Macabre Monday # 189 Ripped to Ribbons

Yep it;s that time again, a new challenge at Haunted Design House, theme this fortnight is Ripped to Ribbons........now that's easy......Just use some scary stuff and add ribbons, anyone can do that, see my project, super easy LOL

I made a Triptych (thanks Donna for giving me the English word).

It's made out of the cardboard back of a drawing pad (I always recycle those), ths side panels are made using the Tim Holz Sizzix die Vintage Cabinet ( I never thought I would use it that much, but can;t live without it anymore I guess). The Panel in the middle is just hand cut, I used a tag shape.

This was supposed to be just a tag, the side panels sorta happened ( yup. I know I should think before I start, but usually my projects turn out to be a lot different than what I thought they would be)

 So this is what I started with, just plain cardboard, covered with white cardstock. Stamps used are a dancing skellie and tombstones form de Stempelwinkel, and a shrine stamp from Lost Coast Designs. The skellie was stamped first, masked and than the Shrine was stamped. Masked the Shrine and the skellie and stamped the tombstones. I alsway love to create these kind of scenes using lots of stamps.

after the stamping was done, they were coloured using pencils.

I just thought to add a ribbon in a hole at the top and be finished, but it just didn't look very good, so I made the side panels

the Stamps used are all Lost Cost Designs, there is a Sugar Skull, the crackle back ground stamp and the domino and skull border stamps (first stamp the skull, mask it and tamp the rest also using masks)

Coloured the skulls using pencil and the background is Distress Ink (Mustard seed, Tattered glass, and walnut stain)

 I made holes on the sides of the panels using a crop a dile, this way  the panels could have hinges made out of ribbon (I had to put ribbon somewhere) .
And as a finishing touch I used DecoArt  Texture Fierro in Iron Black  to give the edges a bit of a distressed/vintage look and added some DecoArt Metallic Lustre Iced Espresso, to give it some extra shine (it doesn't show very well in the pic, but looks great IRL)

Can't wait to see what you all will be making for this challenge, will see you there

a lot to show you

First the new image from Rick St. Dennis. She is called Strega and I love this one so very much.

I had a great time colouring this one, but have to warn you a lot of people think she is very scary, that's what they've been telling me when I show her to them. So have a look but don't say I didn't warn you LOL.

The back ground is a rubberstamp (bubbles), which i embossed using holographic embossing powder, it is very glittery and sparkly in real life, 

the next thing is a tag, I made this one for http://www.thirdcoastchallenges.com/2013/04/tccc15-spring-steampunk-challenge.html

 

and I will also enter this in: http://visibleimage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/get-stamping-with-visible-image-april.html

Stamps used are mostly Lost Coast Designs and Kico Stamps

and next are some pages I made for a mixed media circle journal group I am in

this cj's theme was use purple

this one was use only Tim Holtz stuff

and butterflies

and whishes to the world

I will enter the STREGA card in haunted design house challenge skeletal remains, (her earrings)

and Gloomy art girls just wanna have fun

http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.nl/2013/04/challenge-58-gothic-cuties.html

http://drunkenstampers.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/drunken-stampers-challenge-124-twilight/ (this must be a creature of the night for sure)

http://myheartpiecesdigitalstampchallenge.blogspot.in/ the back ground is embossed

 

http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/lej-designs-challenge-no-50-mystical.html  i think Strega is all 3  mystical magical and mysterious  LOL

http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-42-clean-and-simple.html

 

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/challenge-color.html I used my Caran D'ache luminance 6901 pencils to colour Strega, I think you can see why I love them so much LOL

 

http://creativecraftworld.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/aprilmay-mini-challenge.html  I used blue

 

http://www.thestampspot.blogspot.nl/ april challenge masculine cards, i think it's

 a good card to send to a man

 

http://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2013/04/f-for-fantasy.html  ok it's a scary fantasy, but still......it's fantasy

 

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/04/loc-challenge-4-bling-it-up-or-loc-theme.html

Smeared and Smudged bloghop

It's time for Smeared and Smudged monthly bloghop theme is DIRTY VINTAGE...Use vintage style images...and make it dirty by grunging it up, distressing it, or making it just plain DIRTY!

If my project is dirty enough I don't know, but I did a lot of gunging and distressing so at least I got that part covered LOL

here is my offering for the hop:

 

The digi images used: Nosferatu by Rick St. Dennis MFA (Nosferatu is available on Ricks's blog) and Open Bust by Smeared Ink. The spiderweb in the background is a rubber stamp by Lost Coast Designs and the blood splatter is a Stampinback rubber stamp. The senti is a Dracula quote.

I used dylussions for the blood and the green on the cardboard, I also used black paint and the images are coloured using distress ink. The spiderwebs are heat embossed using silver embossing powder and I added some skeletal remains  to enter HDH challenge 165.
To make it more vintage there is some black lace and a jute bow and some twine.

Hope you like the result and please go and visit the rest of the hoppers  and leave them some nice comments, see blogroll below

blogroll

Shell

Black Dragon

Kapree

Madeleine Bouquet

Susan

Hazel

Shoni

Kay

Monique

Wendy

Anna

Fiona

 

I will enter the following challenges

 

http://www.sarahhurleychallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/04/challenge-79-projects-with-character.html ( I went for the super natural, duh! LOL)

http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/use-sentiment.html

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/04/challenge-59-food-glorious-food.html (there's blood on this one and that is vampire food, LOL )

http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/lej-designs-challenge-no-49-emboss-it.html the spiderwebs in the bg are heat embossed

http://drunkenstampers.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/drunken-stampers-challenge-124-twilight/ (well not twilight, but also a vampire so I think it counts)

Smeared and Smudged Design Team Throwdown challenge 3

Challenge # 3 at Smeared and Smudged forum, rules are here

The theme was chosen by the winners of last challenge, Smeared Ink team, (big congrats to you, you did a great job).

We were to make a mini book:  Your project must be some sort of mini book. Whether it is a small accordion book , an ATC book, a domino book, a match book, a twinchie or inchie book, a tab book, etc... is up to you, but you must include at least 5 pages and your book must be smaller than 4". Use any techniques you'd like within your book.

Our team post is on Airless Chambers the other, darker,  Rick St. Dennis blog,

The team is again Miranda, Rick and me

I was planning on making an ATC book, but as always my project never comes out as it was planned. LOL,  I changed plan a million times along the way but this was what I ended up with (first plan was to go for an old vintage grunchy look, but that failed big time lol).

The book is 4 x 4 inches and inside are ATC's using Rick St. Dennis digi's Alien and Creature images (they are no longer available in Rick's etsy, sorry), I also used Smeared Ink's Grumpies and the sentiments that come with the Grumpies.

I made the book from scratch, used some designer papers that I didn't like and cut that to 8 x 4 inches, folded them in half and glued the patterned side of the paper to each other, that way i got a  4 x 4 inch blanc paged book .

The pages have backgrounds made of  Dylussions and Distress Stains (first time I played with both, and have to get used to the dylussions sprays a bit) and also used paint.

The background of the ATC's are mostly Lost Coast Designs stamps, and I framed the ATC's with some glitter glue.

The covers of the book are made of a cardboard box, I removed some of the top layer and painted them.

Here are all the pics (you might want to put on your sunglasses, cause here's a colour explosion coming)

first the ATC's

the front cover

the inside of the book

the back cover

Hope you like the book, also check out my teamies projects and don't forget to vote