Crafting by MeSi: Steampunk

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Steampunk(ish) birthday card

Happy Wednesday!

It's time for a new challenge at The Paper Shelter challenge blog and this time the theme is "Make your own background".

I used this cute Steampunk Girl image and coloured her with alcohol markers. I used the colours from the background I had done earlier.

To create the background I taped aluminium tape over a cardstock and then embossed it. I added some acrylic paint and Distress Oxide and scratched the coat a little bit so that aluminium tape is also visible in some spots. Lastly I coated the whole background with some wax to protect the paints and inks.

The sentiment is also die cut from aluminium tape coated cardstock, then painted with acrylic paint and Distress Oxide.

Remember to join our challenge at The Paper Shelter blog. If you use The Paper Shelter digi at your challenge card you can win 6 TPS products.

Products used:

Steampunk Girl image by The Paper Shelter
Embossing folder by Sizzix
Paljon onnea die by Heidin Korttipaja
Copics - E04, E21, E11, E00, E000, E49, E47, E43, E40, R27, R22, R20, C7, C5, C1, BG49, BG13, BG10
Promarkers/brushs - Black, Cool grey 5, Turquoise, Amber
Aluminium tape
Black acrylic paint
Distress Oxide Broken china
White paint pen, white gel pen
Foam tape, glue

Challenges entered:

A perfect time to craft #February

Classic design #Jan/feb

Fab'n'funky #609 - Include stamped image

A place to start #February 1/8

Love to craft #84 2/8

Simon says wednesday challenge - Anything 2/5

Crafty catz #686 - ATG/ Blue and green 2/5

Pennys #589 2/3

Creative fingers #293 2/3

Cardz4galz #242 - Anything but square 2/3

Creative crafters #84 2/3

Paper rocks scissors #1 1/5

Allys angels #90 2/3

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, I'm glad to have you here!

-MeSi-

Hi!

New Incy Wincy Desings challenge has started and theme is 'Steampunk/Vintage'. Our wonderful sponsor is The Paper Shelter.

I decided to go with steampunk. I used So Chic image and coloured it with alcohol markers. Then I coloured cardstock with bronze Inka Gold and water and then embossed it. After that I also added some turquoise Inka Gold to it. Die cut I cutted from bronze paper and added some turquoise Inka Gold also. Then I glued it on the background and added the image over it with foam tape.

I like the embossed background so I didn't want to cover it too much and decided to leave the card quite simple. Maybe I will add some text later. This was my first steampunk card so I'm happy with the result.