Watch Parts Challenge and Giveaway

The final Cookie Challenge using this set formerly called Watch Parts, and now found on full sheet FS-040 Time At Hand  didn't actually turn out as initially envisioned. 

As you know, the team has been in the process of winding down and disbanding, so members were given the option of completing the challenge or not... Half opted to not.  On top of that, one of the three projects expected to arrive, is somewhere 'out there' at the mercy of the postal system.  Mailed by Giovana over two weeks ago, it has yet to arrive.

Disappointing as all this seems I still have a couple of great samples to share:

Tick Tock by Donelda, was stamped in sepia tones with the watch housing, face, and hands all stamped as a single layer, then cut out. The face was raised slilghtly, using either dimensional glaze, or a thick layer of clear embossing powder, and the piece was then pop dotted to the card front.  Don't you think this would make a great masculine card?!?  BTW, the background is what else, but a smART background stamp from FS-006 Backgrounds 2.

Dina's Tick, Tick, Tick ATC has a lot of fun stuff going on! From the stitched vellum overlay to the unique 'hands', there's a lot of interesting to see in a little package.  I think my favorite part is the watch face border Dina created by overlap stamping several faces in a row, then cutting them out, but leaving the overlapped areas intact.

While I have yet to play with these images on my own, I would still like to share a few notes about the images themselves... or maybe I should say, the ideas I had when turning these images into stamps:

• Watch Parts was created because I have a 'thing' about time stamps, and personally desired a watch image that could show whatever time the stamper wanted to display.  Super for a scrapbook page, a birth announcement, or an invitation, etc. Tip: When used this way, make sure to employ the use of a stamp positioner.
• By separating the housing and face images, it would also be possible to use either image separately, without stamping the whole and cutting away -- for instance, the housing could be used as a frame for other artwork or a photo. (A sample of this technique can be seen on an archived customer card called "A fishin"), and the face alone could look more like a clock than a pocket watch.
• I also wanted something where the center circle of the timepiece could be easily removed, and replaced with acetate. Having no numbers close to the housing's edge makes that possible.
• Lastly, I desired something I could turn into a shrink art charm... Imagine stamping on shrink, removing the center as previously stated, shrinking, then 'filling' with a tiny photo... One could certainly created a fabulous 'Snapshots In Time' embellishment or even a bracelet.

So, now that you have a 'brain file' full of creative possibilities, are you ready to win these stamps for your rubber collection?  Just leave a comment answering this question:

What one moment of time would you like to capture in a  'Snapshot In Time' charm?

I'll randomly choose a comment from those left, and announce the winner one week from today.

Hey, maybe you'd better leave that comment now, 'cause tick, tock, tick, tock, time's a wastin'.

Susan T

Note: This post has been edited to add the following photo of a third Watch Parts card . 

While it still has not arrived in smARTworks' mailbox, photos and a description have been posted at Giovana's blog, and I thought it was just too nice not to share here. 

Comments

[Shelly]

It would be the birth of our only child. She's our miracle baby and definitely my most treasured "snapshot in time".

[Ronda]

I would have to go back to when my 1 and only grandaughter was just a few months old. To capture time with her and my son (her daddy)as he was killed in a car accident when she was 10 months old.

[Elaine Moore]

It would have to be when my grandmother help my baby girl - the look in her eye's just melted my heart.

[Denise H.]

For me it would be, Christmas 1999, this was the last holiday that my dad was with us and all 7 of his children were together...I miss that time...we were all so happy that year...and then we started moving off and we lost our dad 3 years later to cancer....

[connie locashio]

A "snapshot in time" which is light-hearted moment would be the Christmas 12 yrs ago when my poor husband had no idea what to give his dear, sweet wife. After seeing a hand stamped card from a relative, he decided to stop in at the local stamp shop in Winthrop (Maine) to get me A (as in one!) stamp, A (as in one!) ink pad and a "how-to" book. And as you all know after the first stamp, "the rest is history". Connie

[Michelle Adams]

Oh so many happy moments the Lord has blessed me with! I think in this case, I would choose this one: My litle sister was less than two years old and I was about eight. She was in a toddler seat (the kind with wheels and a tray, like a short, rolling high chair) in my Grandparents' backyard. I was going to eat a lollipop and asked my Mom if I could share with my baby sister. My Mom said if I held on to the stick so my sis wouldn't choke it would be OK. So for most of the afternoon, I sat there feeding her lollipops under my Grandparents' shady tree. I remember it so clearly, and that was many, many moons ago. I've always loved my sis so very much. :)