Hello Stampers! I'm back with my final piece for August. I had a lot of fun with this card, I can tell you! It has a bit of a manly theme going on, so it fits nicely with the August Challenge of Macho Men. There's still a few more days to join in! I also used Core'dinations paper, which is on special offer this month HERE.
Here's how I made my card...
Using a deckle-edged metal ruler, I tore a 5.5 inch square of peeled painted Distress Core'dinations paper. Next, I thinned down some Claudine Helmuth traditional tan Studio paint with a spritz of water, & applied a wash across my paper. I sanded over the edges with a sanding grip to give a distressed look.
I used vintage photo distress ink to stamp the Winged Wheel over my background. I stamped Phineas Pinchbeck on the left, using archival black ink, then, using the same ink, carefully stamped the empty Inspiration Jar over the top of Phineas. I coloured this in, using peeled paint & vintage photo distress inks, dried it with my heat tool, then covered the jar with a layer of glossy accents.
Whilst the glossy accents was drying, I stamped some pocket watches from the Time & Keys plate onto the clear side of some frosted shrink plastic, cut them out, then shrank them with my heat tool. Next I stamped the words Tick Tock onto white card, using the large & small scrabble tiles from the Scrabble & Tags plate. I cut out the words, then inked them with vintage photo distress ink.
Going back to my now dry background, I smeared bead gel around the edges, using my fingers. You can use a palette knife if you wish! Once this had dried, I applied lava green Inka Gold to highlight the little beads. Told you I had fun!
Finally, I glued the words & watches to my background, attached it to a square card blank, then inked the edges of the card with more vintage photo distress ink.
Thanks for looking!
Alison xx
Love this, Alison! May have to get some of the paper...!
ReplyDeleteFabulous work Alison!
ReplyDeleteLove the tick tock clocks :)
Fabulous piece Alison.
ReplyDeletexxx Hazel.
Love the tick tocks and your bottled man! LOL
ReplyDeleteGreat card
xoxo Sioux
Alison, this is fabulous...
ReplyDeletelove the clocks and that bottled up man...LOL
This is just fantastic! I love it!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Love it!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea and fabulous piece.
ReplyDeleteAwesome card Alison..Donna
ReplyDeleteLove this one... fab stamp in the bottle!!!
ReplyDeleteFrankie
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Alison, your card is darling! I love all the details. The man in the bottle is really cool...lots of character! It's all just fabulous! <3 Candy
ReplyDeletesuper card sweetie, loving the bead gel edges
ReplyDeleteoooh, this is such a cool card,
ReplyDeletelove the colours,the beads, the stamps you used, oh do you know what I love every thing about it!
well done on this one Alison,
Kat.