Art Journal Journey - Time Traveller

 Guess what I found yesterday?  I had no idea I had a stencil with gears on.  It is only a small square stencil with some tiny gears grouped together but I did not know I had it, it has 'Tando' written on the top of it in a black Sharpie.  I am going to have to do another page just to use it the one time.  Maybe I should go through my stamps and things and see just what I have hidden away that I have forgotten about.

I bet there are several of you who are as guilty as I am and do not really know all that you have.  It comes from having been stamping for quite a number of years where the style of stamping has changed for me.  I did tell you I used to be into Steampunk and I've also had phases on Asian, Victorian, Egyptian, Time and others as well as the usual flora and fauna.  I think some of them change and I am waiting for them to come back around so that I can start using them all again.

This is, again, a copy more or less of a canvas I did some years ago.  It used another of Tim Holtz type stamps, from Stampers Anonymous I think, which I was heavily into at one time.  

As you can see I have used only a few gears in this one.  I did stamp directly onto my 8" x 8" journal page those rather exciting looking gears in the bottom right and added a few, along with tickets etc that I had fussy or diecut, at the other side.

But before that I coloured my page using Broken China and Salvaged Patina Distress Inks and then stencilled some leaves to break up the background.  Next I stamped the rather stern looking gentleman in the top hat, I think he has a monocle when I look closely at him and then added the diecut gears and tickets I mentioned previously.  These were stamped and cut out on cardstock that had been coloured with various Distress Inks.

The next stage was to cut out a birdcage in gold mirror card and stick it down, covering the top of it with various leaves and flowers in varying shades of green coloured card.  I wanted to give the impression of the extra pieces flowing down the right hand side and across the base of my page.

The last thing was probably the most fiddly in that I cut out some small letters spelling 'time traveller' and sticking them down in as straight a line as I could.

I hope you like my latest page and it inspires you to look through your old stamps that you don't use as much now.  You never know, you might find you have something tucked away that you can start to use all over again.  It might even fit in with the theme at Art Journal Journey which is "In Gear".  (Remember you can do some machinery or a mode of transport as they contain gears as do lots of other things - my 'Time' box is being raided soon to see what I have in there as pocket watches have gears.  Or maybe you can think of something of your own?)

The moderators and I would love to see you join in with this theme over at Art Journal Journey.  You still have a week to enter a journal page.  Be sure to read the rules here first though.