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Sunday 19 August 2012

Dream Valley Challenge 39 - Steam Punk

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,

5 comments:

MagsB said...

Gosh, pet, that background paper is terrific! And the silver cog is ace - worth all the trouble of cutting it by hand! And how brilliant to re-use bits from your wedding, that adds such a lovely personal touch!

love Mags B x

Aunty Sue said...

Mel love your clocks and that cog I thought it was a diecut, Fab card again just love the image

Lynne in NI said...

FAB card Mel ... I wouldn't have had a clue where to start! LOVE your gorgeous BP, looks very professional!

Sally said...

A smashing card Mel & great steam punk style. Love how you've inked & stamped the background paper, it looks very effective. A gorgeous image as well.
Sally x

Plastic card said...

A unique way to make card! really like it. thanks for sharing.