The first clock I created was for the current "March Madness" challenge:
Creating this beautiful clock had me trying all kinds of techniques to great a variety of clocks.
The clock in my vignette was created using the following steps:
1. Colored the inside of the mold with a Versamark marker to create a sticky surface.
2. Pouring embossing powder into the mold and shaking out the excess onto scrap paper to re-use.
3. Heating up and melting the embossing powder with the heat gun.
4. Repeat multiple times to create a thick enough clock that you can peel out of the mold.
5. After the clock was cool enough I brushed on a touch of gold paint to highlight the surfaces.
This was a time consuming process and the clocks were very fragile when finished. I liked the effect because they were very delicate and shabby.
Here is the other clock created using this method:
After creating my delicate embossing powder clocks, I wanted to try another medium and decided to use a no bake clay.
Steps:
1. Push clay into moulds. I filled the molds and tried to finish with a flat surface on the back.
2. Let dry. (Follow instructions on the clay)
3. Peel back the mold. (On all of my clocks I peeled the mold away from the materials slowly to try
to prevent any breakage.)
4. Largest clock
a. Spray with Distress Oxide Spray. (Mermaid Lagoon).
b. Let dry and then using a paint brush apply touches of gold paint.
5. Small clocks
a. Paint with gold shimmer paint.
b. Paint with gold paint.
c. After paint dries. Ink up surface with Versamark Ink.
d. Sprinkle black embossing powder over surface and heat emboss.
After I finished with the first layer of colors and details I decided to continue with effects to antique the clocks.
Steps:
1. Spray a mix of distress oxide sprays over the painted gold clock. Let dry.
2. Water down brown paint and apply to clock.
For the large clock to tone down the bright colors I added a few more layers of color.
Steps:
1. Spray with brown distress oxide spray. Let dry.
2. Add Metallique Wax to the edges and raised surfaces.
3. Smear watered brown paint to edges.
4. After everything dried ink up the entire clock with versamark watermark ink.
5. Cover with clear embossing powder and heat up until glossy.
I then wanted to take another try on using the embossing powders in the molds but wanted a solid fill. I decided to bake the embossing powders.
Steps:
1. Pour the various embossing powders into the moulds.
2. Fill them and push the powders to fill all the spaces and level out the excess embossing powder.
3. Place onto a lined baking sheet. (I used my toaster oven tray)
4. Put in the oven and cook. (I started at a lower temperature 200 degrees and raised it up to 300) It took about 10 minutes. I just kept checking until the embossing powder was liquid.)
5. Let cool.
6. Carefully peel away the mould and pop out the clocks.
Unfortunately when I pulled my two little clocks I broke off a few pieces. I didn't want to have to go back to the oven, so I popped them back into the mould aligning the broken pieces to where they belonged. I used my heat gun and melted them right back together.
After I finished this process I remembered my melt pot. I could have melted my embossing powder in the melt pot and poured it into the mould. (Something to try next time!)
I tried a variety of embossing powders: a teal mixed with gold, a gold mixed with black, and black embossing powders.
What happened was the colors tended to split and the back was one color and the front was mostly the color. I ended up with the dark teal as show above and the gold turned into a dark gold effect:
I decided to highlight both with a touch of gold wax to bring out the raised surfaces.
Here are the final small clocks:
The two on the left are clay based and the one on the right is the embossing powder clock with a wax patina.
And here are the larger clocks. The one on the left is my teal clock with a layer of collage paper decoupaged over the surface. The one on the right is the clay clock with many layers of sprays, paints, and wax highlights.
Now what to do with all my clocks? A box of clocks of course!
I hope you enjoyed spending time viewing the clocks. (He He). There is still time to play along in the March Madness Challenge and the design team has tons of inspiration in our new challenge starting on Wednesday!
Suzz
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Prima Marketing Finnabair Elisian Clockworks Mould
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Stampers Anonymous - The Professor
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Tim Holtz Quote Chips
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Ranger Clear Embossing Powder
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