Hats Off To You Steampunk Birthday card

Thursday Greetings! Imelda has overstayed her welcome, lol. It's been raining here all week on the upper western Gulf Coast. We've been getting good soaking rains with periods of low-level flooding and some of us are experiencing some degree of Post-Harvey-Stress. We even had a few tornados touch down around us today. There has been one wonderful side effect: lower temps, yay! Perfect weather for making art, if you ask me. ;-)

I'm in need of more masculine birthday cards and am just pleased as punch with how this one finished up. I combined challenges for the feel of Autumn channeled through the fashion of the well-dressed vintage Steampunk gent in this Gecko Galz collage sheet image. I riffed off the hat theme for my sentiment using dies of hats (and other manly effects) as side adornments. Autumn's not just about leaves, ya know. ;-) winkwink.

 

I used an Outlawz Wednesday Sketch, rotating it 180 degrees and then resizing it in PSE to 6x6.

SUPPLIES:
Paper/Card Stock: Textured Bazill, Junkitz, SU, misc. stash snippets (mostly unknown makers)
Stamps: My Sentiments Exactly; EKS ImageTree; Hot Off The Press; Lawn Fawn
Inks: VersaFine Clair
Dies: Spellbinders Labels 17 Nesties; Impression Obsession Retro Masculine; Avery Elle Flags
Stash items: Gecko Galz image from Man O Man collage sheet; brown paper snippets; screw brad; 7Gypsies brown gaffer tape; tan paper photo corners; embossing powder; 2 round tags (unknown makers)

This is my Browns paper snippets stash. My goal was to make a brown monochrome Autumn Steampunk card, to use plaid and a tag, and use snippets Notice the large plaid snippets - those became my base mat layers on the front and back of my card. Maker is Junkitz and that's the only maker I remember. Some of these snippets might could draw Social Security, LOL. At any rate, except for the card base, this card's paper is all snippets this time around. I was lucky to find papers that reminded me of fabrics a vintage gent wears in cooler weather.

 I layered 2 very old tags from my tags stash (I now have stashes for every type of supply, lol), stamped and heat-embossed my sentiment and attached with a screw brad (wait for it) that was lurking in my brad stash. Heehee I had just enough of the brown stitched gaffer tape left and it has a fabric feel. I'd just bought the photo corners a few weeks ago, so they are the newest thing on the card.

 For the inside, I used all HOTP stamps. I lined the inside with snippets in a light tan/brown to help the stamps be more readable.

 For the back, I simply cut another Label die with a snippet and stamped the Lawn Fawn siggie on it.

One final view ...

CHALLENGES:
1.  Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Sept. 4-17 -- sketch shown above
2.  Rainbow Card Challenge #9: Beautiful Brown 

3.  Pixie's Snippet Playground #361: AG with a Snippet -- Just playing to participate because I 150% qualify this time and then some, LOL, so No to draw, thanks for your generosity, Di!
4.  Use Your Stuff Challenge #375: Tags and or Frames -- "Happy Birthday" round tag
5.  Double Trouble Challenge #38: Mad for Plaid -- Thing 1: Brown plaid on front and back, bottom mat layer + Thing 3: Entered Use Your Stuff Challenge + Thing 2: Used a Round Tag.  

  

6.  More Mixed Media Challenge: AG + Opt. Browns -- I played the option with this monochrome brown card.

7.  Aud Sentiments Challenge #236: Sentiment + AG
8.  Mix It Up Challenge #29: AG  -- DID NOT PLAY OPTION
9.  Gecko Galz Challenge Blog Sept.: Steampunk Autumn

10. Gecko Galz Facebook Sept. Challenge: Monochrome Card -- my twist is stitching

11. Moo Mania Challenge #200: Autumn Glory -- I was inspired by the feel of Autumn in vintage men's fashions.

Thanks so much for dropping by. I enjoyed your visit and welcome you back anytime! XOX