Like Sands through an Hourglass…

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I had to think of a project for this month’s Creative Carte Blanche Challenge “Numbers”. On the post where the challenge was outlined, there is a photo of lovely old numbers in type so I used that as a jumping off point for my project. Then I thought of using an hourglass with numbers in it which I made like a shaker card.

I also will enter this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge “Make Your Own Background”.

It’s a little busy, but I had fun with all the elements. Do you see the numbers on wooden blocks as typesetting blocks? I realize that type for typesetting is backwards – a fact I decided to ignore. My hourglass is a little funky as it is the first shaker type adornment I’ve ever made. It was complicated by the fact that I had to draw it and cut it out by hand.

I made layers and layers of backgrounds, first corrugated cardboard distressed with Black Soot paint, gold paint and texture paste. The ruler is a Sizzix texture fade as is the wooden background, the clocks and the numbers. I just got the numbers texture fade today – perfect timing. The white background is a Tim Holtz stencil with Iced Spruce Distress Oxide. I found a number of Idea-ology pieces that worked well with my number and time concept. My favorite is the little knob with a black chain and “Cherish” “Moments” tokens hanging on the chain.

I basically saturated the piece with numbers. Here a few more photos.

So I will share this project with  2 challenges – Creative Carte Blanche and Simon Says Stamp.

Oh, if you read my previous post, I was able to finish today because Jerry, my cat, decided to sleep on  freshly washed clothes instead of the craft table. Good choice, Jerry.

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