Craft Stamper – July 2019

Tick

To ck

Create a wonderfully eccentric clock from MDF

cubes! By Helen Chilton

I

’m using three relatively new products for this project: new PaperArtsy Hot Pick

stamps, That’s Crafty! Artist Trading Blocks and Jane Davenport’s ColorSticks. I

always love the Hot Picks stamps and these are no exception. The images are a

good size with great detail and there’s also some text (always a bonus). The theme is

clocks so I decided to make one! The ATBs (Artist Trading Blocks) come in two sizes,

4x4" and 3x3", and arrive in kit form. You can decorate them when they’re flat and then

put them together, or assemble first and stamp afterwards. I actually assembled them

bar one side so I had access to the inside of the block for inserting brads or nails, or

even the clock workings. I stuck the last side on at the very end.

The ColorSticks are fairly new and resemble lipstick, being as smooth and creamy as

one too. How they blend depends on the surface you are working on! I found that a thin

coat of paint on the MDF or card helped them blend really well. I also stamped with

them.

Designer

tip...

Check the size of the clock

hands before you buy them –

they need to be able to go right

round the clock face which

in this case is quite small.

I did snip off the end of

the second hand to

make it fit.

Go Shopping!

PaperArtsy stamps, Artist Trading Blocks and ColorSticks all available from That’s

Crafty!, http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk, 01708 344146

Clock mechanisms widely available from Ebay, http://www.ebay.co.uk

Materials

Stamps Helen used...

•   PaperArtsy Hot Pick 1902; Squiggly Ink Ding and Dong Plate 2

Other materials...

•   That’s Crafty! Surfaces MDF Artist Trading Blocks 3" x 3" & 4" x 4"

•   Jane Davenport Making Faces ColorSticks: Soul Window

•   Small papier mâché box

•   Clock mechanism

•   Ranger Archival inkpad: Jet Black

•   PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint: Snowflake

•   Posca pen: White

•   Winsor and Newton All Purpose Varnish: Matt

•   Embellishments

Meet the Designer,

Helen Chilton

“Messy, inky projects, preferably
with bright colours and lots of detail,
that’s what I like creating! Why?
Because it’s fun!”

Explore her work online:
http://www.helenchilton.blogspot.co.uk

Project: Clockmaking with ColorSticks