Day 26 of 31 and Leslie Rahye's Very Spooky Halloween Steampunk blog hop

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This year I am participating in the Very Spooky Halloween Steampunk blog hop and I am so super excited!!!  I LOVE, I mean LOVE LOVE LOVE Steampunk!  and Halloween so the opportunity to make something Steampunk and Halloween was something I just could not resist!!!  I had seen Jim the Gentleman Crafter make a Jacked Up Jack-o-lantern on YouTube last year.  Once I saw that I had to make my own version.  So I did.  Mine is a Steampunk Jack-o-Witch!!

Now a little back story... Everywhere I go I am constantly picking stuff up.. Walk in a parking lot and pick up rusty things, go to the hubby's office on a weekend and I am outside walking the grounds while he is inside doing what ever it is he has to do that day!  I mean everywhere...  I also scour the junk yards, when hubby goes to get car parts I am looking on the ground and in the grass for the little things that people don't care about, and sometimes they just throw them in for free!!!  It's like I  am cleaning for them!!  LOL  anyway that was all told so that you could understand where I got most of the things I put on my
Jack-O-Witch!

OK here are the pictures you have been waiting for!

Here is my Jack-O-Witch!  I started by covering the pumpkin in metal duct tape.  Not Grey Duct tape but the metal shiny tape they use for covering holes in duct work!  Then I thought it looked to shiny for what I wanted so, I took a sponge of the makeup variety and sponged black archival ink all over it.... well that really turned out to purple for me so I took another sponge and sponged Golden Transparent Red Iron Oxide fluid acrylic paint all over... that made it really pretty but kinda to orange, so then I took Golden Carbon Black fluid acrylic paint and sponged that over it and there you go, that's where the color came from!!

This is a paper mache hat I got from the craft store.... I had this tissue paper with the keys on it I got last year so I ripped it up and adhered it with fluid matte medium...  while it was still wet I added the same fluid acrylic paints to it and bent the brim of the hat to give it some character.

Here are most of my found objects, some I have purchased in the past like the key and the little pointy eye but most of the items are found or made with a big shot...  The Gears are grunge board cut with the big shot and painted with gold paint, under the key eye is a wooden drawer pull that I shoved into the pumpkin... the nose is an old screw I found on the ground somewhere and the little screws were in my stash and I have no idea where they came from!!!  The mouth is a drawer pull I got from the habitat for humanity resale store!!  The eyeglass rim was found on a parking lot and also the spring!  

I hope you enjoyed my Steampunk Jack-O-Witch!!  Now make sure to hop to see the rest of today's projects!!!  There are prizes to be won and Leslie Rahye has all those details for you!  

Here are the hop participants!!

A Very Merry Steampunk Holiday

Hello Lovelies,  today is super special for me... My friend and fellow APDT member Leslie Rahye has decided to have a Holiday Blog hop... What's special about this one, well it's steampunk of course.  We could do anything we liked with a steampunk theme so I decided to do a Snowman/Top Hat!!  Now my vision for this is to make a paper mache snowman to wear this hat!  No it's not done yet because I just thought of it so it's still a work in progress(the snowman) but the Hat is done.  I found these paper mache top hats at Michaels in October and snatched up a couple before they were gone.  Not really having any clue as to what I wanted to do with them then I heard about this blog hop and knew what one was going to be!!! I hope to be done with my snowman before christmas but if you have ever made your own paper mache items(big ones at that) then you know it takes a while to get them done. 

 

That key paper is tissue paper I got from Michael's it comes in a 5 pack... it's by recollections.  The band is some printed canvas also by recollections from Michales. 

 

The tiny gears are from Tim Holtz. The clear beads are dew drops.  They circle the band.

 

There is a double layers poinsetta with some greenery from the craft store as well.

 

 

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New Challenge and Voting going on over at Altered Pages!

Hello Lovelies, hope this day finds you all doing well... It's cloudy and crisp here this morning and I for one have to say I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!  Ok so on to todays post!

Jean over at AlteredPages.com came to us a while ago and asked us to come up with a project for her new challenge...HEADDRESSES!!!  Well lots of things came to mind I mean really, I saw all sorts of headdresses flashing through my mind!!!  Problem was there were no logical ways of pulling off what was flashing through my mind along with those headdresses going through my mind!!!  So after thinking long and hard about it I fianlly came up with something!  You all know how I love steampunk and warm colors so this is what I came up with!! 

My friend and fellow DT member Roni called it Steampunk Cleopatra and I like it!!! 

So if you will head on over to the AlteredPages Blog and click on the challenges tab at the top you will be able to see what everyone else is doing also and find out how to make one lucky dt member very happy!!!  You will also find out what our new challenge is and what you need to do to become part of it!!!  I really hope that you will!!!

That blog is on pacific time and will go live at 9 am pacific!  that is noon for east coasters....

Day 23 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you another tag I made using another image from the Simply Betty Stamps Steampunk Halloween set.   I used more of the Echo Park paper and also some of their sticker sheet.  This lovely lady is Bella the Vampire and I colored her with my copics.  I love the mono(ish) color. 

Here is a close up of her!

Remember to go and see what everyone else has made for you today!!!

17 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a tag I made using a Simply Betty stamp from her new(ish) Steampunk Halloween set!  I love this set.  I know I say that  a lot about SBS but I really do love this set!!!  Anyway, this is Beatrix the Witch and she is lovely. 

I used Echo Park paper and part of their sticker collection from the Apothecary Emporium collection.  And now that I am looking at the picture I noticed that I forgot to punch the hole in the top!!!  Anyway, I hope you enjoy my little part of the hop today!
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