Day 6 of 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome back for Day 6 of the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.  Didn't y'all just love the projects from yesterday?  Some truly amazing creations.  Remember, you can find all the Wicked Bloggers to the right of my blog and be sure to check out Terra's Blog for a complete list of rules, sponsors and winners from yesterday's Scavenger Hunt.

Today, I went pretty simple.  I made a card for today's project.  

I used an image from Phee McFaddell to create this card.  I must admit, I created this one a few months ago, but I love it and wanted to show it again.  I colored the image with BIC Markers and Sakura Glitter pens.  I added a strip of jeweled ribbon at the bottom, some black flowers and a white and a black feather. Don't they make a cute couple?  

OK.  Now that you have seen my project, hop on over to Lisa's Uniquely Odd Blog for another amazing creation.

Remember, if you would like to enter to win the Haunted Bird House, make sure to visit the "Giveaway" post here on my blog and figure out the trivia answer.  Y'all didn't think I was going to make it really easy did ya? :)

And, look who just happened to fly by and land on my blog.....

I am going to enter this project in to the Haunted Design House's #177 Dimensional Halloween.

Who are You Supposed to Be?

Hello my friends.  I hope everyone is enjoying their week.  Only one more day til the weekend.  Our weekend is full again.  My BIL is getting married on Saturday and my hubby is the Best Man, so we not only have the wedding on Saturday, we have the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner tomorrow.  My husband still hasn't written his speech.  He better get going.

Today's card is a practice run for the whole month of October.  Many of you have already seen the badge and list of blogs on the right side of my blog for the Halloween Blog Hop for Smeared and Smudged.  I don't make alot of "dark" cards so I thought I would practice one for Haunted Design House's challenge this week.  The challenge is to choose and image that represents what you would be for Halloween if you had the right body, right hair, right clothes, etc.  Well, if I had all those things, I would definitely be a Kenny K image.  LOL.  Those are some sexy chicks.  So, for my card I choose  "Hella Enchanted" and here she is:

I colored her with colored pencils and OMS then trimmed down the image.  I inked it heavily with DI Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain and Black Soot inks.  I matted her on Black card stock from Recollections and added four antique brass brads.  I used three different patterned papers (Recollections, Theresa Collins and DCWV) to create the background.  All of them are matted on Hearthrob Red card stock from The Paper Studio.  The card base is Black Recollections and is 6"x6".  I added three black roses from Michael's and two black card stock flourishes as my embellishments. I wonder how much candy I could get if I dressed like this??  LOL.

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been up to.  Have a wonderful evening and God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Haunted Design House: Who are You Supposed to Be?

Love is Eternal

Hello my friends.  I hope y'all have enjoyed your Monday.  We had a terrible storm earlier this evening.  The winds were whipping and it was hailing and raining.  It's done now thank the Lord.

The card I have for y'all this post is a Fantasy card.  What do you think of when you hear the word fantasy..Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars, fairies, elves...I think of Vampires.  I know I shouldn't but I love Vampires.  I think it's just the thought of someone loving me forever no matter what and desiring me enough to want to spend eternity with me.  I know, I'm a hopeless romantic and my poor husband doesn't a have a drop of romance in his whole body. :)

The image I chose is from Phee McFaddell.  Isn't she a cute little vampire.  He's an elf vampire.  I printed out the image onto Neenah card stock and used my Spectrum Noir pens and Sakura glitter gel pens to color in the image.  I rounded the corners of the image, inked them with DI Black Soot and matted it onto a piece of dark red card stock from Recollections.  The card base is made from Colorbok card stock.  I added two DPs..one from DCWV and one from the Recollections Halloween collection from last year.  I used pop dots to add dimension to the image.  The beaded trim is from Michael's and the feathers are from my daughter's school kit that we had left over.  I added three Recollections flowers and a red brad.  

I hope you like my fantasy card.  I am also entering this into the Haunted Design House challenge and the theme is Unlucky 13.  Here is a list of the 13 elements I added to my card:
1 image
1 image mat
3 flowers
2 feathers
1 brad
1 length of beaded trim
2 DPs
1 DP mat
1 card base
For a total of 13.

Thanks for stopping in today.  I hope y'all have a great night.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Tuesday Throwdown--Fantasy
Haunted Design House--Unlucky 13

Bone Appetite

Good Morning.  Today is Monday and that means back to school after the weekend.  I will be so glad when this school year is over.  I'm done.  It's been a very awkward year.  Only a few more weeks..I can make it..

I thought I would try my hand at another macabre card.  I'm not very good at this type of card, but Haunted Design House has some great challenges.  My work doesn't even come close to their design team or even the people who enter the challenges, but they are fun.

The theme for this challenge is Skeletal Remains.  We had to use skeletons and bones.  I had this stamp set from Recollections in my stash that I purchased after Halloween last year for $1.99.  I stamped the skeleton twice with Versa Fine Onyx ink and cut one of them out.  I  used pop dots to add the cut out one to the main image.  I stamped the sentiment and brain on the card stock and then colored the brain with a light ink and did some line work with a red BIC marker.  I drew a blood pool to try and make it a little more gruesome.  The skeleton has just pulled out this brain so he has blood dripping from his hand.  I inked the edges of the image with DI Vintage Photo and matted it on a panel of Red card stock from Recollections.  The back ground paper I made by stamping the large skull randomly on white card stock.  I inked around the edges of this too.  I added some flowers from my stash to offset the creepy image.  I hope this works for the challenge.  It's way out of my comfort zone.

Thanks for stopping in to see my creepy creation.  Have a great day and God bless y'all.

Challenge:
Haunted Design House--#165  Skeletal Remains

Goth Bride

Hi there peeps.  This is my last post for the night.  I was kind of out of my element with this card.  It is the first card I am entering into a new challenge site, Haunted Design House.  The last few challenges were all about Edgar Allen Poe and Guardians and I wasn't too sure what to do with those, but I think I rocked this challenge.

Yep, it's a little different than most of my cards, ain't it?  I kinda like it though.  I used an image from Delicious Doodles called Gothic Bride.  I used a variety of markers to add color to this image: Copics, Spectrum Noir and ShinHan.  I also used some Glitter Gel pens to add sparkle.  I used black and burgundy card stocks from Bazzill and DP from DCWV and K and CO.  The flourishes, flowers, lace and die cut are from my stash.  I added some Ruby Slipper Stickles to the flowers for some added bling.

Even though this is a little bit different from my norm, I hope y'all liked it.  Thanks for hanging with me through these last few cards.  Have a great night.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Haunted Design House--HDH162 Drop Dead Gorgeous
One Crazy Stamper--March Anything Goes
Stampin' For The Weekend--Lace