Monday 6 December 2010

Pieces of eight!


It's Monday, and that means it's time for another wonderful new Macabre Monday challenge over at the Haunted Design House blog!
Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:

Octopodally Ominous
You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween project / card using EXACTLY 8 items. Every little thing counts... card base, image panel, every gem, ribbon, sentiment, etc!! This may be harder than you think ;) No cheating on this one!

And we're sponsored this week by the fantabulous Octopode Factory, I just love these images! I used Cleo the Clown from the Whimsical Circus set, and added a quote by Pennywise the Clown from Stephen King's It. I made this one a 4x4, thinking that the smaller size might make it easier to use only 8 items, but, lol, it was still hard. My items are the black card base, the red paper, the text layer, the image, the frame, two spiders and a band of stabby black icicles.
I followed the sketch over at Simon Says Stamp, the theme at Three Muses is "world of movies" and that's it for challenges for this one! Shocking for me, I know, I was originally intending to make this red and white, which would have covered a couple of other challenges, and fitted with the look of the film, but as I worked the white all turned to black. Thanks for looking, and start counting those supplies, because there must be exactly eight on your project this week :)

9 comments:

DonnaMundinger said...

FABULOUS! I KNEW I recognized that quote! Been awhile since I've read that one. Gotta dig it out. Red and black was definitely the way to go here! xxD

Croms' Cubby Hole said...

Absolutely stunning. Much better in black than white me thinks. Love it
take care xx

sam21ski said...

Love the deep red along with the black, looks gorgeous xxxx

Barb said...

Love it, Susan! You never disappoint on the ol' creep factor :) LOVE the black icicles, by the way... lovely little winter touch :)

Taluula said...

Thanks for sharing this fabulous scary piece at the Three Muses.

email: Steph@SimonSaysStamp.com said...

Spooky but I like it! That image is great!

Thanks so much for sharing your work with us at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge!!!

-Sarah

Unknown said...

So cool card! :)

Lorraine A said...

Fabulous card :-) the image is fab and the papers and colours are fab :-) I love this ,,, spooky :-)

thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge :-)
luv
Lols x x x

Mandy said...

Fabulous card, really striking and that is such a cute image.
Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp for our sketch challenge
hugs Mandy xx