April 15th is not a dreaded day anymore...April 15th this year marks the release of some really incredible stamps offered by Papertrey Ink. Both Alli and Candice have stamp sets to offer this month and they are both very unique and show so much of their uniue styles. Nichole has one of the most loving masculine sets that I have seen for years! It's going to be a really neat release this month.
So , today is my day to show a little extra sneak peek of one of these wonderful sets. After yesterday's post I thought I had better put my money where my mouth is so to speak and create something for you that's out of the box. I looked at all the sets... rotated them then the light bulb went on when I picked up Alli's Garden of Life set...It might have been the Barbie movie in the background combined with the set though... since it was a fairy movie! LOL! One of Ella's (5) favorite movies is Fairytopia. I was never into faeries as a child and its neat to see her explore that part of her imagination...It gives me a chance to do that too. Hannah (13) likes to fashion flower faeries from clothes pins and silk flower petals...Here is the card I came up with from that inspiration!
Yes... it's a Flower Fairy! Ella has already claimed this as her own card too! LOL! Doesn't she just make you smile!
So here is what I did... first of all I used the masking technique a lot for this card. The first thing I did was to stamp (in VersaMark) the rose image upside down..then add, by pouncing, the chalk color that I wanted.
I used my Pebbles Inc. Shimmer chalks because I wanted this fairy to sparkle and shine.(Ive found that they coordinate really wel so far with the Papertrey Cardstock... Especially the newest Summer Sunrise and Lemon Tart.)
I then masked the rose and stamped the stem image to get the arms and legs in place.I do masking a little differently sometimes. I generally will try to use a piece of scrap paper (printer weight) and use the curves. this is great for really non specific masking...like these stem appendages.
You can see where I have the overlapping stamped stem images...as this was the paper I used for masking over the rose. I did use a more specific masking for the hair though. I stamped the Mum image onto the scrap paper and lightly chalked it so I could see what I was doing. I stamped the circle that I used for the head in the center. I then trimmed out the hair... this left me with two parts of the mask I will use.
(I'm going to cheat a little and just back track to show what I did on the finished project.) you can see that the first part of the mask is used to bock out the face then to stamp the mum flower that has been chalked orange.
Here I show how the hair mask and the face mask (covering up the arm) can work together to mask preparatory to stamping the large leaf for the wing! I just rotated the paper a bit for the other side. This saved me time. I didn't have to trim out every little bitty piece to achieve what I wanted!
The last things I did were to add two dots for eyes, add some light brown to the face, neck and feet for some shading and finish the card off with the teeny yellow prima flower with the gem in the center!
This was a fun project to create... I created out of the box and I was able to think of someone I love dearly while I was doing it! Stamping couldn't get much better that that for me. :)
Thanks for stopping by!
Lisa
Stamps- Garden of Life
Ink- VersaMark, Noir black
Cardstock- Lemon Tart, Summer sunrise, Spring Moss, Stampers select white.
Other- Summer Sunrise Swiss Dot ribbon, Shimmer Chalk (Pebbles Inc), Gem, small yellow prima flower
