Steampunk Christmas

Hi there, I've had a lovely lazy Sunday so far pottering round in my craftroom. I've been itching to have a play with these gorgeous new stamps from Chocolate Baroque and had a fab messy inky time making this easel card.  Its great to find some stamps for men's Christmas cards and as well as traditional Christmas stamps there are some lovely corners and cog stamps that will be used all year round.

I set to with white card and glimmer mists (creme de cocoa and vanilla breeze) and spritzed the card generously to create the background colour. Once it was dry I stamped the cog background stamps and embossed with stickums powder and dusted liberally with metallic shades of mica powders. The tree was stamped in versamark on a piece of the glimmer misted card and embossed with metallic EPs (Silver, gold and antiquities, all from Sparkle and Sprinkle). I did the same for the 'NOEL' sentiment and then inked all the edges with black soot distress ink.

I added some copper ribbon from my stash and some little gold jingle bells from Crafts 4 You. The gorgeous flower is also from Steampunk Christmas. To finish off I decorated the tree with some cogs and watch bits from my stash. Here's a pic to show the detail

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Artistic Stamper: Macho men

Bah Humbug: something new

Bunny Zoe's Crafts: easel cards

Christmas Cards all year round: 4 of ... (my four are ribbon, inking, stamping and metal embellies)

Christmas Stampin: non traditional colours

Crafty Hazelnut's challenge: Christmas birthday or anything goes

Frosted Designs: clocks/timepieces

Just some lines: embossing

Marks Finest Papers: emboss it

Simon Says Stamp and Show: some bling

Totally Papercrafts: Christmas in August

Winter Wonderland: Cards for men/boys

Thanks for visiting today

hugs

Claire xx