Crazy Little Thing Called Blood

Ghouls and Ghosts got you down? Have spooks got you jumping at your own shadow? Halloween can be a stressful time of year for the perpetually afraid, but never fear, I have the answer!

This adorable little taggers kit is filled with all sorts of monsters that are just TOOOO cute to spook! From hip hoppin' Ghosts to funky spiders to dancing pumpkins, this taggers size kits brings you an assortment of the most adorable monsters you've ever met.

You'll find 30 800 x 800 .jpg papers, and 116 .png elements included in the kit.

You get 10 Candy Corns, 6 tombstones, 5 round frames, 5 square frames, 5 tombstone frames, 5 fang tags, 5 bows, 5 crazed bats, 5 flowers, 5 folded ribbons, 5 fuzzlees, 5 treat bags, 5 wraps, 4 candles, 4 reapers, 4 vampire coffins, 3 spooky trees, 3 moons, 3 pumpkin men, 2 devil ducks, 2 Blood on Wheels haunted vans, 2 crab grasses, 2 sets of fallen leaves, 2 ghosts, 2 Pigulas, 2 spiders, 1 bat border, 1 beware sign, 1 cauldron, 1 coffin, 1 Dracula, 1 Dracula Coffin, 1 Happy Halloween Word Art, 1 Haunted House and 2 Vampy posers created by Schnegge's Tuben.

It's lot of fun for your Halloween tags. Saved to 300 DPI, so you can use it for blog wear and small print jobs as well. Personal use, scrap 4 hire okay!

So just be cool, relax, and get hip to this Crazy Little Thing called Blood.

This kit has been retired and is available for FREE!
Download it HERE!






Bloody Mess alpha courtesy of Free Digital Scrapbooking, not included in kit.


Halloween Alpha by Crazy Diamond, not included in kit.


Bloody Mess alpha courtesy of Free Digital Scrapbooking, not included in kit.


Halloween Alpha by Crazy Diamond, not included in kit.

I get so Emo-shun-al Baby....

Count down to Blog Train take off....

All these tags were done using my "Spooky Town" kit, which is a part of the Ghost Train. Cookies not included (you're getting Gumdrops instead!)


Looking Fur alpha by Heaven Dreams, not included in kit.



Toni says pink is not her color, so we figured no one would look for her dressed as a pink witch. Or as a blond, for that matter. :)



Silky just wants her mummy!



Well, that's clear enough - or is it?



Am I resting in peace - or resting in pieces?



I'm assured that everyone likes bon-bons, even lurking ghosts!

Are you ready? The train leaves the station on Thursday morning.....

Click here to view the rest of the kits available on the train!

Witching Work

A bit on how the creative process works...

My original concept for Witchy Woman was to build a kit around Coh's Scraps Along Came a Spider poser set. I wanted it to be witchy and have a lot of spiders in it. With that in mind, I pulled a pallet, and put together 25 papers.

After a couple of days, while I was working on Ghost Stories, I decided I didn't like them, tossed 15 of them and started again, finishing up with 30 papers and 5 tags. I went to sleep and decided in the end, I hated the pallet. So I tossed everything, got a new pallet and started all over.

By this point, I'd named the product Witchy Woman - after another classic song. The new pallet is primarily purple and orange and as a result, the Coh posers, in red and black, no longer really fit in, but I didn't know that...yet.

I put together 30 papers this time - five of which would later be replaced because I was unhappy with them - and began building the frames, which turned out to be a bit of fun. Then I started working on the elements. When I finally go a fair bit together I went for a tag and decided Along Came a Spider was NOT working out.

I pondered this problem while I went back and started working on the rest of the kit. My next tag used "Incognito" from Aussie Scrap Designs:



While I love the poser, I didn't think she'd be a suitable replacement, in part because there are no standing poses in the package. Plus she's not really witchy enough. But spidery - yeah, she has that.

The spider web and the torches were added to the kit at this point.



I put together the "Granny Dianny" self-portrait seen int he background of this tag, and went looking for witches. Designs by Lou had just released Winnie the Witch and I felt she had possibilities. I don't like her face though, she just wasn't doing it for me.

Back to the drawing board....



Medi had a set of witches she'd done a while ago on her forum, and I so I used one in this tag and really like the result. The bats were also a late edition to the kit. Slight problem, I didn't have a CU license on her.

I mulled it over and wrote to Shannon and she was quite accommodating about the whole thing. You can now purchase the Sorcha set at TKO scraps and I had my witch!



So...I can now turn my attention to my Fangtasia contribution as well as another vampire kit I'm working on called "A Crazy Little Thing Called Blood". I'll let you think about that one for a while. LOL!

Witchy Woman is set to be released on October 19th - it will be free for one week at Scrappetizing and then will be come a pay-to-use kit. It's my little birthday present to you. :)

And if the Gothic Inspirations and Ghost Train wasn't enough reason to wait for Black Thursday, I have another one for you:



Don't fear the reaper, baby!

Now in Stores: Ghost Stories

Lexi loves spooky stories. She loves reading them and telling them. And she loves ghost stories especially. She has little ghosts all over her room. She's seen every episode of Ghost Hunter on TV and can tell you the location of all the major haunted houses - not that she's ever been to one. But what she wants most of all is to meet a real live - er dead - ghost.

If you're looking for ghosts, you've come to the right place, as Ghost Stories has plenty of them lurking about!

This kit contains: 30 Patterned .jpg papers, 800 x 800 pxls & 124 Elements including 7 beautiful "Lexi" posers created by MediEvil Creations.

You also get 10 Candy Corns, 7 Flairs, 6 Spell Books, 5 Round frames, 5 Square frames, 5 tags, 5 bows, 5 ribbons, 5 brads, 5 ribbon wraps, 5 treat bags, 4 bats, 4 names plates, 4 lollies, 3 grassy borders, 3 haunted candles, 3 Haunted Trees, 3 Little Ghosts, 3 Sunflowers, 2 goth trees, 2 fences, 2 Jack-o-lantern strings, 2 pumpkins, 2 realty signs, 2 Haunted Mirrors, 2 "Undertaker" Haunted Delivery Vans, 1 tissue ghost, 1 lightning bolt, 1 beware sign, 1 black rose, 1 "Boo"tiful Tree, 1 patch of fog, 1 full moon, 1 toy ghost, 1 Ghosts Lurking sign, 1 Haunted House, 1 oil lamp, 1 Spooky Mansion, and a Spooky Tree.

Taggers size, 300 DPI, Personal Use only.

It's a Hauntingly good time!



This kit has been retired and is available for FREE.
Download a copy HERE!



Some tags I worked up using kits other than mine...

The Summoning



I did this one up using the Eerie Hauntings taggers kit by Gothic Inspirations. I bought it as soon as it came out - had to have it. LOL! The Hocus Pocus witch is (c) by Perfect Posers, and the Creepy Face alpha is by Nutshell Creations. (Nutshell Creations is Morgana, who does the wonderful newsletter for Scrappetizing.)

Be-Witching Woman



I'm on the CT for Scraps by j0eswife - Tanya - and I asked for her "Boo to You" mega kit to do a tut with. However, there's so much of it, I decided to do a few tags until I figured out what I wanted to do. This one uses one of the witches included in the kit - it's (c) Outlaw by Design. The Bloody Mess alpha is courtesy of Free Digital Scrapbooking and is NOT included in the kit. That's about the only think that isn't in there. LOL.

Trick-or-Treat



Gothic ducky anyone? Vampy is (c) by Schnegge's Tuben. The scraps - including the word art and the ducky - are from the "Boo to You" mega taggers kit.

You can find "Eerie Hauntings", "Boo to You" and Vampy at Stargazer Scraps. Perfect Posers sells out of Aussie Scrap Designs, and Nutshell Creations can be found at Scrappetizing.

The Witching Hour



This is from a kit in progress called "Witchy Woman". This one is going to be a freebie! Well, for a week it will be free. But don't hold your breath. I'm stuck on a few things and it's not due until Mid-October, so there really isn't a rush just at the moment.

Just a bit of a sneak peak. The witch is courtesy of Coh Scraps, the Halloween alpha is by Crazy Diamond.

Coming soon: Ghosts - and lots of 'em!

These tags are from a new PTU kit I've been designing called "Ghost Stories". It's nearly complete, but there's a couple or three more things I want to do with it before I pack it up and send it to the stores.

Medi was sort of the muse for this one with her little Lexi poser. Lexi you see, loves spooky stories. She loves reading them and telling them. And she loves ghosts especially.


"Looking Fur" alpha by Heaven Dreams

She has little ghosts all over her room and haunted candles and the like. She's seen every episode of Ghost Hunter on TV and can tell you the location of all the major haunted houses - not that she's ever been to one.


"Bones" alpha courtesy of Free Digital Scrapbooking.

But what she wants most of all is to meet a real "live" honest-to-God ghost. Or would that be a real dead....er never mind.

So this kit was done along that theme and it has a lot of ghosts and skeletons in it. And haunted things, like a haunted delivery van...


Alpha by BeDeSigns.

...and a haunted mirror, or two.

This has been a really fun kit to develop. I know, I know...you probably can't wait to get you hands on it. But believe me, it will be worth the wait.


Spooky Face Alpha by Nutshell Creations.

Not that none of the alphas used in the tags are part of the kit. They're just for tagging purposes only.

Thanks again to Medi for adorable little cookie creation! Have fun and hey - don't be afraid of no ghosts, okay?

New in Shops: Nitro

Street racing: dark, deadly, illegal. Yet despite law enforcements best efforts to wipe it out, cars and drivers duel it out on urban roads, the need for speed erasing the need for caution.

This is a dark, urban style kit, that is versitile enough to be used in a number of different tags. There are 20 grunged .jpg papers, and 14 .png frames, plus 10 flowers, 5 star tags, 5 bows, 5 curled ribbons, 5 checkered ribbons, 5 star tapes, 5 fuzzy cuff sets, 5 ric-rac, 5 ribbon wraps, 5 brads, 5 fire charms, 5 heart charms, 5 beaded dragonflies, 4 street lights, 4 street racing cars, 3 traffic lights, 3 glitter swirls, 3 rose & razorwire rules, 2 car keys, Chicken wire overlay, 1 set of city buildings, 1 full moon, 1 funnel, 1 gas pump, 1 Jerry can, a traffic cone and a yield sign, plus 3 beautiful posers created by Perfect Posers.

300 DPI, PU/S4H okay.



Nitro is available at these fine shops:





I really need to get busy with Tutorials. I've only got one PTU kit left that I'm working on, plus two freebies which aren't due until the middle of October. Although I've got ideas a plenty, believe me.

Here's a couple of tags I did using my Spooky Lil Girl kit. Just a side note, now through the end of September, I'm doing a buy-one, get-one FREE at Sophisti-Scraps! That includes my Witchy Pooh bundle deal and my CU items as well.



I'm using the Wendi tube pack by MediEvil Creations. I'm almost sorry I locked myself into the gumdrop witches for the series, as she looks wonderful against the pick and black scraps! The PTU kit I'm working on now includes some of Medi's posers, and I do have an idea for yet ONE MORE Halloween kit using one of Medi's creations but to be honest, I'd like to take a break and do a winter kit. LOL!



I love the haunted delivery vans. And I've got this idea for Monster Trucks. I REALLY need to learn Daz 3-D! Both these tags are blanks....If you want to snag them and add you name for your own personal use, that would be fine with me.

Anyway, back to the designing board....

Midnight Magic freebie

This is part of a collab kit I'd done for Stargazer Scraps. I know some of the designers are selling there parts, but I wasn't really all that happy with it, so I'm giving it to you as a freebie.

Sort of beachy themed - the idea being what would you find washed up on the beach at night. There's some extra papers and a few additional elements that weren't in the original kit that I threw in as well.

So in total, you get 17 .jpg papers, and 46 .png elements - oh...and it's taggers sized, of course.

Included is: 5 ric racs, 5 ropes, 3 drinks, 3 sea shells, 2 orchids, 2 postcards, 2 ribbon flowers, 2 surfboards, 1 light trail, 1 moonlight, 1 beach chair, 1 beach umbrella, 1 crescent moon, 1 life saver frame, 1 little bird, 1 palm tree, 1 sea horse frame, 1 splash, 1 star curtain, 1 table, 1 Tiki Bar, 1 Tiki, 1 towel, 1 vine, 1 wave, a dolphin, a wrecked ship, a clam and a mermaid.

Click on the preview to download via Mediafire (and leave a little love if you snag it, kay?):



Remember that by downloading you agree to my terms of use which state, in part that you may not redistribute, rebroadcast, resale, or claim my graphics as your own. If you know someone who is interested in this kit, please direct them to my blog where they can download their own copy. Free to use is NOT the same thing as free to share. My graphics are copyright protected.



Thanks for stopping by!

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, a charity that gets a heck of a lot of coverage. I was in Walgreens yesterday and they now have a whole BCA section set up.

October is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month and once again, we're urging everyone to "Go Purple for October" in support of Domestic Violence Awareness.

This is a personal issue in my family as my sister's first marriage was an abusive one. And growing up with an alcoholic mother resulted in abuse as well - something that as a kid, you really can't do anything about. The family knew about it too, but wouldn't step in.

Domestic Violence again hit home this weekend, when a family of six was found slaughtered in their Naples apartment, the father, and primary suspect in the case fled to Haiti. The victim's brother told the police that the marriage had "rocky" for ten years, and the suspect had been arrested for Domestic Violence four times over the last decade.

This didn't have to happen. But the cycle of abuse is so hard to break for most women.

Once again, Miss Diamond is serving as the Unofficial Spokes Cat for DVA. You can read her story and find out why HERE.

You can click on the tag above, or on the one on my sidebar to get more information on Domestic Violence, and how to stop it. As with Breast Cancer, early detection is the key. It's easier to stop the cycle before it starts, rather then break it after it's been going for a while.

You can also help by putting our DVA tag on your sidebar:


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Thanks for reading and remember: Love doesn't hit.



SSLisa heads into the hospital for surgery and the Grand Prix cookies will have to wait on her return. That wasn't totally unexpected - although she released three new packages today and they are all awesome!

However, I had made alternate plans and just needed to decide which I was going to use.


The duct tape alpha is by Maria LaFrance.

I had picked up the "Punk You" package from Perfect Posers. I love her work, but it's so expensive. However, it's been on sale for 1/2 price this month, making it affordable for this project, so....

She's a bit more British than I'd like, but she's got a lot of attitude. Right?


Ur...the White Grunge alpha is by Dreams Fulfilled.

Fall back option two was the Star posers by Schnegge's Tuben. I have Schnegge's new kit to tut and she uses these posers in it. I dunno...I wasn't all that hot for her in this environment.


(Foiled again alpha by Dundas Designs)

Other options where the Grand Prix girls by Untamed Angel or one of Incognito's packages, but I think I'm going to stick with Charly's punk chicky here. I can almost see her at the street race.

I should point out that street racing is dangerous and illegal. And that I once had a car that looked like the one in these tags, except for the paint job. And the spoiler wasn't that big. And she could hit a buck fifty without breaking a sweat.

Just a bit of my wild and crazy mis-spent youth.

Scrappetizing Freebie

Watch out! Get your garlic! Sharpen your stakes! Beware! Pigula is here!



This freebie is two .png tubes of Pigula, and I think you'll agree with me, when I say he's terrifyingly cute!

Tube #1 is 1838 x 1580 pxls.
Tube #2 is 1869 x 1726 pxls.

Pigula is Commercial Use OK.
He may be used AS IS.

He may not be resold or redistributed as a Commercial Use item or as part of a tube collection. He must be included as part of a scrap kit. Please be sure to read and abide by the enclosed terms of use. Pigula is copyright protected


My Free Copyright #CV91L_CKJQP_W9CJA

You can snag Pigula by CLICKING HERE.

Freaky Frankie

I've seen sitting here procrastinating because I've finally found something I dislike more than word art and previews combined: my annual flu shot.

I've now decided I can put this off until Tuesday. ;P

In the meantime, I've been working on a new kit, which is going to be called "Freaky Frankie's Birthday Bash". This was not at all what I had envisioned.



When Jessica from Gothic Inspirations released her Gothic Elements Grab Bag 2, she included in it a lot of mad scientist stuff like syringes and surgical masks. At first this puzzled me, but the truth is, that stuff really does scare me. Let's face it, I hate doctors.

So I said, Well, maybe I'll do a Frankenstein kit and I did sit down to work on it, but...Frankie evidently had other ideas.

He wanted to celebrate his birthday instead and so I've ended up with a Halloween/Birthday kit. Which is great. Frankie's not the only one who celebrates their birthday in October. I do too. And frankly (please pardon the pun) this is right up my alley.



Except maybe for the disco stuff. Come on Frankie - dance, dance!

The fact that maybe I lurch around a lot like Frankenstein might have something to do with it as well. And I couldn't help throwing in some Grim Reaper stuff as I get ready to celebrate being older than dirt.

I'm still working on some tweaks, but I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Bat, rats and all.

New in Shops: Spooky Lil Girl

Witchy Pooh and her friends are all ready to go out trick-or-treating on Halloween night. The little witch in your life is certain to want to go along after she sees this adorable kit filled with engaging characters and enchanting - and enchanted - items.

Done in shades of pink and black, it's just prefect, and way too cute to spook. You start off with 20 creepy papers. Add to that 15 frames including 5 glitter frames, 5 ribbons, 5 bows, 5 ric-racs, 5 tags, 5 buttons, 5 flowers, 5 fuzzy spiders, 5 lollies, 5 string wraps, 4 bats, 3 little ghosts, 3 magic wands, 3 treat bags, 3 potions, 2 Haunted I-Scream Vans, 2 full moons, 2 spooky trees, 1 Magical Orb, 1 beware sign, 1 cauldron, 1 cemetery signs, 1 crystal ball, 1 patch of fog, 1 Happy Halloween Sticker, 1 spellbook, 1 witch, 1 set of enchanted bubbles, 1 Rufus the cat, and 1 Witchy Pooh.

Saved to 300 DPI, it's also perfect for printing Halloween Party Invitations and other small print jobs, as well as blog wear, and web layouts to amuse and amaze your family and friends.

Look! Here comes Witchy and her friends now! Quick, get the treats!

Pu/S4H OK!



This kit has been retired and is now available for FREE!
Download a copy HERE!