Pocket watch Christmas ornament with Santa by Tim Holtz

Hello everyone, it's already November so it's time to start a new challenge over at the Country View Challenges. The new challenge theme is Christmas gifting and the lovely Miriam will be your hostess this month. For this challenge, I created a Christmas ornament, of which there is an earlier version. A few years ago, I have made a similar Christmas ornament with Tim's Pocket Watch Movers&Shapers die. You can see it here.

And voilà the new one.

And since I didn't added a tutorial for the earlier decoration, I'm making up for this shortcoming. 

I cut out a pocket watch shape from silver glitter paper. This will be the back side of my watch.

Then I cut out a circle shape from Neenah Solar White paper with one of the Sizzix Framelits dies. From the 657551 set, one almost perfectly fits in the pocket watch. Then I stamped the Santa image with Tsukineko Memento Espresso Truffle ink. I coloured the image and the background with Copic Sketch Markers. 

Then I cut out another pocket watch shape from grey cardstock, but this time I fussy cut the inner circle of the watch with scissors. It was easy because of the score line.

I glued this to the first cut-out.

Then I coloured the edges with brown alcohol ink.

The next step was to glue the image with Santa into the watch.

Then I traced around the line of the used die on an acetate and cut it out with scissors. 

I glued the acetate on the watch covering the coloured image.

Then I added many layers of of the frames only. The next layers were cut out from chipboards.

The last layer was a glitter paper cut-out.

Now it was time to decorate the watch with greens and a star.

The edge of every cut-out was inked with Vintage Photo Archival ink.

The little baubles were attached with hot glue gun. 

And not forgetting the back side where I added a glittery Merry Christmas text.

What I used:

Stampers Anonymous, Vintage Holidays (CMS423)

Sizzix Movers&Shapers die, Pocket Watch Frame (658571)

Sizzix Bigz die, Crescent Moon&Stars (658716)

Sizzix Framelits die, Circle

Sizzix Thinlits die, Holiday Greens (658759)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Pine Branch (664228)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Home For The Holidays (662419)

Idea-Ology Baubles

If you have a Christmas project which is not a card and would be a good gift please don't hesitate jo join our November challenge where a randomly selected winner can have a £20 voucher in the Country View Crafts online shop.

Since it's a gift I think it can fit the SSS Monday Challenge: Thinking of You.