Whimsical Steampunk Octopus

Hi and welcome to another Saturday Sketch Challenge.  Today we used this sketch .....

and the company sponsoring this week is 

Oddball Art Co.

They have the spookiest and quirkiest images I have ever seen.  I am in luuurve I tell you!

 And the image I chose is nothing like I have seen before.  

The coolest (is it even cool to say cool anymore? lol) Octopus I have ever seen!

Whimsical Steampunk Octopus  

I could not wait to get started on this one.  And the sketch made it easy to do too.

Steampunk is not my normal go to style but I love it!  But he turned out pretty good I thought.

The silver foil card I die cut from an old SU Top Note die I have in my stash.  It is great when you can us some of the old stuff you have and haven't used in years.  I then embossed it using a 3D folder of Tim Holtz's.  Rubbed on some black paint (Distress Paint Black Soot) then used my finger to get the paint into all the little nooks and cranny's.  Used a paper towel to just remove some of the excess paint.  Repeated on some copper foil card that is the strip behind the top note cut out.
Ran a piece of Basic Grey card through the emboss folder as well but sponged on a little black ink to highlight the pattern.

Then I die cut some gears and cogs from some copper foil card using Gearheads from Tim Holtz Alterations.  I just layered these on top of each other instead of the flowers on the sketch (seen above).  Then added the tags underneath.  Love this instead of a bunch of flowers. 

And some of the little circles that pop out of these gears, once cut, I used in the bottom corner just to fill it in a little without going over the top.  

And lastly I added the little fellow himself. I did cut off the end curls and the dangling heart after I accidentally cut one curl off.  So I omitted them all.  I tried dangling a couple of metal hearts instead but decided to scrap it.  One last look at the card. 

Thanks for having a look. Don't forget to participate in the sketch challenge for your chance to win the prize provided. 

Till next time.........