In Your Face - Halloween with HDH

Morning everyone.
Week two of the Haunted Design House challenge, sponsored by The Octopode Factory, has begun. Lily has graciously donated the Gloomsville images to allow the Minions to create with. Awesome or what!
"Surprise me!" I said when they were being distributed and was excited to receive the set of three Ghosts and Vampira, the voluptuous vampyre.
The challenge itself is

Halloween in your face!

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en based art 
piece to start celebrating for the upcoming holiday by making it 

all about Halloween, colours and images, etc. 

I made a couple of decorations.
The first is take two. My original plan of stuffed fabric ghosts did not go to plan. When I painted them with glow-in-the-dark mod podge they went very grey looking and not pleasing to my eye. In the end I made them from just plain white card and painted this with the glow-in-the-dark. Unfortunately, the pics I tried to take did not come out well at all. You'll have to take my word for it that they look kinda spooky. Floating green tinged ghosts in my hallway. During the day they reflect any sunlight around due to the beads attached to give them some weight.

There are nine "ghosts" in three sizes. Wire sandwiched between the two layers so that they could be suspended and for the bead weights to be attached. The spider web suspension frame is part of a Hallowe'en decoration from last year. It's a wooden die cut that was painted with florescent orange paint.

My second piece is an altered CD

 More colour in this as you can see. The word "FACE" kept haunting me. What else has a face? A clock. I nearly made this into a clock actually but changed my mind at the last minute.
The CD was covered with card that I had stamped a "Melting Clock" stamp (Cherry Pie) onto and dry embossed with a "clocks and watches" folder. I could only fit eight images on and this influenced my change of plans although there are twelve holes punched.

Brushed with Spiced Marmalade and Rusty Hinge DI and then painted with rock candy for a cracked finish.

Green organza ribbon wound round doubles up as the hanger. Some purple satin ribbon stapled on and some tiny watches stamped onto lilac card, cut out and glued in pace. Our Vamp was coloured with promarkers, cut out and glued into place with pinflair silicon glue.

You have another 6 days to get those Hallowe'en projects linked into the challenge at Haunted Design House so that we can come and be inspired.

See you soon

Skeletal Remains

A new challenge has started over at Haunted Design House. Two weeks to show us what you can make of/interpret the challenge theme of

"SKELETAL REMAINS"

Any thing to do with that structure within all but the simplest of animals. Skulls, skeletons or bones in general will suffice.
Haunted Design House are being sponsored this challenge by

The Octopode Factory
There's a $15 gift certificate up for grabs for the winner.
The Minions got to play with some of the images that are available in the shop
I got to play with Skull with Roses and Skull Head Sticks.
An ATC.

The background was made with lots of the Skull Head Sticks images. Coloured with promarkers then heat embossed with clear powder. Next came a black mica spray with a touch of lilac. The banner is part of the Skull With Roses digi. The motto is handwritten. The skull image was used 5 times to make the 3-D skull. Cut out and glued together before dipping in UTEE.
Final touch, the last of my chicken bones with some tiny black and red rosebuds.

Get those skeletons out of the closet and get creating peeps.
Looking forward to seeing those projects.

Also please, pretty please, we will all need your support in the next DT Throwdown. Get signed up at the Smeared and Smudged Forum. You never know, you might even like it there! If you are a member of a design team and want to join in - even better.
Check out this link to where all the info is.