Steampunk Dreamcatcher

Another Eleventh Hour Challenge Entry 

for

SanDee & Amelie's Steampunk Challenge

June Challenge: Shades of Grey, Blue and Rust

I started out with a wooden embroidery hoop: Spray painted black, touched up with dark pewter acrylic by Martha Stewart.  The blue porcelain effect is made with a layer of Tim Holtz Picket Fence Crackle Medium.  Once dry I colored it with Adirondack Alcohol ink in Stream, then I embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I think the middle, 3-sectioned circle is from a lamp shade, but I'm not positive.  It was in my stash.

The gears started out an insane bright plastic red.  I spray painted them black and then gave them a metallic look by adding metallic paint, metallic rub or embossing with metallic embossing powder.

To make rust I started out with a layer of Tim Holtz Rock Candy Crackle Medium.  Once dry, using a hard paint brush I stippled over it with a mix of orange and burnt umber paint. Then I set my heat gun to it and fried it until the mixture began to darken, peel and crackle.  Rust!

I cut the feathers out on my Silhouette.

To make them metallic I followed the same procedure as for the gears.

Dream Punk it is!

Added 7/5/2014

Yay!  Thank you!