I have been wanting to try creating an ATC in the Steampunk style, and when my crafty friend, Nancy (YT: AllWays Adorned) posted an ATC challenge, I knew this was my chance.<\/p>\n

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Side View Showing Filigree Arch<\/p><\/div>\n

I started with the traditional 3.5″ x 2.5″ chipboard (upcycled embellishment packaging) base and covered both sides with a wonderful scrap of paper that I had in my scrap box from the Graphic 45 “Steampunk Debutante” collection. In moody green and black tones and a sophisticated French lady perched on a Chippendale chair, I thought this paper was perfect. \u00a0I inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in black soot, and then I was ready to build up the ATC!<\/p>\n

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Craft Desk While Creating<\/p><\/div>\n

I got out a bag of metal embellishments, a couple of doodad bags of different flowers that had been gifted to me from crafty friends, and an Altoid tin of\u00a0mixed\u00a0metal charms. \u00a0I took a long metal filigree embellishment and bent the two ends to create a kind of arch. \u00a0From that arch I decided I’d hang some metal charms. \u00a0I used jump rings to attach a couple of gears, a bird and an Eiffel Tower (remember I had decided the elegant lady was French? LOL). With a little E6000 and some hot glue, I attached the arch to the ATC base and then covered the tops and bottoms with some layered crochet pieces,\u00a0paper flowers, and paper flower petals that I thought complemented the Graphic 45 paper. \u00a0While pretty in that monochromatic way, in the end I decided to add two turquoise rolled roses with rhinestone centers to the flower clusters to add a little pop of color and shift the green base paper toward blue a bit (isn’t it funny how putting different colors adjacent to one another can shift the perceived color of something?).<\/p>\n

The following is a video share of this ATC:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jDhlIM-xDLQ<\/p>\n

This ATC is being entered into the SanDee & amelie’s Steampunk Destinations Challenge<\/a>
\nThe photo of my craft desk is being entered into the Moxie Fab World Throwdown Challeng<\/a>e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"