Steampunk Challenge Time - "Altered Playing Cards"

Hello, dear readers, Steampunk lovers and followers old and new!

It is time to start a new challenge over at
 SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges!!!

This month's theme:

Altered Playing Cards

Our Guest Designer for this month, Rosie, from "Rosie's Bastelwelt", suggested this theme and I really loved to try it out. 

So here comes my first "altered playing card" - tatttaaaah:

I learned that with altered playing cards you only have to see to it that one corner of the playing card remains visible... everything else is "anything goes". 

For my APC I die cut a gear using the Tim Holtz "tiny gears" Sizzix die from corrugated card and glued it to the playing card. After that I applied glue to the whole card (except the one corner) and glued sandwich paper to it, creating a lot of wrinkles during that step. 

Once dry I treated the surface with alcohol inks and metallic rub ons to

highlight the gear and the creases thus creating awesome yummy texture...

The black gear image was stamped onto some acetate that was cut to size and sanded around the edges. I fixed it to the playing card with three tiny brads. for a finish I added some tiny gears and cogs  and applied some crackle accents and "walnut stain" DI to the corner with the cards symbol. Done!

I hope you like my first take on altered playing cards and have a lot of fun doing your own! I would love to see your APC Steampunk creations over at our challenge blog soon!!!! 

Hop over to SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges to check out the awesome APCs from SanDee and our Guest Designer, Rosie!!! You will find a lot of inspiration over there. Promised!

Hugs,

die amelie xx