A little steampunkery

Last year I received a fantastic book called Steampunkery by Christi Friesen.

So I decided to have a go at making a few little steampunk creatures. Here is my first attempt, I was quiet pleased with him actually.

I've used different colours of Sculpey clay to create this cute little chameleon. After I had put together the body I used a little gold mica powder to give the armor on his tail a bit of a shine. After he was assembled I added the finishing touches with some small watch parts.

I was so pleased with this little guy I upscaled slightly to make him a friend.

Furry Birthday

I seem to have gone all cute again. 

This little fuzz ball is a Woodware clear stamp coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.

The pens I used were TN4, TN5, TN6, OR1, OR2, OR3, PP3, JG1

 

 I mounted the image onto a piece of patterned card and then onto a piece of orange card.

Then I added a little birthday greeting.

There's not mushroom!

 Ok so I am going to apologise for the bad pun, I promise it'll never happen again.




                   

 This cute little toadstool is a clear stamp from Woodware, it has been coloured in using Spectrum Noir pens.
The colours I used were:
TN1, TN2, TN4, TN5, BG1, BG5, IG1, OR1, CT2, DR3, DR4, DR5, JG1, JG2.

I rounded off the corners of the image and mounted it onto red card.

Finally I added the little 'Home sweet home' words.

Beautiful birthday bunny

We had these cute Bebunni stamps in at work just before Christmas and I thought they were really sweet. They are from Crafters Companion and there are several themes in the range.
I was really just playing about with the stamps we'd got and coloured this little chap in using Spectrum Noir pens (also from CC).
After I had finished colouring in I found this beautiful background paper, I couldn't believe my luck it was like they were made for one another.

Valentine time

The latest DO Crafts promotion came out earlier this month and has some fantastic items for all sorts of crafters.
This card has been made using the Sew Lovely range.
The backing paper is from the Sew Lovely 12x12 paper stack and the buttons are from the big bag of buttons that comes in this range.
The card was really easy to make because the paper has a heart printed on it, so all I had to was fill it with red buttons.
I then mounted this onto cream card and in turn mounted this onto another piece of red paper from the 12x12 stack.
I added the words using alphabet stickers in red.
So first Valentine's card of the year made in January, quite cute if I do say so myself.

On Your Birthday

First of I'd like to apologise for my photographs but due to the mirror card I had a heck of a job getting a picture without me in it.

This is my card entry for the Crafters Companion January blog challenge.

As well as the Spectrum Noir January blog challenge.

This little bear is Bamboo from the Party Paws range from Crafters Companion, although he is supposed to be a panda he has been designed in a way that he can be used as an ordinary bear.

 I coloured him in using Spectrum Noir pens, using the following colours:

Bear TN2, TN3, TN4

Butterfly CR3, CR5

Flower CR3, CR5, CR6, JG1, JG2

 

This heart in the background was cutting using the Heart Doilies die from Crafters Companion, I didn't emboss the die as I didn't want too much detail in the background.  

I then added a piece of silver mirror card behind the heart a piece of baby pink gingham ribbon and a greeting. 

Ouchy but beautiful

This is Teresa's other Christmas present. I have been searching for some of these glass dome necklaces for a long time just so I could make this.
The first thing I did was make the grass to fit in the bottom of the dome. This consisted of me needle felting a very small piece of green wool into a tiny flat circle (sounds easy you say), what actually happened was I lost said piece of green wool several times, including in the foam you use for needle felting. When I finally got the shape almost right I carefully glued the 'grass' into the bottom of the dome.
 Next I made the tiny toadstool from white and red felting wool. This mainly consisted of my stabbing myself repeatedly with a felting needle (if you've never seen one of these they are extremely sharp barbed needles).
After much chuntering and a bit of bleeding I had something that resembled a miniature toadstool.
So how do you get a miniature toadstool into a tiny glass dome? It was a bit of a ship in a bottle situation, but with a little more glue and a good pair of tweezers I finally succeeded.
Even gluing the metal lid to the glass dome turned into a challenge but I was really pleased with the end result.
I just hope Teresa likes it as much as she says because she has the only example of this piece of art (I doubt I'll do it ever again)