Wretched Wednesday - Chic Freak

It is Wretched Wednesday!!

Are you ready to get your freak on?!

Now I can remember the very first time I set

my eyes upon a Daniel Torrente image.

I can distinctly recall thinking happily, that someone had

finally tapped into the alternative, unique, not so cute,

slightly creepy, vein of rubber stamps.

Stampotique is still one of my very favorite

stamp companies to this day, with Daniel's

images at the top of my must have list.

This week's sponsor for Macabre Monday

is none other than

Stampotique Originals.

The challenge this week is

Chic Freaks.

I started off with the awesome and versatile Bat Like Wings

stamp and my favorite little bat buddy, Batboy.

I altered him a bit by chopping off his usual party hat

and adding those killer wings.

I used some die cuts and cool word art

from Ginger's House.

Topped it all off with some rhinestones, and voila!

He's chic and a freak!!

But I'm not done yet!

This is my new favorite image called simply,

3 Smiles.

I decided to do some clean and simple cards

using Distress inks to "color" the faces.

I went over the eyes and the smiles with VersaMark

and then clear embossed to keep them white.

Then I used TH Distress Inks in various colors and some 

sponge daubers to blend the colors together.

I left them blank until I need them for a specific reason

or occassion. It's good to have blank cards on hand.

I had a blast (as usual) creating with the awesome stamps

from Stampotique.

Rise to this week's Macabre Monday challenge

at Haunted Design House

and maybe you'll be the lucky winner of a $30 gift certificate!!

  

  

HDH103 Carnival of CuRioSiTieS

I'm finally here with my submission for this week's

Macabre Monday challenge,

"Carnival of CuRioSiTieS".

It all started with a hoarded pop corn bag.

"Hello, my name is Gloria, and I am a hoarder."

I have had that pop corn bag for a few years. A local gift

shop uses these for their purchase bags and I knew it would

come in handy some day. 

These lovely bottles and jars are from an "Itkupilli"

digital collage sheet. So cool!!

I got pretty fancy here, using a repurposed net bag

as a curtain, and then covering my staples with a

edge punched scrap of the pop corn bag.

I'll just go ahead and bust myself out and tell you

I totally stapled the top of my card shut when I added my fancy

punched valance at the top. Nice.

I also added a Recollections glittery spider web and some

fancy beaded things from Wild Orchid to give the

illusion of a spray of bubbles and beverage coming

from the weird bottle of creepiness.

And then we have "Kolossal" from

Stampotique Stamps. 

She is perfect as a side show barker dontcha think?

There is still time to play along with this week's challenge

at Haunted Design House.