Hello! My steampunk side has come out to play this week as I decided to something rather different with one of my fanciful flowers and see if it would work on a glam industrial style tag. Read on to find out how it came about and there aren't process photos here as it was a go with the flow project. There are close-up photos though.

Step by Step

I created the background by dabbing on patches of blue and patina metallic multi surface paints with ocean. I misted the paints with water, swirled a bit with a brush, added more water and allowed the colours to run down the tag.

I next used the large cogs and gears stencil with metallic bronze multi surface paint to add a pattern at the top and in the bottom left corner of the painted tag. I then rubbed the same paint around the edges of the tag and around the hole at the top, applying the paint quite thickly in places. I gave it a blast with my heat gun to make the paint bubble and add texture.

I made a piece of painted paper to stamp my chosen flower on, using a piece of mixed media paper dribbled with watered down chestnut brown and metallic bronze paints. I stamped on 2 whole flowers and 2 central areas with Archival Potting Soil ink and cut the images out.

I took a selection of greyboard cogs and painted these by dabbing on metallic blue, bronze, patina and purple multi surface paints together with a little chestnut brown.


I found a silver metal filigree butterfly lurking in my stash and toned this with the tag by painting with the same multi surface paints. I also altered a Tim Holtz quote chip with turquoise and antique gold paints, dabbing on with my fingers to create a sort of marbled effect.


I assembled my flower with 3D glue, rubbing antique gold and copper metallic paints around the edges to remove the white of the mixed media paper and glued a metal flower in the centre.


I glued all my embellishments in place, adding a metal corner and some more filigree metal floral shapes to finish off my steampunk glam look.


Supplies:

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Fanciful Flowers Set 1
That's Crafty! Surfaces - White/Greyboard Size 10 Tag
That's Crafty! 8 x 8 Stencil - TC8022 Cogs and Gears
That's Crafty! Bits and Pieces Greyboard Sheets - Large Cogs, Small Cogs
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints - Metallic Blue, Metallic Bronze, Metallic Patina, Metallic Purple, Chestnut Brown, Ocean
That's Crafty! Metallic Paints - Antique Gold, Copper
That's Crafty! Shimmer Paint - Turquoise
Tim Holtz Quote Chips
Extras - Filigree Metal Corner, Butterfly and Flowers

Hello
This week I am sharing a collage, a project which is very much about utilizing leftovers. On the day of making this, I only stamped the circles onto the panel, everything else had been stained, rusted, stamped previously. My leftovers and random fragments of this and that are very precious to me, allowing me to form a project when I might not be able to devote time and energy to the preparation. Of course, there is still time involved in assembling but I'm sure you all agree, this is therapeutic, time to lose yourself in the placement of each element.
Supplies

That's Crafty! Surfaces MDF Panels Pack of 3 4.5x9"
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Textures Collection Set 1, Set 3
PaperArtsy Eclectica ELB 29
PaperArtsy Eclectica EAB04
Memento Ink Tuxedo Black,  Rich Cocoa
Plaid Folkart Rust Finish Kit
That's Crafty! Metallic Antique Gold Paint
Gesso
Extras: Fibres, Stained Teabag, Re-cycled Corrugated Cardboard, Wood Button, Handmade Paper


Instructions

Randomly apply Gesso to MDF panel.  My go to, previously, was baby wipes but by accident, made the discovery that a foam brush brings beautiful texture with no extra effort. I allow some of the  MDF surface to peek through.

There is a story to what happened next - I laid the panel aside to dry and meantime was playing with Infusions onto a different substrate.  Only noticing it during tidying up, it appears that as I misted the other panel with water, some of the Infusions carried their way in the air and onto this panel! A happy accident as I like the flecks of colour and doubt if I will be able to replicate this.


Stamp circles onto the substrate then assemble the collage. The beautiful PaperArtsy ELB leaf stamp is stamped onto a piece of tea stained teabag. I work with large self-fill teabags which have more scope as a stamping surface. Layered to a panel of book text, which is further layered to torn re-cycled corrugated cardboard packaging with Rust Finish applied with a light touch of Antique Gold applied with fingertips, once the rust has taken hold. Utilizing all pieces of found papers, including another piece of previously stamped, stained teabag paper. This brings balance and harmony to the upper edge of the focal area.


Another piece of the prepared re-cycled corrugated cardboard was layered beneath a stamped quote from another PaperArtsy set, this time EAB04, stamped onto tea stained teabag paper.


The panel was simply but hopefully, sympathetically adorned with loose fibres and fragments of eco dyed papers, handmade paper with a lovely feathery appearance and wooden button.

Thank you for your visit!
Wishes
Lynne

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