"I Must Be A Mermaid..." Tag

This week's Challenge over at The Cheerful Stamp Pad is "Land of Fantasy".  For my Design Team submission, I used "Tutti Fruitti" a great mermaid digi from our sponsor, Michele Perkett Digitals.  I LOVE the water--lake or ocean--so I had a great time coming up with how I wanted to use this stamp.  The first thing I did was cut a tag out of glossy cardstock.  I stamped the shells with Versamark and embossed with clear EP.  Then I pounced alcohol inks all over the tag (Denim, Sailboat Blue and Silver Mixative) and spritzed with Blending Solution.  I used a dry cloth to wipe the AI off of the embossed areas.

I sized and printed the complete digi onto cardstock, the tail portion onto designer paper and sprayed both lightly with Fixative.  Using Distress Inks and a waterpen I colored the mermaid then fussy cut her out.  I used Stickles and Liquid Pearls to embellish the mermaid. 

I found the sentiment online and printed it onto velum.  On the back of the velum I stamped a light swirl design in blue.  I attached the velum at the top and bottom to the tag with Glossy Accents (attached the mermaid the same way).  To hide the GA under the velum, I stamped two shells on white cardstock, cut out and attached with GA.

A tattered piece of an old lemon bag became the netting across the bottom (and tied around the ribbons at the top).  I attached a stamped starfish and a pearl over the net.  Using Distress Stains, I dyed two strips of seam binding and added them to the tag.  A jump ring through a ribbon holds a pearl and some blue and green beads.  Here's the sentiment I used:

"I must be a Mermaid...I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living"

This tag is entered into the following Challenges:

Craft Your Passion--#99 Paper Piecing

Make It Monday--Anything Goes

Paper Creations Ink--#19 Show Style/Favorite Technique

(which is alcohol inks!)

Craft Your Days Away--#39 Paper Piecing

Divas by Design--#23 Bling It Up

Digital Tuesday--#148 Make it Sparkle

Top Tip Tuesday--#70 Mystical, Magical, Fantasy

Sweet Stamps--#54 Bingo

(Heat Embossing--Bling (Stickles & Liquid Pearls, beads)--Paper Piecing)