The First Time

When was the last time you did something for the first time? I really love this quote from Tim Holtz's stamp set "Way With Words". I decided that I wanted to use it in this project and I also want to enter this into the Frilly and Funky challenge this week. Their theme is "There's No Time To Waste" and it's all about time.

I chose to alter a book cover that I had laying around. It's been sitting on one of my table for a bit now and I have done nothing with it. I want to make some sort of journal out of it but for now I will settle for altering the cover.

The cover is just really thick cardboard so I decided to try out a gesso resist with it. I applied a bit of gesso, let dry and then brushed distress stain over it.

I randomly stamped the background with archival inks pads and misc Tim stamps. I also added some embossing powder here and there.

I then used grungepaper and Tim's weathered clock and gadget gears Sizzix dies. I used acrylic paints in various colors and also distress paint in the metallic colors to paint these. Mostly I just painted with my fingers, no paintbrushes needed.

I also used this Stampendous aged copper enamel embossing powder for the clock parts. This stuff is awesome.

I grabbed some corrugated cardboard and used distress stains and inks to ink them up in various colors.

I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of scratch paper and distressed it using inks. Same with the bird, mostly distress inks. 

I added some metal and flowers and corrugated butterfly (which I colored with distress ink and added embossing powder too) and put it all together and this is how it turned out, what do you think?

Thanks again for coming by, I will be doing product review in my next post for the Genius Ultimate Platform System by Lifestyle crafts. You have to see it!