Altering again!

My craft mojo came back! I decided to treat myself the other day to a new paper pad, and chose G45 Steampunk Spells. Graphic 45 papers are expensive but boy are they worth it! I wish I'd got into them sooner as there are some older pads that are gorgeous, but unavailable now.

Anyway, once I got the pad and overcame the urge to just admire the paper and do nothing with it, I got to work. I decided to try to make something to enter into a couple of challenges, namely the Craft room something old, something new challenge and That's Crafty! Girl power challenge. The first thing to do was to decide what to make. I was going to do a card, but then I found this:

This was a cutlery drawer that a friend gave me. To be honest I have been using it to store sharpies in, but no more. Here it is now:

What a change! I started by painting it in black acrylic, then got to work on each section.

I used the Clockworks paper for the background, cut out some clocks from Witching Hour, and the tick tock, time flies and watch face from Mechanical Marvels. Then I found an old watch I had, and added some chipboard butterfly wings. I painted them black, added crackle glaze then inked with silver ink. They look really cool! The stars are grungeboard, painted in black, crackle accented and rubbed with gold ink.

The section with the woman was covered in the Totally Wicked background. I then cut out some hot air balloons from the Pumpkin Power page, cutting four of the medium sized one so that I could glue them together and make the balloon 3d. I cut out the lady and the banner from the Vintage Voyage page, glossy accented the necklace and the goggles on the lady, then added a flower to her hat.

The potions page has the background Witching Hour. I then cut out an announcement from Vintage Voyages, and some bottles from Mechanical Marvels, which I crackle accented. The bottles were old bottles which I added remnant rubs to, then used a bit of alcohol ink and glossy accent to give them a residue of old potion. 

The middle bit is from the NeverMore page, which has been inked with distress ink. I added some bats (some cut from papers and glossy accented, some chipboard and black soot stickled) and Mr Seymour Bones from the Frightful Folly page. I then made a wobbly chest of drawers from black card, using dominoes for the legs. I stuck a few roses onto the drawers, and the Seymour bones on the bottom drawer. The top drawer has this little surprise.

See? More bones! Couldn't resist using that pun.

Almost forgot! On the potions page I made a little book from the Nevermore page, crackle accenting the front and adding twine to tie it together, as well as some beads and a key.

This is the inside of the book. The cards work really well as a book.

The new items I used for this were the G45 papers and the black acrylic paint. The old was everything else really! Particularly the bottles, remnant rubs, the twine (one of the first things I ever bought craft wise), the dominoes, the flowers and the distress inks.

Anyway, I hope you like it. I've still got plenty of Steampunk Spells papers so be prepared for a lot of halloween style items this month!

Happy crafting everyone

Emma x