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The Shades of Night - Scraps of Darkness

By: MelindaK
20-Oct-12

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First I want to say that this is IN NO WAY religious, it's about an emotional state. Ok, now that that's out of the way, lol. I'm having some negative things going on in my life, and I just wanted to express some of the way I'm feeling on a layout. The lo is named after a song I love by Machine Head, and it's very heavy, literally! The background paper is glued onto a solid peice of chipboard, and the bracket shape was traced onto a solid sheet of chipboard then covered in modeling paste, so it's got some weight to it. And I did a little bit of distressing by fire on the black cardstock.
The photo is actually of a beautiful white resin angel in my garden. At Halloween, she always leaves the garden to watch over the little graveyard we make up (which explains the rat at the bottom of the photo). I was playing around in PSE awhile back, and applied a negative effect to it and a few other things, and thought it looked neat. And it turned out to be the perfect pic for what I wanted to do with this.
Anyway, this was done with the October Scraps of Darkness kit, Morticia's Wish.
Thank you for stopping by, your comments are always appreciated!

Products Used

The Crafter's Workshop - 12 x 12 Doodling Templates - Orchid $7.49 Sale : $6.75	Petaloo - Expressions Collection - Feathers - Black and Grey $2.99	Petaloo - Penny Lane Collection - Floral Embellishments - Forget Me Nots - Silhouette $4.99
Ranger Ink - Inkssentials - Dylusions Ink Spray - Black Marble $4.99	Ranger Ink - Inkssentials - Dylusions Ink Spray - Crushed Grape $4.99	Ranger Ink - Stickles Glitter Glue - Black Diamond $1.99
Teresa Collins - Blingage Collection - Zach's Book Plates - Silver Item Discontinued	Tattered Angels - Glimmer Glaze - Oil Slick Item Discontinued

Other Products: Scraps of Darkness Morticia's Wish Kit.

Comments (28)

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	By cardgirl 24-Apr-13 Oh my, this is absolutely amazing!! Totally rocks, great photo & the skull is so cool! Wow... :)

	By Rubymillerand 04-Jan-13 This is absolutely gorgeous, Mel. Sorry to hear you're going through a rough time.

	By Nancola 03-Nov-12 Mel! this is beyond stunning!!! exquisite details for your amazing photo!!!! already a big FAVE~

	By SnowDog 27-Oct-12 Love it! The angel pic turned out so cool! And I love the texture in your modeling paste - awesome layout!

	By Mzule 26-Oct-12 This is just so beyond awesome Melinda! I think we all have dark moments but you have expressed it beautifully!

	By Asassyscrapper 24-Oct-12 LOVE IT! fave, too

	By Cwakerdog 22-Oct-12 The texture on this LO is phenomenal,,,wowza!

	By NYScrapMOM 22-Oct-12 Congrats on being featured in the daily gallery inspiration Email!!!!

	By Craftysprinkles 22-Oct-12 Very dark and mysterious!! Amazing job on this!! Love the texture as well!!

	By Drycha 22-Oct-12 stunning shades, Mel! love textures, colors Your angel, that skull... everything is perfect!!!

	By Violent Kittie 21-Oct-12 Amazing work, Melinda! I want you to make a tutorial on your fire technique ;)

	By Hpsavino 21-Oct-12 Beautiful LO! I love how the skull peeks out from behind the photo. Such gothic coolness!

	By C Mom Go 21-Oct-12 Love this! It really has a lot of depth and feeling. (hugs) fave

	By LynneJ 21-Oct-12 wow-this is so dark and moody-love the textures!

	By TracyChristine 21-Oct-12 Beautiful! Love all the texture!

	By NYScrapMOM 21-Oct-12 Love all the textures and the lovely skull you got hiding there!

	By Scraphouse 20-Oct-12 beautiful page, textures, colors, photo!

	By Shimmerlyscrappy 20-Oct-12 Wow amazing texture and how i love the photo and the dark spooky color and very artistic and very great idea

	By Tonys Page 20-Oct-12 Wow!!!! This is amazing in every way!!! You did express yourself perfect!!!! This page is so full of feelings and emotions!!! I love it!!! I hope you are feeling a little beter now.

	By Beeeceee 20-Oct-12 fabulous and mistic dark layers.. love it

	By Reneabouquets 20-Oct-12 Stunning and so very moving, Mel! The colors and the technique work look amazing and I love the effect you got playing around with the photo! Emotional and so very well done~

	By Jennythomas101 20-Oct-12 Love that dark side girl, this is amazing! I hate the yuck you are dealing with now, please know I am thinking of you and yours.

	By KathyinAlaska 20-Oct-12 Mel I am so sorry for what you are enduring right now. This piece speaks volumes about your emotions and is so well done!

	By Nkaigle 20-Oct-12 Amazing and stunning emotional expressionism!! WOW!

	By Cathioneill 20-Oct-12 Love all the techniques on here, very cathartic work I bet! Stunning!

	By SheilaMarie 20-Oct-12 Very Cool! Love the burnt distessing and texture...Beautiful color!

	By Raining 20-Oct-12 I'm speechless on this one Mel! Wow what an awesome background technique you used here! The angel looks perfect with the photo shop effect on this type of layout. Always the medicine for what disturbs us is to express it with our art. Awesome job!!!

	By BeverlyA75 20-Oct-12 VERY COOL!