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
Prima Junkyard
Findings – Heart Gears
Words or Whatever
Chipboard – Cog & Gear Corner Flourish (small & large)
Inks & Paints
etc
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
Challenges
Thanks for
stopping by!