T on Tuesday

Here I am with my cup of tea to join Elizabeth for T on Tuesday.

Behind my cup of tea are some cards I have been playing with this morning... see, it all started like this... I was looking at twinchies on a blog and I loved them so I thought I would give the idea a go! Now Sam says they are encaustic twinchies... and mentioned crayons and beads and stuff... so I go and search for encaustic medium and realise pretty quickly that I have nothing in my stash that is going to allow me to do encaustic anything... plus it looks like that stuff gets hot! 

Now, not having the ingredients didn't slow me down at all ( perhaps it should have) so I decided that improvisation is the key especially as I know for a fact that my local Spar won't have dufar crystals on the shelf!  So I slapped some gel medium, well it's a medium of sorts, onto a piece of chipboard, added some gold and silver paint to it, spread it a bit thicker... nope, it doesn't look like Sam's examples at all...

So I go and find a couple of tealight candles... they are wax right? Yes, I know she said she used beeswax but I don't have any of that either and I am pretty sure the local Spar doesn't keep that in stock either. LOL One was a burgandy shade and the other was a golden colour... so I let them burn for a while till there was a good puddle of wax and added that to the chipboard... and then I sort of flung anything I could find on top... little seed beads, chips of glass/plastic, 

and when it had all cooled down a bit I chopped the chipboard into 2 inch squares...

and this morning I look at the pile of twinchies and wonder what on earth am I going to do with them?

So I made some simple cards... 

I still have a couple of bits left... so if I need a card for something in the next few days people should be afraid... very afraid!! LOL

The Little Twinchies Book

I was reading Neet's Artful Times challenge for this week and decided to give it a go because though I have done inchies in the past, I have never made twinchies!  So what is a girl to do? She makes a little itty bitty twinchies book!

Techhnically, the cover doesn't count, because they are just over the 2 inch mark... and I decorated the spine  with a chippy pocket watch and little glass bottle instead of the front cover because with the hidden hinge binding it gives a broad spine to work with.

but all the pages are 2 inches square... so 12 twinchies in all!

and this is one of my favourite themes and songs: Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce

and yes, the lyrics are all there... in size 5 font! ;)

If I could save time in a bottle

the first thing that I'd like to do

is to save every day

til eternity passes away

just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever

if words could make wishes come true

I'd save every day like a treasure and then

again, I would spend them with you

but there never seems to be enough time

to do the things you want to do

once you find them

I've looked around enough to know

that your the one I want to go

through time with

if I had a box just for wishes

and dreams that had never come true

the box would be empty

except for the memory

of how they were answered by you

but there never seems to be enough time

to do the things you want to do

once you find them

I've looked around enough to know

that your the one I want to go

through time with

The pages are little pockets which hold tags...

cardstock tags with transparencies coloured with alcohol inks

which swivel back to reveal journaling space beneath

the transparencies were embossed with Tim Holtz pocket watches folder before I alcohol inked them.

and just to keep them tidy, I added smaller tags on the backs with patterned papers.

Used lots of time emphemera and stamps and the papers are Fancy Pants It's the little things 6 x 6 pad which were perfect for this teeny size book.

I had a great time playing with this challenge!