Dragonsdream TIO - nightmare

Hello there, Wilbear here with you to take the challenge from Dragonsdream TIO




The theme this week was Nightmare, and the ingredients were, a murder of crows, a blue moon, and a chill wind. Well, being a fan of Edgar Allan poe's gothic tales, and dark artwork, this really appealed to me. Being afeared of birds really helped, as to bears they really are a nightmare, and of course crows are the scariest of all. This is what I produced.




murder of crows: birds in flight, top right-hand corner of tag, stamped repeatedly
Blue moon: nestabilities circle inked and distressed
Chill wind, tree branches and large crow's feathers blowing in the breeze
To make the moon, I used the smallest of our Spellbinders Nestabilities circle dies, which I cut with the trusty Cuttlebug.




I used blue and brown distress inks




First I inked the moon in a straw colour




Then re inked it in blue, as I remembered the ingredient was a blue moon!




I then inked my tag in the blue distress inks, broken china for the inner and sapphire for the outer




For my murder of crows, I used this miniature stamp of birds in flight repeatedly over the top right side of the tag, yikes, scary stuff.




I printed a sentiment and inked it. my sentiment was taken from one of Ted Hughes's series of works entitled Crow. It reads 'A horror beyond redemption'. I added the word 'crow' as it appears in many of these works.




I then distressed the sentiments with our natty little Tim Holtz distressing tool. I think the name is a misnomer though as it didn't distress me at all,




I glued my sentiment, and other ingredients, and placed them onto my tag




To produce this.




A close up of my moon and the murder of crows,




And a close up of the scary big crow next to a dark tree. I added 3d sticky pads to the crow, to make him really stand out, and depict how truly scary he is to us. The branches of the tree are bent to represent the chill wind, as are the crow's feathers.




I really enjoyed this challenge, thank you Dragonsdream for the inspiration.
I think I'll just sit and admire my tag a while. Until another bear needs to sit at the desk and craft.




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With love from the bears ��