TIME for Edward's Birthday Pressie

Hi all, hope you are all having fun, (must be if you are reading this as that means you are craft blogging lol), bought this Kaisercraft project last year and it got buried in the cupboard. Anyway DH's birthday next month and he is difficult to buy for as he always wants practical pressies, so thought this clock ideal. Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge this week is TIME and this project sprung to mind, the first photo is the rose Edward proposed with (which I have pressed and is in the front of our album). These are some wonderful memories over 13 years, so thought this represented time as well as the clock. DSP is blue and shades of gold and brown.

I had it that I wanted to have a clear clockface so for this I used acetate (not saying how many attempts I had lol) then heat embossed with gold powder (kindly lent off my crafting buddy Emma, great having a crafting friend 1 mins walk away, we just don't get together enough) as my silver didn't look right. Then I versamarked the edge and dipped in the powder to highlight the heart edge, fairly pleased with how it turned out in the end.

Definately need to learn caligraphy! All the hearts have dates or places/events etc. This is Edward's parents, his mum is still with us 85 years old. His dad unfortunately died some time ago due to Alzheimers which was a huge blessing in the end. He was a wonderful man greatly missed.
This is when we went canoeing down the Murray River last April, fantastic so peaceful, can't wait to go again.

How cute are they and I mean the little ones

Rosanna and Edward looking for shells and looks like Morgan looking after daddy, bless him, I am sure I have one with Rosanna doing the same lol!

Definately a messy project as the first dsp I cut out stuck in the wrong place (I used sticky strip orginally and once it stuck it stayed stuck lol) so took all that off and then used good old fashioned glue, forgot how messy/sticky that could be! Embossing wasn't to messy then the sponging was a little tricky with the hearts being so small. So this should qualify it for Tuesday Tagger's Challenge.

Well DH and Morgan are on their way home with tea (chinese takeaway), showers then a movie night, toughest decision is which movie to watch, looks like Lara Croft (Tombraider) is winning at the moment, not sure who is more excited Edward or Morgan lol.

Challenges

Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge #27 - Time
Tuesday Taggers - Gettin Messy Hands - Sponsored by The Craft Barn
Ooh LaLa Creation Challenges #48 - Acetate
Lexi's Creations #8 - Open
ABC Challenge O - O is for One Paper
Flutter By Wednesday #98 - Open + butterflies, fairies or angels
Quixotic Challenge #15 - One for the Boys which could be a project or card
The Corrosive Challenge Blog #52 - Wings
By the Cute and Girly February Challenge - Love

Thank you for visiting, happy crafting, have a wonderful weekend, take careX:)