Steampunk ATC's

Hello and Welcome!
Today I am showing you my ATC's for the new Steampunk Challenge Blog

The theme this month is ATC with something silver on it. I have chosen to produce 3 ATC's, all totally different.

The Traveller

Balloons on Film

Eye eye

I hope you enjoy this new Steampunk Challenge Blog and join in. We have a fab Design Team and some fab prizes for the winner each month.

Crafty Hugs

Zoe

Steampunk Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to this fab Steampunk Blog Hop. My creation is this steampunk machine made using a combination of new and recycled parts. I had a lot of fun making this! The rules for the hop and other participants are below.


I have upcycled an old mushroom container and old air compressor pump and some cardboard alongside using mdf cogs, corrugated pipe, die cuts, and embellishments made from UT embossing powder, filler and clay.






















We have 16 prize sponsors for our Steampunk Hop - we're proud to say these are small businesses run by artists. Let's show them some love!

1) A Vintage Girl (https://www.avintagegirlshop.com/) - $20 prize package

2) Angel Dream Crafts (https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/AngeldreamCraftsKim) - $20 gift certificate (shipping not included)

3) Linda Israel Art (https://lindaisrael.com/art/) - $50 gift certificate (shipping not included)

4) A Matter of Crafts (www.justamatterofcrafts.com) - $20 gift certificate (shipping not included)

5) Expressions Craft (https://www.expressionscraft.com/) - $25 gift certificate (shipping not included)

6) Nellys Artistic Creations (https://www.instagram.com/nellys_artistic_creations/?hl=en) - original artwork (see link for examples of her work)

7) Gecko Galz (https://www.etsy.com/shop/geckogalz) - $25 in digital products

8) Creative Embellishments (https://creativeembellishments.com/) - $50 (shipping not included)

9) Emerald Creek (https://emeraldcreek.co/) - $25 gift certificate

10) Electric Pandemonium (Etsy.com/shop/electricpandemonium) - choose a $45 original artwork piece (shipping not included)

11) Thompson's Craft Supplies (https://thompsonscraftsupplies.com/) £20 (approx $25) (shipping not included)

12) It's Oddly Appealing (https://www.pinterest.com/itsoddlyappealing/its-oddly-appealing/) - original artwork (see link for examples of her work)

13) The Funkie Junkie Boutique (https://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/) - $25 gift certificate

14) Hobbilicious (https://www.hobbilicious.com/) - £15 (approx $19) (UK shipping free)

15) ITD (https://itdcollection.com/) - prize package worth £25

16) Stamperia (https://stamperia.com/) - a pizza box prize pack

To have a chance of winning one of the 16 coveted prizes, leave a comment on this post, along with your email address or social media contact (IG, FB, etc) and what country you're from, from now through Monday, 22 June. Sixteen winners will be picked randomly from all comments left from all of the artist's participating! The winners will be contacted via email/social media so it's important you leave your address/social media contact!


Here are the other participants:

It's Oddly Appealing 
Ink Stained Roni
Electric Pandemonium
Crafts From The Fairy Den
Chaitali Dekhtawala
Nellys Artistic Creations
Priya Mishra
Archu's Art World
Bhavani Balaji
Cassandra - Scrap Savvy Creations
Shraddha
Amy Love's Designs
Monica Longard - MonDo Creations
Kanika Jain
Jane Austin
Empire of the Cat
Shwetha's Art
Sonika Agarwal
In Search of my Creative Side
The Journey is the Start
Ina Grehan
Orquide'art
Juli Loves Paper
Linda Simpson
Crea Red
Kim Slade-Fuller
Leslie Lineberry
Jessica Larios
Riddhi Jani
Lynne Joncas
Zoe Bateman - You Are Here
Pooja Sharma
Nicole Palos
A Vintage Girl

Good luck and enjoy the hop!

I am entering this into SanDee and Amelie's Steampunk Challenge

Zoe x

Vintage Vinyl

There is a new challenge over on the Bleeding Art Challenge blog and I would like to show you my DT project. 

I have so much stuff collected over the years, I am trying to start to use some of it although think it will take my lifetime! Anyway this piece is made using an old vinyl record I got in a charity shop in the bargain bin of 4 for a £1. I covered this with a piece of scrapbook paper and then covered that in acrylic paint in vintage colours.

Having glued an octagon wooden sheet to the back I decided it needed something else and so used some brushos to splash onto the background 

Whilst this was drying I had painted a butterfly blue and stamped it using a visible image script stamp and Wow embossing white fine powder. 

I had also painted some geometric shapes with a crackle glaze. Once dried these were also painted blue

I had also painted a wooden word, believe in linen and coloured a tim hotz paper doll which I then glued onto the butterfly. All this was attached to the record along with some flowers my friend made.

This is a new style for me but really enjoyed making this and think I will do more.

I do hope you come and join us over at Bleeding Art Challenge.

Zoe 

 

Grunge Mirror

There is a new challenge at Bleeding Art Challenge today. For my DT project I have upcycled an old mirror. I have added texture paste through a stencil and then added various different paints to create a grunge effect.

I hope you come and join in with our challenge.

Crafty Hugs

Zoex

Steampunk Irish Album

Hi All, hope you are doing ok in this uncertain times. Here is my first DT post for Ephemoire. I have been wanting to make an album for a while, just never got around to it, so here is my first attempt at an album. I have used the up and away journal kit along with Irish ephemera

Here is the front cover

Back cover

Inside pages

Hope you like it!

Stay safe

Crafty hugs 

Zoex

Dragon Eye Heart

Today I would like to share my dragon eye heart and how I made it. I started with a print out of eyes I bought off Etsy a couple of years ago and attached clear glass beads you buy for decoration (I bought mine in Dunelms).

 

Once these were dry I cut around them and glued one onto a paper mache heart. I then creating the eye socket with some light air dry clay and glue.

I then glued egg shells all over and once dried covered in black gesso (thought I had photographed this but obviously forgot, oops) I also painted some resin wings I had with gesso.

Once everything was dry the wings were shaped at the ends to improve the fit of the heart and two holes drilled and pins inserted into each one. Each were also glued to give them a strong bond. Once dried everything were painted with a combination of mica powder and pearlizing medium.

I had a fab time making this one and hope my mojo is now back to stay as I have so many ideas floating around my head. I am entering this into the Bleeding Art Challenge Anything Goes and Dream in Darkness Challenge

 

Until Next Time

 

Zoë B

 

New Name

I have decided to rename this to Zazz Creative rather than Zazz Crafts as I feel it better represents my style as a creative person.

Colourful Journal Page

Well I didn't keep up the pace, not really surprised. I do have a lovely colourful journal page to share with you today tho. I took inspiration from this blog post

I started out with some colourful A4 pages I had previously coloured using Brushos. I then stamped and cut out using punches some circles

 

I cut out a piece of black card measuring 18x19cm and attached some of these to it in a random pattern, playing until I was happy and sticking down

 

This was followed attaching some colourful images from Crafty Individuals which were a freebie for subscribing to Mixed up Magazine onto red card. I also attached the words Dream, Imagine, Create. I attached the page into my Kraft Journal 

 

Hopefully See you again soon

 

Crafty Hugs

Zoë

 

 

Starry Skull

Wow, two posts in two days. Not sure I can keep up this pace but would love to try and keep up blogging more. I have a postcard size project today.

I started off by embossing a piece of card in a star embossing folder and then using a corner punch rounded the corners. I then lightly rubbed over the stars with memento nautical blue ink pad using a blending tool and around the edge. Stickles starry night was then applied over the top and around the edges.

Meanwhile I stamped the skull stamp from Visible Image Mr Bonejangles on a piece of white paper using archival shadow grey and memento london fog ink pads. These were then cut out and stuck along middle of the card.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Country View Challenges - Postcards

Dream in Darkness - anything but cute 

Craft Stamper Challenge - anything goes

Until next time, crafty love

Zoëx

The Scrappy Gent

Hello All, I have a project today using some of my scraps of mountboard and papers, Mark Gould's The Gent stamp (which can be purchased here) and some words from Mixed up Magazine.

I took an old piece of packaging and glued some scraps of mountboard onto it and filled in any gaps with scraps of papers.

Once this was dry I took an off cut of black card, stamped The Gent and embossed with white embossing powder.

I then attached this to the board with foam tape and glued the words on the bottom.

I enjoyed this project and found it a great way to start using up many of my scraps.

I am entering this into the Craft Stamper Anything Goes challenge

And Dream in Darkness Anything but Cute Challenge

Until next time

Crafty Hugs

Zoëx