HOWL Happy Birthday - Twilight inspired birthday card

 So my oldest daughter is turning 11 next week and the theme for her party is from the Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn part 1, plus she loves Taylor Lautner aka Jacob Black. And just a couple of weeks ago she handed out Twilight - Eclipse Valentines in school. I purposely bought 2 packages @ .99 each from Party City because I knew there wouldn't be enough boy appropriate valentines in 1 package, plus it came with stickers that I knew I would be able to use for other projects. That brings us here to my card.

I used these items (all on hand) to create my HOWL Happy Birthday card:

• A Frightful Affair Cricut cartridge - HOWL
• Fabulous Finds Cricut cartridge - heart luggage tag
• DCWV Immortal Love - paper
• Black and red cardstock
• Repurposed unused extra Valentine - Taylor Lautner aka Jacob Black
• Jacob heart stickers - on heart luggage tag and on the inside of card
• ribbon
• Red stickle - claw marks in the HOWL
• Glossy Accents - HOWL
• My Craft Spot clear stamps - Inside & Out - set 2 - Happy Birthday (front) and sentinment (inside)
• Black ink
• Black brad - heart luggage tag
• Pop dots - under Jacob, HOWL and heart luggage tag

 Here you can see how everything is popped up with pop dots:

Here is the inside:

I am entering my HOWL Happy Birthday card in the following challenges:

• Delightful Inspiration - i heart sketches #7 

• Paper Playtime - Challenge #4 - Sentiment Stamps
• My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge #88 - Pop it Up
• Papercraft Star - Challenge #134 - Happy Birthday
• Shopping Our Stash - Challenge #91- Tag it - create a tag or use one on your project

This was such a fun card to make and I know my daughter is going to love it! Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my HOWL Happy Birthday card.

The Jersey Devil

When I saw the challenge over at Haunted Design House - HDH #153 - Creepy Cryptids I knew right away what I wanted to do...The Jersey Devil!  Being a former Jersey Girl myself I know all too well about the Jersey Devil.

Legend has it that in 1735, a Pines resident known as Mother Leeds found herself pregnant for the thirteenth time. (Leeds is the name of one of New Jersey’s earliest settlers, and many descendants of the Leeds family can still be found throughout NJ to this day.) Mother Leeds was not living a wealthy lifestyle by any means. Her husband was a drunkard who made few efforts to provide for his wife and twelve children. Reaching the point of absolute exasperation upon learning of her thirteenth child, she raised her hands to the heavens and proclaimed “Let this one be a devil!”
Mother Leeds went into labor a few months later, on a tumultuously stormy night, no longer mindful of the curse she had utter previously regarding her unborn child. Her children and husband huddled together in one room of their Leeds Point home while local midwives gathered to deliver the baby in another. By all accounts the birth went routinely, and the thirteenth Leeds child was a seemingly normal baby boy.

Within minutes however, Mother Leeds’s unholy wish of months before began to come to fruition. The baby started to change, and metamorphosed right before her very eyes. Within moments it transformed from a beautiful newborn baby into a hideous creature unlike anything the world had ever seen. The wailing infant began growing at an incredible rate. It sprouted horns from the top of its head and talon-like claws tore through the tips of its fingers. Leathery bat-like wings unfurled from its back, and hair and feathers sprouted all over the child’s body. Its eyes began glowing bright red as they grew larger in the monster’s gnarled and snarling face. The creature savagely attacked its own mother, killing her, then turned its attention to the rest of the horrified onlookers who witnessed its tempestuous transformation. It flew at them, clawing and biting, voicing unearthly shrieks the entire time. It tore the midwives limb from limb, maiming some and killing others.

You can read more about The Jersey Devil HERE

Here is a closer look at the title and the devil's wings, to show off the texture:

I used the following items to create this layout:

• Design Studio - I welded the wings, the horse body, horns, tail, and claws to the wings
• Wrap It Up Cricut cartridge - wings
• Old West Cricut cartridge - horse
• Animal Kingdom Cricut cartridge - horns and claws on the wings
• Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge - tail
• DCWV The Immortal Love Stack - background paper
• Fiskers Texture plate (leather) - on the wings
• Black Sharpie Marker - wings, mane, claws, claws on the wongs, tail, hooves and horns
• black ink - title
• Glossy Accents - title, claws, claws on the wings, and hooves
• foam squares - behind the title
• Pop-up glue spots - behind the devil

I am entering this layout about The Jersey Devil in the following challenges:

• Haunted Design House - HDH #153 - Creepy Cryptids - You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that has something to do with a creature or plant whose existance has been suggested but is unrecognized by scientific consensus and often regarded unlikely! - open til 10/7
• Forever Night Challenges - Freaky Friday #48 - Anything but a Card - open til 10/11

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Jersey Devil layout.

Beware the Blood Moon card

I have been thinking about this project ever since I saw the challenge post for Macabre Monday over at Haunted Design House .  I new right off the bat I wanted to create a blood moon, inspired by the movie Red Riding Hood.  I also remembered I had great stack of paper from DCWV called The Immortal Love Stack and I knew it had a fabulous paper in it with a wolf face.  So that is how it started.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge - the moon "window"
• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge - BEWARE
• Crackle Accents - on the BEWARE
• Glossy Accents - on the BEWARE, the moon and the wolf eyes (inside)
• Craft paint - clouds
• red plastic folder divider - the moon
• DCWV The Immortal Love Stack - the wolf face paper inside the card
• computer font - "Under the Blood Moon...a man bitten is a man cursed." Red Riding Hood
• brown ink - inked the edges of the inside font papers

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• DL Art - Happy Birthday Linky Party + GIVEAWAY - open til 8/31
• Haunted Design House - HDH #148 - Bad Moon Rising - you are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that depicts a BIG BAD MOON - open til 9/2

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Beware the Blood Moon card.

Music Mayhem HDH 142 - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)

This week over at Haunted Design House Macabre Monday the challenge is to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that uses a song or song title as your muse.  I did some research on the internet and found a song that totally inspired my creation.  I can't believe I had never heard this song, Alice Cooper's "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)."  I have always been a HUGE fan of The Friday the 13th films and Jason Voorhees is one of my all-time favorite slasher film killers!  That is why I was so surprised I had never heard this song, plus who doesn't love Alice Cooper!!!  If you are interested in listening to and watching the video you can check it out HERE on YouTube!

I used these items to create this card:

• the mask image is from the internet
• the machete is from the internet too but I didn't like the way it looked printed so I hand cut out and painted my own and applied a little Glossy Accents to the paint and handles
• the background paper (inside and out) are from DCWV The Immortal Love stack
• Martha Stewart edge punch
• Design Studio
• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge - Friday the 13th
• Pooh Font Cricut cartridge - HE'S BACK!
• (inside card) Studio G clear stamp - TREAD LIGHTLY - which I cut out and made to look like a camp sign
• (inside card) white gel pen - for the letters of the sign

Here is the inside of the card:



Here is a close up of "the mask..." so that you can see some of the blood on the machetes:

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Smudgy Antics Challenge - Creatures of the Night - Jason Voorhees definitely a Creature of the Night - open til 7/21
• Haunted Design House - Macabre Monday - HDH #142 - Music Mayhem - open til 7/22

I am so pleased with the way this card turned out...I think even Jason would be proud.  Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) card.