Bob Sprocket

Well, this has been a long time coming but I would like to introduce you to Penny's new boyfriend Bob. Bob Sprocket is a watchmaker extraordinaire who has the most fabulous workshop to make and repair watches, so I would like to share the process of how Bob and his studio came to life. He's quite a handsome chap with a funky hairdo, just like Penny.

The studio started life as a wooden box that I covered with Tim Holtz papers. I sanded all the edges and added some paint with an Espresso paint dabber followed by some black to give it a distressed/worn look.

I made Bob's work bench by making a box from greyboard to begin with and the covered it with Tim's Grungepaper. To make it look more realistic, I popped all the Grungepaper panels through Tim's woodgrain embossing folder.

Coloured it with some Crushed Olive and Brushed Corduroy Distress ink, applying it with a blending tool to get even coverage.

Then, with a dry brush, I worked tiny amounts of Espresso paint between the grain of the wood and when dry, covered the greyboard box with the panels and added some painted cotton reels for legs for the workbench.

The hanging sign was made from copper metal and die cut using Tim's Hanging Sign die by Sizzix. I'm sure you are sick of hearing about the tape sandwich but for those of you new followers, a tape sandwich really helps to die cut the metal with ease, it will give the metal some stability. Simply apply Humungo sticky tape to a piece of cardstock and then stick the metal to the other side of the Humungo, you are now ready to die cut. Simply place the metal facing the die before cutting in your die cutting machine.

I decided to decorate the hanging bracket with my TSS pointy tool.

After putting the hanging sign through the Big Shot in another embossing folder, I neatened off the edges with an embossing wheel.

I covered the whole thing with black paint dabber.

Then used a paper towel to remove the excess paint to reveal an antiqued look.

I then took one of Tim's clocks from his Timepieces Ideaology set and coloured it with Pesto alcohol ink. To make the numbers really pop, I sanded back through the alcohol ink to reveal shiny numbers. This clock together with the wings below became part of the hanging sign that you will see in some of the photos later in this post. I got so carried away with creating, I forgot to keep taking pictures.......one of my regular downfalls I'm afraid!!!!

I die cut the wings from Tim's Grungepaper, coloured them with Crushed Olive Distress ink and then sprayed them with Rangers new Perfect Pearl Copper Mist......yum, yum!!

Sadly as mentioned before, I'm not so good with the continuity of pictures but basically I went on to decorate the studio with lots of ideaology embellishments and made Bob from an empty bottle. Bob started life as a lemonade bottle....just like penny. It is important to thoroughly wash and thoroughly dry your bottle before working with it. I coloured the bottle with alcohol ink and made Bob a fun little apron out of Grungepaper. He's got Grungepaper hair and a lot of chains for jewellery.

Now for the close up shots so you can peek into Bob's little world.

I hope you've enjoyed the first of this month's DT projects for Tim. I certainly enjoyed making him.

Have a creative day, Lin