Macabre Monday 50: Foul Flutterings

This weeks Macabre Monday challenge is ''Foul Fluttering's'' for this challenge I decided to make a gothic arch from mount board, not the easiest thing to cut but it kept me busy. The quote was punched out with one of them dymo machines and seems to be quite impossible to photo (if you enlarge it you can see it better), its in a script text and says '' Even angels need angels some times''. Background is painted black then has green and blue patina eco green paint smooshed on with the good old priceless tool my finger, then painted with blonde moments crackle medium then painted black again over the top, love the last part as it cracks instantly its so cool. Image is random angel statue from on-line.

Macabre Monday - Wacko Jacko's

This weeks challenge over at Macabre Monday is Wacko Jacko's - For this page in my journal I made a background with Dyan's new spray inks in burnt orange (love this colour!!!) and combined an image from the brand spanking new Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland papers and a phrase from one of Dyan's download sheets.

Whoop Whoop I made the Gruesome Twosome!!!

Whoop Whoop my Carrot Tops on parade made the Gruesome Twosome over at Macabre Monday!!!!!

Macabre Monday - Marvellous Masking

This weeks Macabre Monday Challenge is Marvellous Masking. I have finally been able to finish one having started off flying and then just being halted in my tracks! Image is stampotique coloured with the new altered originals dye ink sprays by Dyan at Art from the Heart. Loved making this page in my journal it was alot of fun.

Macabre Monday Challenge 38 Voodoo Witchery

This weeks Macabre Monday challenge is titled ''Voodoo Witchery'' I had bought this image a couple of weeks ago, its a Kraftin Kimmi image and I think alittle bit sinister in the squinting eye and the dolls falling apart, perfect for this challenge! My little Gothic arch is made up of the Kraftin Kimmi image coloured with pro-markers, printed lettering from the Labyrinth film and paper from Cosmo Cricket, I also used crushed olive Distress Ink and a green glaze pen.

Macabre Monday & Tuesday Taggers Challenges

I usually upload Tuesday Taggers entry's on my other blog, Horner's Corner but today I am combining it with the Macabre Monday challenge so I am uploading it here.

So the Tuesday Taggers challenge is to recycle something, so I took this tin that had in it a very tiny amount of Prima flowers (like 10) and a 2inch thick piece of foam at the bottom that was hidden by the flowers so it looked full, yes you could say im abit bitter about that considering the extortionate price of the thing (like 10 quid!!). Anyhow I have been loathed to throw it away so I have decided to recycle it and turn it into a nice tin to hold all my metal charms that are floating in the bottom of a drawer and I can never find when I want them.

So picture above is the before picture, now onto the Macabre Monday part of the challenge, Ode to the Bruise. Which is to use the colours black, purple, yellow and teal, just like a bruise which I have a massive one on my foot from dropping a stone from a dry stone wall on it but thats another story. So here is what I did. Well gesso'd the interior of the tin, let dry, gesso'd again, let dry. Randomly painted with some cheapo paints purple, teal and yellow, let dry. Painted a nice layer of Blonde Moments crackle glaze available at Art from the Heart, let dry. Painted over with not so cheap black paint and it started to crack instantly, I must say I love watching this happen, let it dry. Spray varnished inside, let dry and lastly spray varnished again in case I missed any of it and let it dry, do you see the recurring theme here!! So I got some fabby ribbon from my monthly Crafty Feeling bloom kit and wrapped that around the outside, thats one piece of ribbon it comes half organza half satin and then added the little dude to the top because I still want to see inside, the gems were already on it and they are stuck on really good, maybe that's why the tin was so expensive!!

Hope you like it and if you see a tin of Prima flowers like this, you know what to do.... hide them so no other sucker can buy them and get ripped off too!!

Macabre Monday Challenge

This is the first time I am entering the Haunted Design House Blog's Macabre Monday Challenge so I hope I am doing it right!! This weeks challenge is ''Music Mayhem'' to create a project using a song that inspires something alittle dark. If you haven't guessed it, I have used the Beatles song Better run for your life. I have listened to the other half play and sing this song over and over on the XBox Beatles Rockband but never really listened to the lyrics. I do really like it, it makes you tap your foot and sounds like a really good song, but when you listen to the actual words the whole way through it becomes something completely dark and sinister.