Steampunk has always facinated me for some reason. Gears and victorian inspiration are some of the key words to steampunk. Airships, googles and a very specific way of dressing up. These steampunk googles has been made from some old welding goggles and was published in the magazine TPC a year ago.
I have used a leather texture paper from Kaisercraft - Cherry Tree Lane - Leather with wooden and metal gears from Finnabair, black and cobber spray paint and wax and paint from Finnabair.
The google itself, are old welding goggles. They were dismanteled before they were altered. Paint will generally not fix to plastic. Therefore I sanded the down a bit and added serviets as decopage first. After that I painted the googles.
The glass has been covered with washi tape, before I spry painted the googles.
I used the paper from the Cherry Tree Lane from Kaisercraft to get the leather pattern at the back of the googles.
Then I added gears, and dry painted with Finnabair's cobber metalic paint and wax.
It's still summer, but still time for some creativity.
Here, I have created a steampunk mixed media canvas on an old book page. I have built it up on the right and the left side, where the mixed media piece is mounted on the back, in the middle. I have used Kaisercraft's Plaster Rose from the Wandering Ivy collection. This is a fantastic collection. You can also get a packet with all the papers from the wandering Ivy collection:
In the middle, I used an embossed paper at the base. I then used old pieces from sewing machines, pcs, gears from old clocks, beads, die cuts and a little light bulb. I painted everything black, and then I dry painted it with Finnabair's wax and Extreme Sheen - Metallik aquamarine
To build up between the mixed media in the middle and the paper, I used concrete paste to create the effect of concrete. This paste is fun and easy to work with.
I decided to show something different for CHA for LDRS creative. I wanted to show some of the embossing folders, together with dies. For the white layers of the dress, I used the Timeless embossing folders and the new Picnic Quilt Embossing folder, to emboss white card stock. This created a nice texture for the white parts of the dress.
All the flowers are hand made, and the dragonflies, created with together with the Key Tailed Dragonfly Die Set, are featured in between the flowers. I also created small gears with the same die set, and added the gears between the flowers. The paper ribbon, has been created with The Basic Cutting Edge Border and the Fancy Rectangles die set.
We have a new challenge over in Kaisercraft's blog today. It's a sketch challenge. I decided to create some different cards this time, and did some Steampunk snowmen, created with glitter card stock and the gear/cogs dies.
I have also used some stencils on the background to create some snow.
I have used left overs and the sticker sheet from the Silent Night collection from Kaisercraft (ground and the pine cones).
The text "Fun times" has been created with some of Kaisercraft's dies. I have used glitter cardstock (Champagne) behind the red letters.
The other card has a similar text, created with the "Ho Ho Ho" dies
Enjoy your Christmas card making.
Kaisercraft products: P2152 Family time | PP1004 Paper Pad | SS320 Sticker Sheet | IT920 Celebrate | GC104 Glitter Cardstock Crystal | GC105 Glitter Cardstock Champagne | DD748 Decorative Die Summer Words | DD120 Decorative Die Words Ho Ho Ho | DD706 Decorative Dies Cogs.
This has been a good and interesting crafting year for me.
I started being a designer for Hobbykunst megastore, the online craft magazine StampARTic, guest designer for the magazine Ett trykk. I was have also been a designer for Scandinavian paper fun (challenge blog) and a guest designer for Nicecrane design.
During the spring, I applied for a design team spot for Prima marketing and Kaisercraft. Prima is an american based craft supplier, and Kaisercraft is an Australian based craft supplier. The design team calls were out, at about the same time, and I went through to the finals and got a design team spot at Kaisercraft's designteam for 2015-2016.
This minialbum was made for the Prima design team call. The album was made from scratch, and was fun to make. The aim was to show a lot of different mixed media and background techniques along with using lots of different Prima papers and embellishments. I will only show a few of the pages here. More photos can be seen in the original blog post, My story - mixed media minialbum.
There is a small pop-up airplane on the last page. I really love designing pop-ups, and trying to figure out how they work.
Kaisercraft design team call
The Kaisercraft designteam call came out about the same time as the Prima design team call. I had decided to apply for the design team this year. Kaisercraft is an Australian Scrapbooking brand, and that was just a bonus for me. I do very much believe in "building your own doors". Opportunities will not necessarily knock on your door, but you have to work for it. So I had a go, and applied. The task was to create one layout, one card and one beyond the page item.
This photo of Uluru, is one I took in 2007.
I also created one of my lamps and a small card. I have had the tutorial an template for this lamp published in Ett trykk (October 2013). You can find the template for the lamp in this post.
I went through to the final. All the finalist got sent 2 different paper collections. We had to create with both collections, create a blogpost and send the items we created back to Kaisercrafts main office.
I got this fantastic Time Machine Collection (I still LOVE this collection!). Among the things I created was a box with a minialbum and a pop-up card.
We also got the Home for Christmas collection, and I decided o create a small church with lights inside and a small lamp post.
Later I created the same church in Maja design papers, scaled it down to 5cm tall, and mounted it inside an acrylic Christmas ornament. (See furter down in this blogpost).
This year, I have also been a guest designer for the magazine Ett trykk. Everything in print has to be made a long time before the magazines are printed. This advent calendar was created in June and published in October, I created this advent calendar with papers from Maja design.
I have been a designer for Hobbykunst for some years. This summer, Hobbykunst had a visit from Becky Higgins. Becky Higgins had a few classes and I was lucky to get one of the spots in one of the classes.
This is a PL page I made for Hobbykunst, just before Becky Higgins visit. The photo is from New York, and edited in Photoshop, to create the black, white and orange colours. You can find more photos of the Nwy York project life page, made for Hobbykunst in the blogpost.
This year, I have been very lucky. I have been asked to give classes in Kjøpsvik, Førde, Larvik and in Oslo. One of my classes at Hobbykunst, was creating three different folding Christmas cards. This was a very popular class and the classes were full.
I used the small church template, I created for Kaisercraft's final DT call and scaled it down to 5cm tall. I cut it out of Maja Nyhavn papers, and added it inside one of Hobbykunst's small acrylic Christmas ornaments (8cm in diamenter). I also added lights inside the church. This is definitive the post I have had with most likes. In one of the groups I posted it in, this got over 1250 likes, which is completely surreal on a papercraft project.
You can see more photos of this Christmas ornament in the original blogpost.
The vintage car, a video tutorial
A few years ago, I created a vintage car with a rubber band engine. This was done as an example for some school kids. I struggled finding instructions on how to create cars with rubber band engine, so I created the instructions myself, end published the template. Later, I created a Silhouette file, based on my template. I give the Silhouette file away for free (but you have to ask for it - see mail address). Several people struggled putting the parts together, and I was asked to do a tutorial. So this year I published the tutorial
Design team posts for Kaisercraft
So, I got on to the Kaisercraft design team. I have really enjoyed it. Here are some of the posts for Kaisercraft.
This is a funny mixed media layout. The image is of two Santas visiting their neighbour's kids (who really still believe in Santa). You can find more photos in the Ho ho ho - layout blogpost.
You don't always need to use personal photos in your layouts. This is a photo I took last summer in England. I just love all the quotes on Kaisercraft's papers. You can always find some good quotes to work with. You can see more photos in the Life is pretty amazing layout blogpost.
We get the Christmas collections quite early on Kaisercraft's designteam. The holy night collection, was one of those Christmas collections, I really enjoyed working with. You can see more of the Christmas cards in the original blogpost.
This baby mobile, is one of the first tutorials I did for Kaisercraft. You can find the template and you-tube tutorial on this Baby mobile in the original blogpost.
This is a box I created with the Treasured Memories collection from Kaisercraft. You can find more photos of the tractor box in the original blogpost.
The Maja design Glitter House box.
This house with a glitter house, puts house was created with papers from Maja design. You can find the template for the box and for the house in the Glitter house box with template blogpost.
My first adventure for 2016
It is almost the end of the month, and end of the year. As this post is being published, I am on my way to one of my largest adventures ever. I am in California, for a bit of a holiday and CHA! This year I have managed to get some tickets for CHA, and I should also have some items for show on CHA for Kaisercraft. I will keep you posted with news from CHA, so watch this space and my you-tube channel.
