Steampunk Underwater Mixed Media Artwork

I created this Shadow Frame Steampunk piece as a gift for my cousin's nursery. She is planning on decorating the room in Steampunk style (how fun!)

I have been waiting for an opportunity to use my Graphic 45 Voyage Beneath the Sea Collection and I thought the fantasy/whimsical motifs in this would be perfect for a baby boy.

I chose my favourite images from the papers and arranged them on a blue 12" background that I had spritzed with Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays to give an ocean feel.

The gears are mostly die cut from card, then coloured with inks and then heat-embossed.

  I also used some chipboard swirls and seaweed die-cuts that I coloured with Lindy's Glitz Spritzes.

I aged the metal charms with Verdigris embossing powder.

 I aged the metal charms with Verdigris embossing powder.

 I inked and stamped the chipboard seahorse with gear stamps.

I gilded a wooden shadow box frame with gilding flakes in similar tones to the artwork.

Materials:
Graphic 45 Voyage Beneath the Sea - Papers (12", 8"), chipboard, ephemera
Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes -  Egyptian Gold
Embossing Powders: Wow!: Verdigris, Copper, Perissa. Atlantic Seaspray, Under the Sea, Ranger - Verdigris
Scrapberry's Metal Charms - Seaside 1 & 2
Chipboard letters, swirls, seahorse
Prima glass beads - butter
Stampendous - gold frantage glitter
Lindy's Stamp Gang: Mermaid Seashells, Bucaneer Bay Blue, Cocklebells Coral, Glory of the Seas Gold, Opal Sea Oats, Sea Mint Green,Treasure Island Aqua
Dies: X Cut  -Chronology Cogs,Memory Box - Mini Gears, foliage, scallops, Creative Expressions - Dandelion Clocks, Joy Crafts - Under the Sea,Santoro Dies
Tattered Angels Glimmer Chips - Beachcomber

Challenges:
Sandee and Amelia - Anything Goes - Steampunk 13/5
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Creatalicious - Anything Goes #112 29/4