Pocket Watch

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 38
Historic

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, if you use an IKEsART image you will be entered twice into the draw.  Why not pop on over to the store too :), Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

I fancy doing something a bit different using the Pocket Watch image.  I had planned on a totally different image for this challenge but my creativity was stumped with it hahahaha and Pocket Watch just jumped out and said 'Use Me'.

Recently I have been playing around with mixed media which is so much fun and I wanted to go one step further and try embossing metal sheet (my stash has a roll of a soft copper sheet which I thought would be so much fun to try the embossing with it).

Firstly I printed the image in reverse to used as my tracing template then set to work with my embossing tool.

 Not bad but not what I wanted.  I had left the chain off on purpose as that was a bit hard to do and also ended up with a couple of holes in the copper sheet grrrrrr

 A quick chat with our lovely Ike to ask permission to change the image into a line drawing and try the embossing on my Black Cat.  What a star Ike is in saying yes as this really is out of bounds regarding TOU - thank you hunny for letting me do this :).  Here you can see my Black Cat doing the embossing for me :) :) :) Not done this before so really pleased :)

 The finished embossing complete with chain - this is in reverse as it is de-bossing at this stage, when I turn it over I will have the embossed image correctly showing.

 I cut a mount for my card and attached the whole copper sheet to it - not worth trying to cut the image out as I learnt from my hand done one that it does not work well. This seemed the most sensible way around the problem.

 Next I die cut lots of cog and some clock hands, two of each of these will be stuck together to make them much thicker.

 Onto my tag which I embossed on the Black Cat again and cut with a X-Cut die.  A card cut was also made and I will attache the two together for added strength.

Time to lay all the components onto the card to see how they will look.  For the text I used mini pasta alphabet shapes :)

 Some gause and silver chain were also added and then I painted over the top with white acrylic paint.

 Air-brushing time, a base coat of Vanilla

Then several other shades of the brown family were added.

I highlighted the text with a Walnut Promarker

 A couple of copper brads were used on the tag and the was then attached to the card with foam tape.

 I distressed some of the areas of the background trying to get a really aged look and finished off with some copper bronzing powder.  All done and having had so much fun I needed a cup of tea to celebrate :)

Ingredients:-

• Image - Pocket Watch by IKEsART
• Colouring Medium - Promarkers
• Dies - X-Cut Lables, other dies by me
• From my stash - copper sheet, brads, netting, chain, acrylic paint and copper bronzing powder

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Crafting from the Heart - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
• Lacy Sunshine - 2W, 3E, SIO, digi available -  #58 Monochrome (W2 of 2)
• Pile It On - W #69 Not Cute
• We Love 2 Create  - 2W, E1, SIO - #10 - Anything Creative / Mixed Media Goes (W2 of 2)
• Artbymiran Challenge - 2W , SIO, 3E, no digital projects - No.32 - (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Graph'It Colour Challenge - W (any medium)- No.20 - Anything Square
• Left of Center Creative Challenges - W - No.78 - Distress It
• That's Crafty! Challenge Blog - 2W, E3, Must be a UK resident - (W2 of 2) Steampunk Surprise
• The Stamping Boutique - 2W, (2nd & 4th Friday) SIO - No.58 -  (W2 of 2) - Die Cut or Punch
• Wags 'n Whiskers - 2W, 2E, SIO - No. 154 - (W1 of 2) -  Lots of Layers
• C.R.A.F.T. - W, 5E -#311 Birthday + Blog Hop
• DoubleClick Skittles - 2W, E1, F -  #22 Happy Birthday (Week 1 of 2)