Grungy Steampunk Card for Leaky Shed Studio

Birthdays are special times of celebration in our family. I created this masculine steampunk card for our son-in-law. I've been wanting to use the Leaky Shed Studio Hot Air Balloon for some time now and thought it would be fun to go steampunk with it. I've also used the Watch Parts, one of my favorite chipboard sets!!

Tips and Techniques

Often we think about molding paste being used with a stencil. Here, I've brushed Viva's Graphite Special Effect paste randomly over the chipboard, leaving bits of raw chipboard showing through in some places, and other areas with thicker layers of paste. 

The Leaky Shed Studio Hot Air Balloon fit perfectly over this balloon from Prima's Cartographer paper collection, which I fussy cut and adhered to the back of the chipboard. The "basket" is a jewelry finding piece from my stash. For a steampunk edge, I adorned with metal clock hands and mini gears. Some of them were a silver/pewter color, so I heat embossed them with Donna Salazar's Leather Mix'd Media Embossing Powder, which has a coppery metallic sheen. Others were copper and left in their natural state.

The Leaky Shed Studio Watch Parts were heat embossed with black embossing powder and while still hot and molten, sprinkled with Leather embossing powder and reheated giving this rusty metal look.

Another view of the gears. You can see just how much shimmer and depth this embossing powder technique gives.

A close up of the top corner. I like to let embellishments hang off the edges of my cards.

Be sure to check out the fabulous selection of steampunk chipboard that Leaky Shed Studio offers HERE.

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Hot Air Balloon #2

Watch Parts

Other Products

Prima ~ Cartographer – Montgolfiere #990015

Prima ~ Cartographer – Carte #990008 

Prima ~ Romance Novel – Wordsmith, Dear John, Book Plate, Messenger

Prima ~ Ledger Pad #844424

Kraft Paper ~ Stash

Prima ~ Engraver – Brads, Engraver #564698

Prima ~ Tiny Junkyard Findings – Clock Parts #891664 

7gypsies ~ Mini Round Hanger – Antique Silver

Blue Moon Beads ~ Global Nomad - #BM13849

Tim Holtz ~ Chain Tassels 

Spare Parts ~ Clock Faces Vintage #128694

Bead Landing ~ Found Objects – Watch Hands; Gears

Michaels ~ Metal Icons – A Place in Time (Fleur de Les 

Gears – Stash

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Mix’d Media Inx – Leather, Black, Truffle

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Mix’d Media Inx Embossing Powder – Leather, Black

Viva ~ Ferro Special Effect Paste – Graphite 

Stampers Anonymous by Tim Holtz ~ Clear Stamps – Playful Journal

Stampers Anonymous by Tim Holtz ~ Cling Stamps – Saying Stuff

7gypsies ~ Clear Stamps – Steampunk

Stampendous ~ Cling Calligraphy Sampler

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar ~ (Tape Runner)

Helmar ~3d Scrap Dots

Helmar ~ ZapDots – Black, Round ½” 

Martha Stewart ~ Mini Scoring Board

Darice ~ Heat Tool

Thanks for stopping by today! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~