THE STAMP MAN'S CHALLENGE ***ALTERED***

The theme this time over at the stamp man challenges blog is ALTERED
head over their to read all the details,

I love the theme this week it's right up my street,
I have decided to make a shadow box,
with the theme of time, as I have so many stamps relating to this,
I don't seem to be able to resist a clock or time piece stamp,
they just jump off the shelf & into my basket LOL,

the stamps I have used are from various different manufacturers

(sorry it's just to many to list)

I cut a piece of card to fit the frame,

then chopped it up into stamp able sized pieces, stamped all the images,

& then blended the edges of each piece,

I then stuck it all back together on another piece of card,

& it was ready to embellish.

the images have all been inked up with walnut stain distress ink

(I think it is slightly softer than using something like archival ink)

I then blended with brushed corduroy & peeled paint,

I used an old watch including the strap & some bit's & bob's from my stash,

I used mica sprays to colour the frame (I lost track on the colours

I just kept spraying different ones until I was happy with it) 

then went over it with the walnut ink straight from the pad to age it a bit,

all the embellishments have been stuck on with

either glossy accents or silicone glue.

here is a picture of what the shadow box looked like before I altered it,

(It was a steel at 50p from a boot sale)

hope you like it,

it was relatively easy to make, & not to TIME consuming,

(get it...time ....LOL)

I would also like to welcome the two new followers to my blog,

so a big welcome to sweetcraf-teachic & sarah_engels_greer,

it always frills me to thing people like my blog enough to follow it.

That's me for today, I'm off to link it all up,

Back soon Kat x.