wanted a more polished appearance.

I wrapped the little pumpkins in food safe plastic before putting them into the box... this will keep them fresher and cardstock won't stick to them! Supplies: TAC's promotional stamp set More Bone Appetit, Penelope & kraft cardstocks, copper eyelet, acetate, and some paper ribbon raffia.

What do you think?!
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This isn't extremely Halloweenie, but a fun project nonetheless ;) I followed (sorta) Martha Stewart's instructions to make this tissue paper mache pumpkin. Basically, you use a balloon as a form, layer tissue paper with diluted Mod Podge, and let dry overnight.

Pop the balloon and remove. Martha used her's as votive holders, if I remember correctly... I'm going off memory, so I'm sure I left some info out ;) Let's just say, it would be WAY freakin' easier to do this project with two people... it took forever on my own, and it was probably messier, too.

I punched a flower and cut it apart to use as leaves and rolled up some kraft packing paper and glued it for a stem. A little Scrapper's Floss for the stem tendrils... perfect touch!

I modified it a little and TRIED to create one of the striped green gourds. I'm not sure how it's workin'. To do this one, I under-inflated one of those long skinny balloons... it was trickier to remove it after it all dried, but I got it!

After I let them dry another day without the balloons, I cut larger holes so I could insert wrapped candy inside (Halloween peanut butter kisses). After I filled the gourd, I glued a punched flower to the bottom to help it stand up a little. For the pumpkin, I gathered the hole and glued it shut along with the leaves & stem.

These took a while, but maybe if you got an assembly line workin' it would be worth doing several!

Stamps: More Bone Appetit (TAC special... ask me for more details!)
Paper: tissue paper, kraft & Bazzill cardstock
Ink: Burnt Umber Palette
Other: Copper Hardware (TAC), Scrapper's Floss

What do you think?

...no, I haven't done my challenge card yet. I KNOW! I am such a slacker... but, to make it up to you I will show you this little ditty.

Cute, no? This was a submission to TAC for publication consideration, but they used my other one instead... yeay! I'll show that one to you sometime as well.

Stamps: Spookilicious

Paper: Penelope, white UltraSmooth & black cardstocks

Ink: Palette Noir

Other: paper piercer, mineral oil w/ Prismacolors, Black Scrapper's Floss

Who says you have to use the whole image of a stamp, right? Kinda looks like a window... or maybe it's like the opening credits of the Brady Bunch:

Here's the story of a wicked witchy,
Who was boiling up one very goofy skelly.
He was green and white, like no other,
The bow tie looks 'nelly'.

Here's the story, of a scared black kitty,
Who was busy with two jack-o's of his own.
They were orange, and kinda silly,
Yet they were all alone...

I know... it's horrible... but creative writing was NOT my forte!