A Little Bit of Steampunkery

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all well and safe wherever you are tonight.

Tonight I am sharing a 60th Birthday card for one of our best friends. He loves cars and motorbikes and is a proper mans man so I wanted something with this in mind.

The image is a copyright free one from the Internet and the backing papers are Mike Deakin Art Steampunkery digi downloads. I printed a greeting and inked it with Tim Holtz distress ink in brushed corduroy and added a few die cut cogs that I have added rust paint to. The reason I used red card to mat the images was purely because Paul loves red.

Have a great week everyone

Take care

Gill xx

Steampunk Monolith

Hi Everyone,

Something a little bit different for you today. I love the monoliths from Visible Image and am sure I shared a couple of Christmas ones I made in December.

Last night I came across some MDF cogs that I had bought at a craft fair yonks ago and really wanted to make something with them. So a lot of cogitating later a light bulb moment materialised, the result being a steampunk monolith.

Along with the MDF monolith, heart and Cogs I used:

• Tim Holtz and Docrafts spritzing inks in gold, silver, turquoise and black
• Red Promarker to colour the heart and covered in Tim Holtz distress crackle paint
• Artful Days angel wings and brass embellishment
• Graphic 45 sentiment tags from the Typography range 

I love how it has worked out and really hope you do too.

I am going to pop this in the following Challenge Blogs

Crafting When We Can - Anything goes

Altered Eclectics - Altered Art

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Wings

News Flash

Hi Everyone,


Exciting news to share with you today Linda Simpson is opening a wonderful new craft business called Emerald City Crafts UK on etsy. She has launched her first two paper packs and digi images and she has asked me to be a design team member which I am absolutely delighted about.

The first two themes are Steampunked and Les Beaux Oiseaux


Linda's Esty store link is here so take a peak and treat yourselves you won't be dissapointed.

Here are just a few designs I have created but watch this space for much more

This is a card using one of the beautiful backing papers and stunning toppers

For this I used an MDF butterfly and matted another fabulous backing paper from the A4 pack. It was finished off with the word love and some paper flowers from my stash

This canvas is using the Steampunked range papers and topper. I die cut some cogs and added some bits and bobs in the background but I am sure you will agree the fabulous topper makes it. The papers tear and ink up perfectly

Just look at this amazing Victoriana topper matted on purple dotted and sepia ephemera papers. Finished off with some matching ribbon and flowers from my stash this is the perfect ladies card proving that steampunk is for all.

I am so happy to be on the design team. Apart from working with Linda getting to design with these superbly high quality papers is such a joy. Linda also has smaller packs of digi's for you to print so whatever your budget you can afford to buy as little or as much as you want. Give them a go you really won't be dissapointed.

I would love to get your feedback if you have a minute to comment

Take care

Gill xx