On the Wings of Time....

Recently I bought a round, black plastic clock from the Euro Shop in Lintorf. There was even a battery with it! As it costs more to buy a DIY clock, this was a bargain.
Yesterday I altered it with structure pastes in gold satin and pearl white, roughing it up with a spatula and a sponge, and then heat dried it to make it *boil and bubble*. When it was completely dry, I rubbed some *Stazon* timber brown over it, before adding *Time*, placing the letters on the four strategic points. I then added some wings (Melissa Francis) which I rubbed with Inca Gold and timber brown *Stazon* again. The little circlet of flowers in the middle has been cut and embossed with a Cuttlebug die, adorned with four small, red gemstones, to match the second hand.
That was it. It was very difficult to take a picture, as the light is not ideal this morning, so I will try to get a better pic later on.

I am entering this into 2 challenges:
Alter it Monthly - theme *Time*

And
Daring Cardmakers - Pound shop pretties
although I know it is not a card!

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

P.S. The clock even works, and is ticking merrily away on my living room wall!

A Calendar Page

I gave a friend of mine a calendar at the end of last year. I made the title page and January, and promised one page a month. For February, I made a page about friendship, which I forgot to post as I was in a hurry!
For March I have made a page with shades of pink and flowers, and hope that it will invoke a bit of spring feeling, although there is still no sign of it here.
The saying means *Give every day the possibility to become the best one of your life*. I overlaid the top right hand corner with printed acetate, which has been sugared, as have the leaves and birds.
Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

A Door prize from the OWOH Blog Event

I had a wonderful surprise when the postie came on Saturday. He brought me a beautiful envelope, which had flown to me all the way from Canada, from Yvonne of ARTic Blonde Creations.

Inside I found 2 beautiful ATCs from Yvonne....

AND a little card and some things to play with....

I have admired the beautiful creations of Yvonne since I first saw them, and I am now very happy to have 2 of her lovely pieces for my collection.
Thanks a lot, Yvonne. I will also have fun with my *playthings*, as soon as I saw those packets of file tabs I could feel a mini-book coming on - watch this space! And even our postie commented on the beautiful envelope. I often give him the stamps, as he collects them, but this time I want to keep the beautully decorated envelope as it is, so he had to leave empty handed. But I did make hime a coffee-to-go, so he was happy about that!

Jewel colours and gold - GC92

What a lovely theme - jewel colours and gold. Over on Gingersnaps this challenge is running till March 20th.
For my first take on it, I decided to take the theme literally. I started off with a little round tin which once held throat lozenges.

I worked on the lid and sides with structure paste in pearl white, gold satin, and antique gold, sprinkling on some gold glass glitter (Viva Color) before it was dry.
The rim of the tin has been polished with inka gold to change the colour without making it difficult to put the lid back on. Then I decorated it with some gem stones in regal colours, and added the top of an old perfume bottle - which has long disappeared! -to the middle, to make the lid look like a crown.

I stuck some gold net from an old evening stole inside the box, to make a sort of nest, and filled it with some old costume jewelry from my Mother.
It was, as always, great fun to make, and will make another nice memory box for those little keepsakes, instead of having them in a dark drawer somewhere.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Some Saturday Freebies

Here are some more images which you can download and use as backgrounds for collage work etc. The first one is an indenture for a house in Croydon from 1920.

The newest ladies underwear from 1899!

A German legal document from 1812.

To download, please click on the picture. This will take you to the larger, downloadable image!
Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

Striped Easel card

This card has been made for the *Simon Says stamp and show some stripes* Challenge.

This week I have been busy with lots of messy things, which I hugely enjoyed, BUT……wait for it………… - when I came home yesterday I needed to clear up a bit because my neighbour was coming here for a drink and a chat yesterday evening. This meant using my precious time putting things away, scraping blobs of paint off the kitchen, unsticking foam pads from the floor boards etc. Can anyone tell me why those little foam pads, which refuse to stick to paper or tin, decide to stick for all eternity once they touch my nice, shiny wooden floor? Or why does a brad or eyelet that has fallen down, hide itself till you walk across the room bare foot in the middle of the night?
Ooops, that was another digression. OK, did some dreaded H*******k for half an hour, and decided to make a card and not too much mess.
First problem – stripes! I don’t really like stripes, so had to hunt for the few striped papers I knew I had hidden somewhere. Much to my surprise, I discovered them in the bottomless pit – the hall closet – in the paper rack. Just where they should have been. I made an easel card again, using some hand made papers in lilac and purple, which I stamped and distressed and folded to look like an old letter and envelope. The little piece of coloured paper in between is part of some background paper I created recently using inks, salt, sprays and perfect pearls. Great fun and sooooo nice and messy! Added a few embellies and some paper lace, and it was finished. I think it hasn’t turned out too badly.

Thanks for looking, and have a great weekend, I’ll be back tomorrow with some more Saturday freebies.

Memory Shrine - Altered Tin Box

I am entering this little box into the *Alter it Monthly* Challenge
The theme is to make a niche, altar, dream box or shrine. I have altered a tin box and made it into a little Memory Shrine, with pictures and artefacts pertaining to different generations of my family. The pictures of my great Aunt, my Mum with my older brothers and sisters long before I was ever thought of, and my husband as a small boy with his Grandmother have been mounted into TH fragments. I have added some pieces of old jewelry - a locket which belonged to my grandmother, a piece of a necklace from my Mum, and a brooch from my father's family, showing his grandfather on his wedding day. They are all just fragments which fit together into this little memory box.

The box started off life as a small tin box that I got filled with little goodies as a blog candy sometime back.

I have coated the outside with structure pastes in gold and pearl white, and sprinkled some gold glass glitter into it before it dried. The edges and raised parts have been inked with Archival crimson to give it more depth, before adding some random red gem stones to the lid. The inside has been lined with hand crafted red paper from India.

It was great fun to make, and to watch it developing. Thanks for looking and have a great day!