JAI #614 - Just Add Under the Sea

Welcome to another Just Add Ink challenge, where this week we are asking you to ...

I was in mixed media heaven making something a bit different for you ... meet my steampunk seahorse (I've called him Steve - do you think that name suits him? 😂😎).

Materials used:

• stamps - Seahorse (Stamperia)
• card - basic black, basic white, Distress warm collection, Stamperia Mechanical Sea World designer papers
• Copic markers - BG09, BG72, C0, C2, C4
• distress oxide inks - evergreen bough, cracked pistachio, walnut stain, black soot, pumice stone, hickory smoke
• distress paints - twisted citron, cracked pistachio, black soot
• dies - Gearhead, Mechanical (both Tim Holtz)
• other - patina oxide and chunky rust embossing powders (Seth Apter), heat tool, Melange art pebbles, mini glue dots, chipboard seaweed (Dusty Attic), Small Talk stickers (Tim Holtz), Big Shot, Dimensionals, sponge dauber, craft foam, white gesso, paintbrushes

We hope you'll be inspired to create a piece for our challenge. Do check out what my fellow team mates made for you over on the JAI blog.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

The Professor is in the House

In just over a week's time I'm heading to Melbourne to visit with my elder DD. I haven't seen her since July 2019 as she's been overseas - so I'm pretty excited, as you can imagine. I'm making her a special crafty project (made one for younger DD too) and I absolutely MUST get it finished before I go! The thing is, I keep getting distracted by challenges that pop up and spark my creativity, thus spending time on them rather than what I should be doing! I'd told myself that after the challenge card I made on Thursday (the blog post a couple back) I would not do any other challenges...

...and then...

...the folks at Just Add Ink went and posted a new challenge...

And oh my goodness, if that didn't spark off all kinds of ideas...all the lovely Tim Holtz things I have been dying to use...brand new dies that arrived in the mail only hours before the challenge went up and are absolutely PERFECT for this theme...

...well, you know what happened next...

...you know I succumbed, once again...

Sigh.

Here's my steampunk card.

It was tons of fun grunging up all the cogs and gear bits as well as the edges of my blueprint paper and I love the professor in his flying goggles and top hat complete with propeller, lol.

Materials used:

• stamps - The Professor (Tim Holtz)
• card - crumb cake, basic black, whisper white, watercolour, black foil
• distress oxide inks - cracked pistachio, hickory smoke, faded jeans, rusty hinge
• distress paints - cracked pistachio, rusty hinge, walnut stain
• other - Gearhead dies (TH), Mechanical dies (TH), black archival ink, distress embossing dabber, aqua painter, Small Talk stickers (TH), Idea-ology hardware heads (TH), mini glue dots, Dimensionals, chunky rust and patina oxide baked texture embossing powders (Seth Apter), collage medium, mechanical blueprint paper (Etsy)

Hubby will love this when his birthday rolls around. Now, to get back to what I'm SUPPOSED to be doing...

Thanks for calling in!

Cheers

Kerry

Full Steampunk Ahead

Hands up those who are most definitely NOT ready for Christmas? Me too!

With DD21 home and my craft room invaded, plus the HEAT and HUMIDITY we've had all week, I have had zero crafting mojo - but plenty of things needing doing for our Steampunk theme.

I did manage to make a start on some of our theme things - a while back I bought some cheap plastic hats for us to wear as our "costume" on the day and I've since been beavering away little bits and pieces that I thought I could use to decorate them. Here are the first two I made:

This one will be for one of us girls

More masculine, the next one is for our token male (DH). Inside the frame (which I embossed with a mix of copper, gold and aged ivory embossing powders) I lavished some hot glue and then tossed in lots of tiny gadgets (this is where you LOVE your silicon mat!) - they stick out at all angles and look tres cool IRL.

And I must show you the Christmas card I received from my dear SIL the other day. She has (what she says is) the daunting task of making a card for me twice a year (can't think why that would pose a problem!) and our theme no doubt upped the anty just a little! However, she rose to the challenge like a champion and came up with this totally gorgeous centre-step card:

Isn't it fab? For someone who claims she is not "crafty" I think she has done an outstanding job.

So this morning I felt I had to sit and make SIL's Xmas card, which with my mojo being off on holidays, was a bit of a challenge, I can tell ya! This is what I managed to come up with:

And I made a circle flip card for DH. The image on the inside will appeal to his inventor's mind.

That's it for now - thanks for stopping by.

Cheers
Kez