Grungy Steampunk Card by Tracey Sabella

Hi everyone!! It's Tracey here to share this masculine steampunk birthday card I created for our son-in-law. I've been wanting to use the Leaky Shed Studio Hot Air Balloon for some time now and thought it would be fun to go steampunk with it. I've also used the Watch Parts, one of my favorite chipboard sets!!

Tips and Techniques

Often we think about molding paste being used with a stencil. Here, I've brushed Viva's Graphite Special Effect paste randomly over the chipboard, leaving bits of raw chipboard showing through in some places, and other areas with thicker layers of paste. 

The Leaky Shed Studio Hot Air Balloon fit perfectly over this balloon from Prima's Cartographer paper collection, which I fussy cut and adhered to the back of the chipboard. The "basket" is a jewelry finding piece from my stash. For a steampunk edge, I adorned with metal clock hands and mini gears. Some of them were a silver/pewter color, so I heat embossed them with Donna Salazar's Leather Mix'd Media Embossing Powder, which has a coppery metallic sheen. Others were copper and left in their natural state.

The Leaky Shed Studio Watch Parts were heat embossed with black embossing powder and while still hot and molten, sprinkled with Leather embossing powder and reheated giving this rusty metal look.

Another view of the gears. You can see just how much shimmer and depth this embossing powder technique gives.

A close up of the top corner. I like to let embellishments hang off the edges of my cards.

Be sure to check out the fabulous selection of steampunk chipboard that Leaky Shed Studio offers HERE.

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Hot Air Balloon #2

Watch Parts

A full product list can be found on my blog,

Garden of Grace.

Thanks for stopping by today!

~ Blessings ~

Tracey

A notepad to fit my purse--Celebrate Life!

My purse is on the small size right now (okay, yes, I have a LOT of purses), AND it's an odd shape.  So what do you do when you can't find what you want?  Make it yourself, of course!

The front and back covers are from one plate out of the 6x6 Bracket Album, sliced down the middle, and covered with map paper.  A little ink, a little crayon, a rub-on . . .

 And of course the Hot Air Balloon, also covered with ink and crayon. 

 Simply cute some paper to fit the inside, hole punched, and added the ring with some tulle.

This was so easy to make, I'm thinking it would be a good thing to make en masse and give as little gifties, along with a fun pen or two?  And the album comes with SIX of the covers, plus a little one!

Thank you for stopping by my first every Leaky Shed Studio post, and have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone!
:)trisha

Steampunk Book Cover by Altered Pages Designer, Dani May

We're sharing this fabulous steampunk book cover by

Altered Pages designer, Dani May.

"Steampunk"

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Watch Parts

Hot Air Balloon #2

More details and a listing of Altered Pages Products

can be found HERE.

Thanks for dropping by!

"Up Up and Away" Tag by Altered Pages Designer, Robin Horasanian

Check out the sparkling, gilded Hot Air Balloon on this fabulous tag

by Altered Pages Designer, Robin Horasanian.

"Up Up and Away"

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Hot Air Balloon #2

More details and a listing of Altered Pages products

can be found HERE.

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A "joy" filled card by Tracey G. & "Soar Fly" Canvas by Altered Pages Designer Francine Perri

Due to a minor technical issue, our post scheduled for July 3 did not go live,
so we are posting it today. Enjoy!!

**Please scroll down to view our Altered Pages Partner Project**

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Hello there! Tracey G. here today and I want to share with you a card I created using Leaky Shed Studio chipboard.

I started with the Prima background paper,which I then distressed and layered. I shaded under the Victorian Mirror frame with Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Spun Sugar.

To get the fresco effect on the frame,first I painted the whole surface with tan acrylic paint. Once that was dry,I added various shades of gelatos in brown,peach,pink and blue. I thickly applied Ranger crackle medium and let it sit overnight. Once,dried and crackled,I added Rub n Buff in Patina around my edges and in some of the cracks.

The cross is a combination of two of the shapes in this Cross Set of five. After coloring with gelatos and the same Patina Rub n Buff,I added copper microbeads using Ranger glossy accents and embellished the ends with Viva Copper Pen.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Chipboard used in this project:

Cross Set

Victorian Mirror Frame

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Francine Perri of Altered Pages has created this fun canvas.

"Soar Fly"

Leaky Shed Studio Products
Ornithopter
Hot Air Balloon
Barn Swallow
Six Snowflakes

More details and a listing of Altered Pages products

can be found HERE

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Hot Air Balloon Project By Altered Pages Designer Stephanie Siatta

All of us here at Leaky Shed Studio

would like to to wish our US followers and customers a 

happy 4th of July!

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Here's a close-up from Stephanie Siatta's Hot Air Balloon project. 

Don't you just love what she has done with this Hot Air Balloon?

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Hot Air Balloon

More details and a listing of Altered Pages products

can be found HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

Leaky Shed and the County Fair

Hi - Veronica here today to share with you a layout I created of my niece at the Fair. I used the Ferris Wheel and the Hot Air Balloon from Leaky Shed Studios.

I started off with bright primary colors of Green, Red, Blue and Yellow since I wanted that whimsical feel for this layout.  Then I started to layer patterns, cardstock and burlap

 

 

With my Hot Air Balloon Leaky Shed chipboard I first put a layer of gesso as the base. Then I rubbed Art Anthology sorbet paint, colorations spray then added a stamp image when dry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next I took the Leaky Shed Studio Ferris Wheel and used Art Anthology sorbet black paint for the Ferris wheel stand.  Then I used Stampendous red glitter for the ferris wheel.

 

 

 

 

 





 



I used some stamp images, ink and stencils to shabby up my layout and added some tickets and brads. 

 

 

I love how my Leaky Shed chipboard pieces turned out and it was easier than it looks to add some dimension and color to the chipboard. 

 

I hope I have inspired you to try out some Leaky Shed Studio chipboard.  There are so many themes and shapes.  I am pretty sure you will find one to fit any occasion.

 

Happy Scrapping, Veronica (Kitsnbitscraps)

 

Leaky Shed Products Used:

Ferris Wheel (907-40)

Hot Air Balloon (1202)