Hiya!
Hope you are all well :-)
It's time for another challenge at Dream Valley. Our challenge this time is:
STEAM PUNK
To be honest I've been dreading this challenge as I really haven't a clue! It's a fair distance from my usual style but I guess that's the point of a challenge, isn't it!
Here is my offering:
The image is called Steampunk Josephine and colouring her was probably the easiest part of this card! I have no steam punk style papers, embossing folders or dies cos it's not really my thing.... and I wasn't going to buy anything that I was unlikely to use again so I called upon my pal Stacey who does some fab demos at my local craft shop and she introduced me to some new techniques using distress inks so I could make my own background instead of buying papers!
I applied a couple of different shades of ink to my base card with sponges, sprinkled it with a little water and left it to dry.....
I then used a text stamp from Inkylicious in the lighter shade of ink.....
And then it was just layering on my other bits and bobs. The clock stamp only cost £1 from hobbycraft, so I didn't mind that. I cut the cog free-hand (yes! Free-hand! It took aaaaages!) from silver card, the gold wire and pearls were from one of the buttonholes from my wedding, and then a few brads and the image.....
Here's a close up of the image.....
Please pop over to Dream Valley and have a look at the beautiful creations the rest of the DT have made. They obviously didn't struggle quite as much as I did! :-)
Love 'n' hugs,
