Alternative Christmas

Hi everyone.  Today at Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls we challenge you to create a project inspired by an alternative Christmas movie.  I chose Nightmare Before Christmas, for several reasons.  First, because it was the first movie I thought of.  Second, because it is my niece and namesake Becca's favorite movie of all time.  Third, because I have TONS of Nightmare Before Christmas.  And last, but not least, because I worked a craft show this weekend and got an order for it.

The fabulous image I am using is from Sassy Studio Designs.  Don't Jack and Sally look so happy together?  I colored them with Copics.  I cut Sally out and popped her up with SU dimensionals.  The holly background is perfect for them.  I double matted them with 8x10 white/black mats.  Now it is ready for framing.

Please hop over to BTBD and see what the rest of the Design Team has created for your inspiration.  Then play along, won't you? 

Thanks for stopping by.

FTPD & NLG

Rocky Horror

Hi everyone.  It is time for another Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls Challenge.  The Challenge is Repo the Genetic Opera vs The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  I think from my card you can tell which way I went.  Since I have only seen Rocky Horror, I couldn't do Repo justice. 

My image is from Smeared Ink.  It was the closest thing I had to Rocky Horror.  I made the lips background with clipart lips.  I turned the stockings into fishnets with a Copic marker.  The border punch is Drippy Goo from Martha Stewart.  I must admit this is my favorite border punch.  I use it all the time.

Please head over to Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls to see what the rest of the Design Team has created for your inspiration.  Then please join in won't you?  I would love to see what you come up with.

Thanks for stopping by.

FTPD

Today at Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls we are doing Dystopian films.  For those of you who don't know what that is (which I didn't either when I got the assignment), here is the definition.

A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively,
cacotopia,^[1] kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is

the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is often a planned structured society in which the conditions of life are deliberately made miserable, characterized by poverty, oppression, violence, disease, scarcity, and/or pollution for the benefit of a select minority or some unnatural societal goal.

I chose Planet of the Apes.  I found this great image online.  It was from a coloring book.  I colored it with Copics.  All the paper is generic and I distressed it with my Tim Holtz distress tool.  I think it came out pretty darn good.  My friend thinks it looks like her husband.  I don't think so.

Please head over to Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls and play along.  I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Thanks for stopping by.

FTPD



BTBD Challenge - Scary Kids

Hi everyone.  Today at Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls we are doing Scary Kids, well sort of.  The challenge is to do something inspired by a movie with scary kids or a movie that scares kids or just use a character that scares kids.  I chose...the scariest of them all...The Wicked Witch of the West!!!

This is my first tri shutter card.  I love the way it came out.  The Wizard of Oz is my absolute favorite movie.  I got this awesome Graphic 45 paper a little while ago and I have been dying to use it.  The image is from Sassy Studio Designs.  Isn't it great?  I colored my witch with Copics.  I am limited with my grays but I think it came out just great.  The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  It was part of a Christmas sample pack.  The sentiment is from Archivers (a special exclusive set) and the spider is from K&Co (I think).

Now it is time to put on your thinking cap.  Do you have a scary movie kid in mind?  Or a scary movie character?  We would love to see what you come up with.  Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls would love to have you participate.  Please stop over and see what the other Design Team members have done.  They are super talented.  Thanks for stopping by.

FTPD & NLG

MUMMY INVASION!!!

Good morning all.  Today I am proud to bring you Mummy Honey from Sassy Studio Designs.  SSD is showing previews of our second Halloween release this year.  So many images, so much fun.

I used Reminisce paper and some really cool spiders from K&Co.  I colored with Copics, of course.  The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  I just discovered them recently and they have some great stuff.

I am doing double-duty with this card.  Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls is doing projects inspired by Terry Gilliam.  I was not familiar with him before this challenge.  He has such a wide range.  I found an old animation online but forgot to save it.  It had a creepy Tim Burton quality to it but was also kind of fun and quirky. 

Thanks for stopping by.

FTPD & NLG



Welcome to Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls RRR33

For those of you who loved The Burtonesque Dolls, we now bring you Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls.  This new blog gives the feel of Tim Burton but doesn't limit us to just the world of Tim Burton.  Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls will hopefully introduce you to authors, artists, directors and more that you may not have heard of in the past.  Expanding beyond gives us more options for challenges and helps us expand our horizons. 

Our first challenge is Halloween.  We ask you to create a Halloween project based on your favorite Halloween movie.  Here is mine:

Can you guess my movie?  I will tell you in a minute.  This amazing image is called Devil May Care and is from Delicious Doodles.  I have had it for a while, waiting for the right challenge to use it for and here it is.  I colored my devil with Copics.  I popped up his horns, hands and pitchfork for added drama.  The spiderweb and bats were made with my MS punches.  The ribbon is from Darice.  The designer paper is from Reminisce. 

Did you figure out my movie yet?  The name of the movie is Legend.  In this movie the devil is played by Tim Curry.  I thought this image looked just like Tim did in the movie.  I made this with Miss Claudette in mind.  She loves this movie.  I thought it was ok but Tom Cruise is in it and I am not a fan.  I do remember watching this with Claudette several times.  It was fun to watch her watch the movie.  I haven't seen her in a long time and this was my way of keeping her close. 

Now it is your turn.  Make sure you check out Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls and join in the fun.  I can't wait to see what you come up with.  Good luck!

Thanks for stopping by.

FTPD & NLG

I entered this in Really Reasonable Ribbon's Halloween #33 challenge.