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Watch Crystals

By April Staker
Off Road Inksters
Intermediate Scramping Team Designer

Supplies:

•  Define It (TAC)
•  Italian Poetry Background (Hero Arts)
•  Dance With Your Spirit (TAC)
•  Rustic Red Ink Pad (TAC)
•  Black Ink Pad (TAC)
•  Golden Wheat Ink Pad (Retired-TAC)
•  Versamark Ink pad (Tsukineko)
•  Canary Swirls 12" x 12" Paper (Leaving Prints)
•  Vintage Hearts Dark Red 12" x 12" Paper (All My Memories)
•  Scarlet Urban Stripe 12” x 12” paper (Chatterbox)
•  Red 12" x 12" Cardstock (Leaving Prints)
•  Rust 8½” x 11” Textured Cardstock (Bazzill)
•  Ivory 8½” x 11” Cardstock (TAC)
•  Black 8½” x 11” Cardstock (TAC)
•  Watch Crystals (Deluxe)
•  Copper Embossing Powder (Ranger)
•  Red Micro Beads (unknown)
•  4mm Simulated White Pearls (Create a Craft)
•  Rose Petals (from the Bride’s flowers)
•  Antique Gold Circle Small Paperclip (Making Memories)
•  Metal Primitive Heart (Making Memories)
•  Ribbon Charm (Making Memories)
•  Label Holder (Making Memories)
•  Mini Brads Wine Red (Die Cuts With A View)
•  Mini Brads Harvest Orange (Die Cuts With A View)
•  Saying Sticker (All My Memories)
•  Alphabet Sticker (All My Memories)
•  Journal Jewelry Small Typewriter Words (7 Gypsies)
•  4” Grosgrain Ribbon Coral Reds (Die Cuts With A View)
•  5” (2) Narrow Black & White Ribbon (Michael’s)
•  6” & 5” Wide Black & White Ribbon (Michael’s)
•  5” Wide Silver/Black Ribbon (Michael’s)
•  Diamond Glaze (Judikins)
•  Small Scissors (Fiskars)
•  Heat Gun (Marvy)
•  Silent Setter (Provo Craft)
•  Scissors (Provo Craft)
•  Tag Templates (Coluzzle)
•  Paper Trimmer (Fiskars)
•  Template Cutter & Mat (Coluzzle)
•  Scrapbook Mounting Squares (3L)
•  3-D Mounting Squares (Making Memories)
•  Hammer
•  Makeup Sponge (Target)
•  Zebra Flames Font (Downloaded off internet)
•  Splendid 66 Font (Downloaded off internet) 

Instructions

1.  Cut your cardstock, photos and paper to the following dimensions:
        Canary Swirls 12" x 12" Paper (Leaving Prints)
                Left Page:
                        Journal Mat = 4” x 5”
                        Right Block = 4” x 11½”

                Right Page:
                        Bottom Left Photo Mat = 4” x 6”
                        Top Right Blocks (2) = 2” x 3¾”
                        Top Right Tag = Cut from Coluzzle Template

Vintage Hearts Dark Red 12" x 12" Paper (All My Memories)
                Left Page:
                        Phrase Sticker Mat = 3” x 3¼”

                Right Page:
                        Top Left Blocks (2) = 4” x 2¼”
                        Middle Tag = Cut from Coluzzle Template and tear

Scarlet Urban Stripe 12” x 12” paper (Chatterbox)
                Left Page:
                        Middle Bottom Blocks (3) = 1” x 3”

                Right Page:
                        Top Left Tag = Cut From Coluzzle Template
                        Middle Tag = ½” x 1¾”
                        Middle Bottom Block = 2” x 3”
                        Top Right Block Strips (2) = ¾” x 3¾”
                        Top Right Tag = ½” x Trim to fit
                        Bottom Right Photo Mat = 4” x 5½”

Rust 8½” x 11” Textured Cardstock (Bazzill)

Left Page:
                Bottom Left Journal Mat = 4” x 4¾”

                Right Page:
                        Middle Tag = Cut from Coluzzle Template
                        Middle Bottom “Ribbon Strip” = ¼” x 3”
                        Top Right Block = 3¾” x 1¼”
                        Top Right Tag = Cut From Coluzzle Template

Ivory 8½” x 11” Cardstock (TAC)

Left Page:
                Bottom Left Journal Block =3½” x 4½”
                Middle Photo Mat = 3¼” x 5¼”
                Label = ¾” x 2¼” (trimmed to fit)

                Right Page:
                        Middle Tag = Cut From Coluzzle Template
                        Top Right Mat = 4” x 5¾”

Black 8½” x 11” Cardstock (TAC)

Left Page:
               Top Left Photo Mat = 4” x 6½”
               Top Middle Sticker Mat = 3” x 2¾”

                Right Page:
                        Top Left Mat = 4” x 5¼”
                        Top Middle Photo Mat = 3” x 5”
                        Bottom Middle Block = “2¾” x 3”

        Photos:

Left Page:
                Left = 3½” x 6”
                Middle = 2¾” x 4¾”
                Top Right = 3½” x 5½”
                Bottom Right = 3½” x 5”

                Right Page:
                        Left = 3½” x 5½”
                        Middle = 2½” x 4½”
                        Right = 3½” x 5”

Instructions:

1.    Using the Rustic Red ink stamp the “adore” definition onto the striped paper.  Trace a watch crystal, having it centered over the part of the definition you like best.  Carefully cut along your tracing line.  Place this circle inside the watch crystal.  Use your fingertip or fingernail to crease the edges into position. 

2.    Turn the watch crystal on its side and run it along the Versamark pad to ink the edges.  Dip the edges into the copper embossing powder.  Brush off any powder that is sticking to the center of the crystal.  Use a pair of tweezers or pliers to hold the crystal as you melt the powder.  **Use caution to not melt the watch crystal! Metal pliers and tweezers will get hot as you heat it and they may warp the crystal so use very light pressure while you hold it.  I, also, think it helps to let the heat gun heat up before you point it at the crystal.  This cuts down on the time you are melting!  Let it the crystal cool before you reposition the pliers or tweezers to rotate the crystal so that you don’t mash the softened plastic.  

3.    Turn the other two watch crystals upside down.  Slowly fill them about 2/3 of the way with Diamond Glaze.  Place the beads and flower petals randomly in the glaze.  Lightly press them down so the reach the front of the crystal.  Sprinkle the beads into the remaining open areas of the glaze.  Allow this to dry overnight. 

4.    Ink all paper & cardstock edges with Golden Wheat ink and sponge. 

5.    Repeat step 3 keeping the water along the shoreline and just a little way up the lighthouse (mostly at the edges of these spots and not out into the sky much at all). 

6.    Dip the paintbrush back into clean water and then put it into the marine blue paint.  After picking up some of the paint onto your brush put the paint onto the paint tray.  Dip the brush back into the water and then into the gray paint.  Mix the gray and marine blue paint together; the gray will tone the marine blue down just slightly.  Dip the brush into clean water and then into the burnt umber.  Mix a small amount of the burnt umber into the blue/gray mix.  This will darken it somewhat.  Apply this mixture onto the wet areas of the picture.  Use the brush to run along those shoreline edges and the lower portions of the lighthouse.  Allow the paint to blend into the cobalt blue to blend.  Use a little more water if necessary to create the blended effect.  If the color is too dark use a tissue to lightly blot until you like the color.  Allow the paint to dry completely. 

7.    Apply clean water to the grassy areas and the shaded areas on the lighthouse. 

8.    Dip the paintbrush back into clean water and then put it into the raw umber paint.  After picking up some of the paint onto your brush apply this to the wet areas of the picture.  Follow the curves of the hills on the grass.  On the lighthouse begin with the paint in the shadows and blend downward.  Apply just a bit to the bottom steps of the lighthouse.  Allow the paint to dry completely. 

9.    Apply clean water to the grassy areas.  Pick up some lime green paint onto your brush.  Apply this paint to the grass going right over the raw umber.  Blot with a tissue randomly and very lightly. 

10.                       Using a #00 Round Brush, apply clean water to the birds in the shaded areas.  Pick up a small amount of gray paint and apply to those areas.  Repeat this with a touch of yellow ochre to add highlighted areas around the gray. 

11.                       Using the round brush re-wet the marine blue mixture if you had some left (if not just get more!).  Very lightly run the brush along the two centerlines on the lighthouse and under the railing in the shadows to create a little shading and depth.  If it is too dark, add more water to thin it and blot with a tissue if necessary. 

12.                       Apply water to the shaded sides of the lighthouse using the flat brush.  Apply yellow ochre paint to those areas.   

13.                       Apply a touch of navy paint to the rooftop, left side of the lighthouse and under the railing in the shadows. 

14.                       Rewet the upper sky.  Mix gray, white and light blue together and apply the mixture to the wet areas of the sky.  Blot with a tissue randomly to create cloud shapes if desired. 

15.                       Using the round brush and a touch of black paint (very diluted with water) apply black paint to the shadowed and shaded areas of the image (under the railing, the left side of the lighthouse and the rooftop). 

16.                       Tear around the image. 

17.                       Ink the letter stamps with the Fabrico Gray ink and stamp onto the Journal Block. 

18.                       Use the Silent Setter to punch holes into the Tile Blocks for the rivets.  Set the rivets. 

19.                       Print your journaling. 

20.                       Assemble your page.  I used 3-D dots behind the tiles and one at the top of the lighthouse image.  That allowed me to poke the pin through without any trouble.

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