Another gorgeous undead girl

I had big plans for the Macabre Monday challenge at HDH this week.

I painted a pretty cool painting (for a newbie), but she was not my first

idea for the Drop Dead Gorgeous theme.

I am on the Rick St. Dennis EDT, and he is very well versed in the 

drawing of gorgeous ladies. His etsy shop is filled with beautiful 

women of all ages, sizes, and time periods. He really knows how 

to draw scary chicks too, but I had the idea to take one of his 

pretty gals and make them dark with my coloring. 

I have done this in the past with other, "non intentionally dark" 

images, and they turned out pretty good. Well, not this time. 

In fact, it turned out so freaking bad that I actually 

threw the image away.

I NEVER throw out images that I mess up on. 

I always try to salvage them, or at least let them serve as 

a cautionary tale for others. 

So,

I had to redeem myself with the intention of using a RSD image in the 

way that it was originally intended.

I used the image of Meena  from RSD's etsy shop 

(I'm not sure that she is still available, though).

I followed the "choose a sketch" challenge over at 

Simon Says Stamp challenge blog, and this is what I came up with.

I used a sentiment from Stamp Insanity's True Blood set. 

Those are some great sentiments (thank you, Catherine), and I get 

quite a bit of use out of them. Unfortunately, it appears that 

Stamp Insanity is no longer in business. 

Stop by HDH to check out the latest Macabre Monday challenge.

Then, check out Rick's Etsy shop full of killer art digis.

If you are still in search of inspiration, stop by the

Simon Says Stamp challenge blog.   

Nosferatu Ad Nauseam

Nosferatu is my favorite vampire movie of all time.

There has never been a creepier vampire than Count Orlok.

That was one creepy dude!  

 

The challenge at HDH this week is basically, Vampires.

 

Here is my homage to the Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski film,

Nosferatu the Vampyre , 1979.

I believe I bought this stamp years ago through Gorey Details.

(I had some bad customer service there, so I don't promote them usually.) 

I got this cool grapevine wreath die from Memory Box, and used it to

add some wicked looking bling to the existing chipboard frame.

It's surprising sometimes what a little Stickles can do to make a project pop.

I used a killer hearse woodcut from Porkchop Show on Etsy,

added more Stickles, and threw on a Cuttlebug headstone die cut.  

For my second card, I used the image, Count Drako

from Rick St. Dennis. Rick is this week's sponsor at HDH.

 

What is a scary creation without some Martha Stewrat (hee hee) Drippy Goo punch?

And LOTS of red glitter!!! I also added a MS bat punch and a small headstone die cut.  

I added a TON of red fine glitter all over the outer edge of this

arched design. But then the wicked witchy writing in the sky needed some too.

 

Thanks for dropping by today.

Happy Haunting!!



Wroughten Wednesday - StRaNgE bReW

I'm running a bit late, but I have somethin' cool to share.

This week the Macabre Monday challenge is a recipe.

I'll just put it out there, that I suck with recipes.

Whether it's a baking recipe (totally suck!!!) or an epoxy recipe

(you don't even wanna know!), I usually have a hard time 

conforming to the perameters of a set and specific recipe.
I have a hard time to conforming in general, just to be clear. 

I think I did okay this time.

First I started with the 2 layers - black card and DCWV dp.

This paper is perfect for this cameo portrait image.

I have had a matstack of this awesome paper for far too long!

Then I added 1 main image - "Just Bitten" from our sponsor

Strange Skin.

She is so flippin' cool! I used Copic BVs on her skin and  RV90's for her hair.

The image is layered onto a die cut (punched) element which is a

floral oval Spellbinders Nestie. I am really pleased with how she turned out.

Lastly we have some puffy satin bat trim, coupled with

the odd, yet bat-like metal brad with rhinestones, and

the final adornment of four black pearls.

Ta-dah!

There is still plenty of time to get your recipe together for this

week's Macabre Monday challenge. If I can do it, you certainly can!

Strange Skin

has offered up 2 digis of choice to each Gruesome this week!