Steam Card - a Punk Style

 

I love the Steampunk style!  It's a marriage of Victorian and Industrial, and every time I see something Steampunk, I find some object to reminisce about.  I hadn't made anything steampunk in a while and decided I wanted to make a couple of cards. 

I wanted to use a burlap background because I think it lends itself to the masculine feel I was aiming for, and I used gears cut in my new favorite card, holographic ripple! 

I wanted to use a few colors because I planned on stacking the gears and felt different colors would make each layer stand out more.  I added the pearls as a homage to Victorian and then some eclectic metal elements scattered around as eye candy!

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Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com

Frantic Stamper products used:

• Frantic Stamper Precision Dies
• Large and Small Gears (set of six) (FRA-Die-09042)
• Gear Collage (FRA-Die-09041)

La Femme

 

I purchased the Loretta die from Frantic Stamper a while back. It reminded me of Paris and I have a fascination for that city (I also have the poodle but haven't used that yet.)  I pictured her walking down the Champs Elisee shopping for the latest fashion.  Today I finally decided to do a card for her.

I started with an ivory card base.  Sharon, another design team member, has been making some cards with  punched design on the side. I really like the look so I wanted that for this card also.  I added some burgundy suede paper ad a piece of Tim Holtz collage.  I wanted Loretta to stand out so I decided to use this very glittery black with silver dot paper I had.  It turned out SO NICE!  I was looking at the die cut and realized that the die had even cut a part for her hand that was on her waist!  That was really cool!  I decided that Loretta needed a purse to hold because I wanted to highlight this little piece of 3-D.  I cut a trapezoid (remember your geometry!) out of silver glitter paper and glued it under her hand.  I also pushed the hand out a bit to make it stand out more. (Since the die cut is all one paper, I needed something separate to highlight the hand.) Anyway, it turned out great. 

I was thinking about the dress too.  There are actually crease lines for the dress on the die to emboss it.  I took some mounting tape and put it behind the skirt but only in the middle ...to poof it out a bit. 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

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Products used:

•  Frantic Stamper Precision Dies
• Loretta  FRA-Die-09091
• Materials for this project are available at www.franticstamper.com.