Stampotique has a new challenge, "Thinking outside of the box". Instead of a card I chose to make a tag based on the current Tempting Template in the June issue of The Stampers' Sampler. In that magazine they had a template that looks like a perfume bottle. So I made an ocean themed bottle with a mermaid inside.
First I traced the template onto watercolor paper and cut it out. I colored the paper with Ranger's Distress Ink, I used Broken China and Wild Honey and then activated the inks with a spray of water. This was followed with a quick dry from my heat gun. I stamped the image of Smushallaum with Ranger's black Archival Ink. I colored in the image with Copic ink pens. I had some scraps of paper left over that had been sprayed with Dyan Reaveley's Dylusion sprays in Cut Grass and Vibrant Turquoise. I used a Hexagon punch in several sizes and glued this on the stopper portion of the bottle. I had a dimensional flower from K&Co that I attached to the center of the stopper. Underneath that I used 5 deep green self adhesive pearls from Queen and Co. I stuck a tiny sliver of mesh under the pearls and then added a green polka dot bow. The phrase Sunshine & Seashells was a self adhesive tag from a sheet of cardstock beach stickers made by Paper House Productions. And there we have our summer beach memory...a mermaid in a bottle.
