I have something
a bit different to show today using one of the Lady Killers from Simply B Stamps; Skeleton Key Samantha. I knew I
wanted to do something special with her and when I saw the beautiful wall hanging by Shona from Shona’s Wonderful Mess I knew I wanted to create
something similar. Go check out her
awesome work on her blog. And here is my
take on her wall hanging.
And a close up of the lovely Samantha.
I couldn’t find a chipboard frame large enough for my image, which I had already coloured, so instead I decided to go with a shadow box. I decided I wanted to brick the background, Donna from Popsicle Toes, one of the amazing DT at Simply Steampunk Challenges, used the Tim Holtz Texture Fades Bricked embossing folder on her version of Skeleton Key Samantha and it looked great. Only problem was I don’t own that folder. No problem, my local craft shop, The Crafter’s Haven, run a royalty club program that lets you borrow tools and books and they had one. I had to run it through my Grand Calibur four times as it is smaller than my 6x6 background piece but it is such a lovely rough brickwork pattern you can’t tell, even up close.
While I was
borrowing the folder and picking out flowers for this I also found the awesome
bunch of keys charm that was just perfect to hang off Samantha’s hand and saved
me trying to cut around the little key and thin line of the string in the
drawing, I was dreading that, especially as my new Cameo is still sitting under
my desk at work! So loads of flowers and
some Twiddleybitz flourishes and some more charms and my wall hanging was
finished, I am really pleased with how it turned out.
Ingredients:
Copics
Skin E50, E51, E53
(cheeks E11)
Lips R46, R59,
R89
Eyes B000, B00,
B02, 0
Hair Y11, Y23,
Y26, Y28
Skirt BV20, BV23,
BV25, V91,
Top B23, B26,
B29, B39, B45
Bars and hinges
Y23, Y26, Y28
Door E29, E31,
E33, E57
Stonework N0, N1,
T3, T5
Chipboard
Elements
Embellishments
Green Tara Azalea
– coloured with RV93 & RV95 Copics
Petaloo Color Me Crazy Canterbery Spray – White coloured with E50 Copic
Petaloo Color Me Crazy Orchid – Wild coloured with E50 Copic & Spica Clear
Embossing Folders
Tim Holtz Texture Fades – Bricked
Inks & Paints
etc
Distress Ink Tea
Dye
Distress Stain
Walnut Stain
Perfect Pearls
Heirloom Gold
Papers
Creative Memories
Vintage Chic
Core’dinations Cardstock – Grey
Ribbons &
Trims
Stamps
Thanks for
stopping by!
A gorgeous wall hanging Emily. The details you've put into it are amazing. The keys look really fab, how good that they are in perfect proportion it's like they were meant for this project.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your wonderful work with us at Crafting When We Can Challenges. :-) xx
Spiffy wall hanging.
ReplyDeleteMary Anne, Great Impressions DT