zombie

This mini arch is my entry into the smudgy antics challenge (the ladies ask us to use stamps from smeared ink only) and for the Haunted Design House challenge #178, where the tortured minions want to see zombies and creeps.
It feels a bit strange to me to cover both challanges with just one piece because I always see those two as kind of sister challenges, particularly since i always mix up the DT members and participants - I'm deeply sorry, ladies - and gent (!) :-D ... anyway. This is what I made:

Thanks so much for visiting .. :-)

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

another broken heart

This kept me busy for quite a while since I only was able to do something for a short time per day ... but now it's done (?) ...

 Now I think the background is by far not dark enough ...

I've been so looking forward to it - and in the end it turned out quite different anyway.
The heart is a cheap frame I purchased some time ago and thought it would be perfect. I planned to crackle it, but for some reasons it didn't work. So I just applied almost everything onto it that lay around and now it ended up a bit rusted. But that's okay ... If something gathers enough rust it eventually breaks, doesn't it? Then there was only a piece of acetate in the frame, no glass ...

quite not bad, but not good enough either ... I'll use this for another project.

So what do I use to shatter? Finally I dug out some microscope sliders - HA! Some AAI onto it, some stamps and - crush!

This is another entry for the challenge over at Smudgy Antics - broken hearts.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

broken heart

Hi all,

just a quick post to share an ATC for the Smudgy Antics challenge, where the gorgeously talented DT ladies want to see broken-heart-related stuff.

thought this one would fit.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful week everyone, without broken hearts ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

quick ATC

that I'm entering into the smudgy antics challenge :-)

Thanks for having a peek.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

some TAGs

some more gelli plate backgrounds on black TAGs with iridescent paints and various stencils, collage pieces, and ...
a little fussy cutting for the gorgeous  smudgy antics challenge :-)

I had a few TAGs in progress - with only backgrounds so far - and because it has been another rather hot day I thought I could finish them - again without thinking *hehe* - with the bits and pieces that were still on my table.
I'm trying to use up some of my less succesful prints and think this is a good way to do so. Since I know a lot of people who love to read (and don't mind my sometimes strange way to combine things ;o)) those are perfect little gifts here and there.

Linking this up too to Carolyn Dube's Colorful Gelli Print Party - August.



Thank you so much for visting :-)

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

drip drop dripping

It's not that I don't do anything ... but due to some very unpleasant experiences I/we had recently (the flooding being only one of them) most things are only half finished or in progress at some other stage.

This is my very small project for the smudgy antics challenge 'dripping'.
It didn't turn out as elaborate as I wished and would have done with more time, but anyway.

Oh, no, wait, that's just a little Zombie gunk that dripped on my jeans ...

For a long time I had no clue what to do. As it happened there was an article about zombie movies in our TV magazine and suddenly I knew what my entry would be.
I made a little slide mailer ...

This is the front cover with some texture that doesn't look quite finished in my eyes yet. I'm thinking about what to add ...

Edit:
now I think it's finished:

The pics were almost the right size for microscope slides, I only glued them on black cardstock.
Inside:

The Zombie image is by acapella Stempel. I 'colored' it with DI reinker shabby shutters and fired brick. The gore and blood are made with glossy accents and shabby shutters resp. fired brick and festive berries.

When my little daughter (5) looked it over this morning and admired it, she rummaged around the table and suddenly exlaimed triumphantly: 'I found the murder weapon! It's the toothpick!' (... I applied the faux blood with).

A genuine offspring of her weird mother LOL

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

my first slide mailer ...

just as a little exercise to try the techniques I learned of at Andy Skinner's online workshop 'Book of Ruination'. I've been a bit too generous with the paints, just need some practice :-) Thankfully it's Easter holidays next week ...

front:

inside:

The angel (front cover) and the skeletons (one stamp actually) are by De Stempelwinkel (the tiny thingy at the left skeleton's shin is just a lint, only saw it after I took the pics :-)), the other angel is by stampinback.

On the left side I sealed the cardboard with matte medium, stamped the image and covered it with a rather thin layer of crackle accents. Afterwards I rubbed some brown acrylic paint into the cracks.
Then I painted the right side over with gesso and sprayed it with several shimmering sprays. The lace is by artistic outpost.
The whole thing came apart in the middle so I adhered a piece of washi tape, covered with brown acrylic paint and clear crackle paint.

I'm entering this into the challenge over at Smudgy Antics where they want to see anything but a card.

It will also be my entry into the first left of center challenge as a part of anything goes with goth/creepy/dark - for further details please have a look at their rules.

(sorry, deutsch kommt noch ;o))

Thanks so very much for having a look.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Monster Mash

This is my entry for the 'smudgy antics' challenge: Monster Mash.

Didn't know about this song before but I hope I met the challenge :-) They definitely seem to have fun, don't they?

The background is made with several dylusion sprays/color wash and a mask.

With a few little additions :-)

Stamps: various ...

Thanks for looking.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Dia De Los Muertos

This was supposed to be for the 'Smudgy Antics' Challenge 'Dia De Los Muertos' (I'm just a bit irritated now because it's spelled differently on the stamp ...).
It didn't turn out as intended at all. Have to say, during the make my husband called to tell me that our little daughter (4 yrs) ran off while running some errands in the city ... from that moment on everything went downwards and I've been extremely unconcentrated. But anyway, no excuse :-D *
She came back soon and unharmed - sometimes it has its 'downside' if the kids are too independent at that age.

Now I did the card, so I'll enter it anyway ... even if the other entries are so much more elaborate and beautiful. That's life (with children) ...

Stamps are by: Bombshell Stamps, Lost Coast Design, Artistic Outpost.

Thanks for having a look anyway :-D


* Since family only came back in the earlier evening I only learned then what happened. She has been picked up by a nice lady who called the police - the security chief of the shopping mall she got lost in called them, too, and so they knew where to get her. It didn't take too long. What a relief!!!