22 Steampunk Pumpkin and Giveaway Wednesday

A big thank you to our guest designer Virginia for her fabulous post yesterday, there are so many things to do, so little time.....

I found these little babies and fell in love!!  

Take a cheap plastic pumpkin bucket and Steampunkify it!

Material Used

Cheap Plastic Pumpkin Bucket.

Black Plastikote Spray

Treasure Gold Wax

Garden Mesh (mouth)

Sink Cover and Crystal Door Handle (left eye as you face him)

Black Buckle, washer, plaster mesh and a brad (right eye as you face him)

Old Screw (nose)

2 bendy metal bits from an old folder

2 rusty washers

Hot Glue Gun

This feels like a really lazy post, cos after I made my Steampunk Pumpkin 

I found these INSTRUCTIONS  and I don't think I can top it.  

I did have a few problems....

1. I tried to alter mini pumpkins, way too fiddly and they couldn't take the weight of the additions on the face and kept toppling over.  Mini steampunk pumpkins abandoned.

2. I tried covering the pumpkin in a layer of black gesso, it just kept flaking off, so back to the drawing board.

3. Next I tried my homemade black chalk paint, it looked amazing, the texture was fab, but it just peeled away like a face mask!!

4. Final attempt, black spray paint, its still not perfect as every knock and scratch shows up but it works well with the Treasure Gold Wax.

A couple of other points

1. Its a bit fiddly adding mesh over the mouth, much patience needed but well worth it!!

2. I used a hot glue gun, a few burnt fingers, so handle with care.

I have entered this into the PDE Linky Party for Halloween decorations and the Altered Eclectics blog..

All in all a challenging project but I think it was well worth it and as its giveaway Wednesday, I hope the happy recipient adores him as much as I do.  To win leave a comment here or on our facebook page by midnight Sat 25th Oct.  A winner will be announced on Sunday 26th.

TFL Lou x

17. Get Your Freak On! Steampunk Skeleton Burlesque.

Thanks Lou for the junk to junque ideas yesterday. I am in the process of assembling a journal myself and these would be a great addition.

Now for today. Have you heard of She Art? If not google it. It's all very positive and affirming right? But this is Halloween so we need something a little darker.

With this in mind, I present my version - Freak Art! I am indebted to the lovely Sian  for the freak art idea, and apologies to Lou for spoiling the suurprise as these are for her!

Same basic concept - focal figure, arty background, quote starting with "she".  Only instead of some faceless female surrounded by flowers and sunshine and butterflies and all that malarky, we have a steampunk burlesque skeleton and a much more Halloween type quote.

The background is just embossed card which has been inked to highlight some of the embossing. Very plain, but I don't have much in the way of suitable steampunk stuff and I quite like the effect. The image comes from here because, frankly, there aren't too many steampunk burlesque skeleton images around! I did have to reduce her cleavage somewhat (it was huge!) but other than that, she is just printed out, mounted onto greyboard, and cut. I added some watch parts, hinge and wire to jazz up her corset and hat. The skull and torso are glued to the background, but the arms and legs are attached with brads so that she can be whip off her skirt in true burlesque style! The quote is a play on skeletons in the closet.

And finally, because I'm an equal opportunities kind of person, I did a companion boylesque piece. Skeleton from the same place as before, different quote (comes from a Timberland song, and looked better than jump your bones, but means the same). Again, he is posable so you can decide whether or not he should go the full monty or leave his hat on.

Have fun using your own preferred images - we'd love to see the results.

I have entered this into the Oddball Stamps Challenge blog.

Well, that's all for today, but come back tomorrow to see what fun Jaz has in store.

Bex