A Day for Daisies & Oxiclean

Yikes, did I make a mess!  

All I set out to do was make a card for the current

 A Day For Daisies Challenge #152 - CASE the DT .

The freebie offered by ADFD is so lovely, 

and I thought it perfect for a bookmark. 

So I chose to CASE the Fancy Fairy Tag that DT member Tanja made.

She has the photo watermarked, so I hope she doesn't mind that I posted it here.  Can you see why I wanted to CASE it?

 

My first attempt didn't end up looking like Tanja's tag at all.

Sure, it was blue, had velum, and a crinkly ribbon, but really looked nothing like Tanja's.

Unhappy with my results, I hopped back over to read Tanja's blog and then went back to work.  Not having the same products in my stash that she used, I made some substitutions and am much more satisfied with this tag.

 The image was watercolored and fussycut; the background was stenciled with an ink mixture made from powdered pigments and CTMH pearl Creat-a-Shade paint; after drying it was debossed and a bit more color added with a pouncer; the velum spray is a cricut cut from the CTMH Artistry cartridge; and the CTMH color ready ribbon, which turned my fingers a lovely shade of denim and crystal blue, was spritzed, crumpled, clipped and dried before adding. 

Boy, was this out of my wheel house!

Now I have a lot of stuff to put away and these fingers will definitely need some Oxiclean!