…do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you…

It’s challenge time at Simply Steampunk Challenges and our theme this month is tragic love and, with this gorgeous image from Abigail Larson, Hades and Persephone 1, how could I go with any theme but Wuthering Heights.

And here's a close-up showing the beautiful image with more true to life colours.

I googled the English moors and turns out there are trees on them so I have some skeleton trees in the background to help with the ghostly and tragic mood.  I wanted to make Persephone / Cathy look like a ghost to have this resemble a dream of Heathcliff on the moors and thought to use Frosted Film for it but the stuff doesn’t work like I thought it would so no ghosts.

I did stupidly decide to go with a decoupaged scene, stupidly because this is an incredibly detailed image.  It is beautiful when coloured and done once as a 2D picture it would have been an easy colour on the train but as it is it took hours of colouring and fussy cutting and gluing.  That said, I love how this turned out.

The hours of work weren’t just in the decoupage, I also spent a lot of time on decorating the box.  I wasn’t happy with the first coat of gilding on the lace, it was too bright gold so a few more layers of colour and I was finally happy with my vintage / grungy look.  The colour doesn’t look good on the photo, it is actually a dark browny gold colour, I really need to invest in a good camera!

As this is most definitely not a card I’m entering it in the anything but a card challenge at All Craft’s Challenges.  The beautiful moment captured in the image speaks to me of love, that elemental love of Hades and Persephone or Cathy and Heathcliff so I’m entering my card in the Cheerful Stamp Pad’s Love / Valentine challenge.  And as I have an SVG cut, several skeleton trees in fact, I am also linking this at the current love challenge at Creative Cutting Challenge.

Now head on over to Simply Steampunk Challenges and check out what my awesome teamies have created using Simply B Stamps’ images and theme tragic love.  Hopefully you’ll be inspired to get steamy and create a project, remember you don’t need to use a Simply B Stamp, although we do love to see them, but you do need to create a Steampunk style project.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E11, E21, E50, E51, E53 (E02, E13 cheeks)

Lips E11, R46

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29, E49, T4, T6, T8, T10, 100

Persephone’s Dress BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29

Hades’ Outfit W00, W1, W3, W5, W7

Moon BV31, BV34, 0

Rocks W3, W5, W7, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel – Aged Ochre

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

The Crafter’s Workshop 6x6 Template – Mini Branches

Silhouette SVG – Skeleton Tree

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Mini Paper Blooms – Aubergine

Kaisercraft Paper Blooms – Aubergine

Prima Junkyard Findings – Heart Gears

Words or Whatever Chipboard – Cog & Gear Corner Flourish (small & large)

Inks & Paints etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Fabio – Tweedle Dee Denim

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst – Cocoa Bean Copper & Midnight Raven Rendezvous

Rub’nBuff – Spanish Copper

StazOn – Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Faded Jeans, Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain

Tim Holtz Distress Paint – Vintage Photo

Viva Décor Inka Gold – Graphite, Lava Red & Old Gold

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock – Kraft

BoBunny Woodland Winter – Frosty Morning

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace from LSS

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Hades and Persephone 1

Challenges

All Crafts Challenges February / March – Anything but a card

The Cheerful Stamp Pad #79 – “Love / Valentine”

Creative Cutting Challenge #27 – Love

Thanks for stopping by!