February Steampunk-themed Altered Trading Coin Swap

The theme for the February altered trading coins swap is "steampunk."

These are the coins I created and sent off to my partners. 

I used a painty background and stamped the woman's face on a piece of ivory yardstick and lightly colored it with colored pencils. I added it to a painty background and glued on lots of metal gears.

I made the turquoise and rusty red ones by using alcohol inks to some of the silver ones. I edged the coins with a copper pen.

I think steampunk is a hard theme so I can't wait to see what I receive in return?

Steampunk Card Swap

I recently hosted a Steampunk Card Swap. The cards had to use a steampunk theme and include at least one metal embellishment.

I created this card for my partner.  The focal piece is a portion of a Graphic 45 paper. One of the background pieces is black art metal embossed with a gears embossing folder and then sanded. The other background piece is card stock stenciled with spray ink and an eye chart stencil.  The gears surrounding the eyes and the hanging tag are all metal.

And I received this wonderful card in return.  The aviator is on a transparency and I especially love how the gear and metal pieces on the bottom are laced with black thread. Even the twill ribbon is printed with gears.

It is so much fun to see how others interpret a theme.