If I were a Zombie…I’d Eat you the most….

Hello Lovelies, Today is a new challenge day over on BTBD and as it hints above we would like for you to take something lovey dovey and ZOMBIEFY it!!!!!  That’s right pull out those cute images that you really don’t know what to do with and turn them into Zombies!!!! Doesn’t that sound fun!  I know I had a fan-tab-u-lous time making my card!  My image and senti are both SBS! 


Now head on over to the BTBD blog and see what everyone else is doing and join us this challenge… It’s our first challenge of the month so anything goes!!

It’s here it’s here!!! Can you believe it! Today is the day for the Toxic Teen release on SBS! First though we have the last four images for preview today!!!

First up we have Mac:

sorry about the blurry pic. I ran out of time to retake it!

Now we have Tommy:

Now here is the thing about Tommy, I let the teens pick out his colors and papers because they just happened to come into the creative dungeon while I was coloring this set up and said some things like teens do, joking of course, and I popped off and said I can make any colors work together!!!! Well they tested me with this one but I think I pulled it off!!! Maybe that’s just me though!

Now Ms. Betty added some very special characters to this set by honoring Ms. Alison’s kidlings Nix and Rhi! Isn’t that cool!

Here is Nix:

Here is Rhi:

Now head on over and see what the other dolls have made for you and remember to head on over and snatch up this awesome new set!!!

Rotten Eggs for a Wicked Easter!

Early Easter greetings! The Dolls  have a fun challenge for you today, that goes right along with this holiday. "Rotten Eggs for a Wicked Easter." We want you to create a dark Easter project. Fun right? And since this is the 1st Tuesday of the month, you can make anything. It does not have to be an altered item.

But before I  show you my example, I need to tell you who the winner is from our last challenge! Alison got the winner from Random.org. Our winner is....#3....Susan S.!!! Congratulations!

Guess what!!  Those images are colored with my colored pencils!  Most of my projects for this week were.  I didn’t even use blending solution I just colored!!!  I didn’t realize how much I missed my colored pencils!  Does this mean I am giving up copics….ummmm….HELL NO!!!  BUT I will be using my pencils more often!!! 

I used Sweet Gothic Kids Easter images. Normally, these images are not available in digi form. But they are this week! So hurry on over to the SBS Shop to snag these cuties! After this week, they will no longer be available in digi form, only in rubber.

You will have 2 weeks for this challenge please make sure to use a direct link to your project not just to your blog. To link up please go to the BTBD blog!  We can't wait to see what you've made! We will be back with our next altered challenge on the 17th. Have a creep-tastic day!

Alter It

Hey Hey everyone!  We are back and know what were doing now!!! LOL  The Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls challenge blog is up and going!  We are now a bi-weekly challenge and our first one is today!  Those who enter will be put into an random drawing to be our GDT next month!  Awesome!!! 

This weeks challenge is to Alter it.  What is it?  What ever you want it to be!!!  Just alter something!!! 

My daughters best friend has a birthday coming up and I wanted to make her something.  My daughter is totally into smash books and art journaling so we thought it would be a good idea to make her friend her very own smash book/art journal.  Her friend is  very artistic on her own so we didn’t want to fill every page for her we wanted to let her do it on her own.  I made a cover and decorated the back adding a few things here and there in the book. 

here is the front of the book before I altered it!

this is the front cover after I altered it…

here are the first couple of pages done for her… just to give her something to have right away!

here’s the back cover….

Then I thought well now wait, smash books/ junk journals/art journals are full of stuff so I decided to go through my stash and gather some things for her to work with…

I added some envelopes and pockets to several different pages for her to stash stuff in…

I may add more things to it before we give it to her but for right now I am gathering stash stuff for her to use.  I am thinking she will enjoy it!

Head on over to the Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls blog and check out everything everyone else has made and see all the dirty details of the challenge!!!

Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #6

Hello Lovelies, I know it's been a while and I am sorry about that!  Today I have for you a new Beyone the Burtonesque Dolls challenge:

Challenge #6 Repo the Genetic Opera Vs The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Two truly off the wall, rock operas, both great fun, and very different.
All you have to do for this challenge is create a project inspired by one or both of these films.

There is some major inspiration on the Burtonesque Dolls Challenge Blog so you should head over there, but first you should see mine! 

Here is my card:

See, now that just makes you want to go and make something, even if you don't know anything about either of these movies, all you have to do is google them and the movies posters alone offer up so much inspiration, it's hard to know where to begin and most def. hard to stop!!!!

Ok Off you go to see what the other dolls have made for you!!!

Beyond The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge!

Hello Lovelies,   Today I have for you a creation I made for the Beyond the Burtonesque Challenge Blog!  Our challenge this week is Scary Kids.  Yep that’s right, kids can be scary and we want to see your scary kids!!!  I have this image and I can’t remember where it came from or when I got it!  I am sorry to whom ever created her cause she is great and I wish I could give you credit for her!  If anyone knows please let me know so I can credit the artist!  Anyway she is just wicked sweet and the image itself is scary in a doll head cut off kinda way, but when you use two of her that’s just down right wrong, in a wicked sweet kinda way!!!

I used the movie, The Shining, for my inspiration for this project.  Here is my inspiration photo…

They look like innocent little girls in this picture, but if you have ever seen the movie, you know they are anything but innocent!!!  If you haven’t seen the movie please do!  If you like scary movies and or Steven King you will love this movie!

Here is my project….

Isn’t that image awesome!!!  I love her, and all I know about her is that her name is Gretchen!!! 

I hope you have enjoyed my little foray into scary kids today and I hope that you come over to the Beyond the Burtonesque Doll challenge blog!  We Dolls would love to see what you have created and what you think a scary kid is!!!!


I have some news for you also! The Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls challenges are now bi-weekly!!! WOOO HOOO that gives you plenty of time to participate!!!

Day 18 of 31

Hello lovelies, today I have for you a creation I made using a Delicious Doodles image.  It is also challenge 3 for Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls.  Today’s challenge is awesome, although I have to admit it threw me for a loop when I first saw it because although I have enjoyed several pieces of his work I had no idea who was behind such wonder movies!

It's time for Challenge #3 and this week, we are looking at the work of another awesome Director and Producer;

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro has a habit of creating wonderfully dark films, which contain great storylines, and wonderful imagery. Most famous for Pan's Labyrinth, he has Directed and Produced films as diverse as Hellboy, Blade II, and Kung Fu Panda 2.

Your challenge is to create a project inspired by any of Guillermo's work, it can take the form of a card, layout, digital picture, whatever takes your fancy.

I took inspiration from Hellboy.  I love those movies.  Now as I said before I used a delicious doodles image he is Devil May care.  Here is my take on the challenge…I colored him with my prisma color pencils and the background is from a digi kit I got years ago and can’t remember who its from…sorry!

Now head on over to the Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls challenge blog to see what all the other dolls have made and don’t forget to finish the 31 days hop today!  The blog roll is over there -------->

Day 11 of 31

Hello Lovelies,  I hope this day finds you all doing spookingly well!!!  I have for you today another Beyond The Burtonesque Dolls challenge!  Today we challenge you to design your project around the works of  Terry Gilliam.    There are some awesome project over on the blog with all the challenge information so head over there for all the bits and baubles you need for this!!!
I based my card off of this movie poster!

This is one crazy movie, if you haven’t seen it I recommend it!  Here is my project:

Now for my 31 days project.  I made this wreath for a friend of mine.  I sent it out to her so that she could use it this Halloween if she wanted to!  I used the Build a Zombie set from Smeared Ink.  I am showing you what the set looks like because unless you look really closely you can’t see where I stamped on the paper!

So what I did was stamp the top half of the page(no alphabet) onto regular printer paper.  I then cut each of these in half and added two pages from old books.  There are also flowers that just have pages from old books!  I then rolled my arms off!!!LOL  This wreath took 152 flowers to fill!!!  I think it turned out wonderfully and hope my friend does too!!


This is a close up of one of the flowers with the stamped images!

So let me know what you think and remember to visit everyone else!!!

Day 4 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a project I made for one of those little branch trees, you see everywhere during this time of the year.  I used facets and alcohol ink .  Then stamped the spider image onto the flat side of the facets. I made similar charms for a charm swap for ATT yahoo group.  I am making more of these as you read this to decorate my tree!  I will have pictures posted on the last day of my decorations!!  

I also have my original card I made for the Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls blog jump off!!!  Today is the day the blog is live and we have an awesome challenge for you!  Make a project depicting your favorite Halloween movie or book and tell us why!  Give us the background story.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the movie Hocus Pocus… it’s not scary or gory but I freakin love it!


It was my jump off movie into my love of everything witchy!!!  Not to mention awesome actors in the movie!!!  Anyway, I know you have seen this card before but I wanted to explain a little more.  The witches, being sisters, are all dressed in the same color but as each sister is unique so is her outfit.  Each brings their own personality into their outfit.  The “ditzy” Sexy blonde, the normal often overlooked dark haired sister and the oldest, in charge red head!!!  If you haven’t seen this movie you should!!!  Like I said, I LOVE IT!!!

Remember to go an see what everyone else has made for you today to win that awesome prize!!!  Blog Roll on the sidebar------------------------------------------------------------------------------>

Day 1 of 31

Hello Lovelies, Welcome to another year of 31 days of Halloween!!!  There are so many more participants this year than there were last year, almost double!!!  Today I have to share with you 3 projects I have made. One for world card making day which some members of  the Bombshell DT have decided to participate in (this same card is a Sneak Peek at what we will be doing on the Beyond the Burtonesque Blog when it goes live on October 4th!!!)..The 2nd and 3rd projects are recipe cards the Bombshell Dt have made.  We were issued a DT only challenge and that was to make 8x8 recipe cards using our Bombshells!

  The theme our bombshells decided to go with for world card making day is friendship. I colored them all with warm greys, yet each witch has her own personal touch.  Cause we all know that we are unique in our own way!!! 

Here are my recipe cards, I made two of them cause I couldn't decide between the rest!  So head on over to the bombshell blog to find out what you can do to help me win a free stamp set!!!

I hope you enjoy and remember to be entered to win the prize for 31 days you need to leave a comment on each and every blog everyday!!!  You can find the blog roll in the right hand sidebar!

Also go and check out the Bombshell Blog to see what the other DT members have made for you and also the forum for challenges for world card making day!!!