Jennie: Time Flies when you are having fun!

This is my first tutorial for Gingersnap Creations, and apart from teaching workshops, and doing a few videos, I have to confess, I am not sure if I have really done a tutorial on a blog before! The girls have nicknamed me Dimensional Diva, a title I am not sure I can live up to.. but here goes! I wanted to show you something that combines my love of the meltpot with something that you can do easily, and that you might have lurking in your stash that you didn't really know what to do with.
I used a plain wooden frame, and firstly sprayed it with mica sprays, using a combination of blues and greens and gold. I then allowed it to dry naturally.

I poured in several colours of highly pigmented utees in my meltpot. Don't mix them, just allow them to melt in the way they land in the meltpot, and pour them onto a rubberstamp. It must be rubber, not a clear stamp, as these may melt when you pour on the utee! Please excuse the rather dirty stamp, as it was used last week, and hasn't had its regular clean! It didn't affect the utee colour though!

Allow it to cool, but so it is still warm, and pull it off in one go. I laid it on the frame to see it if fit, and then cut off the excess with scissors. You can do this while it is warm, but not cold as it goes brittle and will crack. I made 4 pieces like this and fitted them together to match. I glued them onto the frame with super glue, and using my heat gun melted VERY gently where they joined.

The picture in the middle was just a combination of cog stamps from The Artistic Stamper, which I stamped in Black Archival over a background of distress inks. It was very different to the frame, so I gently sprayed a blue mica spray over it and dried immediately.

The final touches were some of Tim's idea-ology Watch pieces and gears, which I lightly covered in Precious metal gold and blue, and I set the clock face in a little bit of utee melted onto the frame to hold it.

I do hope you like this, and if you comment, we will be giving this frame to one lucky blogger! You have until April 24, 2010 to enter.

Please feel free to ask any questions on the piece or any of the techniques.
Happy Creating
Jennie