…leaving no other impression than that of a well-dressed gentleman

I’m sharing a male card I’ve made featuring one of the stamps from the All Steamed Up set from Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps.

It’s been an age since I got my Steampunk on and when I saw it was the theme over at The Male Room I decided I’d make my card to match and finally get some ink on this fine fellow.  The fact the current theme at Kraftin’ Kimmie’s Saturday challenge is also for the boys/men was pure crafty serendipity.

To help me along with the layout and colours I’ve taken inspiration from both the sketch and photo at Fusion.  The letters are echoed in the designer paper I chose with the lovely blue and brown palette working perfectly for a Steampunk theme.  I’d planned to go with stripes of the vertical rectangular element but loved the diamond pattern too much to go past it.  I did add a second smaller rectangular element to frame my image, mostly because he was a bit small and would have got lost had I fussy cut him as planned.  The one drawback of real stamps, you can’t resize them.

I used the Beautiful Square Time Pieces stamp from Docrafts to add the pattern to the blue cardstock of the horizontal rectangular element.  I stamped it in Ingvild Bohme’s Dark Rust and then sprinkled with clear embossing powder to give a metallic effect.  Added my ubiquitous shaker element in a gear shape in a quick way by using a Jillibean Soup shaker cup.  In the end I’m not so sure I love how much it protrudes from the card, would be nice if they were only about an eighth tall.

I thought about adding in some metal gear embellies but in the end decided to leave this as is to preserve the balance between all the layers and the image.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21

Eye E29

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit BV02, BV04, BV13, BV17, BV23, BV29, E23, E25, E27, E29

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Jillibean Soup Shaped Shaker Dies ~ JB1023 Small Circle Set

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ S4-386 Cogs

Embellishments

Craft Medley Sequins Pailettes ~ Dazzling Metallics

Jillibean Soup Shaped Shaker Insert ~ Small Circle

Little Things from Lucy's Cards Shaker Selection ~ Nautical Sparkle

Inks & Paints etc

Prima Ingvild Bolme Chalk Ink ~ Old Rust

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Alcohol Blending Solution, Caramel, Mermaid, Silver Mixative & Stream

Tim Holtz Mixed Media Archival Ink ~ Ground Espresso

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Pumice Stone

Papers

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Milkshake

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Kraft Core Metallics ~ Bronze

Crafter’s Companion Neenah ~ Desert Storm

Glossy White Cardstock from stash

Maja Design Life by the Sea ~ Bottle Message & Navigate

Stamps

Docrafts ~ Beautiful Square Time Pieces

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps ~ All Steamed Up (retired)

Challenges

Fusion ~ Scrambled Letters

Kraftin’ Kimmie #371 ~ For the Boys/Men

The Male Room #55 ~ Steampunk

Thanks for stopping by!