I was very lucky this weekend my hubby took me down to one of the two scrapbook stores left in Calgary. Paper Pastimes is a great little store, they always have some things I want to pick up and this time was no exception as I found a few things to add to my craft room. Carol, the owner, had just returned from CHA so I got to see some of her class projects and peeks at new items that she saw in LA. After some hunting I picked up two paper pads, the Bo Bunny double dots in the soft colours and and a Prima pad as well. I found a Prima stamp that I didn't have in my collection and a few other new items to play with as well.
Once I got home I didn't have time to play but I did get time in my craft room on Sunday morning. The blank embossed cards that I had picked up reminded me of a steampunk image that I had coloured a little while back and that was sitting waiting to be used. While I like the look of the white cards with the embossing, I wanted more of a distressed look to go with the steampunk feel so I pulled out my Tim Holtz distress inks and got to work on making the card look more grungy.
After three different colours of ink I was pleased with how the card blank turned out. I paired it up with a piece of patterned paper from the Bo Bunny Timepiece collection that I had in my stash. The image is from Whimsie Doodles and is called Steampunk Lizzie. The card turned out pretty close to what I had originally thought of although next time I think I will use brown and not black cs.
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