Craftilicious Creations: September 2025

Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Conjurer of Dreams: Steam Queens

Hello

Today I'm sharing some projects I made using Conjurer of Dreams images. I hope you'll pop over to the store and take a look at the Digital Art on sale for collage, scrapbooks, journals, cards and more.

We have an open, worldwide challenge at the Conjurer of Dreams Blog.

The challenge theme is always 'Anything Goes' and this month we have a twist of 'Steam Queens'.

We hope you'll share your projects with us.

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Here are my DT makes:

A Trinket Box:

I took a small wooden trinket box and removed the hinges. I used an ALL & Create Stencil (#71 'Steam Cogs') to add texture paste all over the outside edges. When this was dry, I coloured with oxide inks and gold and copper waxes.

I lightly coloured the lid with the waxes then adhered the Steampunk Forest Creatures. I created some paper-clay rope edgings in moulds, then added gilding wax and made a frame around the images.

AN Altered Notebook:

I love small spiral bound Kraft notebooks and very often alter the covers. Here I added one of the Steampunk Lass images. I coated the image with Distress Glaze, so it becomes waterproof(it also enhances the colours) I die cut some Steampunk cogs (Sizzix) from Kraft card and added oxide inks and embossing glazes in several colours. These were added to the image along with Idea-ology letter stickers to form the words 'Steam Queen'. I added Glossy Accents to the words and to the lass's goggles and dials.

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A set of Steam Cards:

I used the AALL & Create stencil to emboss a piece of Kraft card, simply by running the stencil and the card through my die cutting machine. The raised areas then captured the inks that I swiped across the card. I chose images from Steampunk Scenes, matted them onto Kraft card and distressed the edges. I added small Idea-ology sticker sentiments.