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Quoth the Raven Challenge #42 "Dream On"

3/8/2015

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Welcome to Quoth the Raven's Challenge #42 "Dream On".  I had quiet a time with this one but in the end the Master's words gave me the answer.  In the poem "The Raven" the line "And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming..." there is was!  I took a humble pizza box bottom and lined with some papers from the "Once Upon a Time" stack that had fairies floating in the top edge.  I used the image of Poe and the raven bust from Ike's Art with half of Poe's face being slightly zombiefied.  Perfect for a bad dream, which I think the poor man had many.  I colored the image with Chameleon pens, fussy cut, and glued to a business card folded to make a stand.  I made four little books each with a title hand written  of one of his works and placed a feather into a piece of polymer clay for a quill pen and stand.  The other corner has a spool covered with paper with a lovely skull placed on top.  The box has some nice texture features to it.  I melted a brown crayon with my heat gun and went along the corners and where the papers joined.  It splattered and ran some but I really liked the effect.  I stamped some ravens on the background and then colored them with a black crayon after heating the stamped image...the color just glides on.. a little hard to control but again a nice effect.  Red acrylic paint for eyes of course  referencing the line from the poem.  I took foil tape and ran it through my embossing folder then cut in to two pieces and after pulling the backing paper off I put on the edges of the pizza box.  Then some brown acrylic paint rubbed on the embossed foil edge with my finger.  And so my Poe dream box is made!
You have all month to enter this challenge and we want to see your vision of this theme!
Happy Crafting and Dream On/Poe!!
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Kay Wallace link
3/8/2015 07:18:15 am

Never knew a pizza box could create such an eerie feeling in me, Nan, but your pizza box certainly does. Love the background paper you have used to "set the scene" here, and your excerpt from The Raven works perfectly--especially with the placement of it! Perfect focal image for this project. Very well done, my friend!

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Joanna
6/11/2015 05:42:34 am

The poem is one of may favourite ones

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