"Measure" Steampunk card featuring Lost Coast Designs - A Blockheads DT project!

Steampunk is definitely one of my favourite stamping themes and I had a blast getting my Steampunk action on with this card ;0)  Here's another project for Blockheads' upcoming newsletter feature on creating with Border Stamps featuring Borders by Lost Coast Designs!

Last Friday I shared a project that featured a loose stamped weave pattern created with just the border stamps themselves instead of weaving paper strips and now I'm going to show you how to do a tight basket weave pattern too.  I've  been playing around and created a few basket weave backgrounds.  Here's a sneak peak at a weave (left) that I'll be using in my next project created with just the Measuring Tape border and also a peek at the sewing themed background I created from a weave that went wrong...so don't throw away your 'mistakes' coz you can still make fun backgrounds with them ;0)

On this project I used the following Lost Coast Designs rubber stamps
Steampunk Typewriter Girl, Measuring Tape border, Bingo border and Numbers border.

"Measure"

(from left - photo 1) Draw faint grid lines in pencil or eye ball the placement of the borders based on the size of the stamps on a sheet of Neenah Solar White cardstock.  Mask off alternating horizontal stripes with low tack tape and stamp the Numbers border with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.  Remember to leave a gap between each vertical stamped stripe.  (photo 2) Mask off the horizontal stripes that now have partial stamped numbers and stamp the Numbers border again filling in the gaps left in the first step.  You can see the weave pattern is already starting to form.  (left - photo 3)  Repeat the same steps but this time mask off the vertical stripes and stamp the Measuring Tape border.  (photo 4) Alternate the masking and fill in all the blank spaces by weaving in the Bingo border.  In retrospect I think the circles kind of mess up the illusion of the weave and I much prefer the weave pattern I created with just the Measuring Tape border.  It probably would have been more effective if I'd left a wider stripe for the Bingo border but I still like it though and ran with it.

Colour the weave pattern with Marvy Le Plume Permanent markers (or Copics) with a monochromatic colour scheme.  I used 3 Marvy Le Plume Permanents cool greys (CG892, 894, 895) and 3 warm greys (AG871, 873, 875) to colour the borders and N910 black to colour the background spaces between the borders and to further enhance the illusion of the weave.  Die cut out the design with a Spellbinders Labels 2 die and emboss with the Spellbinders Tan Embossing Mat.  Colour the debossed edges with the black marker.

Stamp the Steampunk Typewriter Girl with Tuxedo Black Memento ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock and colour with the same monochromatic grey scheme.  I used the AG markers on the background and the CG markers on the Typewriter and also added touches of metallic silver paint pen to the screws in the image.  Distress the edges with Tim's Distress Tool and apply Pumice Stone Distress Ink with an Ink Applicator Foam tool.  Layer onto a piece of black cardstock cut slightly larger.  Cut a mat slightly larger still from a light greyish brown cardstock and distress the edges and add the Pumice Stone Distress Ink.  Adhere the layers together with permanent adhesive tape and then punch small holes in the corners and attach antique brass Philips screw eyelets...that's the screw heads with the cross just in case you didn't know that ;0)

Die cut out a larger Spellbinders Label 2 die from a piece of the greyish-brown cardstock and emboss with the Tim Holtz Alterations Texture Fade Clocks embossing folder.  Apply Pumice Stone Distress Ink directly to the embossed design, then highlight areas with Silver Brilliance Ink, then edge the die cut with Black Soot Distress Ink.

Cut a rectangle panel from a sheet of tan cardstock and emboss it with the Cuttlebug 5 x 7 Clockworks embossing folder.  Distress the edges with the Distress Tool and apply Pumice Stone Distress Ink to the embossed design and the edges with the direct to paper method.  Punch small holes in the corners and attach silver Flat head screw brads.  Make a folded card from black cardstock and adhere all the elements together with double sided tape and then adhere the Steampunk Typewriter Girl panel in place with pop dots for dimension.

Attach a Bead Landing Found Objects Scrabble tile charm (Michaels) to a Tim Holtz Idea-ology charm clip, mix and matching the antique brass and silver metals of the screw heads.

Closer look at the screw embellishments.  FYI Tim now has a range of mini screw head brads in his Idea-ology collection!

Thanks for visiting with me today!  For more Stamping with Borders inspiration also check out what my design team mate, Karen, has created with one of my ultra favourite themes - Alice in Wonderland.

Here's one of my Alice In Wonderland projects for you to check out too if you're also an Alice Addict ;0)

Just a quickie reminder that there's only a few days left to join the Blockhead's Magic Metals Technique Challenge - get all the info here.  There's prizes up for grabs for Blog Hop entries and Blockheads' Facebook entries so come join the fun!

I've entered this card in the following challenges:

• Anything Goes Challenge - #65 Tick Tock Goes The Clock-Time or Steampunk 
• Just Keep on Creating - #1 Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes
• Stamptacular Sunday - Must use a stamp - Freebie Week - Anything Goes
• Everybody Art Challenge - #189 Cards for Men
• Use It Tuesday - #29 Anything Goes but must use hoarded stash (I've had the screw eyelets and brads in my stash for years and have hoarded them coz they're sooooo cute and were hard to come by at the time, LOL) 
• 7 Kids College Fund - Challenge #45 Die Cuts or Punches (Spellbinders Labels Two)
• Craft Your Passion Challenge # 106 - Die Cuts or Punches (Spellbinders Labels Two)
• Lexis Creations - Challenge #63 Use your punches and dies
• MyGrafico Crafts - Challenge #125 - Fun And Games - Hope my use of the Bingo Border qualifies!?
• Dream Valley Challenges #30 Earth Tones

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

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