A lovely clock layered topper that hangs from a Beautiful flourish, would make a lovely retirement card..
Clock Hanger Topper
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Oh what fun I had with this one.. well two actually ..I snuck some design elements from another one of Tina's designs that I had bought into this project. The clock was cut on a Cricut Explore on 110lb white card and black poster board card. The white elements were given a metalic finish with a brushed on Faber Catelle Gellato
The page is 12x12 and also features a background made by using Tina's cog pattern from CUP595493_596 Steampunk Card as a stencil. That was a quick rough grungy look achieved by simply stamping and swiping the ink pad over the stencil. Which kills two birds with one stone, because the stencil was also my main cog grouping on the 110lb card stock cog set that you see behind the female character.
The cogs were all inked or inked and gellato'd for a metalic shine and I had cut them at two different sizes. Some were double layered for depth.
Character is "Brianna Blaster" by Kennykstamps and she was a digitally colored piece that I sepia toned, printed and hand cut at approx 9 -10 inches. This project is destined to end up as either a shadow box framed piece, OR a scrapbook album cover. I have a slogan in mind for it, but didn't want to add it to this project just yet :)
I absolutely love this clock design, it's fabulous for my steampunk projects and would work for so many other styles and occasions just by adjusting the color palette.
I bought this file for cutting out using my Silhouette Cameo, but then I had the idea of testing out the Brother, online, "Canvas" application to convert the .svg file to the format needed for my Brother ScanNCut machine.
The file imported nicely into "Canvas" and I resized everything together so that the maximum size, across the top hanger, was just over 7" with all the pieces just filling the 12" square working area.
I downloaded and put onto my USB stick and put this into my ScanNCut. I cut the whole lot out twice, once out of white cardstock and once out of a deep maroon bordering on brown cardstock.
For this card I've used every other layer out of each colour, and I've also got a topper in the opposite colours ready to make up another card.
I used took an 8" square black card and chopped an inch off the bottom. I built up the topper attaching some layers with quick grab wet glue and some using 1mm deep, double sided, foam tape.
I used two of the circles that had cut out from the centre of some of the layers to make my greeting panel.
I've made it as a retirement card with the greeting "No More Working 9 to 5) covering the 9 and the clock hands set at 5.