Mermaid Tears

We had another sponsor reveal today on Scrap That Moment and this time it was Mermaid Tears, who makes some fab flowers as well as some interesting metal embellishments, gems and a series of paper dolls. For my sponsor layout I did Feeding the Birds which uses a couple of photos I took outside of Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris) while we were watching this lovely older gent feeding the sparrows.

I also did up this tag. I’m not much of a tag person, and I rarely use vintage images because of the lack of a printer, however I’m quite chuffed with the way this turned out. I think I may just do a few more of these. I may even create some sort of book out of them. For now, I’ll add it to the ever-increasing project pile and do them now and again when I get the chance.

I used a BasicGrey tag as a template for my tag, which I cut out of regular cardstock. I then layered up several different 7Gypsies patterned papers, inked it over with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Old Paper, then chalked over the entire thing with several colours of Craf-T chalks. A bit of cranberry coloured embossing powder was added to the edges, and the words were stamped in cranberry ink using Ma Vinci stamps. Then it was just a matter of cutting the image, and adding the image, flower, yarn and tube to finish the whole thing off.

Comments

Oh it’s gorgeous Chriss! You should make tags more often – definitely!

Ki Kruk · 6 June 2006, 21:02 · #

Hi Chriss
I “found” you via Fabrications group.I can see I’ll leanr heaps from your site.You cracked me up over the over-cooked sculpey/fimo.brought back memories of similar conversations! VBG

MaureenC · 7 June 2006, 01:03 · #