Tim's inspired Pocket Watch

Dear scrappers,

I just discovered a few new (for me) challenge pages.
Amazingly I have subscribed to the Simon Says Stamp Blog for a while, but just now I decided to use one of their Monday challenges as inspiration for a gift for my son:

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=1709

This week challenge is to use faces as inspiration... I used a clock face and my sons exited face with his big with excitement open eyes when he gets something long wished for. I started working on this challenge the same Monday it came out...

I bought this Tim Holtz Idea-ology pocket watch and wanted to a pretend almost real one for my son, who kept playing pretending with my origami owl lockets...



I used some game spinners, some gears, and 2 swivel (TH Idea-ology), a cutout of a 8x8 TH paper pack, and a Steampunk airplane charm. I added the gears using the bards included with the game spinner and added 2 more to create a Pate Philip (? I think is written like that) look. I added liquid glass to the back of the clock cutout to stabilized the gears and an extra thick layer to the front to imitate the look of enamel or stone... I finished the look by stamping using the lost and found acrylic stamps on the face of the watch with a Surfacez (green, Color Book) to further imitate the real look of extra fancy gears and added flair. The liquid glass took almost 24 h to dy out completely...

I attached the clock to 2 swivel chains and added the charm.









This was my son's expression when he received the watch... Priceless



I hope you enjoyed my take to this challenge and hope to participate as often as I can ;-)
Thanks for looking into my blog,

Vicky



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Vicky Tovar

Location:Bighorn Cyn,San Antonio,United States

Patriotic Canvas and some Challenges

Compendium of Curiosities 3 (Tim Holtz) Challenge 5:

Dear scrappers,

This I will enter my latest class project in two challenges, which I used as inspiration:

Heart2Heart Challenge: July Scrapbook Challenge Red & White daisy:


http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/2014/07/july-scrapbook-challenge-red-white-daisy.html

And mostly the
The CC3 challenge 5:

http://lindaledbetter.com/2014/06/compendium-of-curiosities-3-challenge-5.html

My final project without pictures:



My original idea for the class was to use a pre-painted Michaels canvas and do a patriotic theme. Then, I saw those challenges and ideas began to form. For the color scheme, I used the H2H challenge and for the techniques, Tim Holtz' CC3...

The technique:
Distress Watercolering part 1

I used some TC modeling paste and her stripes stencil to give the background of the canvas some dimension and water-colored using TH technique with fire brick distressing ink from Ranger.

I stamped some fireworks and the sentiment (both from the July 2014 SOTM CTMH) using CTMH archival inks and watercolor papers. I used the watercoloring technique with blue distress marker (Ranger), wink of Stella ink, fire brick and mustard seeds distressing inks (Ranger). I love how the wink of Stella gives some shimmering effect to the fireworks and the sentiment:






I stamped some pinwheels using the pinwheels SOTM 2013 from CTMH in precut Cricut shapes out of white daisy (CTMH) card stock with the Artise cartridge and paired them with the shapes cut out of the Superhero paper (CTMH). I attached a magnet using rhinestones brads (Recollections) and liquid glass:


I used a very beautiful BoBunny patriotic paper, I bought a while ago in a local scrapbooking store, to frame all the elements and added some magnets to the back of the canvas using liquid glass:



To finish the look, I used some star rhinestones and sequins from Recollections and some cricut cut stars out of the Superhero paper.
Some material:



My students were so glad with TH techniques and supported my entry to this challenge:



I gave them Cart Blanche to add more elements and this is one of their takes:



I used the pinwheels/ fireworks magnets to attach my pictures from 4th of July 2001, omg what a change, 20-40 pounds less each of us ;-)



I hope you enjoy my take to these fun challenges and give me some critiques...

Have a fun and blessed 4th of July!!!!

Vicky



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Vicky Tovar

Glasses/key Holder for Father's Day

Compendium of Curiosities 3 (Tim Holtz) Challenge 4:

Dear scrappers,

I got a perfume kit in this great and realized it was the perfect size and shape to create a glasses/key holder for my husband for Father's Day. I got many Tim Holtz products to cover this box and make it an upcycling project :-)
I got inspired my the great Tim and his Compendium of Curiosities 4. Thus, I decided to use the texturing paste and my new stencils for this challenge at Linda Ledbetter's blog:

The CC3 challenge 4

http://lindaledbetter.com/2014/06/compendium-of-curiosities-3-challenge-4.html


Here is the final product and how is hanging at our hall/ home organization area...












I used the acrylic plastic from the packaging to make the inserts/dividers and covered them using more of the original package. I loved the finish of thus glossy card stock and wanted to incorporate it as it was in the final box. However, I can image some sponging with alcohol inks would be great too...






I used some chocolate card stock (CTMH) for covering the back too.



I used the texturing paste and stencils to embellish the wood letters and the main backdrop for hanging the keys. I stained the letters with walnut stain (Ranger) before applying the texturing paste. Then, I used metallic rubs for giving the paste some extra interest...



For the background I used this interesting craft paper pre-embossed and used many distressing inks to highlight the oceans and continents... Then, I applied the paste with the stencils and distressed them with more metallic rubs (I had those since ~10+ years)...



I added some brads in form of safety pins to attach the box to the wall and used Tim's door knob for holding the keys and two small hooks I found at a local store. I stained the brads (originally purple) and the metallic hooks using the distressing stain in tarnished brass.



I covered the rest of the box and added some distressing stain to the box edges and papers as well as the spines of the dividers to make them blend better with the background.



Here more details and pictures:















This was a great challenge and techniques...
Vicky

Supplies:
CTMH Chocolate card stock
Assorted brads
Door knob (TH)
Embossed craft paper (TH)
Liquid Glass (CTMH)
Glossy Accents (Ranger)
Distress Inks (Ranger)
Veneer wood letters and Glasses
Metallic rub
Old perfume gift set packaging...


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Vicky Tovar

Bye the Sea altered Book, part 2

Dear scrappers,

I saw this challenge:

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge 9: Fold it

http://gloriadesignschallenge.blogspot.com/2014/06/challenge-9-fold-it.html

And decided I have the perfect project for it, my ongoing altered book project with friend, Ann, By the Sea:
http://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com/2014/04/by-sea-altered-book.html



I used many folding techniques for making the pocket pages/ dividers and even though Ann bought new papers for this altered book project, the distress inks, paints, etc are from my stash...



Preparing the first pocket:





Details of inside cover:














The pocket finally made:






We used the Graphic 45 number stickers for the pocket pages:



Filler pages. Day 1 before altering:


We decided to keep most of the beautiful graphics in this page and include one of the large photos across both pages









We decided to skip some pages I between and attached them together...













Second pocket:










We weren't in love with the diver, thus we covered it and used a burlap mat for the main picture.



We have enjoy every slow (mostly because of our cramped schedules) step of this ongoing project and plan to incorporate more fun techniques for the remaining pages... To follow in further posts ;-)

I hope you enjoy it,

Vicky

Supplies:

Some of my hoarding:


By the Sea papers, stickers, number stickers, and chipboard elements (Graphic 45)
Liquid Glass (CTMH)
Glossy Accents (Ranger)
Distress Inks (Ranger)
Baker twines (My Mind Eye, Recollections)
Ink pads (CTMH)
Journaling spots (Graphic 45)




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Vicky Tovar