We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream

Today I have a beautiful new image from Simply B Stamps’ Steampunk range, Lady Amalthea.

With the big crescent moon I just had to go with silver tones on this card and the great sketch at the Friday Sketch blog provided the perfect frame for Lady Amalthea.  And while this is a Steampunk project, it is also lovely and girly and with Lady Amalthea dressed in her finest and out at night I’ve got the current theme at Die Cut Diva’s covered, not to mention the die cuts with my Spellbinders.  Love how they do the embossed edge and perfect layering.

I decided to take a trip with Desert Island Crafters to help decorate this project, I couldn’t get all 10 items on the itinerary on here but I did get birthday, embossing (helped add to the vintage feel along with my distressing), ribbon or twine (does lace count? it worked better on the vintage feel than any of my myriad ribbons), some sparkle (hard to see on the photo but there’s a lovely sparkly shimmer to the background of the image thanks to some metallic chalks), and three different embellies (brads, metal embellies, lace).  I only managed two patterned papers unless one counts the patterning I did myself for the background to my image so I’m not counting that one.

The stamped sentiment is why I use digis so much; I am a shocker stamper hence the rather fuzzy ‘birthday’!  It would also have been good if the ‘wishes’ sticker was printed in grey but my stash is only so deep.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E25

Lips R46

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29

Dress N0, N1, N2, N4

Moon C00, C1, C3, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel – Chunky White

Pebbles Metallic Cream Chalk – Grey

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities – 5x7 Matting Basics

Embellishments

Creative Memories Clear Sticker

FabScraps Filigree Embellishment – Old Silver

Freckled Fawn – Metal Flower

Making Memories – Pearl Brads

Papermania Chronology – Gears

Prima Finnabair Vintage Mechanicals – Large Flowers & Roses

Tim Holtz Idea-ology – Foliage & Sprocket Gears

Inks & Paints etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang – Black Orchid Satin

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Iced Spruce, Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock – Smokey

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Liquorice

Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love – Calla of Paris & Eau de Cologne

Ribbons & Trims etc

Green Tara – Lace

Stamps

CTMH Art Philosophy

Simply B Stamps Steampunk – Lady Amalthea

Challenges

Desert Island Crafters Challenge #71 – 3 from listed items (Birthday, Ribbon or Twine, Add some Sparkle, Emboss It – Dry or Wet Embossing, 3 Different Embellishments)

Die Cut Diva’s Challenge – Girls’ Night Out

Friday Sketch #62

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