Inventor's Tin, Sunday Stampers wk 219 - Thursday 21st August

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!

The finished tin with it's contents

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!

the 'naked' tin!

Stamping rolled out clay with cog

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

Study in Silver - 3rd July Sunday Stampers wk 212

Hello Bloggers1


Today's project is my contribution to Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stampers Challenge and this week's theme is titled Silver Dream Machine and calls for silver creations - so silver it is! A grungy piece of Steampunk....

First of all, apologies for the photo...I just could not get it in focus because there was so much metal and reflection going on, so I hope you can actually see it!


I started with black card and inked all around with Perfect Medium clear to create a frame and then I heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I stamped the dress form in Perfect Medium too on white card and again embossed with silver. The stamps are all from Sam Poole's Steampunk Dreams stamp set by Creative Expressions...I do really love this stamp set! I added a few metal watch parts to the form and then die cut the wings and butterfly (wings) from  Spellbinders Wings of Hope using silver craft foil. A butterfly was then cut from Spellbinders Flight of Fancy. I did actually emboss this with a That Special Touch of... Cog Mask but it doesn't show in the photo unfortunately.


To finish I stamped and embossed a sentiment from the same stamp set.


Thanks for stopping by!

This is my contribution to Sunday Stampers Week 212 Silver Dream Machine

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Steampunk Circles - Tuesday 22nd May

Hi Blog Friends,

Isn't it lovely now that the sun is shining again? I was so happy to see the sun still warm in the sky when I got home from work last night, that I took this project outside in the garden  to photograph it!

I created this piece of art work on Sunday, for Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stampers week 206 challenge, the theme of which is Circles; it was fun and I had no idea where I was going when I started out! I die cut 3 large circles and punched 2 deckle edged circles, all with various pieces of kraft card card I had in my stash. I stamped the cogs from Sam Poole's 'Steampunk Dreams' stamp set, very faintly on one circle and I also stamped the mechanical bug from the same set (he has a round body, I had to!) and "Dare to Create' on another. That stamp and the flower are both from Sam Poole's 'Steampunk Flowers' set.


Having stamped the circles I then spent quite a bit of time distressing them with a mixture of Wild Honey and Tea Dye Ranger inks. I had seen Hels' demo-ing the flower on C&C at the weekend and have the tut from her blog. The demo reminded me that I hadn't made a flower like this in a while, so I was determined to incorporate one on this piece, but I had to adapt it to the stamp I wanted to use, which didn't have the same effect because the petals were closer together and harder to manipulate. I stamped the on grunge paper and also distressed it. After I had made it and stuck it together with Cosmic Shimmer glue, (which is my favourite glue, I use it all the time!), instead of teasing the petals back,  I painted them with some Glossy Accents and did the same to the bug.


To finish off I added a clock face, little brass cog,a faux screw brad and some rusty wire as the hanger. I then die cut some flowers using the smaller dies in the Peony set, distressed them and scrunched them.


It's a whimsy, I had fun making it and it will hang on my craft room wall!


Thanks for stopping by!
Carole X

I made this as my contribution to
Sunday Stampers Challenge - Week 206: Circles
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