Happy Halloween! The Dream Team have been dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we've played along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team has been taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. They've really appreciated all of your kind comments, as this has been truly a challenge for many of them! For our final day, here is the post from Lyn Bernatovich:
The Raven
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
---Edgar Allan Poe
Quoth the Raven Nevermore has the creepiest sound to it, so I Googled its meaning and here it is:
Quoth
means said. So the line means, The raven said, "Nevermore." The
meaning of nevermore - never again, never in the future, never ever -
changes a little each time it is used.
My
card today began with the Stampendous raven and developed from there.
It is stamped on acetate with Ranger Archival black ink. I used alcohol
inks on the reverse side of the acetate to create a frame of purple
around the raven and then a mix of purples and silver mixative in the
center.
The
piece behind the diecut tree is vellum that was dry embossed with the
Dreamweaver Damask stencil (LJ907). On the reverse side of the vellum, I
used the soot Mini Distress pad and applied color in big streaks.
After it was dry, I tore it in half and tore the edges to create
unevenness.
The
Dreamweaver diecut tree (a personal fav), was cut using Core'dinations
sandables which is how the cool looking orange shows through. The same
sandables was used for the card base which is a purply color showing
under the black. The Dreamweaver Stencil bat trio stencil (LL525) was a
leftover piece from a previous card. Black jute (May Arts) was bunched
up and stuck behind the bat for further strangeness.
The Smeared and Smudged site have been offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we've been also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of this month! So, leave your comment below before heading over to the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the final creepiness!
Our final week of winners will be announced tomorrow on the Dream It Up! blog!
