Macabre Monday HDH065 - Ravenous Ravens

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 HDH065.

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:

Ravenous Ravens

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween page, project or card using a raven as your main focal image.  And if you would like to learn more about corvidology, folklore, & raven magic, I found THIS fabulous compilation of info by Susa Morgan Black. 


Check out what the Macabre Minions have in store for your viewing pleasure...

Macabre Mistress Lynx:

Gorgeousness, Lynx... absolute gorgeousness!  Wonderful box... what is that little giftie inside?

Creepy Cricut Cween Donna:

LOVE this multi-image card!  I see Poe peekin' behind the skully... brilliant work as usual, Donna!

Digital Demon-ess Susan:

Shades of purple and black... aaaaahhhhh... so lovely, Susan!  And I am loving that raven silhouette!


Chaotic Creepy Glowbugg:

I like to call this one, "Ravens at Sunset". LOVE the fall colors!

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Fabulous work from my Macabre Minions... as usual!
I'll be back later this week with my offering...

... what about YOU?

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Ok, this isn't creepy or Halloweenie, or anything... but....

I just HAD to share about the class I'm teaching on November 30th at The Scrapbook Page in Shawnee, Kansas :)  Please pop over to my other blog for additional photos and info... thanks!

FosterDesignHouse.blogspot.com

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HDH063 - Freaker's Free for All by Barb

Here it is... Saturday, and I'm just now posting my challenge stuff :)  I'm not in a gabby kinda mood today, so I'm just gonna share a bunch of photos of my Tim Holtz Configurations box I made with My Mind's Eye papers, Tim's tissue tape & Mod Podge:

I LOVE this line of paper... is all flocked and fabulous.  I've got a couple of little Halloweenie bits & bobbs that I'll put in  the box... and I think I'll take the acrylic out of the lid because it really obscures your view of the inside.

I also had this little guy colored up and threw this card together real quick:

I'm not totally stoked with the card, but image is too damn cute :)

This is Dracula Mikey from SBS and the sentiment is from a Tim Holtz Halloween stamp set.

What do you think?

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Just a little sumpin' to tide you over...

Ok my little pretties, until I get my Delicious Doodles card made up tonight, please hop on over to my "normal" blog for a couple delightfully eerie-elegant projects :)

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Fiendishly Fun Friday - Cupcakes and knitting and dolls, oh my!

This makes me smile so much - the Dark Side is taking over the whole of the crafting world, Bwahahahahahahah!
I found this first lot on Slightly Warped, but there are no credits given, so we can't all give praise to whichever fiendish soul created these little beauties :(









But these little beauties I can give credit for, we should all bow down before xsomnis, who has these pics up at her Flickr account


And last but definitely not least, we have dollmaker cArNiVaLiTy, who creates these awesomely creepy dolls. You can see her Flickr album HERE and her Etsy shop HERE

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Eerie Elegance & a Halloween waterfall...

Yeay... the new calendar is out for The Scrapbook Page, and sign-ups can begin for my classes!

First up, Eerie & Elegant Cards on October 11th, 6:30pm-8:30pm.  Click on the link and it will take you to the store's website where you can see all four cards.

This is my favorite of the four, but the others are pretty cool, too :)

And this one I am REALLY excited about... a Halloween Waterfall Mini-Album on October 19th, 6:30pm-8:30pm.  It is a wine bag album :)  Plenty of pockets & pull-outs... 

all in Halloweenie glory!

There is no way to do this album justice in a photograph.  Tons of heat embossing, Tim Holtz stamps, May Arts ribbons, flocked paper, and so much more.  LOVE it.

If you are in the Kansas City area, stop by The Scrapbook Page and sign up!  For you out-of-towners that would like to purchase kits, please email the store for details.

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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!

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HDH049 - Appalling Arachnids

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 HDH049.
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:

Appalling Arachnids

 You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween page, project or card using spiders as the MAIN focus.  Six, eight or more legs the better!  Fuzzy, shiny, ugly, cute... let's see those spideys :)

And, being the loser I am, I have not done my challenge card yet :(  BUT, some of the Minions have some wonderful eye candy-corn for you today!!!  Check it:

Macabre Mistress Lynx:

 Seriously jaw dropping.  You MUST go and check out her blog for more details about this wonderful project!

Digital Demon Susan:

 LOVE the spider!  Did you know that Susan has a digital store?  Go see!

Chaotic Creepy Glowbugg:

Seriously creepy spider... thank you for the nightmares, Creepy Glo :)

Fabulousness, right?  I know!  Tune in again this week for a few more!

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Check out this bit of awesomeness...

... ala' Macabre Minion Mistress Lynx! 

She'll be posting it on her blog soon, but I just had to show you now :)

Be sure to check her blog for more details!!

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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.

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Macabre Monday #034 - Grim Gift Boxes

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 HDH034.
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:

Grim Gift Boxes

 You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween themed box perfect for housing a little giftie of some kind.  Stipulation:  you must use at least one flower!!  Stamped image, digi, paper, or a real live, dead, dried number... as long as it's a flower :)

I was away this weekend at a TAC demonstrator gathering (The Angel Company rubber stamps) and one of the late night challenges was to take an empty card box and create something with the box of paper scraps they had.  How fun was this?!  It was the kind of box with a clear plastic lid, and their scraps were awesome.  This is what I created:

The bit of green that is peeking between the weaves is actually on the inside of the lid.

The large flower was made from three scallop circles, and the little flower was made with six flower punches.  Everything is crumpled & distressed.

I also decorated the inside.  I'm thinking this would be perfect for one of the milestone birthdays when everything is supposed to be black... like the big 40 :)

Stamps:  TAC (can't remember which set... I was sleep deprived & brain dead at the time)

Paper:  More Mimi dp & black cardstock

Ink:  Palette Noir

Other:  black paint (Plaid), scallop circle & flower punches (Marvy), misc. black brads & card box

Ok... your turn... what great little grim gift box can you create?!

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Macabre Monday #010 - Bubble Bubble Toil & Trouble...

Ok, so I still haven't picked the Gruesome Twosome this week... I'm hoping to do that tonight, so be watching for that post :)

Here is my take on the ingredients challenge:  green, black, purple &/or tan in color,  and something round & shiny

See... told ya' it was going to be a super-simple one!  I found the metal container in the $1 spot at Target like TWO FREAKIN' YEARS AGO!  Yep... I've had it in my pit of studio this whole time.  It was already painted black with the shiny metal lid, so all I did was add a little patterned paper, fuzzy skull rub-ons, and a little stamped cardstock, and BOOM... done.

Stamps (all TAC):  So Splattered (retired), Label Lingo (Hostess Level D set)
Paper:  Bo-Bunny dp, kraft & black cardstocks (TAC)
Ink:  StazOn & Palette
Other:  flocked rub-on kit from Making Memories, Target container

I stamped splatters on the lid with StazOn & then heat-set it (just in case)... we'll see how it holds up.  I'm thinking I like this cannister for a "you've been boo'd" kinda thing... or just as a giftie container in general.

What do you think?

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Ghoulish gourds all in a row...

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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Macabre Monday #008 - Terrifying Treats

Welcome to the Haunted Design House's Macabre Monday challenge!

HDH Macabre Monday Rules:
1. Create a Halloweenie SOMETHING (card, scrap page, altered item, whatever) that follows the specific Macabre Monday challenge given. Cutesy Halloween is fine, but creepy is better :) However, no extra 'points' are given either way.
2. You have until the following Sunday night @ 5pm central time to post your creation and linky back here.
3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, PW, PCP, SCS, etc.), please tag the title using HDH008.
4. Starting in September, I'll have monthly contest giveaways... more details to follow.
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 (I have NO idea what this will be!!).

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

Terrifying Treats

 For this week's challenge, you are to create a Halloween treat container or bag topper.  Coffin boxes, candy bar wrappers, tins... anything that can house a sweet (or sour!) treat for the kiddies!

  I've seen these cute little witch's broom bags around the web, done up with kraft bags, but I had a stack of black ones... so why not?  I put some of those peanut butter kisses in a food safe plastic bag and tied it with a twist tie.

After slicing the bag to almost the bottom (I should have gone further... note to self for the next one!) I place the plastic bag of  candy inside.  I used a spooky pencil from Wal-mart for the handle & some funky paper ribbon-raffia to secure everything.

Used my wunnerful MS spider web punches, Bazzill cardstock, Noir Palette ink, & Bone Appetit promotional stamp set from The Angel Company (TAC) to create a large tag.  A little black Scrapper's Floss adds the finishing touch!

Definitely not as cute as some I've seen, but I've been out of town for a few days and needed a quickie project!!  This SO qualifies, and will be easy to mass produce for the kiddies! 

Gruesome Twosome for last week:  Lynx & Chris V. for their Menacing Moveables!  Chris's fun wiper card & Lynx's dancing skeleton card are too good ;)  Grab your GT badge in the sidebar ladies!

I put the names of all of our fantastic Gruesome Twosomes to date in a jar.  The name that was drawn for the very first Master of Macabre was...
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LYNX

Congratulations my friend!  Be sure to grab your MM badge in the sidebar, Lynx!  And please shoot me an email with your mailing address so I can send you this More Bone Appetit stamp set:

Yep, I love these so much that I bought an extra set.  Next month I'll be giving away this one:

I know, next month's prize will be too late to use for this year, but this IS an ALL HALLOWEEN ALL THE TIME blog ;)

Ok, let see some yummies... do you accept this week's challenge?
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