Du er mig saa smuk ved snee-lysets

Today is my last showpiece from the beautiful Fairy Tales & Myths’ collection at Simply B Stamps and features the lovely Snow Queen.

I decided to make a matchbox on which to place my Snow Queen, mostly because there’s a matchbox challenge over at the Flying Unicorn Forum and the image is so beautiful it deserved something more than a mere card.  Of course this is a Steampunk Snow Queen so my snowflakes include some tiny watch parts that I gessoed to look snowy.

I also applied a little gesso to the pearls and the snowflake I cut using a Spellbinders’ die.  The beautiful lace from Live & Love Crafts suited the image and feel I was going for perfectly.  With both my lace and pearls I am entering this in the current challenge at Time 4 Scrap.

This pretty little box needed some real bling to finish so my handle is made from a Swarovski crystal that I adhered to a Prima Junkyard Finding Facucet Handle, some more Steampunky metal goodness.  I love my metal embellies and metal also happens to be the current challenge at Top Tip Tuesday so I’m linking this up over there too.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53, (E02 cheeks)

Eyes BG05

Hair C00, C1, C3

Outfit BG000, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09, BG10, BG11, BG15, BG23

Hair

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Shapeabilities ~ Snowflake Pendant 2012

Embellishments

BoBunny Jewels ~ Frosting

Prima Junkyard Findings ~ Faucet Wheel

Swarovski Crystal

Watch Parts from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Claudine Hellmuth Studio ~ Gesso

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Faded Jeans & Tumbled Glass

Papers

BoBuny Snowfall ~ Flakes & Words

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Tumbled Glass

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

Ribbons & Trims etc

Baker’s Twine from stash

Live & Love Crafts Lace ~ Alençon

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Steampunk ~ Snow Queen

Challenges

Flying Unicorn MMU ~ Matchbox Alterations

Time 4 Scrap #36 ~ Pearls and lace

Top Tip Tuesday ~ Metal Or Faux Metal

Thanks for stopping by!

Warað Hine Wræclast

It’s challenge time again at Simply Challenged Challenges and this time the theme is layers.  My card features Jude Spook from the awesome A Roberts Halloween collection at Simply B Stamps, a gorgeous collection of Betty’s family all dressed up for Halloween as drawn by the talented Abigail Larson.

For my layers I decided to try distressing, I have a distressing tool somewhere packed away so I had to stick with a file (the round one I use to sharpen my scissors) and an emery board.  The ‘dirty’ look to the Black Widow paper collection from We R Memory Keepers worked well for the feel I was going for with my card.  I’ve also got layers on my flower, which actually started out life looking quite pretty but which I also distressed.  I couldn’t get the file to do much on the thick mulberry paper so I snipped the edges of the petals with scissors then attacked them with the file before spritzing with Smooch and adding Distress Ink to the edges.

To make up my card I followed the current sketch at Feeling Sketchy.  With the oranges and browns I’m entering it in the current My Sheri Crafts challenge.  As Jude looks like he could have wandered out of your nightmare I’m also entering my card at the Time 4 Scrap challenge.

And, in case you’re wondering, the title of my post is a quote from the Anglo-Saxon poem, The Wanderer, with his pumpkin light and long cloak Jude reminded me of a wanderer out alone in the dark so the quote seemed quite fitting.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E30, E40, E50, N0

Eyes E25

Lips E11

Hair, Cape (outside) & Shoes T6, T8, T10, 100

Cape (inside) & Pumpkin YR12, YR14, YR15, YR16

Pumpkin G21, G24, G28

Shirt N0, N1, N2, N4

Crook E23, E25, E27

Chalks & Inks etc

Pebbles Cream Chalks – Metallics

Smooch Spritz Gingersnap & Log Cabin

Tim Holtz Distress Inks – Black Soot, Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Embellishments

American Crafts Flower Shoppe – Irene

Papers

Core’dinations Cardstock – Grey

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Black

We R Memory Keepers Black Widow – Frightful, Happy Halloween & Screech

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Jude Spook

Challenges

Feeling Sketchy #68

My Sheri Crafts Challenge #118 – “Fall Colors”

Time 4 Scrap Challenge #14 – Dreams & Nightmares

Thanks for stopping by!