2019 #4 Tick Tock: Here's a Clock with JOFY {by Helen Chilton}

2019 Topic 4: Tick Tock

Helen is back with a colourful clock perfectly showing off how much fun those  new JoFY stamps are to use! Helen always creates fun and abstract backgrounds with plentiful stamped layers  and colour, so enjoy and perhaps your weekend will get your muse ticking and tocking along with us too! ~ Leandra

Hi everyone, it's Helen with you today, and I'd like to share with you a clock that I've made using some of the new JOFY stamps..

You can make a clock out of almost anything as long as you are able to punch or drill a hole for the clock mechanism. These can be bought from craft shops or just buy a really cheap clock and take it from there. As it happened I had this MDF clock frame that I bought years ago stashed away in a drawer and thought it would fit the stencil really well.
These new JOFY stamps are lovely - I like the little bit of book text in the centre of the flower and the scribbly outline flower that stamps brilliantly with paint.

The products I used are the JOFY76 set and PS110 from Tracy Scott.

 

This is the clock blank that I had - the frame is separate from the base which makes it much easier to decorate.

The stencil just fitted where the clock face was. I picked out my paints but then swapped the pink for Cherry Red - I was inspired by the gorgeous colours used in some of the samples made for the latest Tracy Scott stamps.

   

 Just used two colours here.

I then decided to stamp the sketchy flower in yellow, I wanted to both get the colour down and keep the petal shapes. I found it easiest to spread the paint out on a mat and dip the stamp in.

Lots of stamping but you can still see the shapes.

It took me quite a while to work out what to do with the frame. I didn't want a solid colour and I wanted to keep some of the white, so I decided to do the same as on the base.

Love how the colour builds up.

I finished off with black for more definition. I liked this effect - like a massive scribbly doodle! You can see all the paint pads spread out to the left.

I then outlined the frame with a chisel tip pen; a really easy way of finishing off an edge as it always goes in a straight line, no wobbles!

I stamped the images in black paint as well as ink wasn't quite intense enough.

Add numbers and hands.

I had the blank already for this project but wasn't quite sure how it would turn out. However I like it. Stamping with paint gives it texture and lets you keep the colours true as you layer them up; i.e. no mud! It was pure luck that the stencil fitted so well although with the wide choice of designs from PaperArtsy you're bound to find something that works. 

As I said before what you use for your clock is up to you - a box canvas, a plate, mountboard, MDF shapes, clay  - you've just got to be able to make the hole for the mechanism. The clock works on the back usually have a little hook for hanging built in as unless it's recessed like a canvas, it won't lie flush to the wall.

Enjoy your clock experiments!

Helen

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2019 #4 Tick Tock: Wood Blocks with Ink & Dog Minis {by Lotte Kristensen}

2019 Topic 4: Tick Tock

There was a phase back in the day, where many stampers opted to remove their stamps from their wooden mounts. But I never heard of anyone keeping the wooden mounts!! Well, Lotte did and here's why! ~Leandra

Hey everyone, it's Lotte here, hope you're all well!  

I've been playing with some of the older Ink & The Dog stamp plates - I remember when these first came out, they were just so amazingly different from anything else on the market at the time, and they remain some of my most favourite stamps.  At that time, however, everything was very vintage (=brown) so I decided to brighten things up a bit for this project - I *do* like when things clash a bit, all in the best possible taste, of course!  (If you get this reference, I'll be delighted ;D)*

Once upon a time, rubber stamps came almost exclusively mounted onto wooden blocks.  Then somebody clever realised that you could store (hide) far more stamps if they were cling- and unmounted.  Result!  So, when I remounted some of my old stamps, I ended up with a lot of blocks which I kept, because you just never know when something might come in handy.  I've used them quite a lot by now, they make quite interesting little projects to do - I'm thinking these would be fun to have on your desk to fiddle about with, a sort of stamp-y executive stress reliever 😉

So, first I painted my blocks in PaperArtsy Fresco Finish London Bus, Slimed and Mermaid, having initially base coated with some white gesso (though this isn't actually necessary for the opaque colours).  The back of the red block got painted with Slimed, the green block with Mermaid, and the blue one with London Bus.

Next, with the Clocks 3 stamp set, I stamped the red block in Versafine Crimson Red - first the square collage stamp, then the watch on top. Next the green one with Clocks 5 stamp set in Versafine Spanish Moss - the ruler and then cogs, filling in with the gauge stamp. Finally, the blue one with the large watch stamp from Clocks 3 in Versafine Vintage Sepia, the swirl from Clocks 6 in Versafine Smokey Gray, as well as 'the time of my life' from Clocks 5 in Smokey Gray. 

  

Don't hesitate to stamp things on top of each other like this, we're after a textured background - the more layers, the better IMHO!

Turning over the blocks, stamp the green one with Versafine Spanish Moss, using the words stamps from Clocks 3 and 6, as well as the cogs from Clocks 5; on the blue block, stamp the collage squares from Clocks 3 in Versafine Deep Lagoon, and the Time & Tide in Smokey Grey; on the red block, stamp the cogs from Clocks 5, as well as the smaller watch from Clocks 6, in Versafine Crimson.

Now, stamp the Time & Tide from Clocks 3 and the watches from Clocks 6 on the green block, using Versafine Deep Lagoon; on the blue block, the word stamp from Clocks 3 in Versafine Onyx Black; and the collage square from Clocks 3 in Versafine Onyx Black onto the red block.  Also stamp the smaller words from Clocks 5 onto white cardstock in Versafine Onyx Black, cut out and glue onto red block.

Turn the blocks back over, and on the red one, stamp the large words from Clocks 6 in Versafine Deep Lagoon; on the green block, the phrase from Clocks 5 and Watch from Clocks 3 in Versafine Onyx Black; and the blue block, the gauge and phrase from Clocks 5 in Versafine Black Onyx.

With the collage square stamp from Clocks 3, stamp the top of all the blocks in Versafine Smokey Gray:

And that's us all done!   

Well, I hoped you enjoyed this project - as I said already, I've made quite a lot of these, they are quick and easy and it's fun trying out different, sometimes eye-watering, colour combos for high impact.  As always, they're easy to personalise for someone, you could do any theme or colour scheme, and embellish them as well - I've used old radiator keys etc in the past, though here I just wanted the stamps and colours to take main stage.  Don't forget to share your makes on the Facebook group page, I would love to see what you come up with!

Until next time 😊

Lotte x

* It was one of the late and brilliant Kenny Everett's catchphrases

2019 #4 Tick Tock: Remember the now with ESC & ESA {by Corrie Herriman}

2019 Topic 4: Tick Tock

Corrie has created a cool 3 dimensional object for you today! In fact I'm going as far to say this could be called a reversible clock! Read on to see why! ~ Leandra

Hi everyone, it's Corrie from MadeByCHook with you today, and I'd like to share my take on the Tick Tock theme with you.

The people who know me, know that I am one of those people that likes to do everything and anything, all at the same time ! I had lots of ideas for this theme but in the end I chose to make a 3D Mixed Media project. And it was fun ! 

When I started this project I had an idea, but it came out a little different to how I had it in my mind. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow ! I had a cheese box and lots of other stuff and just got on with it. It eventually developed under my hands into this "clock".  

So, the first step was to paint the box with Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic in the colour {Buff}. 

After that I added Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics in the colour {Green Patina} in the way Seth Apter does with a piece of card stock, so you paint the card stock and press it onto the project. After that I added the colours {Taupe}, {Pewter} and more {Buff} with an almost dry brush. This made it look a little old and worn. 

Until I do it, I always forget how easy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics are to stamp on. I used ESA12 by Seth Apter here to adapt the stamps into some "clock faces". I used Archival Ink in {Jet Black} for this. 

Of Course clock faces need hands. So I used an old Tim Holtz die to cut some hands out. I did think that the big hand of this die was to big, so I just die cut the small one several times and then used a pair of scissors to cut a piece off the bottom of half of them. I then painted them with Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics {Pewter} and {Green Patina}.

I thought this big script stamp from ESC18 by Scrapcosy would look good on the box, and it did but I used Distress Oxide {Iced Spruce} and because I kept handling the box it just disappeared. I repeated the process later with Archival Ink in the colour {Potting Soil} which worked much better. 

For the decoration of the box/clock I stamped the flowers and the butterfly from the ESC18 set. A good and quick way of getting some colour on the images is by stamping them with a light coloured ink in a stamping platform type tool, making sure to leaving the stamp in the stamping tool in the exact same spot. Then just paint them, you can go over the lines if you like. I used some light colours of Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics here ie. {Vanilla} and {Mustard Pickle} and a touch of {Taupe} for the flowers and {Sage} and {Tinned Peas} for the leaves.  After the paint has dried, just put them back in the stamping tool and stamp again ! I then cut everything out. I did the butterflies in the same way.

I really like how these colours go together to give a vintage-y look. I also inked the edges of the box with Archival Ink {Potting Soil} to make it look even older. After I glued the flowers onto the outside of the box I got all my bits and pieces and put it all together..

I added some postage stamps, just because I have stacks of them.. lol and added the hands to the stamped circles with a brad. I then glued them onto the "clock face". I still thought it needed something else so I added some twine around the face and a sentiment strip over part of the faces. It is standing on some Pulley Wheels by Tim Holtz. 

In the side view you can see I added some cardboard pieces under the clock faces to give them some dimension. I just use pieces of old box for this. 

Of course I couldn't leave the back.. I did have a lid but decided that I didn't want to used that so I added a spring from an old clock and attached the butterflies to that. Another sentiment glued on a piece of wood to make it stand up finished it off. Of course you could put anything in here; more flowers, a scene with paperdolls, gear wheels etc. The possibilities are endles. 

I really love these kinds of projects, they are time consuming but oh so satisfying. I always try to think outside the (cheese) box and hope that I achieved something a little different this time again. Of course we would like to see you take part in this topic and make something 'Tick Tock' too. Have a go and see what you can come up with ! 

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