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Saturday 19 January 2013

Blog Candy Winner! & Chronology Clock


Morning all! I said I would reveal the winner of the Docrafts Creativity Club membership today and so here I am!
I assigned each commenter a number so that even if you had posted multiple times everyone got an equal chance. Then I used an online random number generator to select the winning number for me so without further ado the winner is, 
no 6..... Jewelsmae with her comment "Congratulations on the new position. What a lovely professional looking card, not colours I would have thought of putting together but it really works"
Congratulations! Please get in touch with me at hyperni7(at)gmail(dot)com and I will pass your details on to Emma to arrange your membership. :)

I haven't forgotten my promise to share some projects using the new dies too but currently there are a few in varying stages of progress so you will have to bare with me for a little bit longer, back soon! X

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Aaargghh! A big thanks to Claire at my demo who told me the above scheduled post had not posted!
Sorry to keep you all waiting even longer for the reveal, so I have now edited my message for today into the above post to add my apology and as a little bonus am adding in a photo of my new project from this week...

It's another one of my upcycling projects!
This was an old silver clock that was being thrown away *horror!* by my mum so I saved it and took it to my craft room. I have been looking into making a crafty clock for ages but never found the time to shop around for the mechanism and with the release of the new Docrafts Chronology collection now was the perfect time to use it!

I covered the clock in the gorgeous orange clock paper using red DST and inked all the edges with orange dye based ink.
For the face I roughly cut the front paper piece to size, laid it over the clock face up and then using a fine metal embossing tool I made dents along the lines of the edge of the clear panel. Then I turned the paper over and cut along these lines using my craft knife and a metal ruler.
The decorative clock hands, clock face and brads are all metal embellishments also from the new range and the black cogs were cut from textured card using the new 9pc chronology cogs die.

The clock will now live on my windowsill and brighten up my craftroom with its funky orange colour. Right as it is still snowy outside I am not venturing anywhere today and am off to the craft room to make some DT cards using my new Xmas present printer (finally!) and the Creativity Club exclusive  downloads. :)

26 comments:

Unknown said...

Morning, love the clock. I saw my name and thought I won booooo, have to pay now lol.
Was great seeing last week, hopefully I will have time soon to get my crafty stuff out. xx

Lizzies said...

Fabulous clock, you have some lovely projects on your blog. Just hopping by. Lizzie

Julieanne..aka pinkjools said...

Brilliant Project...and a bit of recycling too...Happy Hopping...x

Unknown said...

Hi Ni - Love the upcycled clock, my craft room is currently full of bits that I have rescued but still not used! You've inspired me to get down to it so I can take them with me to demos as yours looks so good :) Vickie x

carrie-lee said...

Wow what a wonderful clock xxx

Anonymous said...

fab project x

Anonymous said...

The clock looks great, nice idea

Unknown said...

great project.just doing a bit of blog hopping.
Kaz. xx

Rocky said...

Love the clock, very topical. Can't wait to see the samples with the new dies.

Lorna said...

Brilliant project

happy hopping

Lorna xx

ALI said...

Fabulous project.

sparklingblackrose said...

Great upcycling! Happy Leapblogging! Elaine-xxx-

Vic said...

what a fab idea! such a great upcycled project! xx

annesyme said...

Fantastic creation!
Anne x

crafty-stamper said...

great project love the clock
carol x

sandy's crafty bits said...

great idea ... well done ... just doing a bit of blog hopping .. happy crafting and love sandy xx

scrappysharon said...

Beautiful projects this week. Happy blogging Sharonx

Dips said...

Fabulous idea, very clever. Happy Hopping xx

Angela said...

The clock looks amazing, what a lovely thing to see each time you craft.

Bellasandra said...

What a brilliant idea. Certainly transformed the clock.

Sandra x

Jewelsmae said...

How clever, you have made a really useful and unique keepsake from something that would have been trash

Debbie said...

This is amazing dearie.Love how you've decorated it.Awesome.Hugs Debbie x

Janet - aka stacky said...

Wow what a fabulous job you did on the clock, it looks brilliant x

maggie said...

fab project x

Jules said...

Ooooo... this is gorgeous!!!

I bet your Mum will want it back again now LOL!!!

You have lots of demonstration dates coming up .. . so pleased you are keeping busy!

Love Jules xx

ChrisAndCat said...

This is fab, what a great result. Love the little clock charm.