Gingersnap Creations - Challenge 112 - Color - Iron, Leather & Brass

Sadly this is my final week as a visiting artist for

July 2011 Gingersnap Creations Challenge Blog.

 I have had so much fun with these machine/steampunk challenges and I think they saved the best for last.  It is their color challenge.....and the colors are: Iron, Leather & Brass - a perfect compliment to this months theme.

And here is my creation....

His Loss

(front)

I covered the front of this box with an interesting high-end seating material which is 50% Leather & 50% Man Made Materials.  It has the look and feel of real leather but is a bit cheaper and readily ava. than the real thing. 

All of the flowers were cut from this same material and painted with Golden Paints (Deep Gold & Micaceous Iron Oxide) or left it's original color.  I used vintage broaches for the centers a few of the flowers, added clock parts and other goodies scattered around the entire piece.

His Loss(inside)

The quote reads: 

"She couldn't measure up to the contraptions in his mind."  

Which in turn refers back to the title of..... 

"His Loss".

Elements are a combination of stamped images from some of my images from the Steampunk Get Inked Kit; Scrolls Work & Artistic Outpost.  I also used a couple of images cut from the Graphic 45 Steampunk pattern paper.  I added more of the Micaeous Iron Oxide paint to the inside of the box for the beautiful "iron" shimmer, die-cut gears; more faux leather flowers & vintage broaches; tubes; watch & clock parts an a few TH Ideaology corner pieces.

It's hard to see from the photos but the two main images are dimensional, raised off of the backround quite a ways (with foam board pieces). 

To cover the box I used Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress Stains as my base....

I then covered only the front with the faux leather, added brass tacks along the edges.  I finished it off by drawing on the individual "tiles" with marker and added faux brass tacks to the front using Golden Deep Gold Acrylic Paint.

For the inside of the collage I painted both sides black acrylic paint which I then covered with a coat of Goldens Micaeous Iron Oxide to add the iron color and shimmer. 

So there you go...

I hope you've enjoyed the projects I created for

Gingersnap Creations

July's Steampunk/Machine Challenge.

I had great fun with it and couldn't have chosen a better theme to play with!

Have a wonderful day friends!!