DSC #111 - Steampunk Tag

Welcome to this Friday's design team project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! I hope you all will like this week's theme of STEAMPUNK! Our sponsor this week is the wonderful Lunagirl! Come join us and show off you use of steampunk digital images. This week I made a tag:

I started with a 3" x 5" tag I made out of cardstock. I nked all over it with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I glued down one of the Lunagirl clockface image then stamped over it all with a Kaisercraft clear stamp called . Then I distress other Lunagirl images overtop and the "Explorer" word art I made in Photoshop. I stamped some corners on there as well. I made the balloon look 3D by printing it off twice and layering one on top of the other and added lace to the bottom and tucked some behind the balloon. This is my very first steampunk project as it's not my usual style but I'm happy with how it turned out...hope you all like it!

SUPPLIES USED
All images - Lunagirl
Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Fine print stamp - Kaisercraft clear stamp called Dictionary Meanings
Corner Stamp - Papermania Urban Stamp set called Type Print
Jute Twine
Lace from stash

Happy Crafting!
Dorothy

TWO Crafty Swap Received!

In today's post I dodn't get one, but TWO craft swap! I love getting these goodies in my post...lol. I belong to a Facebook group called UK Ireland Craft Swaps. There are so many talented, creative ladies over there and we have different craft projects swaps. We are mostly UK and Ireland based but we also have International members so why not join us.

I made a little video of the goodies I received today. Thanks for having a peek!

My First Swap

Happy Thursday All! I'd like to show you what I received. I recently joined my first Swap Group on Facebook and just completed my very first swap ever! The group is UK-Ireland Craft Swaps. Since I am just beginning to get into Altered Art and Crafting, I thought I would start simple by entering a Tag Swap. We were to stamp with Stazon black ink on 10 tags with 10 different stamps and swap with a partner.

My lovely partner was Mandy and here is what she sent me:

She sent me some great stamped images that I know I can use in other projects. It's also customary to send other extra little goodies to add to our stashes. She sent me some really neat die cuts: a huge swirl, doves, teddy bears, hearts, little tulip blossoms and brackets. There were several of each, I didn't count them but I think there are 4 or 5 of each. The last item was a bag of sparkly goodness full of beads, flat backed gems, brads, resin pieces, bottle cap, etc.

I also sent her 10 tags with goodies but I didn't take a photo of them. I sent 5 white tags and 5 kraft card tags with seam binding ribbon that I colourised in 5 different colours. I did 2 in each colour as follows: 2 were spritzed with white pearl homemade glimmer mist, 2 spritzed with dark grey homemade glimmer mist, 2 spritzed with Mr Huey Tan Paint Mist, 2 coloured with Distress Ink in Dusty Rose and the last 2 I colored with Ranger Alcohol Ink in Cloudy Blue. The goodies I sent were a bunch of sheer ribbons in black, gray and white, a smal heart frame, 2 very large black roses from Mulberry Crafts, 4 Vintage images I printed out and coated in matt medium and 2 large panels of really interesting lace I recently bought. Mandy does lots of altered projects so I hope these will come in handy for her.

So I think my first swap was a success. I really enjoyed putting it all together. It was so much fun waiting for my parcel to arrive from Mandy and wondering if she would like what I sent her. I will participating in a few more swaps coming up so I'll be reporting how they go. If you like altered art and altered crafting and live in the UK or Ireland (or anywhere really as there are International swaps as well) then come join us over at UK-Ireland Craft Swaps...we would love to have you join in the fun!

Have a wonderful day and Happy Crafting!!!