Timepieces that Fly
Posted by Susan J. Deep Red Stamps on Nov 6th 2023
In our rubber stamp catalog, we have many designs of clocks and many designs of wings. If you stamp these designs together, you get a wonderful theme: Time flies.... so be sure to do what you love! The common saying is that Time flies when you're having fun. Well, that is exactly what you'll have when you create ATCs with these rubber stamps.
A standard ATC (artist trading card) measures 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches (6,35 cm x 8,89 cm).
Take 3 ATCs and distress the background whatever way you wish, you can't go wrong here, with distressing anything goes! Then add the stamps, here is how.....
Make Today Count ATC
Time Flies...Use Your Wings ATC
Start Doing Things You Love ATC
Above ATC features our Pocket Watch Rubber Stamp and one of the wings from Wings Collection Rubber Stamp Set. I colored in the pocket watch with a gold metallic marker and various blue Tombow markers on the wing feathers. The girl is a sticker. I colored the face with a subtle pink hue and added shading in grey under the clock hands.
Hint: when coloring in a watch face, you'll want to have a bit of shading in opposite curves, usually near the 4 o'clock and 11 o'clock areas.
Above, Time Flies...Use your wings ATC: features our Keep the Dream Alive Rubber Stamp (the vintage desk clock portion) and Angel Wings Rubber Stamp. I used some yellow and brown colors and repeated the same colors on the sub dials.
Above, Start Doing Things You Love ATC features:
our classic Hourglass Rubber Stamp and butterfly wings from our Butterflies Rubber Stamp Collection. I stamp with this butterfly stamp often because I love how you can color it in easily and it always looks good. Stamp the butterfly and then cut apart the design to get the wings portion and place it on the side of the hourglass. The Hourglass stamp is easy to color using tans for the sand and blues for the glass.
For each of the backgrounds ATCs, I created a distress look (which is always fun to do!):
coffee spills, random number stamped background, etc. The inspirational phrases are all journaling stickers. If you don't have any of these, try your hand at hand lettering some favorite words. I used foam dots to make the stamps stand out over the base layer. However, you can simply glue all your layers to make them flat and that would look good, too.
The Hourglass stamp is easy to color using tans for the sand and blues for the glass. For the watch face of the vintage desk clock (center ATC), I used some yellow and brown colors and repeated the same colors on the sub dials. For the pocket watch (right ATC) I colored the face with a subtle pink hue and added shading in grey under the clock hands.
The wing stamps....
Butterflies Rubber Cling Stamp (deepredstamps.com)
Angel Wings Rubber Stamp (deepredstamps.com)
Wings Rubber Cling Stamp (deepredstamps.com)
The timepiece stamps....
Keep the Dream Alive Rubber Cling Stamp (deepredstamps.com)