Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here and I'm back on the blog today to share another project using inspiration from our current monthly challenge which is "Your Favourites". For me, I will share with you today my favourite chipboard and embossing powder that I love to use, plus my love for creating birthday cards and tags as you always need them. Today I've got a steampunk birthday tag for you that will be sure to inspire you to create. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and learn how I transformed my chipboard pieces to create the perfect additions to my steampunk birthday tag.
To start, you'll want to place the fence stencil in the top right hand portion of your patterned paper. With the stencil down, take a palette knife and apply Texture Paste - Transparent Matte through the stencil, making sure you apply a thin layer. I used a 1/4 of the stencil in the top right corner. Clean your stencil. Place the fence stencil in the bottom left hand portion of your patterned paper. With the stencil down, take a palette knife and apply Texture Paste - Transparent Matte through the stencil, make sure you apply a thin layer. I used a 1/4 of the stencil in the bottom left hand corner. Set your patterned piece paper piece with the texture paste on it aside. Clean your stencil and palette knife.
With the patterned paper set aside, it's time to move on to the large Chain Frames and four Mini Wood Gears. Apply VersaMark ink to all five pieces and cover them with Slicked Smoke Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Let each piece cool for a minute. After the pieces have cooled down, with a blending tool, add Gold Mixative Alcohol ink to the top of each embossed piece. If you get too much ink on each piece, take a piece of paper towel and take off the excess. Set these pieces aside.
Next, you'll need a Happy Birthday from Birthday Greetings, three Mini Wood Gears and three Med. Gears. Cover each piece with VersaMark ink and cover with Slicked Smoke Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set pieces aside to cool.
The next set of chipboard you'll need is five Mini Wood Gears and cut apart both Gears Corners so that you end up with six small gears and one medium gear. Cover each gear VersaMark ink and cover them with Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the gears aside so they can cool.
Next you'll need the small Roman Clock face and five Mini Wood Gears. Cover all six pieces with VersaMark Ink and cover each chipboard piece with Hammered Metal Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the gears aside so they can cool.
Next you'll need two small pieces cut from the Fence Pattern, five Med. Gears and four Mini Wood Gears. Cover all eleven pieces with VersaMark Ink and cover them with Hammered Metal Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Let the chipboard pieces cool for a minute. After the pieces have cooled down, with a blending tool, add Pitch Black Alcohol ink to each embossed piece. If you get too much ink on each piece, take a piece of paper towel and take off the excess. Set these pieces aside.
The last piece you'll want to use is the clipboard. Cover the front and back of it in a layer of Vintage Photo Distress Stain. Use a paper towel to wipe off some of the excess stain. Set aside to dry.
When placing the fence patterned pieces, make sure to adhere one piece in the top left and one piece in the bottom right hand corner before adhering the patterned piece of paper that has the texture paste on it.
Once the patterned paper with the texture paste has been adhered to the tag, start adhering the pieces for the middle of the tag onto the tag. With foam squares, adhere the large chain frame to the centre of the tag. Once the large chain frame is adhere, with foam squares adhere the small roman clock in the middle of the large chain frame. To finish the small roman clock adhere the clipboard in the middle of it. To finish the clipboard, adhere the Happy Birthday sentiment to the middle of it. To finish off the large chain frame and small roman clock, added three different gears.
For decorating the bottom right hand side of the large chain frame, use a variety of the chipboard pieces that you've embossed. I also added in some of Tim Holtz's mini gears in with the rest of the gears to give some different texture.
For decorating the top left hand side of the large chain frame, use a variety of the chipboard pieces that you've embossed. I also added in some of Tim Holtz's mini gears in with the rest of the gears to give some different texture.
Here's my steampunk Happy Birthday Tag finished.
Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:
- Roman Clock Face - Small (coming soon)
- Clipboard (coming soon)
- Fence Stencil
Other Supplies Used:
- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Burnt Copper Leaves Embossing Powder, Slicked Smoke Embossing Powder and Hammered Metal Embossing Powder
- Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz: Distress Ink - Black Soot, Distress Stain - Vintage Photo and Alcohol Ink - Pitch Black & Gold Mixative
- Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Mini Gears
- Ranger Ink: Texture Paste - Transparent Matte & #12 Kraft Tag
- Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts: VersaMark
- Prima Marketing: Vintage Emporium- Verona & Maestro
- Hug a Bug Seam Binding Ribbon: Cream & Black
- Misc: Heat Tool
Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING!
Until Next Time!
-Katelyn
Well designed tag!!! The chipboard from Southern Ridge is so nice !!!
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