And the winner is.....

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

What a lovely surprise I have had today, winner at Left of Centre Challenge Blog with my Mini Wallet Book.

I am so pleased.

And here it is just to remind you of what it looked like.

 

Hope you enjoyed looking.

If you missed it when I first posted this project and would like to see more pages then Click here.

 

Thanks for stopping by and

happy crafting,

Angela x

 

Guest Designer at Left of Centre Challenge Blog.

Hi Blog Buddies I am so pleased to announce that I have been asked to be a Guest designer at Left of Centre Challenge Blog 
which I was more than pleased to accept.
My project will appear on the 12th of September.

This has always been one of my favourite Challenge blogs since I started blogging as they love anything Steampunk, Gothic and Quirky.

Even though they have a theme for each challenge, you can still enter just a Steampunk or Gothic project.

Hope you will pop over to see what everyone has designed for this challenge.

Happy crafting, Angela x

Steampunk Challenge for June.

 A big welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi all my Bloggy friends I am a bit late with this but I have been working on it whilst doing other things but it's finished at last, just in time.
The theme for this month at SanDee and Amelie's is a colour scheme of Blue, Grey and Rust which is why my bird is blue.
I changed my mind completely about what to make half way through the month which slowed me down a bit.
Any way here it is.

 

He started off as a Paper Mache bird and I painted him with Gesso and then added the texture by means of stencils and moulding paste.

The cogs were Tim Holtz dies and these were glued on and paper lace, more Gesso was then added.

 

 

The ball at the base was done in the same way as the top and the stand was covered with masking tape pieces to create the texture.

I painted the ball and base with acrylic paint to begin with and then sprayed it all over with cosmic shimmer sprays.

 

 

 

 

When the bird was dry, I went over it with grey gilding wax to bring out the detail of the cogs and other stencilled shapes.

In some of the lighter areas I dry brushed some of the darker stain on to bring out the detail.

 

I decided it needed something on the head so it has become a cockatiel.

I completed the bird by adding rust coloured skeleton leaves, buttons, metal brads, flowers etc.

Hope you like my little Steampunk birdie.

I think he turned out quite well.

 

I am going to enter him in SanDee and Amelie's Steampunk Challenge for June.

As he also has metal on him I am also going to enter him in Left of Centre Use Metal, Challenge #34.

 

Happy crafting,

Angela x