It's A Monster of a Day

I have two pieces being displayed in the May Monster Blog hop.
My first wearing a Rick St Dennis hat at Airless Chambers.
My second wearing the hat that I hang at Haunted Design House using images from fellow Minion Teri at Delicious Doodles/Darkness.

 Using my new toy, I cut a grid from white card and matted onto black

The sentiment is computer generated in a word processing program

The image is Skullcycle from Rick St Dennis. Coloured with promarkers and graph'it pens.

The bg tyre track stamp is from Visible Image

Some of the cut outs from the white mat used to give a chain saw effect

Some parts were highlighted with glossy accents to add a bit more dimension.

My second offering is part of a series of ATCs. These feature the Horrorscope images from Delicious Doodles/Darkness

So many fabulous Blogs taking part in this Monster Hop. Please go visit them all and then you can vote on your favourite HERE

Day 18 of 31 Days of Hallowe'en with Delicious Doodles and RSD

For full deets on this Freaking fangtastic Blog hop organised by Smeared Ink and The Smeared and Smudged forum, please hop on over to Terra's blog. All the info on the days sponsors are there as well as any other info you think you might need.  The blog hop roll is there in my side bar.

Good morning folks

A double billing today for just two of the fabulous sponsors of this wild fiesta.

First up is my DT project for Delicious Doodles. It's Team A's turn to host the challenge this week at the Delicious Doodles Challenges.
This week the challenge is to make a Hallowe'en project that is NOT scary. No freaky Zombies or grisly remains. No frightening ghoulies or Vampires turning in their graves. Well I think I managed that. With the help of Gothicka. A brand new image that you should be seeing in the shop tomorrow.

Isn't she a stunner!!!

Here she is on the card made with her. In a SteamPunk type setting using G45 papers from the Steampunk Spells stack. Even down to her own little book of Steampunk Spells. That book was made with scraps and the front cover stuck on.

The cogs were given a coating of frantage EP in Aged Hunter and Aged Marine. Some purple and teal feathers, some chain to make sure that book isn't appropriated by the "wrong sort" and a couple of charms.
The card base and the image edges were given a dusting of copper pan pastel for that little bit of shimmer.

The second offering I have for you today is an image from Rick St Dennis.
An image that has been in the vaults for a while
We have Hedwig the Witch. Airless Chambers has many more versions of this little lady and  her sister Hannah. As well as an amazing project from Lady B!!  There is also a special purchase offer there valid for only a few days. You don't want to miss out, do you?

I'd like to enter my Delicious Doodles, Gothicka card into the challenge at

SanDee & Amelie's Steampunk Challenge for October - Tic Tac Toe (Centre horizontal line - Texture, Wings, Gears)
Your Next Stamp Oct Challenge - Sketch and photo inspiration

Day 9 of 31 Days of Hallowe'en with RSD

For full deets on this Freaking fangtastic Blog hop organised by Smeared Ink and The Smeared and Smudged forum, please hop on over to Terra's blog. All the info on the days sponsors are there as well as any other info you think you might need.  The blog hop roll is there in my side bar.

Good morning. I warn you now .... this post is extremely picture heavy!!!
It's my turn to post in the Rick St Dennis' Airless Chambers today. Over on that blog you will see some of the images that are in this little 4cm x 2cm x 2cm domino book. There are 10 in total. All have Skulls and/or Dragons in common.

Starting with the Queen of Skulls and Quick Snooze Dragon (see Airless Chambers)

Then comes Yet Another Nap

 Frost Dragon 3

Twilight of the Gods

Skull With Roses

Parfum de Mort

Treason

Mother of Dragons

All the images were first coloured using promarkers. Then came the task of scanning, changing the format to png before overlaying them onto the digi papers that are available in the Smeared Ink shop. Of course they also needed to be shrunk to the size of the domino. 

Thank you for staying with me through this lengthy post and I'll see you all tomorrow hopefully.

Rick St Dennis has now opened up a Zibbet shop. This allows a wider scope to sell his images and more catagories meaning they are easier to find. 

The new Zibbet shop links are listed here. All the pics can be made bigger by clicking on them.

Frost Dragon 3

Quick Snooze Dragon

Mother of Dragons

Yet Another Nap

Art on the Brain

Queen of Skulls

SkuLl with Roses

Parfum de Mort

Treason

 Twilight of the Gods

I'd like to enter this little domino book into the challenge at

Graph'it Marker Colouring - Hallowe'en 

DominoART Readers' Gallery - Hallowe'en

Through The Purple Haze - Anything Goes

Day 5 of 31 Days of Hallowe'en

For full deets on this Freaking fangtastic Blog hop organised by Smeared Ink and The Smeared and Smudged forum, please hop on over to Terra's blog. All the info on the days sponsors are there as well as any other info you think you might need.  The blog hop roll is there in my side bar.

So Day five has rolled round. Are you sitting comfortably? Today's post is quite lengthy.

Rick St Dennis is just one of the many sponsors of this fiesta. Today also marks the beginning of the monthly RSD challenges. This month Airless Chambers is hosting it. Next month it will probably be Sparkle and Glitter. The image needed for the challenge, Calista the Witch, was provided as a freebie in the monthly newsletter but can also be purchased from Rick's Etsy shop. Did you read the bit on Rick's blog about the discount code? If you are not a subscriber to the newsletter ... why not? Go read about it here.

The other members of the EDT have produced some amazing projects. They really do need to be looked at in close-up. Me - I've made a "little" decoration for the younger folk that might get freaked out by some of the darker projects that seem to find their way out of my craft room, or even for those adults that like things a bit more tame. More about that in a minute.....

 Coloured with a mixture of promarkers and shiny gel pens. She looks like she's been at the eye of newt punch already. Doesn't she?
Mounted onto plain green card with some peachy orange spider web border punch added.

The rest of the banner is made from "My Mind's Eye" Mischievous papers with more spider web edge punchings. All mounted onto a long length of orange satin ribbon.

(By the way - the rest of the contents on my mantle - they're a permanent fixture - none of this boxing up on 1st November. They are just some of my early projects that I like to have around.)

Would any of you out there would like to have this little banner? Well as today marks the 666th posting to this, my blog, I thought I would give away a little pressie. A personal gesture from me to say thank you for all your kind words in the past. The package will have other bits and bobs depending on the response. Now for the catch ...... Not only will you have to comment on all the RSD EDT blogs and Airless Chambers, but I'd like you to add the phrase "Croms' Candy....Woo Hoo" to those comments. It would be lovely to see your little pics in the "followers" bit as well. Easy as that. I'll do a count up next Friday, 11th October, and be in contact with the person, who will be chosen at  random, for their snail mail addy.

I also have a project featuring Delicious Doodles images - yet another of the 31 Days of Hallowe'en sponsors. For more details on the Delicious Doodles prize, The Delicious Doodles Blog is the place to see it.

 A Triptych ATC. This is when it when closed 

 Open one page and one of the new gravestones is revealed. 

Tombstone 1

The second door opened reveals the other pics. Tombstone 2 and  Tombstone 3. The little die cut leaves - they're there for the names of those of our loved ones that are no longer of this realm. 

Teri has six fabulous tombstones in the collection - go look here. 

Don't forget to get back on the hop train now

See you tomorrow

It's FREEBIE Time

Morning gorgeous people. I hope the day is treating you right so far. How about a little freebie or two to brighten your day? As custom now has it, as it's the first Saturday in the month, Rick St Dennis is giving away some more images. One on the Sparkle and Glitter blog - for those cute loving crafters and one that is slightly more unusual on the Airless Chambers blog.
There is no challenge for a couple of months. Don't we all need a bit of a break sometimes? These will resume in October but the monthly freebies will continue as usual. Our generous but (sometimes evil)  boss came up with something to test us, on the EDT, though. We had to colour the horns on Twonki and the bathing suit on Bitsy in a colour that began with the same letter as our own name. That set my head off on a tangent and came up with several colours in the end the began with "H".

Hormagaunt Purple

Hot Pink

Heather

Hunter Green

Helion Green

Hansa Yellow

Harvest Gold

So out came the promarkers. These are the images after colouring.

Now to make something with them. As my usual followers will know, cute is not something that I normally do. This time it all came together quite easily. I think they turned out ok. I'm sure you'll let me know if I "boobed"

Bitsy on the Beach

 Using freebie papers from a magazine, matted onto a sandy coloured cs. A bit of yellow lace and lilac/purple ribbon and some small shells to decorate. The stickles used were waterfall and crystal. I followed the sketch at Crafting Musketeers for my inspiration.

and

Twonky

on a lilac coloured cs tag. With die cut purple and gold squares. Some flowers from stash and a stamped sentiment, cut up added.

Well that's just my examples, You'll have to visit the Sparkle and Glitter and Airless Chambers blogs to snag your copy of these freebies and ogle at the variation with the makes by the other girls.

I'd like to enter Bitsy into the challenge at
Crafting Musketeers - Their Sketch
A Little Bit Crafty - Summer Sun
Crafts-Too Challenges - Summer Days
Digi Haven - Life's a Beach

Freebie Weekend with Rick

It has fast grown into a tradition that Rick St Dennis draws up 2 special images and gives them away for the first 14 days of their release. These will maybe find their way into the Etsy shop but sometimes it's a case of "WIGIG". This weekend, marking the first Saturday of the month, is no exception and the freebies can be obtained by visiting the two blogs. Sparkle and Glitter for the cute, cuddly type image and for those that like images that are edgier there's Airless Chambers. There is a little contest on each of the blogs as well. The respective images have to be used in the making of a project. There is, of course, a little prize for the favourite of the EDT on each blog. For more details, you'll just have to go take a peek.

The other EDT girls have been colouring in and making a few (hopefully) inspirational pieces of the two images and these can be seen in all their glory on each of their blogs but of course there is a taster on the Sparkle and Glitter and Airless Chambers blogs.

My offerings of these two little darlings.....
first up is a cute little Summer Faerie
coloured with promarkers

Fussy cut out and added to a card. The die-cut bg is copper glitter card. The DP there is a piece from the (docrafts? papermania?)woodland friends stack and another from the "London line". There is a mat of apricot card that is shown better by employing the handkerchief corner method. A large flower secured with a pearl brad, a golden die-cut butterfly complete with pearl body. The sentiment is stamped onto a scrap of green and matted onto more apricot card and some tiny pearls used to decorate. The lace and ribbon are from stash.

 Next came the little Grumpy Dragon
Again coloured with promarkers

and again fussy cut out

I attached a chain around the neck. What dragon would be happy chained?

Mounted onto a piece of embossed black/yellow core-dinations. The DP is some I picked up last year and can't remember the make:( Matted onto copper and bronze pearlised paper.

 The flames are cuts from Accent Essentials cricut cart.
The sentiment is one of those found on the Indigo Blu "Little Voice" rubber set. Stamped with black stazon onto a translucent piece of red and die-cut out. Attached with pale orange brads.

That's it from me folks.
Please feel free to go snag your freebies and tell your friends where they are. Then we'd love you to come link in to the challenge so that we can admire your makes.

I'd like to enter my "Dragon card" into the challenge at
Try It On Tuesday - Show us your metal - The chain around the neck and brads used
One Stop Crafts - Anything Goes