Triple Threat

Another (hopefully) scheduled post.
This time for Smudgy Antics. The challenge is to use at least THREE images and make one project.
A simple card from me.  The images are all from the Quoth The Raven rubber plate from Smeared Ink.

I started off with the heart, stamped in red then masked. Mr Poe came next stamped using black memento ink. Masking again, The raven wings, Stamped using Black DI, to give a slightly different sheen. This was cut out and stuck onto a silver and black card base that was stamped, using white ink, 4 times with the collage stamp in the set.
Some homemade black roses using both pearlised and matt black paper and some die cut leaves from glossy black cs to finish this off.

Here you can see the dimension.

Why is it when I work with greys, black and white my pics take on a blue sheen? Or am I imagining things?
Looking forward to seeing your triple image projects peeps.
My fellow DT members will have some more beauty for you to feast those peepers on so go have a look.

See you all next week for the start of Smeared and Smudged SMUDGEFEST. Don't forget!

To Helen

No not to me. Another Helen as named by Edgar A Poe. I have concentrated on his revised version from 1845 from the original in 1831. The Master in Quoth The Raven Challenge blog has laid down the quest that these 14days shall be dedicated to this work.
So, what did emerge from this little corner? An ATC holder. Complete with poem and 4 ATCs depicting the 4 seasons. The eternal cycle of the love lavished.

  

The grecian type corner embellishments are a sizzlets die and each one is cut from the same card as the ATC preceding and following, thus forming the circle. The stamps are from a collection of 4 seasons from Oasis. I felt they had a Grecian feel to them. All coloured with promarkers and chalked backgrounds.The white die cuts are representing before death under the black representing after death.
These 4 ATCs have a home.... made from pearlised white card

The picture was borrowed from Google here.
The little metal charm with added pearls are from stash and seemed fitting with the leaves.

and inside the front cover

again the image from Google with the poem printed out and, after applying some antique linen DI, attached.

There is another image under that. Some heat embossed in copper vine leaves.

The ATC sleeves themselves

I am entering this little collection into the challenge at

Quoth The Raven, Nevermore - "To Helen" quest
Divas By Design - Use a charm - it's on the front of the holder

The Black Cat

As per the E A Poe story. The quest this week, over at Quoth The Raven Challenge Blog is to create something that represents this fantastic tale.
So, after much musing, rejecting first one idea then another, I came up with this. I hope the master thinks it worthy.


Loads of little boxes. All stuck together as a wall. For those that don't know the story, Go read it here.
All the boxes are made from thick orange card and well daubed with distress ink to age them. some old gold findings forming the drawer handles.
On the back however is a very different story.
Hidden, as was the corpse of the narrator's wife.
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Picture taken from here. Attached to the back with mod podge then carefully cut to fit each drawer.
It was sitting straight but the pics make it look skewed now. Oh well.

I am entering this into the challenge at
Quoth The Raven - Oh, Poor Kitty

E A Poe

Smudgy Antics Blog has a challenge this week. To make a "something" inspired by Poe and/or his works. Not that hard to do. Has to be stamped somewhere, either digi or rubber and the added bonus is that if a Smeared Ink stamp is used, the prize is the awesome DT creation made by Blackdragon!!!

Here's my humble offering... first time at altering a canvas!!!
Edit - Ike asked "how big?" It's 5"x7"

Three poems were at the front of my mind when creating this. "Annabel Lee", "A Dream Within a Dream", and that old faithful "The Raven"
Loads of different things and techniques used here and I really enjoyed it. It was daunting at first as all the tutorials I watched about transfering images to canvas used "gel medium". What to use? I tried gesso. It WORKED.... yayyyy.
I used images from Moonlight Journey as a starting point, printed onto thin card, (I find the print quality is better). I applied a coat of white gesso to the canvas and, when still wet, burnished the images on - then went to bed so that I wouldn't be tempted to "see how it's doing". The testing time - wet the card and gently rub it away. The images are set in the gesso.
Some soot stamping of the angel from Smeared Ink and some Poe quotes from the writers plate from Cherry Pie. I also heat embossed the angel with a slightly opaque powder. These were applied using matt mod podge after heat embossing images of the man himself from that Cherry Pie plate in the bottom left and between the images top right using the same opaque powder. This gives it the slightly ghostly look I like. Next comes the stamping onto tissue paper. Using the "nevermore" quote and skull/books stamp from Cherry Pie again and some gravestones and ravens from Smeared Ink. These were applied using more mod podge.
When it was all dry, I applied a final coat of modpodge to seal.
I made a few lace flowers and stuck on with pinflair glue gel.
All I need to do now is a frame.
That's for another day.

I am entering this into the challenge over on
Smudgy Antics - Poe Me
Samuel Taylors Crafts - Anything Goes - some fab items for one lucky person