Journey Card with Corina Finley

Hello!

Summer has gone by very quickly is seems! I had the chance last week to spend a few hours in my Studio. I created a few cards that I will be sharing with you over the next month or so. Just like my last post on my blog, I decided to use Distress Ink Oxides and a Stencil for the back drop of my card.

To create the background, I second generation stamped using a large Prima Script background stamp with black archival ink directly over top of the Distress Oxide background.  I applied grey metallic paint over the Gear Stencil with a blending tool.  I used my heat tool to dry.

I painted the gears with the same grey metallic paint. I spritzed and inked some roses in a variety of colours and sizes. I set these aside to dry naturally. 

With an extra piece of the inked background paper and decided on this large bold sentiment from a Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Stamp set. I stamped with versamark and applied ultra Fine black embossing powder and heat set. I then used a clear glitter pen to enhance the words, Journey, Truely, and Changed. 

Southern Ridge Trading Company Products Used:

- Gear Stencil

- Mini Wood Gears

Remember to take a look at the Southern Ridge Trading Company website - Chipboard.ca for great Chipboard designs for your next card or project!

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Steampunk Tag with Ava Gavloski

Hello and welcome to the blog.  Ava here to share a spring like version of a steampunk tag.  Southern Ridge Trading Co., has a great selection of gears and embellishments that will rock your quest for vintage projects.

Let’s get started with the supplies…

All of these supplies will be linked at the bottom of this post.  Here you can see a stamp, stencil, birch wood gears and chipboard keys.  I know, I know this collection rock’s-it… and there is even more choices in the store.

Here in this photo you can see the texture and design from the gear stencil by applying a layer of modelling paste through the stencil.

After all the pieces of chipboard have been primed with DecoArt Gesso, dried; I painted my textured tag, and key chipboard with DecoArt Paint.  I applied ink to the key stamp and stamped onto the wings of the chipboard key.  The stamp really add’s to the overall steampunk look.

Added a little paint splatter to give the tag the rustic look and tied a ribbon at the top of the tag. How do you like a the soft pastel version of the traditional grunge dark steampunk projects.  I found it a challenge to not go dark.  So, how about you the reader and scraper can you give it a Pastel try?  

Southern Ridge Trading Company supplies

- Mini Wood Gears

- Gear Stencil

- Stamp, Steampunk  (coming soon)

- Winged Steampunk Key (coming soon)

Other Supplies Used:

- DecoArt: Gesso, Paint and Liquid Glass Media

- Core’dinations Cardstock

- May Arts Ribbon

Get your Southern Ridge Trading Co. chipboard out, go white and light colours and post your tag to our Facebook group.  We would love to see your version of a Spring Steampunk tag.

Thanks for stopping by.

Ava