Time Flies

The fabulous (and very kind) Chris has chosen the latest challenge at A Vintage Journey - Time Flies. I may have gone a little left field with this one!

I have an interest in all things cosmological and could not get an image out of my head of the universe and what we see is the passage of time as we look out to space. However I struggled to convey this as well as I hoped and the final result is, well, half there. One day I might come back to it - so although a little disappointed with this I had done so many versions I decided it was time to leave it be.

My background is the reverse of one of Tim's papers with some clocks stamped and some added inking for depth. I then stencilled through a TCW stencil and extended the lines with a black and white pen. To add the duality of the present moment I stamped my Clarity 'today' words onto some more Tim paper and stuck it to chipboard. Once dry I sanded and inked the edges and added glossy accents.

My wings are a Tim die and the clocks from Heartfelt creations. I embossed the background card with Tim's texture fade.

Do hop over to see what the rest of the Design team have come up with this time.

Thanks, as always, for looking.

Nikki

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A little bit grungy

Some tags today for Craft Hoarders latest challenge - Who's the Boss. Another project I started a while ago and have just finished! I used Tim Holtz texture fades to emboss some card and then painted with various colours including crackle paint before adding Deco art antiquing cream to finish - I love this grungy effect!

I laid them on some tags I also did a while ago while playing with distress stains.

Thanks for looking

Nikki

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Time to Stain It

It is time for a new challenge at A Vintage Journey and the theme this time is chosen by the wonderful Jenny who has selected 'Just Stain It'. I have created this montage of photos to go through my process.

1. I started by adding distress stains to my craft sheet - gathered twigs, black soot and picket fence. I swooshed my tags through it until I was happy and then let it dry. Once dry I added some distress inks too - black soot, vintage photo and pumice stone.
2. I added some remnant rubs and tissue tape.
3/4. Next I embossed the tag with the clocks texture fade and highlighted areas with the same DP's as above.
5. Happy with my tags I started work on my die cuts.
6. As step 1 above I added some distress stains to my craft sheet and spritzed with water.
7. I lightly dipped my clocks (Heartfelt creations stamps and die) into the stain - trying to only partially pick up colour. I wanted them stained and aged - not completely coloured.
8. For the grungeboard arrows and chipboard text I used the stain directly from the pot.

That is just about it - of course there was a bit of inking edges etc and I also took my water brush and some stain to highlight the clock cut from Tim's paper.

Here are a few close ups:

Do hop over to A Vintage Journey to see what the rest of the Design Team have stained for this challenge!

Thanks for looking

Nikki

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