SDC175: In the words of Edgar Allan Poe

Kay is our hostess this week and she has a fun challenge for us this week over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge:

My challenge this week is a simple one, but requires a bit of research on your part.  Just as many of the Stampotique Originals' artists design stamps that might be described as a bit "quirky," so, too, was Edgar Allan Poe a bit quirky.  He is a well known author and poet, living from 1809-1849.  His quotes range from the romantic to the melancholy, and from the thoughtful to the murderous!  The choice is yours.  Allow yourself some time this week to combine a quote from Edgar Allan Poe with one or more stamped images to create something unique!

 This was not an easy challenge for me as I don't know a lot about Edgar Allen Poe so I used my handy dandy google function and came across one of his poems.

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow-

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flow away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand-

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep-while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

So with that poem, I found the perfect stamp for one of the quotes within the poem.  I decided to stamp it directly on my cardstock and then stamped my image and paper pieced her.

I used the Mojo 368 sketch for my card except turned on its side.

Hope you will join us for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge this week for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

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Card details:

Stamps: 12003 Dreamer by Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Basic Gray, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Portebello Rd.

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers

Embellishment: typewriter