Steampunk Planks

I saw a picture of a 3D wall art square frame and thought to myself, "I can make this!" and then I saw a scrappy friend had done one as well, so I drew my inspiration from Monica Longard, the magazine and the challenge board from SanDee and Amelie's steampunk challenge. 

First I cut cardboard into 4 planks and 2 smaller pieces that provide the support. I inked the edges with Archival brown ink.

Next, I cut out Bo Bunny paper to fit the planks and glued those straight to the cardboard and I inked the edges as well. TIP: Make a template that you can use, I found it to help out a lot! 

I went through my metal stash box and found all the gears I wanted to use. I applied washi tape to 2 gears and dry brushed those with gold Color Box pigment ink. I then put the gears where I wanted before gluing down (I always change my layouts until it feels right). After finding the right design I glued the gears down with E-6000, making sure that the gears looked like working gears. The black die cuts are from Cheery Lynn designs. I then added a metal belt piece and a flower I also dry brushed with the Color Box gold ink. 

This project will be entered into the following challenges:

I totally made this for the bonus challenge from SanDee and Amelie's steampunk challenge (HERE) and this moodboard

and also entered into the Retro Kraft Shop Challenge-Retromania 6 (HERE)

Thanks for reading and leaving your lovely comments. It brightens my day! Carpe Diem! ~€