#12 Green Challenge for Altered Pages

Here's my entry for the Altered Pages Blog Challenge #12.  Because the theme this month is GREEN, here is a mermaid book that I created. 

Materials used:

• watercolor paper
• my own outline drawing of a mermaid template
• rubber stamps for the faces, hair, tails, sand dollar hairpiece
• stencils for more layers on the tails
• paper scraps from my green bin for the bras
• lots of bling--white and yellow pearls in several sizes, silver disks, gemstones in a variety of colors
• pencil for body details
• Micron pen for writing on the mermaid poem, "Mermaid Fair" (found on-line)
• ink for rosy cheeks applied with a rag and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink to ink the edges of each page
• hole punch, tiny; iredescent ribbon threaded through to tie the pages together