Steampunk Apprentice

Dawn challenged me for this month's ATC swap and chose 'Steampink' as theme. Oh dear! ... when trying to work out how to go about I realised how few stamps I own which can be used to create steampunk art ... but using stamps is one of the criteria in our swap .... the recipe had to be: lots of digital manipulation for the steampunk theme and a tad of stamping, sorry Dawn, next month will be more stamping (LOL)

The images I used are from the Graphics Fairy and Graphic Design/Travel Ephemera, the images were modified and combined. You will find below the backgrounds I created. If you like them and find them useful, please feel free to use them.
The stamps are from Elzybells, Stamper Anonymous and Crafty Expressions. I chose embellishments from Tim Holtz (little round letters and gadget gear die), whatever I could find which went with the theme and a wonderful clockface from Dawn, thank you so much.

And these are the backgrounds of the ATCs, Petra.