HDH094 - Menacing Mermaids

Haunted Design House - Menacing Mermaids

This week you are to make something wicked using the terrifying temptresses from the formidable and foul fathoms as your inspiration. These are not the mermaids that hung on your Grandma's bathroom wall. Let's see something scary!!

Anyway I decided to paint one and for once I am quite pleased with how she turned out.  She is quite evil and is sad because she hasn't caused the kind of mayhem she had hoped (poor little ickle thing!).

I know my pics are terrible really try but am a total duffus!

Above is merbiatch before she had scales added.  She was painted using acrylics and I painted her on hardboard (I prefer hardboard it to canvas as I can rectify mistakes of which I make many, plus find it easier to shade, even on something as simple as this there were and are lots and lots of mistakes).

Anyway hopefully you guys will play along this week and come up with some pretty cool stuff.

I am on holiday this week so hope you all have fun and will get commenting when I get back.

Andrea C x

HDH092 - Pleasure and Pain

Haunted Design House - Pleasure and Pain

This week at Haunted Design House you are to incorporate something you love with something you hate.  Well for me this one was easy.  I LOVE rubber stamping but I HATE rubber stamping.  I am just no darn good at it no matter how I try.  Everybody tells me little hints and tips and they never work.  You will see in this pick there are bits I have had to go over with pen cos I stamped it like ten times and didn't get one decent image.

On this I used a canvas for the backing some coodinations for the first card then a little stack for the image being stamped on.  I coloured the stamp with tim holtz distress reinker weathered wood I think.  I adorned this with Creepy Glowbugg's fabulous skulls and brains and some ribbon she sent me a while back and bob's your uncle.

Andrea C x

Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop

Yes skull appreciation day is here.  I am showing my appreciation in the form of a pin cushion and some pin toppers.  The pin toppers are last minute so not at all to a very high standard but I ran out of time.

Smeared and Smudged have arranged a lovely blog hop in appreciation with lots of prizes on the way.

Now the next person on the blog hop is:

Helen

You can go here for a full list of the participants on the blog hop:

Full List

For details on prizes from the sponsors please visit:

Terra

Hope you have time to hop along as there are some wonderful sponsors.

Andrea C x

Haunted Design House - 091 EMO

Haunted Design House - EMO

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece using items that begin with an 'E', 'M' and an 'O'.

For example:
E: Emo image, Edge punch, Embellishments, Embossing, Eggplant, Ephemera, Eight
M: Material, Medium, Mists, Matts, Metal, Magic, Magenta, Messy, Mesh, Maroon, Mint
O: Orange, Oval, Old, Ornamental, Octagonal, Oblong, Obsidian (black), Overlay, Organza, Olive

You only have to have one of each of the letters represented in your piece.

For mine I used Emo, Mummy and ovals.  Oh and put words for emo at the top.  Now come on if I could do it with that you could do it.  What a prize to win, see below.

Now I have quite a few of the Simply Betty Stamps as they are well quirky and also some are rather cute.  They are fabulous to colour and she has something for everyone.  Guess what!  For the prize this week Betty is offering up THREE Emo rubber stamps to each of the Gruesome Twosome this week!!!   Winners will be able to choose from the following EMO lines:  Everyday, Valentines, Back 2 School, and Halloween.  Awesome prize, right?! 

I know that most of you have some Simply Betty Stamps but who couldn't do with some more right!  So get your thinking caps on, enter and get yourself in with a chance to win.

Andrea C

HDH090 - Necro Neckwear

Haunted Design House - Necro Neckwear

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that could be turned into a pendant! Everyone is encouraged to play along for fun and Gruesome Twosome status, but their own original artwork is necessary to win the prize. And WHAT A PRIZE IT IS!

This week is sponsored by Kasket Kustoms: Accessories to DIE for!

Please take a moment to check out the website and register: http://www.kasketkustoms.com/

Submit the next Kasket Kustoms necklace design and win a little something from the shop PLUS a necklace of your design! 

How cool is that.  I have been and had a look and my goodness there are probably only about two that I don't want.

This was my painting of Esme (yeah she features a lot at the moment).  Hubby and I are going to create her in to a little story book for the kids.  She is painted with acrylics on a canvas pad sheet that I got for my birthday from my very talented little buddy Netty.






Below is one of the gorgeous pendant backings from Kustom Kaskets and I have added Esme to the middle.

Anyways I hope you will find the time to play along because we really love to see your designs and how cool would it be to have one of yours crafted into a necklace.

I would also like to enter this in to paint party friday - week 10.

Andrea C x

Farquhar the Werefox

Introducing Farquar the Werefox, well there are werewolfs are there not! hmm.  (I didn;t have the right colour for a werewolf so... Farquhar was born)

He is a colourful chap who when going through the change likes to chase humans dressed as chickens bitting their ankles as he goes.  So be careful choosing your costume for the London Marathon.

Anyway hope you are all having a nice weekend so far x

Needle Felted Doll

This is my first needle felted doll that I am putting on my etsy store (sometime later this week along with some other junk I have created haha).

Her name is Esme (short for Esmerelda).  She is a little ghoul who was born in Scotland.  She likes walks in the forest, eyeball cupcakes and Jeff Buckly (she says his voice reminds her of the Banshee from the forest). 

Yes those are yellow pants!

Any feedback would be appreciated. 

Again my pics are shockingly bad.  She also has a little handbag but you can only barely see it in the last group photo.

The card in the background was from my lovely little buddy Netty x

Andrea C x