Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Haunted Design House Challenge

This week over at the Haunted Design House the challenge is 'perplexing pigments'
the idea is to create something gothic/horror/cute lol. but using the colours Black, Purple, Teal and Lime Green.
I made a tag this week using a new stamp I have from the Octapode Factory a great corpse bride Zombie thing.I used distress inks as water colours and painted the lovely couple, coloured the tag in citrus green alcohol ink and stamped with the cob webs from Tim Holtz's Halloween set. I added a spider charm stained with purple alcohol ink and added the sentiment LOVE. well they are getting married after all.  I guess real love IS forever ;)

Thanks for looking, Mark.
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23 comments:

  1. nwilliams613 June 2012 at 01:13

    Mark, this is great! I love Octopodes - every time I see them, I have to smile! That Lily is a genious!!! Your colors are wonderful and I love how you used your inks to do it all - even dwon to staining the charm. Love it!!!!

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  2. Dean and Selena13 June 2012 at 02:58

    So fun I love! them :-) Great job :-)

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  3. Redanne13 June 2012 at 06:27

    Hi Mark, I love your tag, those Octopode stamps are so much fun, love the colours you have used and it still looks spooky with them! Love the spider charm too. Distress inks are just the best thing ever invented I think, the new summer colours are a bit in your face but I still have to have them! No Mr Linky yet, but Happy WOYWW, Anne

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  4. ...the yorkshire fox...13 June 2012 at 06:52

    ...super Tag Mark, loVe the vividness of your colours, the image is cute (I've not heard of these) and has a fun element, superb inky background don't you just loVe that web...super work & joy to look at and a hard theme to create with so well done...Mel :)
    My Daughter tell's me, Sala her Marbled Bengal is rather partial to hair brushes! great! seeing as she's staying a while :)

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  5. nwilliams613 June 2012 at 10:59

    Mark, I saw your comment on my blog and I have to tell you I have my HDH planned out in my head but I am am having trouble trying to figure out how I am going to do the bg without alchol inks - I almost have it...

    Dudetime Doodles has a freebie image challenge going on starting today and the image is a toilet (I am a guest designer this month). I was just thinking that you could do something amazing with that toilet with your awesome style. I could just see that image all grunged up and scary looking - maybe a spider or two coming out. I may try to do play with it and I think you should too.

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  6. Di13 June 2012 at 12:12

    Great tag Mark! Now, how about joining in with the snippets :) We need a good gardener in the playground. Di x:

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  7. I Don't Do Straight13 June 2012 at 12:40

    WOW! Great tag...... Love your work Mark and I look forward to seeing your HDH entries :)
    Thanks for sharing with us at Haunted Design House this week :)

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  8. Silvia(Barnie)13 June 2012 at 15:57

    FANTASTIC - great colors and images.

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  9. Allison13 June 2012 at 17:55

    fab tag and cute little couple
    AllisonX

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  10. Andrea C13 June 2012 at 17:55

    Fab the green colour you used really makes it pop. Fab that the ink stays on the spider. Great work again and thanks for sharing with us at Haunted Design House. x

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  11. KristyLee14 June 2012 at 02:23

    Hi Mark, great job with coloring with the alcohol inks. Awesome digis, and I totally love how you did the back ground, love the spider webs! Creative idea on coloring your spider charm, and I truly love how you did the "love" cascading down. Killer cool Tag!
    Peace,
    KristyLee

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  12. Fiona (anubis 1 )14 June 2012 at 07:54

    Love the colour combo you used on this tag mark and the spider web is delish........I love spiders!!

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  13. Gráinne14 June 2012 at 14:09

    Hi, love this TAG, the colours are eye-popping LOL
    The whole TAG is superb - I also love the Octopodes.
    Suzanne x

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  14. aisling14 June 2012 at 19:33

    Great tag, lovely colours! Love those Octopode images.

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  15. Janice14 June 2012 at 19:57

    Great colour combo & a lovely tag. Jx

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  16. Lorraine14 June 2012 at 20:10

    Loving that tag Mark. Fabulous colours and the Octopodes are brill, lol.

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  17. ike15 June 2012 at 06:09

    Super FAB tag - great image - it makes me laugh :-) Thank you for joining us at Haunted Design House :-) x

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  18. Croms' Cubby Hole15 June 2012 at 07:18

    A super tag Mark. Love those octopode characters,
    Thank you for sharing this at MM @ HDH

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  19. hazel18 June 2012 at 09:51

    A fabulous tag - great colours and background and I love the Octopode images.
    Hazel.

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  20. Mandy Chilvers19 June 2012 at 19:31

    love how you've used the octopode factory images. Thanks for your comment on my blog, just wanted to say though :-) my artwork is all cut and paste including handmade backgrounds.

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    1. mark gould20 June 2012 at 00:01

      I stand corrected ;) thought the back ground looked hand done, great job, love the images.

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  21. Gráinne20 June 2012 at 19:45

    Annnnnnnnnnnd: congrats again ;o))
    Lucky you ... and talented, too, of course.
    Suzanne

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  22. Star21 June 2012 at 03:41

    Hello, found you through HDH. Congrats on your newest win! Love the bookmark. I've actually taken a glimpse through your blog; fabulous projects. I can tell you will be a huge inspiration for me.

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