Steampunk and Flowers? Why Not!

Hello blog friends!  More steam punk again today.  I hope you like this card as it is one of my favourites and it took me forever to get it to load on to my blog.  I kept loading sideways, even though it was the right way up when I started.  I have never had that happen before, but I finally decide to try and trick my computer and it worked!  I turned it sideways in my photo file and then loaded it, and it came in right way up!  Anyways, here it is after much fiddling with it.  I love the way the background came out in this.  I took my clear perfect medium and swiped it over my time embossing folder, but only in areas randomly.  I embossed my card, then I used ancient copper embossing powder over it .  It kind of gives it a patina look, I think.  I distressed around the edges with my scissors and mounted it on to some lined kraft card that I had.  I ran a piece of black craft metal through my Grand Calibur with the metal mask to emboss it.  Then I used the alcohol blending solution to remove the colour from the mask in the raised areas, leaving the silver to show through.  I mounted that piece in the bottom corner and stamped the vintage inventor on kraft card and mounted him on top.  I had some matboard gears that I painted copper and added some beads to and strung some chain through them with a gear.  Then I made some flowers for the corner and added some small tickets I stamped.  Who says steampunk can't have flowers?! I stamped a few more larger tickets for the top cornerand attached them with a faux screw brad  and added a metal photo corner to finish it off.  I wasn't sure where I was going when I started this one, but I rather like where it ended up! You just never know sometimes!  All for now, Sue x