Bad Timing...

It's time for a new challenge over at Craft-Room and the lovely Suzanne has chosen the theme of 'Time'. Suzanne says Time is something she never has enough of and I can definitely relate to that ! We would love to see projects inspired by 'time' with a 'timepiece' on them.   Our sponsor this week is the wonderful Crafty Individuals

I have had a bit of a technical hitch this week and when trying to take photos of my inspiration piece my camera died - talk about bad timing! So,  I know that we don't allow back linked entries but for the purposes of inspiration only I have fallen back on an old project I made earlier this year.

The main panel is distress inks on a chipboard square, covered with several layers of UTEE, into which I've sprinkled Egyptian gold embossing powder and  watch parts. I also stamped into the layers while still hot and fluid. 

The bottle and wings are shrink plastic (stamps from The Artistic Stamper). 

This distinguished gentlemen is a stamp from indigo Blu. I don't have many shop bought embellishments so made my own 'watch fob' with a type charm, clock face cut from some Tim Holtz paper and a piece of chain from an old key ring. 

Apologies for sharing an old project, but I thought it was better than not sharing anything at all !! I really hope you join us and look forward to seeing your Time pieces...Esther xx

MOJO returns !!

Hurrah - I have my crafting mojo back! After a fair few weeks of struggling to have any ideas or motivation, other than my DT piece last weekend I haven't made anything for absolutely ages  - but today I have spent a lovely afternoon at my desk getting inky and messy...and what's more I tried something completely out of my comfort zone and made a male themed tag !

Now I have only dipped my toe into the realm of Steampunk once but I was inspired to try this as I recently acquired some new stamps by Andy Skinner and Indigo Blu.

I started with a Tim H tag, and used ‘wrinkle free distress’ technique to add several colours over which I added piece of notebook paper stamped and coloured with aged mahogany DI.   The dashing gentleman is then stamped and embossed over the top.

I don’t have lots of shop bought embellishments and trinkets, so used a gear stamp from The Artistic Stamper on acetate and embossed with copper kettle and again in opaque pewter EP. I  left the copper as a larger piece, cutting round the edges and sticking in the corner, then cut some individual gears and added them on top. I had  few bits from an old watch and added these and some eyelets and brads in various metal finishes. A few patches of opaque pewter EP on the tag edges was the finishing touch.

I’m sharing this over at the following challenges -

Joanna Sheen – It’s a Man’s world

Make My Monday – For a man/Vintage

Artful Times – Tags

Simon Says Stamp and Show – Tim Technique

Gingersnaps Creations – Random Redhead – Last Century

Lets ink it up – distressing

I’m so pleased to be back in my crafty zone – shame I’ve got it just as I have to go back to work tomorrow !! Thanks for stopping by…Esther xx