Craft o'Clock

Morning,

Welcome to this month’s Clarity Stamp Blog Challenge.

The theme is clocks, this is my take on the challenge and I hope you like it.

Don’t forget to drop in and see all the lovely art created by the design team at

http://claritystampchallenge.blogspot.co.uk.

Please also have a look at the wonderful creations the Clarity Crafters made for last month’s challenge.

Thanks to all who entered the Challenge, hope you enjoyed it and to the winner and top 5, congratulations.

Don’t forget Barbara is on Create and Craft this weekend. I will be watching, hope you will be too.

For this clock I started with one of the large square canvas, I marked the centre and drilled a hole

for the hands to come through.

Next I painted it with blue metallic paint and left dry. Then using paper arty crackle I spread a layer of it over sections of the painted canvas. I left it dry for a few minutes, then painted over with white acrylic pain. I have to say

I have tried using several products for creating a crackle effect but this is fantastic.

Next I stamped the broken line, which I thought looks like stitching from the journaling set all round the edge of the canvas. The ovals from the numbers set, I only used 4 as I did’nt want it too cluttered.

I then stamped in the numbers, let dry and used glossy accents to highlight them.

I then stamped the craft o’clock from the letter kit.

Next I stamped and coloured in with distress inks, embossed others from

the re-mountable sets. They are so useful, love them.

So from stitching, to writing, cooking to gardening and flower arranging, then onto family time and painting

all covered in these sets.

I also used the girl from the mother and girl stencil, masking off the umbrella, as

for around 9 o’clock as this is usually the last of family time in the evening.

I then added the clock mechanism.

It was finished.

I have included a photo below of everything I used and hope you have enjoyed the step by step.

Let me know what you think and I hope to see your creation soon.

What I used

Bye for now.

Naomi

Hi there,

Well is the 1st of the month, yet again and the challenge this month at http://claritystampchallenge.blogspot.co.uk is Wee folk.

We had the hardest time picking the top 5 this month. You  must see the entries, amazing is the word, thank you everyone who entered.

Congratulations to the winner and top 5.

 Today here we had all four seasons, driving rain, blue skies, hailstones, lying more than an inch deep.

But as it is spring I wanted to do something colourful.

I hope you like it.

Background colours and distress ink pens use to colour the tree and the flowers.

A canvas board, and the one of the moon masks. gentle blending of the colours to create the sky.

Grunge paste through the stencil and while still wet, carving the features into the tree.

Brushes and mountain mask to create the mountains and the land.

Wee folk sets 3 & 4 stamped with some of the colours used to create the background.

I also used the large toadstools and ferns for some perspective

The flowers, tree were all colours using the distress ink pens.

A little subtle glitter on the wings and the moon and the scene was complete.

Wish I could show the twinkle in the photo.

Everything used is available on the Clarity Website,at http://www.claritystamp.co.uk

Well hopefully you will get a little inspiration from my project and the

beautiful projects from all the team.

Don’t forget a voucher for the Winner of £50.00, go on give it a go.

Can’t wait to see yours.

Good luck and by for now.

Naomi

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Hi there, well, the super weekend continued with dinner with some of

the special people in my life. Lots of laughs.

Pete the wonderful husband of our friend Jane collected us early on Sunday morning and away we went to

Pink Tulip Creations in Warwickshire. a lovely craft shop and a super workshop. We received a lovely welcome and were spoilt all day the cups of coffee and encouragement. A few little crafting bits and bobs just happened to jump into my basket. Well that’s my story for hubby and I’m sticking to it.

Sunday’s project was the transformation of Candy Box Crafts Notelet box ( have another one to do, beautifully made.)

It has a hinged top, which open and storage for notelets/paper  and a separate section for pens etc

Here is a link to Karen’s blog for photos of the day

http://karenslittlegiftsandcards.blogspot.ie/2015/03/pink-tulip-and-candy-box_8.html

More workshops from Karen on this piece so I wont do a detailed step by step, hope you understand.

It was super and her design was just beautiful.

Here is my attempt, just the top of the box, picked up lots of tips, loved every minute.

Thanks Karen.

Hi there,

Sorry I have not been around, 1st there was a super crafty weekend with some friends and then my husband and I had a little holiday.

Back to the drizzling rain and grey skies, the passports are still in my hand bag, I wonder why.

Well my sister-in-law Claire and I had hoped since last year to be able to get together with some of our crafting buddies, and good friends in the UK. So we were delighted to find that we could fly into the UK for not one but two crafty days and that some of our friends could make it too, So we are able to fly into Bristol without braking the bank, as the flights were reasonable.

To make it even better one of special crafting friends Karen Clare (Aka the clock lady) was giving the classes we could not have been more thrilled. Then the super Jane Barber and her very kind husband Pete, picked us up from the airport and drove us around all weekend. Karen’s Class on the Saturday was wonderful as were the lovely ladies who attended, they also made wonderful takes, brought a variety of chocolate treats and were a pleasure the spend the day with.

The Saturday class was based around brushos, and a candy box crafts Box, love those boxes, and so clear how to assemble them. Here is my little one and a link to Karen’s blog,http://karenslittlegiftsandcards.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/brusho-boxes-at-bristol.html

so you can see some of the others amazing creations and check out her workshops, highly recommended.

Then on to dinner with some of our friends and yet another day to look forward too.

Don’t forget to leave me a comment, I really appreciate it. Bye for now.

Naomi

Good morning,

Hope you dropped in to see the amazing artwork made by the Clarity Stampers for last month's challenge if not yet here is the link. http://claritystampchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/challenge-23.html

This month challenge begins this morning and the theme is "Floral". Hope you will join in.

The blog design team have made some very inspiring projects and everyone one of them is unique

and so different.

Well I love Fuchsias, and am crazy about Clarity Stamps Fuchsia Stamps. I have also

been having great fun with Kraft Card, so my project this month combines them both.

Hope you like it.

What I used.

Take some craft card mine was 8 x 8

Stamp the sentiment with Black Archival.

(http://www.claritystamp.co.uk/Clear-Stamps/Verses-and-Words/4975-/The-Joys-Of-Life).

Next stamp the fuchisas with  versamark ink and detailed white embossing powder, and heat emboss, masking as required.

I would suggest doing each flower separately, don't forget your talc or non static pad as white

can leave a lot of speckles if you are not careful. Here I am partway through the

stamping and heat embossing.

The link to the fuchia stamps is below.

http://www.claritystamp.co.uk/Clear-Stamps/Floral/4857-/Large-Fuchsia-Clear-Stamp---As-See-On-TV

http://www.claritystamp.co.uk/Information/Search/14415-/Repositionable-Fuchsia-Clear-Stamps---As-Seen-On-TV

When you have finished masking, stamping and embossing.

Take some white gesso and add a little water until it is the consistency of milk.

With a very fine paint brush paint inside all of your stamped images with the gesso.

I then coloured in the images using my Spectrum Noir pencils from the  Floral and Natural sets.

3 Shades of green and 3 of red. I also used the blending solution to complete the colouring and as the edges the stamping with a little green for added depth.

Don't forget to leave me a comment, I really appreciate it.

Bye for now.

Naomi