Monday, April 25, 2011

Macabre Monday Alone in the Dark Challenge




This week at Haunted Design House our challenge is sponsored by our very own Temptress of Terror, Teri of Delicious Doodles. Our mission was to create a card with a black or eerily dark background. Teri has so many fabulous dark and sinister images (she has beautiful and cute ones too, but...) that I had a very hard time choosing, but finally decided to make an easel card using the Grim Reaper.





The card base and computer generated sentiment were cut with my Nesties Mega Curved Rectangles. The fab DP is from Basic Grey.




I printed him 4 times and cut the images so I could decoupage the layers, used a tombstone I cut and embossed with my Cuttlebug, and a moon from my Cricut October 31st cartridge. It's particularly fun to decoupage her sketchy images because they often need no coloring at all. WooHoo! I have to tell you a funny story about this card and you tell me if you can relate. I'll admit I make a ton of cards and often show them to DH so he doesn't pay a whole lot of attention but... In this case I wasn't sure of a sentiment so I brought it down almost completely finished to ask his advice. He glanced up and said, "Oh that's nice, is it an Easter card?" ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????? Take another look! He laughed and suggested a sentiment that I'd love to tell you, but I'd hate to offend. Anyway, the Minions have outdone themselves this week and with the fab prize from Delicious Doodles I'm sure you'll want to play along, so hop on over To Haunted Design House and be inspired. I'm also entering this in the Delicious Doodles Challenge for this week which is Anything Goes. WooHoo! You should really check this out, because Teri has a wide variety of images and a fab Design Team.

14 comments:

  1. Stunning card as usual Donna. Only you could make the grim reaper look so darn classy x

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  2. This is totally spookilicious! EASTER Sentiment! LOL Gotta love those men!

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  3. DHs are soooooo funny!!! Its VERY Easter...in a macabre way lol

    Seriously though...it scared me...very effective!!!

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  4. Oooooh this is wickedly FABULOUS!!! I love the dimension you always achieve!
    xXx

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  5. Oh this is eerie indeed! Wicked! Loving all that dimension....so totally Donna! :)

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  6. I love coming to see what you've created, especially when it entails an off season kinda card. This one is absolutely perfect for an April off season.
    Hugs
    Carole

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  7. ROFL... don't you just love it when you ask hubby for just a little advise and they come up with their "cute" suggestions.. hugs

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  8. This is very "ghoul"! The Nesties make a perfect base and the Reaper looks positively dashing, in a grim way.

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  9. I bow down before both you and hubby! LOVE this one Donna! :D

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  10. OH NO!!!! Just when I thought I'd broken the "grim reaper" nightmare cycle - I come HERE!!!

    (Fabulous card - but if I have another nightmare tonight, I'm holding you responsible...teehee.)

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  11. Husbands...LOL! Sometimes they just don't get our works of art :) I love this little guy and totally feel like he has been casting a cloud over my head lately.....Love how you layered him....

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  12. LOL an Easter card??!!
    this is an awesome card!!

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  13. what afab card
    Thanks for joining us this week at Delicious Doodles
    Allisonx

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  14. Only you could make the grim reaper look so classy!

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Thanks for making my day!