Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Hello crafters! I hope you had a good weekend and that you are all well. Today I have a layered project to share, made with left-overs and lots of bits and pieces.

Our theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog this week is Movie Inspiration. Don't miss the last project by our October guest designer Alison Bomber and her blog Words and Pictures.

I was actually inspired by a book, but it is a book that has been made into a movie quite a few times, namely Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Yesterday, I completed an assignment for a story book design for this book, which meant that not only was it on my mind, but I also had a lot of bits and pieces, from printing, testing typefaces, color samples, and pieces I did for my mood board. I had such fun layering some of them together on this piece. Working with bits and pieces and left-over papers is one of my favorite things to do. I also used Tim Holtz ephemera and stamps.

The background is a piece of cardboard sized 8.2 x 10.3 in.

There are no step photos for this project, since most of the items were already done. Duality is a strong theme in the story and one of the dual things has to do with houses. So here I white embossed the house from Tim Holtz Sketch Manor on one side. And watercolor stamped it with Black Soot Distress Ink, on the other side. It is not an exact mirror image, but I didn't care about that. The white image was first inked with Black Soot, but I wanted a stronger black and misted it with Black Soot Distress Stain Spray instead.

I used some of the sentiments from Tim's Tiny Text Halloween and stamped them on left-over strips from my book project. The black splatters were done with a Scribble Stick.

I used some vellum in my project, which meant that there were pieces of vellum that I had tested printing on. There is a Halloween Baseboard piece above and below the vellum, creating dimension. The orange shade in the background is Rusty Hinge.

I also used Clippings Stickers from the Curiosities sticker book, mini staples and SSS gold sequins. 

The dual house effect is pretty cool. Since Mr. Hyde is actually not uninvited, but repeatedly invited by Dr. Jekyll (when he takes the potion repeatedly), I inked out the 'un' in the sentiment strip from Halloween Baseboards.

Lots of shades of orange here.

More printed vellum and a whole printed watercolor page showing through in the background. The orange title was printed on glossy paper.

I took care to let some of the words show.

The old photo also comes from Tim's Curiosities book. 

I hope you will join us this week in our Movie Inspiration challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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