TOFF Challenge

Over at The Octopode Factory their challenge is 'Tags'

Nice and simple..Inky tag, embossed and distressed, copic coloured steampunk dude.
I think it needs a quote or something but right now nothing is gelling so I left it to ponder on.
Any thought's on how to finish it?
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

TOFF # 32

This weeks Octopode Factory Challenge is
'SHADES OF GREY'
So I got out my copics and had a play and this is what developed.

The background is panpastels

and the wording I typed out on my ickle vintage typewriter.
This isn't at all what I set out to do but sometimes cards just make themselves and your just along for the ride.
{and b4 I get any smart arse comments, i'm speaking metaphorically.}
Right can't stop here nattering to you, i've things to do.
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

It Couldn't Wait...

I was going to share this next tag with you tomorrow but i'll be too late to enter it in the challenge I made it for so i'm blogging it today... {my other tags from today, you can see if you scroll down my blog}.
As well as it being another 'Grungy Monday' Tim crackle piece it's mainly my entry for
The Octopode Factory with their 'somewhere over the rainbow' challenge.

 The only regrets I have with this tag is the green section.. which I wish I had thought to do yellow {for the yellow brick road} but it's one of those things that sprang to mind after I had almost finished it, also I wish I had Dorothy to use, but as I don't yet own her I made do with Alice.

But other then that I think it came out ok.. I especially love her ickle ruby red shoes done with stickles, and how her hair came out.
What do you all think?
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥

A Bit of Tag & Crackle!

Well I had the most fun yesterday playing with tags.. something i've not done in ages.
It all started after seeing that Grungy Monday's theme was Tim's crackle resist technique.. so I hopped off to his UTube to refresh my memory and then set to work...
I wasn't 100% on my colour choice but I wanted to be in keeping with the Craft Barn's Colour wheel tag challenge and after picking a red crackle these were the split complementary colours.

 The more I worked on the tag the more I was disliking it but I carried on.

I had some little pocket watch brads that were bright gold so I changed up the colour with a copic marker, being alcohol pens they work the same as your alcohol inks would.
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Not quite satisfied with how tag 1 had come out I decided to make another,

This time with complementary colours on the wheel, and one of my fav combo's.
This one took on a bit of a steampunk twist, with the help of a couture creations embossing folder done on acetate, and plenty of Timmy gears.

If you would like to watch this second tag being made then hop on over to my recording on Ustream.

All in all a fun day's play..{in the end tag 1 grew on me and now I kinda like it}
 but it didn't stop here.. I went on to make 3 more tags, 1 of which i'll share tomorrow.
Till then..
Stay Inky

♥ HUGZ ♥