Stamp It Crazy prize swag

Barb, over at Stamp It Crazy really knows how to spoil a girl.

I won this swag from the 'Skull and a Sentiment' challenge,

a few weeks ago on the Stampitcrazy challenge blog.

Check out these cool charms!

And these neat-o buttons!

Plus, there was some cool ribbon, a leaf shaped mini-scrapbook,

stickers, flowers, foam stamp, pumpkin confetti, memo pad, and the two stamps Barb used to make her challenge card!

Talk about some booty!!! 

She has a new challenge every week and she always offers up some great goodies to the challenge winner. And sometimes she hooks up everybody just for playing!

Oh, and did I mention that she has a great selection of Gothic and creepy stamps.Plus she has stuff for the norms too!  

Oh no, there goes Tokyo.....

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound

He pulls the spitting high tension wires down

Godzilla!

Helpless people on subway trains

scream bug eyed as he looks in on them

Godzilla!

He picks up a bus and throws it back down

as he wades through the buildings towards the center of town

Godzilla!

Oh no, they say he's got to go

Go go Godzilla!

Oh no, there goes Tokyo

Go go Godzilla!

How cool is this card?! I am very pleased with how it came out.

Not too far off from what I had originally envisioned.

I have had the cityscape stamp for quite a while and never quite knew

how to incorporate it into one of my projects. I won the stamp (and others) from

the Hambo Hogs and Sketches challenge.

Once I saw the 'monster' image from Hambo I just knew I wanted to create a

scene using the cityscape and then the sentiment was just a fluke all together.

I think it's the perfect sentiment for this card.

 

I added my own smoke and then backed the whole thing up with this cool

flame paper.

I really like how vivid the colors came out.

In retrospect, I should have used some Asian inspired papers to give it

a touch of Tokyo, but no matter.

 

Looooooooooooong card!

I needed a wide angle lense to catch the whole thing!

                                                           

Mutha's Day

Mother's day last year, sucked out loud.

I have never had a close relationship with my Mother.

I guess you could say we have been estranged as of 2008.

I had a bit of a falling out with my Father back then, and since then my mother and I have not kept in touch.

So, out of hurt and anger, I didn't send her a card last year for Mother's day.

Big mistake!

I was a mess the entire day. I was wracked with guilt for not sending a stupid card.

Then, in the winter of 2009, my Mother phoned me (after not speaking for almost 2 years) to let me know she was diagnosed with breast cancer and I should go get checked.

How you doin?!

So, this year I made not one, but seven Mother's day cards.

I am always taking pictures of fleurs and bugs and stuff in my yard, so I decided to

make my little masterpieces the focal point of my Mother's Day cards this year.

I had seven cards to make so this was a stress free way to get that task accomplished without the usual resentments.

I found it best just to let the fleur be the star and use subtle papers and embellishments, so as not to make the card too busy.

 

This Mother's Day is all about me and my son.

Looking forward to hanging out with him and having a great day.

Love your Mother if she'll let you, and if not, love yourself. 

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. 

Macabre Monday #36 - Music Mayhem

I had so much fun with the latest challenge from HDH's Macabre Monday.

My first thought was to make a "Living Dead Girl" card, but someone beat me to it.

So, I decided to dig around in my "vault of the obscure", also known as my brain,

and I came up with this little gem from Alice Cooper.

I give you, "COLD ETHYL"....

Alice Cooper has been my all-time favorite artist since I was a wee lass back in the 80's (late 70's), and I thought his songs may be original enough to make a cool card.

I had a ton of weird and dark songs to choose from (Billion Dollar Babies, I love the Dead, Welcome to my Nightmare, to name a few), but I settled on "Cold Ethyl".

I like the look of 'Karin' with her ice blue skin tone.  

I drew an ice cube for her to stand on, giving her a real ice queen look.

I'll spare you the rest of the lyrics, but I will say that I neither condemn, nor condone necrophilia.

Raevyn

This is a Gerbera Daisy.

I am pretending to take a picture of it

to trick my cat into sitting still for her photo to be taken.

This is Raevyn.

She is the sweetest kitty-girl ever!

But, if she even thinks you are trying to take her 

picture, she's gone!

Maybe she thinks the camera wil steal her soul or something.

 

Uh oh,

she's on to me.

Waiting for the Sun

Spring has been something of a tease so far this season.

The sun will be out and the day will heat up, only to be followed by days of rain and gloom.

So, making the best out of the rain,

I decided to be a nature photog in my own backyard.

This little snail was determined to get inside of that iris.

 

Another gorgeous iris.

Mother Nature is amazing!