Showing posts with label Haunted Design House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haunted Design House. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2011

HDH095-From the Bone Pile

Scraps, you say?  Oh I got plenty of those!

 This week's challenge at Haunted Design House is From the Bone Pile.  Use all scraps to make your project.  My entire craft room is COVERED in scraps.  As I sit typing this, there is a huge stack of roll away drawers behind me, taller than I sit, filled with paper scraps, ribbon scraps, old stickers, stamped out or embellished things.  All over my desk?  Paper, half colored images, and more scraps.  For a crafter, my crafty area is a shame.  I know where it all is, though, and that's what's important, right?  Here's what I did--

That creepy ole house is the very first thing I ever pressed out when I bought my Sizzix.  My crafty pal came over to show me how to use it.  I embossed it onto to some ivory card stock, then started rubbing ink on it.  This house has been sitting around for months and months.  I look at it all the time, but never could decide how to use it.  Now the home has a home. All bg paper is leftover from cuttings and such.  That furry stuff you see is some WICKED cool fuzzy ribbon I won, playing along with HDH of course!  Barb sent me a cool pack of fun schtuffs to play with, all of it creepy and cute.  I've really been wanting to use it.  Glad I got too.   

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

HDH093-Kuriously Korroded

This weeks sponsor at Haunted Design House is Kenny K.  If you've ever taken a look through my posts, you know how much I love Kenny K!  Why didn't I use a Kenny K image this week then, you ask?  Because I think this image rocks as well, and have been dying to use it.  Here we go--

That image is called Batty Belfry, by a guy I found cruising online, Adam Withers.  Killer line sketch,so I just colored her in.  Kuriously Korroded.  Corrode your project somehow, and here's how I did it.  The background flourishes I smudged on.  I took paper left over from a die cut that had the flourish pattern in it, laid it over the card, and smudged ink in with a sponge dauber.  I ripped out the black paper, and distressed both the purple and red papers(which for some reason never shows in my photos).  A little smudge under her butt, and I'm done. I have trouble with making stuff too busy, because blank space irritates me something fierce.  That being said, it was a little hard for me to leave such space open on this one, however I like how it turned out.