Git yer Freak On!!!

Who say's it's too early for pumpkins?!

A friend of ours tilled the soil in his new place, and without planting a single

seed, has pumpkins, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, and various

other vegetation growing wildly in his yard. He gave me the first two (of many)

pumpkins he harvested last week.

Do I smell in Autumn in the air?

The second week to enter the Haunted Design House 

challenge of Freaker's Free for All has begun!

I'm running a bit behind, but I made something! 

I couldn't miss out on an anything goes challenge.

A dear friend sent me a cute little "take n' make" from her local scrap store.

It came with some pretty papers and ribbons, but I swapped them out for

Hallowe'en themed papers and ribbon instead.

I went through my Hallowe'en scraps and used up some good bits.

I added  MS punched elements and papers from various makers.

I also used some cool brads in my stash as well.

One of my favorite Hallowe'en papers. 

I'm down to only scraps of it at this point.

The kit came with these cute little plastic sleeves for the entire 3" x 3" book. 

Now, if I can only figure out how to keep the ribbon binding the pages,

to stay in the holes! As you can see, it's a bit unfinished.

Thanks for dropping by!

Keep it creepy!!!     

  

Macabre Monday on a Tuesday

Yup! Haunted Design House is back open for business!

And since we don't want to just shock you back into submission,

we made the first challenge for 2013 an easy one.

Freaker's Free for All!!

A haunted version of an "Anything Goes" theme.

Now, one might think that an anything goes challenge would be so easy.

But that is not the case for me. I have so many wicked ideas floating 

through my head like rotting carcasses floating down stream, 

that it is hard to let the bloat out of just one. 

Idea, that is.

This idea started with this awesome set of lenticular stickers from Recollections at Michael's.

Ever since I was a kid, I have always loved lenticular stuff. I had so many little television pencil sharpeners with the lenticular screen on them. 

Wish I still had those.

In case you aren't familiar with the term lenticular printing, it means: 

Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses are used to produce printed images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles.  

I now have a gallery of lenticular vintage photos for my 

Hallowe'en displays. They even sell them at the Dollar Store!

Score!   

The vintage baby carriage/pram was the next bit of inspiration for my piece.

I bought this stamp from a company called, Stamper's Best. 

They have great prices on cling mount, and some really unique images available on naked rubber, or mounted onto cling. 

The image didn't stamp very clearly over all the texture, so I redrew it

(or traced it) with a black glaze pen. 

Not perfect, but it helps the image read better.

This type of image always brings to mind the movie poster and book cover for 

It's Alive! - 1974.

Creepy. Love it! 

This clock face is also from Stamper's Best. I colored it with Copics 

and then used Crackle Accents from Ranger on it for some age.  

Well, how did the little one pass, you may be wondering? 

I think Mama had a touch of the Munchausen Syndrome. 

Probably happened more than anyone would like to admit, 

back in the old days.

I broke out with all kinds of mediums for this project. 

I used acrylic paints, distress inks, rock candy distress crackle paint, 

distress Stickles, rubber stamps, wet embossing, gel pens, etc...

I have an issue with the whole, "Less is More" concept.

Just can't do it.

You still have until this Sunday evening to get in on the Macabre fun at Haunted Design House!

Please join us, won't you?