Autumnal Clock

Well another two weeks have flown by and it's time for another CRAFT-ROOM CHALLENGE. The challenge this time is Home Decor and it has been chosen by Maria. I freaked a bit at the thought of this challenge and then remembered that I'd bought a couple of clock blanks a long time ago and decided that it was time to use one of them. Why not visit the Craft-Room Challenge Blog to see the fabulous samples that the rest of the Design Team have made and don't forget to be eligible for the prize draw you need to display the Craft-Room logo in your sidebar with a link to the shop.

This is how my clock started life.

I sprayed some white card with Adirondack color wash, when it had dried I cut a circle to fit the clock face and punched a hole through the centre with a pencil and stamped the tree. I coloured the outer rim with Distress stain and stamped some branches on it then I embossed the edge with Cosmic Shimmer bright gold utee. I die cut the clock face with grungeboard using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations die, then I painted it black. The next thing I did was to stick all the pieces together and attach the workings and the clock hand.
For the leaves I stuck some sticky backed aluminium to some black card and coloured it with Stazon, then I cut the leaves out using Spellbinders assorted leaves dies. These dies also emboss at the same time.
The flowers are cut out of some card that I'd coloured with Distress stains, I used the Tim Holtz, Sizzix Alterations tattered florals die. I attached the leaves and flowers to the clock and added some gems to the middle of the flowers. I was pleasantly surprised that the clock worked after I put the battery in and is still going strong.

I'm going to enter my clock in the ALTER IT MONTHLY Tree, Leaf, Branch, Twig challenge.

Ingredients.
Adirondack color wash, butterscotch, lettuce and terra cotta.
Stazon, pumpkin, cactus green and olive green.
Distress stain, rusty hinge.
Adirondack paint dabber, pitch black.
Stamps Graphicus and Inkadinkado.

Moonlight Drive

Here is my latest CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS DT piece from the Wrinkles Don't Hurt stamp sheet. Murray is taking Ethel out for a romantic drive in the moonlight.
I started of by cutting a heart shape out of some paper and placed it onto the card before inking the background, then I removed the heart and placed the the paper with the heart shaped hole over the background and coloured the heart. I then stamped the branches. The main image was stamped onto card and coloured with Promarkers, then cut out and attached to the card with foam pads. I then decided that it needed an owl and found one that I thought fitted the bill perfectly. I stamped him over the moon and coloured him with Promarkers. The decorated card was then attached to a white card blank that I'd edged with dusty concord Distress ink.

Ingredients.
Stormy sky, faded jeans and dusty concord Distress ink for the background.
Silver Adirondack acrylic paint dabber for the moon.
Creative Expressions Wrinkles Don't Hurt stamps for the main image.
Woodware stamp for the owl.
A mixture of Elusive Images and Inkadinkado stamps for the branches.