A Steampunk Valentine

This week has seen the release of another great set of Chocolate Baroque steampunk stamps Steampunk Butterfly.

As soon as I saw the image of these stamps and I knew they would be winging their way for me to test, I knew what I wanted to do with these flowers which was to make a masculine bouquet card! The idea came to mind inspired by the words of a song I really like by Emilie Simon - I want to buy you flowers, it's such a shame you are a boy!

Using some self adhesive silver foil, I stamped the roses several times in archival ink and heat set them. I cut them out and decoupaged. I embossed the stems onto black card with silver EP and arranged the flowers and stems into a"bouquet".

I mounted the bouquet onto a panel of Prima script paper, matted that onto silver mirri card and then a panel of the silver paper backed onto kraft card, embossed in a folder and highlighted by rubbing in black acrylic paint. I edged my card with some washi tape, added a heart cut from red satin mirri card and black die cut letters for the sentiment and finished off with a bow tied from frayed red sari ribbon which I felt worked well with the idea of a man's bouquet.

Make sure you leave a comments over at the CB Design team blog linked to my side bar to have a chance of winning these stamps.

Have a good week

Elaine

Elaine