I am entering this card into the Ways to Use it Challenge and the Alphabet Challenge for the letter T. For the Ways to Use it Challenge, Carla chose the theme "It's About Time." I immediately thought of my grandparent's cuckoo clock. That thing woke me up for years and now I would give anything to hear it again. Time is the letter T for the Alphabet challenge. Making this clock entirely from scratch was a labor of love. All the layers were carefully cut on my trimmer and by hand using very vanilla cardstock. Then all the layers were sponged with many layers of TH Antique Linen, Tea Dye and Vintage photo inks until the right color was achieved. Once the right shade was achieved, I stamped each piece using the Heidi Swapp woodgrain stamp in my MISTI tool. The clock face was heat embossed using black EP and the face was sponged with antique linen ink. When the clock was assembled, I placed a tag die down and using an exacto knife, cut the opening for the door. The leaves and lower detail piece were die cut, sponged and glued in their appropriate places. The little cuckoo birds were stamped and colored. One bird is popped up on a dimensional so it looks like it is cuckooing. By this time I was not at all happy with this clock. There was something wrong and I had no idea what it was and my shoulder hurt from all the sponging. Grrr. I went to bed and slept on in. Thanks to my alpha sister Shirl for sending me a link to a cuckoo clock that solved my dilemma- the clock was missing the bird at the very top (I just had the maple leaf there). The bird was cut on the cricut, sponged and glued into place and I am a happy girl again. This card is going to a dear friend who will be married 56 years the end of January. Thanks for looking today and Happy New Year's everyone! ~Karen.
Date: Friday, December 29, 2017 GMT Views: 1546
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Stamps: StampinUp Sense of Time; Heidi Swapp Woodgrain Background Stamp
Paper: StampinUp Creamy Caramel and Very Vanilla; Grasscloth DSP from Joann Fabrics
Paper Size: 6 x 8" card base
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Antique Linen, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo; Stampinup Real Red and Versamark Ink
Accessories: Spellbinders Fleur de Elegance Die; Brenda Walton Sizzix Whimsey & Delight Die (I traced around a tag die for the door), Gina Marie Designs Pine Cone Die; Cricut Joys of the Season for Bird at top of Clock; Hot Off The Press Thin Line Gold Dazzles
Techniques: Designed Cuckoo clock and cut out accordingly; Die Cutting; Coloring with Copic Markers; Sponging; Cutting with Exacto Knife; Heat Embossing; Stamping
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28936
Sat, Dec 30, 2017 @ 6:41 AM
Karen this is amazing!! I love your cuckoo clock - those pine cones are perfect for this clock. I remember my mother's cuckoo clock had those as well. This is just amazing to me!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
Registered: October 12, 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 70705
Sat, Dec 30, 2017 @ 7:37 AM
Tremendous!!! What a work of art, Karen. A labor of love. The wood-grain is excellent. I love the pop of color with the birdies at the top. The leaves in the corners, the dove at the very top, the scroll and the pincones, all of it is just amazing. The clock face is fabulous. What a wonderful anniversary card for the time they were together. I imagine the couple will display this one for a long time, or frame it. Very well done, my friend!! TFS
Registered: March 8, 2005 Location: Halfway between Dallas and Houston Posts: 24020
Sat, Dec 30, 2017 @ 7:12 PM
Our Cuckoo Clock has been in a box stored for 4 years. I didn't think we would be in this house this long or I would have hung it up. I hope sitting doesn't mess it up.
You were very patient in getting this to look exactly like a cuckoo clock. Although ours has a deer at the top. My parents clock had the bird like you did yours. It is a fantastic work of art, Karen!
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Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 83804
Sun, Dec 31, 2017 @ 3:40 AM
You did a fabulous job with this! Super creative and super fun. Love that pretty little bird and everything else you added to this to transform that clock into this masterpiece. Wow!!!
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni