QUOTH THE RAVEN CHALLENGE #3

We had some truly wonderful entries for our last challenge at QUOTH THE RAVEN.....thank you so much for sharing in our passion for Poe. Our new challenge is to take inspiration from Poe's last complete poem ANNABEL LEE ..... (I think its one of the most beautiful and moving love poems ever written....but i would, wouldn't i?)

So here's my piece depicting the story in a shadow box.(made from a deep frame, i added the compartments.)
The 4 images are from IKESART http://www.ikesart.com/#!__digital-art-stamps , the poem is from the internet, printed onto parchment. Each compartment is backed with dp that i stamped on and altered with distress inks.
Ikes lovely images are coloured with promarkers and crackle stamped over with tea dye distress ink....very subtle.....and the edges darkened with black soot. I made a headstone out of air dry clay.... big mistake....its taken 3 days to dry!..... also a stone window.... i used a cherrypie stamp for that..... but again it took ages to dry.
I have included loads of bits and bobs..... sea shells ....as the poem is set by the sea..... hearts, for love....flowers....buttons....feathers, little stones ....rings tied together, to symbolize marriage..... velvet ribbon, tuille..... and little candles.......
the images in the shadow box tell the story..... on the top.... Annabel ....beautiful happy and in love.... in the centre... left....becoming ill with the cold wind blowing.... on the right she lays dead...

on the bottom row, her grave and her love, alone waiting to be with her again.

I used a small angel in the corner.... it was a fridge magnet that i altered.

Sorry for the long post...... but this has taken me 4 days to complete..... i hope you'll have time this fortnight to join us..... with Valentines day just around the corner maybe you have a lost love to remember?A lot of us do.

I shall enter the following challenges.....

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/ RECIPE...TORN EDGES, DISTRESS INKS A BUTTON AND WINGS.....edges on the poem are torn... a button on the death bed....wings on the angel and distress inks all over!

http://www.lisasomerville.com/ ALTER IT

http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.com/ HOME DECORATION

http://www.creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.com/ INSPIRED BY LOVE

http://artwithnoboundaries.blogspot.com/ ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.com/ LOVE

http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.com/ ROMANCE

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ ANYTHING GOES.

THANKS FOR VISITING ME TODAY..... I HOPE YOU'LL JOIN ME TOMORROW FOR A 3 DAY BLOODY VALENTINE BLOG HOP...SMEARED AND SMUDGED STYLE!

love lynx