HDH177 - Tando Dimensional Halloween Challenge

Welcome to the new Macabre Monday challenge at Haunted Design HOuse which is:

"Dimensional Hallowe'en."

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en based art piece that is dimensional in some way.

There are some fine prizes being offered by our generous sponsor,

 

Aha pop on over to Haunted Design House to see the prize on offer and to see the Minions hard work.

 

I used the Gothic Archway with a spiderweb.  These things are immense to paint on.  I have already ordered a few more!

 

 

The edge I used posh metallic inks and dabbed them on with a toothpick which took forever but gave a nice raised bumpy texture.

 

The minions as always have outdone themselves so go and have a peek.

 

Andrea C x

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wands

Well my kids have been getting into Harry Potter of late, so I made them some wands and they love them.

 

I made them little mini books:

 

 

One also for my daughter's school buddy:

 

 

I am currently working on a spell book for them and have  made some train tickets too.

 

 

HDH 176 - Who Are You?

Another challenge for Macabre Monday at Haunted Design House this week the challenge is to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en 

based art piece that depicts a costume or
character you have been, or want to be for Hallowe'en.  

Isn't there that one costume you always remember
fondly from your childhood? Or maybe that one character 
you've always wished you had the guts 
(or the money, or the body)
to portray at this year's costume party?

 

We are being sponsored by I Brake for Stamps with the fabulous images from Rick St Dennis.

I always loved vampires and wanted to be one when I was a kid (yes always been a strange one me!).  Anyway I made a bag to carry my vampire costume accessories in.  I made the bag from an old cornflake packet. 

In case you come from Mars and didn't know what a cornflake packet looked like :P

 

I then pasted tissue paper on with a mix of PVA and water.

 

 

After that I painted it black then dry brushed some gold buff n rub stuff.  I then added my embellishments and image.  I added some 3D glaze to the image to protect it.  To the die I used the Jewel Stampendous red one.

 

 

 

 

I got a cheap plastic bat and added rub n buff to that and some liquid pearls and stickles to the belly.

 

 

I also added one of Glo's skulls from her etsy shop and added them to a charm that I got from Crafty Individuals shop.

 

 

Then the bag:

 

 

 

Well that's all folks. Be sure to check out the Minions.

 

Andrea C x

 

p.s.  Happiest of birthdays to our creepiest minion Glo. xxx

 

 

 

HDH Gloomsville

It's another instalment of Macabre Monday at Haunted Design House and the challenge this time is being sponsored by the wonderful Lily at The Octopode Factory!  She has some amazing images and we were luck enough to get to use a couple.  Lily is offering up a prize for the winner which is......

I used the Pumpkins and Spider Web.

With the pumpkins I decided to make a sort of thank you card for when the kids go trick or treating.  They only went for the first time last year and hubby took them but I think it is my turn this year and I really don't relish the thought of going to peoples doors so I thought a little card for them might soften the blow.

 

You can't really see the glitter very well but I used a ton of stickles!

 

 

Next up I made a little treat box using coordinations cardstock for Halloween with the Spider image:

 

 

 

 

Well that's all folks. Be sure to check out the Minions.

 

Andrea C x

 

 

 

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.

 

HDH174 - Nailed It

The challenge for Haunted Design House this time around is use stick pins, nails, staples, etc....

I have made a little clay devil and he has been nailed to a block of wood.  The nails each have a spell written on them to stop him from getting free.  He is a particularly evil little devil and if anyone were ever to  manage to set him free......

 

Remember you have two weeks to enter this challenge so plenty of time to get your thinking cap on.

 

Andrea C

Paint Party Friday

I did a little painting today so I am going to enter it into Paint Party Friday. 

This painting was done using acrylics.  She has a bit of a bog eye which I noticed very early on but was too lazy to fix it.  I just don't really feel creative at the moment and am having to push  myself to do anything crafty/arty!

 

Andrea C x