Steampunk at Creative Embellishments

Creative Embellishments has some awesome steampunk chipboard pieces that I used to alter this fun little box I found in the bargin bin. I thought it would be great to turn it into a Finnabair inspired Steampunk piece.  

Here's what it looked like before I altered it. I almost forgot to photo the box before, but fortunately I remembered after I had only glued the one piece to the lid and taken the knob from the front.  The box already has a neat crackled finish so all I had to do was add some chippys, metals and lots of color.

I started by painting on a coat of clear gesso.  Then I glued on my chipboard and metal pieces and added  a few fussy cut images from Graphic 45's Steampunk Debutante collection and covered the images with matte medium so that I could wipe the sprayed on mist off the images.  After all that dried, I painted on a coat of white gesso but only over part of the box as I liked the orginal color and wanted that to show thru in places.

Then I began layering on different colors of mist, drying each layer before adding another layer.   I used Prima Color Bloom mists in Empress Gold and Glistening Waves.  I also used Lindy's Cajun Carnelian Red and Jack in the Pulpit Teal.  After I was satisfied with the color of my box,   I sprayed it with Dylusions black marble and then used a paper towel to remove some of the black ink.  The black ink creeps into the crevices and kind of gives everything dimension and a cohesive look.  Then I added Lindy's Midnight Gold  and Stampendous  aged copper embossing powder to some of the pieces to highlight them and give some WOW texture to the box.

On the lid I used a winged dressform, a gear corner piece and lots of  gears from our gear sets.  I added a metal winged key and some metal flowers.

On the front of the box I used a photo corner and some stacked gears.

Left side of box, I used another gear corner and some metal pieces.

I really love this globe chipboard piece that I used!  There is also another photo corner peeking out from under the flower.

More gears on the back of the box.

Here are links to all the chipboard pieces I used in the Creative Embellishments store.

Steampunk Dress Form 1

Steampunk Gear Corners 2

Gears

Globes 3"

Photo/page corner set

Thanks for stopping by today.  Be sure to check out Creative Embellishment's monthly challenge because you could win a $50 gift certificate to the store!  Woo hoo!!!  And you want to stop by the store often because Nicolle is always adding great new pieces and there are some fabulous items on sale during the week!