Nice to see the days getting longer & soon the clocks will be springing forward but today it is a bit on the chilly side. It has been trying to snow and apparently it is going to be rather a cold week, it looks as though my heated throw will be staying out storage for a bit longer!
I was having a look for something among my crafty bits and bobs during the week and came across a sheet of Bird Crazy stamps I had coloured in a long while ago. A couple of days later one of hubby's nephews had posted this Gif on his Facebook page
I was having a look for something among my crafty bits and bobs during the week and came across a sheet of Bird Crazy stamps I had coloured in a long while ago. A couple of days later one of hubby's nephews had posted this Gif on his Facebook page
so I just had to do something with the stamps which may be appropriate
I hadn't used these stamps for ages and when I saw the latest Freshly Made Sketches Challenge sketch
I originally thought that I would use one of the other stamps I had found as there were some ready coloured and cut out. I came up with this in combination with a Tim Holt's Mixed Media #3 die but wasn't very happy with it so it was back to the drawing board (or rather the craft stash).
After a lot of staring at things I decided I hadn't really done many male oriented cards lately so set myself the goal at finding something to fit. I had a checkered plate embossing plate (Crafters Companion "Gun Metal") and used that as my starting point and then the industrial theme began to take shape so the Tim Holtz "Gearhead" cog wheel dies came out.
Originally it was just going to be an arrangement of the cog wheels but when it came to looking out a sentiment for it I found the Dyan Reavely "Be you, the world will adjust" stamp and remembered I also had a Tim Holtz world globe die. My thinking behind this card was to set the globe slightly at an angle to the cogs as if it was part of a mechanism. Oh well, it was just a thought, but this is what the reality of that looks like:
Originally it was just going to be an arrangement of the cog wheels but when it came to looking out a sentiment for it I found the Dyan Reavely "Be you, the world will adjust" stamp and remembered I also had a Tim Holtz world globe die. My thinking behind this card was to set the globe slightly at an angle to the cogs as if it was part of a mechanism. Oh well, it was just a thought, but this is what the reality of that looks like:
