…it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end

Today I have an older Simply B Stamp’s image to share, the stunning Bella the Vampire, from the Steampunk Halloween collection.

I love Bella’s floaty dress and it just wanted to be coloured in platinum shades and then when I saw the current challenge at 7 Dots Studio was ‘fly away’ I just knew I had to add wings to her.  So in the end, she hasn’t turned out all that vampirish but rather angelic.

I’ve had the Prima candelabra for ever in my stash and I thought it suited the image beautifully.  It also helped cover the join in my designer paper, I only have 6x6 sheets of 7 Dots Studio paper as I usually do cards that size.  This piece is goiung in my box of Kraft album pieces so is 4.75x7.75, I could have lined up the join with the lace but that would have meant using another piece of the paper and I really wanted to save it for future projects.  And being a Steampunk piece I had to add some metal bling suitably Steampunk, even angels need to get their bearings I imagine so a compass coin was called for as were a gear and faucet wheel, again helpfully hiding my join.

Now I did start with the sketch from Sketch n’ Dies but not sure you can really tell with all my embellies.  I’d originally thought to just add Bella instead of the flower element but the join in my paper and the need to make her an angel complete with wings added way more elements.  But for what it’s worth, the sketch was the starting inspiration and I do have die cuts as well, although I did resize the sketch to fit my finished project too.  Which is the nice thing about sketches you can resize them and they still work really well.

With my angel wings I am also entering this over at the current challenge at Creative Knockouts.  I do love those wings, I took plain chippie ones and added platinum ink and clear embossing powder to give them a metallic finish.  I used the same technique on the chippie frame with the image name.

I joined the Kit and Clowder group pretty much when Alyce started it, I have admired her colouring for ages.  Her challenges started last month, I didn’t enter but I am feeling brave this month so am linking up my project there where the theme is also wings.

I’m a regular at the Outlawz Sketch challenge but tend to forget about their other ones.  The current theme at the Paper A La Mode challenge is to use something starting with the first letter of your first name.  My project features plenty of embellies but also some Enamel Accents so think I’ve got the “E’s” covered so am also entering this over there.

I really love how this turned out and hopefully I have inspired you to create a Steampunk project.  We’d sure love to see you over at Simply Steampunk Challenges, a new challenge starts the 5th of every month and there’s plenty of inspiration from the awesome DT going up all the time on the blog.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes Y28

Lips R46, R59

Hair T4, T6, T8, 100

Dress W00, W1, W3, W5, W7

Chalks & Powders etc

Pebbles Chalk ~ Metallic Cream

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Opulent Ovals

Embellishments

2 Crafty Chipboard ~ Tiny Kathleen’s Frame

Creative Embellishments Chipboard ~ Wing Set #1

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Mini Gears & Compass Coins

Prima Junkyard Findings ~ Faucet Wheels

Prima Shabby Chic Metal Treasure ~ Candelabra

Inks & Paints etc

Colorbox  Ink ~ Platinum

Inkssentials Enamel Accents ~ White

Rub’nBuff ~ Pewter

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Antique Linen, Black Soot & Old Paper

Papers

7 Dots Studio Nature Walk ~ Cloudy, Cotton & Gray Day

Graphic 45 Cardstock ~ Kraft

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace from stash

Papermania Ribbon ~ Lincoln Linen

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Steampunk ~ Bella Vampire

Challenges

7 Dots Studio ~ Fly Away

Creative Knockouts #29 ~ Things with wings

Kit and Clowder ~ Wings

Outlawz Paper A La Mode ~ Use something on your card that starts with the same letter as your first name

Sketch n’ Dies #3

Thanks for stopping by!