Number of the beast

Currently ‘Haunted Design House’ is celebrating its milestone of reaching 666 followers and I really wanted to join the party. They chose the Iron Maiden song ‘Number of the beast’ as their theme for this fortnight’s challenge. I really had to wreck my brain, but last night I finally came up with an idea!

Here’s my interactive  house shaped ATC :

I’d like to enter this ATC into the following challenges:

• Haunted Design House: Number of the beast
• Stampotique Designers challenge #152: Sentimental
• A step in the dark: Anything goes/zombies (I obviously opted for ‘anything goes’)
• Crafty cardmakers: Wooden it be lovely (–>wooden doors & window)
•  SimonSaysStamp Monday challenge: I ought to use this more (I never get down to using zigzag scissors, but they were perfect to create those roof tiles!)

 Stamps used

• Window: StampItCrazy
• Door: Crafty Individuals
• Cobweb: stampers anonymous
• Spider: Martha Stewart
• Checkers: Stamp Francisco
• Cat: Rubbernecker
• Speech bubble: Kelly Panacci
• Monster: Stampotique

Spooky Lavinia card

Two weeks ago I attended a workshop @ In ‘t woefke. The purpose was to create fairylike cards using Lavinia stamps, but I felt like creating a spooky card too:

All stamps are by Lavinia, except for the sentiment, which is Stampendous.

I only had used this card size (100 x210 mm) a handful of times before, but I actually really like it, so I’m pretty sure I will use it more often in the future.

This is my entry for the following challenges:

• A step in the darkness: anything goes
• My time to craft: DL it
• Kreativerbastelblog: anything but square.

 

 

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

Haunted Design House offered us an interesting recipe with the following 5 ingredients: black, purple, green, metal and flourish.

Here’s what I brewed in my cauldron:

 

I mounted a green bubble background ATC on a black and purple card featuring clear embossed flourishes. My metal ingredient consists of a silver heat embossed pentagram. Sorry for the bad scan, in real life the green ‘s got a bit more punch and the pink is actually neon pink.

Stamps used

• Witch:  Gaïa
• Cauldron & mouse: Cherry Pie
• Bats: Stampers Anonymous
• Pentagram: Make your mark
• Bubble sentiment: Stampendous

Never too early for Halloween

Wicked Wednesday wants us to create an ATC featuring a die-cut. I used a graveyard die-cut and spiderweb border punch:

 

Stamps used

• Witch: Third Coast
• Sentiment: Quietfire
• Bat: Stampers Anonymous

Eye candy

Lots of creative blogs are offering us great eye candy, so I decided to dedicate an ATC to… eye candy:

Id like to enter this atc into the following challenges :

• A step in the Dark: Add purple
• Craftitude: Pop it up
• Pile it on: humor

Stamps/images used

• Tree, sun, kid: Dilly Beans
• Script: Darkroom Door
• Music sheet: All night media

Friendly monsters

Lots of people find monsters scary, but to me they are not! I find them mostly funny and adorable and they make me SMILE!

I’m so glad that So Artful Challenges focuses on ‘friendly monsters’ this month. Here’s my ATC (the colours are a bit brighter in person, especially the neon pink):

I used stamps and spray inks by Dylusions.

I hope this friendly monster made you smile!

 

Halloween in April

Ok, let’s make that May… Here’ s my atc for the current challenge at the Dilly Beans challenge blog.

Stamps/images used

• Heart monster: Dilly Beans
• Tree, sentiment: Katzelkraft
• Cross: Cherry Pie
• Spider: Martha Stewart

Mad scientist experiments

Hello there! Here are my mad scientist experiments for Haunted Design House Challenge #187 Wotking in the Lab, late one night:

Stamps used

• Jar: The Artistic Stamper
• Eyeballs: Dylusions
• All other stamps: Stampers Anonymous

Vintage Stampotique card

Once I start playing with my Stampotique stamps, there’s no holding back… No atc this time, but a vintage card in shades of brown and splashes of orange:

I’d like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Stampotique Designer’s Challenge: vintage
• Sunday Stampers: Browns.

Stamps used

• Glimmering Hope (girl) & stars: Stampotique
• Dream Big, Change the World: Art Journey
• Follow your Dreams: Crafty Individuals
• The future belongs to …: Hero arts

Jack Skellington

Some people find it hard to create masculine cards, but for me the opposite is actually true… I had lots of fun creating this masculine ATC featuring a big fan of Jack Skellington!

It’s my entry for:

• Stampotique Designer’s challenge: masculine
• Macabre Monday: SKULLDUGGERY. 

 

I used structure paste and distress inks to create the brick wall background and stamped (& altered) and coloured the images. The sentiment is computer generated.

Stamps used

• Smile: Stampotique
• Frame: Stamp Francisco
• Jack Skellington: Stamp It Crazy