Meet Metalhead!

Hello Everyone

Hope you've all enjoyed a super sunny Sunday - Its great to see the Sun holding on in there even though the clocks went back an hour last night and British Summer time has officially ended for another year.
So that means Halloween is edging ever nearer and after making my Tag for Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2015-October last week I decided to make another only this time, as you will see, I have made a few changes .

I used the “wrinkle-free distress” technique with Distress Inks ( Wilted Violet, Spiced Pumpkin, Black Soot) on my tag this time rather than on the Zombie die cuts and gradually built up additional layers of colour until I was happy. 
Once dry I then added a greater depth of colour using distress inks and a blending tool .

I added some light stamping and stencilling using Tim Holtz Stamps and Stencils , Black soot DI and Jet Black Archival Ink. I added touches of Silver Gilding wax to the tag edges and spritz the tag lightly with Pewter Perfect Pearls. I kept the tag background fairly simple as I wanted the Zombie to have the spotlight.

I die cut the Zombie pieces using Silver Mirror board and black card stock. I then embossed the mirror board pieces using Tim Holtz Shattered embossing folder.
Using my fingers I rubbed Black Soot Distress paint over the embossed pieces, left for a few minutes to become tacky and then rubbed back the paint using a piece of kitchen towel. I then added Silver gilding wax again using my fingers to further enhance the embossing. I also added touches of Silver Gilding Wax to the black card stock die cuts that I would be using .

Here's a few pics of my assembled Zombie  a.k.a. 'Metalhead!'

 

 

Definitely my kind of Zombie! 

I used the black soot distress paint in the same way for the word band and hex nuts. I attached the word band to the tag with hammered long fasteners

 and adhered the large hex nut over the hole of the tag with a smaller one to each side.

 I also added a small hex nut to the left eye, topped with a purple gem. 

At this stage I decided to mount my tag on to a piece of heavy grey board that I covered with paper from Tim Holtz Laboratorie paper pad and distressed with Black Soot DI. I added a hinge clip as a final touch.

 Now 'Metalhead' can stand on my desk and keep his purple eye on me! 

 Mwahhhh!

As well as entering this into Tims 12 tags of 2015 - October

I would also like to enter my altered  tag into the following challenges 

Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Monster Mash

Country View Crafts - October #32 Add some Texture

That's Crafty Challenge Blog - Oct 23rd - Haunted Halloween 
Art with Heart Challenge October : Hauntings and Holidays 
Frilly and Funkie- Something Wicked Challenge  

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #17 - Word Search 

 (I have used Spiced Pumpkin, Black Soot and Purple ( wilted violet and Purple gem) in my work) 

Time for me to go make a start on clearing up my crafty trail of destruction so I can start creating again tomorrow  hopefully. 

Thank you so much for  stopping by today and until the next time hope the coming week is  kind to you all . 

Take care 

Amanda x