Hello my true crime friends. Our journey today takes us to the state of Tennessee. Fun fact, my two oldest children were born in TN. Not fun fact, our true crime story today is listed as one of the states most gruesome crimes. This crime did involve the death of children, so if that is too much for you, and I totally understand that, please just read the coloring stuff.
The stamp set I choose for the card today is a Gerda Steiner stamp called Lovely Pandas and can be bought here:
I also used the Spellbinders layering Labels 8 to trim down the card panel. You can get them here:
This card required a little thinking before I began stamping. I wanted to stamp the sitting panda on top of the pile of hearts and add some grass with an old Stampin Up set to the background.
I stamped the panda first and them stamped and cut out a mask. I used Inkadinkado masking paper for that.
Then I stamped the pile of hearts and their mask and added it on top of the bear.
When all the masking was complete I stamped the grass on top of the whole bottom 2/3rds of the card panel. There will be a gap between the masks and the grass, but I will fill that in with my coloring.
After I got the grass all stamped, I ink blended the sky blue with a large blending brush and some Simon Says cloudy sky ink. The magic in masking is when you finish the top stamping or inking and remove the masks.
My copic colors were very few this card.
Greens: YG 17, YG 25, YG67
Reds:R24,R46, R59, R89
Tan: E31, E33, E51, 0
Black/gray: W9, 7, 5, 3, 1, 00
After I completed all of the coloring, I ran the panel through my Empress die cutting machine with the 2nd largest of the label 8 dies.
The card assembly was pretty simple for this card. I just added the panel with some double sided adhesive with my ATG runner. It's my favorite tape runner. You get a little time to fix things if they're not just right, but after it's stuck, it holds really well. And the roll has a ton of adhesive.
You can get it here:
And here is the finished card.
Now on to the crime. The Cumberland Mountain Axe Murders as this event has been dubbed, occurred in 1846. Edward O'Neal and his wife Sarah and 5 of their 6 children were killed by being bludgeoned with an axe and placed in the cellar of their one room log cabin. Then the cabin was burned to the ground.
Their oldest daughter was the only survivor, and soon became the main suspect. Well, her and two young married men, William and Nicolas, who lived in the area.
It's a crime where most of the records are lost, with the exception the apelet opinion of one of the state supreme court justices. So the details are sparse, the crime was gruesome, and the story can be listen to here:
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