She's on the prowl....

This weeks challenge at Haunted Design House was to create a walking dead diva .... a zombie girl... a girlie girl without the table manners. My first thought was '' where the bleep am I gonna get a zombie girl from''. I don't have any zombie stamps and I didn't want to download a dead flesh munching girl from the internet. So I went through my stamps and there I found my forgotten Vampira rubber stamp from Side Show Stamps. Her eyes are hollow so I thought she could double as a zombie. I gave her a dress of some pink paisley scrap of paper I had as a leftover (don't you just love all those tiny teeny bits-they always come in so handy).


The moon is a rubber stamp from Cherry Pie Art Stamps. I inked it with purple ink and stamped it on silver cardstock. Then added embossing powder and gave it a treatment with the heatgun.
The tree and tombstones I cut out of a scrapppaper I had in a kit bought some years ago. I really have this thing for tombstones. Can't put my finger on it but I am smitten with them. In all varieties. Last year I went back to Edinburgh (where a long time ago I have lived for 2 years) and they have these marvelous graveyards scattered through town. Many many of them. Often overlooked by the people living around them. I think that is so cool. I visited quite a few of them and took like a gazillion photo's. Anyway... rambling on... the houses are from my never ending stash of architecture I have in my computer.

Her hair is electric blue from a gelpen. With a silver gelpen I gave her highlights. Added a silver belt and at the bottom of her dress I added red sparkles from yet another gelpen. And finally with a black fine liner I added tiny branches to the tree.

She is ready to hunt for food now.... so if you don't want to be dinner you'd better hide.

Grim Gift Box .... At Death's Door

Aaaaaghh..... I am so late with this but I think I'm still on time with my box. The challenge this week ( actually last week as it is almost over, I really am cutting it close) at Haunted Design House was to make a Grim Gift Box. And it must have a flower also. Al week I had the greatest ideas but just lacked the time to make it. So yesterday, on saturday afternoon and this morning to early this afternoon I did my box. Well it at least gave me time to finish what was in the box I wanted to use. So here it is.

At Death's Door...

I thought this would make a nice gift for someone who has the flu or maybe just the sniffles.

And the skully on top becomes a stirring stick. With a little flower.

You’re sick and feel like knocking at death’s door
I’ve brewed you some soup to heal your core

If that doesn’t work I’ll bring you a medicine man
If he cannot help you, nobody can

When that is no aid
Not much else will help I’m afraid

But I know of some nice stones
To lay to rest your tired bones

Then you can dance for eternity long

To the tunes of your favorite song

The blue paper I used was a sheet of very course mulberry paper. I so love the texture on it.

I measured the sides and cut the paper into pieces. The edges where the box was shining through I inked and then poured embossing powder over it and put a heat gun to it. The embossing powder is a mixture of silver and a lot of black to give it a aged look. The image of the door I have had for ages and can't remember where I got it from. The witch stirring the soup I found on internet. The witch doctor is a rubber stamp from Side Show Stamps. I colored it with watercolor pencils.

The headstone with the grim reaper was another find on internet, I gave it a wash in watercolor pencils. The second headstone I found some time ago on the internet and with Paint Shop added a epitaph. The dancing skeleton is a rubber stamp from Cherry Pie Art Stamps. I printed the words on off white paper and aged it with distress ink and then rolled the top and bottom to gave it a scroll effect. The skeleton on the stirrer is from Pepin Press.

Now all I have to do is wait for a friend to sneeze or cough.

Freaker's- Free-For-All

Tears cannot restore her ...
This weeks Macabre Monday's challenge is Freaker's Free-for-All. Meaning it is left to our desire to create whatever we want. Yay!

I have had this image of this wonderful house in my evergrowing collection of victorian architecture for ages, just waiting for this exact opportunity. I added a fence from a rub-on sheet (can't remember who from). The bats flying around is a PSX stamp. I found this very nice looking tombstone surfing the internet and with the help of Paint Shop added a funny grave epitaph.

Put it all on to black cardstock and voila. I would love to live here.