wheels and cogs – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends! Happy Saturday!

Oh I had so much FUN playing around with all of the really cool “Steampunk” products! Today, I’m sharing this mixed media canvas project that I made:

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This was so much fun to just get “messy” and enjoy a different creative process other than making a card! If you’ve been around my blog for a while, then you’ve probably seen me share a different project from time to time. Sometimes I just like to ‘change gears’! Hahaha!

So I had this old 8″ x 10″ canvas laying around and thought it would be cool to take several chipboard pieces I had and make something. I started off by taking some wooden letters from my stash and gluing those on. I then took a stencil (gears) and randomly added embossing paste through it over the canvas. Once dried, I then painted over everything with some black gesso.

I’ve used several metallic paints from my stash and using my “finger tool” I went over all of the textured areas of the canvas and along the edges. I also used the paints to paint over the Chipboard Gear Background which was randomly cut out with my scissors and glued randomly over the canvas. At first I was thinking it was weird to mix the different color metallic together, but then thought that steampunk can sort of be like that anyway.

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What’s hard to capture in a photo is that Gilded Sparkle embossing powder over the wings! It’s stunning IRL! I’ve heat embossed the Chipboard Wings with it and then I heat embossed the Chipboard Key with the EP. I went around the edges of it with some silver metallic paint so that it showed up better against the black background.

For the image, I stamped the hat with black Ink onto an already cut out white Cardstock from the Steampunk Cut file. I colored it up with several different Aqua Pigments and sponged around the edges of it with some brown ink. I also took some Copper metallic paint and went around the edges too. I took the heat embossed wings along with that hat image and splattered them with some black paint as well.

The wings were attached onto the canvas with some black foam tape and then I curled the ends of them that are hanging off the edges. I attached the heat embossed key in the center of the wings and then added the colored image over top.

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For a little bit more texture on the canvas, I decided to take the EP to randomly heat emboss areas that were sprayed with water. The water was just so that the powder had something to stick to and then once heat set, I added more until I was happy with it. I like the look of the embossing where the spray marks are.

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Lastly, to finish it off, I’ve used the metal gears, ribbon (tied in bow over top of the key), gold pearls (painted in copper metallic paint), and sequins – as well as another gear (attached in the center of the ribbon bow) and a clock button (painted with black and metallic paints) from my stash that was all glued on. I also added some silver glitter to the center of each sequins.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my “Steampunk Mixed Media Canvas” today and were inspired in some way.

Thanks for dropping by! I’ll see you soon!

Challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner – Emboss It
Creative Moments – Anything Goes
A Inky Mess – Anything Goes Mixed Media
More Mixed Media – Anything Goes (optional bright colors)
A Bit More Time to Craft – Anything Goes

Hello friends! Welcome to the weekend! Hope you’re all doing well and have some fun plans! I have some happy craft time planned while hubby works overtime! 🙂

I am SO excited as yesterday afternoon I had time to play and I couldn’t wait to make something to share today with you:

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This was something a bit different for me as I don’t believe that I have ever gone in a “steampunk” direction before with my cardmaking, but I had so much fun putting the different metallic, sparkle and shimmer on this!

I started out with a white cardstock base A2 sized and top folding. I took a piece of masking paper and used a circle die to cut out an area. I used the negative of that piece to go over the entire front of the card base. I then took a Stencil along with the sample size glitter glaze from the kit and spread it over the circle opening on the card base. (Set it aside to dry.)

I then took some paper from the kit and used the embossing folder from the kit to get the texture and then sponged one some white Ink to bring out the texture. I also used a circle die cut a bit larger than the circle on the card base to make a frame with it. I attached the silver ribbon from the kit around the bottom of it and then attached the panel over the white card base.

Lastly, I colored the hot air balloon image from the stamp set with not only the Aqua Pigment, but also some other metallic Aqua Pigments like Penny and Brass! The roses were colored as well. There is a cut file for this stamp set, but I decided to just fussy cut around it this time. I popped it up over the card with foam tape. I then took some of the sequins from the kit and attached it randomly to the design.

The photo doesn’t do the sparkle and shimmer justice.

Here’s a closer look at the hot air balloon image along with the pretty sparkle from the Glitter Glaze. I like the different color metallic to play with!

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I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today. I had lots of fun playing around with it and I know that I’m not done yet! I have more ideas floating around in my head that I’d like to try, so stay tuned!

Thanks so much for dropping in today! I appreciate each of you very much and I’ll see you soon!

Challenges I’d like to enter this card for: