Eyes of the Beholder

 More Steampunk!

Another mannequin/paper mache' dress form--I've actually decided it would be fun to work in a series.  You can check out #1 in my dress form series here.

Number Two (drum roll, please)...

 

 Inspired by this month's theme at Sandee & Amelie's Steampunk Challenge: "Eyes Tested"\

and the back...

 I gave the paper mache' a leather-like effect by crumpling packing paper, inking with distress ink and then mod-podging it to the dress form.

The gold emboss swirls were added by stamping on tissue paper that had been inked with distress stain, carefully cut out and then applied with glossy mod-podge.

The eyes are dolls eyes.  I drilled into the form and then sanded to create a hole wide enough to fit & recess them a bit and then glued them in place.

Brass colored brads were added for a more metallic effect.

The base was made from a wooden candlestick, distress ink and mod-podged tissue. 

I then secured a skewer and some soft wire to the hole in the candlestick with plaster of paris.

Thanks for stopping by!

Third-Eye at the Opera

Another steampunk challenge at Sandee & Amelie's!

I do love my steampunk.

January's theme is the number 3

I decided to repurpose a plastic six-pack beer can topper that's used to hold the cans together.

After some cutting, some spray paint, rub n' buffing, shrinky dinking and embellishing I came up with...

 Any steampunker worth there salt would simply have to have access to a third-eye while at something as populated as an opera. 

Why not make it fashionable.

 

 The lens were created from shrink plastic, which I've found is NOT an exact science.

A dremel ended up being quite useful in sanding my shrinked (shrunk?) discs down to size which were then glued into place.

 The signature third-eye, complete with gauges for adjustment.

Navigational eye

A normal lens for actually seeing the opera.

I used a wire hanger, homemade gauges, beads and embellishments for the dainty holder.

Again, fashion is important.

I just KNOW they'll be the talk of the town!

Happy Day to everyone!

Steampunk Fashion

I should have been painting the front room.

Instead, I made a hat.

A steampunk hat.

  I couldn't resist posing it on our door gargoyle

 Detail Close-ups...

 Metal-look flowers made from a Silhouette rose cutout and hardware cloth

 Random gears and a band made with black edging finished with gold rub n'buf

hinge made of cardboard and embossed with gold powder

feather sprayed painted silver

The hat form itself was made with black plastic that I purchased at a Habitat For Humanity store for only a dollar!

I used a free top hat template by Tom Banwell.

 I sewed the pieces together with black wire

 It wasn't easy and will test your patience, so I recommend have a side-kick who can laugh at your curses in the room with you!

It was her idea to spray paint the plastic with a rust colored paint. 

Perfect!

Now I suppose I need to paint...

After I post this at Sandee & Amelie's October Steampunk Challenge (Steampunk Couture), of course!

Punk for the Teacher

 A bonus challenge, school is about to start and I spied a styrofoam apple at Dollar Tree

...I couldn't resist

A present for your favorite teacher.

A little spray paint, gold rub n' buff, some embossing, a few gears, a latch made from an earring and you've got yourself the a punked apple.

The inside generates electricity and can be programmed to do many things. 

School projector not working?

Let the apple run it.

 Entering this lovely in:

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!

The Witch Left Another!

It looks as if a couple of Tween Witches left a shoe behind too!





Could it be the Tween Witches Addie and Madi?

 

I'll have to share them here along with the shoe I found!

Haunted Shoes

A Witch left her shoe on my deck this morning

 

Just One

 

It had to be a witch.

 

Who else would leave a shoe as wicked as this!?

 

This wasn't the only shoe left behind.

 

 

You can find more...

 

 

 

 

Color and Paint Berserker

THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN!

An art journaling mess of acrylic paint blend and stamps.

Messy, messy, messy, and Oh, so much fun!

I created this journal page for the GPP Street Team Crusade #55 -- "Disappearing Act"

You can start the challenge at ANY time!

#55 is my first one.

I started by creating a blended background with acrylic paint

I started with a purple and a red.

Sprayed some water on top before dry and blotted off excess paint

Created a grid using a dry paint brush with just a bit of bright purple paint.

Painted over a couple of the grid squares with pure color.

Then I used those same paint colors to paint a couple of stamps I had  and stamped in the grids.

Wanna see a close up?

Do you see the hidden "55" in there (that's the Crusade #) -tricky, tricky :)

I just love it.  Doing it and the result. 

Mega messy smiles here.

I got so excited while working that I mistook my ultra clean (LOL) wash water

With my snack.

At least the acrylic is non-toxic?

Now to clean-up my berserker...

I really was frantic with creative energy :)

BTW...My Crusade Journal cost me all of 25 cents.

I'll tell you all about it tomorrow!