What to do with a Topper...

Visiting the Belfast Craft Show last October, I had a mad moment and bought some Hunkydory toppers and months later I am still trying to decide what to do with them. Taking one of the toppers, I started by looking for matching distress ink colours, and after a while came up with this design for a "coming of age" birthday card:

"Time"

Taking an A6 panel, the clock was stamped with white acrylic paint and dried with a heat tool. The panel was then decorated with distress inks using the wrinkle-free distress technique and splattered with water droplets before overstamping the clock using a "ghosting" technique with black acrylic ink (you take the stamp in hand, without an acrylic block, and just stamp part of the design). An A5 panel of white card was trimmed slightly then inked in matching colours. Both panels and the topper were matted onto black cardstock, then layered as shown.

"Clock"

A clock, hands and gears were die-cut from recycled cat food box, before dabbing with alcohol ink to colour. The gears and hands were layered and attached to the A6 panel with a screw-shaped brad.

"Washers"

When I asked Tom for a couple of washers he gave me a whole trayful, but I don't really think he expected me to use them all! They make great embellishments for this type of card. Finally, a couple of Hunkydory tickets were added and the Tim Holtz "time" sentiment stamped. I think this would make a great card for an 18th birthday.

Ingredients:

Hunkydory "Bygone Times" topper & tickets

Sizzix Bigz Tim Holtz dies: Gadget Gears, Weathered Clock

Distress Inks: Pumice Stone, Milled Lavender

Archival ink: Black

Acrylic paint: white
Adirondack alcohol ink: Gold mixative

A5 card blank

cardstock: black, white

screw brad

washers

Pinflair dimensional glue

Glossy accents

Entered for the following challenges:
CES Challenges - lots of layers, 3 or more
Hotshot Craft - one for the boys
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes