Mark the transient butterfly...

I’ve gone a bit distressed and a bit grunge with today’s card featuring the elegant Steampunk Kay from Simply B Stamps’ Steampunk DT Gals collection.

I love the contrast between the distressing and the corroded background and embellies and the pretty image.  There’s a lot going on with this card but that’s partly because the sketch I followed from Cardabilities had a lot going on.  I haven’t decided if I should have enlarged the tab file elements or not, I could have as I didn’t have a die so cut them by hand.

The awesome rusty corrugated iron background paper just had to be distressed and that led me to having to rust my metal cog and wooden butterfly, which I did with some rusting powder from Twiddleybitz.  There was no way I was going to be able to distress into the corners of the tab files so I settled for designer paper that looked a bit shabby.  I backed my cog hessian trim with another hessian trim that had frayed bits on the side to add more shabbiness to the whole card.  I’m always a bit unsure about the whole shabby style but between all my elements I think I meet the distressed or shabby part of the current Paper Crafting Journey challenge and my image is a bit vintage so might have that part covered too.

The sketch had butterfly embellies so that’s what I went with too, just Steampunk ones.  I’ve also got gears galore and metal bits and pieces and a Steampunk image so I’m also entering this in the current challenge at PunkyouGirl.

And while we’re talking Steampunk, why not join in on our challenge over at Simply Steampunk Challenges, it’s wings / grunge it up.  As you can see I’ve got that theme covered with my card and my grunged up butterfly.  You can use any Steampunk image, although we’d love to see a Simply B Stamps’ one, and have until 2 February.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks E02)

Eyes E37, E49, 0

Lips R29, R37, R46, R59

Hair E29, E31, E35, E37, E49

Outfit BG93, G85, G94, G99, N0, N1, N2, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Twiddleybitz – Rusting Powder

Dies & SVG s etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities – Cogs

Embellishments

Bead Flowers from stash

Jolee’s Boutique – Steampunk Floral n Butterfly Border

Kaisercraft Flourishes – Magical Butterfly

Prima Junkyard Findings – Tiny Clock Parts

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Tim Holtz Distress Paint – Vintage Photo

Vintaj Patina – Aged Bronze

Papers

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Black

Kaisercraft Attitude! – Dude

Kaisercraft Base Coat – Redwood

Kaisercraft Hunt & Gather – Trek

Ribbons & Trims

Green Tara Mesh Ribbon – Dark Brown

Hessian Trim – Natural from stash

Hessian Trim – Cogs from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Steampunk – Steampunk Kay

Challenges

Cardabilities Sketch #91

Paper Crafting Journey – Vintage / Distressed / Shabby Chic

PunkyouGirl #8 – Steampunk

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Phighting for a Cure

Welcome to the Phun 4 Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness blog hop, hopefully you came here via the gorgeous Lisa’s blog, if not and you are just passing by my blog, please see the blog hop list below.  I was honoured to be asked to be part of this hop and to be able to make a card that will go to someone living with this disease.  My card features an awesome image, PHun Butterfly, that Betty of Simply B Stamps drew especially for the occasion.

 

Did you know, while there are now 11 FDA approved medicines to treat pulmonary hypertension, zero are approved for use in children with PH.  You can also find out more information about PH from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.

Now Betty isn’t the only artist to have generously provided her support, Tamara of the Stamping Chef has also drawn an image, Pucker Up, and there will be another blog hop tomorrow starting at the Stamping Chef featuring it.  You too can show your support by making a card with one or both of these beautiful images.  Instructions for getting the image is below, you will also need the answer to this question “How many treatments are FDA approved for children with PH?"

There’s also a challenge going on, link up your project here by Saturday 16 November (the US 16th) to be in the running for a Teresa Collins Stamp Maker.  Winners will be announced at the Paper Moments blog on Saturday 23 November.  Remember to use periwinkle on your card.

Now head on over to the delightful Veronica’s blog and don’t forget to leave some love at all the blogs as there will be a prize for one lucky person drawn by random.org.

Ingredients:

Copics

BV02, BV04, BV13, BV17, E29, E35, E37, Y23, Y26, Y28

Dies

Spellbinders Grommet Tags

Embellishments

Petaloo Flora Doodles Flowering Vines – Eggplant

Rhinestone Button from LSS

Inks & Powders etc

Fran-Tage Embossing Enamel – Shabby Blue

Smooch Spritz – Electric Blue

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock – Dusty Concord

Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells – Patterns & Solids

Ribbons & Trims

Gorjuss Baker’s Twine

Satin Ribbon from stash – White

Stamps

Simply B Stamps PHun Butterfly

Challenges

A Little Bit Crafty – Sparkle and Shine

Cardabilities Sketch #86

Craftitude Challenge #52 – Anything Goes/Use Twine or String

Blog hop list:

Betty

Corinne

Darcy

Katya

Shelley

Irene

Karen

Lisa

Emily Shroom (that’s me!)

Veronica
Shirley

If you would like the image to participate please email Betty at simplyb10 (at) aol (dot) com, with the subject PHun Butterfly.  You may request the PHun Butterfly until Tuesday November 12th at 8pm PST.  And remember, do NOT share the files, refer your friends on how to go about getting them.  Records will be kept on who should have the image, sharing is stealing!

Thanks for stopping by!

Muchier

There’s an awesome new release at Simply B Stamps featuring my all time favourite, Alice in Wonderland.  The images in this collection are drawn by Abigail Larson and therefore are Steampunk inspired.  And here for your viewing pleasure is Alice herself.

As with all my release day images I’ve done up a mini Kraft page to go inside my Steampunk box.  This one follows the current sketch at Cardabilities and uses the Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells paper range.  To keep it Steampunking I’ve added some gears, both crafty and real, and where would an Alice image be without a clock.  I’m late, I’m late…fortunately not with this post or Miss Corinne would get out her pins!

There’s a Tic Tac Toe challenge over at SanDee&amelie’s and I’ve used the right-hand column, clock, gears, ribbon on my album page.  And with my bow and ribbon I’m also entering this at the current Allsorts’ challenge.

 

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53, (cheeks R02)

Lips R46

Hair Y00, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, YR23

Dress B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, N0, N2, N4

Boots C00, N4, N6, N8, 100

Frame E13, E30, E31, E35, E37, Y23, Y26, Y28

Embellishments

Metal Charm – Clock

Prima Say It in Crystals and Flowers

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Sprocket Gears

Watch Parts from stash

Papers

Graphic 45 Kraft

Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells – Frightful Folly & Steampunk Spells

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Black

Ribbons & Trims

The Paper Studio – Clock Faces Twill from SBS Ribbon Swap

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Steampunk Alice Portrait

Challenges

Allsorts Week 229 – Ribbons and Bows

Cardabilities Sketch #85

SanDee&amelie’s Challenge – Steampunk Tic Tac Toe

Thanks for stopping by!