Poisoned Apple Exhibit Halloween Blog Hop

 As previously mentioned, there has been a Monster Blog Hop - WITH PRIZES kindly donated by our sponsor Gecko Galz - organised by Cathy Frailey.

We have a wonderful digital prize package up for grabs, courtesy of Gecko Galz ! You'll receive: Face To Face Jewel It Collage Set, Steam Punk Collage Set, Picture Perfect ATC Set, Clockwork Christmas ATC Set, and Spellbound Digital Stamp Set (which has 25 images!).

To have a chance of winning, leave a comment on this post, along with your email address or social media contact (IG, FB, etc) from now through Monday, 2 Nov. One lucky winner will be picked randomly from all comments left from all of the artist's participating! The winner will be contacted via email or social media so it's important you leave your address/social media contact info! Good luck and enjoy the hop

Please hop along to all my fellow bloggers - remember you'll need to leave comments to be in on the prize giving

It's Oddly Appealing

Creatif Edges  https://youtu.be/Wx0ies8nkpY

InkStained Roni

Chaitali Dekhtawala https://youtu.be/HfUOozfCdN

LouiseThompson

moniquesprettydarkart

https://youtu.be/No-S4haEbSo

ZoeB

Rituparna

AngelB

SavvyHandmade

MonicaLongard (MonDo Creations)

I went large with my project - My Haunted House

I had to wait for a day that wasn't raining in Scotland and it turned out to be a really bright sunny day - hence the brolley for shade 

Front/RHS

This is the LHS. Can you spot the 2 black cats? and the ravens?

Even had some ghosts in my Haunted house

need at least 1 spider!

Some daring visitor has been here

Mwahahaha

top roof detail

Lots of paint and mediums, different washes, antiquing creams went into creating this. changing it from a plain wooden kit into something a bit creepier.

Inside didn't get left out

WIP

All floors and walls were covered with Halloween papers from various collections gathered over the years. Some skully lights hung so that when lit and in the dim light it will look like floating skulls are coming to get you. Of course there are spider webs every where.

Thank you so much for journeying with me through my project for this awesome hop.

Don't forget to visit my hop fellows for a chance to see some really fantastic projects. 

 

Hallowe'en Tag Swap

 Good evening.

I am currently working on some "C" word stuff - presents for my family so most of my crafting time has been taken up by these but I did take time out to join in a swap. A Hallowe'en Tag Swap organised by "Artful Days" DT member, Jane Austin over in Facebook group.

My swap partner has now received her tag from me so I fell I can share on my blog now.

Starting with a plain grey board tag, I glued on some of the purple tissue paper that some of my Artful Days goodies arrived in. Never throw much away here lol

Dry brushed with acrylic paint when dry in shades of turquoise, titan buff and orange.

One of Andy Skinner's transfers from the "Curiosities" set applied (Creative Expressions). These are great when there is too much texture to stamp onto.

The MDF film strips and circle were given a touch of gilding flakes for added interest and colour.

The little coffin was handmade from greyboard waste from the back of a paper stack. Several layers cut to shape and glued together. Then painted with black and raw umber was wiped back before completely dry. The gold decoration is just a marker pen. 

Thanks for looking

I Haven't Been Idle

I know that not many projects have made it to my blog in the last few weeks - that's because most of them were gifts and swaps with other crafters and I didn't want to show them publicly until they had been received. Well most have now made their destinations so I feel happy about displaying on my blog.

First up is a tag I made as a swap within a group on facebook called Mixed Up Mixer. A mixed media tag with a Halloween theme.
This was the one I made

A greyboard substrate with paint and inked images layered with more (Tando Creative) greyboard cut into an arch and one of Tando's spider webs and (Tando Creative) brick stencil with (Decoart) modelling paste. Some cobweb fabric under a painted plaster cast skull. A few plastic skull beads to finish

I think the dimension is better appreciated here

My second Halloween themed project is now safely in it's new home

This time a little hanging

The skull was painted at the same time as the previous one, so is a similar colour. This time the greyboard substrate was brayered with paint, colours ranging from dark grey through to white. Then stamped with archival ink using stamps from Andy Skinner, high lighted with white gel pen.  The ornate die cut is one from Tonic's mixed media range cut from greyboard. Painted black then a variety of interference paint colours. Layered with another cut from the same Tonic range again brayered with paint then script stamped. The cobweb diecut to give another element in my scene.

Finished off with some white artstones and some twine to hang the picture with.   

Thanks for looking

  

I'd like to enter the projects as one into the challenge at

Bleeding Art Challenges - Halloween Mixed Media

Hellacious Hallowe'en with HDH

Another of my catchup projects - only 2 this week

This one is for Haunted Design House and the last challenge of 2014.
It had to be Hallowe'en themed now, didn't it!!

Hellacious Hallowe'en 

(for Hadults Honly)

I made a card, for a change.

Using the Eternal Matrimony papers from Jem's Designs featuring some beautiful Vamps. Well their vows would be, literally, eternal. (Unless there is a vampire killer in the 'hood)

The sentiment is computer generated and over stamped with a TH web stamp. 

All embellishments from stash

You have until Sunday to get your NON CUTE Hallowe'en project entered. Full details, of course are over at the challenge post at Haunted Design House.

It's Hallowe'en - with Delicious Darkness

Hi everyone
Mega posting day in the Cubbyhole - First up with Delicious Darkness Challenges
The challenge this month is Anything Goes with a Twist of Hallowe'en.
For my project I made a door wreath.

Using 13 of the Evil Skully images and 2 of Disturbia as a central swinging/hanging accent (attached only at the top)

These were all attached to a metal frame that I had covered with hessian strips. Then wrapped black 2mm organza ribbon in a criss-cross pattern.

The Skullys then adhered using silicon glue.

A simple but effective, I think, door decoration for any time of year in my home although I believe others take their decs down ready for the "C" time of year.

What Hallowe'en make will you have to show us? Looking forward to seeing them entered into our challenge.

Deliciously Dark

Delicious Doodles have branched out and are now hosting challenges for those of you that favour the DARK. It's no secret that Teri loves drawing her dark images and has now decided that it's time to have a challenge specifically for them. ........... SO NO CUTE allowed at

Delicious Darkness Challenges.

I am honoured to be amid a team of immensely talented crafters asked to join the team and our first challenge has gone live today. You have nearly a month to get those deliciously dark projects made and linked up at the challenge linky. For more deets - you'll just have to go look for yourselves.
I have made a couple of hanging ornaments suitable for either Hallowe'en or Creepmas using a blank wire snowflake frame.
First up is the image "Skully Pendant"

The image printed 12 times (6 mirror images) Coloured and fussy cut out. Seed beads form the vertebra, then the images stuck front and back. More beads and finished off with a black ribbon bow.
My second one features that gorgeous Raven Skull Pendant image.

Same principle - 12 images stuck either side of the wires then dipped in UTEE. Beads and ribbon to complete.

Now go look again at all the eye candy the rest of the guys came up with, get your thinking caps on and come join us so we can ooooo and arhhhh at yours.

I'd like to enter my onaments into the challenges at
Left of Centre - Anything Goes
A Step in the Dark - Anything Goes
Punkyou Girl - Anything Goes
Anything but a Card - Repeating Motifs

Witch Mercedes

Hi peeps
I recently joined the Simply Betty fan page within facebook and they have just started this month's challenge. A digi image - Witch Mercedes - given away to those that request it before August 20th but request and not use ..... and the freebies stop coming your way.
Well I did get to use her - and, surprise surprise, a card popped up.

Hallowe'en colours are required in the challenge over on the Simply Betty blog and that's what we have here. Greens, oranges, purples and black.

Mercedes has been coloured using promarkers and mounted onto a couple of memory box tree die cuts then grey (x-cut). A MS cobweb punch for the spider webs and all over bazzil basics cats' eyes paper. The sentiment is part of the digi set.

I am entering this card into the challenge at
Simply Betty Stamps - Halloween colours with specified image

Unlucky for some - 13

Superstition has it that 13 is unlucky - except if you purchased from an old fashioned baker who couldn't count. You were more likely to get 13 rolls or small loaves in the bag, in case you were "shorted" they used to throw in the 13th for luck, the 12 they counted in might have been only 11.
Enough of the history lesson.
 

At Haunted Design House, the challenge went up last week to 

"create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en project with a total of thirteen components. No more. No less. Thirteen pieces total." 

If you make a card, the base counts as one. If you use multiple dps, they each count as one. If you use six brads, they count as six. Catch the drift? Make a card and the base counts as one layer.

This was harder than I first thought, but this is a challenge after all. I won't bore you all with the number of times I added and took away different items when putting this fat book page together.

My elements are
1. Dark blue c.s. base stamped in white with a Paper Artsy Script stamp
2. Hallowe'en faux spider web
3. TH/Stampers' Anonymous skull stamped onto cream card.
4. Altered jigsaw (free with Kinder egg sweet). This was stamped with a Darcie "haunted house in frame" stamp. The frame was washed with copper paint then edged further with "marine blue" frantage embossing enamel.
5, 6 and 7 are the three centre pieces of the jigsaw.
8. TH/Stampers' Anonymous "Happy Halloween" stamped and gilded onto black c.s.
9. Spider
10. Skull and bones flat back embellishment from stash
11. Pearl headed pin
12. orange skull bead on the pin
13. Bronze bead on the pin

There's just under a week to go now to get counting and make those projects. It would help us poor Minions if you let us know what the 13 elements are. (Some of us might not be able to count that day)

It's always nice to get some bloggy love so please go visit the other Minions and show that you care. Thank you.
While you're there at the Haunted Design House blog - check out the amazing projects that Glo and Donna made for the Smeared and Smudged Design Team Throwdown. HDH won the coveted title of best in show again. Are you a member of a design team? Has your DT got what it takes to knock HDH off the perch? Check out the Smeared and Smudged forum for full details, come and have some fun with us.

Oh My Gourd!!

Haunted Design House time because it's Macabre Monday.

HDH150 
"Oh My Gourd!!!"

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece

that utilizes, mimics, infers, or is otherwise obviously 
gourd or pumpkin inspired.

We have a wonderfully creative and timely sponsor this week!!
Funworld's Floating Pumpkin Hangers

Unfortunately, in this area we have nothing I could use to demonstrate this fabulous piece of engineering, not even a melon, but I have got one and as soon as a suitable pumpkin substitute is available, I will be using for sure.
 So instead of upcycling a pumpkin, I upcycled a paper bag.

Useful for "trick or treating" or just to keep as part of the décor.

The centre piece is an image from Rick St Dennis, Pumpkin Head. 

I know he's from last year's collection drawn by Rick St Dennis, but he fitted so well into my theme. I think my promarkers loved him.

For the rest of the bag, my cricut came in handy. Both the DP base (My Mind's Eye, Halloween Sparkles) and the letters were cut using the Happy Hauntings cart. Mounted onto a pearlised black paper base. A little wooden skull and crossed bones from stash.

Your turn peeps, show us your gourd!!  While you're pondering, have a look at all the other wondrous pieces my fellow minions produced. You'll find them all at Haunted Design House.

Check back in a couple of days time for more of my pumpkin related makes.

A challenge or two I'd like to enter this into
Anything But A Card - Anything Goes
Inspired by - photo inspiration - I went for colour
Smudger - Recycle
Pin and Tack : Spark your activity now - Anything Goes

It's Time For Dark and Creepy At Tellen's Place

Two more days to go before that fab night and we're all gearing up for it. Well at Tellen's Place we are. Dark and Creepy is the challenge this week. For my part I have chosen to use ALL the "dark" halloween images that Marcus drew for this celebration time. I was very lucky to have the opportunity of getting my sticky (and inky) mitts on a couple of skulls (and coffins). Oh boy have I had fun.
The one for the challenge this week ....... taken in candle light .......... to hopefully show what it will look like on the night ...............













I started off by sealing the skull with watered down PVA as it is made from paper mache. Then a couple of coats of black acrylic paint. Then a thin coat of gloss. (to give it more of a slimy look)
While this was all drying ... printed onto thin paper each of the images. None of the images are more than 4cm tall. I flipped the doubles - so easy to do with digis.
The images were coloured with a variety of mediums - paint, pencils and promarkers and all fussy cut out. They were then mod-podged onto the skull.
To finish, when all that was dry, using metallic paint I painted little dots all over and highlighted the teeth adding a little extra sparkle on 2 of them.

Now it's your turn to show us Dark and Creepy (or anything Halloween). The girly girls amongst the Divas did it ......... so can YOU!! So come along to Tellen's Place and show us. Terry has even supplied a freebie to help you out and the winner will get 3 images from the store!!!

The first Crafty Purple Frog challenge is still on and they do say more than one entry allowed, so I am entering this into their "Anything Goes" challenge.

It's Nearly Halloween

As if you couldn't guess. Everyone, it seems is gearing up for All Hallow's Eve. Seems like I'll be having my own little party. Me, myself and I, and any others that turn up. Hubby's away for a few days. This corner of Scotland doesn't "do Halloween". Even the pumpkins here are smaller than a witch's cats head!! I still indulge myself though and make a few things. One of which is this little coffin.......
I started off by stamping a Lost Coast "skull with wreath" stamp a few times on some purple paper. My intention was that the wreath from one image would be shared with the one above. It grew and the next layer shares jaws..... as you can see - "a bit" of masking was going on here.
This went on to cover the top of a prepainted coffin (purple acrylic paint).
Round the bottom, I used a digi from Smeared Ink "It's about Time" which I had printed on the same purple paper.












Inside there is a computer generated motto in the lid and a zombieboy digi from Make It Crafty.
The boy was stuck in using a paper spring and surrounded by little scrunched up red tissue paper that I had inked to make it look old and dirty.


A couple of rounds of black ribbon to finish it all of

I am entering this into the Tuesday Taggers challenge this week for their Purple Challenge who are being sponsered this week by the Craft Barn and into the Haunted Design House challenge #62 - Smeared and Smudged - the amount of inking going on here inside and out :). Also going to enter it into the Sweet Stamping challenge for Anything but a card.

New Release for Tellen's Place Designs - Halloween!

Tellen's Place Designs has another release for you today! This time, we are tickling your fancy with our Halloween images! ! This sale is fantastic, of course: Buy ONE, get ONE FREE!

For my part I was given "Sargeant Pepper " to play with. He so reminded me of the Late Great John whose birthday, by the way, would have been this week. In keeping with the album after which this image was named - he had to be in yellow for this release. Well I thought so.
My morbid mind went into overdrive but without wanting to sully the memory of him ...

I was lucky enough to be able to get my hands on these gorgeous little wooden coffins, one of which was used to give Sgt. Pepper a final resting place. Painted black, (like it could be any other colour! ) with some images of the Apple record label logo mod podged on the top, and a little sentiment stuck to the bottom that was first inked and then painted with flourescent paint.













Inside I stuck in some red fabric for the cushioning and with a small piece of ribbon acting as a (1) a stop for the lid and (2) a support for the piece of acetate that the Sgt(coloured using PM's) is stuck to so he can come out and greet you in person (so to speak).


Have a look at all the other works of art the Divas have dreamed up for you and if you leave a comment on the Tellen's Place Blog .....Guess what?! One of our commentators is going to get one of these images FREE!! That's right, just for making a comment!
There's still the challenge going on for using 2 patterned papers .... what are you waiting for?

I am entering this in for the challenge over on Inky Impressions for their Anything Goes challenge and in the Fussy and Fancy Friday challenge for their Halloween themed challenge.