You altered my heart

Hi Everyone,
Jess here today.

I was totally inspired by a class Tim Holtz just taught at the recent Creativation show(and he was inspired by Paula Cheney).  I wanted to create something similar to what I had seen done, but put my own twist on it.


Start by running the solid half of your Steampunk heart through your die cutting machine using a 3d embossing folder.  Spritz the chipboard on both sides before using the embossing folder so the chipboard really gets nice texture.

Using collage medium adhere college paper to the embossed half of the heart.  I did a thin layer on the heart and adhered the collage paper.  I applied another layer on top and really worked the paper in with my fingers so you could see the embossed texture.

Paint the gear side of the heart using Dina Wakley media paint in Umber.  Paint the gears using Dina Wakley Media paint(Gilt and Ancient) and Tim Holtz Distress Paint(Brushed Pewter).  Add metal gears on top of some of chipboard gears for dimension.  Add embossing powder and crackle texture paste randomly on the heart for even more visual interest.  When the crackle paste is dry rub in a bit of Gathered Twigs Distress Crayon.

Take one of your Extra Large Tags and cut about three inches off the bottom.  Cover the entire tag with patterned paper.  Add bits of ephemera and adhere them to your tag.  I used a mix of vintage and reproduction ephemera here.  I love to mix old and new.  The entire tag gets a coat of collage medium. 

Once the collage medium is dry smoosh Distress Oxide inks onto your craft sheet and tap the tag into the ink.  The ink will stay beaded up on the craft sheet and you get neat splotches of color.  When you have a bit of color on your tag spritz with water and allow to air dry. Do this step several times until you achieve the color you like.

   Use a stencil to add a bit of grit paste to the top corner.  

Then add random blobs of grit past on the sides of the tag.  Once the paste is dry, use the same Oxide inks to color the grit paste.  Add Distress Crayon in Black Soot to the edges of the tag.  Splatter the tag with white, black, and gold paint.  

Using foam tape adhere the heart of the tag.  Give the paper doll a layer of clear gesso and color in his suit using Distress Marker in Mowed Lawn. Add a resin flower to his suit.  Glue the ruler to the heart and using foam tape adhere the man so he appears to be sitting on the ruler.  

Use Chit chat stickers to create your sentiment.  

Color in the word token using Distress Crayon in Picket Fence and add a jump ring.  Take an old paint brush and add a jump ring to the top. Add the rings to a vintage laundry pin and stick the pin through the fabric at the top of the tag.  The fabric at the top of the tag is actually a piece of my clean up rag I use in the studio.  I just cut a piece off because I really liked the colors on it.  To complete my tag I took some gel pens and made marks all over the piece.

Happy Monday

Jess

"Be Mine" Card by Pam Bray

Hi everyone!!! Pam here today on the Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Blog today! I created a fun embossed Valentine Card today using lots of our fabulous Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Chipboard!

I began by first distressing pattern paper and card stock and adhering it to a square card base.

Paint the Steampunk Hearts with distress paint; dry. Cut pattern paper to place on one side of the Steampunk Hearts; add washi tape around the edge of the pattern paper. Using Boss Gloss apply over the painted parts of the heart; emboss with embossing powder. Carefully remove the washi tape.

Carefully apply Metallic Lustre to top of emboss Steampunk Heart.

Adhere to top of pattern paper.

Add Doily to top of prepared card front.

Embossed smaller Steampunk Heart with pink Valentine embossing powder.

Carefully apply Metallic Lustre to top of embossed Steampunk Heart. Adhere to top of pattern paper.

Paint Flowers with distress paint; dry. Layer the flowers together secure with brad; bend Flowers up with tweezers to form Flowers.

Adhere Steampunk Heart to front of prepared card base.  Add prepared Flowers on card front.

Apply embossing powder to "Be Mine" Steampunk Heart; adhere to front of card. Add violin charm.

 Make and add bow to front of card.

I hope I have encouraged to make a few Valentine cards or other projects using Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Chippies. Make sure to check out the Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Store to check more chipboard products that are available. Thanks so much again for stopping by today. Hugs Pam

Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts Supplies:

Doilies (Contact Store)

Steampunk Hearts

Word Art Romance Set

Flowers (Contact Store)

Other Supplies:
Graphic 45 Mon Amour Collection
Ranger Distress Paint: Picket Fence, Fired Brick, Chipped Sapphire
Emerald Creek Supplies Embossing Powder: Weathered Wood, Sweet Valentine, 4th of July
DecoArt Media Metallic Lustre: Champagne Ice and Radiant Red
Small Antique Brads
Violin Charm
Green Sheer Ribbon
Washi Tape
Tweezers
Distress Tool
Adhesive

"Smile" -a Mixed Media Canvas With Colourarte by Lynne

Happy Monday fellow crafters! This afternoon I'll be heading to the post office to put this canvas in the mail for my Dad's 81st birthday on April 30th. He recently had to move into a nursing home and has lots of plain wall space to be personalized. Since we live so far away I thought it would be nice for him to have a picture of my family for his room. Although the photo is a few years old, it's the most recent one of the four of us together.

I had a lot of fun layering the colors here. Canvases like this are great because if you aren't happy with the color combination, you can keep adding more or paint over it and start again.  I started with a couple shades of brown acrylic paint to coordinate with the sepia tones in the photo and layered them with dry-brushing and sponge painting. I did the same to the chipboard pieces and other embellishments before attaching them. I then had the chance to add some touches of colour with some beautiful new products from ColourArte

Loved the Curly Word smile piece for my title!!

Steampunk hearts are so great when you don't want something to be too girly-girl!!

Even flowers are okay on a man's gift if you throw in some gears and lightbulbs-lol!

I am in love with these Skeleton clocks as frames. As you may know from previous posts, I'm crazy about clocks and time-themed items!

I used the Radiant Rain Color Concentrate daubers in Nutmeg  Coral Berry and Wine & Roses by dabbing the colours directly onto the canvas then blending them with my finger (yes I like to get inky and messy when I create!) and used the Shimmering Mist in Sour Lemon. I also added some orange mist from my stash to get the range of colour I wanted. I looked in the ColourArte store and saw a couple lovely oranges that I will have to add to my collection...and of course a lot of other fabulous colours! Check them out and I'm sure you'll want to collect a few (or a lot!) to use on your Gypsy Soul chipboard pieces.

Gypsy Soul Items Used
Curly Word: Smile
Steampunk Hearts
Skeleton Clocks

Other Items Used
Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist-sour lemon
Radiant Rain dauber-nutmeg
Radiant Rain Dauber-wine & roses
Radiant Rain Dauber-coral berry
Recollections Bohemian shimmer mist

Mixed Media Canvas by Kim F

Good morning friends! Today I am sharing a fun mixed media canvas. This is a 4 x 6 canvas I had in my stash and I love the white, blue and black theme. I started of with a coat of white gesso on the canvas and then used my sprays in coordinating colours.  I then cut several squares with my 2 inch punch and layered them on top of the paint and sprays.

 Next, I got out some stamps and did some stamping in the background. Once that was complete it was time to put on my chipboard pieces.  I layered on some fun pieces from other sets in Gina's store, that is what I love about her shape sets, they have pieces in them that you can use on various projects.

Below here you can see the stackable labels I painted and used my alpha stamp on and then used Gloss Accents over it. I love the high gloss on it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Gina's Designs Items Used

Stackable Label Set

Postage Stamp Frame

Steampunk Hearts

Clock Hands Shape Set

Pocket Watch Shape Set

XO XO Wall Hanging Kit

Other Items Used

Recollections Embossing Powder

Tim Holtz Stamps

Darkroom Door Alpha Stamps

Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays

Ranger Fine Black Embossing Powder

Paper Artsy Beach Hut Paint

Prima Metal

Blue Roses & Lace from Kraftsupplies4U

Paper Blooms, Chain, Pearl Bling From My Stash

My Friendship Bus Layout

Hi there-Lynne here with a layout that's dear to my heart. I found this picture on Facebook and it is so very ME that I just had to use it for a page:

I'm pretty introverted and have a very small circle of friends who mean the world to me, so this layout sums it all up.

I used Stampendous Aged Copper embossing powder on the chain and the gears, dry-embossed the little car, then painted it and rubbed it with black ink, and I painted the hearts and title letters, then embossed them with UTEE.

Thanks so much for stopping by; whether your circle of friends would fit on a "short bus" like this one or you'd need a Greyhound bus, cherish every one of them for they're one of the greatest blessings in life! Hugs!

Gina's Items Used

Texture Sheet gears

Chain Borders

Miniatures Shape Set-Guy Thing

Steampunk Hearts

Build a Layout-Love Birds



Other Items Used

Stampendous Embossing powder-Aged Copper

BoBunny Somewhere In Time papers

Memory Box stencil-harlequins

Prima Stencil-static

UTEE

Steampunk Tag by Dianna

Hi
Everyone, Dianna here with a Valentine with a Steampunk Twist.  I
really could not help myself as soon as I seen the Bo-Bunny Paper
"Star-Crossed" line, I just knew that it would look wonderful with
Gina's Designs Eiffel Tower and Clockwork Penny Farthing.  I also wanted
to include a heart for the Gina's Designs February Craft Group
Challenge, so of course I went with a Steampunk heart.

I
covered a Gina's Designs X-Large Chipboard Tag with the Bo-Bunny Paper,
used Vintage Photo and Black Soot to distress the edges.  I
used Black Soot on the Eiffel Tower as a base coat and then used
Stickles in three different colors to give it dimension.  The card stock doilies were spritzed with Ranger Sparkling H20's in a spritzer with a
lot of water.  I have having a heck of a time with clogging of the
normal Ranger Sprays so I made my own.  I will let you know on my next
blog update if it worked or if that clogged too.   The Steampunk Heart
and Clockwork Penny Farthing were "painted" with chalk ink in a bronze
color, then distressed and Stickled.

The
Julie Nutting Media Doll was colored with Copic Markers and Bo-Bunny
paper was used for her dress.  The underdress was spritzed with water
and folded a couple of times (fan like) to get the ruffled effect.  I
created a sleeve out of left over paper from the underskirt.  The
opposite side of the striped paper is hearts (which is really cute).  I
used red Stickles and dotted the hearts for extra sparkle. The
suitecases are from a really cute Stamping Bella Stamp that I stamped,
colored with Copic and cut out.  The Gina's Designs Art Deco Border was
painted with gold chalk ink and spritzed and Stickled to create a
tarinshed look.

Sparkling
H20 was used on the Balloon and then brushed corduroy Stickles was used
to create a rope look.  I Stickled the teal paper to give more depth to
the balloon.  I included a couple of pictures of the balloon because
you really cannot see it well in the overall photo.

 Finally, I stamped the RubberNecker Stamps on plain cardstock and distressed the edges with bronze chalk ink.

 Gina's Designs Products Used:

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates 

Eiffel Tower 6 inch

Clockwork Penny Farthing

Steampunk Hearts

Chipboard Decorative Tags X Large

Art Deco Boarder & Corners

Hot Air Balloon Shape Set

Steampunk Marie Antoinette by GDT Amador

This steampunk Marie Antoinette monochromatic cage was created by guest designer Amador!

Here is a great view of the back of her showing many of Gina's Designs products.

Gina's Designs Products Used

Steampunk Cage - Dressform

Steampunk Hearts

Steampunk Fan

Feathers Shape Set

Layered Flourish Chloe Small

Paris Shadowbox - the Fleur-de-lis

Clock Hands Shape Set

Art Doll - Small

Art Storage Cabinet by Kathi and Composition Box by Debbie

Hi everyone, it's Kathi here!  This is my project for the Kitty's Scrap Post cross promotional with Gina's Designs. I chose to work with the Time Traveler Kit.

This is the first time I have used digital design paper.  The really great part about printing it yourself is that I only had to print just what I needed for this project, and I could choose the size of the paper.

Video of Art Storage Cabinet

Products Used:

Gina's Designs Lasercuts:

Art Storage Cabinet

Skeleton Clocks

Gears Shape Set

Sreampunk Hearts

Butterfly of Gears

Dressform & Wings Shape Set

Antique Bike Set

Alarm Clock Frame Ups

Design Paper by Kitty's Scrap Post
Time Traveler

Trim Organizer By Bonnie

Hi Everyone, and Happy Friday! Today we have Guest Designer Bonnie, who has created this stunning Trim Organizer. She has created something very beautiful, and used several of our chipboard items to decorate it.

You can see above here that Bonnie has created a lovely shabby vintage look and used some of the words and phrases, cardstock doilies,  clock hands, tulip scroll corners and even half of a steampunk heart on the right hand side and adorned it with some beautiful flowers as well!

Here are more of the words and phrases used on the lace spools that come with the trim organizer, and she has also added some more of the tulip scroll corners in the back.

Here is a side view of the box, where Bonnie has decorated it with one of our flourish pieces and more lace and flowers. She has added some feet to the bottom of the box for a finishing touch.

Thanks so much Bonnie we just love it!

Gina's Designs Items Used on this Project
Cardstock Doily Set Intricates
Clock Hands Set
Words & Phrases 2
Steampunk Heart
Trim Organizer
Tulip Scroll Corners
Flourishes 2