Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Rock pools

Hi everyone - hope your having fun in the sun.  I wish I could dip my toes in a rock pool right now!  Preferably one without sea urchins in it though :-D

Thank you to everyone that has been watching the progress of this tag.  I really appreciate your kind words and encouragement.  I think it worked!!!  I am so relieved the glossy accents worked....phew!

If you want to see a step by step of how I created my rock pool then please check out my blog to see how I made kitchen roll rocks, paper dust seaweed, Fimo sea creatures and glossy accents sea water.  A big thanks to Tag Tuesday for the fabulous inspiration.
 

My final steps to finish off my tag were to dye a strip of American Seam Binding with Walnut Stain, Broken China and Rusty Hinge Distress inks (you can't see much of it in the photo!)  I added a few rock pool inspired words and a couple or four paper fussy cut seagulls - You may recognise one of them from a previous tag!  Please don't eat from my pool boys.... well not until I post this photo at least!

It took me a while to get a good photo of my tag because of the reflections but I think this was my best shot.

Thanks to everyone for your lovely comments last week

15 comments:

  1. what a lot of work! Lovely tag, well done! x

    ReplyDelete
  2. Gorgeous tag, love the rocks! Valerie

    ReplyDelete
  3. gosh, what a lot of work, but well worth it, it is a lovely rock pool.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Wow, what a lot of work and beautiful detail in this. It's fab - those rocks are really rock-like and the little starfish are so realistic - I love them!

    ReplyDelete
  5. You HAVE worked hard on this tag. It was well worth it. You do feel like dipping your toes in that rock pool.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Gorgeous work. I love the depth. jenx woyww 61 - thanks for visiting me

    ReplyDelete
  7. That looks like a lot of hard work but well worth it!
    I love your header photo...in fact you're blog has just given me a taste of summer which is a wonderful break as I'm still smack bang in the middle of winter here!
    Thanks for visiting me earlier.
    Enjoy the rest of the week...role on the weekend! :D

    ReplyDelete
  8. great water, I could nearly dip my toes in! great gulls too, Jane xx

    ReplyDelete
  9. Oh... this is fantastic Helen...Loving the little realistic looking rocks and the cute tiny pool is so cool!! I've had a peek at the progress of your tag over at your blog and see how much work you have put into making this tag a little stunner!

    ReplyDelete
  10. This is great, Helen! You have used a lot of techniques for your tag, and it was really worth all the work you put into it.
    Jane x

    ReplyDelete
  11. Absolute corker of a tag. Hugs Mrs A.

    ReplyDelete


Great to have you here, thanks for commenting and hope to see you again soon! Please be aware that by linking to us you voluntarily enter your own name and link. To view the privacy policy of Mr Linky, please visit here. http://www.misterlinky.net/blog/