Steampunk Valentine Chunky ATC

My latest take on the chunky ATC theme - this time a steampunk valentine. Now, I love steampunk but I really do struggle to do it. I hope I've sort of captured it. Here's the front, chip[board heart and wings, cogs and wach bits. I did want to make this move, so that when you turned the cogs the wings flapped, but it didn't work out. I'm going to have another go at that with thinner cogs.

This is the other side, where I transfer printed a free vintage image and added a watch mechanism plus some other bits. I was aiming for a sort of etched copper look and it's close enough to make me happy.

The top's a bit overloaded!

The sides are just covered with some cog and wheel die cuts and I didn't get a picture of those, but hopefully you get the idea and thanks for looking.

Mini Canvas

Just a wee swap - after the next couple I'm going to cut right back to concentrate on a personal project that I finally feel ready for. This was to make a 5 x 7 mini canvas on our choice of theme, to be mixed up so that we get a random one back. Oooo, the suspense is killing me! Anyhoos, here are mine (I made 2 so the swap host can either keep one of mine, or swap it for a better one!).

Hope it fits the bill and should be on its way soon.

Affirmation Postcards

I joined another swap (what a surprise!) for affirmation postcards. One set is positive, one a little more twisted, and here they are ...

Collaged postcards swap

I'm doing a wee swap at the moment - just collage. Do you know what that means people? No ink, paint or sprays! So out of my comfort zone here. Anyway, here are my backgrounds, to be covered, sorry, prettied up, by some of the other artists over at collaborART.

Cheers and thanks for looking :) Have a good one!

Art Journal Calendar

I've just joined a wee group on facebook doing an art journal calendar and it's really got my creative juices flowing again after the Christmas lull. So, here is my first page for January.

I used one of the fab Octopode images which just summed up how I welcome the new year so it seemed very apt. I'm entering it into the Octopode Challenge Blog because I can!

Off to finish February now. Happy new year everyone :)

Christmas Chunky ATC - Octopode

I think this is my final crafty swap for the year over on UKS and it's yet another chunky ATC. This time my theme was alternative/freaky/bah humbug! Ironic really, as that was also the theme I had chosen for mine. I hope the Octopode images I used are freaky enough and I used a couple of sentiments which I hope also fit the bill.  I painted the backgrounds to two chunkies and glitzed up the Octopode images with some glitter and glossy accents. The snow globe and the gingerbread house have teeny tiny lights behind them - press the door knob on the house or the red button on the little snowman and you get 20 seconds of randomly flashing little lights (you can just about see in the photos). The colours are much better in real life, so much more vibrant, and there is lots of sparkle but none of that shows up because the light is poor and the borrowed camera I'm using hates me! Oh well. Apologies to my swap partner for it being late but they will be on their merry jingly way tomorrow.

Here you can just about see the lights on the fronts.

Vampire Burlesque Altered Fish Tin

This is what I love about swaps - you get some unusual requests that you wouldn't have thought to do yourself. This one was for an altered fish tin on the theme of Vampire Burlesque. What a great theme.  However, a real pain to work with as in my head my tin looked great but getting the physical reality to match that image proved extremely tricky. In fact they don't at all (I ended up doing two tins for the fun of the theme) and I think I have something better still in my head - it just needs a better person than me to make it!

Apologies for the photos - they were taken in a hurry with my daughter's camera which I couldn't figure out - techno dufus me! Hopefully you get the idea. I made them as hanging tins with dangly bits and made the fimo vampire lips myself for the one on the right and the illustration for the one on the left is from here as it was just too perfect.

I really did enjoy doing this but it has taken way longer than I expected so I have a few other bits to catch up with now.

Have a good one.