Til Death Do Us Part - Idea-ology Coffin 3

For the final installment of my Widow Bride Coffin Vignette, I have two versions to share. The original version that Tim showed in the Facebook Live Idea-ology reveal is a bit simpler and I have a photo of that version at the end. But this is my version with some added details. 

Before I begin the tutorial I thought I would put a link here for you to see the loop of the inspiration bride, Constance Hatchaway, in her area of the attic in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. If you aren't familiar with her it might help you understand this piece a little more.

 

In the lower portion of the vignette, we covered yesterday the mantle shelf, candles and such. So I am going to pick it up with the additions in this area. I decided I wanted to add a few things that hinted at death and murder, so I added a bottle of poison and funeral urn.

This poison bottle was easy enough to make. I put a few drops of Black Soot Distress Paint into one of the Tiny Vials. Then I brushed the outside with Distress Collage Medium to make it look frosted and even a little dusty.

I tied a bit of the Halloween Trims twine around the neck of the Tiny Vial and instead of a cork, I put an Antiqued Gem in the stem to dress it up a little. I did antique it a tiny bit more by lightly brushing a bit of Mushroom Alcohol Ink on the gem. I adhered it into the neck of the vial with Distress Collage Medium and let it dry.

One last thing I wanted to add was the word poison or something indicating poison. So I grabbed a few of the toxique and poison bits from the Ephemera Snippets pack and I cut them up to fit on the Tiny Vials. You will see I made several of these as I was trying to figure out how many I wanted to use. I finally settled on just the one, but I have saved the extras for other projects.

Here you can see the Funeral Urn in place. I was kind of imagining it holding the ashes of her latest deceased husband (the one sitting above her in the attic.)

I began by taking a small apothecary vial and removing the cork. I adhered this Fluted ring from either the Ring Fasteners or the Fluted Fasteners They both have this part. I adhered the fluted part to the top of the vial with Distress Collage Medium, and then attached the Hitch Fastener to the top as a handle on the lid. Once they were dry I painted over the entire thing with Pumice Stone Distress Paint.

Then I attached one of the smallest Adornment Stars to the front of the urn. I brushed Black Soot Distress Paint over the entire piece and lightly wiped it off the high points so that details showed.

Here you can see two things, how the black paint settles in the recessed areas and why I never bother to get a manicure. LOL! My fingers look like this most of the time.

Then I painted one of the bases from the Vignette Finial Sets and added a little detail with a piece of the Halloween Trim Tape.

I wanted more Mourning Drapery so I colored more Mummy Cloth to drape over the base that the urn would sit on.

An there you have it. The finished urn in place, ready for mourning.

Moiving on, I needed to mirror the wedding flower arrangement on the other side of the coffin. The dead plant is another Broom from last year's Idea-ology Halloween release. I sprayed it with a bit of Black Soot Distress Spray Stain so it looked even darker and attached it in the Relic.

I colored the Bouquet flowers with Pumice Stone and some brown Distress Inks. I also used aged the Grave Relic holder with some Black Distress Paint and then wiped it away.

You may also notice that I added a spider adornment in the corner there to again, mirror the one on the backside, hinting at her black widow nature of killing her husbands.

From this angle you can see that as with the wedding side, I adhered a Metal Gate and draped it with Mummy Cloth and adhered these black florals instead of the pearly ones on the wedding side.

To make the funeral flowers gather the Hickory Smoke Distress Glaze, Distress Collage Medium, and some Heirloom Florals. I picked the blue ones for this technique because I felt it would be the best base color to get a funeral feel.

Attach the florals to chipboard or a wooden stirrer. Then brush some Collage medium onto each flower.

Once the flower is covered, cover the flower in Distress Embossing Glaze and let it dry.

Once it is dry, heat emboss it and there you have shiny funeral flowers. You can repeat this in areas where you want it to be a little darker.

And here they are in place. It is difficult to see but I have one on the gate, two on the left side and one on the right side of the mantle by the candle.

I wanted to add one more piece that would be kind of hidden even though it is prominent in the attic scene with Constance actually holding the hatchet.  

Here is a bit of trivia for you. When they reworked the attic scene in 2006 with this version of the attic bride, they supposedly took inspiration from the stretching portrait with the older woman sitting nicely in the photo and as it stretches it is revealed she is sitting on her husband's tombstone with a sculpture of him with a hatchet in his head. That is where this Constance Hatchaway story supposedly came from.

If you look at the base of the funeral urn you will see I made a little hatchet.

I just wanted something simple and understated to tie in the story.

I took and Index Clip and attached it to a toothpick, then I trimmed the end with my Tonic Scissors. I brushed a little bit of Transluscent Grit Paste onto it and then wiped some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it to age it. Super simple, but it ties in the hatchet part of the story.

Then not to make it too prominent, I just tucked it behind the fence so that someone who is paying attention to details would see it.

That is the second and final version of this piece, but I sent the simpler version below, to Tim Holtz for the Halloween Ideaology reveal. I know not everyone is in to all the crazy details I am so I felt a more straight-forward storyline would be best for that setting. In the version below I only put candles on the mantle and centered the paper doll so she was most prominent.

If you look at her face, you can see just the hint of a smirk...I thought she was just perfect for Constance. You might notice that her dress is particularly shiny. The grey in it was not working for me with this piece, so I colored it with the Distress Embossing Pen and then covered it with Distress Embossing Glaze in Hickory Smoke. That gave it a great color and it also added to her sturdiness as I needed her to stand tall in the middle of this piece.

I think that is just about every detail I can share with you about this project.

Thank you for checking out the different parts of this piece. A lot went in to the making of it and I wanted to be sure I covered the different parts in case there were questions.

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Thank you!

Tami

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