Rustic Steampunk

I started off by scraping grunge paste through 3 different stencils onto a large corner shaped chipboard jigsaw piece.

I randomly painted various chipboard die cut shapes in little black dress and pewter fresco.

Now over at the PA blog Alison was playing around with rusting powder on her 3rd project for this week.  I don't have any of the PA rusting powder but I do have a realistic rust kit which I bought ages and ages ago, so thank you Alison for inspiring me to get it out and use it again!!

Close up of one of the chipboard cogs after it had been rusted.

And an arch. 

And the jigsaw piece with the grunge paste.

I had to tip them so you can see the overall effects.

And the bingo numbers.

And this is the final piece using an arch and a few of the cogs that have all been rusted.  I punched holes into the arch, added eyelets and threaded through wired raffia. Added chain and two chipboard cogs to the top to hang it.  I put a larger cog in the open space and added an idea-ology cherish tag.  I added cogs, gears, other bits of metal including a wired 'S' shape.

Our Creative Corner have a theme this month of tic tac toe - steampunk. If you check over on their blog you can see the ingredients for each line.  I've gone with letters, texture, wire.

Over at Country View Crafts they have a theme of letters this month. I'm going to enter with the word 'cherish' but I'm not actually sure that it will count.

Two of a Kind

Over at the PA Blog, Alison is back and for her first project has been playing with tags and flipping a stencil. For my tag base I used a couple of the backing sheets that come with the PA chipboard shapes. The arches are cut from chipboard using T!m's set of 3 arches dies.

I gave them a coat of vanilla but you could still see through so then added a coat of haystack, then brown shed and finally blood orange.

For the top half of the tag I used yellow sub on the stencil but didn't feel it showed up very well, so then used zesy zing.  The right is through the stencil, the left is it flipped.

Then I took some of the stamps from the above LB04 plate (not the flowers) 

And randomly stamped them in snowflake fresco paint over the backgrounds.

I then took the above colours of distress ink

And sponged them onto the backgrounds to tone down the white images.

Painted the chipboard arches in blood orange fresco.

I used crackle on the arches and a top coat of haystack. Using my new wooden PA stamp I stamped the symbols in red stazon onto white card and coloured with spiced marmalade distress ink.

Next I took a dowel of wood 

And chopped it into 4 pieces and spiked the ends with a craft knife. I was trying to resemble some type of chopsticks to keep in with the oriental theme.

And these are my assembled finished pair of tags.