…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

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The worship which is Love, and see no more...

There’s a simply stunning new release over at Simply B Stamps of Abigail Larson images and today I have a project featuring Hades and Persephone 2.

I’ve fussy cut my image and mounted it on some grungy paper and then picked a more nature inspired designer paper for my background, although it too is a bit on the grunge side.  I’m loving FabScraps for this feel to their paper as it works beautifully with these Steampunk images.  With the decided grunge feel to this project I am entering it in the current Crafting Musketeers’ challenge.

As I am more drawn to the Victorian era style Steampunk and Abigail dresses her ladies in that style I used crochet for the line elements of the Outlawz sketch I followed to make up my Kraft album page.  And being Steampunk I had to add metal embellies but cogs and gears weren’t going to match so I’ve gone for florals instead.  While the rest of the elements are quite cool toned I think the contrast to the warm copper tones on the chippie works well.

I think this image perfectly captures the essence of the Hades and Persephone story, I imagine this scene to be when Hades first encounters Persephone and falls in love with her.  It’s that moment of suspense as two lips almost meet that resonates with love.  So I am also entering this at the current Oozak challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Lips E11, R46

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

Persephone’s Dress N0, N2, N4, N6, N8

Hades’ Outfit & Wolf BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29, 0

Ground Y32, Y26, YR31

Rocks W00, W1, W3, W5, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel – Aged Ochre

Embellishments

Chipboard Frame from stash

Close to my Heart – Filigree Charm Brad & Pewter Badge Buttons

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings – Foliage

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Antique Linen, Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain

Tim Holtz Distress Paint – Vintage Photo

Papers

FabScraps – Heritage Script 3 & Timeless Travel

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Black

Ribbons & Trims etc

BoBunny Lace – Natural Earth

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Steampunk Hades and Persephone 2

Challenges

Crafting Musketeers #9 – Grunge

Oozak #30 – Anything Goes/Love

Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Challenge

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