Cards made from Stamperia leftovers of Mechanical Sea World papers

I am very grateful that I am a crafter at this time in the world where the Corona Virus has taken hold and we are all in self induced isolation.  My husbands office is closed for 2 weeks and my son's school will be closed from Tuesday... go figure... why not Monday is beyond me... but I digress...

I plan on making lots of things over the next few weeks as I have no excuse not to be at my desk!  Other than to cook and clean the flat of course...

I recently received a parcel from Stamperia and there was a stunning stencil for cards in it.  (You can see the unboxing in my previous post)  They sent it to me for my Alice Egg which I posted on their Facebook group and it came 2nd in a challenge...

I decided to use up the leftover bits and pieces of paper from decorating my chair (see previous post) and cut them up into usable 6"x6" card bases and any other interesting bits got torn and inked edges, ready for adding to the cards.

 I recently purchased these two stamps and the glamour paste as well as the crackle paste and wanted to use them on the cards too... I didn't get round to using the stamps though...

I had a long strip of the steel plate paper and decided it would be great for the stencil.

 First I masked off the excess of the stencil with washi tape

 Then I spread the paste through the stencil.

 It is deliciously shiny, but hard to read at this stage.

 So I re-used the tape from the stencil and masked off the paper so that I could ink the block with Vintage Photo and black soot distress ink.

 To remove the excess ink on the stencilled image, I replaced the stencil over the top and cleaned it with a baby wipe.  Excuse the upside down image... I just cant get it to behave!

 It is much easier to read now.

 I removed the tape and chopped the strip up.

 This is what I had to work with...

I used some of the Glamour paste on the chipboard laser cuts from Antonis range with the ladies face.

 I die cut some Tim Holtz cogs and added them to the cards as well as a hinge I found cut out already in my stash, which I chopped in half and used on 2 different cards.

 Then I added the Crackle paste with a spatula and waited for it to dry... the thicker the paste, the bigger the cracks...

Here is a close up of the cracks, once I had added some distress crayon.

I decided to make an easel card for the last one to use up the extra sentiment.

Octoman Stamperia journal page

 This is my journal page that I have created using the left overs from my egg and album cover.

 I started by stamping my page with this huge Antonis stamp using archival ink.  It doesn't look so big on the packaging, but if you look below, you can see it fills the whole bag!  Its gorgeous!

I sprayed the whole page with frayed burlap which gives such cool effects.

I have a short video showing the rice paper that I added to the page before spraying it again with frayed burlap distress oxide...

 I had purchased a page from the Mechanical Sea World with Octoman on it and cut it out with scissors and my cutter.

 I then coated him with a layer of clear gel to seal the paper.

 When this was dry, I glued him to my page which I had covered with frayed burlap distress Oxide spray.

 The reason for covering him in gel was so that I could use distress crayons around him, to make him pop out of the page.

 On his right hand side, I used Walnut stain for the shaddow and picket fence for the highlight.

 On his right hand side, I used cracked pistacio to bring in a bit more colour and to compliment the colours he already had.

 I added some of the cracked pistachio to other places on the page too... this helps to move your eye around the whole page. 

 I love how the crayon makes him pop off the page.

da Vinci Inspired Inventor and Mad scientist Steampunk egg

Hello there and welcome to my latest (and last for now) Giant Egg.

This time I was inspired by Stamperia's rice paper with the da Vinci images.

My other inspiration was leaded glass windows and set about creating them using Christmas tree baubles that come in a diamond shape.

Here are the photos of the finished egg, to see how I created it, you will have to scroll down past them...

I bought the cool science bottels and the diamond shaped windows from my local craft and scrapbook shop called Mit Liebe (Home Made with love) shop here in Berlin.  They have the most amazing selection of Stamperia products, from the stamps and papers to the stencils and moulds as well as the acrylic sprays.

I traced round the windows and cut them out with a scalple blade.

Once I was happy with the fit of the windows, I embossed some sticky backed foil with gears and adhered it to the egg.  

To fill the rest of the egg, I cut random shaped pieces of foil, adhered them to the egg and drew "stitch" marks with a ballpoint pen before going over it with black paint and rubbing off the excess...and while I had black on the brush... I painted the inside of the egg too...

I love da Vinci's wings and drew one on an A4 page, scanned it into Corel Draw, traced it, then imported it into Tinkercad to create the 3D file to be able to print them out.

Here they are after they had been sprayed with gold spray paint... the Mouse is for scale! LOL!

Using some old dress pattern paper, I glued the wings onto it with gel medium.  This helps to strenthen the paper on the wings.  To get a nice neat edge, I used sand paper to remove the excess paper.  This works much better than trying to cut with scissors.

Vitruvian man was the recipient of the wings... I believe he can fly...

Meanwhile inside the egg... the mad alchemist is busy trying to get an elixer into a bottle...

I put lights inside the bottle with little tiny stars... Like the scientist has captured some of the cosmos!

To finish off the outside of the egg, I used polyurethane to create this moulded piece and cut it out with scissors, to hide the cut edges, I used hot glue and added drips for good measure.

I used Treasure Brass to highlight the details of the mould and the hot glue pattern.

I did the same technique for this piece.