Cogs & Keys

Morning my crafting friends, hope this finds you all safe and well? I really appreciate you coming to visit me and I do hope you like my creations enough to come back and visit again.

Now todays creation was a card I made by experimenting with different things, my inspiration for this one was from Pamellia of http://mylittlecraftthings.blogspot.co.uk/ Pamellia always manages to make her creations look amazing, what do I mean 'look' lol! THEY ARE AMAZING!!! Please do go over to her blog and take a look. Anyway, my Son loved it so much he took it as his card for his Step-Fathers' 50th Birthday!

I started with some Kraft card, I placed my Diamond stencil over it and spread some modelling paste over it, I left this to dry overnight. Using a stamp of a clock face from Time Flies I covered it with some of the modelling paste quite thickly and also left that to dry overnight.

With more Kraft card I embossed just the front with 'Stitch in Time' embossing folder then inked this up with Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo followed by Archival Black.

With the Kraft card that I had spread the modelling paste through the stencil I inked all over with Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo then patted over the top randomly with my Versamark Glue pad, on this I sprinkled two embossing enamels, Shabby Green & Aged Aqua and heat embossed from underneath.

On top of the embossed enamel I stamped some cogs using Black Archival ink. I added a strip of Film Strip Ribbon on the bottom twisting it over slightly, I adhered this to the card with tiny bits of foam pads at either end.

Onto some White card I stamped the man with the umbrella from Vintage Photography stamps using Vintage Photo and fussy cut him out. I placed him over one end of the film ribbon to hide the foam pad. Over the other end of the film ribbon I added a large key and added a smaller key towards the top.

Once the pasted clock stamp had dried I carefully peeled it back off the stamp and trimmed the rough edge away, the stamp was fine and no residue was left behind I am glad to say! I inked over the clock with Pumice Stone, Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo, inked it with my Versamark Pad and heat embossed with Clear embossing powder. I then attached this to the card over the cogs with gel glue. I was quite pleased with how the clock face had turned out and although I did put the paste on a bit thick the finished product is very thin but with all the detail intact.

In my stash I found this small piece of Blue textured paper so I attached my topper on using Chronology Brads in each corner. I then matted this onto my embossed base card and there you have the finished card. This does take a couple of days to make but only because of waiting for items to dry.

Items Used:

Create & Craft Kraft Card

Dreamweaver Stencil Diamond & Cogs

Maimen Acrylico Modelling paste

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo, Pumice Stone

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Film Strip Ribbon

Tim Holtz Chronology Brads

Ranger Archival Ink Black

Stampendous Frantage Embossing Enamels Shabby Green & Aged Aqua

Sam Poole Stamps Time Flies

Creative Expressions Assorted Key Charms

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Vintage Photography

Embossilicious Desire Embossing Folder Stitch in Time

Versamark Glue pad

Pinflare Gel Glue

Papermania Embossing Powder Clear
Paper Blue Textured Own Stash 

I would like to enter this card in the challenges: http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/17-march-challenge-77-anything-goes.html
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.ca/ 
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/ttcrd-challenge-march-17-march-23.html 
http://www.aurorawingschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/challenge-13-anything-goes.html 

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx