So first some pictures and then how it was created.
Tools and Materials used.
Grunge board.
Pearl purple card.
Black mount board with black core.
Large and small eyelets.
Vegetable tanned leather, purple leather and black soft leather.
Distressed paint, Picket fence.
Pro markers black, orange, red and tulip yellow various blues and skin tones.
Hole punch and eyelet setter.
Thin paint brush.
Metal edge ruler.
True cutter.
Fine scissors.
Felt blender for alcohol inks.
Alcohol blending solution and inks.
Metal foil.
Water colour paper.
Clarity card.
Memento black ink pad.
Waltzing Mouse stamps, Vintage Witch, and All Hallows Eve.
Art institute glitter, and their both dries white and dries clear glue.
Spellbinders dies, Witches brew, and bats.
Sizzix dies, Bigz pocket watch, circle dies, cat and raven, and labels movers and shapers.
Sizzix thinlit dies, Trick or Treat, Cross, Dove and Banner dies.
Lifestyle craft dies circles.
Gems various sizes, Emerald, AB, Black jet, and red.
Orange jewelry cord.
Black leather cord.
Collall glue.
Tweezers.
Leather needle.
Tim Holtz buckle.
Die cutting machine for thick and thin dies.
Gilding wax, red and verdigris.
Cotton thread, orange, purple and black.
I will not go into great detail of how to make up the Pocket watch as this is covered in both Pocket Watch number three and Steam Punk floral compass my last two posts. {look in July link http://jacquioa.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/pocket-watch-number-three.html and September http://jacquioa.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/steam-punk-floral-compass.html}. However I will just say that the difference in depth is created not just by the number of layers but by the thickness of the materials used. In Pocket watch number three I used Grunge paper while in Steam Punk floral compass I used Grunge board which gives greater depth. In the Spooky Hollows Pocket watch I used Grunge board.
So here are a few pictures of the making up of the pocket watch.
Here you can see I started with the hinges, by cutting out several Sizzix labels in vegetable tanned leather and then choosing different sizzix and Memory Box dies to emboss them with. I choose sizzix Trick or Treat thinlits die in the end. All I needed to do was place the thin die where I wanted on the label and stick it in place and then run it though my die cutter. This embosses and cuts just the surface of the leather which can then be coloured in using Pro markers and distressed paint. For the strap I used the cross from the Sizzix Cross, Dove and banner dies. I used pro marker black and Distressed paint Picket fence, which I painted on with a fine brush. The paint is very inky and goes onto the leather well, and even when the strap has been opened many times does not rub off when dry.
Next I stuck four of the layers together before adding holes for the hinge and strap. Then build up the rest of the layers to form the pocket watch, then begin to decorate.
The first thing I did was to make a witches hat to sit on top of the watch, I made a pattern in paper first using the largest circle in the Spellbinders Grand circles for the top of the hat and for the brim I used Lifestyle crafts circles.This is cut out of black leather glued in place and then stitched as I wanted the hat to be robust so it could be pulled off and put on the top of the watch many times without coming apart.
Then I decorated with bats which were made out of purple leather, the leather already had a texture so I gently rubbed with gilding wax this gives a slightly iridescent sheen before stitching them on and adding a few AB gems. I wrapped round the orange jewelry cord, and stitched in place so the hat could be repeatedly put on the neck of the watch.
Next came the inside, I stuck some Ranger sticky foil on to some water colour paper before cutting out two circles slightly larger than the centre of the pocket watch, then I used alcohol inks to create a deep sunset scene just before dark. Once this had dried I cut two straight lines to the centre of each circle. This was done so I could get the most depth out of the pocket watch.
I stamped both the witch and the raven from Waltzing mouse stamps All Hallows Eve and Vintage Witch sets four times. One for practise and colour try outs the other three to cut into sections to be coloured glittered and layered for depth. Once all the decoration had dried including the glitter I used a moulding mat and ball tool to shape each piece before glueing them in place.
Next was the decoration of the outside. For the front of the watch I wanted spiders so I used Lifestyle crafts spider die which I then glittered and Jewelled these then shaped them using the moulding mat. I then glued on the memory box delicate web cut out, placed the spiders and added some jewels.
Next I cutout the Sizzix cat and the Spellbinders bat and boots, decorated with gems and glitter, then shaped them as before and glued them on.
Just a note look at what I found when I'd finished crafting!! The great penguin massacre!, the penguin in question Skys favourite toy up to date!! He must have looked at her funny! Sky is my 11 month old Bishon who really lives up to Naughty but cute tag, I think my other dog Jazz must have been cheering her on.
Just a note look at what I found when I'd finished crafting!! The great penguin massacre!, the penguin in question Skys favourite toy up to date!! He must have looked at her funny! Sky is my 11 month old Bishon who really lives up to Naughty but cute tag, I think my other dog Jazz must have been cheering her on.
Any way I will enter this pocket watch in to the following competitions.Country View Crafts October competition Something Spooky here's the link http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/its-october-and-its.html
Waltzingmouse stamps, Victorian Ghost Stories.
http://waltzingmouse.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/wms-october-pajama-party.html
