Polly is this week's MIX hostess and her challenge is At Face Value. While she suggested people or animals with faces, my thoughts went straigh away to clocks - although I did add an animal with a face too .
The clock stencil arrived just too late to use for Janelle's challenge last week and I never had time to make another card for her challenge with it. I used some Christmas gift papers, lining the card base with one sheet, and adhering another to a square of card. After stencilling it with black for the clock face, I cut the circle spinner element (there's an SCS tutorial for circle spinners HERE), and then with gesso I stencilled some brick into each corner of the outer frame.
I swiped some card with tattered rose DOX and when dry, stamped my pig on it. I stamped her wings again on white card, covered with Versamark, embossed with Iridescent Ice and pieced them on. She has Nuvo glitter drops to pretty up all her toes, and I just used a little water on a brush to lighten the inside of her ear.
I used thin chipboard and a 3/4" circle punch to make the spinner element. Carla sent me some lovely laser cuts in with her Christmas card, I embossed one with silver and stuck it in the centre of the card.
Best of all, even though it's such an oddball card I know exactly who I am sending it to and have stuck a reminder in my calendar to post it in a "timely" fashion.
Thanks for such a fun and inspiring challenge, Polly.
Date: Friday, December 28, 2018 GMT Views: 1610
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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 @ 5:24 AM
OK Pig time...I'm not sure what occasion you have in mind for this but I'm glad you do..LOL. I didn't even think of a clock face when I wrote this up..duh! That spinner part of this is so cool and your stenciled clocks look amazing. That pig is pretty darn cute....Glad you got to play along today and use new stuff.
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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 @ 5:32 AM
I have a sister in law who would love this fabulous spinner card. She is so into pigs.
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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 @ 5:34 AM
that paper....at first i thought you had smeared a bunch of stuff on the paper and it looks amazing. i guess you didn't, except the gesso. wow....i love everything about this. i love clocks, they make me think of my Dad, sitting at the dining room table with his magnifying head gear, working on a clock or a music box.
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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 @ 6:35 AM
O. M. G. It's a spinner card? Ack! I love it! Why is it that flying pigs are so much fun? And what's more fun that a pig that flies in circles? BRILLIANT card, Sabrina!
I love that you used Christmas paper!! Stunning! What a fabulous idea to use the clock face! Your pig is so cute! On Christmas Eve we turn on the Hallmark Channel. For Christmas Eve they run film of a room with a crackling fire and Happy the Dog and Friends. It's sooo cute. This year Happy the dog was there but also kittens, ducks, an orange tabby cat AND a PIG! They weren't on screen at the same time but it was a hoot. Storm was absolutely fascinated when the pig came on screen. Your pig recalls that fun memory!
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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 @ 1:51 PM
I really got drawn into gazing at all the details on this card! Wonderful texture and I like all the clock faces. The pig is so special with her sparkly wings and toes : )
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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 @ 2:45 PM
My first thought on seeing this card and the spinner element was the adage "when pigs Fly" and I can almost see some young person taking this pig on a jolly roll round and round the card! That silver filigree clock in the center is just gorgeous.
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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 @ 4:01 PM
How fabulous does this look. I love your fun take on the challenge Sabrina and reading your creative process. This must look even more special in real life.
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