My Cards and Tags: W Plus 9 "Fish More" Stamps

This week's theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog is "Pets Corner."  In full disclosure here, I am NOT a pet person!  I care about animals and their well-being, but every pet encounter in my youth was disastrous or traumatic (devil Chihuahuas, ornery parakeets, allergy-attack-inducing cats, etc.) and I've never quite grown out of that.  So I went with a fish-theme (ok, fish lures- it was as close as I could go) for this week's project.

I started by cutting tags out of Strathmore Mixed Media paper using Mama Elephant's Bowtiful die and Reverse Confetti's Thanks die.  I stamped them with Ranger Jet Black Archival and some images from Paper Artsy and Simon Says Stamp.  The horizontal lines are from a stamp in one of my Concord & 9th sets.

I watercolored some sections and smeared on some Distress Ink with a sponge.

Next up I glued on a die-cut circle shape from Simon Says Stamp and covered some parts of the tags with white acrylic paint.

I stamped and fussy-cut these darling fish lures from a W Plus 9 stamp set and added them on, along with the sentiment.

I finished them off with a simple bit of white embroidery floss to go through the hole at the top.

These are the supplies I used on these tags, which you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

W Plus 9 Fish More stamp set	reverse confetti cuts thanks tag die set	Mama Elephant Bowtiful tag die set	Simon Says Stamp Circle Loops Die Set	Sizzix Big Shot
Paper Artsy Eclectica3 EKD02 Stamp Set	Paper Artsy Eclectica 3 EEG 18	Simon Says Stamp Tiny Alphabet Background Stamp	Fiskars Acrylic Blocks	Loew Cornell WATERCOLOR CAKES 24 Paints
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad SALTY OCEAN	Mustard Seed - Distress Ink	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad WILTED VIOLET	Picked Raspberry - Distress Ink	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad LUCKY CLOVER Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Twisted Citron Ink Pad	Ranger Non Stick Craft Sheet	Iris Embroidery Floss Pack Pastel colors	ranger archival jet black ink pad	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in Garden Patina
Ranger Archival Ink, Vibrant Fuchsia	Ranger Archival Ink, Vivid Chartreuse

I know that there are many pet fans out there, so I can't wait to see how you pay homage.  Be sure to upload your genius works to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $50 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store!