Steampunk Birthday Birthday Card ~ March Craft Hoarders Anonymous Blog Hop

Welcome to the March Craft Hoarders Anonymous Blog Hop!

You should be coming to my blog from Glenda Brooks. Then after visiting me, hop over to Donna Idlet! To start at the beginning of the hop, please head over to Gloria Stengel! You can scroll down to the bottom of this post for a full list of designers participating in this month's blog hop.

I hope you've been enjoying inspiration from the talented designers along your way!

I enjoy creating masculine cards for the special guys in my life. This grungy, mixed media steampunk card is for my husband who has a birthday coming up in April.

Most of the items used on this card have been in my hoard for at

least a year, and some much longer than that!! ;-)

Tips and Techniques

This Scrapiniec hot air balloon has been in my stash for a couple years now. It fit perfectly over this balloon image fussy cut off of a page from the BoBunny Timeless Memories collection. A quick and easy way to give a metallic finish to chipboard is with embossing powder. Here I've use Stampendous Aged Silver. The distressed ruler tucked in on the left is an odd piece given to me a couple years ago. I distressed it by first rubbing on metallic aqua paint, then with Payne's grey craft paint. The layer behind the balloon was stenciled with distress ink using a TCW Mini Butterfly Collage stencil.

These watch parts are also embossed using Stampendous aged black embossing enamel. The script on the background was randomly stamped across the card.

The tag for my sentiment is a Simple Stories Kraft Journal Layer. First I stamped the sentiment in permanent black ink, then I spritzed Lindy's Stamp gang Tawny Turquoise Moon Shadow Mist on my craft matt and laid the stamped tag onto the mist to create this grungy background. I also spritzed and splattered the background with the Lindy's mist. 

I used my Prima Crackle stencil along with Viva Decor Bronze Croco Crackling color. This paint is quite thick and worked will with the stencil. I adore the way it crackled as it dried. Matte medium was used to adhere the mica chips. 

A blend of metallic Lumiere paints was rubbed onto the edges.

Your next stop on the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Blog Hop is the talented Glenda Brooks. If you have dropped by my blog and would like to start at the beginning, be sure to hop on over to Gloria's blog HERE.

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March Craft Hoarders

Gloria Stengel

Debbie Seyer

Pam Bray

Jacquie Southas

Glenda Brooks

Tracey Sabella - That's Me!

Donna Idlet

Wendi Robinson

Teresa Horner

Barbara Rankin

Karen Zueger-Brownell

Christy Houser

Products

Card Base ~ Kraft - Stash

Prima ~ Timeless Memories - Moments #847456

BoBunny ~ Somewhere In Time - Balloons

Simple Stories ~ DIY Journal Layers - Kraft

Chipboard Ruler ~ Stash

Scrapiniec ~ Chipboard - Hot Air Balloon

Leaky Shed Studio ~ Chipboard - Watch Parts 

Prima ~ Art Basics - Soft Matte Gel #961428

Liquitex ~ Gesso, clear

Viva Decor ~ Croco Crackling Color - Bronze

Donna Salazar with Clearsnap ~ Mix’d Media Inx - Truffle

Ranger ~ Perfect Medium

Ranger ~ Archival Ink - Jet Black

Stampendous ~ Fran-tage - Embossing Enamel, Aged Silver

Stampendous ~ Fran-tage - Embossing Enamel, Aged Black

Stampendous ~ Fran-tage - Mica Fragments, Bronzed

Lindy’s Stamp Gang ~ Moon Shadow Mist - Tawny Turquoise

Lumiere by Jacquard ~ Light Body Metallic Acrylic - Pearl Turquoise; Pewter; Halo Blue Gold

Americana ~ Acrylic Paint - Payne’s Grey

I have entered this card:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Challenge #221 - Anything Goes Two-Week Challenge

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~ Blessings ~