Thanksgiving - Sweet Pea Stampers challenge

Hallo,
  Well we have warmed back up a bit here in NW Florida - temps in the 50/60's in stead of 20's which is nice :)
   I had a hard time choosing a Thanksgiving image and ended up with this sweet Indian girl - I have had the image printed up for quite awhile and hadn't gotten around to coloring her yet :)
  I colored her with prismacolor pencils and then added some fall leaf stickers and accents in blues and browns.
  Join us and you could win some Sweet Pea Stamps images!!!!!
  All for today - was on call for work last night so today is a chance to finish up some errands/chores that I didn't manage to get done the last couple days :) - off I go...
   Take Care
      Tera

Sweet Pea Stampers - Ditressed

Hallo,
  Welcome to another challenge from the Sweet Pea Stampers DT - this time we are getting distressed :)
  I made an altered journal again as I love making journals!!!
  I used Clara by Charmaine Flannery and colored her with koh-I-noor pencils. I cut her and the layer under her with Spellbinders dies.
She is of course from Sweet Pea Stamps and is available both as a rubber stamp and a digi - check it out here - www.sweetpeastamps.com
   The image layer I covered with some sepia lacquer and edged the edges with copper metallic pen.
  The next layer I distressed the edges with walnut stain ink. Added some distress style paper flowers, some feathers and 2 charms that I altered with some metallic rub on - the birdcage with bronze over the white and the wings I used a metallic blue over the dark silver and then added some blue seed beads with crystal lacquer.
  I covered the notebook with distress papers from Tim Holtz and then edged them with tea dye and walnut stain distress inks and then the copper metallic pen.
    Lastly I added some bronze pearl drops with a viva décor pen to the corners and near the main image.
  It is spring break week from school for us here - both my son who is a senior this year and my Daughter in college are on break ...not that I have seen either of them that much as they both were hanging out with friends a lot and going to the beach :)
   All for today - Take Care
        Tera

Steampunk Stella

 Hallo,
    Another Steampunk project for you today - I started this over my rainy weekend off and finished it off this morning.
  The image is a digi from Sweet Pea Stamps called 'Clara' by Charmaine Flannery and I colored her with koh-i-noor pencils and cut her out with a Spellbinders die.
  This image is also available as a rubber stamp - www.sweetpeastamps.com
  Once I had the main image cut out and the layer under her I used some great distress products on both . I used sepia glaze on the image and the black frame that's fits the die cut. For the layer underneath I used a metallic crackle paint.
  While those were drying I covered a cigar box with papers from Tim Holtz - an old map piece and a piece with goggles on it to match the goggles she is wearing and some other papers from the same pack. and then edged the top with some of the same crackle paint ( I did the inside lid with paper and the crackle paint too)
  When everything was dry I put it all together - some gray lace ribbon with some green walnut spray died ribbon next, then my image layers and the flowers, some pretty brass colored decorative corners and lastly my little steam machine contraption .
  My little contraption started with an old earring (its match I used for the necklace in the previous post :) - I sanded it a bit and added some gears in the center, then glued it on top of 2 bigger gears to look like wheels - with more small gears in their centers, and lastly the little light bulb which is also a Tim Holtz product I believe.
   The bottom inside is lined with felt and then I added old metallic drawer pulls for feet on the box.
       All for today
          Take Care
                  Tera
 

Steampunk Clara

Hallo,
   Just a quick note before I go off to sleep for the day (after working night shift) I just had to show you this sweet little project I finished off yesterday.
  The main image is from Sweet Pea Stamps by Charmaine Flannery , called Clara. She is available both as a rubber stamp and a digi - www.sweetpeastamps.com
  I had planned for her to be a card but I had all day Sunday as it rained and poured here and I have been wanting to make some of my Sweet Peas into charms for quite awhile so that's how she started.
  Clara was colored with prismacolor pencils and then I cut her out to fit this brass colored charm and glued her down - and covering her - with crystal lacquer - adding some blue seed beads around the edge.
  Somewhere in there I decided she needed to be a necklace and so I made up the drop charm from an old earring. Sanded it and covered it with a new project from Ice Resisn - which is very simple to use and is almost like embossing powder. And then I glued on the gears with the crystal lacquer.
  While they dried I dug into my long neglected stash of beads and jewelry stuff, and dug and dug......amazing how much stash I can have and not have just what I needed to make the vision in my head come true.....
   Alas I ended up starting another project because I didn't want to go out in the rain, late on a Sunday evening to look for beads and chain.....I went today instead and came home and put her together.
The sky clear somewhat from the days murkiness for a few pics and then I was down for my pre-work nap - or attempted anyhow as someone called me and woke me just as I was falling asleep and then I couldn't get back to sleep......
   Oh well it was a busy night and so I should sleep good today - nighty, night.....
        Tera