Happy Halloween Eve!!

I have returned again to share my final guest DT projects with
Oddball Art Stamps for this glorious month of October.

I just had to use this adorable image #129 as my focal point.

After coloring her and her spider friend with Copics, she went perfectly 

with the digital paper from The Creepy Chronicles #20.

I couldn't resist layering some drippy die cuts to add to the gooey-ness 

of it all. I also added some more glitter die cuts for added bling. Perfection! 

I have a hairdresser friend who is going to love this card! 

I also had to make some cute ATCs with the yummy goodies of image #468.

Still on my die cutting kick, I thought the zombie hands would

be pretty cute. And I was right.

I popped the images and die cuts onto some Distress Oxide backgrounds.

They're so fun to create, and it's so fulfilling to use up some scraps.

 Lastly, is my favorite little lady...

She is my chosen favorite from the fabulous group of ladies in image #469.

Something about that far away look in her eyes...

Using another new die from Sizzix, I added this beauty onto a simple

die cut background with a Distress Oxide moon.

It has been so fun to be part of the Oddball Art Stamp team this month!

Thank you so much for having me, ladies. I've had a blast creating with 

you this month.

Happy Halloween!!

Trick 'R Treat Frankenstein Day 25

The days are really buzzing by lately.

Time flies when have none.

I wanted to share this incredible replica of Sam's sucker

from 'Trick 'R Treat'. I purchased it through a shop called,

Candy Corn Apocalypse 

run by a funny and talented fella named, Anthony Rapino. 

Anthony sculpted the original design and then cast it in 

this great translucent resin. I bought the aged bloody variant.

'Cause I'm a sick puppy like that. Did ya see what I did there? 

Check out Anthony's shop and see all the cool Trick 'R Treat and

Leslie Vernon magnets he has also sculpted. I bought a set of 

unpainted magnets of Sam with, and without his mask, and a 

masked Leslie Vernon, as well. I still need to paint those...

I made another page for that pesky paper bag album.

I made a Frankenstein themed page, complete with pocket and insert.

I used a cute Frankenstein image from Mashi Muffins (Wendy Chew).

 I really like her style of art. I also really like candy corn colored hair. 

It makes my purchase feel validated when a craft item 

has multiple functions. I just picked up this icicle border die 

from Cottage Cuts and I used lime green cardstock to resemble 

green ooze. Add some Stickles and you have fancy green ooze.  

I needed something to break up all that candy corn. 

Here is my insert. I used some cool old film poster images,

but most disturbing is the strange photo of Frank as a

small child. At least he finally grew into that wrecking ball

of a head of his.

I'm still hanging in there and am hoping to maybe get a jump

on next week's projects this weekend.

Wanna see some cool Halloween posts? Check out these month

long blog hops going on right now!

31 Days of Halloween 

Countdown to Halloween  

Quick parvo puppy update:
Foxxi was greatly improved yesterday. She was a hungry, happy tail girl.

She received a well needed bath and spent some time drying in the sun.

Yesterday was not a good Gabbi day. Hopefully, she's in the last stages of this

horrible disease. Still no appetite, but is drinking water on her own. Kind of.

She's only three/four days into this, so we're hoping for a better day today. 

Thank you again, for all of your well wishes and good vibes.

I think it's working. :)

Monsters in Love

Through a dear friend, I met a really cool guy, named Chuck.

Chuck makes masks, and busts, and other neat horror-themed schtuff for his

own cool company.

Chuck just got married to a super cool ghoul, named Amanda. 

They were married on Friday, December 13, 2013, which is quite cool , 

but they made it even more badass by getting  hitched on the property of

the Phantasm House! Not only the house where Phantasm was filmed, but

Burnt Offerings was also filmed there! Way cool, right?

So, what kind of card do you make some wickedly cool kids like that?

How about this one?

I chose a good still from The Bride of Frankenstein, and added a

neat sentiment that I found on the interwebs. I overlayed, and adjusted

 the verbiage using Gimp.  

This is my favorite part. 

I used some TH grunge board for the #13,

and added rock candy crackle paint to it. Once it was dry, I used my

finger to apply silver and green metallic rubs to bring out the

marvelous texture. I added some rub to the plastic spider, too.

I dripped some red reinker onto a white paper rose to give a bloody

feeling to the whole piece.

I also made them a couple of Skullflake ornaments for their tree this year.

Check out those sparkly sockets!

I'm sending it all out (finally) this week. Hope they like it.  

The Original Corpse Bride

Here is my card for the latest challenge over at the Burtonesque Dolls.

The challenge was "Corpse Bride", and my immediate reaction was to pull this stamp out.

I bought this image a while back from Stamp it Crazy, and intended to use it for a friend's bridal shower. However, I opted against it because sometimes my sense of humor is not funny to the masses, or the insecure, or the easily offended.

Unfortunately, my friend's fiance (now husband), fits a few of those examples, so 

I decided to make a 'nice' wedding card instead.

Boring.

     

But, the idea and the theme is perfect for the challenge!

I have had this Frankenstein stamp for ages and never seem to use it enough.

Plus, I decided to use as much of the creepy ribbon as I can before every card on these challenges has it on them!

I previously divulged my source for the ribbon, and when I went to order some last week, the company was completely OUT!

Me thinks there is a conspiracy afoot!