myths and legends

our latest prompt at tag tuesday is myths and legends.  i've always been fascinated by mermaids and i have a quite a collection of mermaid stamps.  according to wikipedia, a mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish.  mermaids appear in the folklore of cultures all over the world including the near east, europe, africa and asia.

for this tag i used my one and only merman, a stamp from meer image.

i started by creating a background on a large tag using alcohol inks and a polished stone technique. my end result was very dark but i was delighted with the backside of the tag which had more variety and subtlety than the front so that is what i used as the backdrop for my creation.  i stamped two different wave stamps (both from meer image) on the background.  i stamped the merman, dolphin (PSX) and sea star (PSX) on blue card stock, cut them out and glued them on the tag.  i also went over the sea star with an orange pro marker.  i stamped the bubbles stamp (G-rated stamps) last.  i love this fiber-ribbon i got at a garage sale next door last summer.

it is a nice fantasy scene i think.
love to all.

complementary colors at tag tuesday

the theme for this week at tag tuesday is complementary colors.  though i had a clear idea in my mind initially about how i was going to work a green/blue to red/orange arrangement, purple to yellow ended up in there too before it was all over with.  so this tag is pretty much a tag of many colors!

i wanted to get inky with alcohol inks so i wandered around the web looking for ideas and found a nice tutorial over at gingersnap creations for the polished stone technique.  this is great fun and makes such gorgeous backgrounds.  i did one with green and blue inks and the other with red and yellow (you can see how the original color scheme plan was already falling apart!).

i stamped a beautiful seahorse stamp, a ching chou kuik design sold by sweet pea stamps.  i colored it with markers in purples and greens (see, i was totally forgetting the original plan again!).  in the end i made a pretty tag so i posted it anyway.  and the colors DO complement each other!

enjoy; love to all.