Fancy Free Sea Horse Tag

This fortnight's challenge from Tag Tuesday is a Nautical Theme.  I decided to use one of the  Clarity Crafts new design club dies to create this tag to use as a book mark.

I can guarantee being able to find a suitable quick background in one of the Designer paper pads.  This one is from the Indian Summer collection.  I glued a piece to a #8 manilla tag and trimmed the excess.

I used the aperture die to cut a piece of silver mirri card.

Next, I snipped the coral and the seahorse out of the aperture.

 

Before I added them to the card, I stamped the coral from the tropical fish stamp set in Versamark ink and heat embossed it in Copper embossing powder.

The die cut coral was then added.

I decided to add the rest of the coral from the aperture along the left hand side for balance.

The seahorse was coloured using Watermelon and Sunset Orange alcohol inks on a felt pad with a little blending solution.

This made the seahorse stand out when added to the tag.

To finish, I added three of Leonie's word stickers.  A little Tumbled Glass distress ink was rubbed over the top so they wouldn't be too stark against the background.