American Crafter: Edgar Allan Poe Inspired Halloween

Everything Under Moon is competing in American Crafter!!

Amy of Naptime Crafters is hosting the 3rd edition of American Crafter and I was chosen as a competitor!! I am so excited to be taking part in the contest and competing with such talented women!  Nothing better then competing during the Halloween season with so many fun crafts to do!!

For my submission, being the geek for classics that I am, I decided to put a twist on Halloween and go classically creepy! Edgar Allan Poe is well known for dark and macabre stories that portray a sense of fear and mystery and he has written som eo fmy favorite works. I decided to use his stories to bring out all the darkness and dread associated with Halloween. I did this by using his stories in a few smaller projects to make one big one.

First there are the frames. The Raven, his most famous work, is used in a framed picture ...well a framed mirror, really... the frame for The Raven is actually a $1 store mirror with scrapbook paper and a bird cutout mod podged onto it. The Tell Tale Heart was next with a framed heart and the word, "thump" to remind us of the beating hear under the floor boards that just wouldn't stop.  Next I portrayed his dark story of the Masque of the Red Death with a framed mask. The red death is represented by the presence of the red frame.

I was lucky enough to find the perfect image in a google search that displayed a creepy skull with the name "poe" inscribed on his head. I put thimage on a tile to really give a Halloween feel with the addition of branches giving off a feeling of looming dread.

Finally, the white pumpkin with the simple word "Nevermore." An important detail to Poe's most famous work, The Raven.

I very much enjoyed this challenge and taking a different twist to traditional Halloween using a skull, an ominous bird, and a dead beating heart!

Hope you enjoy!!  Head on over to Naptime Crafter and vote!!! :)
(Voting ends Sunday Night at 8pm)

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