Steampunk Floral cards

I thought that I would share a few cards that I had made using the Steampunk Floral collection by Opulence by Design

On an 8x8 inch kraft card base I first  layered a piece of antique gold pearlescent paper and then for some texture, I used s piece of brown packing paper from recent Amazon delivery. This packing paper is not only quite sturdy but has a lovely ribbed texture and takes ink very well. I used my Treasure gold dinky inky from The Dreamees and was really happy with the results.

I printed out two of these design sheets so that I could cut out the metal picture frame and smaller elements, then decoupage them back onto a fresh sheet.  I used my stardust gelly roll pen to highlight the picture frame and the edges of the flowers.

I added a monocle die cut from my stash over one of the clock faces in the paper and created a metal-like sentiment using  Debbi Moore's metal magic.

Another large card and with this one I have used one of my Tattered Lace steampunk dies and my smallest embellishments to highlight its wings.

I have decoupaged the rose in the bottom left corner and cut out more of the leaves from the same design sheet as I wanted to use them around the large clock face and flowers. I also added acetate to the clockface to make it stand out more, especially as I was draping my flowers around it.

I made a few rolled roses to tie in with the pink flowers in the collection and created another metal-like sentiment that fits in with the steampunk theme.  This card is bound together with a rose ribbon to coordinate with the colour theme throughout.

Not sure we were all expecting snow in March, but there you go,  I'm glad I haven't taken the fleece off the plant pots in my garden yet, a shock to the daffodils out there!

If you've been crafting, what's been your craft table this week?  

Happy crafting

Challenges:-

Creative Fingers - ATG

Classic Design Challenge - ATG

A Perfect time to craft - ATG

CD Sunday Plus - ATG

Birthday card for a friend

Today I am sharing a birthday card made for a good friend of mine and linking it with our blog challenge on Let's Craft and Create's  friendship theme this month.

For my card I have used:-

• Tattered Lace Designer Vintage  - Foundation Doilies dies
• Tattered Lace Heart die
• Cream 240gsm card
• Katy Hudson - Sweet Nothings Collection
• Dreamees Something Stitchy flower stamp set
• Dreamees pretty pets backing paper from CD
• Piece of A5 orange card
• Peach ribbon
• metallic peach pearl gems

My card base measures 15.2cm in diameter, which is the largest doily die of this set, with the second largest layered over the top.

I have then used one of the smaller doily dies with some of the sweet nothing cardstock before the die cut heart in plain orange card (as an accent)and sweet nothings cardstock again.

Using the charisma pad, I die cut the "perfect pair" squirrels and the "sweet nothings" blue tits out. These are really pretty images . Katy Hudson is an illustrator based in Bristol who became obsessed with drawing animals and telling stories. The idea stuck, which led her to studying for a degree in illustration and creating some wonderful illustrations. These are just a few that she created for a papercraft collection on Create & Craft TV.

I printed out some backing paper from my Dreamees Pretty Pets CD to stamp my flowers onto as I knew it had the perfect paper I wanted for the flowers. I printed the flowers onto cream paper. I used two sizes of the something stitchy  flowers stamps and layered up my flowers to get plenty of dimension.

Have a look at the inspiration from the rest of the design team and what our crafters have been making for our blog challenge this month. There is a prize for the winning entry and a badge for your blog for the top 3 runners up.

.Happy Crafting

Michelle

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