It's official...

Well, it's official!

I am the newest DT member of The Burtonesque Dolls!

I was kinda gobsmacked when Betty asked me to be a part of such a cool

collection of ladies and their talents.

Stay tuned for my Burton inspired creations!! 

I made this card using "Betty" from the My Emo Kids World line

of images at Simply Betty Stamps.

The Betty of Simply Betty Stamps is the same Betty Boo who

created the Burtonesque Dolls.

(just wanted to clarify why I included this card with this post)

If you haven't stopped by to check out these incredible images,

what are you waiting for?!

I used "Christian's" dragon pet with "Betty" because, A) I adore this little critter who resembles a tattoo on my back, and B) I needed to work green into this card, and Betty's chihuahua wouldn't work in green.

 

And this is why I needed to work some green into the project.

I used this handmade skully (that I made with my own little snausage fingers)

as the center of my fleur.

He glows in the dark too.

Cool huh?

Wanna touch me? 

Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #3 - Cranium and a Posy

The Burtonesque Dolls have challenged me

to make an item using a black flower and a skull.

I was going to pass on this challenge since fleurs are not really

my normal mode of embellishment, but I happened upon this bag of

silk flowers I had stashed from last Halloween's order from Oriental Trading Company.

I was not impressed with these flowers at first, but once I deconstructed one, and added 

a cool skully brad, Viola!

 

I am really on a roll with these Sweet Peas!

I'm working on the "Cheshire Cat Illusion" image, and can't wait to

finish it up!     

I shall call her, ...Astrid.

This weeks challenge over at The Burtonesque Dolls was to

create a something with a female who is likely to be cast in a movie

by Timmay himself. 

   

I won this batty little 'B', at Barb's Haunted Design House.

She had a "Teen Angst" challenge, and this honey was the prize.

Isn't she a funky little number? She is just one of the great

bits of rubber available over at Stampitcrazy.

 

So, I colored her in with Copics, mounted her on some oval

Spellbinders, added a couple Sizzlits scrolls and blinged 'em up a bit.

I mounted everything on that cool wallpaper I have and viola (said like the instrument, not the French term - I'm funny.) cute card! 

The Bruise Brothers

Here is my latest creation using another one of my Torrente images.

This card is for the fabulously gruesome, "Ode to the Bruise" Macabre Monday challenge at Haunted Design House,

and the first challenge from The Burtonesque Dolls, to use stripes.

  

Barb at HDH, challenged us to use 'bruise colors' like,

black, purple, yellow, and teal(?).

Done, done, and done!

I really wasn't feeling the teal until I happened upon this perfect shade of

putrification.

I shredded up the ends a bit to keep it creepy.

I used some striped vintage paper I found at a yard sale years ago. It came in a huge roll and I also got a roll of the most wickedly delicious red, flocked, whore house-type/boudoir, haunted mansion, wallpaper. Can't wait to use that!

Anyhoo, the striped paper is really old, but it is so cool and it also has a really neat texture to it.

I'm pretty sure it's not acid free, but then again neither am I.