A Punky Red Romance

This is my second entry to the Chocolate Baroque challenge blog  http://chocolatebaroquechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ using their colour palette of red, white and black.  For this project I have used CB stamp sets Punky Flowers and Steampunk Butterfly; a script stencil; texture paste; Distress Inks; Versafine ink; Pearlex paint; red and white glitters; acetate and cardstock from my stash.  I started with a piece of red card and placed the stencil over it.  I mixed a little texture paste with black acrylic paint and applied it through the stencil.  While that was drying I stamped the small cog trees onto the acetate with black Versafine and let it dry.  I painted onto the back of the acetate with white Pearlex paint then with white gesso to make the cogs pop.  Next I trimmed the red panel and made a wrap with the acetate, then attached it to the back of the panel with red double sided tape.  I then matted the panel onto black card.  The base card is white and I stamped some cogs around the edge with red Brilliance ink then blended black DI around the very edges.  I attached the panel to the base card with tape.  On another piece of white card I stamped some steampunk flowers, the large cog trees and a butterfly in black Versafine ink and heat embossed them with black powder.  I think the graduated cogs look like topiary trees, so I call them cog trees!   I painted all the images using the red and black DI's and the white pearlex paint, and I mixed the white paint with the black ink to create a pearlescent gun metal colour for some contrast.  When dry I highlighted any screw heads on the images with Glossy Accents, and the coils on the flowers with glitter.  When everything was dry I attached the images to the acetate with dimensional glue. As well as crafting gardening is my passion so I love to create garden scenes in my artwork, both traditional and alternative.  Steampunk is one of my favourite genres, so creating a steampunk garden in my favourite colours has been an absolute joy!  I think this design will work well for cards, both male and female; and equally well for home decor.