Steampunk Nutcrackers

 These are the newest editions to my Nutcracker collection. They started out as plain, naked nutcrackers, but with a little paint, leather, gears, chain, and ribbon, they have become fancy Steampunk inspired nutcrackers

I had fun getting these guys to look as fancy as they do.

The silvery one was painted with a black pearl acrylic paint and flesh tone paint. His little accent dots, belt, drum and drum sticks were done with an antique gold acrylic.

I used a small piece of red leather on the drum. I ran a piece of brown leather through my embossing machine, using my "gear" embossing plate. I made the spats, his beard, and the uniform stripes out of that leather. I used puff paint for the buttons.

For the other nutcracker I used black, flesh tone, and copper acrylic paints. I embossed the leather as I did for the previous nutcracker.

For his belt, I used a piece of copper chain and attached some funky ribbons, clock hands, keys, and locks to the chain. I used three nailheads to tack the chain in place. I made the gear decoration and glued it on.

This is a close up of the embossed leather.







These are the ornament nutcrackers I painted. I painted them with acrylic paints. I glued a fuzzy ribbon around the bottom of the hats/helmets, as well as the little decorations.