Forever Night Challenge Too Cute To Spook

The first is my Forever Night Challenge entry which is too cute to spook!  Well personally I think my guy is too cute to spook but I always get cute mixed up with weird.  (I drew this guy in Uni one day when the lecture was about algorithms, yeah I should have been listening instead of doodling.  I know!).

Anyways he wants to play:

Andrea C x

HDH104 - I Was Framed

This week at Haunted Design House we are very excited to be showcasing Silly Dilly Beans Stamps.  Her line is just so fun and quirky and are really fun to colour.  We got told to go and pick a digi stamp to work with and this one just jumped out and grabbed me.  Her name is Olive. Now personally I thought this little filly is too damn amazing to put too much stuff around her so I just coloured her with  my new love distress inks and I used a paper I got from The Fruit Pixie for just 17p a sheet WOW.  I then put her in a gothic type frame.  It does look a lot better than my pics show and I think I will be keeping it up.

I couldn't resist using it again for my friends birthday card.  Inside is a kind of sappy message so I will spare you the upchuck moment haha.  All you need to know is my BEST friend is one of the nicest people I have ever known, she is one of those geniuinely all round good hearted people that put everyone else before herself and helps absolutely everybody.

Well you should see what the design team have done so far and we still have creepy glowbuggs to come.

Now if you don't participate at least check out SillyDillyBeans Stamps.  There is cute and creepy digis for one and all.  Oh and silly me forgot to mention there is a prize from our fabby sponsor and wow is she generous now go check out Haunted Design House for the details. x

Andrea C x

TOFF #9 Steampunk

This week at the octopode factory the theme is steampunk.  I chose to alter a flowery box I have to a steampunk box.

It doesn't show up too well but to colour this image I used distress inks, glimmer mists and cosmic shimmer.  Lots of fun colouring with those and it gleams like you wouldn't believe!

I didn't have a lot of time to spend on this one as my middle daughter started school yesterday and it has been a bit hectic not to mention a visitor this weekend.

Andrea C

Forever Nights Freaky Friday Challenge #5

I can't believe I won last week for the freaky friday challenge at Forever Nights challenge blog last week with my freaky little maggot/grub man.

This week the challenge is to create something using mystical women. Even better than that our own Teri is sponsoring the challenge this week.

Now this is an ambiguous statement hehe how rude of me. This is just one of the many amazing images that Teri has, seriously one wonderful artist.  I love them all but my favourite is Kitty + Witch especially the one that Teri coloured on her dark blog here.

Did I forget to mention that the amazing background paper is from Susan's Crafty Chaos Designs.

Andrea C x

HDH103 - Carnival of Curiosities

THis week at Haunted Design House we want you to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece of the creepy circus or carnival oeuvre.  Come one, come all!! Bring out your freaks, your fortune tellers, terrifying clowns, and your most curious of curios.

I got a bit excited and did three things.  I don't know what is up with me this week I have done tons of crafty stuff.  We were supposed to be taking the kids lots of places before they start school on Thursday but the weather has been absolutely awful.

Anyway I made two brooches and one tarot thingymajibitybob (how very technical of me).

The one below is made using material I made into a flower with a brad in the middle and some beads.  Then using one of my images I inserted it into a metal tag I had and used anitas 3d gloss to seal it and give it a glassy look.  He looks evil right!

This one I realise the outside tulle is far too big and I am going to fix it.  I didn't really realise until I was posting these photos and had another look at  them it looks ridiculous right!  This was made burning some material again and using the bat lady from the graphics fairy.  I did the same as with the jester pin.  I got another metal tag and then using some coordinations card stock which I distressed I stuck her too it, she also has distress inks around her but they don't show up in my photos.  I then added some pearls round the side.

These three images are fromt the graphics fairy again and I distressed the edges of them and made a ticket to go with them which says admit one and in the side it says soul with a mark and on the back it has non returnable but I made it a little edgy to see so that they wouldn't know they were giving up their soul hmm what goes on in this tiny teeny brain of mine!

Anyway I just had a peek at the design teams work and they have outdone themselves not to mention Glo's post on Wed which I know will be fab as it always is.

Andrea C x

TOFF #8 Birds of a Feather

This week the challenge is birds of a feather at the octopode factory challenge blog.  Now who doesn't love the raven from nevermore but this poor little girl (apparently) never got another role in a book, movie etc and any thespian  will tell you this is not much fun you need a bit of diversity so... being ironic!

Andrea C x

Farm Friday - Button it Up

The greeting farm challenge for farm fresh friday this week is to use buttons.  Well my Mum's birthday is on Thursday so I thought I would make her a card and enter it in to this challenge.  My Mum loves faeries and cherubs etc.

I made the flower using tulle and the ticket I did digitally then added the wording which entitles my Mum to three faerie wishes.  I coloured a grey image of Chloe to look like her shadow.

I made these soaps using a mold I bought specifically cos she loves cherubs.  They smell like parma violets.

My Mum only likes dairy milk chocolate so I melted down some to make this cherub chocolate with clouds.