Macabre Monday RESUMES!

Ready to get your creep on? Wow, it was a much needed rest for the Minions at Haunted Design House after a hectic Halloween season, but I must say I've been missing the dark side. We're finally back with great new challenges and a brand spanking new Minion rattling around the Netherworld with us so be sure to give a huge welcome to Imp of Insanity Ike! We're sort of easing into creepiness that is pretty much guaranteed not to offend this week. LOL Our challenge is Got Goth? and I've chose to go the elegant route with black and lace, etc., inspired by the gorgeous image from our own Teri's Delicious Doodles called Dark Valentine.

Tell me she's not beautiful! That gorgeous shading is all in the digi, so all I had to do was fussy cut and color her lips blood red. She waits patiently at her window (the Decorative Window Scene Die from Heartfelt Creations) holding her perfect red rose. All of the other roses have withered and died but hope springs eternal, as does her undying love for the one she longs for. He calls her his angel, and so she is, the guardian of his heart, the keeper of his soul. Someday...

The lovely DP is from the Shades of Grey collection of digi papers from our own Susan's Crafty Chaos. (We're missing you luv, hope you're on the mend) The Minions are a talented bunch (all but me, I've nothing to sell, BooHoo!) so please check out the sidebar at HDH and have a look at the goodies. In order to get the depth I needed for the window, I had to use 3 layers of foam strips because Dark Valentine is popped as well. Thanks heaven I make my own with Fun Foam and transfer tape, or I'd be broke. The intricate lace across the edge is the Decorative Lace Border Die, another exclusive from Heartfelt Creations made by Spellbinders. This border is really wide so a portion of it was covered up but I think it may turn out to be a new fave for me. So there you have it. The first challenge of 2012 and one that I'm sure many of you will be dying to enter. Go have a look at the fab inspiration by the rest of the Minions and pop back on Wednesday when Creepy Glo posts (because she's special). I am also entering it in the Polka Doodles Through the Window Challenge which has been extended through Jan 8. (You've just GOT to take a look at the gorgeous examples by the DT there. Exquisite!)

Happy Belated Birthday, Teri!

When we Minions party, we party HEARTY! Although it's no excuse, a few of use were still reeling from Creepy Glo's birthday and we totally missed our fabulously talented sister Minion Teri's big day on Monday. So sorry hon, but I'm sure you didn't miss the Birthday song. LOL Anyway, here's your card, as late as it may be.

I've used Teri's fab image, Skeletal Candle Holder from Teri's Delicious Doodles Store (BTW, they aren't ALL creepy for you of faint heart) and printed it out 3 times and decoupaged it. No need to color, the fab shading is all there, however I did use some Copics and stickles on the flame. The gorgeous DP is from Our own Susan's Crafty Chaos Designs. The collection is Jezebel's Remains Paper Set (How could I resist? LOL)

Here's the dimension shot. I actually cut the frame out of adhesive fun foam using my new Nesties Fleur De Lis Squares. The flowers and gems are Recollections. Hope your day was just FAB, hon, and please, please, forgive. xx

Macabre Monday Paper Pandimonium

It's another Macabre Monday and we have a very special challenge this week featuring the the fabulous digi papers from Crafty Chaos Designs by our very own Digital Demoness Susan. Susan's papers are To DIE FOR and I had a hard time choosing but the new Simply Steampunk was so awesome I just couldn't resist! The challenge for you is to create something with minimum of 2 patterned papers. (piece of cake, no?) and you may win one of these fab sets for your very own. The hard part for me was finding a suitably creep image (after all, we are all about creepy, aren't we?) to live up to the fab papers. I surfed the net until I found this artwork entitled Steamnocchio by Fabricio Moraes. I fussed a bit in photo editing a bit to change the coloring to match the gorgeous papers and cut the face out with my Nesties. Then I added a Sprocket Gear and Game Spinner from Tim Holtz to his eyes to add to the creep factor.

I cut a window in the paper and backed it with another of Susan's fabulous designs from the set and popped the face on top. I crimped an additional piece threaded it through a buckle (from J's) that I heat embossed with Pirate Gold embossing powder and added it to the corner. The Memo Pin and Philosophy Tag are also Tim Holtz. The sentiment is computer generated. I LOVED working with these papers! Now run to HDH to view the fab creations by my Sinister Sisters and be sure to play along for a chance to win a set of your choosing from Crafty Chaos Designs of your very own. And BTW, Susan has a fab sale going on right now so you just might want to check it out HERE. OOps! Jumped the gun a bit. You can tell I'm tired. Check back in a few hours if the Macabre Monday isn't up yet. Sorry!