Amazing - Mixed Media Layout by Lynne

Hi there and greetings from beautiful (but cold) British Columbia! I'm here visiting my dad who hasn't been all that well and just before I left home, I created this tribute page with a photo of Dad taken by his best friend last year and lots of Gina's chipboard goodies!

I started with a corrugated background and added some sand paste for texture. The chipboard and metal pieces were painted grey like the background and then attached to it. I added layers of mist and a bit of spattered acrylic paint as well as a little random stamping.

Don't toss the punch-out negative pieces that come with texture sheets like the Brick wall: they make awesome embellishments as well! The brick pieces were covered with silver texture paste then lightly rubbed with black ink.

 

I love this chain piece and added some extra tan mist to make it stand out; I wasn't especially careful about getting mist on the edges of the photo because I thought it would add to the grungy and masculine feel (although I did mask the center of the photo)

I used several of Gina's gears as well as a couple metal ones and clustered them along with a Tim Holtz compass piece which was left unpainted for contrast.

Thanks for visiting-stay warm and have yourself a wonderful week!

Gina's Items Used

Gears shape Set

Brick Wall

Mixed Media Fragments 1

Chain Borders

Miniatures shape set-guy thing

Chevron Words

Other Items Used

Tim Holtz metal arrow, gears and compass

Prima clock

Mister Hueys, Heidi Swapp, Perfect Pearls and Tattered Angels Mists

Be True Canvas by Shanna

Hello and welcome to another day of inspiration. 

I wanted to go ahead and play with a canvas panel. I started with painting the wood with chalkboard paint. Then I went ahead and used some Primary Elements from ColourArte to go over some of the chalkboard. 

I covered the chipboard pieces with gesso. The leaves got colored with gelatos and some of the gold Primary Elements. 

The gears and the corners got some gold paint as well. I made sure to heat set the gears several times with several coats to create the textures. 

I love this sentiment and thought it to be great on the panel.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Keep coming back daily for more inspiration!

Items Used:

Gears Shape Set

Art Deco Corners

Rose Leaves

"CREATE"-Altered Paint Palette

Hello my crafty and creative friends! Lynne here with an altered wooden paint palette. I've seen seen some beautiful projects made using these and decided it would be fun to try using some of the unique and interesting chipboard pieces from Gina's.

I primed the palette with gesso, then arranged  and attached the chipboard, corrugate, flowers, metal, paintbrush and stenciling with texture paste before adding a second coat of gesso.  I then painted the entire surface with metallic silver acrylic paint before using Twinkling H20s to create a rainbow of colour on my project.

Afterwards I added a few clusters of mica flakes for sheen and a bit of different texture. This was such a fun project to create, giving me a chance to mix and match all sorts of goodies, and I love the effect of the paints over the silver background! Thanks so much for stopping by, and hope you have a wonderfully creative week!

Gina's Designs Items Used

Steampunk Lightbulb set

Gear Borders and Corners Miniature

Gears Shape Set

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Other Items Used

ColourArte Twinkling H20s

Metallic silver acrylic paint

Prima and Crafter's Workshop stencils

Metal gears and shapes

misc. flowers and embellishments

Steampunk Project with Guest Designer Jackie Neal

Hello and welcome everyone!  Jackie Neal here today and I am over the moon excited to be the September Guest Designer here at Gina's Designs!!

The first time I saw Gina's laser cuts used were on a friend's blog. Straight away I had to go check out the store and you know what? I sent my first order in that day!  Thank you Nichola Battilana for turning me on to Gina's Designs!

For my first project, I went all out with Steampunk!

When I received my pieces I knew I had to use the steampunk parts first. I love the chipboard assortment that Gina's has​ to offer; so much to choose from​!

"Fantastic Journey"

The substrate here is an upcycled jewelry box. Perfect to showcase Gina's steampunk elements!
For my gears, I coated the​m with embossing powder and then layer and layers of paint for a grungy, rusty look.​

With the Steampunk card stock doily set, I used embossing paste through a gears stencil over areas on the doilies. When dry, first I added more color to the embossed areas, ​then​ I cut and molded the doilies onto areas of the box​ using gel paste.

Next for my Steampunk lady, I used two different sizes of the dressforms cut and fitted to make her cage dress. She also has on a corset from the Dressforms set as well as Gina's Steampunk Wings.
Behind her in the box there is more of the Steampunk doily as well as FANTASTIC from the Word Ribbon 3 Set.

 Gina's Products used:

Clock Hands Shape Set
Gears Shape Set
Dressforms & Wings Shape Set
Dressforms 2 Miniature Shape Set
Steampunk Shape Set
Cardstock Doily Set Steampunk
Word Ribbons 3

Other products used:
Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder-
Vintage Photo
Wendy Vecchi Clear Embossing Paste
Finn​abair Mica Powder-Copper
​​​Finnabair 3D Gloss Gel​​

DecoArt Media Line Paints


 I absolutely had a blast making this piece and can't wait to show you more of my creations over the next few Wednesdays so be sure to stop back!!
 Make sure to visit back to see the design teams projects daily as well as have a look over on FB for ​​
inspiration​.​
others!

Thanks so much for visiting!
Jackie
http://www.creatingwithoutcrayons-jackiepneal.com/

A Special Layout with The Robin's Nest

Hello everyone. Shanna here to share a layout with you today! 

I am using some fabulous products from The Robin's Nest to create this layout. 

I used some 12x12 paper, the sentimental rub-on, and the dew drops from The Robin's Nest.

I did lots of stamping, spraying, and inking.

My favorite part is pulling out some gears. I just love my gears!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Make sure to keep coming back for more. 

Time Flies Steampunk Plaque Featuring The Robin's Nest Papers

Hi everyone! Amylove here stepping out of my comfort zone with a steampunk theme. I was inspired by picturing these amazing wings behind this little plaque I had laying around, and they worked well together!

This month Gina's Designs is cross promoting with The Robin's Nest and I have used some of there awesome papers on my hot air balloon, hat and the little bow at the base of the balloon.

 

I embossed the wings with some Stampendous Shabby White embossing powder.

 



I enjoyed the process of this piece and will soon be making more Steampunk themed creations!! If you would like to see a video on how I created this, please follow this link to my tutorial:

Time Flies

Products used:

Gina's Designs

Clock Hands Shape Set

Gears Shape Set

Hot Air Balloon Shape Set

Wing Assortment

Other products

Robin's Nest Paper

Robin's Nest Rub On's

black gesso

copper paint

embossing powder

eye hooks

chain

Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays

Distress ink

Stickles

Bulletin Box Altered by Shanna

Hey everyone Shanna here with a new piece I played with. 

When I got this I wasn't sure about how I would use it or what I would do with it. To be honest I wasn't sure about a lot but I wanted to play with something different and have fun. 

Well I want more of these Bulletin Boxes now. 

I covered the box with some Prima papers and coordinating flowers before I got to adding my lovely chippies. 

I used the base of the dovetail banner builder pieces because I really didn't want to use up all my cute little banner pieces. 

I altered the clock hand from the Steampunk 2 Shape Set with Distress Paints. 

I altered this gear from he Gears Shape Set to look old and rustic using acrylic paint. 

The steampunk dress form was altered with Distress Paints as well to look old and patina like.

So grab a box and give it a try. 

Gina's Designs Items Used:

Bulletin Box Starter Kit

Banner Builde Dovetail Minis

Gears Shape Set

Steampunk 2 Shape Set

Vintage Poster by Barb Black

This is probably one of the easiest pieces I've ever done. Seriously. It took minutes.

I have a box of vintage poster stickers, from which I selected the one pictured here. I adhered it to heavy kraft cardstock. Then I stamped the harlequin pattern and added the dots.

For the bicycle and gears, I dabbed black craft ink all over them, 

coated them in black embossing powder, and heat set them.

Then I glued the bike and gears to the rest of the piece and I was done! 

I'll be putting this in a nice frame and sending it to a bicycle lover that I know.

Gina's Products Used

Bicycles

Gears Shape Set

Other Products Used

Rubber stamp by Blockheads

irRESISTibles Tuxedo Black Pico Embellisher

Black craft ink

Black embossing powder

Alarm Clock by Heather

Hello, everyone! Heather Ideas2come here!!  Today I have altered Gina’s alarm clock.

 

First I embossed the sides with Embossing tinsel, I then painted the rest of the clock with copper metallic paint.  I painted some of Gina’s Flourishes with  a light and dark green.  I placed tiny flowers on the Flourishes.  I also used clock hands that I glittered with black.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Gears Shape Set

Alarm Clock

Clock Hands Shape Set

Mini Flourishes Bella

Steampunk 2 Shape Set

Streampunk Chest

Happy Friday! I hope you are all well and have some great plans for this weekend. What I have for you today is what I call my yearly steampunk project! On the top, I used the medium dressform from the Dressform and Wings Shape Set. The set come with three different sizes!  By the bottom of the dressform is one of the clock hands from the Clock Hands Shapes Set. The Heart with Gears is coming soon to the store. You can substitute with one of the hearts from the Steampunk Hearts set.

The drawers have one of the plates from the keys and plates set, several gears, and gears that were part of the Steampunk Frame.  Below you can see the smallest size dressform and wings!

This air balloon was part of the Steampunk Frame with the gear on the left added from the Gears Shape Set.

On this side,  you can see I attached part of the Texture Plate - Gears to it.

This is a close-up. I applied different colors of inks to the raw chipboard. In the picture below, you can see that I used the same texture sheet with texture paste. Once the texture paste was dry, I applied different purple inks over the top of it.

There are several different texture sheets in Gina's Store. Stop by and check them out!

Don't forget Gina's Designs is celebrating three years of being in business so you will get a
Free Birthday Shape Set with all orders over $20.00 during the month of May! 

If you are not already a member of Gina's Designs Craft Group on Facebook, get over there and join! We will be announcing other fun birthday activities there!

Have a great day!
Mary

Gina's Designs Products

Clock Hands Shape Set

Dressforms & Wings Shape Set

Steampunk Frame

Texture Sheet Gears

Gears Shape Set

Keys & Plates Shape Set

Heart of Gears (Coming Soon!!) - you could substitute with Steampunk Hearts

Steampunk Altered Tea Box

I've had these awesome papers for ages and until I started browsing through the my great collection of Gina's chipboard, I really had no idea how I wanted to use it. The papers and chipboard pieces ended up being a match made in heaven (or in my scraproom!) for this tea box I had saved.

I used Dusty Attic Rusting Powder on the barbed wire frame, then rubbed it with Smooch ink for a worn, vintage look.

 The gears were finished the same way as the frame. The dress form was painted, then stamped with Versamark and heat-embossed, and the bee was covered with black flocking. I had a blast picking out pieces that worked with the papers and giving them different looks and textures!

Here's my bow/topper; just paper strips and black tulle, with a couple butterflies added here and there. Thanks heaps for checking out my project, and remember to hang on to interesting boxes and other containers; you never know when you'll be inspired to create something interesting with them :)

Gina's Items Used

Dressforms 1 Miniature Shape Set

Gears Shape Set

Barbed Wire Frames Rectangle