31DOH Day #13 and Guest DT Post for Haunted Design House

Welcome to Day #13 of 31 Days of Halloween! I hope you enjoyed hopping yesterday! Thank you for all the wonderful comments! You can find the blog roll in my side bar. Your first stop on the hop is Terra, you should have come to me from Lyneen, and your next stop is Rebecca. Remember to comment on all the blogs on the hop for a chance to win at the end of the month and keep in mind the Scavenger Hunt for daily prizes!

Today is an exciting day for me! I was asked to do a GDT Spot for the Minions in the dungeons over at Haunted Design House! I was thrilled to be asked and could not say no! That and Contagion of Corrosion Croms is very persuasive! This fortnight's challenge is entitled 'You Wood Do That' and the idea is to use wood of some description. I spent several days wandering around the house looking for something made of wood to alter/destroy when all the time the wood was right in front of me!

This is a bit of my crafty workspace - excuse the mess! My table was an old computer unit and I keep notebooks and things behind the little square door - things are stuck on there that wont come off, my MS punch hangs on the handle, its just a bit messy.... and its made of wood! (well, sort of lol)

So I took the door off the unit, pulled of all the stuff, gave it a good clean. I covered it in gesso then went round the edges with black acrylic paint. I got 2 domino 6.5x6.5" papers from Kaisercraft and two paper from Echo Park's Apothecary Emporium and coated them with Fired Brick Distress Stain and added Black Soot Distress Ink around the edges. These were stuck down using Mod Podge.

Meanwhile, I printed out Delicious Darkness Lucifer image on an A4 sheet of paper, covered it with more Fired Brick stain and let it dry. I've added some brown pencils on the horns, purple on this trousers and darkened the eyes a bit... which you cant see for the shine! There's also some more Black Soot DI to darken the shadowy areas on his right side. He was fussy cut, mounted on black paper and fussy cut again.

The whole thing was coated in more matte finish Mod Podge to adhere the graveyard scene and web flourishes which were cut from Silhouette Studio files on the Cameo. A final top coat of Mod Podge was put over the door before hanging back on the unit.

I have had a lot of fun with this challenge! I hope you like it and that you'll come and join in!

I will enter my project in the following challenges:
Delicious Darkness Challenge - #3 ATG/Halloween

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Dilly Beans Halloween - Take Two!!!

Well, I am pretty much kicking myself in the shins as I write this post! After my inspired orange and black Dilly Beans card from the other day was entered into a bunch of challenges... the fabulous Jenn from Dilly Beans DT left me a comment to say how great the card was but that I wasn't eligible to win as I had entered too many challenges for their rules! Argh!!! The whole point in making the card was to enter the Dilly Beans challenge! Oooops! Oh well, a good excuse to make another one today!

So I've kept the Halloween theme but changed the colour scheme to Purple and Teal and used some papers from Echo Park and Little Yellow Bicycle again. I've added more flowers, pins and seam binding ribbon in my 'signature' bouquet embellishment. There's also some black vinyl spiders from Stampendous on there for added details. The image is #415 Pinky's Skull Bow and I've coloured her with promarkers.

I will be entering this card into the current Dilly Beans 'Ribbons' challenge and the current Haunted Design House challenge as I think Pinky would be a great Halloween costume! I'll also enter her over at My Craft Creations Anything Goes challenge for this fortnight.

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Feeling Blue... and green!

and a bit of purple!
Oh my mojo seemed to have left me... I've done very little crafting the last few weeks, other than that which was expected of me and I feel like some of that was not good! But I think I might be back. I came across the Musically Challenged Challenge Blog a few days ago and the current challenge is a music video from a band/femal artist I've never heard of called Kerli, the song is called 'Creepshow'. The sponsor for the challenge is Dilly Beans, one of my favourite digi stamp companies so I decided to use the colours from the video and grabbed a Dilly Beans digi and got colouring with my trusty Promarkers.

I've used my favourite papers from Echo Park - must find more of this i'm running out! - the Oct 31 paper pad and combined them with some seam binding ribbon and mulberry paper flowers in the teal and purple colours to co-ordinate. There is also some Midnight Black and Lagoon stickles for a bit of glitter and glossy accents on the eyes. I have left room for a sentiment and will add that when I decide on a recipient.

As well as entering the Musically Challenged challenge, I will also enter this into the current Haunted Design House challenge - this fortnight is all about dressing up for halloween and I think weirdo/zombie girl makes a great costume idea!

I will also enter the card into the following challenges -
Eclectic Ellapu - Inspired by a Song
My Craft Creations - Stamped Image Challenge
I Love Promarkers - #186 Anything Goes
The Three Muses - Music
Card Mania - Favourite Colour Combo

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx