Steampunk TMR

 Hi Everyone, it's The Male Room Challenge today

The Male Room Challenge

It has to be is - masculine.

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card - Lidl

Gears N Cogs background - Lizzie Mayne Silhouette Design Store

Steampunk hat - Susanne Cannon Silhouette Design Store

sentiment - computer generated, out of steampunk style font "Brewery"

rub ons - Craft-T Products  (had for years and years)

Cameo Silhouette 2

A subject I find quite a challenge, I've done a few in the past, on this occasion it was out with the digital die cutting machine. To start, I downloaded a few images  and started with cutting the background out of 2 pieces of 300gms card joining them together to make an embossing "frame". The brown card is very thick, so I sprayed it with water to help with the embossing. After it was dry I added metallic and luster rub on's to the background to bring it out more. 

When that was done and cut to size, I cut the hat and the cogs in different coloured card, then added the metallic rub on's to them too. I also cut some of the cogs and the buttons on the hat out of copper mirror card, for a little extra shine. You can see the shine in this, side on photo. 

I am always amazed how tiny the machine can cut card. The smallest button is just 8mm with the button holes of course much smaller. Even the edges of the cogs are perfect. It's a digital die cutter. For some of you I am talking about "science fiction", for me it's love. 💖

 

Steam Punk

Hi Everyone, here is my day late DT card for

http://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

SO much out of my comfort zone, BUT I did enjoy doing this card so very much, even getting myself dirty!!!! with gilding wax. I made it really dirty, by even adding pewter gilding wax around the card too, it reminded me of the days Hubby came home with his overalls standing up on their own, with the amount of grease on them, (he was a heavy haulage mechanic in his early years). Thank goodness those days are over. Shame you can't see the shine on the card.

On to my card, I laid it all out in PS, then 

printed and cut the paper and images out, 

the paper was embossed with a music folder, 

with the edges gilded with different shades of wax. . 

Then added ribbon.

I cut the gears on my Cameo and gilded them with the same wax. 

Then layered onto the paper with 3D dimensionals.

My apologies to the Team for the delay in posting this.

Images Create with TLC

Gear background paper Marisa Lerin at Pixelscrapper.

which was also traced to provide a cut file for the gears.

DSC # 111 Steampunk

It's time for a new challenge at

 Digitally Sweet Challenges

the Theme is 

Steampunk

sponsored by  Lunagirl

Hi Everyone, our challenge this week is completely out of my comfort zone, so much so that I had to find out what "Steampunk" meant, yes of course I have seen it around and greatly admired what had been achieved,  I didn't understand it, but that is what a challenge is isn't it? 

Anyhow, this is my offering and I have to apologise for my efforts. I did what I think it means. Science fiction with Victorian tendencies.  I think!  Perhaps someone could correct me, if I am wrong.

I have used Luna girl steam punk numbers 1,2,3,8,9,10,11, and Stitchy bear sailship and paper numbers 1,2,3,4.  

I placed the images into the surreal world of Steampunk, imagining that the ship was going up into the new world through the frame, which is a PS Brush by Elbereth-de-Lioncourt and the man was asking the lady with the bike to fly off with him, he already is halfway there with the flight! shapes on his feet.  The clock represents time she doesn't have to go with him.  The balloon leaflet is hanging from the frame, again in the surreal world.  I used a few PS masks, blending options, overlays etc, I won't bore you with the the how to's.  I may go back to this and play more when I have time, I think there is so much more than could be done. I'll blog it when I do.

This was hard work, but when I got into it I quite liked the surreal world, where imagination can be set free outside the norm.