Steampunk Heart for Helmar

 For this months Helmar blog post I created a Steampunk Heart

Make sure to visit the blog for lots of inspiration from the other Design team members and see what the do with the variety of adhesives that Helmar have 

I was given the heart and told see what you can do with this lol

Straight away my mind went to Steampunk 

I used the 450 Quick Dry Adhesive because the heart is upright I needed the glue to adhere the embellishments quickly and this is definitely the best for this

It is also strong enough to hold metal and not too harsh on the paper fussy cut pieces that I added

After embellishing I added some gold leaf around ten finished off with some white flowers (if you know me no project is complete without some flowers)

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will come back again soon xx

Halloween Fun

These projects are for Gecko Galz Scrapbooking Challenge Blog

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I used Gothic Beauty Tin Toppers for this little flip out album

I thought they were so pretty even though they have skulls on them

Of course I had to add flowers

Each background has different stencil pattern with graphite paste used through it

I used some bling brooches for some sparkle

And my favourite light weight paperclay embellishments scattered around on each one - flowers and border strips

Each image is backed with some card stock that I rubbed a white gold wax over

This canvas was turned over so the image is recessed and makes it look

I printed the image big enough to fit the canvas then with a sharp craft knife I cut around the edges of the inside of the canvas so it left a frame on the outside of the canvas

I didn’t bother to paint the whole canvas cause I was planning to cover it all with the centre piece of paper that I cut off the image I printed out

I cut the centre piece out a little bit so it fit more like a mat for the photo and you could also see the black background for contrast

Here I have just added the image to a cardboard piece to raise it up for height inside the canvas

I love metal embellishments - just added a couple here and there

One of my favourite embellishments is paperclay it’s so light and versatile and can be painted in any medium 

Great for any project cause it’s so light it won’t make it too heavy if you want to hang it on the wall

I made sure to embellish beside the photo as well so there wasn’t an empty space

I painted all the paperclay bits black then went over them with white gold wax 

I found a chain of bling which I cut apart 

They have leaves as well as the oval piece so it looks like a flower 

Thank you for coming and I hope you will come back soon xx