Make My Monday week 17

This is the last week on Make My Monday challenge for the steampunk theme and I'm way outside my comfort zone with this one which was 'anything but a card' because I rarely venture into this sort of work much as admire what other people achieve.. I've been mulling this over since I read the post and eventually decided on altering a picture frame.  I called into our local shop where everything is one economical price and fortunately they had this square frame with a wide area to decorate.  I sanded the surface slightly and applied some gesso and then a coat of acrylic paint, finally sponging with Distress ink.  The image of the penny farthing was a free digital download from BTFC, distressed with dusty concorde  ink.  Various stamps from Kanban, 7 Gypsies, Paper Artsy and Chocolate Baroque were used (the flower is from CB Steampunk Christmas set). I also cut out some cogs using a Sizzix die and embossed them with more cogs using a Cuttlebug folder, again using Distress ink.  I can see that I could have made this much more elaborate, especially if I had a handy supply of watch parts and other bits and pieces which are on my ever growing wish list, but at least I had a go.

Jewelled Tree

Today's card has a jewelled tree which was from a stamp set by Kan Ban - stamped in Versamark onto black card and then dusted with mica powders and gems added for a bit of bling. Background paper is from Artylicious (not that you can see much of it) and I put a piece of silver mirri card through the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and then distressed it with an emery board and sponged with some black soot Distress ink.