Kaisercraft Time Machine - Memory Book/Mini Album

Hi everyone, just popping in to share a little something with you I made recently for a favourite work colleague who's just retired.

I do apologise in advance for the quality of the pictures, I did want to take proper pictures and a video of the finished item, but it was very difficult to get it all together in time with people contributing messages and stuff who were spread out over 2 completely separate hospital sites on both sides of the city. So I ended up having to take photographs in situ after it was gifted to the recipient, and obviously that means no video and the photos are not the best and have stuff in the background!  But I hope you can get an idea of what the completed project looked like. I didn't get pics of every page because I just took a few super quick shots, but it should give you an idea

Now as my regular followers will already know, I hate making male orientated stuf...like with a vengance...BUT, because I found this wonderful paper from Kaisercraft called Time Machine, and went almost a little bit steampunk, I really got into making this.

You'll have to forgive the background, as I said I had to take it in a place of work, and had to choose somewhere there was plenty of light! I used a combination of die cut gears, using  La-La Land Crafts Steampunk Heart Cogs and  Cheery Lyn gears which sadly aren't available any more. I also used some Tim Holtz metal gears and sprokets and some little screw heads from Prima.

I used a La-La Land Crafts  Steampunk Border to edge my pockets and I used some gold ink and some Aged Aqua Frantage on them for interest and to make them look a bit like they had a touch of verdigris. I also used this on the die cuts on the front cover.

The inside front cover has a flip out section with magnets and lots of fold outs for pictures and journaling, I used more of the screw heads to decorate and these fabulous wing nut heads, also from Prima as handles

This pic shows one of the pages opened out.

I hope you liked my memory book, it was very well received and I really enjoyed making it, I'm just sorry I ran out of time to make a video. I do have another couple of mini albums on the go currently though, so I should have a video to share with you in the coming weeks.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! :) xx

Steampunk Valentine

Hi everyone, big hugs to all my followers new and old and a big thank you for all the lovely comments you've been leaving for me recently, I really love to read them and totally appreciate every one of them :)

Unusually for me today I'm not here as part of any challenge or DT....well I suppose it's kind of as GDT for Saturated Canary, but this post was not required, or for anything special other than that I totally fell in LOVE with this image when I saw it, and couldn't wait to make something with it!

Well of course I had to wait a bit, because you know ...life...I work full time with quite a long journey to and from work, and then there are DT commitments etc, not to mention chores and squeezing in family and a social life lol!  I did manage to get it coloured up last week and shared it in the Saturated Canary Facebook Group, but I've been itching to make something with it since then.

Now I have a thing for Steampunk, though I don't often get to indulge, but this was really pretty too, so I didn't want to go too far down the dark and utilitarian Steampunk path, so I decided to make a Steampunk Valentine card.

I love the way this turned out.

The colouring is done with Distress Ink markers.

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Aged Mahogany

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs

Outfit: Victorian Velvet, Frayed Burlap, Gathered Twigs, Pumice Stone, Antique Linen.

The beautiful papers are Maja Design Vintage Autumn Basics, they're edged with DI and hand stitched.

I used the Steampunk Clock and Heart Cogs from La-La Land  Crafts and some other cogs cut with a Cheery Lynn die set. They've been edged with Vintage Photo DI. I added a little lace and seam binding and a brass coloured key. The little screws are brads and are by Tim Holtz.

Finally I decorated the inside with complementary paper and some steampunk vehicle stamps.

There you go....not a flower in sight!....well only on the patterned paper.

Sadly this stamp is not yet available, it's going to be used for a project kit over at Kit and Clowder, so I was very lucky to get to play with it early :)

Items used

Maja Design Papers

Steampunk Clock

Heart Cogs

Cheery Lynn Gears

Clementine Lace

Seam Binding Oloroso

Cream Top Stitch Thread

Pink Top Stitch Thread
8mm Flat Back Ivory Pearls
6mm Ivory Flat Back Pearl Trim

That's all from me, but I'll be back on Friday with more to share, see you then! :) xx

Steampunk Marci - Gothic Style at La-La Land

Goooood Morning everyone! A big welcome to my newest followers, thank you so much for joining me and I hope I continue to provide you with some inspiration from week to week.

Apologies for my absence this weekend, I would normally have been here on Sunday with my Totally Tilda post and hopping through your blogs leaving some love, but my lovely daughter was visiting from London this week as she was delivering some training in Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool, so my free time was spent with her instead of crafting and I had a mad rush to catch up with makes this Sunday.

Anyway on to the reason I'm here today, and that's to share my inspiration post for La-La- Land Crafts, I'm soooooo enjoying my guest spot on their design team, this first month has been SO much fun, and lucky me I have another month to go!

The theme this week is Dies Galore, not a difficult one for me, I do love me a die or several!

Now I have to say that the photos are not the best, I love the way this looks in real life but it honestly does not photograph well, I tried different sorts of  lighting, positioning etc and this was the best I could manage , it's such a shame. Anyhoo, enough whining and let's get to sharing, poor as the colours are.

I decided to take a bit of a Gothic twist to Steampunk Marci here and used these fabulous papers from Prima, from a 6 x 6 pack called Cartographer, they were just perfect with the maps and hot air balloons and stuff.  I decided to go with the whole sepia and black colour scheme and just added some red for a pop of colour.  I've popped the links to items from stockists in the UK at the end of my post.

I wanted to keep the whole vintage sepia look going so coloured her up with my copics in Ws, using E30 for a sepia 'wash' and R59, 46 and 20, for some red accents to match in with the background. Unfortunately the colours are not really showing quite right in the photos, and Marci is looking a little green in the face, I wonder if she's airsick? lol

Obviously lots of dies for the theme, I used the following La-La Land Crafts dies:

Steampunk Border Die

Steampunk Heart Cogs Die (set of 3)

Steampunk Corner Die

Hot Air Balloon Die

Rolled Rose Small & Medium Die

I also used some smaller gears cut with a Cheery Lyn die, and some metal cogs from Hobby House.

This phot will give you a better idea of the layers, I thought this looked pretty good in a deep box frame and I'll be finding space for this on my wall somewhere. I've had these brads that look like screws for a long time now, but I cannot remember where I got them from, just that they're by Tim Holtz.

The sentiment is from a Steampunk Travels set by Whimsy Stamps. It's cut with a Whimsy slider die and I popped a couple of small rolled roses on either side to cover the slider holes.

For those of you wanting to make a framed picture like this, the frame is from Ikea and they also do it in white.  It has a glass front, I just took that out for the photograph to avoid the glare.

Well that's all from me today, don't forget to pop over the the Blog to see the rest of the team's makes, they are really terrific, fabulous and creative use of dies.

If you use Facebook, you can join the Group page and share your wonderful creations with us!

Have fun everyone and if you haven't signed up for my blog Candy, you still have 17 more days to enter!

Take care and I'll see you here tomorrow with my regular Dies to Die for post. : ) x x

I'm entering my card to the following:

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes
Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Flying Things (Hot Air Balloons)
Quirky Crafts Challenge - Something Begining with S  (Steampunk)

La La Land - Steampunk Marci	Cartographer - 6 x 6 Paper Stack	Bazzill Cardstock - Grenadine - 12 x 12	La La Land - Steampunk Heart Cogs	La La Land - Steampunk Border	La La Land - Steampunk Corner
La-La Land - Hot Air Balloon	Cheery Lynn - Gears	Slider 1 Die	Neenah Cardstock	Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo
Collall All Purpose Glue - 50ml	Dovecraft Hi-Bond Double Sided 6mm Tape

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