It's a cut-throat world...

This weeks challenge at LOC is a wickedly dark recipe by Ike of Ike's Art

I wasn't feeling very xmassy, but I am feeling rather dark and moody.

I had a piece of red card stock I had tried out some stamping on so I used that for my "gurney"

 and I had my third and final prize from Aliciabel digis "Sweeney Todd"

*perfect for my mood*

 Again I coloured with markers and built up a background for him...

 I couldn't find my stapler*again* so I made a "diagonal embellishment" using the "thin red ribbon" over white card to make a barber's pole.

 Stickles(glitter glue) made the perfect "oozy liquid" blood, dripping from his blades to pool on the floor :D 

I am also adding this to Dream in Darkness July Challenge

Enjoy Mwahahahaa....XXX

Monochromatic Weather...

I missed last weeks challenge at LOC so I'm getting in early this time.

Their challenge is "Monochromatic" and as I've done nothing but complain about how grey our weather has been I thought I'd stick with it as my inspiration lol

Meet Gothic Hamlet, on a dark and stormy night :D

*Who I am also entering in the June Dream in Darkness challenge*

I started by colouring Hamlet with a pale grey...

 and slowly building depth with gradually darker greys.

 Until redefining the lines with the darkest grey.

 Now he needed a background.

I cut a rough window in a piece of hammer(horror)ed white cardstock...

 and drew a few stone blocks around it.

Next the view of the weather...

a piece of black card put through a Sheena Douglas embossing folder, highlighted with white paint,

 and we have a very stormy sky :D

 I have to say I'm quite pleased with how this turned out :D

Enjoy XXX

Playing with prizes...

Over the past few weeks I have been fortunate enough to win some lovely prizes...

one being my choice of 3 images from Aliciabel.

Now you may think that I wouldn't want "cute" images(lovely as they are), but what's not to like about 

Lilith and her Vampire Rabbit :D

 I decided to use her for this weeks challenge at LOC "Stencilling"

She needed a back ground, but I didn't want it to be too cute, so I took some papers from this pack(which I have no recollection of where I got it lol)

The backing card was bigger than the paper...

 but the design allowed me to paper piece with hardly a join visible :D

 Now the stencilled element.

I used the waste from an alphabet strip die...

 cos no alley wall is complete without a bit of graffiti... 

 Using distress ink and a cotton bud gave a wonderful "spraypaint" effect I think.

A little shading with more distress inks and

Lilith is off to a very select night club :D

I also chose 2 male images Sweeney Todd and Gothic Hamlet

Enjoy :D XXX