Steampunk At Anything But A Card. . . . . . .

Time for another challenge at Anything But A Card and for the next fortnight we ask you to share your steampunk creations with us. You can make any project you like as long as it's NOT a card.

I've decided to make an ATC this time as I rather like the challenge of working in such a small space! I've made the same background previously but I liked it so much I replicated it again for this project.

If you go over to Anything But A Card, you can find more inspiration from my teamies and in a weeks time another gorgeous array of work will be shown by the second team.

So, without further ado, here is my little ATC:

I decided to go for a little steampunk bird from Oxford Impressions and he is attached to the ATC using foam pads to give height. The Steampunk stamp is part of the same plate. The background was created by using DecoArt Modelling paste through a stencil followed by the Skinner technique.

The bird was stamped onto old book text using DecoArt  Americana acrylic and distress ink was used to colour the image background for a more vintage look.
The wing is a chipboard shape with a screw style brad added. It was given a rusty finish (Andy Skinner) finish  using DecoArt Traditions paints and other DecoArt products. 

The wooden letters were found in a charity shop and given the rusty treatment complete with brads.
Rusty wire was used to make the bird perch at the bottom of the ATC. A completely rusted nail I found in one of my flower beds was suspended through the wire loops - no need for any treatment!

Some coiled rusty wire was added to the ATC before a label was applied with the word steampunk. 

I had to add a little flower to my piece just for fun but where to put it? On the birds hat of course! The leaf is a die cut and the flower a punched shape both left over from another project. The hat was stamped onto old book paper using DecoArt Traditions then embossed. The eye is a little black gem.

The label card was coloured with distress ink and stamped with a cog design also in distress ink. Finally the word Steampunk was stamped with DecoArt Traditions raw umber because it's a lovely dark colour and I wanted the word to stand out.

The brads on the label were black but I added some DecoArt Metallic Lustre to give them an aged, worn look.

 Hope you like my steampunk offering this week. I really must try to stop rusting everything but it's totally addictive! Those of you who have been here before will not that there is NO crackle this time. . . very unusual for me!

Thanks so much for looking and why not get a steampunk inspired piece together and join us this fortnight at Anything But A Card?