Steampunk on retreat

As some of you know I got to go on a crafting retreat with my crafty friends this last weekend!

I worked on a number of projects, but this is by far my favorite!

We stopped into the only scrapbook store in Payson, az

And when we were leaving a very nice lady outside snapped this picture of all of us.

So I sent the picture to walgreens.com, and went to pick the pictures up the next day.

Yep, I had it printed up 8 times,

Then I gave one copy to each of the girls, and I challenged them to use it in some sort of project.

We had a lot of fun getting our craft on!

Here is a fab close-up of the upper corner with som metal gear fabulousness! 

I also stamped in the film strip with staz-on ink.

I obtained thus fun birdcage from one of the other girls,

I colored it with my metallic ink pen, and then distressed it,

Added the dangling metal pieces, and added it to the page with some butterflies in the cage. 

I also borrowed a cogs and gears die cut, 

And used some of my stash of color coredinations black paper

Then I distressed those too. Now looking at them I think they would have been really awesome 

with a little perfect pearls on them! 

I got this great little ruler at an estate sale while we were up in Payson. 

I love what it added to the page. 

Finally, here is a little close up of the butterflies

That I punched out of some metallic looking paper.

Plus you can see a close up of the metal bits and bobs at the bottom of the birdcage.

I'll be entering this into the 

SanDee & Amelie's steampunk challenge: heavy metal

Day 3 challenge at citrus twist: use your embellishments