CC2C Week 9 - Fob Watch

Good Evening Peeps

Not sure about you, but we are having an absolutely awful shower of rain tonight.  As I sit here I can hear the rain coming down outside and it sounds like a monsoon!  So much for "flaming June" ey!

I am a little late in posting my CC2C post tonight, on account of my hairdresser has been up and took longer than either her or I anticipated.  Never mind - I am still in time.

This week the Lovely Linda has asked us to decorate a  Fob Watch.   And this week the lovely guys of Simon Says Stamp are sponsoring the Challenge.

I actually have a couple of original fob watches which I have been holding on to for a long time in order to decorate so it was time to get them out of the box where they have been unloved for many years and get decorating.  First job though was to take out the original watch workings.  Thanks Hubby!  

If you have the latest Compendium of Curiosities book by Tim Holtz you will know that he shows us ideas of how to decorate one on page 35.  

Then choose a theme.  Easy.  Christmas!  Set to work........

The piece is actually silver and some of the hallmarks are inside the covers so I used my ATG to adhere the insides so that if I ever want to change the decoration I should be able to pull it out with a little effort.  The Holly is cut from the TH Lamppost die using shrink plastic, coloured with alcohol inks and shrunk.  The snowman is a stamp, coloured with Copics and adhered to a rusty heart and then add glossy accents.  

I wanted to keep the original face in the watch so I altered with a mix of Juniper and Red Pepper alcohol inks with gold and a little wheel out of the original watch.  Stamped with Crafty Individuals stamp and Ranger Archival ink, I cut out the word and covered with glossy accents with some gold micro beads added in.

Lift the clip and there we have another little cubby hole to decorate.  

A plain back with a simple word.  

Lastly the cubby hole at the back of the watch.  Santa was originally silver which I didn't like so I just topped up the alcohol inks used earlier and set to ink it.  A little brad to join the snowflake and Santa and popped in.  The same Crafty Individual stamp used earlier but different word.

The glitter paper is Snippets of K&Co papers which I had used in my Christmas album and cut out with my Nestie dies (I cannot cut a circle to save my life!).  And hey presto my fob watch has gone from unloved in a box to well loved and come the season, will be worn on a long silver watch chain (it needs cleaning from years of non-love).  If I decide not to wear it, I will put it on the Christmas tree instead!

Thanks Linda.  Love this Challenge.  I am also going to enter it into Simon Says Stamp Challenge of Anything Goes and the Snippets Challenge!

Don't forget to leave me a comment so I know you have been.

Hettie.

Tim's Tags - Day 11 - Grungy Monday

Good Evening Peeps

I hope you have had or are having a great weekend.  Today has found me in my Crafting Room making Christmas cards, the majority of which I have made using Tim Holtz's stamping technique from Tag 3.

Have you been following any of Tim's Tags?  If not, then why not go over to his blog HERE and take a look at  all the tags he has made.  They are truly awesome.  It is such a shame that tomorrow is his last one for 2011.

Before I go on, "Hello" to Lou and thanks for following me and also "Hello" to my other followers too!

The Lovely Linda of Grungy Monday fame gave us two weeks in order to complete the current challenge in order that we could incorporate one or more of Tim's Tags as our challenge.  I have decided to use this one...........Tag 11

As you can see it is not a Christmassey tag, but I could not resist using shrink plastic and alcohol inks with one of my favourite dies and stamp sets, and also the other passion in my life - sewing.   I have made the tag and rosettes using one of my favourite cardstocks by MME.  I bought absolutely loads of sheets of this particular design as I love it sooooo much.  I have also used shrinkplastic, wild plum and espresso alcohol inks, acrylic dabber, walnut stain DI and embossing powder, peeled paint distress stain on the lace and brown bazzill.

I love how this rosette has a beautiful glittered swirl in it.  I know for a fact that I could not get this to happen again!!

Hope you like it and please do not forget to leave me a comment.  Please do not say that the cotton reel looks like a doggy bone - Hubby has already said that!!!  He is DEFINATELY on the Naughty list!!!!!!

TTFN

Hettie

Grungy Monday - on a Sunday!

Hello there Fellow Crafters!

First of all may I say "Happy Mother's Day" to all you wonderful Mums out there!  Hope you are having a lovely day and have been utterly spoilt rotten by your loved ones.  I am not a "mother" to any small humans as were not blessed with any, but I have been "Mum" to three wonderful dogs and a few rabbits since I married my DH all those years ago.  I have also been "Aunty" to lots of my friends' children too.  This morning, my little Dobby "presented" me with a Boofle card, coaster and note book and my DH presented me with a bottle of Iron Brew Vodka (purely medicinal of course!)!  Dobby cannot buy it as he is not over 18! LOL!!!  Tea in bed and a bacon buttie - Perfick!!

(Awwwww!)

Next I must say "Hurrah Hurrah" to the Very Nice Man from BT and my Darling Hubby for getting me back on line again after 10 days of intermittent internet!!!  BT for getting the line to our home working and to Hubby for getting it the internet upstairs to my Craft Room!! 

Reacquaintance to the blogging world could not have come at a better time for me.  I unfortunately missed the deadline for Hels' Sunday Stampers but I am still in time (I hope!) for deadline of the Grungy Monday on Linda Ledbetter's Blog.  If you click HERE you will be whisked over to her blog by magic carpet!  I always wanted to join in Linda's previous Tim Holtz Challenge but as it was soooo late in the day when I joined the Blogging World I always felt it was too late to join in .  Now I am in on Number One of the new challenge and I aim to join in every week and hopefully learn more skills in the process!

Here is my little piece based upon Mr Tim Holtz's Tag 10 of 2010.  

I am totally in love with the new Sewing die and stamps which he has recently brought out, as you may gather from my latest pieces which I have made.  I am sure there will be some more projects appearing on my blog in the near future!!  Hope you like them too! 

Thanks for looking and please do leave me a comment so that I know that you have been here!

Internet willing I will speak to you very soon!

Ingredients:-

TH - Dies Tag, Sewing; DI - Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany, Wild Honey, Flourish Mask, Reinker -  Black Soot; Perfect pearls -Pearl, Copper; Stamps, Sewing; Tape; Shrink plastic; Ikea - Paper String; Ribbon, Fibers, Staples, Pearl.

TTFN

Hettie