Poe in Paris

Just a book I altered and entitled "Poe in Paris".  What if Poe met the Raven in Paris on a rainy October evening?  What if the Raven befriended him and then slowly drove him mad?  That's what this book is about........

All of the pages are original digital artwork.  Some of the pages were covered with fabric, lace and burlap.  Silver and orange glitter leaves have been glued between the pages.

Poe and the Crow.......

H is for Halloween! I created this tag with chipboard, Photoshop (the hat on Poe as well as the witch hazel label is from Tumble Fish Studio), die cut suede flowers and a green leather leaf and glittery "H".

Call him a raven or a crow or a black bird but wherever you call this guy just remember he's also a dreamer!  Isn't he hilarious with his top hat?  This pendant is 2 inches by 1.1 inches and is about 17 inches long.

Keep on Halloween decorating my little pumpkins!

B is for Bird (in English that is)

"B" is for "bird" and "M" is for the metal tape I created this piece with.  I like the worn industrial look that metal tape gives this piece.

This is the completed piece, it was created on an 8" by 8" piece of canvas board.  It truly is a mixed media piece, here are the materials used on it:  canvas board, chipboard, glass tile, metal key, metal brads, wooden yard stick, metal watch gears, glass bead, leather heart, metal watch face, metal tape, glue, book text, ink, rubber stamp, 8 oz. of Arizona Green Tea, a piece of celery with fetal cheese on it (the last two items are optional, it's what I ate while making this piece!)

 

 The bird, crown and scrolls were cut from chipboard, glued down and then taped over with the metal tape.

I created this embellishment buy cutting an old yard stick, stamping on it, swiping over it with distress ink and then covering a chipboard book plate with metal tape and then distressing it.  I added the metal piece at the top with 2 metal brads.

A small glass tile backed with a mini collage.....

 This embellishment is a leather heart stamped over with script text with a tiny distressed green leather leaf tied to it.  An old metal watch face was vintaged-up with mushroom alcohol ink and a sanded green metal brad.

How about that cool old rhinestone earring? That would kill the old lobes!  Looks like something Great Aunt Millie would have worn!  I think it looks better as an embellishment.

So you are probably wondering how I distressed this metal tape to give it that "beat-up" look.  It was pretty simple and also personally rewarding to me as I got some frustrations out on it.  After I covered the entire piece with the metal tape I took my Tim Holtz hammer with the nubby end and pounded he crap out of the metal tape (that's what gave it the round indentations), if you don't have one of these hammers then you can use the rounded stylus end of a paint brush, tip of a marker cap or basically any thing that will make an indentation.....just experiment, you really can't screw it up!  Next I used a tracing wheel to make the dotted line indentations and my fingernail to make the random straight indentations here and there, then I chewed on a corner....not really, I was just seeing if you were paying attention.  To get the blackened areas, using a black copic marker, I colored the entire piece (I did 1/4 at a time), making sure to really get around the raised areas, then I took a piece of fine steel wool and sanded off as much of the black as I liked leaving most of it around the raised areas to give them definition.  Lastly, I glued on all of the embellishments and glued a hanger onto the back of the piece.

Hey, let me know if you've used metal tape in a project or if you plan to in the future!