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Cards and other handicrafts made by Jean Straw

Thursday 7 March 2013

Steampunk Birthday

This is the card that I have made for my son's birthday, I think it might appeal to his quirky sense of humour. The mechanical hat is from a Chocolate Baroque set called Steampunk travel. I stamped it with black Memento ink onto ivory card and coloured it with distress markers and Sakura  metallic pens. I trimmed it and edged it with a black marker and mounted it onto red Kraft core card from a Tim Holtz pad. The two green panels are cut from the same pad and embossed with a Tim Holtz  ATC embossing folder, and then the edges and embossing sanded back slightly to reveal the craft core. I fixed them to an ivory folded card  overlapping them at the centre and then stamped the birthday greeting in red ink in the top right hand corner. I glued a small clock face over the clock on the hat and then a gear over that. I stamped the wing again on a spare piece of card and coloured it with the gold pen and cut it out, and then glued it with silicon glue to raise it up slightly. I fixed the metal tassel to the lower corner before sticking the image panel to the center of the card with dimensional tape, and then added a couple more metal pieces to the bottom corner of the card.
I am entering this at. Crafty Cardmakers-Masculine Birthday featuring Technology or Gadget
                                Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenges-Add Some Metal
                                Anything Goes Challenge Blog-Make It Manly

Thank you all for visiting my blog and for your kind comments, all are much appreciated. Jean

11 comments:

  1. You've done well here Jean. I'm sure Shaun will love it. As you know, steampunk rather leaves me cold, but you have done a great job of crafting this one. Kate x

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  2. Fantastic manly card, its a great image.. Thank you for sharing it with us at CCM this time.
    Yvonne

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  3. Love the cute clock hat, thanks for joining us at CCM this week, jules:)

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  4. I love the way you placed the background elements & how you emphasized the image panel with your black outlining. The gold wing & wing nut bring out the sanded kraft core beautifully too. It's such a lovely masculine card & the added tassel is a super touch.
    Paula (PEP)

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  5. Hello Jean,
    Your son will love this card. It is so cool with the clock almost popping out. It looks so real. I have this tiny embossing folder but did not know what to do with it. Thanks for the inspiration. The metallic additions look perfect. Such a super male card and better be coz' it is for your son.
    Love,
    M

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  6. Great job! Thanks for joining in the challenge over at CCM and good Luck!

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  7. What a good use of the embossing folders and steampunk elements - thank you for sharing your card with us at Crafty Cardmakers.

    Jackie

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  8. Great card. I really like the image and the embossing and embellishments are great touches.

    Thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers.

    Feebsy
    xx

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  9. What a great card! LOVE your gadget hat and gears! Thanks for joining us at CCM! :)

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  10. This is great Jean! I love how you've put this together, and the hat with the clock face and wing looks fabulous. I've never seen the atc embossing folders - what a great size. Although I love to look at steampunk creations, I just don't know where to start with them so tend to avoid them altogether! Your son will love this!

    The quantities for the ice resin and hardener that I bought are equal - I used 5ml oral syringes to measure them out to make sure they were really accurate. I'm not sure if that goes for all resin and hardeners, but all the ones I looked at all seemed to have a 50/50 mixing ratio. I hope that helps!

    Take care Jean

    Maria xxxxx




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  11. Lovely use of charms Jean. Thanks for playing along with my masculine theme at craft cardmakers challenge this week.

    Rebecca x

    http://mellymoopapercrafting.blogspot.co.uk/

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