February Challenge for Haunted Design House

Haunted Design House Challenge Time

I have been given a reprieve from my chains in the dungeon.  They decided one year was enough punishment.   I have had to swear a solemn oath that I will no longer try to be "normal".

For the month of February it's a love/hate thing for our challenge.

This means that you can make it about love or hate, OR use something you love, or something you hate. We're always open to interpretation, but PLEASE nothing sweet and insipid or we'll have to burn it. Seriously. No traditionally "nice" Valentine cards, ok? Make it gothic, make it creepy, make it beautifully twisted and dark and you'll receive so much Minion love that you'll need to get checked out for communicable diseases. Remember, we're now monthly and you can enter up to three macabre creations each

month.

For this month I got a picture of my husband when he was pulling a face and modified it on the computer by stretching the space between his ears so it would look better in the bottle.  I then printed it and laminated it, then stuck it in the bottle.  Well this is the story I am telling people.  You never know when they might start burning witches again!  I probably won't get cheek from him for a while :P

Glad to be back in the game again.  Hope to see you all play along with our challenge this month.

Andrea C

HDH #179 Macabre Monday Samhain Sunset

Things are so darn busy here that I am late posting my HDH so here we go and apologies.

Welcome to week #1 of Macabre Monday challenge,

"Samhain Sunset."

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en

based art piece that represents a 
Samhain Sunset.

We're looking for the colors of a beautiful fall sunset.

Use them as you wish, just keep it within our guidelines.

 

I have started a piñata using the wonderful image I received. 

 

Our sponsor is Aurora Wings

 

 

She has offered up a very generous prize of $15 worth of store credit

to each of our GTs this challenge.

Mitzi has beautiful artwork available in her store. She has digis,

ACEOs, original artwork, and more in her shop. Stop by and check it out.

 

The rest of the minions are cooking up a storm so don't forget to check their work out at Haunted Design House and their personal blogs.

 

I have still to finish the piñata but this is the basic:

 

First I coloured the image:

 

 

Then I scanned it and printed it on tissue paper to add to the piñata which I made by using a balloon and covering in tissue paper.

 

 

I am working on the top at the moment and will add some decoration to the base of it too.

 

Anyway get your butts on over to Haunted Design House and enter our challenge it is the last one of the year.

 

 

HDH #178 Macabre Monday Zombies and Creeps

Welcome to week #1 of Macabre Monday challenge,

"Zombies and Creeps."

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en

based art piece that showcases Zombies or Classic Creeps 
in some way.

Our Sponsor this week is Simply B Stamps and the Minions are using the Limited Edition Zombies and Creeps digis, one of the newest of the Steampunk Collections drawn by the fabulous Abigail Larson.

I LOVE the Abigail Larson images, they are so intricate and wonderful!

I chose to use Collette.  I coloured her with a mix of cosmic shimmer inks, glimmer mist and distress inks and some watercolour pencils.  She looks a lot better coloured in person and I am really bad at photography so she doesn't look up to much in the photos but is very shimmery.  I also added some Wild Orchid Flowers and some of Glo's fabulous Brains from her etsy shop.  You can also purchase the brains as jewellery.  I have a pendant and a pair of earrings.

 

Get your bahookies on over to HDH to see the other minions creations and to check out the prize.

DT Throwdown - Old and Grey

It is Glo, Mark and myself playing along with the DT Throwdown this week for Haunted Design House.  The challenge is to interpret Old and Grey any way you want.

The Smeared Ink Forum is here and their new blog for the DT Throwdown is here.

Well I decided to paint the old woman from Drag Me To Hell!  Didn't turn out like I thought it would but what can you do.  I used a background crackle stamp, and a danger stamp that was part of a poison set I bought from Crafty Individuals and then stamped the word hell.  The hell and danger were stamped on tissue paper and water/glued on.  I stamped the crackle on the actual canvas in the background.

 

I took a picture of a yellow button (like the one from the movie) then made a digital frame with it here and played around to make it look like red at the bottom (kinda hells flames).

 

The background:

 

 

Base of face:

 

Anyway if you get a chance to have a look on the blog we do need your votes and there are some amazing entries each time.  (Obviously if you like ours best).  We also would love other design teams to join in.

 

HDH-169 Macabre Monday Holey Moley!

For the challenge this week at Haunted Design House you have to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en 
based art piece with more than one hole in it.

 

I was trying for a dragon egg but it didn't turn out well.  I had stamped the bottom layer with a Stampotique stamp then added another layer to be the holes but it never turned out. I think it looks more like something Freddy Krueger would lay lmao.

 

I used the technique I learned on one of the Andy Skinner courses (if you are interested there is a link in my sidebar called the Book of Ruination).

 

 

I just tore that off and started again and ended up with the egg below!

 

 

 

I am sure you guys can come up with better than this so get your thinking caps on.  Don't forget to go to Haunted Design House to check out the minions work.

 

Andrea C x

 

 

HDH167 - Emergency Embellishment

This week at Haunted Design House the challenge is to pick your favourite embellishment, and use ONLY that embellishment on your project.

I went with gems and spelt out the word Shh... I think it speaks for itself ha!

 

The front of a notebook.  Well if you dared to read it after the warning on the front mwahaha.

 

Go check out the minions and don't forget to check back next Monday for the second instalment of creepy.

 

 

Andrea C x

DT Throwdown Challenge No 2

It is time for the second challenge for the DT throwdown at 

Smeared and Smudged.

The theme for this challenge is to create a Faux Finish.

My project is called The Secrets of Dorian.  It started out as a little box which held a pair of earrings in it.  I covered it with Mod Podge to make the ink adhere.

 

Before I decided on the Dorian Gray theme I was going to use a Stampotique image so had used the image stamped on tissue paper.

 

 

Coloured it a little.

 

 

I used Crackle Accents on the main image:

 



 

At this point I changed my mind and thought it really isn't fancy enough so I went with the Dorian Gray theme.

 

I used a Steampunk Image from the Simply Betty Store.  I coloured him and then covered in Diamond Glaze except for his face and hands which I used Crackle Accents to have a withered look (looks better in real life!).  I also used some Papermania Photo Anchors and added orange gems.  The image was placed inside a charm from Crafty Individuals (3 different sizes for £1.35).   This stamp company is brilliant, not only do they deliver super speedy their stuff is quality and every time I have ordered I have always had a freebie selection of small rubber stamps.  (Not to mention I won £150 worth of goodies from them before Xmas).

 

 

I had a Tim Holtz key which says dreams on it so I thought this was very fitting as any normal life dreams Dorian would have had have been forever taken, hence the rip charm added.  The fly is to add to the rotting theme.

 

 

 

The other two participants for our team are Creepy Glowbugg and Menace of the Monstrous Mark aka Spesch Ink 

 

I would also like to enter this into the Simply Steampunk Challenges which is distressed.

 

 

 

The Haunted Design House team effort can be seen at the main blog and the others projects will defo blow your mind!

To see any entries from other teams participating

and cast your vote on Thursday or Friday, here is the link. 

You do have to be a Smeared and Smudged forum member

to participate and vote, but it's free and very worth signing up.

 

Anyway this was lots of fun but if you get a chance I would sign up for the Smeared Ink Forum they are a lovely group of talented people and it would also be great to have some more votes EG mwahahaha.

 

Andrea C x