Romance Card and Tag by Pam Bray

Hi!!! Pam today sharing with you a few Valentine projects I created for tomorrow!!!

I made a "Love" Card to give to my special Valentine this year. 

 I used distress inks to change my cream steampunk doilies to match my pattern paper.

 Apply white crackle paste using a bubble stencil.

Layer inked pattern paper to top of card base. I love lots of layers on my cards, lol. 

Adhere scallop border from pattern paper to top of card base.

Adhere prepared steampunk doily to top.

Paint all the chippies with distress paint. Allow to dry completely. 

Color with distress markers.

 Adhere prepared chippies to top of pattern paper and fussy cut around the heart pieces.

 Adhere prepared chippies to top of card front.  Add a pretty bow and some flowers to top.

 I also created a matching tag!!!! Repeat steps above for inking, painting, coloring and paste.

Layer together. 

 Adhere prepared chippies to top of tag.

 Adhere flowers and add ribbon to top.

I hope you have a wonderful Valentine Day celebrating those that you love!!! Don't forget to stop by the Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Store!!!! Make sure you read Shanna's blog post that is also up on the blog today! Thanks for stopping by and until next time. -Pam

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Supplies:

Cardstock Doily Set Steampunk

Layered Flourishes Renata

Word Art Romance

Other Supplies:

Distress Pens:  Peacock Feather, Pumice Stone, Mowed Lawn

Distress Inks: Abandoned Coral, Vintage Photo

DecoArt White Crackle Paste

Ranger Picket Fence Distress Paint

Ranger Bubbles Stencils

Basic Grey Dear Heart Collection

Prima Flowers

Brown Card Stock

Clear Gemstones

Palette Knife

                                                                               Tag

Tags in a Box by Trish Alger!

Hello there, this is Trish Alger. I'm so excited to be a Guest Designer this month for Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts.  Here is my steampunk inspired tags in a box project:

GSLCuts has the most amazing chipboard elements. Great themes, with intricate detail, that are a fabulous springboard for our creativity. I'm in love with GSLCuts steampunk selection. Gears, gears, and more gears - delicate, lacy gear borders, chunky gear shapes, and lovely Victorian pieces to pair with. 

I needed some feminine gifts. The kind that had laborious value, not cost. In the project I chose, each woman can receive her own extra-large tag (with sentiment) to take home. I set the challenge to create my own metal gears out of chipboard, rather than hunt through my metal stash. Other than a few metal brads, I succeeded. I kept my palette limited to brown tones, ivory, black, and rusty gear metallics. 

Let's look through the steps of the tutorial.  You'll find the supply list at the end. Each piece was gessoed in black...

Or white...

 

Or a coat of iridescent medium mixed with acrylic medium...

 

Here are the wings closer...

(Do yourself a favor and remove any lingering bits from the holes before covering it in medium.)

Some unbleached titanium for the dressforms...

Next I added some rust paint over the vanilla doily edges and cut to fit in the shape of a corset.

 

And some copper for the beautiful banner...

 

Then a bit of unbleached titanium over the letters...

A closer view...

 

Time to mix paint with acrylic medium and add some color...

Mixtures...

Black gessoed tag, painted in a leather color...

White gessoed tag, painted in another leather tone...

 

I printed the Pocket Pages sentiments onto the vanilla linen paper and trimmed to allow six for the backs of the tags in the box. They were adhered with the acrylic medium.

 The inside of the box were gessoed black. The outside was painted with copper and the corset images (printed on vanilla linen paper) were adhered with acrylic medium. Doily edges were deconstructed to adhere with acrylic medium around the edges like a frame.

The gear sheet, painted with rust, copper, and black...

A second view...

And a third view...

Here are the individual tags completed:

Tag 1...

Tag 2...

Tag 3...

Tag 4...

Tag 5...

  Tag 6...

 

And the tag for the front of the box...

 

Here is the entire box filled with the completed tags:

 

 I realized as I assembled the completed sides for box that I needed to be extra aware of the materials in the tab areas. That includes paper, paint, and mediums. Lots of sanding otherwise.

 

 Well, I had a lot of fun and it made me happy. What happiness are you creating today? Please let us know you were here and what you thought of my box of tags.

Ciao for now,

-Trish Alger

justchickenscratch.com

My ingredient list:

GSLCuts:

Tags in a Box Display  

Dressform Tags  

Texture Sheet Gears  

Cardstock Doily Set Steampunk  

Gears Border and Corners (will be available soon!)

Word Ribbons 1  

Victorian Silhouette Frames  

Gears Shape Set  

Dressforms & Wings Shape Set  

Clock Hands Shape Set  

Other Supplies:

Liquitex 

-Black Gesso

-Basic Burnt Sienna

-Gloss Acrylic Medium and Varnish

-Heavy Body Acrylic Unbleached Titanium 

Golden Paints

-Fluid Acrylic Burnt Sienna

-Glaze Metallic Copper Light

Martha Stewart

-Metallic Acrylic Rust, Gloss Black, and Copper

-White Gesso

AlteredPages.com

-Victorian Edges Rubber Stamp

-Steampunk and Pocket Pages digital images

Eclectic Products

-E6000

Stewart Superior

-Palette Hybrid Inkpad Burnt Sienna

Stampin' Up

-Waffle Paper Brown

Winsor & Newton

-Iridescent Medium 

Vanilla linen paper 

Historical images free of copywrite

Assorted Ephemera

Steampunk Project with Guest Designer Jackie Neal

Hello and welcome everyone!  Jackie Neal here today and I am over the moon excited to be the September Guest Designer here at Gina's Designs!!

The first time I saw Gina's laser cuts used were on a friend's blog. Straight away I had to go check out the store and you know what? I sent my first order in that day!  Thank you Nichola Battilana for turning me on to Gina's Designs!

For my first project, I went all out with Steampunk!

When I received my pieces I knew I had to use the steampunk parts first. I love the chipboard assortment that Gina's has​ to offer; so much to choose from​!

"Fantastic Journey"



The substrate here is an upcycled jewelry box. Perfect to showcase Gina's steampunk elements!

For my gears, I coated the​m with embossing powder and then layer and layers of paint for a grungy, rusty look.​

With the Steampunk card stock doily set, I used embossing paste through a gears stencil over areas on the doilies. When dry, first I added more color to the embossed areas, ​then​ I cut and molded the doilies onto areas of the box​ using gel paste.

Next for my Steampunk lady, I used two different sizes of the dressforms cut and fitted to make her cage dress. She also has on a corset from the Dressforms set as well as Gina's Steampunk Wings.

Behind her in the box there is more of the Steampunk doily as well as FANTASTIC from the Word Ribbon 3 Set.

 Gina's Products used:

Clock Hands Shape Set

Gears Shape Set

Dressforms & Wings Shape Set

Dressforms 2 Miniature Shape Set

Steampunk Shape Set

Cardstock Doily Set Steampunk

Word Ribbons 3



Other products used:

Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder-

Vintage Photo

Wendy Vecchi Clear Embossing Paste

Finn​abair Mica Powder-Copper

​​​Finnabair 3D Gloss Gel​​

DecoArt Media Line Paints





 I absolutely had a blast making this piece and can't wait to show you more of my creations over the next few Wednesdays so be sure to stop back!!

 Make sure to visit back to see the design teams projects daily as well as have a look over on FB for ​​

inspiration​.​

others!



Thanks so much for visiting!

Jackie

http://www.creatingwithoutcrayons-jackiepneal.com/