A feminine steampunk card for Altair Art

Happy Tuesday to you all, today it's my turn on Altair Art blog and I'd like to inspire you with a feminine version of a steampunk card.

Usually, stampunk style is associated with masculine look, hardware, gears, industrial, bold colors, rusty look , etc.

If your style is soft and feminine, you might hesitate to make a steampunk project, but it doesn't have to be like that.

I want to shaw you that you can make a fimine soft project, in a steampunk style.

I used one patterned paper, from the Made of Stars collection, but used both sides of it - the darker one and the brighter and soft one.

I cut 2 rectangles, one slightly smaller than the other, and distressed the edges of both of them:

I adhered the smaller one on the bigger one, so it created sort of dark frame around the soft sublte paper.

Then I stamped on the soft paper with a steampunk style stamp (Blue Fern Studio), using a coordinate color of ink:

The next step was to adher some die-cut cogs (I used some Memory Box dies with my Big Shot). I left the cogs in the plain white color, as white goes perfectly with a soft atmosphere that I wanted to keep. I stampe a sentiment with a similar ink, and adhered the layers to a shimmer cs basis.

The final touch was adhering some dew drops in coordinating colors. Since the dew drops are semi transparent, they also add to the airy feeling.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

That's all for today. I hope you're inspired to make a steampunk project, even if your usual style is different. It so nice to get out of our comfort zone, and expend our creative bounderies.

Dare to Dream - Stuck?! Sketches Nov. 15th reveal (Blue Fern Studios & Lindy's Stamp Gang)

I love working with Blue Fern Studio papers, not only they're so beautiful, but they're heavy weight. As I was in a girly girl mood, I decided to work with BFS products and some beautiful Lindy's Gang mists to make my DT layout for Nov. 15 reveal at Stuck?! Sketches. I really love the shabby chic look of my layout.

Here's the sketch to work with, made by Laura Whitaker:

I've started with covering the  BFS paper (Love Story/ The Grand Ball) with clear gesso, then I worked with a modeling paste over TCW stencil. After it was dry, I stamped with some BFS stamps (Halftone, Dreamy), and IBS and Maya Road stamp, using Ranger's black archival ink.
Now was the time for some misting... I used Lindy's Stamp Gang products: Cotton Candy Pink, Delphinium Turquoise and Pop Rock Purple.
Matting the photo with BFS papers (Blush/ Devoted; Sanctuary/ Calling Cards), ading a stamped title (BFS /Dreamy), and some sentiments from TH chit chat, matted on a BFS paper (Timeless/ Song).
Decorating with Cheery Lynn Design die (English Tea Party), Prima flowers, metal rose, lace from my stash and microbeads). Topping all with some deluted white gesso, and that's it - finished!

Here are some close-ups:

I would like to enter this layout to the following challenges:
Moodboard at Off the Railsscrapbooking - I was inspired by the feminine feeling and the colors of the moodboard.

The vintage and shabby chic mood board at Mixed Media Place:

I was inspired by the pastel colors and the shabby chic look, as well as the colors, of the shabby chic moodboard.
Challenge YOURself asked for their challenge to use sprays/inks and to include a photo of ourselves:

I used lots of sprays and inks here and this is me in the photo :).
Country View Challenges, which asked to use stencils. I used TCW stencil on the background.
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