Tuesday 24 January 2012

Tick Tock by Alison

Hello Stampers! For my third & final post this month, I have a card to share with you. I have used Perfect Pearls Mists, which are on special offer this month, on The Artistic Stamper website HERE.


For the background, I swiped chipped sapphire distress stains over a square of white card. Then I lightly misted the cog background stamp with forever blue perfect pearls mist, & stamped it on top of the background. I dried it immediately with a heat gun.


I stamped Phineas Pinchbeck & Tick Tock (from the Tick Tock plate), onto a dictionary page, cut them out, inked them with black soot & chipped sapphire distress inks, then matted them on black card. I glued them to the card as shown.


I die cut some Sizzix mini cogs from mountboard, inked them with chipped sapphire distress ink, then triple embossed them with clear UTEE. Whilst the last layer was still molten, I inked the Europe Map background with versamark & stamped the cogs. I trimmed the UTEE around the edges. I added some watch parts & Ideaology to the cogs, & glued them to the card. 


I distressed the edged of my artwork with a paper distresser, inked the edges with black soot distress ink, then glued it to a kraft card blank. To finish, I added more watch parts, & a layer of matt accents to Phineas' clock.

Thanks for looking!
Alison xox

18 comments:

Dee in N.H. said...

Wow! Beautiful!

Marjie Kemper said...

Oh my gosh, those gears are so rich and lush... can't stop looking at them!

Chris Arlington said...

Fabulous!

Helen said...

Just gorgeous. The colour is lush.

Inkypinkycraft said...

Fab piece, love the gears and the colours are scrummy! Hugs trace x

Maggie said...

Fabulous Alison!

Maggie

Trish Latimer said...

Gorgeous blues!!!

Artyjen said...

Scrumtious background ;)
xoxo Sioux

hazel said...

Fabulous Alison.
xxx Hazel.

The Sparkly Fairy said...

Great piece Alison!

Angie said...

I love this ...would never have thought of using blue here ...but it is fantastic.

Emma Williams said...

Stunning piece of artwork and I love the colours! Absolutely gorgeous, Alison...
Love Emma xxx

Gabrielle said...

Oh I love this one Alison! The colours are fabulous and I love the steampunk feel x

Silvia(Barnie) said...

A wonderful card with great elements. Love the fresh blue.

Lucy Edmondson said...

Excellent!

Lucy x

Kirsten Alicia said...

This is gorgeous!

Mandy Makes and Mends said...

Love it Alison .....one of my favourite colours is the chipped sapphire ....love the image x

Jennie Atkinson said...

Stunning Alison I love the background - such a deep colour.