1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Stamps & An Assemblage Clock!

It's no tiny thing, it's Monday! That means it's time for another challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show. This week we challenge you to use "A Small Stamp", or use a stamp in some small way on your project. You could finish a project with a bit of stamping on an edge, use a tiny heart stamp, or perhaps you’ve got some small stamp on a set that you’ve yet to use. Now would be the time! 

This challenge was a little hard for me as I don't go for mini stamps much, so Tim's new Tiny Things Stamp Set was a perfect choice for me as I loved all the vintage images on it. I thought they would look great in this vintagey real working clock.

After disassembling the clock, I coated all the pieces with Ranger's Inkssentials Glue N Seal Matte to give it some tooth and grip for all the coloration I was about to do to it. 

I painted the main part with Red Brick Distress Paint, and added Antiqued Bronze Distress Paint throughout all the parts to start a vintage look.

I wanted some sheen and more rust, so I got some help with Alcohol Ink. I followed this up with Rock Candy Distress Crackle.

I added Barn Red Distress Stain to all the cracks from the Crackle to really highlight them and show of some more red.

Pitch Black Paint Dabber was added to all the pieces to grunge everything up.

I took a pair of metal wings from my stash and gave them a coat of Snow Cap Paint Dabber, some Walnut Stain Distress Ink, and used the same Alcohol Inks to distress the Idea-ology Hinges that attached them to the clock.

I die cut the clock face and adhered it some of Tim's paper from the 8x8 stash book. I cut a hole in the middle of it for the real working clock motor to go through. I purchased the clock motor at a local craft store.The tiny images were stamped on Specialty Stamping Paper in Jet Black Archival. I stamped several that I will use later., and gave all a good drying with the heat tool.

I colored the images with Distress Markers, dried them, cut them out, and used Glossy Accents to highlight a few parts as well as attach them. Jump rings were added so the flying time could be hung inside the clock.

I stamped the sentiment directly onto the glass using Jet Black and gave this a little heat to dry it.

I needed a way to hang the flying time, so I used an Idea-ology Memo Pin, and bent it around one of the braces that held in the glass in the clock. It worked perfectly.

 

Do you have tiny stamps in your stash? I am sure you do. Why not use one on a project this week, and then enter it into our challenge. You just might be the lucky winner of a $50 voucher to Simon Says Stamp. You can also be named as one of the many "Spotlight Artists" for this challenge. Good luck, and don't forget to check out the other Design Team member's blogs to see how tiny stamps have invaded, I mean enhanced their projects this week!

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Anything Goes...Even Flying Numbers!!!

Here is to Monday!...and a new challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show!  It's super easy this week, with an "Anything Goes" theme, so now is the time to just create and not think about a thing. Let your creativity take you anywhere you want! 

 

I am currently teaching these two 9x11 inch wood panel canvases, because all the comments and emails about the Numbered Peacock were so overwhelmingly wonderful, so I thought why not make another animal and this time teach it. I just love making animals with these large numbers from Tim's Numeric Stamp Set from Stamper's Anonymous. I also used his Worn Text Set, as well as Paper Artsy's Mini Numbers 22, and there are lots and lots of Wendy stamps going on here as well. And, of course seeing the wood grain makes me happy X2!!! I had to do a metallic one and a bright colored one to give people different options. 

Anything goes this week, so let your mind go and create away, then enter it into our challenge. You just might be the lucky winner of a $50 voucher to Simon Says Stamp. You can also be named as one of the many  "Spotlight Artists" for this challenge. Good luck, and don't forget to check out the other Design Team member's blogs to see how their creativity went berserk this week...amazing work abounds!

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I hope your hands get creatively inky soon!