Elements of Time - Bloggers Challenge

Happy Bloggers Challenge Friday!  Thanks so much to those who played along with last weeks Wings and Things Challenge, there were so many wonderful entries!  I did stop by all your blogs, but those of you who have your comment boxes set to "embedded comment box", unfortunately I was unable to comment.  If you were not aware, blogger made some upgrades last week, and those upgrades are causing problems for people who use IE.  Blogger suggests that until the issue is resolved, bloggers change their comment box to either Full Window or Pop Up, so that IE users are able to comment.  If you are not sure how yours is set up, you might want to take a look, go to settings>comments  then look at the comment placement section and see what is check marked.

On to this weeks challenge.....This weeks theme is Elements of Time - the theme is open to your interpretation.  I had a lot of different ideas running through my head for the challenge....time travel, era in time (I was going to use the Artistic Outpost Flapper plate for that), but then went with the easiest element of time clocks, to created a belated birthday card.

The image and sentiment are both from the Artistic Outpost Wonderland Collage plate.  The image is stamped in Coffee Archival on Confetti card stock.  I added STAEDTLER Chalk Pastels in Blue to the background, then colored the image with STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor pencils and Gamsol and sponged and distressed the edges, then clear embossed the entire panel.  To create the colorful background panel I used the Chalked Emboss Technique from the Technique Junkie Newsletter.  I did morph the tech quite a bit - I used Adhesive Sheets instead of Glue Stick, covered my embossing folder with Saran Wrap so I wouldn't have to worry about cleaning it, and clear embossed the entire panel to tone down the STAEDTLER Chalk Pastels a bit.  To embellish I added some Idea-ology parts.

Details:
Stamps - Artistic Outpost Wonderland Collage
Ink  - Ranger Coffee Archival, Ranger Distress Ink Gathered Twigs
Card Stock - Summer Sun, Caramel, Chocolate
Other - STAEDTLER Chalk Pastels/Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, Gamsol, Adhesive Sheets, Texture Fades Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Saran Wrap, Sponge Daubers, Blending Stumps, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Prima Distress Tool, Clear Embossing Folder, Heat Gun, Idea-ology Parts

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Have a great weekend, stay warm!