Stephanie here with you today to show you how to make a very steampunk card! On the first moment I saw the Emily stamp, kindly named after Jamie's dog, I knew I was going to turn her into a full-on steampunk creation at one point. Well, today's the day!
Don't be scared by the metal embellishments, dark brown papers or the size of the stamp itself, it will all work out in the end I promise!
First step is to stamp your image on your favourite colouring medium cardstock, and then die-cut her face or the portion you want to colour. Next thing you know, cut all your papers, alter the edges and pop everything on 3D foam dots. Add some trim, metal embellishments, flowers, and you're done!
Easy peasy, right?
Here's a video to show you exactly how everything was done :)
Hi everyone! Carisa with you today and I am SO excited to be sharing my first ever post as part of Jamie's Bloom Girl Design Team. I used the Emily stamp and Sweet Pea stencil to create a page in my art journal. I also filmed a video for you to share my process and how it all comes together. I hope you will take a few moments out of your day to watch and be inspired to experiment and let go...because that's exactly what I had to do for this page to come together!
This page really started because of this quote. I picked up this book at a thrift store and I have been using it as my art journal. I love the quotes that are sprinkled throughout - some make me laugh (this book was published I believe in the early 1900's) and others really resonate with me like this one. I am so honored to be a part of Jamie's Bloom Girl DT but for some reason, I always freak out when I sit down to work on a project for a blog post - that's why this quote was PERFECT!! The biggest mistake I make in art is not even starting!
I really love the texture that the Sweet Pea stencil added along the bottom of my page. You can really see how pretty it looks here with some metallic texture medium.
Doesn't Emily look gorgeous on this page? It looks as though I planned this, right?! Nope! I actually had stamped right on my page but ended up stamping where there were a lot of ink splotches from me experimenting earlier. Oyi, I was like OH NO! So, I looked around and saw Emily half watercolored from an earlier attempt at a project that I had tossed in the trash because I wasn't happy. I took her out and thought, ok, I'll just fussy cut her out and adhere her over my earlier stamping. I finished coloring her and did just that…except now I know in order to attach something so thick and textured, I will definitely need some heavy gel medium in my art supplies! ;)
All in all, I am in LOVE with how this page turned out. I learned a lot not only about what art supplies I need but also about myself. I absolutely love the Bloom Collection by Jamie Dougherty and it makes me happy that I can create beautiful pages in my art journal like this since I can't draw to save my life. haha How blessed are we to have gorgeous stamps available like this to create with?! I hope you enjoyed my post today and are inspired to pull out your Bloom Collection stamps and let go of any fear that might be holding you back from making something beautiful! You never know, that mistake (like mine) just might be the start of something amazing.
Prima Marketing Inc supplies used:
Prima Marketing Inc Bloom Collection - Emily (stamp) item# 980306
Prima Marketing Inc Bloom Collection - Sweet Pea (6x6 stencil) item#980351
Other supplies used:
Book journal
Gesso
Imagine Crafts Fireworks Spray - Summer sky, Pear Tart, Lulu Lavendar, Dandelion
Imagine Crafts StazOn Studio Glaze - Gold, Cloudy Sky, Gothic Purple
Imagine Crafts IrRESISTible Pico Embellisher - Wedding Dress, Electric Purple, Tuxedo Black
Imagine Crafts Creative Medium - Clear, Silver (metallic)
Tsukineko StazOn Ink - Jet Black, Cloudy Sky
Tsukineko Versafine Ink - Black Onyx
Imagine Crafts Palette Knife
Strathmore 140lb Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper
Koi Watercolors
Various Unity Stamp Co Background Stamps
Faber Castell Big Pitt Artist Pen - Cobalt Turquoise, Light Cobalt Turquoise
Bombay Black India Ink
Uni-ball Signo White Gel Pen
Various Rub Ons
Hello my creative friends:) Sherry here to share with you my first project using the stunning 'Emily' in all of her gears and glory! With this being my first post, I must tell you how much I adore gears and anything mechanical. When Jamie released Emily and Quentin, my heart skipped a beat, and I knew my first project had to be filled with metallics and gears!
So follow along as I give you step by steps to this beauty:)
1- Gather chipboard clocks of two different sizes (and arms of the smaller clock), adhere metallic mega-flakes to full surface of both clocks.
2-Stamp multiple images of 'Emily' on white card stock, and one by itself on a 12x12 piece of white card stock for the base. Cut pieces from the other images that you want to pop out for the 3D effect, using pop dots adhere these 'stand out' pieces over the base image. (I chose to make pieces of her hair stand out!) Add some metallic accents using embossing powder.
3-Trace the inner circle of the largest clock. Cut out following just larger then the circle you traced, adhere this to the back of the large clock.
4-Gather chipboard gears of varying size and shape and add metallic accents using stamps and embossing powders.
5-Arrange gears on top of and peeking out from behind the large clock edges.
6- Take small chipboard clock and its arms from step 1 and add white embossing powder to tone down metallics. Arrange small clock and arms behind the assembled elements from steps 3-5.
7-Take out a fresh piece of white card stock. Use multiple background texture stamps, apply embossing powder in different tones of white. Use a background stencil and molding paste to create some beautiful layers of subtle white tones.
8-Using pop dots, adhere your assembled Emily clock to your background page. Add a few pearl gems to accent.
9-Tie it all together with small splatters of watered down white gesso. (make sure to cover up your Emily image to avoid splattering her!)
