Steampunk production at full steam

It's been a while I know but, this weekend I got a boot up the backside.  OK it was last weekend when hubby booked us to do a Steampunk weekend at the National Railway Museum in Shildon at the end of September.

This week I have made 15 cards (will be photographed later) 2 canvases, a pen holder, stand alone word and 4 plaques, (only two plaques included here as I stupidly decided to use glossy accents, so hopefully that will be dry by the end of September!!)

First up the two canvases, some of you may have seen the first one already as it was on FB last night.

Next up the two plaques

Now for the pen pot

Last but by no means least the stand alone word

I will be at the event in Shildon on the 27th September and possibly on the 26th as well.  Pop by and say hello, and have a peek at what my other half does for shits n giggles.



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Playtime with Sincerely Yours by Phill Martin products

I wanted to do something other than cards with Phill's products to showcase how they can be used in Home Decor and/or for altered pieces.

This first one uses his ink sprays to make the back ground, purples and a pink.  I sprayed a greyboard oversized tag till I was happy with the coverage and the colour.  I then stamped the dandelion clock twice in versamark and used Phill's purple cosmic shimmer embossing powder to add the contrast.

I stamped the sentiment onto a diecut shape that I had used a co-ordinating Distress Ink to colour as it was plain white.  I used versacolour dew drop ink and clear embossed.

I then went to town with the embellishments from stash.

This second piece is a hanging plaque, I used Cosmic Shimmer Chalk Paint in blue then Green to create the crackled background, I then used the Dragonfly Background stamp stamped in Archival and heat set it (I am the world's worst for smudging even fast drying ink!)  I set this aside and did the mini MDF Tag in the same way but used this for my Sentiment, which again was stamped in archival.  I then added the ribbon and the embellishments from stash, I then added a chain to hang it by.

The products used can all be purchased from Phill's shop Honeypot Crafts.



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Kanban Xmas Card

Below is a Christmas Card used making a topper from KanBan - you could win a selection of toppers and embellishment sheets from FoilPlay.co.uk by following this link Blog Candy and following the instructions.

I added the holly border with Spellbinder dies to cut a border in gold mirri.

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Blog Candy Alert!!!!!!!

As some of you may know I have been guest designing for Foilplay.co.uk  and others of you will know I celebrate my birthday this month.  The lovely lady, Gill James, who owns and runs Foilplay has kindly agreed to sponsor a blog candy giveaway and I thought I would do this so 5 lucky people can also have some birthday joy with me this month.

Here is a selection of the sheets you will receive (the bundles will vary, but there will be 20 sheets of mixed toppers, borders and embellishments).

The bundle laid out on the floor as that was the only surface big enough to show it ALL

The Christmas selection (10 sheets in total)

The Everyday Selection (10 sheets in total)

Over the coming days I will post various cards I have made from each set and link back to this post.

All I ask is that you leave a comment on this post letting me know what you're favourite occasion is to make a card for.

Good luck!  Winner announced on 22 November (not my birthday btw).



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Dragon's Dream TIO DT Piece - J & Diecuts

It's Eizabeth at the helm this time and she has chosen J and Diecuts.

For this tag I used an oversized chipboard tag and coated it in pale blue acrylic paint in an attempt to mimic the colour of those tacky tuxedos you see in movies.  I then used a music stamp with versafine lagoon blue to make the background.

The focal stamp is Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, a Stampsmith stamp I acquired recently, I stamped him in versamark and used  ranger black detail powder to emboss him and cut him out to mount using pinflair.  I used a cuttlebug cut and emboss folder to get the Pointy hand and used a die cut topper from KanBan to prove it was Jazz.

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Dragon's Dream TIO DT Piece - Rock n Roll

My turn for the recipe this time, I went with R and Music.  I have loved music all my life and will listen to anything.  My record (yes vinyl) and CD collections will lay testament to that.  I only object to that gangsta rubbish that calls itself dance music, you can't dance to it!

I started by going large, the full 12" remix version for me this time and got out the largest size tag I have which is from PaperArtsy and I'm sure Helen  could tell you the exact size and dimensions lol.

I embossed it with spellbinders embossability aptly titled music, and randomly blended in Distress ink in Picked Raspberry, Faded Jeans, Spun Sugar and shaded lilac, as I wanted that 50's bubblegum type look to it.  I used KanBan for the stamps, the music notes and piano keys, which I stamped in Versafine Onyx black.  I again went to KanBan as I had had these toppers representing images that epitomised Rock n Roll and the record.

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Emergency Crafters DT Piece - Polkadot

For this month's challenge I have used a Polkadot C5 card blank from Kan Ban.  I used a strip of matching ribbon from Dovecraft and a Topper and Sentiment from Hunky Dory.

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