AmiraInOz

Hey Everyone, Just a quick one from me today. I needed to sit down and make some cogs and gears as embellishments for the next Flora Rose Art Journal Layout - theme must be steampunk so wish me luck! I turned on the camera while I made these and wanted to share with you all in case one day you find yourself needing to make some DIY embellishments. You can find the tutorial HERE Thanks for stopping by! Watch out for the next Chapter of the Flora Rose Series. Coming right up. xxAmira

Dear Reader: As you may or may not know, I have 2 boys and for as long as I can remember, it has been a struggle for me to make masculine cards. Well, I think I have broken through that fear barrier because I really enjoy making boy cards now.  I found this great free digital robot stamp  here  and went to work colouring them in using my Kaiser Fusion markers.  And because I love to, I fussy cut them out giving me 12 images for robot cards...woohoo!! Now, what better embellishment to use with robots than gears.  I thought I would give  Kaisercraft's  Cogs  die-set a try. So I usually begin making a card by picking out patterned paper for a background and adhere it to my white card leaving about a quarter of an inch border. Next, I cut the gears out of black card stock and place them where I would like them on the background. Next, I matted my chosen robot image to black card stock, which I then adhered to ...