Children Of The Night with HDH

Hi all, it's been a while since this little cubbyhole saw some activity hasn't it. Mr Mojo went on an extended holiday and left a Fibro flareup to keep me company. NOT a good companion! Anyway.....
I do have a project here to share with you today.
It's week 2 of the Haunted Design House challenge

Children Of The Night

and it's sponsored by another of the Minions - our uber talented Ike who has her shop here. Also her very own challenge blog - Ike'sworld Challenges.
The tag I made uses an image of hers that appears to have been discontinued. Sorry Ike, I should have checked.

 This is the Sphinx Moth

Coloured with distress inks, fussy cut the body out and adhered to the main image then partly coated with crackle accents.

The tag itself is a spellbinders gravestone diecut. Painted with black acrylic, then a layer of decoart "weathered wood" then grey acrylic. The RIP added using a stencil and more paint.

The candlestick is a TH die and got the same treatment. This time using copper as a top coat on the base and a red/offwhite colour combo for the candles. Then there's the spider's web - another diecut with just a touch of white glitter.

A bit of black seam binding. and done.

Now your turn to get those derrières over to play at Haunted Design House as well. 

I'd like to enter this tag into the challenge at

Left Of Centre - Use diecuts

Simon Says - Tag It

Quoth The Raven

I hardly know where to start on this post, except to say this little fat page book with ATCs as the main focus is dedicated to, what must be, one of the most well known poem of Mr E.A.Poe.

What was my project going to be for the challenge blog Quoth The Raven?
Choose 3 things from a list.....

RAVEN 

RIBBON

EDGAR ALLAN POE

LACE

SCARLET

METAL

STITCHING

FLOWERS

FEATHERS

SKULLS

CATS

THEN Rick St Dennis came out with these new digis!!  Mr Poe himself and a trio of ravens.
A light bulb came on. That was at some stupid o'clock when I was trying to sleep, always the way with me. A quick note to self, in case I forgot. Fast forward to the next day when I could get all my bits together. Stamps, colouring tools, card etc.
Are you sitting comfy? This post is picture heavy but I think you'll see why eventually.

The only items from the list that are still missing are the stitching and cats. There is room for them when made.

The cover of my little book was made up of a "tiled" image of the plain raven from Rick St Dennis. Available from his blog.

Printed onto white card but yellow, orange and red distress inks brushed on to colour.
This was folded in half and some black ribbon added as the closure.

The quote is taken from one of the other versions of the raven. Edgar is the other digi available in Rick's shop. Promarkers used to colour.

Inside we have 5 pages plus inside covers
Inside front

Candle Poe from Ike'sArt 

page 1

Raven, Poe and Skull with Roses from Rick St Dennis

Page 2

Quoth the Raven rubber from Smeared Ink

Link to digi set there but is available in rubber as part of the "Rubber Club"

Page 3

Free Your Imagination from Visible Image

Page 4

Quoth the Raven rubber from Smeared Ink

Link to digi set there but is available in rubber as part of the "Rubber Club"

Page 5

Writers Plate#20 from Cherry Pie Art Stamps

Inside back cover

A raven from Ike's Art

can't find this one in the shop but there are more to choose from.

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

Quoth The Raven - Choose from a list (as above)

Hiding in the Corners

It's Monday, it has to be Macabre - over at Haunted Design House it is ;P

 This week we are being sponsored by 

 with a $10 store credit up for grabs

I got to play with Alexandria and Alice.

The main images are coloured with promarkers and popped up on the card.

The background scene and the two little cauldrons in the bottom corners were created using stamps from DeStempelwinkel and Aly's Inky Fingers. Stamped using distress and memento inks.

Glossy accents helped "lift" the cauldrons. The BP is from Susan's Crafty Chaos, who will hopefully be back with us soon. The sentiment is computer generated by me.
The top corners are also adorned, of course.

some little bat sequins with just a touch of bling for the bodies, lol

Some charms in the top right

OK folks, your turn!! Come show us your adorned corners. For more fabulous inspiration - go visit the other minions. We have an even newer newbie than me in the dungeon, please don't forget him. Yes, we have a male minion as well now. Well worth a peek!
See you soon
I'd like to enter this card into the challenges over at
Craft a Scene - The Great Outdoors
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. challenge - Add a Charm

Annabel Lee

Annabel Lee was the last complete poem written by the Master Author, Edgar Allan Poe. It tells of a love so great, that when an untimely death befalls the beautiful Annabel Lee, the narrator's fate is that of a living death.
My project this week is a "meander book" made the same size as an ATC. Each page has one of the six verses and a picture that, I think, fits that verse. So a lot of pics. Are you sitting comfy?
The front cover
Pics taken from Moonlight Journey's Annabel Lee callage sheet. A home made lace and ribbon flower and some blood red gems and black pearls from stash.
The jade green cs to depict the sea and black satin ribbons to tie - from stash. All pages have been ink distressed with "stormy sky" DI. Each page also has black textured paper stuck to them.
Page 1 The image is from MirrorCradle.
Coloured with promarkers with chalks for the sea and sky












Page 2 Features one of the Symbology of Angels from Smeared Ink.

Again coloured with promarkers with a background of chalk.









Page 3
The background again from Moonlight Journey. The lady is from Ikesart coloured again with promarkers with a Cherry Pie stamp of Poe himself heat embossed in clear.









Page 4
This picture from Moonlight Journey, I felt, needed no extra embellishment.











Page 5
Just 2 more images that match the melancholy but also joined as the two lovers are joined.











Page 6
The ghost of the narrator as his love lies in her sepulchre.
Soot stamped image of EA Poe from the Quoth the Raven Set from Smeared Ink.









Back Page
This is the same image as on page 3. This time layered up with silicon glue to form a 3-D image and then covered with UTEE
















Did you last this long?

I am entering this into the challenge over at
Quoth the Raven - Annabel Lee
Haunted Design House - Love Lies Bleeding - Figurativly taken