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Monday, 26 May 2025

Steampunk World

Hello!

The sky's the limit when it comes to your imagination, right?!

and especially the Steampunk genre is a fantasy world, anything is possible,

because it's a genre

that's never existed before.

I created a canvas in mixed media style, it's always a pleasure to combine

several textures, color effects and materials.

Have you discovered the Steampunk Letters yet? They are extremely creative

and ideal for personalised gifts.

used MDF shapes

Steampunk Airship - MDF Wood Shape Style 2

MDF Letters & Numbers - Steampipe Font

Clock Hands - MDF Add On Sheet

Sheet of Mini MDF Wood Cogs - Style 2

Pipework Maze MDF Craft Parts

some details

I hope I could inspire you!

Have fun realizing your own fantasy stories

and creative ideas!

Thanks for your visit!

Kerstin

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Summer Home Decor

Hello everybody!

Today a new Homedecor inspiration.

I used a mixed media board as base and created it in grunge rustic style.

Combined some of my favourite shapes with outcasts from moulds

(lighthouse and boat).

Everything should appear a bit dilapidated, old and forgotten.

For this look I chose some rust-like colours, complemented with different textures.

some close up's

used MDF shapes

Mermaid MDF Wood Shape - Style 2

Brush Script MDF Wood Font - Create A Word Sea

Dotted Peacock Weed - MDF Seaweed Wood Shape Style 3

Sheet of Mini MDF Wood Cogs - Style 1

Coral - MDF Wood Shape Style 8

Jellyfish MDF Wood Shape Style 1

Coral - MDF Wood Shape Style 3

Thanks for your visit!

I hope you find inspiration!

Kerstin

Saturday, 25 June 2022

Shadow Box - Artist Studio with Kerstin

Welcome creative friends!

As I saw our latest MDF Mini Furniture Kits I was inspired to create

a shadow box in vintage grunge style.

Love this grandfather clock, really awesome and very sweet,

could also imagine in a bigger size for a lot ideas.

New Kit's are very easy to assemble, with a little glue they are very sturdy.

I have primed them only with a little brown acrylic paint and then highlighted

with metal wax.

And another great novelty at Calico Craft Parts

you can find here
new Add On sheets,

bricks, stones and roof tiles in three different sizes.

They can be used for a lot of projects,

awesome 3d effects, as you can see

in this project too.

some close up's

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

Grandfather Clock - Mini Furniture Kit

Writing Desk with Stool - Mini Furniture Kit

Plain ATC Wood Blank with Hot Air Balloon Frame

Clock Hands - MDF Add On Sheet

Sheet of Mini MDF Wood Cogs - Style 1

Mini Bricks - MDF Add On Sheet

I hope you find inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by...until next time

Kerstin

Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Giant cog - mini robot: by Louise Crosbie (Zuzu)

Hi there folks.

I’m sharing this assemblage that I learned in a class given by Nuneka Box. She used lots of resin pieces and metal embellishments but I decided to try my version using calico craft parts.

I do love Nuneka’s style and her classes are very inspiring whilst being great fun. This one was part of her patreon membership.

I have used a few bits of resin cast in Finnabair moulds but it’s probably 90% calico craft parts.

Parts used:

Giant cog:

Sheet of MDF cogs: 3

Sheet of MDF cogs: 4

Edison bulbs and chains

Mechanical clockwork motif 24

Cogs and clock hands

Mechanical clockworks motif number 16

Mechanical clockworks motif number 27

Sheet of mini hardware

Saturday, 4 September 2021

Skull & Ghosts - Pirates curse by Kerstin

Welcome everyone!

Have you seen the latest Hanging kits on Calico Craft Parts???

Awesome 🎃👀🎃, such a lot of creative possibilities!!

Over the next few weeks I will introduce you three different variants.

New Skull & Ghosts - MDF Halloween Hanger Kit reminded me of dementors (Harry Potter)

and so I created two different Halloween projects out of this one set.

A Halloween canvas with flying dementors, where I used the hanging ghosts from this kit

( coming soon) and a jewel for setting up. 😀

Do you fear death??? Who doesn't know this famous saying from the Pirates of the caribbean?!

That was my inspiration for this extraordinary home decor piece,

that looks very good in the wall unit or on the shelf,

with dim lighting it looks even more interesting.

Hints & Tricks

some close up's

used MDF shapes from Calico Craft Parts

Skull & Ghosts - MDF Halloween Hanger Kit

Sheet of Mini MDF Wood Cogs - Style 1

Galleon Boat MDF Wood Shape - Style 2

Coral - MDF Wood Shape Style 6

Dotted Peacock Weed - MDF Seaweed Wood Shape Style 3

octopus arms, the anchor chain and the pirate head were made

with the help of silicon moulds

Thanks for your visit!

Happy crafting!

Kerstin

Saturday, 19 June 2021

Steampunked cigar box: by guest designer Lori Woods

Hello everyone! I'm very happy to be back for my second guest designer post and this time I've gone steampunk! Normally my steampunk project are covered in gorgeous rust and patinas but I wanted to really showoff these fantastic steampunk shapes so I went for a metallic colour palette instead.

I started with an old cigar box and used a stencil to create some texture. I added two of the Ornate Decorative hinges to the side to recreate a box effect and then covered everything in a mix of gold and bronze metallic paints.

I used the Steampunk Mechanical Clockworks motif and Steampunk Mechanical Clock shapes, along with Mini wood cogs to create a focal point, layering them together to give the piece dimension. I painted this with silver metallic paint and attached it to the box.

Although I loved the mix of metallic colours, everything was too bright and clean so I took some watered down black acrylic paint and used this to create shadows around the shapes and give the box a slightly dirty and worn look. I finished off with a word element from the Apothecary set and my steampunked cigar box was done!

I hope this gives you some inspiration- these steampunk pieces are fantastically detailed and could be used in so many ways on different projects.

I used:

Ornate scroll decorative hinges

Steampunk Mechanical Clockworks motif

Steampunk Mechanical Clock

Mini wood cogs

Word elements- Apothecary

Sunday, 13 June 2021

SciFi police box with a steampunk twist.

Hi everyone.

When Helen told me they were going to be adding a “Police Box” kit to the range I was super excited. I am a geek... there is no denying it.

I was very lucky to be sent an advanced one before the shop even had them online to buy and my steampunk pal (our extended household bubble person) and I wasted no time in constructing and decorating it.

It was so much in advance that there was no pdf with the construction guidelines which did leave us expecting some fun mishaps as there were a lot of parts. But we still managed it simply by looking at the photo Steve sent of an example he had constructed to make sure the kit worked ok.

So in honour of a well known SciFi tv series and with a bit of a steampunk twist, here is the completed police box.

For my engine, I’ve used some resin mould pipes and a propeller, some calico craft parts gears/cogs, a kitchen shape cutter and a little bulb.

I’ve added a sort of fake rivet effect using little hardware screw heads from a mini sheet and as a little vintage Victorian detail,I used a couple of paper fasteners that look like old door pulls/handles.

Needless to say I predict ordering a second one 😄

Supply list.

Police box kit

A selection cogs (gears).

Mini sheet of hardware shapes.