More fun with Faux Wax Seal

Happy Saturday!  We have a long weekend here in Ontario and it is the first of the summer when my DH hasn't had to work!  The weather is gorgeous and we are looking forward to a fabulous family time!
Today I want to show you another project I designed for this week's challenge at The Technique Twist.

Any-Occasion card featuring the Clockworks set with sentiment from Really Good Greetings

Clock was done using the burnished vellum technique. 

Close up of 3D clock face

Inside view

I have to say this is one of my favourite designs ever.  I had such fun playing around with various techniques and embellishments to achieve the look I wanted.  It isn't often that I have the time to just play like this! 

Here's a quick how-to for the faux wax seal:

• On a piece of scrap vellum dump a small pile of gold embossing powder.  
• Heat the vellum from underneath, taking care not to scorch the vellum, until all of the powder has melted.  
• Quickly place the gear stamp into the molten pool of gold and leave it in place until the liquid has hardened.  
• Remove the stamp.  Trim the image so that you have a border of gold all the way around. 
•  Sponge the edges with Early Espresso ink and adhere to card using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

Here's how I did the clock:

• On a scrap of Brushed Gold card stock, stamp the clock image in Versamrk.  
• Heat emboss in gold.  Fussy cut the clock.  
• Punch the centre of the clock out using the 1-3/4" circle punch.  
• Stamp clock face numbers on a scrap of vellum card stock.  
• Lay the stamped vellum, stamped-side-down, on the back of the clock, centering the numbers in the punched circle.
• Using a stylus, burnish the non-stamped side of the vellum clockface inside the punched circle.  It will turn opaque white.
• Adhere the clock to the burnished vellum using liquid glue.  
• Trim the vellum so that it doesn't show around the clock body.
• Pierce a hole in the centre of the clock face.  Insert a brad from the back side of the clock face so that the prongs become the hands of the clock.
• Adhere clock to card using Dimensionals.

The rest of the design is just about sponging and distressing and generally getting grungy.  Such fun!!