On the 6th Day of Christmas Simply Betty style

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The 6th Day of Christmas

The Children all snug in their beds, while visions of Steampunks danced in their heads!

I am a huge fan of the Steampunk line at Simply Betty Stamps.  

They are beautiful and awesome to color and create with.  Very elegant.

The challenge for this Day of Christmas is to create your most "Merry Steampunk" project.

Add some gears and cogs and metal bits and make it Christmas-y!

You have until Dec. 7th at 11PM PST!

The winner of this challenge will receive a beautiful Vintage Paper collection.

Now, on to my card.

I am pretty stoked (an old "Rocker" term for thrilled) as to how killer this card turned out. 

Every so often I allow myself a paper crafted victory like this one.

Only every so often though, so I don't get too full of myself. 

This is Gwendolyn.

Isn't she lovely? 

I found this image of the gears online and heat embossed some of them

with copper and gold powders. I added on some metal cog brads and added

my Steampunk standby, the compass brad! I also used my new corner dies

from Sizzix, which I heat embossed with copper powder.

Then I aged everything and added a little tag to convey the Winter message.

Okay, I have a dirty little secret.

I am usually a pretty neat colorer. Must be the Virgo in me.

But, sometimes I make quite a mess.

Like while I was coloring the image for this card, I got confused as to 

where the red was supposed to go on her dress.  

It wasn't supposed to go there.

I used a colorless blender to try and remove the hardest color to

remove, red!

I got quite a bit of it with the blender and decided to just go

for it with the green that was supposed to go there in the first place.

I worked it a bit more with the blender pen on her leg and boot,

being very careful to not over saturate the paper so much that it bleeds more.

Speakin' from experience right there.

See, the red is not even noticeable now.

I guess the point of this was to show that just

because you make a mistake with the Copics doesn't mean

you have to junk your entire image. It can be salvaged with just

a bit of patience and a colorless blender.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to drop by

the Simply Betty blog to see the other awesome creations from our

uber-talented design team!