When her robe is unfurled…

There’s an awesome new Steampunk release over at Simply B Stamps, Dark Stories and Tales by Abigail Larson, and I’ve got the stunning Tattooed to share today.

 
This image needed a stage worthy of how spectacular she looks so I’ve gone off the page to make a wall plaque featuring an elaborate set of opening doors.  Well, OK, they are the Twiddleybitz Opening Gates but I think they work just as well as a set of screen doors.  I’ve aged up my doors with loads of inks and modelling paste and rusting powder and then gone to town with my flowers and metal embellies.

And here it is with the doors open.

And a close up of the gorgeous image.

The current theme over at PunkyouGirl is sexy/steamy and I think this image is just that, especially partially concealed behind the screen doors.  I imagine she is getting ready for a performance where you get to see just how much of her is tattooed so I am entering my plaque over there.

While this imagine isn’t quite a girl with a dragon tattoo she is tattooed and a girl so there’s somewhat of a link but even if there’s not enough of one this is a Steampunk themed project so I’m also entering it at Left of Center.

This month’s theme over at SanDee & amelie’s Steampunk challenge is to use shades of grey, blue and rust.  I’ve got a love hate relationship with rusting powder, I love the effect but I hate trying to get it to work!  So I’ve just used it on my doors and left my metal embellies as they were, except for my chandelier which I have patinaed and wet embossed and glossy enamelled.  I have spritzed my flowers to be a rusty colour and the base plaque is also a lovely rusty orange.  I mixed these up with some grey roses and for my blue I have coloured up the lovely Tattooed’s dress in blues.  I did do the curtain in red but it really needed that dramatic red background and it makes a nice contrast to the mostly rust colours.  You can’t see much of the stencilling I did with embossing paste but I still like the effect although I could have placed the stencil higher to avoid the horizontal line and to cover the top of the plaque but way too late to fix that now.

The SBS DT have done some amazing projects with these images, go check them out and leave them some love, check out the SBS blog or else see the list of DT  blogs below.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E27

Lips R29

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

Curtains R24, R29, R46, R59, R89

Floor E30, E31, E33, E35, T4, T6, T8, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Ochre

Perfect Pearls ~ Pewter

Twiddleybitz ~ Rusting Powder

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Memory Box Stencil Texture ~ Shine

Embellishments

I Am Roses ~ Mini Mulberry Variegated Black Brown Roses (coloured with Smooch Spritz Ginger Snap) 
Kaisercraft Mini Paper Blooms ~ Coconut (coloured with Various Inks C5)

Petaloo Darjeeling ~Wild Blossoms Paprika (coloured with Smooch Spritz Ginger Snap & Log Cabin)

Petaloo Penny Lane Garden ~ Forget Me Nots Antique Beige (coloured with Smooch Spritz Ginger Snap & Log Cabin)

Prima Flowers ~ Le Mia

Prima Shabby Chic Metal Treasures ~ Chandelier

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Chain Tassel, Game Spinners, Jump Ring, Mini Gears, Sprocket Gears & Timepiece

Twiddleybitz ~ Opening Gate

Inks & Paints etc

Inkssentials Enamel Accents ~ White

Sharpie ~ Silver Metallic

Smooch Spritz ~ Ginger Snap & Log Cabin

Spica ~ Gold & Silver

Prima Ingvild Bolme Chalk Ink ~ Rusty Bucket & Teal Damask

Studio 490 Embossing Paste ~ Black & Silver
Tim Holtz Distress Stain ~ Tarnished Brass

Vintaj Patina ~ Aged Bronze & Verdigris

Papers

BoBunny Ephemera ~ Somewhere In Time Chipboard Plaque

Ribbons & Trims etc

Hug Snug Seam Binding Ribbon ~ Chalk White (dyed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Iced Spruce)

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Steampunk ~ Tattooed

Challenges

Left of Center #33 ~ ‘At the Movies’

PunkyouGirl #13 ~ Sexy/Steamy

SanDee & amelie’s Steampunk ~ Shades of Grey, Blue and Rust
Hop List

SBS

Corinne 
Celina 
Irene 
Emily (me) 
Rebecca
Tanja
Kay
Louise
Lisa H

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…of my lost love

I have a bit of a different project today, this will form one page in my new Tim Holtz folio collection and it features the stunning Ligeia image drawn by Abigail Larson and available at Simply B Stamps.

Over time I hope to fill my folio with pages featuring other images inspired by the writing of Edgar Allan Poe, the cover will feature the author himself.  Fortunately both Abigail and Betty are Poe fans so there are a range of images among the many Steampunk collections at Simply B Stamps.

Quoth the Raven’s current challenge is Poe-Cabulary requiring a project inspired by Poe’s writing.  You can’t get more inspired than a page from a book of Poe, which is what my project is.  The image is from the short story Ligeia and I have coloured it based on the description in the story, I just wasn’t game to try and draw in the jetty black arabesque figures but I did soften the cloth of gold walls with some grey chalk to give the impression of ghastly lustre from the leaden window pane.  There wasn’t a description of the colour of the gown Rowena wore so I went with blue and I didn’t go over her with the chalk so she would stand out from the rest of the scene.

The current theme at SanDee & amelie’s challenge is your favourite technique.  Not sure I can pick between distressing and Fran-taging so I’ve got both on this project.  I love how just a subtle use of Fran-tage adds so much pop to a project and I have a real thing for distressing.  I don’t distress every project I do, I love to mix things up and use different styles, but I do go through distressing phases.  I think there will be a fair bit of both distressing and Fran-taging in my little book of Poe when it is eventually finished.

PunkyouGirl’s current challenge is lavish lace and I have both real lace and a lace die cut so I am also entering this over there.
 
Ingredients:

Copics

Ligeia W00, W1, W3

Rowena B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, C00, E02, E43, E50, E51, E53, Y11, Y26

Room B000, BG10, C00, C1, E42, E43, E44, E47, E49, Y00, Y11, Y15, YR23, W00, W1, W3, W5, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Chunky White

Pebbles Chalk ~ Basic & Metallic Cream

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Sizzix Thinlits ~ Damask & Scallop Borders

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ A2 Curved Matting Basics

Embellishments

Mini Mulberry Roses ~ Variegated Black Brown

Over the Rainbow ~ Gears

Prima Vintage Trinkets ~ Finnabair Mechanicals ‘Love’

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Mini Gears

Inks & Paints etc

Inca-Gold ~ Graphite

Smooch Spritz ~ Mossy Mist

Tim Holtz Distress Inks ~ Black Soot, Tea Dye & Vintage Photo

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Picket Fence

Papers

Core'dinations Graphic 45 Timeless ~ Burnt Sugar Clocks

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

Marion Smith Nirvana ~ Cloud 9 & Photo Op

Prima Londonerry Collection ~ Pickwick

Ribbons & Trims etc

Live & Love Crafts Lace ~ Empress Alexandra

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Steampunk ~ Ligeia

Challenges

PunkyouGirl #11 ~ Lavish lace
Quoth the Raven #31 ~ Poe-Cabulary

SanDee & amelie’s Steampunk ~ “Your Favourite Technique Goes Steampunk”

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