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Saturday 2 November 2013

Have yourself a Merry...

...Steampunk Christmas.

Today was one of Andy's workshops (Pinnacle Crafts) and we got to play with some of the new Cheery Lynn steampunk dies.
The first project used the larger of the two owls from the die set...
...we cut two in slightly different shades of wood-grain embossed cream CS. Then we used the 'waste' from each to backfill the other before distress inking them with 'frayed burlap'.
Some poinsettias were also cut from the wood-grain CS...
 ...and these were gently inked with the same distress ink...
 ...before they were curved and assembled.
This compass chipboard die-cut...
...was coloured using copper distress stains...
 ...before being backed with a stamped clock face printed on holly PP.
Although it doesn't show in this photo, the compass was distressed with frayed burlap...
 ...and the owl was given some decoration by adding bronze brads to the centre of the cogs.
A bit of matt & layering followed by some assembly...
...and there you have it - a little bit of steampunk and one completed Christmas card......................................................................



2 comments:

Lynn Stevens said...

looks Awesome, That's one cute owl with all his gears!
hugs Lynn

Wendy said...

Love it, that owl is fab :-)