Good afternoon blog friends,
I don't a lot of time to take part in as many challenges as I'd like most of the time, but one I don't like to miss is Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stampers. This week I have to confess to doing the happy dance when I saw the theme is Steampunk...love it! Then I realised that quite often recently, my project for this challenge has had a steampunk theme or element to it, so what could I do?
Lately I have been making quite a bit of feminine steampunk, so straightaway I wanted to make a masculine project this time and I was looking at the image of an inventor on one of my Sam Poole Creative Expressions stamp sets, which gave me an idea...a rusty old tin for an inventor to keep his bits in!
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| The finished tin with it's contents |
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| Finished tin with it's contents - sorry about the quality of this piccie folks! |
This project started out with a little tin that came with mints inside. I covered it with clay, the air drying variety. Oven baked may have been better, but I didn't have any! I rolled out the clay to a little larger than the tin and then stamped it with a few cog stamps from the Creative Expressions Inventor set and left it to dry overnight. Meanwhile, using Debbi Moore's Metal Magic I stamped a few more cogs and cut them out, plus the word 'Inventor'. I also stamped some script stamps from various stamp sets and the steam train plans from the Creative Expressions Vintage Illusions set and inked them to age them with vintage photo. I also used one of Tim Holz Ideology little bottles and put a few bits of Metal Magic inside to look like metal shavings, curled some rusty wire to look like a spring and added a little piece of Ideology film strip. I also stamped a label from the Inventor set for the top of the tin and added a few faux screw brads.
Once the tin had dried out, I used bronze Rub n' Buff to really shine and grunge it up, so that it looks like something really old and battered - hope it worked!
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| the 'naked' tin! |
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| Stamping rolled out clay with cog |
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| adding rub 'n buff to the dried clay |
So there it is, my Steampunk project for this week's Sunday Stampers Challenge and it was a lot of FUN!
Thanks for stopping by!
Carole X
