I was really lost at how to create a 'Steampunk' tag. My first thought was that I needed to go to the store and buy stuff for this one. Then I read over the instructions again and these words jumped out at me - "Use your stash...don't run out to the LSS and purchase items...! Improvise. Be unique." So I went looking through all of my supplies and this is what I came up with. I found a paper pad that someone gave to me that I just knew I would never use and pulled out this sheet of paper. I figured since it had a keyhole on it already that it would work with the key embellishment that I had to use. Well, since one of the embellishments had to be metal, I used an old jewelry box key. I stamped a small heart image on black cardstock, heat embossed it with silver powder, cut it out by hand and adhered it to the black keyhole. My thought here was - key to my heart. Then I was on the hunt for a pointing hand. Didn't remember ever seeing such a thing in my supplies. Well in the school section of my scraprack, I found a pointing hand sticker - yes! Wasn't sure where to place it on the tag, but when I saw the letter B already on the paper, I put it next to the letter and thought "be that way" - seemed right to me. Okay now what? Continued looking, found the eyeglass stickers and thought "this might work". I put one pair on the tag and then decided that they needed to 'pop'. I surely couldn't peel them off without messing up the paper so I added pop-dots and put the other pair on top. Then I found the 3 black epoxy arrow stickers and thought "they'll have to do". I inked all edges of the tag and then sponged some places with black soot Tim Holtz Distress Ink. I adhered the paper tag to a chipboard tag. Then I added ribbon to the tag hole. Whew - I'm done! Not yet, I added Glossy Accent to the glass part of the eyeglasses sticker. It made them look more realistic. Now, I am done!
Here's the link to the Tim Times Ten Challenge - Day Three:
2 comments:
I am really liking the glasses.
interesting! Hmmm its like a steampunk Picasso! LOL
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