Steampunk Style Masculine Cards
Hello Craft Friends!
Dana here! Hope you all had a Happy New Year!
It's time to kickoff the new year with some Steampunk Masculine Cards using the Tres Jolie January Cards Tags and More kit! I know for some of you coming up with Masculine Cards can be challenging at times. I hope my design ideas will give you some inspiration for creating your own Cards!
This month's Card kit has these fabulous paper collection from Ciao Bella called " Espirit De Voyage" you'll receive an 8x8 paper pad including some journal cards and sentiments, Tres Jolie Chipboard Steampunk butterfly and Gears, Prima Marketing Memory Hardware Tall album from Frank Garcia, Prima Marketing flowers 2 packs, 3 small blue dollies, Finnibair Transparent Clear Stamp, Prima Marketing Alphabet Sticker sheet, Kaiser Craft pearl gems- Demin and Prima Marketing Crystals pack! This kit is jammed packed with crafty goodness! So order your kit today! They do tend to sell out quickly. Here's a closeup look at this month's Card kit:
From my stash, Ill be using sbasesream and brown card bases, Prima Marketing Art Alchemy Waxes-Red Amber, Aged Brass and Turquoise Satin, Ranger Distress Ink Rusty Hinge, foam dots and sentiment stamp.
Card #1 My white card bases measures 6x6 inches. Taking a brown cardstock, I cut my pieces to measure 5 & 3/4 x 5 & 3/4 inches, and adhered onto my white card base. This leaves about 1/8 of an inch white border around my card. See photo:
Next take a patterned paper from your kit, and cut to measure 5 &1/2 x 5 & 1/2 inches. Apply some Distress Ink along the edges of your paper. Then apply foam tape from my stash, on the backside of your paper. Adhere this layer Over top of my brown card base. This adds some dimension to your card. See photo:
Set your card aside and take out 2 of the Tres Jolie chipboard Steampunk gears. Taking my Prima Alchemy Waxes, with my finger I applied some wax over the top of each chipboard gear. its fun mixing these waxes to create different colors on your chipboard gears, since normally metal gears have different tones of rust on them. See photo:
Next i cut out one of the small journal card sentiment phases and matted it on gold and brown cardstock. Then adhere the sentiment square along the bottom right corner. I fussycut out a bird, compass and arranged onto the front of my card, along with the chipboard gears. The bird I added foam dots on the backside and adhered between my sentiment square and the Chipboard gear on the left side. To finish I applied a few Prima crystals and Kaiser Craft pearl gems- blue on one of the chipboard gears, compass and on scattered places on my card.Here's some photos!
Card #2: The card base measures 7 & 3/4 x 5 & 1/2 inches. I covered the front of my card base with another patterned paper from the kit leaving a tiny white border around the edge. Adhere this paper on the right side. See photo:
Taking my butterfly paper, I trimmed around the piece with the 2 Butterflies. The leftover scrap, I glued on the left edge. Here's how it should look:
I fussycut out 2 Butterflies above as well as a gear piece, from the element sheet. I covered my Tres Jolie chipboard gear with scrap paper and trimmed away any excess paper using my x-acto knife from my stash.
Adhere your fussycut paper with the two butterfly images, using foam dots on the backside and towards the left edge. Adhere both fussycut Butterflies on top of the matching butterfly images. I fussycut out some small gears and with foam dots, adhered below the blue butterfly at the top. Apply foam dots on the back of your Tres Jolie Chipboard Steampunk gear and adhere on the right edge. I added some Prima crystals and blue gem in the center of my TJ Chipboard gear. I glued 3 Prima Marketing Flowers on the bottom right corner. Using a sentiment stamp from my stash, I stamped the words "Best wishes " above my TJ Chipboard gear.
Here's some photos of my finished card:
Card #3: My card base measures 6x6 inches. I cut a Grungy paper from the kit, to measure 5 & 3/4 x 5 & 3/4 inches. Glue onto your white card base. Take the newspaper patterned paper from your kit. I tore along the top left edge, applied Distress ink Rusty Hinge and glued on the upper left corner. See photo:
Set your card aside. Take out two more Tres Jolie Chipboard Steampunk gears and apply more Prima Alchemy Waxes to the surface.
Glue your chipboard gears one on the upper right corner and one below on the left corner overlapping it slightly on the torn newspaper.
I fussycut out a pocket watch image from my leftover scrap paper
and with foam dots I adhered it below my chipboard gear and towards the bottom right corner. I applied a blue pearl on my Pocket watch piece and scattered areas few Prima crystals on the front of my card. Then taking the Prima Alphabet Stickers, I added a "Just for you" sentiment. Here's some photos:
I hope you are inspired today and you can create your own cards to give to the men in your life.
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I'll be back soon with another project share!
Have a Crafty Week!
Dana
January Mood Board Challenge
We've changed the mood board challenge a bit. Now, not only will there be a mood board, but also a color palette or a sketch. Either way the changes should make this challenge even more fun.
Here are the full rules:
*This challenge is open to everyone*
*You can create any type of project for the challenge.
*You MUST say what you were inspired by.
*You MUST include the twist in your design.
*We would love to see you USE AT LEAST 1 of Tres Jolie's products on your projects but it ISN'T required to play along.
It MUST be a new project.
The theme for this month is:
SHABBY STEAMPUNK WINTER
So grab your kit today and start creating your own projects and enter today! Good luck! You could be our next lucky winner!
Winners will receive a gift certificate to our store. 
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