I started the new year off with a shared win with the awesome Susan Renshaw at Quoth the Raven, Nevermore Challenge for December! My poor humble offering paled in the light of Susan's awesome, super make but I was allowed to share the win of which I am grateful to the amazing Ike , of Ike's Art and Susan! This month I kinda went in reverse for the new year a bit. I was moving my crafting spot and decided to deconstruct some past projects as they were piling up fast! One was an altered book for Quoth the Raven and had some actual dictionary pages from the old dictionary I used to make the book and I carefully removed them treasuring them too much to cover them up or throw them away. Then a wonderful surprise from another win at Quoth the Raven, an altered puzzle piece by Black Dragon had inspired me so much and I found a huge puzzle piece during the move so this was what resulted!
The clay crow and background piece of page paper came from the altered book torn apart but now for a good purpose! The dear man himself is a Rick St. Dennis image, Poe 2 and he was found cut out, uncolored and I left him that way. However, all things I make concerning his face seem to humiliate him so much as did the tassel found on a box I had "altered" long before knowing what altering meant :) The tag is stamped with an awesome stamp from VivalasvegaStamps! and then edged with a Dylusions spider web border stamp. I sprayed it with gold shimmer spray from Lindy's Stamp Gang. The odd thing sticking out is an egg carton rose/flower edged in black and some gold shimner spray also. It looses its effect from this view but then maybe it comes from one of the Master's works? Hmmm, I will never tell, nor will he, even though that tassel is annoying him beyond even his words! A little moon from a half used sticker kit and the backing is some gold and black patterned paper run through the embossing machine and edged with black soot Distress Ink. So that altered book and little box of 20 something years live on now in this new piece until the time comes for it to give up its parts for a new beginning!
Still lots of time to enter at Quoth the Raven and it is "Anything Goes" this month so don't delay go enter your make and get to put that awesome badge on your blog and win something fabulous!
Entering at Quoth the Raven January
Forever Dark 2 Anything Goes with an optional twist of steampunk
I started this Poe when I was considering doing the 31 Days of Halloween on my personal blog but family commitments and health issues made me decide against it. Now I am so wanting to be in the mix of things scrambling to get things in at the last moment! But dear old Poe has found a place to play so all is well for now.
Poe is from Rick St. Dennis called "Poe 1" and the number is a stamp from VivaLasVegaStamps. The skull on the books hails from a kit from Mischief Circus...I am thinking Morbid Brains by Holliewood Studios. I had made a mixed media background but when I saw the color bingo challenge at Quoth the Raven I just had to melt some dollar tree crayons in two shades of orange and yellow onto the poor raven! And at the Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge it is "Trick or Treat" . I think with our dear Poe it will be a trick and not a treat!
Hope you are enjoying this fabulous time of year when all the ghouls and goblins are creeping about! Just watch out for those shadows....and those spaces over your doors...do you hear a distant cry of :Nevermore?
Please may I enter this in Wicked Wednesday ATC "Trick or Treat" and
Quoth the Raven Nevermore Challenge "Color Poe"
